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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Abortion law review oddity

Now, I am not desperately comfortable with the concept of abortion.  I struggle with the concept of imposing my morality on others though, but what of the rights of the unborn?  I’d prefer abortion didn’t happen but I’d rather it was done professionally rather than go back to the ‘good old days’ of the back street abortionists.

Now that’s out of the way on to the current goings on.  The argument goes that because premature babies of below 24 weeks have survived due to improved medical practices that we should reduce the limit.  What?  So when medicine was not so clever it was moral, but now it isn’t?  What kind of bullshit argument is that?  We’ll ignore for now that many of the survivors (and not all prems survive at that age) grow up with severe difficulties, even if we assume they all survive and are fine the fact that medical science has worked wonders does surely not change the validity of life.
Either it is right to abort a feotus or it is not, that it can be grown on in vitro should not be a factor.  Very few (if any) prem births would survive anywhere near the 24 week boundary without the amazing technology we have now.  If we did not have the technology would this mean that abortion up to 30+ weeks would be valid?  No.  Then why should an advance mean a change in the rules.

I believe that the technological argument is merely being used as an excuse for anti-abortionists to completely ban abortion by bites.  Some day it will be possible to grow a feotus completely in-vitro, will abortion be completely abolished along with all contraception?

Thursday, May 08, 2008

No Such Thing As Society

I’m really pissed off with people (and when I say people I really mean communist twats like er, David Cameron) selectively quoting Lady Thatch (God Bless ‘er)

There’s no such thing as society

They take it to mean that the mean old bag doesn’t believe in looking after the vulnerable.  Bastards.
However let’s look at the quote in context:

“I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.”

What could make more sense than that?

Monday, May 05, 2008

Sharuna Sagar - useless

Sharuna Sagar does the regional news for BBC NE & Cumbria and she is bastard shit at it.
I have never - NEVER seen a single bulletin she hasn’t made at least one cock up.  Whether it be a pronunciation or a good old fashioned stumble she never fails to drop a bollock.
Why does she still have a job?
OK so she’s easy on the eye and has a super pair of jubblies but these are not adequate qualifications for a news reader.  Qualifications include being able to read an autocue. FAIL.  Looking at the right camera once in a while. FAIL.
Being the first bird to read the news in a sari is not a free pass to unconditional employment.  I’m quite sure she is a lovely lass, but sweetie - news reading is not your forte.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Russel Brand

Twat.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Fat Bloke Catches Fish

Tried my hand at fishing today.


Top picture is a wild brownie, second is a stocked brownie.  Both caught at New Mills Trout Farm using a Greys GRXi 9’6” 7/8 rod with a GRXi reel and a sinking line with a lure.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Silly Tossers

I was extremely dissapointed, though not terribly surprised, to find that some crusty old twats in UKIP have spat their dummy over Sean Gabb.
It seems Sean spoke at a southern regional conference and was well received, Sean was impressed by the attitude of many of the people he met.  It was even suggested that Sean stand for UKIP in the EU elections.  Sean wrote how this was inappropriate and listed some of the reasons why.  These included his position on the illegality of ‘hard’ drugs and indecent images of children.
So let’s just pause and consider this for a moment.  Sean ruled himself out of an association with UKIP partly because of the negative reaction in the media to his positions on some laws.
What happens now?  Crusty old twats are up in arms about Sean’s position on those laws.  Excuse me? Baking powder?  Jesus fucking H Christ.
You will struggle anywhere to get more than a bare handful of people who agree on absolutely every single point, this is especially true in political parties where one would think that some form of consensus would be possible.  So we need to be adult enough to get fucking over this.  Apparently this is not possible in UKIP.
I’m a UKIP member and will likely remain so despite my sympathy with the Libertarian Party (who also have had people spit their dummy over some issues like gun control), but sometimes I despair at the attitudes of some of the silly old fuckers.  Why do I stay?  In part because I know that this is true of all the parties and in part because I know that the Libertarian Party’s message is just too much to swallow in one bite for the UK voting public.

Why Would Anyone Vote Conservative?

