Friday, 31 July 2009

Cheaper car insurance? Use Pikey Insurance

Who needs meerkats


Vasile Pricope, 42, from Mitchum, Surrey ( of course you are.) pleaded guilty at Bexley Magistrates Court yesterday(July 27), to driving without insurance, was fined £75 and was also ordered to pay £45 costs and had his licence endorsed with eight points.


Normal Car Insurance: £250-£500

Romanian Pikey Insurance: £120 + 8 points ( as if I have the licence or intend to pay the moneys ha-ha is my cultures isn't it, what you do , nothing, can I have free lap top for childrens now )

Simples
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Monsters amongst us


HIV Sex offender appeal rejected

I'm not going to copy & paste any part of this article, because I don't want it touching my blog, it made me feel sick just reading it.

But there are some people, this one being a case in point, whose aberrations are so extreme or dangerous to society as a whole that they need a 9mm headache pill.

No fuss, no appeals, take them out behind the prison, shoot them in the back of the head, bury them in an unmarked grave, piss on grave. Job done.

To the do-gooders, I say there is NO cure for these types ( and I include all paedophiles). It has been proven time and again, that prison does not work, rehabilitation does not work , therapy does not work. Because they do not feel they have done anything wrong, if you cannot accept guilt for your actions, you cannot change. Sure they learn to parrot the correct phrases, to impress the gullible on juries and later parole boards, but it's hardwired, they will eventually ruin other peoples lives.

As the statistics show , nobody who has ever been executed has gone on to commit another single crime.
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Edit: A brief look through the BBC website today, shows up some more who could benefit from the lead pill treatment.

NOTE: All found guilty by a jury of their peers in a court of law.

Man Incited Internet Child Abuse

Wife jailed over secret filming


Boy detained for toddler murder

Daughter & boyfriend guilty of killing mother


Man stabbed sleeping stepson 18 times

Teenager inflicts 142 seperate injuries during fenzied knife killing.

Just one days news, jebus
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Poets Day (4)


Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.



He wishes for the clothes of Heaven
William Butler Yeats.

Thursday, 30 July 2009

I bet he wasn't expecting that result.


Pc Christian Allanson overheard Butt say loudly into his mobile phone: "'I'm just here with these white redneck hooligans'."

He told the court Butt also said: "'Where's my brother, you're not the Gestapo'."

Pc Allanson said: "I felt very offended by this comment. I felt it was clearly a comment made towards myself and the other officers present due to the fact we were white police officers. I believe it was a very offensive comment."

Nice one PC Allanson, turn it back on the fuckers.

Laugh, I nearly shit myself.

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Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Holiday claw back, claws back


The two friends studied law at the University of Sussex and graduated in 2007 before embarking on a dream backpacking trip taking in 30 countries including much of South America.........The women were due to return to Britain on Monday..

So probably a bit skint by now then, perhaps needed a few bob for when they got home, seemed like a good idea at the time. Not sure I'd want either of them as a my defense brief, although I'm sure they'd do well at the CPS.

Anyway, do they not teach morals & ethics at British Law Schools anymore

Oh, apparently not : Disgraced race lawyer Shahrokh Mireskandari pilfered hundreds of thousands of pounds from clients in a desperate bid to keep his ailing firm afloat, the High Court has heard.

Tuesday, 28 July 2009

Peckish? Why Not Try ...............

FISH ON A STICK !!!!!

A freshwater fish, charcoal grilled & rolled in lots of coarse salt.
( We leave the head on and guts in for extra flavour & crunchiness)
Perfect for an on the go snack or the mid morning munchies.

(Click to embiggen)


From the Japan archive.

Monday, 27 July 2009

Racists under every rock and round every corner.

Three Wise Monkeys* ( click image to embiggen)

Activists banned from office for 'racist' three monkeys leaflet

Unison took action against its members, including the Greenwich branch's Onay Kasab and Bromley’s Glenn Kelly, after they produced a leaflet showing the three wise monkeys from a Japanese proverb, with the caption "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".

