The song is a diatribe against someone sending the narrator useless junk emails. Sick Boy loses Renton and launches into an internal self-glorifying, nihilistic diatribe. The most extensive example of Anatole's speech is his diatribe in chapter 20. An angered Gil almost hits Rayburn with a fastball and launches into a diatribe. The "Testament of Simeon" is primarily a diatribe against envy. She interrupts him in the middle of his diatribe and calls his work dull. Paul sometimes uses a style of writing common in his time called a "diatribe". The album is largely a diatribe against car culture. This sort of diatribe was a regular occurrence. His role is reprised from the season 15 episode "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife". She refused, and rewrote the track as a diatribe against her labelmates. Eldritch has revealed the song disguises an anti-American diatribe flavoured by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. After being subjected to the diatribe from the chief surgeon, Radar is reduced to tears. The songs on that album were a form of diatribe directed at the American society. During the trial, Mandela gave his legendary "I am prepared to die" diatribe.