... you haven't seen this yet, please do go and read Timmy's epic fisking of sanctimonious hypocrite and weapons-grade cock end, "Dick" Murphy.
And if you have already read it, go and fucking enjoy it again.
Cunt.
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Monday, 30 August 2010
Shocking, I tell you!
Shocking!
The fucking police and the fucking scamera operators keep trumpeting all these fucking claims about how much scameras save lives and what utter fucking bastards motorists are.
Well, all I can say is: "Fuck off and die painfully, you lying cunts!"
Last week, Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership said a roadside camera on the A44 in Woodstock had seen an 18.3 per cent increase in speed offences since the switch-off compared to the average number caught this year.
At the same time a radar inside a second camera in Watlington Road, Cowley, registered an 88 per cent rise in offences when compared with figures in 2008 and 2009.
The partnership said the figures for 2010 were not available, as the camera had been switched off due to roadworks.
When the Oxford Mail requested 2008-9 data for the Woodstock camera – to make an equal comparison to the Watlington Road camera – the partnership said the figures were not readily to hand.
Now, the Oxford Mail having obtained the information, the figures actually show speed offences fell by four per cent when comparing the figures since the switch-off to offences in 2008-9.
The fucking police and the fucking scamera operators keep trumpeting all these fucking claims about how much scameras save lives and what utter fucking bastards motorists are.
Well, all I can say is: "Fuck off and die painfully, you lying cunts!"
Sunday, 29 August 2010
The new politics ...
Tom Harris has been running a series of how the new politics does things the same way that Labour used to. No opprobrium for Labour having done such a thing, of course.
But it really is an endless display of rehashed tired "initiatives" showing the poverty of Tory ideas:
Oh God no! Not again!
Still, I'm sure some Tory lickspittle and apologist will be along shortly to tell me how different it is because the Tories are doing it this time. And how much better the Tories are than Labour.
The problem is that our elected representatives are unable to do anything effective to the civil service and wedded to statist thinking. Every one of the things that they have done, even Eric Pickles's alleged cuts have just transferred the pointless activity to the private sector, rather than doing away with the pointless activity altogether.
I suppose it's too much to ask for politicians to ask whether everything that government currently does needs to be done by the government or done at all?
But it really is an endless display of rehashed tired "initiatives" showing the poverty of Tory ideas:
Anyone remember the special telephone line 101? It was a little idea to have a non-emergency phone line that people could use instead of 999 to report crimes that didn't require SO19 to pile in with their H&K MP5s.
It was, naturally a complete waste of time and money, being piloted then slowly dropped having cost the taxpayer £1.8 million
Calls to the line, designed to ease pressure on 999, included such requests as, "can you tell me the times of trains to Brighton?", "I'd like someone to test my smoke alarm." and "Do you know when the next bus leaves for Southampton?"
You'll be glad to hear therefore that our Coalition Government would not be so stupid as to introduce a similar sort of scheme ever again, less face the embarrassment of throwing more of our money away at a service that would be used and abused... oh wait, no... what am I talking about, they are introducing such a scheme.
For those wondering, this is the point at which you put your head in your hands and scream "Oh God no! Not again!".
Oh God no! Not again!
Still, I'm sure some Tory lickspittle and apologist will be along shortly to tell me how different it is because the Tories are doing it this time. And how much better the Tories are than Labour.
The problem is that our elected representatives are unable to do anything effective to the civil service and wedded to statist thinking. Every one of the things that they have done, even Eric Pickles's alleged cuts have just transferred the pointless activity to the private sector, rather than doing away with the pointless activity altogether.
I suppose it's too much to ask for politicians to ask whether everything that government currently does needs to be done by the government or done at all?
Saturday, 28 August 2010
More evidence of the sham of democracy
My regular reader will be quite aware that I have become disillusioned with the many blessings of democracy.
Anybody who reads Douglas Carswell's blog will know that he is increasingly disillusioned with Parliamentary democracy. He points out that the bulk of power to actually decide and implement things is limited to predominantly civil servants, quangocrats, bureaucrats and technocrats.
The visible levers of power are held by a coterie of advisers, many completely unelected and even deemed to be outside any kind of office at all. A number of "ministers" do exist, but they're just figureheads.
Mercifully, however, there is one place where democracy still works: local government.
Oh!
So why do we bother to elect councillors?
At every level of government, democracy is the fig leaf that hides the real operation of how things are done.
Think about that the next time you try to argue that democracy somehow blesses the thieving bastardry of the state.
Anybody who reads Douglas Carswell's blog will know that he is increasingly disillusioned with Parliamentary democracy. He points out that the bulk of power to actually decide and implement things is limited to predominantly civil servants, quangocrats, bureaucrats and technocrats.
The visible levers of power are held by a coterie of advisers, many completely unelected and even deemed to be outside any kind of office at all. A number of "ministers" do exist, but they're just figureheads.
Mercifully, however, there is one place where democracy still works: local government.
Oh!
Most – 99% of the decisions on policy taken by local councils are not taken following debate at a committee. Councillors – well, most of us – simply aren’t involved at all in the decisions taken by the councils to which we are elected.
So why do we bother to elect councillors?
The truth is that decisions in local government aren’t taken in the manner most ordinary people – including quite well-informed ordinary people – believe is the case. Us councilors no longer sit on various committees in numbers reflecting the political balance of the council. Eight or ten councilors make up a (usually) one-party executive – often pompously called the ‘cabinet’ – and it is here that the decisions are taken. But understand that any discussion takes places away from the scrying eyes of the public – in Bradford we had a thing called “CMT” consisting of Executive Members and the Council’s “Strategic Directors” where the real decisions were made. You must also understand that most of the decisions are made under “delegated authority” by one or other ‘strategic director’.
At every level of government, democracy is the fig leaf that hides the real operation of how things are done.
Think about that the next time you try to argue that democracy somehow blesses the thieving bastardry of the state.
Friday, 27 August 2010
What is wrong with people?
I can't understand it. People are so willing to subjugate themselves to the (usually mad) desires of others: Islamic imams, Christian popes, social democratic demagogues, Fabianist control freaks, Common Purpose bullies, small-minded Britishnessers, Europhiliac bureaucrats, militant Atheist cuntards or whatever other fucking nutjob thing drives you.
Why are so few people prepared to just stand on their own and, more importantly, be proud of that fact? Why do people have to subject themselves to some laughable idea of "community", rather than just be an individual who voluntarily interacts with other individuals when it's to both parties' benefit?
And why am I regarded as a "beyond-the-fringe" nutjob for wanting to be this?
Why are so few people prepared to just stand on their own and, more importantly, be proud of that fact? Why do people have to subject themselves to some laughable idea of "community", rather than just be an individual who voluntarily interacts with other individuals when it's to both parties' benefit?
And why am I regarded as a "beyond-the-fringe" nutjob for wanting to be this?
Thursday, 26 August 2010
Monopolies and competition
I keep getting told that completely unregulated, completely free markets can't work because monopolies will form due to someone having a competitive advantage.
I don't believe this, because I've watched actual multi-national corporations go about their business. An acquired business is quite often kept running as an independent unit and if it doesn't make enough money to justify keeping it, it will very often be spun off into a separate business that can be sold off. In the worst case, it can be closed down.
Mergers have another face to their coin.
But it seems to me that, as ever, the real issue is how words are defined. If you watch even a bit of this*, you will quickly see how genuine (and universal) understanding of the crucial economic concept of competition was completely rewritten for the benefit of technocrats and bureaucrats. You can also see how completely unnatural the current understanding of what competition is and how a competitive market in the real world actually works.
Intuitively, I've always looked at competition in the Austrian way, the pre-technocratic way. It is, of course, no surprise that socialists and statists argue about the impossibility of a textbook "free market". They are quite correct, that kind of free market doesn't exist and it is, in any event, of no real benefit to the consumer. Who wants to buy identical cars at identical prices which just have a different badge on them?
Mercedes have a monopoly on making Mercedes. They don't have a monopoly on making cars. But if they come up with a new innovation, within a couple of years, that innovation would be found on the lowliest Nissan or Daewoo.
The benefit of a free and unregulated market is genuine competition for your money: differentiating on price, on features, on service, on marketing. The fact that someone can enter the market easily and compete with you is genuinely more likely to keep you honest than any number of government-decreed boxes to tick.
If you have a natural monopoly and you abuse that, someone will be annoyed enough to take you on. If you have a government-decreed monopoly, people cannot take you on. Anybody moved to a new house? Seen what a complete pain in the cunt it is to get a new phone line installed? Reason? Legally, only BT can fit your home with a landline.
Historically, even natural monopoly is kept honest by the threat of competition. The only real burden to consumers is created by monopoly by fiat. That is, monopolies created by regulation.
*I was going to say you don't need to watch the whole video. But I did anyway. It's quite good.
