Monday, July 22, 2013

Sterilise the lot of 'em!

I'm sick of paying my taxes to finance these people coming over here and having bloody children left right and centre and expecting the state to pick up the tab...Bloody spongers and scroungers.  We pay for them to live in massive houses and they don't even think of getting proper jobs and working for a living.  Not only that but many of them haven't had a proper job for generations.  We tolerate this and it goes on and on.  They're just taking advantage and I'm sick of it...Bloody royals...

Wither the weather...

So once again the story was written.  Wall to wall sun, unusually high temperatures, heatwave, anyone over 40 or under 10 is going to die, really hot, blah blah blah, help we're all going to die - and once again a lie.  I'd just like to say to the British media JUST BECAUSE IT IS HOT IN YOUR TINY PIECE OF THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT'S LIKE THAT EVERYWHERE!

I really wish they wouldn't report their experience as if it were the whole country.  Fact is that I swallowed this 'it's going to be baking hot even at night' twaddle and set off for the Deer Shed Festival this weekend with shorts (I did have some jeans too btw...) and just one thin jumper and only a thin sleeping bag with one blanket - and it was freezing at night!  It was cloudy most of the time and it drizzled a tiny bit and it was misty and...well, the festival was good and the weather was OK - BUT THE WEATHER WAS NOT WHAT THEY SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE LIKE.  I suppose if I'd religiously watched the local weather they might not have been so bad but all over the media were contstant references to hottest temperatures and sun and all the rest.  In fact we've had a typically British summer - a few days of nice weather followed by cloud and coolness.  I guess there msut be swathes of the country that never get a weather forcast because they're not at the extremes of the country or in London.


Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Enough of the baby already...

If it's not an offence and if we still have some sort of free speech I'd just like to say that I'm really sick of all this 'royal baby' stuff.  Oh and I'm against the whole idea of monarchy too.  I know this isn't particularly clever or funny or anything but I do think us republicans (not in the North American sense) should mention the fact once in a while. 

If I was descended from murderous thugs / massive criminals I wouldn't be particularly pleased - although the word 'decended' is obviously a very loose term as they're so clearly not decended from some of the people they're supposed to be decended from...

The news is going to be grim for weeks and months, potentially forever.  I just don't think it's 'news'...Ah well, another reason ot not watch telly I suppose...

...and as an aside, is there one person in the world with half a brain cell who doesn't realise that The Apprentice is freak show telly?    I just saw a couple of  minutes of it.  I bet that in real life some of the contestants are not actually morons by the way.  I presume they're willing to be humiliated for money, that's all...

Monday, July 15, 2013

Help Me! Help Me!

Oh deary deary me...

The voluntary sector is generally a good thing - people doing good stuff for not much money.  But I do wish they'd learn to communicate.  By which I mean I wish they'd learn to speak English. 

This is item 1 from a job description for a job currently on offer.  Maybe they've been corrupted by government who frequently can't speak English either...

"to deliver the Yorkshire & Humber element of the national programme under the Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme and the Innovation Excellence and Strategic Development programme for the Department of Health and through Regional Voices".
 
Got that everyone?  Yep, a list of aspirational buzzwords made into meaningless names with the word 'deliver' at the beginning.
 
Ironically the poor sod who gets this job has to do a monthly newsletter!  Mind you it'll be written in such a way as to exclude the plebs...Don't know about you but I think people who get public money should be made to attend English classes...

Tuesday, July 09, 2013

One of the more fun disasters

Now I don't normally include photos but here's one.  Spotted at a local event last weekend.  I won't mention what event it was because I'm not having a go at the event but I do wonder about this particular attraction.

Is it just me or is this clearly a tragedy themed inflatable fun slide?  Come and pretent to be one of 1,500 people cast into dark and freezing water to die a horrible death!  Can the 9-11 bouncy castle be far behind?

I wonder how they market this thing?!

A moment's research reveals I'm not the first to notice...
http://www.odditycentral.com/news/inflatable-titanic-slide-is-so-fun-its-been-banned.html

And I thought my 9-11 suggestion was bad!


Sport is reet 'ard actually...

Blimey, sport?  Me?

Sorry to come over all well, like the meedja but I wanted to say something about Andy Murray.  Simple really.  Thing is that that Wimbledon final looked really hard work.  It was a reminder that even really talented people have to work really hard to be successful at what they do.  Just maybe it's a sign that we're moving towards people being well known for their achievements rather than their personality disorders or for going shopping. 

Mind you the Apprentice is still on isn't it?  So the freaks are still there to be beaten...