The leaflet criticised the union for a lack of debate at its national conference in 2007, but the four were told by union chiefs some people could find the image racially offensive.

So 'some people could' , but nobody did , did they ? or you could bet these guys feet would not have touched the ground if an actual complaint had been made.

It looks to me like a shabby way by the union chiefs of getting rid of potential troublemakers, as we know nobody comes to your defence once the racist card has been played against you ,for fear of guilt by association.

The degree of fuckwittery , incompetence and downright nastiness that has been fostered by Nu-labor and their minions has reached epidemic proportions. ( and I mean proper Black Death epidemic , not swine flu epidemic )

I believe the only people they have failed to alienate is anyone who arrived in this country in the last 12 years. Oh snap!

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* Picture taken at Tosho-gu shrine, Nikko, Japan

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Oxymoron of the Day

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Moderate Taliban


Taliban

Moderate Taliban
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Sunday, 26 July 2009

" I told you I thought we hit something!"

(click for bigger, picture AP via BBC)

Gentle Giant of the Oceans mown down by rapacious oil squanderers, Gaia Weeps

Now I'm no Marine Biologist nor an expert on cetaceans, but I'm guessing the whale was already brown bread before the ship hit it.

Either that or it was a group of teenage hoodie whales and a game of 'chicken' gone tragically wrong.
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Edit: After doing the barest amount of research, I find that Fin Whales, feed by lunging through the water , this can carry them forward upto 35 feet.

"The lunge creates an incredible amount of drag and essentially stops the whale dead in the water," Goldbogen said. "So any subsequent movement requires an acceleration from rest, which comes at a high energetic cost."

So it may be it was feeding and couldn't get out of the way in time.

Saturday, 25 July 2009

Empty Space wins by-election

Chloe Smith (centre)

Chloe Smith (27) Empty Space and part time Borg has won the Norwich North by-election.

In response to her victory Miss Smith said " ......... "

Meanwhile Party Leader David Cameron said.

" This is the culmination of all my plans, we have been grooming Chloe since she was 16 to be an utterly pliable non-entity, as easy to manipulate as play-doh, I can say anything to her and she just repeats it, like one of those comedy parrots. I mean look at her, she's never had an independent thought in her life poor thing.
Once the next election comes and I've got rid of all those in the party that have ideas of their own, I have a whole army of characterless golem waiting in the wings to take over. I've seen where Maggie, Gordon, and Tony went wrong, the Prime Minister can't have people near him who think for themselves, all they cause is trouble. "

Mr Cameron went on to add.

"This of course does not apply anyone who went to Eton or members of the Bullingdon Club, who are thoroughly decent chaps to a man and realise that they need someone like me at the top to keep them in the money."
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Friday, 24 July 2009

Sour Grapes of the Day


So you're off on holiday, well how Jim Dandy for you.

No, I'm really happy for you, I hope you have a lovely time and come back refreshed and ready to face the world again like a new born infant.

But for those of us who won't be going on 'holiday' for the foreseeable future, can I just say "Shut the fuck up"
I don't want to hear about your plans, the little taverna, your holiday home in France, Algarve, Tuscany , the lovely unspoilt beaches. the amusing locals.
I'm talking to you Nadine ( I take August Off) Dorries , the bloke who stood next to me in the pub and the lady on the till in Sainsburys and all the rest.
I don't want to read that 'blogging may be light as the Internet in Walachia is soo slow' .

I know you would hate to be considered 'insensitive' but in the worst recession for 50 years, that's what you're being. Is it Schadenfreude, one upmanship or just plain ignorance. I know you worked hard for your money (unless you're a politician) and you deserve a break, I don't begrudge you it at all. Just stop rubbing my face in it, it pisses me off.

So; Shut the fuck up - Go - Have a lovely time - Think about how lucky you are to be able to go on holiday this year - Come back - and then Shut the fuck up.

And when you do come back, the only acceptable answer to the socially polite inquiry "
Did you have a nice holiday?" is: "Yes, it was nice."
Then shut the fuck up.
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Thursday, 23 July 2009

Poets Day (3)



If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:


If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:


If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'


If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!