I don't believe this, because I've watched actual multi-national corporations go about their business. An acquired business is quite often kept running as an independent unit and if it doesn't make enough money to justify keeping it, it will very often be spun off into a separate business that can be sold off. In the worst case, it can be closed down.
Mergers have another face to their coin.
But it seems to me that, as ever, the real issue is how words are defined. If you watch even a bit of this*, you will quickly see how genuine (and universal) understanding of the crucial economic concept of competition was completely rewritten for the benefit of technocrats and bureaucrats. You can also see how completely unnatural the current understanding of what competition is and how a competitive market in the real world actually works.
Intuitively, I've always looked at competition in the Austrian way, the pre-technocratic way. It is, of course, no surprise that socialists and statists argue about the impossibility of a textbook "free market". They are quite correct, that kind of free market doesn't exist and it is, in any event, of no real benefit to the consumer. Who wants to buy identical cars at identical prices which just have a different badge on them?
Mercedes have a monopoly on making Mercedes. They don't have a monopoly on making cars. But if they come up with a new innovation, within a couple of years, that innovation would be found on the lowliest Nissan or Daewoo.
The benefit of a free and unregulated market is genuine competition for your money: differentiating on price, on features, on service, on marketing. The fact that someone can enter the market easily and compete with you is genuinely more likely to keep you honest than any number of government-decreed boxes to tick.
If you have a natural monopoly and you abuse that, someone will be annoyed enough to take you on. If you have a government-decreed monopoly, people cannot take you on. Anybody moved to a new house? Seen what a complete pain in the cunt it is to get a new phone line installed? Reason? Legally, only BT can fit your home with a landline.
Historically, even natural monopoly is kept honest by the threat of competition. The only real burden to consumers is created by monopoly by fiat. That is, monopolies created by regulation.
*I was going to say you don't need to watch the whole video. But I did anyway. It's quite good.
Uncritical reporting
It's when I read things like this, that I really wonder how far the dumbing down of Britain (and, probably, the world) has gone.
We are so dependent on the media to give us the facts and they don't bother to check them. Hell, I'm no better, just look at how easily I was gulled, ungulled and re-gulled about the "Ground Zero mosque".
In an age of spin, deceit by omission, context and outright lies, how the fuck do we know when we're being told the truth? And where can we actually go for fact-checked, reliable reporting*?
*Don't tell me "blogs", because I'm a blogger and I lack the talent and ability to check my own facts -- I don't believe that the vast majority of bloggers are any better.
We are so dependent on the media to give us the facts and they don't bother to check them. Hell, I'm no better, just look at how easily I was gulled, ungulled and re-gulled about the "Ground Zero mosque".
In an age of spin, deceit by omission, context and outright lies, how the fuck do we know when we're being told the truth? And where can we actually go for fact-checked, reliable reporting*?
*Don't tell me "blogs", because I'm a blogger and I lack the talent and ability to check my own facts -- I don't believe that the vast majority of bloggers are any better.
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
That's not abuse!
The deputy leader of the London Assembly Conservatives has insulted Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes on Twitter.
This is abuse:
Simon Hughes is an arrogant, overly-entitled cunt with shit for brains and filled to the brim with fucking impractical, statist bullshit ideas. He deserves to meet his end impaled and screaming, followed by the mounting of his fat ugly head on a pike outside the Houses of Parliament as a warning to the other troughing cunts to get their own fucking house in order before trying to tell the rest of us how to live our fucking lives.
The cunt.
James Cleverly wrote: "We may be coalition partners but it doesn't stop me thinking Simon Hughes is a dick."
In fuller comments, made on his blog, Mr Cleverly called Mr Hughes a "fool" and said the idea was "bone-headed".
He added: "Simon Hughes clearly feels that he is the 'real' voice of the Lib Dems.
"He isn't."
This is abuse:
Simon Hughes is an arrogant, overly-entitled cunt with shit for brains and filled to the brim with fucking impractical, statist bullshit ideas. He deserves to meet his end impaled and screaming, followed by the mounting of his fat ugly head on a pike outside the Houses of Parliament as a warning to the other troughing cunts to get their own fucking house in order before trying to tell the rest of us how to live our fucking lives.
The cunt.
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
A spiffing example of why regulations are bad
Here's a thing:
Dude, WTF? More than half a billion fucking dollars on a fucking school? Does it have gold plated shitters or what?
And given that the district has an enormous shortfall, was that the best fucking use of taxpayer funding? Of course it fucking wasn't. But guess what? This fucking abortion was a direct consequence of cast-iron regulations created for situation A, that completely fuck up situation B:
So, they couldn't use the funds for a useful purpose because they came with some arbitrary strings attached, and the district has a regulatory requirement to reduce overcrowding. So they pissed out over half a billion US on a fucking school, instead.
Jesus wept.
California is having massive budget problems. On an unrelated note, a $578,000,000 school is unveiled in Los Angeles. On another completely unrelated note, the district has a shortfall of $640,000,000. The school comes complete with murals, marble memorial, swimming pool, and public park. This will be the most expensive public school in American history.
Dude, WTF? More than half a billion fucking dollars on a fucking school? Does it have gold plated shitters or what?
And given that the district has an enormous shortfall, was that the best fucking use of taxpayer funding? Of course it fucking wasn't. But guess what? This fucking abortion was a direct consequence of cast-iron regulations created for situation A, that completely fuck up situation B:
By law, these funds could not be used to fund teacher salaries or to back fill budget shortfalls currently being experienced by the District and its [sic] meets the Board goal of relieving overcrowding in all our schools.
So, they couldn't use the funds for a useful purpose because they came with some arbitrary strings attached, and the district has a regulatory requirement to reduce overcrowding. So they pissed out over half a billion US on a fucking school, instead.
Jesus wept.
In which I observe with a certain wry irony
I am not making this up:
At the risk of provoking yet another round of abuse for my pettifogging pedantry, am I alone in finding these two statements by the same person wryly ironic?
Blogrolls
You will notice we do not have one. Haven't for ages. We realised, well, 'why?' Why bother? Some people have them because they are genuinely into their politics and want to provide a 'resource'. Right, Longrider?
Fair enough. I consider such individuals to be in the minority. I think Mr B had it right about blogrolls and why people have them.
I personally think blogrolls are like cub scout badges. You know, those cute little icons of honour you had sewn on your sleeve by mummy to show off something new you've acquired. Like the ability to do reef knot.
"Dib Dib Dib! Dob Ob Obo!"
Imagine if we all went around wearing badges on our sleeves with the names of all our friends.
"Hey look! Jimmy knows Tommy, he's got him under Janey!"
This is the modern, blogging equivalent of fucking blogrolls. A big old status thing, to show off to everyone who you are like, who you read, and who probably knows you too.
"This is my club!"
Whoop-de-mother-fucketty-doo. Here's a curly-wurly. First prize to you.
Why else would everyone have these things? Most libertarian bloggers are 'fuck the world, I don't give a shit, get off my back, you are all cunts' types. Do they really want to provide a valuable public resource and service? Or is the cub scout analogy fairer than many would dare admit?
We genuinely find it all rather irritating. We do not like chumminess, schmoozing, back-scratching, hypocrisy, sliminess, sneakiness and we don't like it of politicians and we don't like it from you, either.
These are traits we loathe, in fact. Hence why we rip the shit out of it. If it bores you, good.
I hope this helps to straighten things out a little. It will be the last time I comprehensively address the matter, and I re-state here and now: if you are amongst the Country Club of wankers we are addressing, stop talking about us, stop linking us, take us down from your cub scout Hall of Fame, and fuck off and die.
Kindest Regards
John Demetriou
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At the risk of provoking yet another round of abuse for my pettifogging pedantry, am I alone in finding these two statements by the same person wryly ironic?
Carswell is miffed
Poor lamb:
Moan, moan, moan.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is an elected MP. One with connections, a decent, coherent plan to sort things out, one that has been thought through well in advance and not "on the hoof", someone whose plans and opinions get a reasonable amount of airtime and yet, HE can't change the social democrat juggernaut's direction.
Our elected representatives are completely powerless to make things better or even different. All the visible power is concentrated in the hands of those ministers who have El Presidenté's ear and all the real power is in the hands of unelected quangocrats and bureaucrats. It just goes to show what a pathetic charade the so-called democracy we are run by, is.
Still, it's nice to know that people can still delude themselves by telling us all how a few words in the right ear will make it all better.
Yeah, right.
Leon Brittan has been appointed as a trade adviser to the government. Not that the UK government has any real say over UK trade policy. As an ex-Eurocrat, I’m sure Lord Brittan knows that already.
But still, why not appoint as a trade adviser a man whose career saw him help lock UK trade ever more tightly into the sclerotic, high tax / high regulation Eurozone? It could be just the thing to stimulate trade with India and China.
The fact Lord L happens to have been explicitly hostile to the Tory cause in the run up to the last set of Euro elections even gives his elevation an uber moderniser, welcome-to-the-Big-Tent twist.
Moan, moan, moan.
Enough about technocratic appointments. How are those Coalition proposals to make government more accountable to Parliament coming along?
This, ladies and gentlemen, is an elected MP. One with connections, a decent, coherent plan to sort things out, one that has been thought through well in advance and not "on the hoof", someone whose plans and opinions get a reasonable amount of airtime and yet, HE can't change the social democrat juggernaut's direction.
Our elected representatives are completely powerless to make things better or even different. All the visible power is concentrated in the hands of those ministers who have El Presidenté's ear and all the real power is in the hands of unelected quangocrats and bureaucrats. It just goes to show what a pathetic charade the so-called democracy we are run by, is.
Still, it's nice to know that people can still delude themselves by telling us all how a few words in the right ear will make it all better.
Change from the inside!
Yeah, right.
Monday, 23 August 2010
It comes as quite a shock, I tell you!
Dizzy examines the proposed graduate tax scheme:
Well, bugger me! Who would have thought it, eh?
But no, it's all fine, because the increasingly libertarian Tories and hugely "liberal" Democrats are in charge, so they will definitely not be doing anything to buttfuck the ordinary man.
So, not only frightened to death of repealing shit Labour legislation, but also quite happy to introduce new cuntishness for the benefit of the political class. Oh yes, I can definitely see how the new lot are completely different from the old lot.
That campaign to modify the Tory party from the inside is clearly paying benefits.
The fact is, when you actually look at the graduate tax proposal it's clear who will really gain from it. The Political Class.
It will be the bag carrier greasy pole types, the policy wonks, the NUS presidents and the assortment of other "never done a proper job" politicos on crap money with great quality degrees who'll be subsidised by the graduates from crappy ex-polys with a Desmond, who then work their balls off to earn as much as they can in an area with no relevance to their education.
Well, bugger me! Who would have thought it, eh?
But no, it's all fine, because the increasingly libertarian Tories and hugely "liberal" Democrats are in charge, so they will definitely not be doing anything to buttfuck the ordinary man.
So, not only frightened to death of repealing shit Labour legislation, but also quite happy to introduce new cuntishness for the benefit of the political class. Oh yes, I can definitely see how the new lot are completely different from the old lot.
That campaign to modify the Tory party from the inside is clearly paying benefits.
Making a mental note
really? I can see how inflation has shot up Mugabe style, as Dale was predicting, after last QE burst
-- Sunny Hundal, arguing for more quantitative easing
I genuinely hope I am wrong and he is right. I reckon we have a year. I don't see Mugabe-style inflation, but I reckon it's definitely going to be visible and really fucking hurt.
Sunday, 22 August 2010
Just in case it gets pulled ...
... when the author realises he's being a complete fucking tool, I'm ripping and posting this:
Nick Martian
e-mail: earthaidcampaign@gmail.com
I think the only thing I can add to that is a) pwned, mega-super-ultra-to-the-power-of-infinity pwned, pwned beyond anything 4chan could dream of; and b) a Mk 1 eyeball is not fucking military equipment, you fucking retard!
Update: Check out his hysterical twatter feed.
Right Wing Extremist Spies on Climate Campers with British Army Equipment
Nick Martian | 21.08.2010 17:24 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Workers' Movements | Liverpool | World
There appears to have been a deadly serious game of cat and mouse going on between environmental activists, a local Scottish journalist, and the right wing extremist who has been threatening violence against the Camp for Climate Action in Edinburgh.
Boasting that he is a professional soldier recently returned from fighting in Afghanistan where he says he killed Muslims for reading Islamic literature, and now posting his threats on Twitter under the name “wearethebritish” the extremist claims to have been using British Army military surveillance equipment to spy on the climate campers.
He is believed to be a member of the English Defence League, a right wing organisation that targets Muslim groups and he has been posting messages of hatred against the climate camp to other members of the EDL.
Local journalist Jono Warren who posts on Twitter as “nmec” was alerted by LutherBlissetts, one of the climate camp activists, to the fact that the Camp for Climate Action was being threatened:
LutherBlissetts @nmec - wearethebritish says he has gun metal Aston, lives one hour away from climate camp and intends to pay 'scruffy squatters' a visit
@nmec has EDL @wearethebritish turned up to Climate Camp yet?
Nmec @LutherBlissetts Not that I'm aware of.
The wearethebritish spy however was apparently not far away from the climate camp also posting his Twitter messages:
wearethebritish Sitting in car somewhere in Edinburgh - laptop on 3G - have extremists from climate camp under close observation - dull people haven't noticed
Drove to edinburgh to put climate camp under close observation total anti climax – utter non-entities – complete #fail
@ShugNiggurath have been watching them up close - rag tag bunch of hysterical useful fools – climate camp carbon footprint very high
wearethebritish @PoliticalFun check out @LutherBlissetts - he's 'alerted' some kid with a camera to my proximity and dull boy hasn't even seen me
PoliticalFun @wearethebritish I've just found the tweet, hilarious!
You take the guy out of the military but you just can't get the military out of the guy! What surveillance equipment you got?
Are you hunting?
wearethebritish @PoliticalFun "What surveillance equipment you got?" - because they are so pre-occupied with their obsession all I need is a Mk 1 Eyeball
PoliticalFun @wearethebritish are you sitting there taunting them?
wearethebritish @PoliticalFun "are you sitting there taunting them?" - lol, no, they aren't worthy of action - mostly spoilt middle class kids - nobodies
AlJahom @wearethebritish a muck-spreader fully of slurry would be perfect for them. @PoliticalFun
wearethebritish @PoliticalFun @AlJahom climate camp comes with its own self-contained dung heap - a walking squawking steaming midden of irrelevance
wearethebritish @PoliticalFun guys a twat isn't he - these guys think they are so dangerous, so radical, so 'underground' .... the world is lol'ing at them
wearethebritish @ShugNiggurath oh yes - plenty of methane coming out of both ends - truth is that climate camp is a toothless figure of fun and ridicule
wearethebritish come on tweeps - let's all gather round to point and lol at the spoilt little rich kids of climate camp
Tamsin53 @wearethebritish agree some of the anarchy people come from middle class well off families - just thinking of the Redgrave family
wearethebritish @Tamsin53 climate camps kiddies are a laughing stock - multi-billion RBS won't take any notice of them, even Police are openly lol'ing at them
wearethebritish so far climate camp is an absolute failure but then a few spoilt middle class kids were never going to make a dent in a multi-billion corp
The people of Edinburgh couldn't care less about climate camp 'activists' they know RBS is good for their city & soon climate camp will leave
Overweight students should diet not riot - not that soft-skinned spoilt little tubby munchkins are any good at rioting either climate camp
Templar1128 @wearethebritish yes the farmer should use the tractors to push the layabouts off his land.. bet they're claiming benefits though..
LutherBlissetts @wearethebritish climate is changing. precession & glaciation cycle beyond our control yet effects of anthropic change not beyond our control
wearethebritish @LutherBlissetts afternoon sherlock - too bad we didn't meet - maybe next time sonny
@Political_Fun my twittercrush hates me...... isn't it fun
CynaraeStMary @wearethebritish Who could hate you?
Political_Fun @AlJahom Eh? Who's beans I want to know who @wearethebritish has a lefty crush on??
wearethebritish @Political_Fun it's the climate camp chic ....
wearethebritish @AmeliaGregory why? well a) I like her name, I once dated an Amelia from Kenya (Happy Valley type) b) She has guts & drive c) She hates me
wearethebritish all the chics now checking out my twittercrush
wearethebritish @AmeliaGregory we're talking about you ....
@AmeliaGregory I'm just round the corner from Jenners if you want to meet me for afternoon tea & buns!
The right wing extremist who calls himself “wearethebritish” and who has been posting threats of violence against the Camp for Climate Action seems to have spent the afternoon spying on the climate camp, avoiding being seen by the journalist he knew was looking for him, and posting his unpleasant messages on Twitter.
Maybe he is just the cowardly clown that he appears to be but threatening to burn down the climate camp and using British Army surveillance equipment to spy on the climate campers is probably illegal, and the fact is that a lot of people are now taking this man and the rest of the members of his group very seriously, just in case they might be as dangerous and murderous as they claim to be.
Local journalist Jono Warren who posts on Twitter as “nmec” was alerted by LutherBlissetts, one of the climate camp activists, to the fact that the Camp for Climate Action was being threatened:
LutherBlissetts @nmec - wearethebritish says he has gun metal Aston, lives one hour away from climate camp and intends to pay 'scruffy squatters' a visit
@nmec has EDL @wearethebritish turned up to Climate Camp yet?
Nmec @LutherBlissetts Not that I'm aware of.
