Jonathan Meades :: Middlebrow-On-Tee (3/3)

'Further Abroad' (1994)
Meades investigates planet golf.

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[Stereolabdream]

The comments here are full of bilge and snobbery that Meades never encourages...the lesson of Jonathan Meades is that all art and taste and values are relative...Golfers (no I am not one) have as much right to their taste and rituals as you or I...and yes, some of them think we are laughable too. Why do we assume we are right?

[Stereolabdream]

@belisariusorb My first thought was to agree with you...But then I thought about what Jonathan Meades has taught me-that all values are relative, that the banal is exotic and that "taste" is the most easily identifiable form of snobbery...more than this, a form of fascism.

Have you considered how "dreary" and "mediocre" those exec types might consider your pastimes?

Why are yours of more value than theirs?

Meades considers this view in every programme he makes...

[yippitydodah]

Anyway, is there any chance of reclaiming the west south coast of Wales coast for simple offshore fishing again, after pathetic two world wars, as it has turned out, in hindsight. Major and his lack of his appearance in oil spill city in the 1990s, makes me think Westminster are takingt he total piss of Wales.

But ah well, what is new, re: Scotland, and their oil and gas, used and abused by The City. Can anyone explain to me about the Brent level in the City? Sounds like a bunch of cunts.

[yippitydodah]

Anyway, is ther any chance of reclaiming the west south coast of Wales coast for simple offshore fishing again, after oathetic two world wars, as it has turned out, in hindsight. Major and his lack of his appearance in oil spill city in the 1990s, makes me think Westminster are takongthe total piss of Wales.

But ah well, what is new, re: Scotland, and their oil and gas, used and abused by The City. Can anyone explain to me about the Brent level in the City? Sounds like a bunch of cunts.

[yippitydodah]

@belisariusorb

Too right. What state would we be in if they weren't caste off to their plastic play farms, called golf courses. But there again, local pubs would be doing better, and with good fist fights across the classes in the car park outside. Never mind, what goes around comes around. Moles infest golf courses these days, and they are winning the battle. They tend to make a mess of the eighteenth especially, as like various opens recently.

Hidden machinestique golf botherers?

[belisariusorb]

Golf is a very useful way of getting a large number of boring people out of public circulation. Could you imagine how terrible it would be if they closed the courses and all those dreary exec types started mixing with the rest of us? I prefer to think of them as "Dimness Reservations" in which the dim and mediocre of this world willingly exile themselves, for the benefit of mankind in general.

[Graynven]

Aliens music when he looks at the golf landscape