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The ramblings of an old git

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As we have said before (all together now - but cannot be arsed to check where) we at bloggoth would dearly love to be infamous by having a sexual perversion named after us like De sade or Gerontius but unfortunately we could think of nothing that was both new and practical. Fancying dead male goats in bondage gear is really just a combination of very old ideas and the one thing we did come up with, Imposterphilia, creeping into bedrooms disguised as other people's genitals and attempting to shag/get shagged by those that fondly imagine we are their long time partners was regrettably impractical.

How about Pervertophilia?? In this strange deviation one is attracted to famous deviants, and have a desire to, eg, abduct Gary Glitter, disguise him as an 11 year old and bum him up. We do not really fancy him TBH but we at bloggoth are so desperate for fame we will do anything.

PS Please ignore the above post.

Bizarre

One wonders why some studies are conducted at all, what is the point? Who is paying for them? (As if we cannot geuss)

Still, one has to admit they can be thought provoking, and maybe that is value enough. It seems that Manchester has the highest rates of self harm in Europe followed by Oxford. Why? What is different about Manchester or Oxford? What on earth do Manchester and Oxford have in common?

Perhaps it is entirely random. We at bloggoth would like a grant to wander around Europe doing surveys about what colour wallpaper people have in their kitchens. We bet there will be different figures for Manchester and Sor-Trondelag and we can present a paper to a symposium somewhere and sound important and gets lots of free vodka.

PS Out of curiosity we just cut our nose off. I would not bother if I were you, self harm may be all the rage at the moment but it is not what it is cracked up to be. Stick to beating the kids, much more entertaining.

Guilt has nothing to do with it

We would agree with much of the Devil's Kitchen's post on adding Slavery to the national curriculum. It may be taught objectively but we are not banking on it, especially in schools with mostly black children which in London at any rate is most of them.

Will they teach the involvement of blacks themselves in selling those of other tribes? the involvement of the British in ending the trade? the fact that the ancestors of a great many whites in the Britain not only had no profit from slavery but were themselves equally exploited by the classes that did, dying in squallid factories for a pittance? the fact that a great many non black citizens in Britain, those of us with Irish ancestry for example, are equally the ancestors of oppressed and exploited peoples? The last thing black kids need, in the UK or worldwide, is yet more excuses for failure and criminality, they need inspiration to succeed.

We disagree with DK on the motive, guilt. WTF? Why do people keep banging on about white guilt? Think about it. Who, outside of a lunatic asylum, actually feels guilty about what some small section of their own race did 200 years ago? Guilt has nothing to do with it, the impetus for the destruction of our national culture is about socialism and the establishment of a global society. Whipping up minority grievances to divide our national society is a means to an end.

Story

This one is a bit Mills And Boon by xoggoth standards, the price of trying to write something that will not turn off the otherwise totally female membership of the local writer's club. It is dedicated to Nurse Myra (who appears to be not at all Mills And Boon) for giving me the idea.

If any among the non existent readers of bloggoth prefer more standard xoggoth fare about trans-dimensional rabbits, bits of land that wander about on their own and civil servants who vie in making up the most unlikely job titles that will require them to do no work, there is also this recent episode of "The Adventures Of Archie".

British economy stops

We at bloggoth went to the shops today but everything was closed.

One chap was standing outside his newsagents, "Sorry, no papers today" he said "nobody's buying papers so we are not selling them" "Sorry for trying to buy a paper just then" we said, "we forgot for a moment". We decided not to commit any more social faux pas and walked home, studiously avoiding looking as if we wanted to buy any of the goods that were not for sale anyway.

We had not taken the van as diesel, even by the out of date signs that nobody had bothered to update, cost some £5 million per litre although in actual fact it had no value at all as nobody was buying it. Or was that infinite value? What is 0/0 anyway?

Perhaps some chap in Cleethorpes will accidentally buy something and kick start the economy again. Needs a war I reckon, it worked before.

Breaking news

Bloggoth sources have received information that Barack Obama's campaign staff will shortly issue a correction to today's announcement on Obama's running mate that has already been reported around the world.

"Somehow a few letters got deleted from our press release" said our source "and we did not spot it before giving it to Reuters. Barack has actually chosen Bin Laden as his running mate and we apologise to Senator Biden for any distress this error may have caused him"

Welcome to our drain

There is a case to be made against wealth when it is unmerited and acheived at the expense of others, when it is used to exclude others from acheiving the same wealth or when it is spent to the detriment of others or the world generally.

There is nothing wrong with wealth as such, not that one would know it in socialist Britain where everyone has a right to a share in our society's riches no matter how little they have contributed or how little excuse they have for that. An attitude that has a lot to do with the decline in Britain in our view.

Does this criticism of Mc Cain for having a lot of houses indicate that the US led by Obama will be headed down the same plughole?

Common ground

Three men arrested on suspicion of terror offences are linked to an investigation into threats to kill the Prime Minister.

No plot was in place but there were calls for the death of Gordon Brown on an extremist jihad website in January.

It gives one hope for the future that we ordinary British people can find some common ground even with extremists such as these. Good luck lads!

Don't ya love the net?

We at bloggoth were researching (2 minutes tops!) a possible short story about a delusional dementia patient and came across this:

Steve Wohlberg is a Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) minister--a sinister minister--who denies many clear teachings of the Bible, including: The Pretribulation Rapture, The Tribulation Period, the person of the Antichrist, the restoration of Israel, and many other plain Bible teachings. If fact, Mr. Wohlberg is so hateful of Biblical truth that demonic Wiccan witches love and highly recommend Steve Wohlberg's books...

"We cannot recommend Steve's books strongly enough. The information and deceptions exposed in these books is something we all need to understand and share with others."

SOURCE: http://www.wiccawitchcraft.net

Yet, tragically, professed "Christians" all around the world recognize Steve Wohlberg as a Christian, and happily sell his damnable books. If God-hating, Bible-disobeying, Christ-rejecting Wiccan witches highly recommend Mr. Wohlberg's books, something is VERY WRONG!!!

Don't ya just love humanity? Someone who believes utter bollox is denounced by others who believe utter bollox because he has the support of another lot who believe utter bollox!!!

TIME FOR A CULL! If you ain't an engineer (or at least a mechanic or applied scientist) you don't have no place in the world we say!

Actually, we at bloggoth quite like this Mr Wohlberg, he has written various books including Will my pet go to heaven?. Will it indeed? It is perfectly natural for people to worry if the things they loved most in life will be with them in the afterlife. From the brief reviews we are most impressed by this book as it has lots of serious biblical research to show that god likes pets.

Still, not everyone is into pets, some have different priorities, do they not deserve the same reassurance? We at bloggoth have written to this nice Mr Wohlberg to ask if he can devote the same time to reassuring other typical British Christians.

Do they have the internet in heaven?
Will I be able to play my Nintendo Wii in heaven?
Will we be able to get Sky TV in heaven?
Will my collection of Jazz mags go to heaven?
Will we be able to watch Big Brother in heaven?
Do they have Jaffa Cakes in heaven?
Will I still be able to support Arsenal in heaven?
Can I still get my boob done job in heaven?

Come on god, (if that's your real name) we must know.

A difference indeed

The appalling Tessa Jowell was just commenting on the London news about the current Olympics and the forthcoming 2012 one in London. The context? Who knows? Who in their right mind listens to Tessa Jowell long enough to find out what the context or her point is? (if there is one) The words were "There is a big difference between the Chinese culture and ours" Too right, in a nutshell, the Chinese have a culture and we don't, not any longer. The major reason why we don't is summed up in some other of the day's news, the record rates of immigration and the record rates of births, mainly due to immigrants.

We should be wary of blaming all society's ills on any one factor but it is worthwhile looking around at what facts the world throws up and one thing that appears to stand out is the role of a socially stable culture in ensuring a crime free society. Is it entirely a coincidence that UK society appears to have been progressively more directionless over the last 50 years when immigration has been so high? When you can walk down so many urban streets in England and feel like part of a racial minority? When the UK has been transformed into a mess of distinct and often mutually hostile groups with no common religion, background, history or language?

The opening Olympics events in China, quibbles about miming little girls aside, were a triumph because they drew on China's history and culture. The opening Olympic events in London will be abysmal because we will be obliged to ignore our history in favour of celebrating our "ethnic diversity". It will such be a mishmash of multi-cultural nonsense that it will mean nothing to anyone.

When you have given away your national identity you no longer have anything for a nation to celebrate.

And for what?

The figures from the likes of the BBC always mention the net value, so many in, so many out, as if they are equivalent in quality. They are not.

We take in many who view our expensive overcrowded little country, our benefits, our free NHS, as a heaven compared to their own third world squallor and are often no damn use at all. If you think that the Somalian, Bangladeshi, Roma, Nigerian or Zimbabwean communities, among others, are on average even as useful as our own welfare-fucked up citizens you live in a dream world in which the light of reality never shines - try checking the stats on health, welfare, employment, social housing and prison populations.

It is perfectly true that there are those from these and other poor third world countries who are useful or who go on to make a success of themselves, they are the citizens we would have got had we had proper immigration control and we should be happy (subject to reasonable number) to have them. Unfortunately, they are the ones most likely to return to the countries that they or their parents or grandparents came from because, among other reasons, the money they have made goes so much further. Those that go to the likes of the US, Australia or New Zealand are also generally our better citizens because of the checks those countries apply. Is anyone in receipt of benefits or needing long term NHS treatment going to go back to a third world country where these things do not exist? Of course not.

To sum up. Instead of having proper checks to ensure we only get good citizens we take in a great many of doubtful quality and hope that they might work out, we lose many of the best of them and have no chance of getting rid of the worst. This is no way to run an immigration policy, unless of course you are one of those one-world lefties from that strange world where reality never shines.

Not again

xoggoth has demanded we put another picture of WASPIES on bloggoth, he says it is a bumper year for WASPIES.

Another WASPY picture? Nobody will want to look at that!

Ah well! At least it won't have any effect on the readership!

Coming home

Gary Glitter is wandering around airports in the far east forlornly hoping for someone to let him in. He still has quite a hefty income even by Western standards and if he was a more obscure figure he could easily manage to bribe a few officials and disappear but as it is, no chance. In the UK there is such hysteria over child sex offenders that if he comes back here I daresay the British taxpayer will end up paying a fortune having to provide police to protect him.

What a shame we don't have a Devils Island sort of place where we could dump all the terrorists and criminals and other people we don't want who cost us a fortune, Gary Glitter, Abu Hamza, that other Muslim bastard whose name we forget, Salman Rushdie, Cherie Blair...

We knew that

As we have said before but cannot be arsed to find, it would save a lot of time if we dispensed with a criminal justice system and simply arrested people for crimes based on what they look like.

This partly confirms it. We are now waiting for the definitive study that say that blokes with little piggy eyes, small noses and a liking for tattoos are more aggressive.

Why are we at bloggoth so infinitely wise?

No crumbs of comfort here

According to The Daily Mail a recent poll provides a crumb of comfort for {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff} in that people would still prefer the Tories led by Blithering Drivelling (phony Tory leader) Camoron to a Labour party led by Miliband.

We at bloggoth so hate the idea of any comfort at all for {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff} that we have used our enormous political power to commission our own poll of 5 million randomly selected voters and the results are now in.

If New Labour was led by one of the two following men, would you be more likely to vote for them than if led by the other man or less likely?

Gordon Brown

More likely: 1%
Less likely 99%

Gary Glitter

More likely: 99%
Less likely 1%

Brill

Skeletons of cartoon characters

Unpleasant medical conditions 2

Chamomilla Reversa

A condition mostly found in women with an obsessive preocupation with their weight.

After several years of bullimia and colonic irrigation the gut becomes confused as to which is the inlet and which is the outlet with the result that the entire digestive system becomes detached and reconnects itself the other way up.

Sufferers from this condition are obliged to feed themselves through their bottoms for the rest of their lives.

Note: This procedure should not be confused with similar behaviour in normal males, we usually put bacon and eggs up our bottoms for fun.

TATP Tits

Following the use of Triacetone Peroxide (TATP) explosive by Islamic suicide bombers in the 7/7 London tube bombings, scientists have realised the cause of many previously unexplained reports of spontaneous combustion in human beings, some of them explosive.

Women who frequently bleach their hair with hydrogen peroxide and use a lot of nail varnish containing the solvent acetone can absorb these substances in their bodies when they become concentrated in fatty areas, especially the breasts, and react to form TATP. If a sufficient concentration is formed any rough handling can set them off.

This mercifully rare condition is almost entirely a hazard for cheap tarts and their clients. It is also known as Exploding Prossie Syndrome.

Insane

Those with Alzheimers in the UK, most of whom will have paid taxes during their working lives, are being refused an effective treatment on grounds of cost, approximately £365m pa.

Meanwhile, we have some 25,000 Africans with HIV in the UK and the number is growing every year. At the current treatment cost of £16k per annum, that makes £400m pa.

Since 2004 these do not automatically get free treatment, however, as this article points out, the cost of passed on infection and acute problems as a result of AIDS that we are obliged to treat are likely to cost a great deal more than that, so that was just another idiotic government gesture so they can appear to be doing something.

What they should be doing is introducing proper health checks for existing conditions on all would be migrants where it is effective to do so. Where it is not and an existing problem emerges after entry the solution is removal.

Harsh? Yes, but then so is refusing our own citizens treatment for life ruining conditions because we have blown the cash on providing free benefits to the third world.

Move along

Regulars among the totally non existent readers of bloggoth will know that late summer/early autumn is a holy time for we at etc., it is WASPY JAM TIME!

Waspies have been increasingly reminding we at bloggoth of our religious duties by settling on us, today we had two waspies on our eyebrows, so with all due ceremony we rolled out the first batch of sacred waspy jam.

WHAT?? The waspies did not seem very interested, in fact our jam initially attracted flies. Is there some identity crisis in British insects? Wasps think they are bees, bees think they are centipedes and flies think they are wasps. I have little doubt that very soon we will start seeing butterflies on dog poo. Or maybe Tesco have started putting corpse and poo in their finest jam.

Ah, that's better!

Don't eat us

We at bloggoth like to ward off the advances of old age with a daily run, usually in our local woods. Talking to a chap up the road and he said he saw a Puma or similar big cat there while walking his dog. Can't say we know him well but he seems a very sane and normal chap. (Which is more than we can say for his dog, luckily we at bloggoth enjoy being bitten). Not heard of them in our locality before but this is not the first sighting in Sussex.

Not seen it personally but we saw something else two says ago, oh all right, we just heard it and glimpsed it out of the corner of our eye. Something big left the top the top of a decent size ash tree with a thump and the whole top shook like mad. If it was a bird it must have been a bleedin' ostrich.

Or a vampire. That must be it.

Democracy in action

Those who signed the No 10 petition to abandon the Lisbon treaty will have received the government response. Any who did not, do not bother to read that link, the following translation is much more succinct.

Serf

We don't give a shit what you think and have ratified the treaty anyway. We decide what is is good for you, your role is to acquiesce and carry on paying your taxes.

Love and kisses,
The Government.

PS. Please continue to use the government petitions scheme as we greatly value your opinion.

Run for cover

Surely the most alarming news of the day is that a top expert has said that the threat to Britain from rising obesity is as grave as that posed by terrorism. We at bloggoth will be very careful about who we get into a tube carriage with in future.

Talking of Genetic Modification

Why are all our nice little bees popping their clogs? Some say it is down to wet summers, others say pesticides, parasites, or viruses. Some say there is more to it than that, perhaps mobile phones are interfering with their navigation systems so they cannot find their hives.

We at bloggoth have seen some odd honey bee behaviour recently, the emergence of bag lady bees. Rather than buzzing between flowers and then zooming back to their hives, these bees are setting up by themselves and can be seen crawling into little holes with bits of leaf. The missus swears she saw one going into her hanging basket with a bottle of cheap gin. First wasps that think they are bees (further down somewhere), now antisocial bees.

Whatever the reason, the effect on our crops and other plant life could be enormous. Surely this calls for some serious genetic modification? The only reason plants need bees is because they are immobile and have to stand around waiting for the wind or an insect to pollinate them. This would not be necessary if we genetically modified plants so they could shag each other. Scientists, get onto it!

These laws suck

Customers of Wrapit are likely to get nowt, if any money is left it will go to the bank.

It is completely wrong that lenders and major suppliers who should be expected to check out the risks before entering into any arrangement should be at the front of the queue ahead of customers who simply order goods. Regardless of what the law calls it, they are stealing those customers' money to compensate themselves for what is partly down to their own negligence. High time the law was changed to ensure that money paid for goods or services is assumed to be due to the customers until those goods or services are delivered.

At least there has been one step in the right direction in recent years:

HMRC does not have preferential status in the distribution of the assets of an insolvent estate. The former Departments of Customs & Excise and Inland Revenue both lost preferential status on 15 September 2003 under the provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002.

Commenty boxy thing

Post comments here. Promises of money or ecstatic praise only please. Anything remotely critical will be removed. If you do not agree with me you are clearly insane.

Bog off bat ears

We see that the most vocal of the UK's top echelon of benefit scroungers and tax evaders, the Prince Of Daftness, is banging on about GM crops, saying that they damage the Earth's soil. He has given us the benefit of his enormous expertise on previous occasions:

In 1998 he warned genetic engineering was taking man into the realms that belonged to "God and God alone" and in 2004 he said people were beginning to realise "some of the chickens" were "coming home to roost and settle heavily in the genetically modified trees".

Nice to see such rational and well informed comment on serious issues. We should all have a right to voice opinions, sensible or not, it is just irritating when those whose natural talents would not take them beyond assistant manager at Cost Cutter are awarded a huge soapbox to spout bollox simply by reason of birth.

In fact there is no evidence that GM crops damage soil, what is true is that a main purpose of GM crops is to resist herbicides and pesticides, which can then be applied more freely to the detriment of our natural flora and fauna. Here is a rather more informed opinion. Looking at the total impact on the environment rather than local effects it is questionable whether very productive areas using GM crops and lots of pesticide are actually worse than larger less productive areas using less pesticide or huge areas using no pesticide. As that article says, our current methods in Europe are causing enormous damage.

It all comes back to the same problems that we refuse to address, a) too many damn people and b) too many of them useless and unproductive.

Voice of the Russian Embassy at bloggoth

As we have at bloggoth said before, although we cannot be arsed to look for it, we have some sympathy with Russian positions.

There is no way the West would accept a missile shield on its doorstep to cope with a supposed threat to Russia from rogue states and no way we would be happy with Western European countries becoming part of a Russian led military alliance. Let's not kid ourselves, NATO and western defence policy is still largely about the containment of Russia, it doesn't take armed forces of that size to combat a few backward Muslim countries and the composition of the forces is hardly appropriate to containing terrorists.