IF

Rudyard Kipling



Wednesday, 22 July 2009

We Are The Barber

click image for larger

Anybody for a 'sweet-hair fright' ?

A quick one this morning from the photo archive, as my power is due to go off again in 15mins, arse. (Seen in Hiroo, Tokyo, Japan )


BTW. Is it just me or would 'We Are The Barber' be a cool name for a band? .
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009

Wait For The Blackout (2)



Apparently we are on a rolling 3 hours on / 6 hours off according to EDF

But you need access to the interwebs to find out which postcode block you are in, nothing on Local radio or BBC London , London Tonight.
EDF now has an automated telephone message detailing the outages. (edit 8.00pm)

I've been round all the elderly neighbours telling them it's going off again at 9.00pm till 3.00am. so get your dinner and bathing done early.

One of the more annoying things about it, is that 3 hours is just enough time to recharge the local burglar alarms back-up batteries, so when it trips off again they can sound for the next 4 hours whilst I'm trying to get to sleep.


PS According to the copper on TV tonight , its looking more and more like pikeys*. Well Duh! You win the 'No shit Sherlock' award for today.

* not his actual words, heaven forbid.
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Wait For The Blackout





I am in the power cut area and have realised how much I rely on the interwebs and TV for information now, but needed to find out what was going on.

So I got an old radio from the loft and tried looking for information, fat chance. Yes they informed us of a power cut, but no updates as to a timescale for a solution. That's if they bothered to mention it at all.
And I'm talking about 'local' radio stations here, Crapital, LBC, Radio Kent, Radio London. Now it may be I'm being harsh and EDF hadn't released the information, but I don't think so.

You see I've come to realise down the years, that unless it's a nice gang murder in Peckham/ New Cross, the South East of London just doesn't exist to Meeja types, after all we've got no Tube so how important can we be.
Check it out, next time you listen to the London traffic on Crapital, Absolute et al, How many times is the South East mentioned, traffic stops at the Blackwall tunnel as far as they are concerned. Hanger Lane , A40 anyhting South West, West or North yes. 'South Circular' what's that? doesn't it go through Lewisham & Camberwell, Well no one we know comes through there, so lets leave it.
It applies to trains as well, sure they tell you an escalator is out of action at Cockfosters, but the fact there's no trains running on the Bexleyheath line, no way.

Lastly


A Kent police spokesman said: “The picture is coming clearer with each passing hour, but it's likely the result of young children mucking about, or cable theft.”

You know it was pikeys , I know it was pikeys, now do your job and nick the fuckers.
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Monday, 20 July 2009

Late Review , Terminator : Salvation

Christian Bale kills off the Terminator franchise on orders of McG, meanwhile James Cameron laughs like a demented hag in the background.



Awful , really just awfully bad. It sort of just hits the back of your eyes like bird shit on the windscreen, whilst your mental wipers try to clear it away, but the washer bottles empty, so you only end up smearing it all over the place.

I mean, I thought T3 was bad, but this is an order of craptitude worse.

Do yourself a favour, spend the £12 ticket money on a good copy of the original , use the change for a few beers and have a night in.
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Saturday, 18 July 2009

Of arms and the man, I sing.


In this case chair arms (and an attempt to get my hit count up)

As you can see from the photo above, the arm of my chair is now covered in Duck Tape, due to age and sunlight the PVC has become friable and it's cracking & splitting and was scratching my arm up something fierce.

It's a very good Gregory Express chair, that I got in Tokyo from my physio. It's very comfortable and all ergonomic and shit. It still has a lot of use left in it, so I don't want to throw it out and can't afford a Herman Miller replacement at the moment.

Now Gregory are based in Australia and last time I had to get a replacement gas cylinder it cost a fortune and I haven't got the readies to justify shipping 2 new arm pads all that way.

I have trawled the Interwebs looking for a UK company that will supply just replacement arm pads, but either I'm searching with wrong terms or they just don't exist, I can't find anyone. ( You can get them from the US for £4.50 each , but £20 postage )

So dear readers, if you know of a UK company that supplies spare parts for office chairs, please let me know in the comments. I would be most grateful.
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Friday, 17 July 2009

Jacqui Smith admits " I was crap and I know it "

Jacqui Smith yesterday admitted that she couldn't organise a 'piss up in a brewery' and felt as effective as a 'one legged man in a arse kicking contest'.

I'm paraphrasing slightly, what she actually said was:

When I became Home Secretary, I'd never run a major organisation. I hope I did a good job but if I did it was more by luck than by any kind of development of those skills.

Read the full interview with Iain Dale at Total Politics

Jacqui Smith, a classic example of The Peter Principle in action, how many others ,including the PM are the same.
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Poets Day (2)


They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.

This Be The Verse
Phillip Larkin

Thursday, 16 July 2009

Kinda petty, but I'd use one.

( clicky piccy for biggy )







h/t to Efrat Gommeh for winning the Becks Prize for DesignBoom competition 'Design a key and what it opens'.
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009

Frankie Say

It appears a woman was asked to leave Harrods due to not being in keeping with the stores 'dress code'

Harrods snub 'Mohican' fund raiser.

A Harrods spokesman said: "Part of our dress code for customers includes extremes in personal presentation."

Although I think the BBC as usual is being a little disingenuous with its headline.

A Harrods spokesman added: "We heard no mention of a charity in this instance."

Anyway the reason for the posting.

Way back in the mists of time I was also asked to leave Harrods due to my clothing not being appropriate for the store or it's customers.

What was it you ask? , well;


I know , I know , the shame of it, but I was young , at least it wasn't one of those 'CHOOSE LIFE ' Wham ones.
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Tuesday, 14 July 2009

Breasts scam London man for £10.00


It appears that Rob Manuel (The Ginger Fuhrer) one of the layabout, workshy founders of the funny, sick, profane, blasphemous, talented, borderline autistic* website B3TA was conned out of £10.00 on Sunday by a pair of breasts attached to lady person asking money for petrol.

In an amusing twist , he did manage to get a photo of the lady in question.

Read the full story at : I've been scammed in the street, but I've got her picture.

Fair play to Rob for being trusting in this day and age and sorry he got let down.

However I would have to say that in my current financial circumstances, the boobs would have to be a bit bigger and there would need to be some motor-boating involved before I handed over an Ayrton.

* Delete as appropriate.
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Monday, 13 July 2009

No shame in being beaten by better.


I was going to post on the utter asshat of a male midwife who declared that 'Pain in child birth is a good thing.' and make some sort of analogy with testicle kicking or insertion of a pineapple.

But as always, how can you top The Daily Mash

Women To Force Hat-Stand Into Anus Of Male Midwife

The senior male midwife who criticised child-birth painkillers will today have a hat-stand forced into his anus, women have promised.

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Sunday, 12 July 2009

Lion Fish

Lion Fish ( click picture for bigger )


Late post today having been stricken once again by the Sunday lassitude.


The handsome chap pictured above lives at The London Aquarium, we toddled along there for a trip yesterday, myself, brother, sister in law, other brother, niece (6) and nephew (4).

It's a bit pricey ( £16 adults , £11.75 child.), but not overly so, given it's location and comparable attractions, but through judicious use of "2 for 1" deals we all got in for £8.00 each. ( So £48.00 instead of £87.50 quite a saving.)

I'd been before some years back and wasn't that impressed, but it's now had a big makeover and it shows. the exhibits are easily accessible to all ages and are well presented , it was very busy but didn't seem crowded and if you waited a few moments everyone was able to get right up to the glass.

The central massive tank is still the star of the show and has been re-landscaped and looks a lot more exciting. The kids were captivated by it.
The new 'shark walk' tunnel to me was a bit 'meh' it's only about 12 foot long and anyone who has been to the American versions wouldn't be that impressed. but then again I'm a cynical old fart and not 7 years old.

So worth £16.00 probably not , but for £8.00 yes, well worth a visit.