The wearethebritish spy however was apparently not far away from the climate camp also posting his Twitter messages:
wearethebritish Sitting in car somewhere in Edinburgh - laptop on 3G - have extremists from climate camp under close observation - dull people haven't noticed
Drove to edinburgh to put climate camp under close observation total anti climax – utter non-entities – complete #fail
@ShugNiggurath have been watching them up close - rag tag bunch of hysterical useful fools – climate camp carbon footprint very high
wearethebritish @PoliticalFun check out @LutherBlissetts - he's 'alerted' some kid with a camera to my proximity and dull boy hasn't even seen me
PoliticalFun @wearethebritish I've just found the tweet, hilarious!
You take the guy out of the military but you just can't get the military out of the guy! What surveillance equipment you got?
Are you hunting?
wearethebritish @PoliticalFun "What surveillance equipment you got?" - because they are so pre-occupied with their obsession all I need is a Mk 1 Eyeball
PoliticalFun @wearethebritish are you sitting there taunting them?
wearethebritish @PoliticalFun "are you sitting there taunting them?" - lol, no, they aren't worthy of action - mostly spoilt middle class kids - nobodies
AlJahom @wearethebritish a muck-spreader fully of slurry would be perfect for them. @PoliticalFun
wearethebritish @PoliticalFun @AlJahom climate camp comes with its own self-contained dung heap - a walking squawking steaming midden of irrelevance
wearethebritish @PoliticalFun guys a twat isn't he - these guys think they are so dangerous, so radical, so 'underground' .... the world is lol'ing at them
wearethebritish @ShugNiggurath oh yes - plenty of methane coming out of both ends - truth is that climate camp is a toothless figure of fun and ridicule
wearethebritish come on tweeps - let's all gather round to point and lol at the spoilt little rich kids of climate camp
Tamsin53 @wearethebritish agree some of the anarchy people come from middle class well off families - just thinking of the Redgrave family
wearethebritish @Tamsin53 climate camps kiddies are a laughing stock - multi-billion RBS won't take any notice of them, even Police are openly lol'ing at them
wearethebritish so far climate camp is an absolute failure but then a few spoilt middle class kids were never going to make a dent in a multi-billion corp
The people of Edinburgh couldn't care less about climate camp 'activists' they know RBS is good for their city & soon climate camp will leave
Overweight students should diet not riot - not that soft-skinned spoilt little tubby munchkins are any good at rioting either climate camp
Templar1128 @wearethebritish yes the farmer should use the tractors to push the layabouts off his land.. bet they're claiming benefits though..
LutherBlissetts @wearethebritish climate is changing. precession & glaciation cycle beyond our control yet effects of anthropic change not beyond our control
wearethebritish @LutherBlissetts afternoon sherlock - too bad we didn't meet - maybe next time sonny
@Political_Fun my twittercrush hates me...... isn't it fun
CynaraeStMary @wearethebritish Who could hate you?
Political_Fun @AlJahom Eh? Who's beans I want to know who @wearethebritish has a lefty crush on??
wearethebritish @Political_Fun it's the climate camp chic ....
wearethebritish @AmeliaGregory why? well a) I like her name, I once dated an Amelia from Kenya (Happy Valley type) b) She has guts & drive c) She hates me
wearethebritish all the chics now checking out my twittercrush
wearethebritish @AmeliaGregory we're talking about you ....
@AmeliaGregory I'm just round the corner from Jenners if you want to meet me for afternoon tea & buns!
The right wing extremist who calls himself “wearethebritish” and who has been posting threats of violence against the Camp for Climate Action seems to have spent the afternoon spying on the climate camp, avoiding being seen by the journalist he knew was looking for him, and posting his unpleasant messages on Twitter.
Maybe he is just the cowardly clown that he appears to be but threatening to burn down the climate camp and using British Army surveillance equipment to spy on the climate campers is probably illegal, and the fact is that a lot of people are now taking this man and the rest of the members of his group very seriously, just in case they might be as dangerous and murderous as they claim to be.
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storm in a fucking teacup
21.08.2010 18:07
So some EDLer got his knickers in a twist about climate camp, went to have a look and then slagged it off to his mates.. so what? That ain't news, at least not on my planet..
As for surveillance equipment, did you actually *read* what the guy said?!? A 'Mk1 Eyeball'.
It's a joke. It means he's using his /eyes/ to spy on them.
Sigh.
As for surveillance equipment, did you actually *read* what the guy said?!? A 'Mk1 Eyeball'.
It's a joke. It means he's using his /eyes/ to spy on them.
Sigh.
ugh
The author has made an embarrassing idiot of himself
21.08.2010 18:31
Lol. What a muppet. Im going to wipe my arse with Mk1 Toilet paper because i just shat myself laughing
corporal jones
EDL Media??
21.08.2010 20:14
Let's rename this site EDL Media from now I mean for fuck's sake...I bet if someone from the EDL farted it will be reported here IN CAPITAL LETTERS tommorow. If a group of EDL grunts were battered somwhere, someplace in the country then yeah it's fucking awesome but don't report and on every single thing that they do as they enjoy all the publicity.
Ginger Militant
there could be a massacre at climate camp
21.08.2010 21:56
A Mk1 Eyeball is actually the code name for a top secret british army electronic surveillance device capable of spying on the enemy from long range providing sharp clear images which can guide weapons to their target.
It is highly illegal for this equipment to be taken and used except in war zones because it can be connected to the latest weaponry which can wipe out large numbers of people in a split second.
It is highly illegal for this equipment to be taken and used except in war zones because it can be connected to the latest weaponry which can wipe out large numbers of people in a split second.
General Disaster and Major Catastrophe
No it doesn't
21.08.2010 22:54
Stop trying to worm out of it. The article is a fabrication of paranonia and stupidity and you know it.
Mk1 Eyeball has and always has meant to use your normal sight.
Google it
Mk1 Eyeball has and always has meant to use your normal sight.
Google it
muppet
shouldn't this be on facebook or something? He's prob not even edl [sdl]
21.08.2010 22:58
This is rubbish can indy hide it?
anon
the working class can kiss my arse
21.08.2010 23:22
the soldiers. . police.. journalists.. and all the rest of the working class peasants dont know their place
pip pip!
tally ho!
pip pip!
tally ho!
drippy little posh fucks
Is there more to this than meets the eye?
21.08.2010 23:59
This could all be far more dangerous than it seems.
"Gun metal Aston" is army slang for secret top of the range sniper rifles similar to the weapons used by James Bond.
"Gun metal Aston" is army slang for secret top of the range sniper rifles similar to the weapons used by James Bond.
General Disaster and Major Catastrophe
Climate campers should not be risking their lives like this
22.08.2010 00:04
The fascist EDL extremist is threatening to come back to the climate camp on Monday.
He should be reported to the police and the media should be asked to help provide the campers with as much protection as possible otherwise this could turn into a tragedy.
He should be reported to the police and the media should be asked to help provide the campers with as much protection as possible otherwise this could turn into a tragedy.
Nick Martian
@ Nick Martian - calm down man
22.08.2010 02:30
did you not read the tweet where he says "they aren't worthy of action", hes not going to attack the camp; calm down, have a cup of tea, smoke a spliff, take a valium, whatever it takes. Just dont go calling the police onto climate camp, its not very anarchist at all.
Joe Lee
Chill
22.08.2010 09:45
Someone break out the emergency supplies & give Nick Martin a chill pill.
please don't get in tiss over this non issue that should just amuse.
please don't get in tiss over this non issue that should just amuse.
Bunny
Homepage: http://imcscotland.org/
Go back to Mars
22.08.2010 11:54
Nick Martian should be banned from the SCC before his blubbing floods the camp. Nick, you have embarrassed yourself, and you are an embarrassment to the SCC and to IM.
Gud I think the only thing I can add to that is a) pwned, mega-super-ultra-to-the-power-of-infinity pwned, pwned beyond anything 4chan could dream of; and b) a Mk 1 eyeball is not fucking military equipment, you fucking retard!
Update: Check out his hysterical twatter feed.
On the warpath!
I see Anna Raccoon is on the warpath again. This is another opportunity for us all to show these jumped-up little Hitlers what we think of their fucking shit, so fill your boots!
Things that I really just did not know!
Since it's Sunday, I thought some biblical reflection may be in order.
Apparently, King James (he of the well-known bible version) was an avid uphill gardener. His favourite furrow to plough was apparently the Duke of B(uttf)uckingham.
A (careful) tip of the clown wig to the Whited Sepulchre.
Apparently, King James (he of the well-known bible version) was an avid uphill gardener. His favourite furrow to plough was apparently the Duke of B(uttf)uckingham.
A (careful) tip of the clown wig to the Whited Sepulchre.
This is the way to better "green" cars
This guy writes some really good stuff:
And I reckon he's fucking spot on. It's absolutely nothing odd for a perfectly normal hatchback to push out horses that would have required a Ferrari 30 or 40 years ago. A relatively common or garden variety Merc pushes out more power than even a final Anniversary Edition Lamborghini Countach!
A Nissan Micra probably has brakes that a Ferrari 250 GTO would have given its metaphorical eye teeth for.
Cutting edge technology like keyless entry or voice controlled gizmos has always appeared first in aspirational cars to and then worked its way down the tree. This is how we're used to making and buying cars. This is a proven process.
The Toyota Pious and Honda Inshite are awful cars precisely because they were the result of an abnormal, government-inspired process, where new tech was bolted directly into the daily shitbox before motor manufacturers had their normal cock-waving competition. And they cost more than they sell for, which is no way to make a living.
So I hope that eco-wibblers the world over will be applauding Porsche for being the first company to take the traditional path with Hybrid technology:
PS I certainly fucking would!
Look back at any piece of automotive technology and where the application has appeared first or been most effective. Every single one of them has appeared at the top of the tree in an almost ‘money no object’ car. The S-Class is an exception, but even that is a high end car. In fact, long before the car became a form of mass private transportation it was a play thing of the rich. The money they were willing to pay for the privilege of being able to rip around their estates at a neck-snapping 17mph meant that manufacturers had an incentive to make the technology work better, making the older technology more accessible, obsolete and, therefore, cheaper.
The list of technology that has filtered down from high price applications would basically be a list of everything that appears on modern, affordable, cars: ABS, light-weight alloy wheels (remember how rare those were in the early nineties?), disc brakes, turbochargers, superchargers, independent suspension, etc, etc. Even tyres benefit from this ‘top down’ paradigm.
Engine technology is exactly the same. No matter what the environmental set would like people to believe, we know that an engine that generates 500bhp from 6.2 naturally aspirated litres is a massively efficient donkey. Figure out how to get more power from a given amount of petrol for the people willing to pay £50k for a car and you’re figuring out how to make the petrol engines lower down the range far more frugal. To give an idea of the pace of progress the twin-turbo, 5.5 litre 536bhp V8 in the current CL63 generates just 7g/km more CO2 than the Mark 1 Focus RS, which had a two litre turbocharged four with 200bhp.
The only piece of automotive tech that I can think of that hasn’t taken this tried and tested route to mainstream success and, when you think about it, is the only piece of road car technology that is a bit rubbish is the Hybrid power train.
And I reckon he's fucking spot on. It's absolutely nothing odd for a perfectly normal hatchback to push out horses that would have required a Ferrari 30 or 40 years ago. A relatively common or garden variety Merc pushes out more power than even a final Anniversary Edition Lamborghini Countach!
A Nissan Micra probably has brakes that a Ferrari 250 GTO would have given its metaphorical eye teeth for.
Cutting edge technology like keyless entry or voice controlled gizmos has always appeared first in aspirational cars to and then worked its way down the tree. This is how we're used to making and buying cars. This is a proven process.
The Toyota Pious and Honda Inshite are awful cars precisely because they were the result of an abnormal, government-inspired process, where new tech was bolted directly into the daily shitbox before motor manufacturers had their normal cock-waving competition. And they cost more than they sell for, which is no way to make a living.
So I hope that eco-wibblers the world over will be applauding Porsche for being the first company to take the traditional path with Hybrid technology:
Anyway, this is why I think the 918 Spyder is a far more important car than the coverage it has been getting suggests. Porsche had dealt the first Hybrid-powered blow to the supercar market, and it’s a whopping great big haymaker. Here is a genuinely beautiful car (not some weird quasi-futuristic design abomination that most Hybrid car manufacturers seem inclined to produce) that has 738bhp and will, according to Porsche, out-mpg a Toyota Prius if you drive it sensibly.
How long will Ferrari be able to resist? Lamborghini? Pagani and Koenigsegg? Not long I suspect and, as these guys start producing Hybrid cars whose sole purpose is to smash the faces in of their competitors rather than sell millions, Hybrid powertrains will, after ten years on the market, finally be at the point at which they should have started.
Where will we be in another ten years? I have no idea, but I’d bet my life that as Hybrid supercars start appearing on the market batteries and electric motors will be more mind-blowingly advanced than we could have ever imagined. Perhaps then we’ll get a Hybrid (or even fully electric) car at the sub £30k price point that actually works better than one with an internal combustion engine.
PS I certainly fucking would!
Saturday, 21 August 2010
The Ground Zero Mosque (for @sunny_hundal )
Well, I must admit, I fell for this shit. Calling it the Ground Zero Mosque just made it sound like a vulgar and insensitive* thing to do, even if it was being done on private land. But it turns out that actually, it's not actually at Ground Zero.
Which is, let's face it, kind of important. The fact that it's not a mosque, but some sort of community centre is less important, in my opinion, but still a factor.
So when the people objecting to this are saying is "it's tacky to build a mosque at Ground Zero", they're actually saying "it's tacky to build a thing of a Muslim-ish persuasion within a certain distance of Ground Zero, and by the way, we get to decide the distance that's acceptable."
So if you're a fucking Muslim within some arbitrary distance of Ground Zero, you better be prepared to travel to hang out with your mates.
Jesus. So here's me applauding Obama again and agreeing with Sunny Hundal.
I need to wash.
Update: It does appear that there is a very strong, different point of view. I am now confused again.
*Yes, I really did just say this.
Which is, let's face it, kind of important. The fact that it's not a mosque, but some sort of community centre is less important, in my opinion, but still a factor.
So when the people objecting to this are saying is "it's tacky to build a mosque at Ground Zero", they're actually saying "it's tacky to build a thing of a Muslim-ish persuasion within a certain distance of Ground Zero, and by the way, we get to decide the distance that's acceptable."
So if you're a fucking Muslim within some arbitrary distance of Ground Zero, you better be prepared to travel to hang out with your mates.
Jesus. So here's me applauding Obama again and agreeing with Sunny Hundal.
I need to wash.
Update: It does appear that there is a very strong, different point of view. I am now confused again.
*Yes, I really did just say this.
The great consultant scam
Johann Hari (for once) has a pretty good piece here about the great management consulting scam.
But for all that, I think that he's wrong to blame people for taking an opportunity. I spent a large portion of my life doing technical consulting and the higher up the food chain I moved, the more I found insecurity about what needed to be done. When I was consulting at the bottom of the food chain, I was generally doing some clever stuff that their staff didn't know how to do.
As I started "engaging" higher up the food chain, I found myself spending more and more time rubber-stamping the opinions of techies on the ground who a) knew the problems better and more completely than I could ever manage and b) knew perfectly well how to fix the fucking problem. The real problem is that the management, for whatever reason, are wildly insecure about the solutions proposed by their staff.
Equally, I find that very often people are quite happy to pay for my time and then not execute the advice I give them, possibly for quite valid reasons, but reasons they don't share with me.
So yeah, be pissed of with consultants for taking the piss, but really the blame lies with the insecure management of the company or government department who need the "impartial blessing" of a third-party shaman before they dare to do anything.
It's the uselessness of the people running the show that is really to blame, along with the "cover your arse" nature of government and corporates.
But for all that, I think that he's wrong to blame people for taking an opportunity. I spent a large portion of my life doing technical consulting and the higher up the food chain I moved, the more I found insecurity about what needed to be done. When I was consulting at the bottom of the food chain, I was generally doing some clever stuff that their staff didn't know how to do.
As I started "engaging" higher up the food chain, I found myself spending more and more time rubber-stamping the opinions of techies on the ground who a) knew the problems better and more completely than I could ever manage and b) knew perfectly well how to fix the fucking problem. The real problem is that the management, for whatever reason, are wildly insecure about the solutions proposed by their staff.
Equally, I find that very often people are quite happy to pay for my time and then not execute the advice I give them, possibly for quite valid reasons, but reasons they don't share with me.
So yeah, be pissed of with consultants for taking the piss, but really the blame lies with the insecure management of the company or government department who need the "impartial blessing" of a third-party shaman before they dare to do anything.
It's the uselessness of the people running the show that is really to blame, along with the "cover your arse" nature of government and corporates.
Friday, 20 August 2010
New blog-tag
Just because of cunts like Kingbingo accusing me of reneging on anarchism just because I appreciate the occasional bit of non-anarchist thinking as it applies to the "here and now" rather than the way I'd like to live, I'm going to try and tag such posts with "non-anarchist thinking" so that I don't confuse obvious dimbulbs by approving of some non-anarchist thinking.
Scorched Earth
Capitalists@Work has been running an interesting series on how the Labour government scorched the earth, not just in terms of slashing and burning the money, but also in terms of the legal landmines they left behind.
Not only profligate with someone else's money, but devious and vicious in making it as difficult as possible to pick up the pieces.
Of course, if the coalition was serious about the "great reform bill", it would be the work of a week to list every bit of legislation created by New Labour and quite simply repeal the fucking lot. If there was anything useful, it could almost certainly be re-drafted (better) and re-voted upon.
But, of course, they aren't. They're just a bunch of makeweights and dullards playing the game of politics, posturing as emptily and vacuously as the mad Scot or the cunto di tutti cunti did before him.
Useless cock-suckers.
Not only profligate with someone else's money, but devious and vicious in making it as difficult as possible to pick up the pieces.
Of course, if the coalition was serious about the "great reform bill", it would be the work of a week to list every bit of legislation created by New Labour and quite simply repeal the fucking lot. If there was anything useful, it could almost certainly be re-drafted (better) and re-voted upon.
But, of course, they aren't. They're just a bunch of makeweights and dullards playing the game of politics, posturing as emptily and vacuously as the mad Scot or the cunto di tutti cunti did before him.
Useless cock-suckers.
In which I agree with a Labour supporter
The tribalist cunt:
The fact of the matter is this: there is a huge welfare dependency in this country. Means testing is simply a way in which the welfare dependency is increased. I would far rather everyone had a basic citizen's income and a simple tax relief taper, something that could so easily be implemented today.
But of course, that wouldn't keep the fucking DWP in fucking jobs, would it?
Cunts.
Meanwhile, Tory Treasury spokesman Philip Hammond blasted ‘superficially attractive thinking about means testing benefits that go to people who apparently don’t need them, but once you start introducing means testing you get perverse incentives’. Anybody fancy a game of ’spot the progressive’?
Less than a year later, coalition thinking is drifting in the opposite direction, with winter fuel allowance and child benefit seen as possible victims of the October spending review.
Labour’s work and pensions spokeswoman Yvette Cooper has been quick to condemn the government’s ‘shocking attack’ on OAPs, and rightly so. But it is a shocking attack that Labour itself was prepared to contemplate less than 12 months ago.
The fact of the matter is this: there is a huge welfare dependency in this country. Means testing is simply a way in which the welfare dependency is increased. I would far rather everyone had a basic citizen's income and a simple tax relief taper, something that could so easily be implemented today.
But of course, that wouldn't keep the fucking DWP in fucking jobs, would it?
Cunts.
Thursday, 19 August 2010
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Fame at last!
Pisces (20 FEB-20 MAR)
This week sign off from your weather forecast by saying 'now back to the newsdesk for a load of over-hyped bullshit produced by some preening tosspots who wouldn't know a fucking story if it bit them on the cock'. And then scratch your chin.
This week sign off from your weather forecast by saying 'now back to the newsdesk for a load of over-hyped bullshit produced by some preening tosspots who wouldn't know a fucking story if it bit them on the cock'. And then scratch your chin.
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Coda
So, is this a good time to mention I walked into the bog about an hour later and saw a log the size of a head of corn floating there?
I thought not.
I thought not.
Well, that was awkward
Was listening in on a conference call and desperately needed a crap, so I put the phone on mute and nipped into the bathroom.
One explosively vigorous dump (with moans) later, and as I was washing my hands, I noticed that I had, in fact, not muted the line.
Oh well, luckily nobody knows who it was.
One explosively vigorous dump (with moans) later, and as I was washing my hands, I noticed that I had, in fact, not muted the line.
Oh well, luckily nobody knows who it was.
He seems vexed
... cock sucking, weegie, buckfast addled, wife beating, benefit claiming, bed sheets for curtains, shell suit wearing, victim mentality, dead before fifty bastards.
Overwrought Scottish cunt.
Monday, 16 August 2010
Through the looking glass
In which I not only praise a blog post on Liberal Conspiracy, but one written by über-nutter, Unity. I'd have to quote it in full to do it justice, so just bugger off and read it yourself.
Get fucked!
I have never been a huge fan of the ASBO, although I've not, to be honest, been very aware of how the mechanics of it work. It seemed to be given to juvenile delinquents who seem to wear it as a badge of honour, rather than regarding it as a deterrent. But via Anna Raccoon and Leg-Iron come two contradictory tales of how councils regard the world's oldest profession and the further demerits of ASBOs. Firstly:
Anna goes on to point out that she was arrested for soliciting, which is illegal (why?) whereas prostitution itself is not. However, rather than "do" her for soliciting, instead we go down the ASBO route.
The ASBO is, I discovered, a mechanism by which perfectly legal behaviour can be criminalised. If one or more of the curtain-twitchers in your neighbourhood disapprove of one of your perfectly legal activity, they can apply for an ASBO, and if they get it and you continue with your perfectly activity, you can get done for breaking the conditions of your ASBO. You can then go to jail for doing something that is entirely and explicitly legal. Just because your neighbours don't like it.
Or, even worse, the police don't like it.
Or the council don't like it.
I don't want to be accused of giving people ideas, but how long do you think it will be before the police get ASBOs against photographers? How long do you think it will be before certain conditions get pre-approved ASBOs?
Anyway, back to old Leggy and getting fucked. So it turns out that while someone who is working, rather than stealing, to fund her drug habit and being hounded by the council and the police because of it:
Aaahhh ... perhaps it's all become clear after all.
It's becoming apparent to me that the ASBO is going to be the new weapon of choice in the hands of the new puritan pecksniffs and prodnoses. Smoking outside your front door? Get an ASBO. Too strict with your kids? Get an ASBO. Not strict enough with your kids? Get an ASBO. Eating too many burgers? Get an ASBO. Prone to getting drunk? Get an ASBO. Taking too many awkward videos of the police beating people? Get an ASBO. Swear in public? Get an ASBO. Blog? Get an ASBO.
Hell on Earth will not be lakes of brimstone fire, it will be a dull, drab beige existence "normalised" to some puritanical definition of morality.
OXFORD’S “most prolific” prostitute has been banned from selling sex on the streets and in her home for five years.
It is not illegal to sell sex – why has this woman been ‘banned’ from carrying out a legal activity? It is not illegal to accept money for a sex act carried out in your home – why has this woman been banned from carrying out a legal activity in her own home?Drug addict Nicola Harris worked seven days a week along Cowley Road, East Oxford, and Oxford Road, Cowley, as well as seeing clients at her home in Costar Close in Littlemore.
‘Seven days a week’ – a hard working girl then, who has avoided the temptations of raising money to feed her drug habit illegally. Like stealing or shop-lifting. Now she has been banned from raising the money legally, guess what will happen next?The 33-year-old, who had been subject to an interim Anti Social Behaviour Order since July 9, failed to turn up at Oxford Magistrates’ Court yesterday to hear the city council’s successful application for a full order.
She was probably at work.
Anna goes on to point out that she was arrested for soliciting, which is illegal (why?) whereas prostitution itself is not. However, rather than "do" her for soliciting, instead we go down the ASBO route.
The ASBO is, I discovered, a mechanism by which perfectly legal behaviour can be criminalised. If one or more of the curtain-twitchers in your neighbourhood disapprove of one of your perfectly legal activity, they can apply for an ASBO, and if they get it and you continue with your perfectly activity, you can get done for breaking the conditions of your ASBO. You can then go to jail for doing something that is entirely and explicitly legal. Just because your neighbours don't like it.
Or, even worse, the police don't like it.
Or the council don't like it.
I don't want to be accused of giving people ideas, but how long do you think it will be before the police get ASBOs against photographers? How long do you think it will be before certain conditions get pre-approved ASBOs?
Anyway, back to old Leggy and getting fucked. So it turns out that while someone who is working, rather than stealing, to fund her drug habit and being hounded by the council and the police because of it:
Certain councils are paying for prostitutes for the disabled. It's all about 'outcomes' they say, and they kept a straight face while saying it (which is more than I did while reading it. "Oh, what a marvellous outcome," he ejaculated). The 'outcome' is apparently to turn a sad and dejected disabled bloke into a happy disabled bloke, and the method by which this is achieved is of no consequence. The end justifies the means.
Not surprising, then, that they chose a method that turns any straight bloke of any body shape or mental capacity into a happier version of himself. There is no mention of whether gigolos are available for disabled women or whether the disabled gay is similarly catered for, or whether kosher or halal hookers are on their lists. I do hope they are not applying this lunacy in a discriminatory fashion. That would be wrong.
Why do they think this is in any way right?Liz Sayce, chief executive of disability network Radar, said the desire for sexual relations was a matter of human rights, meaning cases involving payments should be carefully examined on a "case by case" basis.
So if you're disabled you have a human right to an occasional game of hide the sausage. If you're in full health with all body parts present and accounted for, you don't. If you're not disabled and you procure a business arrangement with a lady of the night, you will be frowned on by a wrinkled man in a wig who will bash a hammer on a table and pronounce 'gross diversion' as the label for the dog. Then he'll take your money so you can't do it again.
If you hack off a limb, you can get a quick poke courtesy of the council tax payer and the wrinkled man in the wig will smile fondly and call you 'pet'.
It makes me wonder if this particular wench of the evening might have turned down a council commission.
Aaahhh ... perhaps it's all become clear after all.
It's becoming apparent to me that the ASBO is going to be the new weapon of choice in the hands of the new puritan pecksniffs and prodnoses. Smoking outside your front door? Get an ASBO. Too strict with your kids? Get an ASBO. Not strict enough with your kids? Get an ASBO. Eating too many burgers? Get an ASBO. Prone to getting drunk? Get an ASBO. Taking too many awkward videos of the police beating people? Get an ASBO. Swear in public? Get an ASBO. Blog? Get an ASBO.
Hell on Earth will not be lakes of brimstone fire, it will be a dull, drab beige existence "normalised" to some puritanical definition of morality.
Sunday, 15 August 2010
On yer bike!
Haven't got a bike? The police will give you someone else's.
There is a catch, obviously.
Jesus fucking FUCKING Christ.
There is a catch, obviously.
Jesus fucking FUCKING Christ.
TV Licensing cunts
Rab has a deconstruction of how these bullying thieves work:
Well worth a read. And fuck the BBC.
Cunts.
For those of you that may be unaware, the job of forcing us all to pay the TV licence is not done by the BBC nor 'TV Licensing'.
Auntie Beeb employs enforcers who pretend to be the BBC/TV licensing when engaging with those who cannot or will not pay for the privilege of subsidising Leftist propaganda which is pumped into the airwaves regardless if we want it or not.
Well worth a read. And fuck the BBC.
Cunts.
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Friday, 13 August 2010
True story (for @Mid_WifeCrisis )
I was chatting to a mate of mine several years ago. He was a really nice guy, but also one of those thrusting, City types who made money in the murk of "financial services". He lived in the better part of town, extraordinarily pretty wife, collection of matching his and hers convertibles, etc, etc.
One day while we were sitting by the pool drinking Chablis, his wife told me about the first time she'd introduced him to her mother. Apparently, after dinner he was so lubricated that when he kissed her mother goodbye, he slipped her some tongue.
Fortunately, she says, her mother was so broad-minded that she never said anything. Having subsequently seen her mother, I can see how you'd make that kind of mistake, but I'm not sure I'd do it in front of the woman I was dating.
One day while we were sitting by the pool drinking Chablis, his wife told me about the first time she'd introduced him to her mother. Apparently, after dinner he was so lubricated that when he kissed her mother goodbye, he slipped her some tongue.
Fortunately, she says, her mother was so broad-minded that she never said anything. Having subsequently seen her mother, I can see how you'd make that kind of mistake, but I'm not sure I'd do it in front of the woman I was dating.
The dangers of masturbation
Since I've been wanking myself into a coma lately, I've noticed that my eye-hand coordination is all over the shop: typos and missed words galore.
I don't really know what to do.
I don't really know what to do.
In which I wholeheartedly endorse one of Tom Harris's idea
Yep:
I reckon this would be a fucking brilliant idea. Every bit of taxpayer-funded expenditure should be put up on the web for anyone to look at. Including salaries. And attached to it, should be the name, email address and phone number of the person who signed it off.
I can promise you that money would be spent much more wisely in a very fucking short order.
THERE really isn’t a decent excuse not to support Eric Pickles’ initiative in publishing details of his own department’s spending on every item worth £500 or more.
The opportunity it gives the media to run sensationalist stories about massages and trips to Blackpool Pleasure Beach on the public purse is less important than the far more positive consequence: it will make everyone in the public sector think twice before authorising spending.
So my friend and colleague, Tom Watson, is right to call on all parties to applaud Eric’s judgment on this one.
I would go further, however.
Presumably, in time, every department – not just Eric’s – will adopt this policy. At least, I hope so. But what about local authorities? What about hospital trusts and quangos? It’s unlikely that they will voluntarily open their books to public inspection. But if they were forced to, then every local government officer in the land would know that they would have to justify buying any item or service to the public and the to media – as well as to their bosses.
Now, come on! Anyone out there think that’s a bad idea?
I reckon this would be a fucking brilliant idea. Every bit of taxpayer-funded expenditure should be put up on the web for anyone to look at. Including salaries. And attached to it, should be the name, email address and phone number of the person who signed it off.
I can promise you that money would be spent much more wisely in a very fucking short order.
It's not fucking rocket science
Really?
Bloody hell, surely not! Stop the presses, we have an economic genius here. If you live on the margins of somewhere cuntish, you may go somewhere less cuntish to do your self-harm.
And of course, when you've got an industrial-size bottle of vodka that you're carrying around the town centre, that's going to lead to a vast improvement in yobbish behaviour, isn't it?
So what will happen is that Manchester will lean on the surrounding towns and eventually it will spread because a bunch of prodnose council CUNTS think that the answer to any problem involves banning, taxing or both if at all possible.
Motherfucking scumbags.
Fears have been raised that plans to hike the price of alcohol in Rochdale could lead to cheap 'booze cruises' into surrounding towns.
Bloody hell, surely not! Stop the presses, we have an economic genius here. If you live on the margins of somewhere cuntish, you may go somewhere less cuntish to do your self-harm.
And of course, when you've got an industrial-size bottle of vodka that you're carrying around the town centre, that's going to lead to a vast improvement in yobbish behaviour, isn't it?
So what will happen is that Manchester will lean on the surrounding towns and eventually it will spread because a bunch of prodnose council CUNTS think that the answer to any problem involves banning, taxing or both if at all possible.
Motherfucking scumbags.
Astonishingly pointless
Must have been the subject of a government grant, I reckon.
Update: Dick Puddlecote offers this:
Twatter exhaustion
I find myself spending more and more time on twitter and commenting on other people's stuff than writing my own. It's frustrating, because I keep on coming across things that merit a blog post, but once I've tweeted about them or commented elsewhere, I have lost the urge to blog about it.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Wikio Top 10 Libertarian Blogs August 2010
The numbers in brackets mean (Wikio Ranking this month, Wikio ranking last month, libertarian rank last month)
1. Anna Raccoon (15, 23, 4)
2. Old Holborn (18, 15, 1)
3. Devil's Kitchen (19, 21, 3)
4. Charlotte Gore (27, 19, 2)
5. Obnoxio The Clown (28, 32, 6)
6. Dick Puddlecote (29, 35, 5)
7. Samizdata (61, 60, 8)
8. Captain Ranty Freeman (85, 93, 13)
9. Underdogs bite Upwards (67, 73, 9)
10. Al Jahom's Final Word (68, 74, 10)
Beyond the top 10:
11. Constantly Furious (77, 66, 8)
12. Mark Wadsworth (80, 97, 14)
13. Rantin' Rab (81, 77, 11)
14. Fausty's Libertarian Blog (93, 78, 12)
15. Boatang & Demetriou (100, -, -)
Comments, additions, deletions and qualifications welcome, as ever.
1. Anna Raccoon (15, 23, 4)
2. Old Holborn (18, 15, 1)
3. Devil's Kitchen (19, 21, 3)
4. Charlotte Gore (27, 19, 2)
5. Obnoxio The Clown (28, 32, 6)
6. Dick Puddlecote (29, 35, 5)
7. Samizdata (61, 60, 8)
8. Captain Ranty Freeman (85, 93, 13)
9. Underdogs bite Upwards (67, 73, 9)
10. Al Jahom's Final Word (68, 74, 10)
Beyond the top 10:
11. Constantly Furious (77, 66, 8)
12. Mark Wadsworth (80, 97, 14)
13. Rantin' Rab (81, 77, 11)
14. Fausty's Libertarian Blog (93, 78, 12)
15. Boatang & Demetriou (100, -, -)
Comments, additions, deletions and qualifications welcome, as ever.
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Fuck me sideways with a rusty spoon
In which, really, I praise Barack Obama:
Three cheers for Barack Obama! Unqualified praise for protecting your citizens from our awful, pernicious libel laws!
Yesterday, Barack Obama signed into law a provision blocking his country's thinkers and writers from foreign libel laws. The target is "libel tourism," by which complainants skip around the First Amendment by taking their cases to less conscientious countries. And by "less conscientious countries," I mean, erm, here.
Three cheers for Barack Obama! Unqualified praise for protecting your citizens from our awful, pernicious libel laws!
That'll work!
Pisces (20 FEB-20 MAR)
Things are coming to a head with your troublesome work colleague. You have two choices - either seek mediation and arbitration through the human resources department or accuse him of fondling your child.
Things are coming to a head with your troublesome work colleague. You have two choices - either seek mediation and arbitration through the human resources department or accuse him of fondling your child.
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Getting rid of "consumer protection"
Intriguing post from the ASI here:
And, by and large, I agree. Regulation does little to protect the consumer, because we already had lashings and lashings of bank regulations and yet the "credit crunch" somehow still happened.
My own experience of dealing with the Advertising Standards Authority where I had a demonstrable, provable case left me wondering a) why I bothered and b) why I was funding these cunts.
We've all seen how useless Ofcom and the PCC and the IPCC, etc., are. So why have them?
In the comments, someone raised the tale of the Ford Pinto, where Ford's boffins allegedly worked out that the cost of fixing the Pinto's design flaw was greater than the cost of paying for a couple of hundred people to get fried to a crisp. So they went ahead with an unmodified design.
And that kind of concept genuinely is a concern.
But the truth of the Ford Pinto design flaw case is not quite as clear cut as our commenter would have us believe:
No company wants to get caught hiding such a thing, the coverup always does the damage. The internet now massively improves the ability of people to get such information into the public domain.
In the main, most businesses also want to retain customer loyalty. It costs roughly five times as much to get £10 off a new customer as it does to get £10 off an existing one. That's why mobile phone companies spend so much time and effort analysing churn. And you're not going to retain a customer if you are seen to be doing things like selling cars that are significantly more dangerous than those of your peers.
Regulation always closes the stable door after the horse has bolted, by the time the business or industry has already learned the lesson and has no intention of repeating it. Regulation also prevents competition, which is one of the best ways of actually regulating bad business practices.
In this as in so many other things, regulation and regulatory bodies do not help us at all.
They only protect the players in the industries concerned.
If we are throwing quangos into the bonfire, I'd like to fuel the flames with a couple of 'consumer protection' bodies. I figure that government agencies that aim to protect us from faulty goods and inadequate services do no such thing – and indeed, leave us more exposed to them because they tend to reduce competition in consumer markets.
And, by and large, I agree. Regulation does little to protect the consumer, because we already had lashings and lashings of bank regulations and yet the "credit crunch" somehow still happened.
My own experience of dealing with the Advertising Standards Authority where I had a demonstrable, provable case left me wondering a) why I bothered and b) why I was funding these cunts.
We've all seen how useless Ofcom and the PCC and the IPCC, etc., are. So why have them?
In the comments, someone raised the tale of the Ford Pinto, where Ford's boffins allegedly worked out that the cost of fixing the Pinto's design flaw was greater than the cost of paying for a couple of hundred people to get fried to a crisp. So they went ahead with an unmodified design.
And that kind of concept genuinely is a concern.
But the truth of the Ford Pinto design flaw case is not quite as clear cut as our commenter would have us believe:
the number who died in Pinto rear-impact fires was well below the hundreds cited in contemporary news reports and closer to the twenty-seven recorded by a limited National Highway Traffic Safety Administration database. Given the Pinto's production figures (over 2 million built), this was not substantially worse than typical for the time
No company wants to get caught hiding such a thing, the coverup always does the damage. The internet now massively improves the ability of people to get such information into the public domain.
In the main, most businesses also want to retain customer loyalty. It costs roughly five times as much to get £10 off a new customer as it does to get £10 off an existing one. That's why mobile phone companies spend so much time and effort analysing churn. And you're not going to retain a customer if you are seen to be doing things like selling cars that are significantly more dangerous than those of your peers.
Regulation always closes the stable door after the horse has bolted, by the time the business or industry has already learned the lesson and has no intention of repeating it. Regulation also prevents competition, which is one of the best ways of actually regulating bad business practices.
In this as in so many other things, regulation and regulatory bodies do not help us at all.
They only protect the players in the industries concerned.
Monday, 9 August 2010
Some thoughts on road pricing (for @mr_ceebs )
In yesterday's twatfest inspired by Sunny Hundal's mongnitive dissonance over the state's use of force, there was some discussion between me and @Mr_Ceebs about taxes and paying for roads. He made a couple of points which I just wanted to probe a little further:
Now, I'm not merely trying to be argumentative, but I seriously question this. It's a widely-held view that the so-called Road Tax (actually the Vehicle Excise Duty, so it doesn't have to be hypothecated) is a nett contributor to the Exchequer. In other words, the government does not spend as much on roads as it collects in "road tax". So it's not entirely clear to me why free market road pricing would cause such an extraordinary rise in travel costs.
But even if it did, does that not tell you something about the value of the road network which is being hidden by its subsidy? People are abusing the roads because they're "free".
I would make the counter-argument:
He then went on to say:
What this implies to me is that there are a significant number of "free riders", something that isn't supposed to happen in our overly taxed society. but as I said above, I actually believe that proper market pricing would lead to cars paying less than they currently do and other road users getting seriously fucked over, because they are currently shifting the externalities of their road use onto the motorist.
This in turn implies that the cost of road transport could increase quite dramatically. It could potentially even lead to an evisceration of the highly subsidised road transport business. I would expect foreign road transport users to be hit equally hard, something they largely escape now.
Who knows, it might even lead to a massive revitalisation of Britain's rail transport industry, or even canals or something totally new?
*You'll notice I've used the term "market" or "free market", rather than "privatised". This is because no "privatised" business in the UK is actually a free market.
The costs of traveling would be enormous. Equivalent of petrol nearly £7 per gallon.
Now, I'm not merely trying to be argumentative, but I seriously question this. It's a widely-held view that the so-called Road Tax (actually the Vehicle Excise Duty, so it doesn't have to be hypothecated) is a nett contributor to the Exchequer. In other words, the government does not spend as much on roads as it collects in "road tax". So it's not entirely clear to me why free market road pricing would cause such an extraordinary rise in travel costs.
But even if it did, does that not tell you something about the value of the road network which is being hidden by its subsidy? People are abusing the roads because they're "free".
I would make the counter-argument:
- road costs, especially maintenance, are predominantly as a result of HGV usage.
- HGV owners are currently subsidised by other road users
- by implementing free market* road pricing, I believe that road use for lesser vehicles, such as cars and motorcycles could actually become cheaper as the costs they imply for the operator are much lower
- free market road pricing would also lead to better surfaces, fewer coned-off areas and possibly even improved road safety
He then went on to say:
Well I've looked at a variety of other funding options, but don't see any that don't result in a large drop in road users and so result in spiralling costs for drivers as they have to pay for a larger share of costs.
What this implies to me is that there are a significant number of "free riders", something that isn't supposed to happen in our overly taxed society. but as I said above, I actually believe that proper market pricing would lead to cars paying less than they currently do and other road users getting seriously fucked over, because they are currently shifting the externalities of their road use onto the motorist.
This in turn implies that the cost of road transport could increase quite dramatically. It could potentially even lead to an evisceration of the highly subsidised road transport business. I would expect foreign road transport users to be hit equally hard, something they largely escape now.
Who knows, it might even lead to a massive revitalisation of Britain's rail transport industry, or even canals or something totally new?
*You'll notice I've used the term "market" or "free market", rather than "privatised". This is because no "privatised" business in the UK is actually a free market.
Is this just regression to the mean?
I hope that it's obvious that I'm not a fan of speed cameras. I regard them as pointless, thoughtless enforcers of a stupid law. But I wonder if people aren't setting themselves up for a fall here:
And the fact of the matter is, this is no different from the equivalent falls crowed over by advocates for speed cameras when the cameras are put up. At some point the numbers will crawl up, and then they will fall again. Put a camera up, take it down, the real thing to remember is: shit happens.
Accident data shows that in the first nine months after the devices were scrapped in Swindon, there were 315 road casualties in the area as a whole, compared with 327 in the same period the previous year.
In total there were two fatalities – compared with four in the same period previously – and 44 serious injuries, down from 48.
And the fact of the matter is, this is no different from the equivalent falls crowed over by advocates for speed cameras when the cameras are put up. At some point the numbers will crawl up, and then they will fall again. Put a camera up, take it down, the real thing to remember is: shit happens.
Surrogates
Quite a clever idea, for a change. I quite enjoyed it, just a pity about the mawkish end, but what can you expect from a "blockbuster".
Worth a watch.
Worth a watch.
Is it me?
So I've tried to watch Inglorious Basterds three times now, and every time I've eventually given up to watch something entertaining, like an old CSI or NCIS re-run.
Is it me, or is it shit?
Is it me, or is it shit?
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Wow.
@mrcivlib I've not argued for state using force on its own citizens
-- Sunny Hundal, supporter of the smoking ban, supporter of tax and spend and social democrat
Shock! Horror!
So, I went out for lunch with a rather stellar old school chum yesterday. We had a stellar time, a good old gossip, I got horrendously drunk and she picked up the tab, I think it was about a blow job short of the perfect date.
But the curious thing was her smoking. She smoked before, during and after the meal and it didn't bother me in the slightest. I didn't even realise it until I got home. And my clothes didn't stink, either.
So I say to all of you killjoys who bitch about people smoking in public, in the great outdoors: chill, live and let live, it's all good.
Oh, and fuck off, you fascist cunts.
But the curious thing was her smoking. She smoked before, during and after the meal and it didn't bother me in the slightest. I didn't even realise it until I got home. And my clothes didn't stink, either.
So I say to all of you killjoys who bitch about people smoking in public, in the great outdoors: chill, live and let live, it's all good.
Oh, and fuck off, you fascist cunts.
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