On the Litvinenko case too, their refusal to extradite a Russian citizen (in the absence of a mutually binding and completely reciprical treaty) is an example of how our fecking spineless government, which looks after everyone's rights except those of British citizens, should be acting.

We are not entirely anti on Georgia either. We at bloggoth are not daft enough to imagine that Russia's actions are out of concern for the poor downtrodden citizens of South Ossetia but we are rabidly anarchist enough to believe that if the citizens of any viable would-be state wants independence they should bally well get it, given certain conditions, the main ones being that it would not be a threat to the nation it seceeds from or to citizens of that country who live there. Ossetia has been largely outside Georgian jurisdiction for a decade and it appears to qualify. Atrocities appear to have been largely perpetrated by the ethnic Georgians.

Sorry poor little Georgia but bollox to you. If it's any consolation and if that last link is accurate, you should fit very well into the Western alliance, your foreign policies are idiotic crap too!

PS Wolfie has a typically much better researched and less couldn't be arsed item on this with lots of links and stuff. Saves us the trouble.

Transition

We did not think it was her scene either (probably revenge for something we did) but the missus dragged us to a fashion museum in Bath.

We went in a REAL MAN! We came out GAY!!!

So if any of our non-existent readers would like advice on sensitive stuff, feelings, that sort of thing, please feel free to ask and... agh, uh, what, eeeehh , aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Too late!

We can learn from the Palestinians

We at bloggoth wanted to get the garden neatened up in preparation for a barbecue on Saturday, repoint the path, cut the lawn, weed the flower beds, that sort of tedious stuff but were choking most of time due to smoke from normally nice neighbour's bonfire. The brickworks were making a collossal noise with their diggers in the quarry behind us and as soon as that stopped, Mrs Pikey Scum started mowing her lawn. No sooner had she finished than the next one down started and then some other bastard chimed in with a chainsaw.

So come on Hamas. Tell us how to make decent homemade lethal short range rockets and we at bloggoth will be on your side!

Oi!!! That's not cricket!

We and the missus (neighbours and weather permitting) do like to sit out on the patio with a bit too much alcohol and talk bollox. We at bloggoth are always most amused by the little whisky flies that pester the missus, the more expensive the malt, the more little whisky flies she has to contend with. Fortunately, they do not seem very interested in vodka.

Oh! We say! Steady on!

Oi! Bally Damn! Lay off our vodka there's a good chap!

Curing society's ills

For the last two thousand years much of our civilisation has been based on major use of iron. It is a well known fact that iron has a major role in warding off evil and it is clear this has been a major factor in the social advances in our society. Over the last half century there have been signs of a reversal and this can only be due to increasing use of plastic and other non-ferrous materials which is allowing the witches and evil spirits in again.

We at bloggoth are writing to the directors of Tescos to demand free carrier bags made out of cast iron and we trust our non-existent readers will support us in this noble cause.

PS: This measure will also keep people fit and combat obesity.
PPS: And with more iron in their daily lives youths will no longer feel obliged to carry steel knives to ward off witches and evil spirits.

The unpalatable fact

Journalists rave about this and that, it is what they do for a living, good rave material sells. Politicians rave about this and that, it lends them kudos and a sense of destiny and butters up their sense of importance. People with the leisure to spare and a desperate need of purpose rave about all sorts of things too.

Most ordinary people with their own lives to lead just rave about the things that concern them, ordinary UK citizens rave about the awfulness of government, minorities rave about the way they feel sidelined, Tibetans rave about their subjugation, Jews rave about anti-semitism, Christians rave about threats to their religion, Palestinians rave about the supposed injustice of their plight.

Because our personal battles looms so large to us and because we see that those Charlatans in the press and in politics and those vaccuous celebrities appear to share our concern we lose sight of one essential truth. Except to the extent that it involves them, most people really do not give a fuck about other people's problems.

The sooner people grasp that essential truth the sooner we will get practical resolution of some world conflicts.

Phone on acid

Normally on trips to country we take our camera although now and then we have forgotten and used our cheap ASDA mobile phone. It used to take low res but adequate pictures.

Not bothered to look at any results for some time and when we did we found our phone camera has started taking acid! If only life really looked like that! This is part of Wakehurst Place in Sussex.

March of progress

Mr C of (near) Brighton sounds disapproving that "robbers of the date locker" (?? homosexuals, I think) are taking the Anglican church apart because they insist on putting their sexuality before their bishoprics. Needless to say they have the total approval of we at bloggoth.

With the exception of a small minority of annoying militant sorts and the odd Pride march, gays in the UK generally get on with their lives without affecting the rest of us, unlike the feckin' religious who insist on trying to impose their ridiculous superstition-derived morality on us all, even though any analysis of the actual facts shows it is of no benefit to society whatsoever.

Not that the CoE is anything like the worst culprit, we need the same schisms in Islam and the Catholic church. More/some/some overtly gay bishops/imams/cardinals please! More women bishops etc. too! And make them all lesbians, preferably shrill annoying ones who have had several abortions and believe in experimenting with human embryos just for the fun of it.

Hopefully, when all religions are split into numerous tiny little warring factions, they will have less power and influence to dictate how the rest of us live our lives.

Shame about the book

Solzhenitsyn was a great man but TBH perhaps his greatness was not his literary ability and the award of that Nobel Prize for Literature was more political.

English readers have a problem with any Russian book with lots of characters in any case, I think because they are somewhat unpronouncable we render them as S***ski or M***ov in our heads which is ok until we hit a different character ending in ski or ov a few pages later. At least in Crime and Punishment or The Idiot the characters were different. In the Gulag, everyone, no matter what their social status or education, seemed to speak in the same way.

Six degrees of separation

It seems that we are only separated from communicating with everyone else on the planet via a chain of six acquaintances.

Brill. Could Thingy please tell Whatsit to tell That Other Bloke to tell Whasisname to tell Whojamaflip to tell Thingamabob to tell {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff} to fek off and die?

Maybe it is time to bring criminal law into line with civil law

Pointless being arsed with a link in this case as all the non-existent readers of bloggoth will know perfectly well that Barry George has been acquitted and is now in line for a huge payout.

Many will be saying, and they could be right, that he did it anyway even if the real evidence is lacking. That matters not, it is not in the interests of any of us that people should be convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence or because we fit a profile. As we said below, strange coincidences do happen sometimes, and what seems "obvious" is not always the truth.

But should he get a huge payout? In civil law costs tend to be based on degree of culpability. Winners may be awarded pennies in cases where they were deemed to have some responsibility for the circumstances. Look at George, ok, he may be innocent of the Dando murder but by his own admission he is a stalker and a nuisance to women. His "defence" is that when the Dando murder was happening he was actually somewhere else pestering another woman. One can hardly blame the police for considering him the prime suspect, any sensible person would.

Ok, the chap is not too bright and that is not his fault, but being practical and putting the protection of ordinary citizens above those of criminals or lunatics as we should, it hardly matters if he was a pathetic dimwit loner or an evil genius. This is a man who deserved incarceration, in a mental hospital if not a prison, and the injustice he suffered was very much one of his own making.

Without doubt he should get £500,000 for wrongful conviction. They should then take £490,000 of it back due to the fact that he deserved a few years banged up anyway and his conviction was 90% his own damn fault!

A lick of paint

If you do exist, and frankly we at bloggoth are sceptical, you probably imagine that other people are real too. A much sounder theory is that only we at bloggoth exist and all you lot are just props.

Recycled people are one of the convincing pieces of evidence for this theory. It is clear that out of sheer laziness the directors and scene shifters do not always create new characters. They hope that after a lapse of a decade or two you will have forgotten what someone was like so they get them out of the storeroom, alter a few small things, give them a new name and trundle them back on stage.

The bloke who ran the charity we helped out on last year (before we buggered their van up very slightly) was the boss we had in our second proper job. There was a kid at scouts a couple of years back who was also the friend who lived over the road from us when we were about twelve or something.

You can't fool we at bloggoth you know.

Self selection

Talking with somebody the other day (forget who, jeez, what is happening to my memory?) about coincidence. It appears really strange how so many occur.

An immediate example following on from above, that friend over the road died in the Stavanger air crash of 1961, although by that time we had drifted apart and he was only an acquaintance. The first inkling I had, before I heard the news, was seeing several cars coming and going from his parents' house and an unusual number of visitors including the vicar.

I had forgotten his name but the net reminds me it was Martin White. The only reason I found it on the net was that just two weeks ago, somebody decided to write a commemorative book of this event of more than 40 years ago. Not sure I have any recollections that are very useful, I recall racing down the hill on his tricycle and finding the brakes did not work and having a fight with him and falling backwards on the grass verge and getting dog poo on my new cord trousers. The entrance to his private drive had this amazing stone wall of really rough black rock, cinders I think, and it was not advisable to fall down it, not that that stopped ever us.

But the coincidence of thinking of a bloke for the first time in decades in the same month that his name is on the internet for the first time ever? Easy, in all the infinity of things that happen there are bound to be some that are related in somebody's experience. Coincidences are self creating, we report when they happen, we make no comment when they do not.

Hmmm. Sometimes we almost convince ourselves.

Move along

Not of any interest to anyone except waspy obsessed we at bloggoth (it is nearly Jam time again - hooray) but are lovely little waspies stepping in to save the planet?

We have all heard of the decline in bees worldwide which threatens many plant species including those we rely on for food. Recently we have noticed lots of wasps going from flower to flower in exactly the way that bees normally do. It seems that wasps and some other species are important pollinators so perhaps we have just not noticed this before. Or maybe those nice little waspies have read about the shortage of bees and have volunteered their services to make up the shortfall.

Waspies, we are proud of you! Extra Jam all round this Autumn! We hope you are not too tired from all that pollinating to buzz around the patio and annoy the wife.

First sign of senility

Forgetting if you need a wank or if you have already had one today.

A boring little germ (and probably gay), we disown it

In the past we at bloggoth have stood up for the rights of NICE little germs. Well somebody has to, and if you are as pretty as THIS lovely little Bird Flu virus...

You should have your rights defended, especially when those complaining about you are mainly tiger bone grinding/panda eating...

We would like to stand up for the rights of C Difficile, after all, it is generally only a threat to ghastly OLD people and other vulnerable (AKA useless and surplus to requirements) people on antibiotics. Ill people are perfectly horrible anyway and it is all their own fault usually. Apparently, all poor little C Difficile does, even to them, is give them the runs. If you don't want to catch fatal diseases stay out of hospital we say! Honestly, some people!

Problem is, look at C Difficile. That is one tediously plain little germ, looks like Twiglets. It is clearly the sort of germ that watches Eastenders, lives in a tower block and reads The Sun.

If we at bloggoth are going to defend nice little germs against the selfish demands of an overabundant mankind, we do at least require that it has a bit of STYLE and is not a horrible common little germ.

Sorry, C Difficile, you are on your own.

Fair trade and rubbish

Skip past the fact that this is the lefty Independent and the typically schmaltzy stuff about helping poor little Adelina to leave her rubbish dump, here is an interesting item by Johann Hari on the benefits of protectionism.

They tell poor countries to abolish all subsidies, protections and tariffs that protect their own goods. If you fling yourself naked at the global market, you will rise. If the poor countries disagree, they are cajoled to do as we say.

There's just one problem: every rich country got rich by ignoring the advice we now so aggressively offer. If we had listened to it, Britain would still be an agrarian economy manufacturing raw wool, and the US would be primarily farming cotton.

Hari backs this argument up with specific examples of S Korea, the UK and US. We all had protectionism and/or state intervention when we were growing our own industries and we only liberalised when our economies were sufficiently robust. This being the Independent the conclusion is:

From the rubble of Doha, a new world trade system needs to be built – on the principle of fair trade, not free trade. If we really want to end extreme poverty, then we need to open up the markets of rich countries, while allowing poor countries to protect and subsidise theirs.

In the absence of population control, ending extreme poverty is unlikely, not all people of the third world appear to have the potential of the Koreans and the number of mouths in too many countries will only expand to match any increase in wealth. Not that we at bloggoth pretend to be terribly altruistic about these things in any case, we are more concerned with the oddity of the idea that liberalisation suits rich countries and protectionism suits poor ones.

We are not economists but that sounds like a crap half truth to us. A better conclusion from the examples he gives is that liberalisation is great when you can dominate the market and run it according to your terms and bad otherwise. Manufacture and trade are immensely complex and even the wealthiest countries will not dominate all aspects. In recent decades other already wealthy European nations have used far more protectionism and state intervention than we have in the UK and it is only we who are left with little manufacturing to speak of, just a smoke and mirrors service economy based on cheap credit.

Hari makes a very convincing argument that poorer countries are not served by totally free trade but by the same argument, neither are we. We don't need international trade agreements, we should be free to negotiate those that suit us.

Things that appear to correlate do not. Be told, there's a good peasant

We wonder what it was like to be an ordinary person in Elizabethan or earlier times. All the information you ever had about what was going on outside your own parish was by word of mouth or, if you could read, contained on the odd billboard.

Now almost all of us are literate but it hardly matters anyway when we have the TV. We are bombarded with information and opinions about everything but those in control of all our lives, whether the church, the state or the wealthy, carry on controlling us as they have always done. The only differences are that in Elizabethan times we had fewer details of how we are being used and our users made a lot less pretence about our used status.

Now we have far more facts and naturally that means a great deal more guidance for us nobodies on interpreting those facts. The greatest of the lessons we must learn is this: to accept our role in the great global society, it is to the benefit of us all. Isn't it strange how this one universal truth is common to both socialist and capitalist alike? Those who control us recognise cultural divisions too, it is just that ours are along national lines, theirs are along class lines - there is the ruling class and there is the rest of us.

So we cope with propoganda day after day. They cannot always keep the facts from us but we are guided as to how we should view those facts. The propoganda is subtle, they do not say "you should not think x", rather "isn't it terrible that y?". The problem is that those of us with good memories for dull facts and (once upon a time anyway) an advanced grounding and ability in maths and statistics cannot help noticing apparent correlations in all the little facts that come our way.

This this little item tonight for example, London patients wait longer for GPs. The position is ok in Kingston but really bad in Tower Hamlets. No mention why, it could not be anything to do with high demand due to poor health of Bangaldeshis could it?. Not possible, all immigrants are assets. Are there any correlations to be made between some of the figures quoted in this link and this one or this one? Of course not, don't be silly!

Sucks

There are some damn fools using the net, those who put up blatantly libellous pages, those who still search for child porn sites and even enter their credit card details and those who hack into military computers.

All the same, it seems that 5 years after the agreement the US has still not ratified the treaty and it is still totally one-sided. They are welcome to Abu Hamza as we don't want the hideous hook-handed old bastard anyway but when it comes to UK born citizens who really are British the US should be told to FUCK off. What the hell is wrong with our government?

PS Listen to the details in the 2006 interview, this chap was not even a major expert and he managed to get into several military US systems, according to him there were often no firewalls and no passwords. The fate of the free world is the hands of this lot? Listen too to the accounts of dirty tricks. We only have his word for that too of course but his word against that of the US government? We know who we believe.

PPS In fact it is so easy, we at bloggoth have managed to hack into a secret Pentagon military system loaded with libellous child porn. The link is here. Enjoy.

Yeeeh!

World trade talks 'failed again'

Instead, nations may pursue dual agreements with partner nations, preferring to focus on their own requirements rather than a more common negotiating goal.

We don't generally need excessively protectionist policies that can lock in inefficiencies but what exactly is wrong with the idea that Nations should make deals over individual trade issues, focusing on what is actually good for their own economies, rather than be stuck with some one-rule-covers-everything fudge?

Hmmm, yes but what else did he do?

Caravan Raddish looks such a nice old bloke, we at bloggoth are sure he can't be guilty of much. And that other chap there was, we would love a name like Slobodan. Pople called Slobodan or Caravan Raddish should be able to do what they like in our view.

Bah not again, agreeing with a politician

Much as we hate to agree with any member of the government, let alone one as batty as Harriet Harman, her plans to allow serious and prolonged abuse to be a defence in a murder trial look right in principal. Nobody should have to put up with the stress and fear that some, mainly women, have to put up with.

The abuser does not have to do it after all. There is a contradiction between our concern for ALL human life and the way we absolve everyone, no matter how informed or how intelligent, of any responsibility for what they do when it is our free will that distinguishes us as human. Men that terrify and knock their women around year after year, who cares if they get killed? Fuck 'em.

PS. The law should be extended to allow killing of neighbours that damage fences.

PPS. Abolish the absurd let-out of manslaughter in cases where there is a premeditated reckless disregard for lives of others too. If, say, you discharge a loaded gun during a robbery and somebody is killed it should make no difference if you intended to kill them or not.

Why must we follow Africa backwards?

Time for a rant!
Says Zebedee

It seems that Anglicans are to set up a new pastoral forum led by the Arsebishop Of Canterbury to prevent any more consecrations of gay bishops or same-sex blessings.

The document says the forum is needed because repeated requests for moratoria on gay consecrations, same-sex blessings and cross-border interventions have not been heeded.

It says: “The failure to respond presents us with a situation where, if the three moratoria are not observed, the [Anglican] Communion is likely to fracture.”

Is that supposed to be a bad thing? Religion is utter bollox anyway so, if people have to believe it, let us at least have some updated bollox that is not inconsistent with the free and equal society we almost had before we let ourselves get dragged backwards by respect for third world opinions that deserve none. A lot of people have a thing about gays but they should not be fooled into thinking that is the sole issue in this division, the role of women is another major issue in which conservative opinion conflicts with the views of our secular society.

The Liberal wing of the church is led by the US, the conservative wing by Africa. Why is there any contest about deciding which is the best example to follow? Look at the backwardness of Africa, the economic failures, the wars and conflicts, the crime, the dependency, the superstitions and damaging tribal customs. Why must we pretend that in the arena of religious morality, simply because there is very conveniently no means of measuring the validity of it, that African opinion is anything we should take note of?

It is high time we disestablished the CofE. This was supposed to be the Church Of England not another bloody globalist organisation. If the views of the church are so far out of line with those of the real English then it should not have even a token part in their governance.

If this is the best the US can come with?

Last night's news showed just the tail end of O Bummer's speech in Berlin.

People of Berlin - and people of the world - the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. Let us build on our common history, and seize our common destiny, and once again engage in that noble struggle to bring justice and peace to our world.

What a fecking woffly load of bollox! No wonder he is being compared to Kennedy, he was a useless woffling twat too. No loss at all when he got shot in our view. The complete speech is much the same, loads of stuff about the last war and the cold war, working together to solve the world's problems, lifting the child in Bangladesh from poverty, etc. Yes, there's some sensible stuff in there too but it is nearly drowned in the sea of pious vague hopes for unobtainable ends. Why must the world suffer these charismatic politicians? If we lived in a world of xoggoths this speech would have been:

(Walks onto stage)
(Drinks vodka)
Hello Berliners.
Gosh, weren't the last world war/cold war jolly nasty?
Shows that, despite recent disagreements on some issues, we should remain allies.
We should work together to try and solve those of the world's problems that actually might have a solution, like nuclear proliferation and extremism.
All conflicts end eventually and we should probably not totally give up on the Middle East, tempting though it is.
Kids are starving in Bangladesh and other third world countries but until they get off their skinny little arses and stop having so many children that problem is insoluble. We should do what we can to the extent that they help themselves.
Global trade might have more acceptance if it was not all to the benefit of rich bastards.
(Sits down)

Good for Mosely and Murat

Max Mosley has won a legal action against The News of the World for invasion of privacy. Just a few days ago Robert Murat won a libel claim against a number of papers.

News of the World editor Colin Myler said...
"our press is less free today after another judgement based on privacy laws emanating from Europe".
...
As the head of the richest sport in the world, with almost 125 million members, Mr Mosley "had an obligation to honour the standards which its vast membership had every right to expect of him", Mr Myler said.

The only standards anyone had a right to expect of him as World motorsport boss were those which were relevant to motorsport and what he does or does not do with prostitutes is not the world's damn business. Yes, there is such a thing as public interest and if he was had done something to the detriment of motorsport or was a politician voting or speaking in a hypocritical way on vice issues it would be fair enough to expose him.

As it is, this was just a squallid story to peddle to your dimwit readership to enhance your profits so don't make out that you were serving the public good Myler.

As for Murat, that allegation above all others can destroy someone's life. To go so far beyond just reporting him as a suspect was unjustified and again was solely about titillating the public to further profits.

PS - lessons

PS Murat's error, in the wake of the Ian Huntley case, was to be too helpful. There is a lesson to be learned there, if any kid goes missing around here, we at bloggoth, even if we did see something suspicious, will be totally disinterested and volunteer nowt. We have a creepy enough image as it is without appearing HELPFUL.

Yet again, our ridiculous society has been very effective at teaching the wrong lessons.

More great uses for the Wii - 1

We at bloggoth were round at someone's house the other day and his kids were playing a sports simulation on a Wii. We were not exactly convinced that it was any sort of substitute for games or sports involving real physical activity but it seems that our couch potato society thinks otherwise and cannot get enough of them. The broad idea of doing things without the real effort of doing them is great though, so why limit it to fitness simulations?

Our idea is the Wii Mean Bastards Charity game, where you get to sit in front of a simulation of a charity appeal with lots of big-eyed starving little kids and those women with teeth sticking out at right angles. Then you can feel really sorry for them and get all weepy and text in your credit card details and pledge vast wads of cash to ease their suffering safe in the knowledge that your hard earned dosh is not actually going anywhere. We can see it catching on.

Commenty boxy thing

Post comments here. Promises of money or ecstatic praise only please. Anything remotely critical will be removed. If you do not agree with me you are clearly insane.

What he cut n' pasted

Time for a second hand rant!
Says Zebedee

Sane comment on Wolfie's blog.

For the most part Africa is indeed an utter waste of money with swelling populations as a result of aid and declining per capita wealth because it is easier to take the rest of the world's money than get off their arses and sort their own problems. Maybe people should read the articles Wolfie links to and see if they can see any argument there that is actually false and should take note of the fact that some Africans are saying this too before they denounce it.

Dependency destroys people and societies just as it is doing in the UK. We have enormous numbers of British in the UK who have never worked even though they are capable of it because we have a welfare state that does not demand responsibility and only helps the dependent to produce more children like themselves.

With poorly controlled immigration of too many young males from the likes of Somalia we, or rather British Afro-Carribeans for the most part, are also feeling the worldwide results of this ill directed charity at the end of a knife.

Oh no!
Not another ruined barbecue party!

It's a warm sunny day, your friends are all on the patio downing lager, the sausages and steaks are almost burnt to perfection on the barbecue and then the bell rings. It's the bloody queen again! If you are really unlucky the archbishop of Canterbury will turn up too.

Gatecrashing royalty and archbishops ruin many summer barbeques, don't let them ruin yours. Use QUEEN GONE for a VIP free party.

The most effective establishment VIP repellent on the market, works with politicians too.

Unpleasant medical conditions 1

Calystegia Varicosa

A condition in which varicose veins emerge from the body like bindweed and rapidly climb any suitable support. Sufferers may wake to find themselves inextricably tied to the bed. Rudimentary red flowers have sometimes been observed on such excresences.

Praetor Rhinoplexus

A genetic disorder in which the DNA of the nose starts to dominate all other parts causing the body to grow noses while absorbing other body tissue. In later stages the body may consist entirely of noses.

Tyrranosaurus Spermanzi

A rare but increasingly frequent condition thought to be triggered by excessive use of those "increase your ejaculation" pills from spam emails. Human sperm grow to gigantic size and ferocity and can rapidly consume the unfortunate male source.

TOO LATE!

Time for a rant!
Says Zebedee

I daresay we have all noticed that members of this government are starting to say some sensible things about welfare, immigration, even tax. Like this on welfare for example. The Tories regularly complain about their policies being nicked.

Trouble is, we have been here before. Frank Field said we should think the unthinkable on welfare years ago but soon after he was out of the job and nothing unthinkable was ever thunk. How many times have we heard about "easing the burden" on industry and commerce and what have they got? More regulation, more employee rights, more complexity in the tax system. A bankrupt Labour party is not going to go against the lefty bastards who bankroll it.

On immigration, removal targets are missed, tough rules on employment are rarely enforced and everything is always manana, like imposing visa requirements on countries like South Africa. Minor tinkering is misrepresented as significant, for example, many are convinced from the statements at the time that inheritance tax thresholds were significantly raised last year when in fact there was just a minor improvement to the rules on transfer between spouses and even that is not applied automatically.

Believe anything this or any minister says and you must be a damn fool.

No it isn't the same

The case of a policeman disciplined for objecting to being asked to wear a ribbon during gay pride month is being compared to that of that bloody registrar who refused to conduct civil ceremonies for gays.

There is no parallel, the registrar was not doing the job she was paid to do, the PC was only objecting to something that was not in any way part of his job and why should he not? Had he refused to take an assault seriously because the victim was gay it would be different.

We suspect from the limited details that this officer is a rather bloody minded individual and that his language in some emails was offensive to officers who were not part of this politically correct campaign but as the official complaints only came from these gay laison officers, that is just surmise.

The main point is that if these gay liaison officers were making a broad campaign of it and "bombarding the station with gay posters" the situation was not of his making. It is fair enough to disseminate and enforce anti-discrimination policies but that is not the same as politically correct demands to celebrate the gay life style. We at bloggoth are fed up with the religious trying to impose their views on the rest of us but why should some parts of the rest of society try and impose their views on the religious either?

Gays are fine with we at bloggoth, there should be no discrimination and if they want to get married, why not? Gay liason officers? WTF are those for? They should be accosted on a towpath somewhere by a gang of big black batty boy bashers and bashed with baseball bats until their barmy brains bleed.

Hurrah for discipline

When we at bloggoth, before we were we at bloggoth, started this webshite it was to host xoggoth tales. Back then we thought up a stupid story nearly every day.

We have managed to have writer's block for about two years and so joined a writer's club in the hope that it might force us to write. It works! this AM we have just sat down and not got up until we had a story. Ok, it's a Christmas horror story but since when did we do topical?

PS It has small children being brutally sacrificed, an essential ingredient in any fiction in our view.

Unsound thinking

When you look at government campaigns and initiatives you cannot help thinking just how unjoined up the thinking is. It doles out huge amounts of taxpayer's money to different departments and advertising companies who all focus in on the little task they have been given, completely unaware that what they are doing may be at odds with what the others are doing or exacerbating other problems in society.

Few policies are less joined up than attempts to curb obesity and save on fuel consumption when body fat is an excellent insulator. Why reduce obesity when an ageing population is a major concern anyway? The government should abolish the winter fuel allowance for old people and start a winter sugar-coated lard allowance instead.

Simple

Although we hate the PRINCIPLE of the stinky EU dictating our laws, not for the first time we have to say that the EU is right and it is our own stinking government that is wrong. So why should recording artists not have copyright protection on their work for most of their lives rather than 50 years? The economic case has not been made? WTF has that to do with anything? They should have a right to the copyright on their work BECAUSE IT IS THEIR WORK!

PS But the fact that Cliff Richard is active in wanting this extension almost makes us change our mind. Ghastly Christian twat! A better idea, everyone gets 70 years copyright except for Cliff Richard, his crappy songs are out of copyright after 3 weeks and get fed to the dog.

Why not encourage ordinary people? you can always shoot them afterwards if they don't work out

It might strike the non existent readers of bloggoth that this is a somewhat elitist blog, given the frequent diatribes against HORRIBLE COMMON PEOPLE.

Actually, being serious (which in we at bloggoth's case means being drunk) we are no great fans of unbridled elitism. There is a fair amount in Ayne Rand's philosophy that we can agree with but much of it is also on a par with the greatest bollox that Karl Marx ever managed to trot out from his home in Highgate Cemetary. Why we let these foreign fanatics operate freely from our cemetaries I cannot imagine.

Our recollection of our own education is that it was seriously elitist. At primary school we got to be Robinson Crusoe in the school play, Robinson Crusoe. Fair enough, we were the most convincing at rehearsals but hardly anyone else played any part. It never seemed to occur to the teacher that Robinson Crusoe was hardly a play to involve a whole class.

We were not so lucky at secondary school. Not being an instant natural at sport we were forever condemned to be sent out on long distance runs rather than be in the football or rugby teams. I don't think it ever occured to them that, if they had ever taken the trouble to try and teach us the basics, us sporting losers might have been at least adequate.

What a refreshing change to hear from the missus that these days there is at least an attempt to include the less gifted. Even drunk we at bloggoth are no great fans of failure but then again nobody should ever be defined as a failure if they have never been tested.

Dead people were always fantastic human beings

Can't say we at bloggoth had ever heard of Heath Ledger until the recent mentions of his role in the new Batman film. He may be a fantastic actor for all we know but it seems an odd coincidence that this fairly obscure star with a name like a racing event pops his clogs and is suddenly an Oscar favourite. Dying fairly young during your career never does a celebrity any harm, would James Deen be a legend if he could still be seen doddering around his local supermarket?

Politicians who spend their time lambasting each other's competence and honesty immediately rush to say what a great man their opponent was and how full of integrity they were as soon as they pop their clogs. With ordinary people too, no sooner have they got themselves stabbed than they were a wonderful human being with a great future, always cheerful, always ready with a kind word for everyone etc. etc. It is really reassuring to know that us miserable bastards never die.

If Gordon Brown wants to be popular, here is our tip. Get up in the house and announce something small that the public will approve of, or at least something not as utterly shite as the sort of thing you normally announce and then immediately kill yourself. We gaurantee that everyone will soon be saying what a great man you were and that the pig's arse you have made of the economy during your time as chancellor by overtaxation, overregulation and profligate spending really might have been partly down to external factors and the previous government after all.

Turn down the gain a bit Perry

At the end of all things The Blessed Perry will return to judge us against his simulation model of mankind.

We are reading "The Girl In The Red Coat", about a little Jewish girl and her mother trying to stay alive in Nazi occupied Poland. The influence of Jews in major worldwide organisations, in the Soviet structure and in German communist organisations was not a Nazi invention and perhaps there was some truth in Hitler's idea that they played a significant role in Germany's defeat in WW1. Given that perspective, shooting prominent and influential Jews would have made sense but why shoot some nobody because his paternal grandfather was Jewish? Did they seriously see Bolshevism as genetic? This idiocy was also seen in Apartheid South Africa. From the white perspective, we can see why a black-ruled South Africa was to be resisted but the rules were drivel. My own mother would have been classed as coloured as she suffered from Addison's disease which causes excessive pigmentation of the skin.

Now humanity has swung back to the opposite extreme of idiocy where we are not allowed to even mention any defect in other cultures no matter how it adversely impacts our own society. As far as we at bloggoth can discover, at least two of the stabbings by young people since the start of the year are by Somalians and citizens of that country have figured in a number of other crimes or terrorist incidents. If you need a more formal measure, check the prison statistics. Politically correct pretence aside, neither are some other groups a net asset, again check the various official statistics including those on benefits and health.

How terribly racist to say these things. It depends, or should depend, on why you are saying it and there is very good reason why we should not keep quiet. We should be demanding adequate checks on individuals to ensure that only those who are not a danger and are likely to be an economic benefit are given residence. Why is that unreasonable?

It seems to us at bloggoth that the nature of political correctness has changed, from being based on race to being based on nationality. In the Clambie case nobody ventured an ounce of criticism of the parents for their reckless behaviour but an unfortunate young black trainee social worker was scapegoated. We allow Somalian gangs to roam London and it does not seem to matter that young British born blacks are often the victims or that they get blamed for the criminal activities of the newcomers. We refuse to deport foreign Islamic extremists but have no problem with rather harsh treatment of young British Asians who have been involved in riots. If we at bloggoth were into blaming global conspiracists we might say that this attitude is wholly in keeping with the leftist wish to create a borderless world.

Back to the Blessed Perry's model. Unflattering though it may be to our egos, it will actually be rather a simple one, along the lines of a feedback controller with excessive gain. If there was a god we would trust that The Blessed Perry will start sorting him out and getting him to tune mankind a bit better. Who knows? maybe some day we will have a really anti-racist society where we are free to impartially assess the behaviour of any group based on the actual evidence. We are not holding our breath.

The old debate

It would be darn nice, when discussing theories on global warming or anything else, to actually start with the same set of facts. And if some experts really were.

Here is a nice serious bit of sceptic text with lots of experts debunking the idea of manmade climate change.

It seems Claude Allegre says the cause of climate change is unknown and that Kilimanjaro is not losing snow due to global warming but to local land use and precipitation changes. How does he know that? It does not say and the referenced article n'existe plus. He is a scientist and has published articles but whether his field of expertise is relevant it also does not say. He was one of the group of prominent scientists who signed a declaration against the idea of manmade global warming earlier this year. There is no indication that any of those had any great expertise in the area either but it does not stop bloggers quoting the fact.

We also note that global warming "stopped in 1998". Funny, that does not show in NASA's chart:

Global is a misnomer apparently. NASA satellite tropospheric temperature data reveals that the Southern Hemisphere has not warmed in the past 25 years contrary to “global warming theory” and modelling. Funny, it must be a different NASA that published this chart.

The oceans are actually cooling it seems. Oh dear, the referenced article does not exist again. And Greenland's ice is not shrinking but growing, must check that article. Oh dear, not again. Funny, those people at NASA (but what would they know?) say Greenland's ice cap may be melting three times faster than indicated by previous measurements.

Same at the other end, Antarctic is getting colder and the ice is growing say "peer reviewed studies". True, one study did indicate that but a more recent one using more modern digitised wind, temperature and humidity data shows the opposite with estimated rises of 1.5C in the last 30 years. As for that previous study, it was actually one of a number that showed "mixed results" but hey, let's not mention that!

Perfectly likely that sun activity is a major factor - "a new 2006 study in Geophysical Research Letters found that the sun was responsible for up to 50% of 20th-century warming." Er, yes but that still leaves 50% down to something else. What is it?

Some antis trot out the same stuff but advance a bit more evidence. This one states that accurate observations over the last three decades have not shown any significant change in the long term rate of increase in global temperatures. Not what above NASA charts seems to show, but perhaps they have better data. Ah, there's a chart on the page! Well, you know we at bloggoth cannot be arsed to calculate the mean trend on that chart but if we could be arsed we are betting it would have risen fairly steadily from about -0.2 to about +0.2.

They mention the myth that CO2 is the major greenhouse gas. Perhaps the public may think so but no serious individuals on the pro side do. They quote a figure of 60% of greenhouse effect being due to other gases, mainly water vapour (rather less than most pros appear to think is the case) so what is that 40% down to if not CO2? In refuting the beliefs of John Doe they do not address an important point from the more informed regarding the feedback mechanism. If rises in that CO2 level do increase temperature then you also raise the amount of H2O in the atmosphere causing further warming. The contribution of water vapour is not some neutral and irrelevant factor.

As a maths modeller I find the paragraph on modelling is so confused and biased I hardly know where to start. Models do not "assume the sun has an insignificant effect on climate" and then set out to prove that precise point. If modellers are simply looking at calculating the contribution from CO2 alone, it would not be relevant to input the sun's warming effect. A perfectly logical approach. Perhaps they should assume a range of different solar inputs against the ridiculously unlikely chance that somehow solar effects actually negate rather than add to CO2 effects but I have seen no suggestions that that is not the case.

Then there's this quote: "Computer models can be made to roughly match the 20th century temperature rise by adjusting many input parameters and using strong positive feedbacks. They do not "prove" anything" Well, within the limits of error they do. Error analysis, checking the probable errors on all the inputs and the likely effects on results is a major part of any simulation. This odd idea that modellers simply plug in values and assumptions here and there with no idea of how they affect the results portrays gross ignorance of what mathematical modelling is about. True enough, someone could rig things to suit their pet theory, but where is the evidence of that? Are we to assume that modellers working in the field and getting broadly similar results or those vetting the publications are all in some gigantic conspiracy theory?

The comment implies some objection to the idea of tuning a model to fit actual data. Let us not forget that the purpose of these models is prediction, it would be a pretty crap predictor that gave results that did not fit with historical data we have. It is perfectly valid to look at how well models fit past trends and if they do not, to look again at the validity of assumptions as here. To portray this process as simply fiddling values until they fit the data is a biased distortion. Still, it's an idea. If I work on power station or oil and gas control simulations again and anyone asks if I have checked the accuracy of my model against real plant performance, I can say "Oh no, that might have influenced me to change my assumptions" and cite anti global warming nuts as to why this is a bad thing.

The antis seem against use of modelling altogether, if there are any scientists who have put together complex models that disprove global warming we at bloggoth have never seen the results mentioned. Given the total scepticism they have for mathematical models when it suits I am surprised they are willing to get into their cars designed on simulators, get electric power from power stations designed and controlled by simulations and fly on planes where pilots have only trained on simulators.

When there is no agreement about what the basic facts are it is hard to make any judgement but every time we look at the antagonists it seems to be the antis who are the main hysterics. Many are clearly quite ignorant of the basic science and trot out the same stuff they have cut and pasted from some other sensationalist site or blog as if it were fact. In getting carried away with diatribes against what are admittedly daft media stories they fail to address the serious points. The "facts" they quote oddly seem not to exist rather a lot of the time or fail to show what they claim they show. Some of their arguments are incomplete or irrelevant, the extent of non man made CO2 for example; when you have an established equilibrium it is the factors disturbing that equilibrium that can matter, not the extent of the contributions in balance.

True the pro side ignore some facts too, where is their explanation for what we at bloggoth feel is the one convincing argument against CO2 induced warming, that the temperature profiles with altitude do not fit? Still, over and over again we find the pros are the more convincing, they provide calmer, more rational arguments which seem more firmly based on the physics. The Royal Society for example.

Paying by the pound

There have been protests against Marks & Spencer for charging extra for larger bras and some have formed a group called Busts 4 Justice.

Sorry ladies, no SUPPORT for you here, we at bloggoth firmly believe that people should pay for what they get unless there is a very sound reason for others to subsidise you and big norks is not a disability in our view. If larger bras cost more to make then you should pay for the extra.

Still, it has alerted us to a real injustice. If larger norks require more material and extra features to hold them in place then by the same token smaller things should be cheaper to support. We at bloggoth are really incensed that M&S and other shops have been ripping us off for years and are now starting our own protest campaign.

PANTS 4 JUSTICE
We demand cheaper Y-Fronts for us men with pathetically small lunchboxes

Again

Time for a rant!
Says Zebedee

Another feckin' religious sort refuses to do the job they are paid to do and then gets compensated handsomely at our expense for breach of their feckin' rights.

But Ben Summerskill, of gay rights campaign group Stonewall, said: 'Public servants are paid by taxpayers to deliver public services.

They shouldn't be able to pick and choose who they deliver those services to.

Precisely. She has the right to a say in who is married in Christian churches, that is no business of the rest of us* but not to what happens in a purely civil ceremony. What next? Will gays be lawfully refused treatment by Christian NHS doctors? Atheists be denied service from Christian legal aid solitors? Will Muslim council workers be able to stop emptying our bins if they find bacon in them? Will police refuse to turn out for an assault if the assailant belongs to their church?

If something you are required to do in your job offends you then find another. Make the sacrifices for your own feckin idiot beliefs, don't expect the rest of us to do so.

*Note. That is, we have no right to intervene in law. Since the religious criticise everyone else we do every right to criticise. Are we seriously to believe that those who think women should play no official role in the church are supporters of female equality in every other arena? Or that lack of a woman's role in the church does not shape the wider attitudes of the children who are brought up in it?

Breaking news

Another bloggoth exclusive.

In a landmark ruling today, the court of appeal decided that Muslim bin men may legally refuse to empty any bins that have bits of bacon in them.

Anyone who likes bacon is advised to eat it all, including the rind.

Meanwhile, Muslim operatives have walked out of a sewage plant in Blackburn after one thought he spotted traces of bacon rind in a Richard The Third.

You have a woman's blog my lady

Nice to have millions of readers, we at bloggoth don't have any and we make most of those up.

On the other hand, looking at the sort of thing you have to write to get lots of comments and be famous, like this for example, we think we prefer to be obscure.

Or perhaps we should start writing splendidly mucky stuff like Nurse Myra but maybe we have left it too late to pretend to be a classy bird. Any gay gerontophiles out there? Please come back and we will post a picture of our wrinkly old bum just for you.

Hmmmm

Pity the Yanks, like the rest of us in the Western world they have an appalling choice of leadership contenders. When it is hard to make a choice on serious issues because the choices are so absolutely bloody awful, our policy at bloggoth is always to make a choice based on total nonsense and hope for the best.

It seems that Barack Obama embarasses his children and has crap dress sense. If we had a vote that would be enough for us, sound chap.

Until such time as there is news that McCain like to feed wasps with jam anyway.

Rediscovering Britain's glory

At times it is so tiresome being the universe's wisest man, as soon as we at bloggoth say something we know it will only be a matter of months before others catch up and starts saying the same thing. Way back here we at bloggoth said that in view of current transport costs we should start looking at bringing manufacturing back home. Now, according to this article by a Yank, "globalisation has passed its high-water mark", Chinese factories are closing down left, right and centre and "North Carolina's furniture industry is coming back from the dead"

There is a slight flaw with the idea of a resurgence of British industry, we have absolutely feck all left to resurge! We have said this before too (but cannot be arsed to look for it) service industries can blossom or conversely be replaced very quickly, industry requiring billions of investment cannot. The French, Germans and Italians have, often by protectionist measures slated by the globalisation enthusiasts, retained far more of their manufacturing industries than we have. All three have world class car manufacturers for example. We have, er..

Never mind, make do and mend, we Brits are great at that, so let us look at what we do have that can be used as a core of a British manufacturing renaissance. Well, we do have lots of heritage centres and museums proudly showing our industrial past to tourists. Let's use it! Kick the tourists out and use all those old steam-powered cotton mills to make our own shirts, start grinding our flower in windmills, powering lathes with old water wheels etc. Get it all back into action!

Who better as minister of industry than the late great Fred Dibnah to enthuse us all? We at bloggoth have already taken the liberty of digging the grand old chap up and fitting his corpse with a miniature steam engine so he can get back to work. Forward and backward to Britain's rediscovered glory!

PS. And we can start sending all those revolting little common kids down mines and up chimneys and things again instead of wasting money pretending to educate them.

Teenage gangs are good

If shooting people is bad, how come companies spend millions on management courses where leadership and bonding is reinforced by having groups shoot each other with paintballs? Maybe we should see the positive side of gangs, interacting with others, leadership, competitive spirit and all that. Why not lock the little bastards inside huge walled areas and let them shoot and stab the hell out of each other? The survivors get a job with Sir Alan Sugar. Then we shoot and stab Alan Sugar because he is such a thoroughly irritating old bastard.

Teenage gangs are normal

Some would like a humanity in which we all wander about composing symphonies and thinking about how to colonise Alpha Centauri but, judging from our tribal history, that it is hardly natural. What we should really be doing is what we bemoan in "feral youths", joining gangs and violently disputing territory with rival gangs.

As a small start we at bloggoth have formed the bloggoth gang. To our non-existent readers, ooo you lookin at?

Improving humanity - 1, Homo Placentis

Following on from last about the evils of conquest, the way humanity travels around the world wrecking and consuming everything.

What a great improvement it would be if the placenta was 10 feet long, remained attached throughout life and was connected directly to the main chamber of the heart so could not be removed without the instant death of both parties. On death the corpse would be nourished through its connections, avoiding any decay, and slowly reabsorbed, say over 20 years. We would have a much more limited, more social and less aggressive and greedy human society.

Pointless gestures

Except during the dream time, we at bloggoth clearly have no soul, judging by the sort of things that seem to be important to so many, like this. A delegation of Aboriginal people from Australia has arrived in Edinburgh to take home human remains.

We are not defending the possession of these items as we have never been fans of Empire, British or any other. The world would be a pleasanter place if we were firmly rooted to the ground and stayed the feck out of everybody else's lives. Still, building bridges with the aboriginal people of Australia is not likely to have much practical return, any race that thinks it worthwhile to run a long campaign to regain a few skulls and a 19th century earbone is unlikely to shape the world in the near future.

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Are we supposed to be sober when we do these things? This 'ere bloggoth commenty thing does not use stupid anti spam word typey things and neither does Mr News Bleat or Gimcrack Hospital or Ms O or Mr C. So up your bum all you coven lot and any other bloggers who require one to type in stupid anti spam word typey things or even worse join that daft googly Google bloggery thing which we have now joined approx 3537 times and it still does not recognise us.

So up yer bum. We would favour you with our brilliant comments but we are on strike against stupid stupid anti spam word typey things.

And Google bloggery googly things.

Up yer bum.

Aliens, mass hysteria or hoax?

A lot of reports of UFOs recently. Like this one. We at bloggoth sneer at such things. Sneer, sneer, sneer we go.

Except we saw a darn odd white light a couple of weeks ago. We are on the flight path for Gatwick so we see lights in the sky all the time but they usually move quickly. Could have been a police helicopter we suppose but we could not hear any sound and surely there won't be hang gliders or hot air balloons around at nearly 1am?

Or just a hoax? Someone stuck a light on a large party balloon? We would like to say it was abnormally bright, seemed to be rotating and that it gave off huge sparks before shooting off at enormous speed but it was just a point of light that seemed stationary for a while and then drifted off very slowly. Like a party balloon with a light on it.

Shame if so. We at bloggoth were rather looking forward to being abducted.

PS We would like to point out that this chap was not us. Sex with an octopus? Not likely, too expensive. If you are into sex with molluscs, which of course we are, why pay for these high class tarts when there are plenty of cheap slugs in the garden who will give you a good time in return for a Dahlia?

PC Crap

Time for a rant!
Says Zebedee

We all know what most staged pictures and adverts look like in inclusive Britain. If there are three people, often just one will be white. If it's a government publication there may not be a white person at all.

The exception is when there is blame to be shared and then we get pictures more representative of the population like this one although we all know the reality of the most serious youth crime in England involving guns and knives. According to some, even that one quarter is all our fault, it's due to exclusion or racism. Odd how exactly the same problems of drugs, gang culture, youths obsessed with respect and absentee fathers are found in violent and defective societies like Jamaica, Somalia and the Congo.

We are not supposed to mention any of this of course, it's racist. But isn't blaming us whites for every cultural problem imported from the third world because our governments cannot or will not properly vet migrants also a tad racist? It is certainly bloody irritating!

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Coven member vacancy

They Will Devour Us seems to have given up doing his zany cartoons involving stuffed Lovecraft monsters. Great shame. Hope you are ok Mr HP.

Welcome back

One of the long list of grudges we have against the missus (headed by her lack of interest in bottom-related activities) is her spending our hard earned savings on really boring things like new bathrooms and kitchens. A house does not need decorating more than once in 20 years, it acquires character, and what is wrong with a 1970s-fashion brown bathroom suite? it is very practical in that it does not show skidmarks and only really needs cleaning once every 6 months.

The very worst thing about all this refurbishment is the way it has driven out all the nice little things that used to lurk in the corners. Today we are very pleased to report the fight back has begun; way up in the corner of the tedious white and chrome bathroom that looks like an operating theatre, a little spider has returned.

Do your job little spider, if the bathroom does not look like Dracula's outside toilet again within three months we at bloggoth will want to know why.

PS We at bloggoth are the perfect husband.

NICE little bird

That thing about birds abandoning nests or fledglings if you handle them is not always true. We had to handle this thrush as it had fallen in the pond and we were sitting with it wondering what to do and hoping it would not crap on our clean tee shirt when mum hears its cheeps and starts hopping round us. As soon as we put it down she started feeding it.

It can only have come from the big oak or sycamore at the end of the garden so no chance of putting it back. Little bird is now esconced in our bloggoth-made nest on a pole over the middle of the horrible spiky bush where hopefully cats won't get at it. When it starts cheeping again will she come back and feed it? Hope so, we will feel very guilty catching NICE little worms.

Update: NICE little bird died. It appeared to have something wrong with its eye yesterday and looking at the little corpse today it seems the eye was completely out. Did it hit its head on the edge of the pond or was a nasty sibling responsible? We would say he'll be back but Mr Manky Blackbird Skull is adamant that one small dead bird on the editorial staff is enough.

Right on

Islamanazi, sorry, News Bleat, is having a bit of a rant about the case of former Army scientist Dr. Steven Hatfill.

Who? No, never heard of 'im either, but that is beside the point. You could always read the item and the contained links. Naturally, being lazy old bastards, we at bloggoth have barely skimmed through. The details of the case are not of major significance, what we are really reminded of by Mr Sheep's item is the differing attitudes to government here and in the US. Sure, all us bloggers loath government but we are thinking about the wider treatment of government, in films and books for example.

How may US made films have you seen that cast the US government as the enemy, willing to frame any US citizen, engage in any deceit or deception, even brainwash its own soldiers. Argue with any US gun law enthusiasts and they will soon tell you that gun ownership is their gaurantee of freedom against a dictatorship. That sounds somewhat unrealistic to us (automatic rifles against the might of the US army?) but we like the sentiment.

Compare that with the UK, how many films or TV plots have the same negative view of government? Our governments are depicted as beurocratic, bumbling and incompetent but almost never as malignant. Politicians may be portrayed as vain and self-seeking but almost never as single minded and ruthless. Although we rail against the incompetence and petty greed of our leaders most of us are convinced that they have our interests at heart.

What damn fools we are on this side of the Atlantic.

Right on 2

Pondering this further while out for our run. Why do we in Europe have this misplaced trust in politicians and political leaders? We are primates and primate males go for dominance. If that sounds a little vague for you, if you have the quaint idea that man can rise above his instincts, consider these points.

Was there something uniquely awful about people of some nations that explains Mugabe, Amin, Bocassa, Duvalier, Castro, Peron, Causescu, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco etc.? You only need to go back a few centuries and we had despots in the UK too. Is it likely that human nature has evolved in such a short period or is it just that European societies has managed to evolve certain safeguards by spreading power so it is more difficult for any one man to take it all? Is it really our formal institutions, that protect us? Zimbabwe has all the trappings of democracy too. Or is it that divided power acts like the barons of medieval times to prevent absolute monarchy? Looking at this and the never ending self interest of our own MPS it certainly seems as if we are in the grip of the robber barons.

Want to bet that there is not one of these awful people who, faced with a chance of absolute power would not take it? Even if they cannot do that, do you seriously think there is not one of them who will not manipulate their powers to serve their own interests?

We repeat. What damn fools we are on this side of the Atlantic.

Yawn, I mean hooray, hooray, yippee!!!! (Orange)

As I am sure we have mentioned a few times the missus is sports mad, in a strictly armchair context. No chance of going out tonight (Saturday) as she wants to watch the European cup final or whatever it's called.

We at bloggoth are really not that interested. Had England been there we might have summoned a spark of enthusiasm but Spain or Germany, who cares? If pushed for a decision we would have supported Spain as Red is a nicer colour. We often choose things on basis of colour, when we were choosing universities we never bothered with reputation, length of course or stuff like that, all that mattered was the colour of the brochure. Bath was doing a really nice orange brochure at the time so we chose that and have never had any regrets. We would probably have been happy with Swansea as well, their brochure was purple.

Wandered downstairs for another vodka (parrot likes vodka) and just saw the end and the final ceremony and can report we have suddenly found total enthusiasm for the Spanish team. Hooray! Spain! Yeeeh! Why? Because that fecking awful lefty socialist Europhile undemocratic KANT Angela Merkel was there and her team lost. Sorry Krauts, I have nothing against you really but your leader

is a

no, that's unfair to nice little cows, she's a

actually, that's unfair to whatever that is too, she's a

PS Apologies to nice little dogs everywhere. You did your best and do not deserve such a comparison.

Harman

Time for a rant!
Says Zebedee

Harriet Harmen's crap is typical of crap from this utterly crap government. Here are a few extra craps - crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap. Please sprinkle liberally, if you run out of craps just email us at bloggoth for a link to a page with nothing but the word crap on. Discrimination is discrimination. If anyone is turned down for a job purely on basis of sex or colour there are already laws that apply to that. You do not rectify that injustice by denying jobs to capable white blokes.

Mostly anyway, we take half a crap back. As we at bloggoth have said before (but cannot be arsed to find when) there may be very limited cause for occasional positive discrimination on purely practical grounds. Someone from a minority may have the expertise to deal effectively with others of the same minority and this is not really very different from selection on any other ground of expertise, if you need someone to sell to builders it is no bad idea to choose someone who has been a builder and understands the realities of the trade. Sufficient representation of minorities in the main bodies of state like parliament, the police and the judiciary, may also be necessary to persuade some that they are a part our society.

There must be caveats even for this limited list. This cannot be positive discrimination without a view to the purpose of such actions, which is to AVOID discrimination by appointing those with a vested interest in rooting it out. There is no purpose in having those who simply promote their own predudices on behalf of their own kind and it is no favour to any minority to promote those who are inadequate in the job.

The discrimination we are trying to prevent must also be unreasonable based solely on unjustified predudice to race/sex/sexuality/age/whatever, to largely harmless cultural practices or those which are a purely private matter. Discrimination is justified in consideration of someone's ability and willingness to do the job they are paid to do. If an employee refuses to do parts of his job on grounds of religion why should the employer be forced to suffer the negative impact on his business and why should he appoint a woman to an important job if he expects she is likely to want paid maternity leave a few weeks later? The business of employers is business, not acting as arms of the social security system.

And then there's more legislation outlawing discrimination against the elderly. Why should an employer... oh hang on, we at bloggoth are retired, we forgot. The legislation banning discrimination against the elderly is necessary and sound although it does not go nearly far enough in our view.

More real uses of genetic engineering etc

We at bloggoth have frequently expressed enthusiasm in the past for tampering with nature using cloning, genetic engineering, animal-human hybrids etc as it sound like great fun and has the beneficial side effect of outraging ridiculous religious people.

On reflection we feel we have been far too conservative, equipping women with lots more bottoms, making chavvy young girls give birth to endangered species, shrinking mankind to the size of ants so we use less natural resources and so on are all very well but there is an enormous potential we have not touched upon.

Why do we continue to use birds and mammals for food when we know they can feel pain and distress? Why not genetically engineer a huge fast growing creature that does not have a brain or nerves and cannot suffer? You could have varieties that tasted like different meats, pork, chicken, etc. DNA from more primitive animals would ensure that every time you severed one of the many boneless limbs another would quickly grow in its place. These creatures could be put on a slow-moving circular conveyor belt with automated feeding and limb lopping.

Why stick with food? Recent research (which we cannot be arsed to look for) has shown the enormous potential of materials similar to spider web or plant cellulose in construction, so why not have bushes that can produce various useful items instead of fruit?

Free pine cone

We at bloggoth spend most of our time doing logos for our latest software program but we can't mention the company as we do not want it associated with the frequently unsavoury bloggoth. It's pretty well a full time job that so far brings in about £2k a year. A well, keeps the old brain active.

Wierd coincidences

Funny how this keeps happening, are we at bloggoth psychic? Sitting in garden talking to missus and conversation started on Naomi Campbell and moved on to disgraced celebrities generally. I said, "the'll be a Gary Glitter comeback next". Looked at papers on line, blow me.

Strike busting ideas

Like all public sector unions Unison are crap. (Sorry Rosie)

They want an inflationary pay raise that will have to be funded by the rest of us who have to live with commercial realities. We in the private sector who have to live in the real world should seek to make their strike as innefective as possible. This is always easier with public sector unions as most of the lazy buggers hardly ever turn up to work and when they do they don't do a lot anyway.

Of course, we at bloggoth are never simply negative, we have some proper constructive suggestions as to how householders can do without refuse collection for a long period. It is fairly easy, especially for fans of "Scrapheap Challenge", all you need to do is

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