Seriously.  What possible reason is there to vote Conservative?
Tax cuts?  Nope, ain’t gonna happen.  They’re going to follow Labour spending plans for at least four years.  What on Earth for?  For some money saving ideas they could do worse than to follow Sean Gabb’s plan for destroying the Enemy Class (trouble is most of the front bench look rather like the enemy class to me).  I’ll even give them a couple of starters.  Day 1.  Abolish the DTI.  Should save a few bob and would encourage trade.  Whilst doing this someone else can send a fax to the EU, which would read “Get bent mother fuckers”.  Memo to Treasury: Stop paying the subs to the EU.  Phew that was a busy day.  Day two.  Fax to the UN, no more subs for you bastards either.  Day 3.  P45s to all the hundreds of thousands employed in pointless bullshit civil service ‘jobs’ created by Labour in the past 10 years.  Day 4, sell off the BBC to the highest bidder.
Have the rest of the week off lads.
The EU constitution.  Usual Conservative bollocks involving sounding EU-sceptic but actually being very pro-EU thank you very much.  They must be loving this.  They are able to sound anti-federal by demanding a referendum (that they know they won’t get) but will they repeal the constiution if the win?  Will they bollocks.
‘Dave’ wants corporate bonuses to be based on some social responsibility bullshit.  Has he lost his mind or did the poncy fat faced tosser never have one in the first place?  Exactly the sort of policy one would expect to read in Socialist Worker not coming from the mouth of a ‘Conservative’.
Yet in the polls the ‘Conservative’ Party is leading, how?  They propose to be almost exactly the same as the current shower of shit.
Amazing.

Monday, March 10, 2008

So true….

Just noticed this over at BCUK

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Gun Culture Author Owns Guns?  Who’d have thought it?

A wee article regarding a Conservative’s vist to a gun club somehow becomes have a pop at Gun Culture.  I’m not quite sure how, doesn’t matter.
A commenter to the article says

I suspect this guy owns guns, (http://www.gunculture.net) and the thought of that is truly terrifying.

I think the Met should sign this person up for their astounding powers of perception and insight.  Gun Culture bloke might own guns?  Fancy that.
http://www.gunculture.net/index.php/weblog/the_happy_dance/
http://www.gunculture.net/index.php/weblog/two_new_guns/
http://www.gunculture.net/index.php/weblog/pump_it_up/
http://www.gunculture.net/index.php/weblog/red_dotted_ruger/
http://www.gunculture.net/index.php/weblog/two_of_my_favourite_things/
How did this person come by their suspicions?  It’s a mystery to me.
Yet my owning guns shouldn’t be truly terrifying to anyone, I’ve been (rigorously!) police checked, my guns are used for sporting and vermin control purposes and are secure at all times - what’s terrifying about that exactly?  My guns will never be used for nefarious purposes so long as they are owned by me.  Fact.
Sure I’d like for self defence to be a ‘good reason’ for owning a gun, this doesn’t mean I’m walking around town with a sawn off under my trench coat.  To make such a leap in thinking is typical of the left wing.

Anti gun and anti right wing? Well of course, what sensible and normal person would not be?

A sensible and normal person who doesn’t think that they and their ilk know best how everyone should run their life.  A sensible and normal person who understands that the front line in taking care of yourself and your family is yourself and not the state.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

With Heart In the Title

Ah, the heart warming cosiness of Sunday night ‘drama’ at 8pm on ITV with ‘Heart’ in the title.  You know what I mean - Heartbeat, Where the Heart Is, The Royal (er...) and finally the crowning glory that is Wild At Heart.
Surely this must the biggest crock of shite on television today?  Quite some acheivement I know, but if I was forced to choose between ‘cutting edge’ (i.e. shit) comedy Little Miss Jocelyn and Cheese at Heart I would choose the Netto’s black Catherine Tate.  Sticking with the Miss Jocelyn theme for a moment, hands up all those who think that a first series would have been commissioned if the ‘star’ was white?  Never mind a second series ‘promoted’ to BBC2.
Back to Shite at Heart then.  Is this where shit actors go to die?  The place where you go if you are too wooden even for The Bill?  Stephen Tomkinson?  Fuck me, even the animals can act better than that monotone plank.  Even the bloody cabins have more charisma.  That ugly bird that used to be on Coronation Street?  Jesus.  The mmm check me out, I’m so horny wassherface that dumped Les Dennis?  Double bagger.  Scripting?  Bloody hell. Two dimensional characters by numbers and cheesy predictable storylines.
The great scenery and magnificent animals cannot save this bollocks.
How come I know so much about it if it is so abhorrent?  The missus watches it.  I’ve no idea why, but she is clearly not alone as the bloody rubbish keeps coming back on our screens.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Political Correctness Finds Religion