What does get my goat though , is it seems that now for nearly all attractions all exits are through the gift shop, which is a cynical ploy, considering how much they fleeced you on the way in.

I'm sure it wasn't that way when I was a kid and I really feel for parents for whom money may be a bit tight.
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Saturday, 11 July 2009

Teaching Maths Down The Years

Shamelessly stolen from Blaney's Blarney via Iain Dale's Diary. It's far too funny and true not to re-post in it's entirety. ( Please visit them for me by way of apology)

Teaching Maths in 1970
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.

What is his profit?

Teaching Maths in 1980
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100. His cost of production is 80% of the price.

What is his profit?

Teaching Maths in 1990
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100. His cost of production is £80.

How much was his profit?

Teaching Maths in 2000
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100. His cost of production is £80 and his profit is £20.

Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

Teaching Maths in 2005
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habit of animals or the preservation of our woodlands.

Your assignment: Discuss how might the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes just for a measly profit of £20.

Teaching Maths in 2009
A logger is arrested for trying to cut down a tree in case it may be offensive to Muslims or other religious groups not consulted in the felling licence. He is also fined a £100 as his chainsaw is in breach of Health & Safety legislation as it deemed too dangerous and could cut something. He has used the chainsaw for over 20 years without incident; however he does not have the correct certificate of competence and is therefore considered to be a receiver and habitual criminal. His DNA is sampled and his details circulated throughout all government agencies. He protests and is taken to court and fined another £100 because he is such an easy target.

When he is released he returns to find gypsies have cut down half his wood to build a camp on his land. He tries to throw them off but is arrested, prosecuted for harassing an ethnic minority, imprisoned and fined a further £100. While he is in jail the gypsies cut down the rest of his wood and sell it on the black market for £100 cash. They also have a leaving BBQ of squirrel and pheasant and depart leaving behind several tonnes of rubbish and asbestos sheeting. The forester on release is warned that failure to clear the fly tipped rubbish immediately at his own cost is an offence. He complains and is arrested for environmental pollution, breach of the peace and invoiced £12000 plus VAT for safe disposal costs by a regulated government contractor.

Your assignment: How many times is the logger going to have to be arrested and fined before he realises that he is never going to make £20 profit by hard work, give up, sign onto the dole and live off the state for the rest of his life?

Teaching Maths in 2010
A logger doesn't sell a lorry load of timber because he can't get a loan to buy a new lorry because his bank has spent all his and their money on a derivative of securities debt related to sub- prime mortgages in Alabama and lost the lot with only some government money left to pay a few million pound bonuses to their senior directors and the traders who made the biggest losses. The logger struggles to pay the €1200 road tax on his old lorry however, as it was built in the 1970s it no longer meets the emissions regulations and he is forced to scrap it.

Some Bulgarian loggers buy the lorry from the scrap merchant and put it back on the road. They undercut everyone on price for haulage and send their cash back home, while claiming unemployment for themselves and their relatives. If questioned they speak no English and it is easier to deport them at the governments expense. Following their holiday back home they return to the UK with different names and fresh girls and start again. The logger protests, is accused of being a bigoted racist and as his name is on the side of his old lorry he is forced to pay €1500 registration fees as a gang master. The Government borrows more money to pay more to the bankers as bonuses are not cheap. The parliamentarians feel they are missing out and claim the difference on expenses and allowances.

You do the maths.

Teaching Maths in 2017
أ المسجل تبيع حموله شاحنة من الخشب من اجل €100 دولار . صاحب تكلفة الانتاج من الثمن . ما هو الربح له؟
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I'll have a Babycham !



I was watching the televison advertisments for all these 'new' pear ciders , when a little voice in my head went, 'surely that's just Babycham in a pint glass'

So I did some checking.

Babycham = Perry = Pear Cider


So next time you ask for a pint of 'Pear cider with ice'
Why not ask them to put a cherry in it as well, you big girls cock.
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Friday, 10 July 2009

Ricky Gervais mocks Ralph Fiennes


h/t Film Drunk
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POETS Day

For some time now I've been trying to think of a hook, thread or a MacGuffin as it were, to tie this blog together and give me something to aim at each week.
So being as today ( Friday), in offices up and down this green and pleasant land is POETS Day ( Piss Off Early Tomorrow's Saturday)
I have decided to introduce a weekly poem. It may not be a complete poem , it may just be a verse or stanza. But all will have had a profound effect on me, I'm not intending to comment on the whys and wherefores of my reasons, you can conjecture in the comments if you wish, but each one means something personal.


These, in the day when heaven was falling,

The hour when earth's foundations fled,

Followed their mercenary calling,

And took their wages, and are dead.


Their shoulders held the sky suspended;

They stood, and earth's foundations stay;

What God abandoned, these defended,

And saved the sum of things for pay.


Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries

A.E. Housman.

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Thursday, 9 July 2009

Presumption of Innocence, Not any more mate.

"The owner should be responsible for the actions of those inside the car," he said.

"We therefore want the law to go further and see a penalty point put on the licence of those that litter from vehicles."

It argues that as it is difficult to identify who has actually thrown the litter, all the blame should fall on the car owner.

So even if you are not actually in the car, if you are the registered keeper you will get points on your licence for a 'crime' you didn't actually commit.

Just what we need, another new law, to add to the thousands already added by the Lords of the New Church. This is another example of the Righteous making sure we are all guilty of something and the general slide towards a Code Napoleon where the state does not have to prove guilt, it is up to you to prove your innocence. Got a camera you're a paedophile or terrorist , prove to us your not. Smoker you're a murderer, prove to us you're not. Like a drink, you're an alcoholic / binge drinker, prove to us you're not.

Rights that have been gained over hundreds of years of struggle are being swept aside by petty bureaucrats and fucktards.

Where does a so called charity, get off on trying to overturn years of British jurisprudence. But wait a minute, let's have a look at those accounts.
Ah I see now, 2007 , 2008 pissy, show nothing accounts for the holding company,

2006 last full accounts,

Total incoming £8.425 mio
from
DEFRA £5.452 mio
Cleaner Safer Greener Network £1.271 mio
Other govt sources £240,000
Voluntary Income £24,000

Let's try the Fake Charities Test

1.) Does the charity receive more than 10% of its income from the tax-payer AND/OR receive more than £1,000,000 a year from the tax-payer?

YES

2.) Is the charity engaged in lobbying the government and/or influencing government policy?

YES

However according to the rules:
A number of charities are funded by the government to carry out public services (eg. Victim Support, Keep Britain Tidy, Sustrans). These are effectively semi-privatised government departments and do not make it into the database because they do not lobby for changes to the law.

I beg to differ ( see above ) so I have just submitted them.

So there you have it, another new law heading your way to erode your rights ,courtesy of New Labour , via it's standard method of funding Fake Charities to produce the arguments it wants.
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Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Oh, I say , that's a bit much!


There's a bit of a todoo going on over at Counting Cats In Zanzibar

One of the posters NickM has decided to quit the site, which is a shame as his posts were infomative and well written.

As to the reason for his quiting , it appears that within the comments on a series of posts on what is to be done in Afghanistan, one of the commentators compared NickM to Polly Toynbee.

Now there are depths a gentleman shouldn't sink to and that is one of them. I have been called many things in my life and shrugged them off with aplomb, but should anyone compare me to 'La Toynbee' they had better be prepared for violence.

Some things a chap just can't stand for and this is a low blow by anybodies standards.

So best of luck NickM.

UPDATE 09/07/09 Nick's back

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

I think he'd have been proud. Don't you?


(Click image for bigger)

I was reminded of these from my photo archive, after reading Ed West's blog on that arch ass hat and cock-waffler Tony Benn

Love the last paragraph.

Benn also points out, with the smugness of a Leftie explaining why they love living in Brixton, “My political heroes are Ghandi, Mandela and Tutu, none of them European and none of them white.” What do you want – a round of applause?

Quite.


( If you're looking for it it can be found next to The Marcus Garvey Industrial Estate. So it's no wonder John Sullivan placed his fictional Nelson Mandela House in the same area.)

Edit 19:43 Do you know I've only just noticed , they spelt anti-racist wrong on the sign, FFS

7th July 2005


Please take a moment today to remember them.


more photo's of the memorial at The Evening Standard

Monday, 6 July 2009

Things That Make You A Man

(prob bin dun , but who cares)

1. OPENING JARS - nnng, she's struggling. You take it from her hands, open it effortlessly and pretend she loosened it for you. She didn't. Jars are men's work.

2. CALLING SOMEONE 'SON' - Especially policeman, but even saying it to kids makes you the man.

3. DOING A PROPER TACKLE - Beckham free kicks? Gay. A Stuart Pearce tackle is the pinnacle of the game, simultaneously winning the ball and crippling the man. Magic.

4. SHARPENING A PENCIL WITH A STANLEY KNIFE - Blunt, is it? Hand it here love. No, I don't need a sharpener, you think I can't whittle?

5. GOING TO THE TIP - A manly act which combines driving and lifting as you thrillingly drop your rubbish into another huge pile of other rubbish.

6. DRINKING UP - Specifically, rising from the table, slinging your coat on and downing two thirds of a pint in one fluid movement. Then nodding towards the door, saying, "Let's go," and striding out while everyone else struggles to catch up with you. God, you're hard.

7. HAVING A THIN BIT OF WOOD - in the shed, solely to stir paint with.

8. HAVING A SCAR - Ideally it'll be a facial knife wound, but even an iron burn on the wrist is good. "Ooh, did it hurt??" "Nahhhh."

9. HAVING A HANGOVER AND THICK STUBBLE - When birds have been partying they just whinge. You, on the other hand have physical evidence Of your hardness, sprouting from your face. "Big night?" "Grrrrr, what does It look like?"

10. NODDING AT COPPERS - A moments eye contact is all it takes for you to share the unspoken bond. "We've not seen eye to eye in the past," it says, "but someone's got to keep the little scrotes in line".

11. USING POWER TOOLS - especially ones slightly more powerful than you need or can safely handle. Pneumatic drilling while smoking a fag? Superb.

12. KICKING A FOOTY AGAINST A GARAGE DOOR - Clang-g-g-g-g-g-! "F#cking stick that Becks! I kick so hard I set off car alarms."

13. ARRIVING IN A PUB LATE... and everyone cheers you. It doesn't mean you're popular, it just means your mates are tipsy. However, the rest of the pub doesn't know that.

14. NOT WATCHING YOUR WEIGHT - fat is a feminist issue, apparently. Brilliant. Pass the pork crackling.

15. CARVING THE ROAST - and saying "are you a leg or breast man" to the blokes and "do you want stuffing" to the women. Congratulations, you are now your dad.

16. WINKING - turns women to putty. Doesn't it?

17. TEST SWINGING HAMMERS - ideally, B&Q would have little changing rooms with mirrors so you could see how rugged you look with any DIY item. Until then, we'll make do with the aisles.

18. TAKING OUT £250 FROM AN ATM - okay, so it's for paying the plumber later but with that much cash you feel like a mafia don. The only thing better is peeling notes off the roll later.

19. PHONE CALLS THAT LAST LESS THAN A MINUTE - unlike birds, we get straight to the point. "Alright? Yep. Drink? Royal Oak it is then. Seven. See ya."

20. PARALLEL PARKING - bosh, straight in. First time. Can Schumacher do that? No, because his car's got no reverse gear which, technically, makes you the world's best driver.

21. HAVING EARNED THAT PINT - Since the dawn of time, men have toiled in the fields in blistering heat. Why? So, when it's over we can stand there in silence, surveying our work with one hand resting on the beer gut while the other nurses a foaming jug of ale. Aaaah.

22. HAVING SOMETHING PROPERLY WRONG WITH YOU - especially if you didn't make a fuss. "Why was I off? Oh nothing much, just a brain haemorrhage".

23. KNOWING WHICH SCREWDRIVER IS WHICH - "A Phillips? For that? Are you mad, woman?"

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