I’’m a member of a good bbs about knives.  Normally it is a sensible place where a chap can talk bollocks and ramble on about kit and blades with decent folks.
Recently though an edict came from the moderators regarding respect for others, swearing as it happens.  No problems so far, however it turns out that the so called swearing issue is regarding blasphemy.  Yep taking the “Lord’s” name in vain and such like.  Fuck me.  If this was about respecting the name of Allah we would poo-poo it as pandering to religious zealots and quite rightly.
What kind of weak assed numpty pisses their pants because someone says “Oh for Christ’s sake” or “Oh my God!”.  Someone who’s faith in their own imaginary friend is pretty bloody weak I reckon.
People, you simply do not have the right not to be offended.  If I say something which is part of the common venacular and you get offended by it - tough shit.  Get over yourself.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

West Cumberland Farmers Support the Enemy

West Cumberland Farmers (no link, they don’t appear to be on t’interweb) started life way back as a kind of farmers cooperative, selling agricultural feed, machinery, seed and so on.  I think they are just an ordinary limited company now.  I remember visits to the Cockermouth depot as a nipper to collect various bags of feed or items for the farm as a kind of special trip out.  The main retail area was full of all sorts of items of wonder to a wee lad, and whilst Father would stand talking bollocks for hours on end to anyone foolish enough to get cornered I would explore this wonderland.  The best bit would be a visit to the warehouse to collect bags of feed, for in there would be the cats.  Cats were there to keep the mice at bay, but let’s be honest they were as much the pets of the staff as anything.  Whilst Father talked his bollocks I would tickle the nearest cats and watch forklifts buzz about doing their work.  Smashing.  Times have changed and not so many people buy bags of feed, it’s all bulk loaded into hoppers on the farm.  Cats are no longer in favour as rodent destroyers, swapped for blocks of green corn.  Not quite the same.  The shop itself is now more a horse and pets retail outlet, how dull.
To the point however, recently I discovered that the local store is carrying a brand of bird seed which carries the face of arch twat Bill Oddie.  WTF!
This would be the same vile bastard who hates farmers and followers of country sports in the way that only someone with complete ignorance of how the countryside works could.  The same vile twat who films on a farm with an excellent shoot, a shoot who’s diligence in controlling predatory corvids and ground vermin ensures such a rich variety of birdlife for Oddie to enthuse over, and yet never mentions the reason why this birdlife can exist.  The same horrible little bastard who is apparently a patron of the League Against Cruel Sports.
Why on Earth is “The West” selling this bastard’s product and therefore lining the pockets of the enemy?  I tried to have a go at the chap in charge but I think my comments went completely over his head somehow.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Just say what you mean!

Whilst trudging ‘round the local Sainsburys I noticed the following notices had appeared around high cost items such as batteries and cosmetics.

“To ensure they are available”?  To ensure you don’t nick ‘em you mean.  I suppose you could say that it is kind of true because they won’t be available if someone has pinched them all.  Equally they won’t be available if someone buys them all.  What a crock.  Have the balls to say what you mean Mr Sainsbury, I think we are adult enough to understand that not everyone wishes to pay for their batteries/moisturisor/etc and can understand that a retailer would wish to protect their product.
Similarly the signs which say that CCTV is installed for our safety.  Bollocks it is.  It’s installed to watch you so you don’t stuff things down your jumper.  Again, we’re big enough to get this principle.  So stop your bullshitting and say what you mean.

Saturday, November 03, 2007

PETA say hunters are like slavers and serial killers

Excert from NRA vs PETA debate.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Declining Standards?

I shouldn’t scoff as my written English isn’t exactly text book....
....but I’m gonna!
As seen in my local Boots: