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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.
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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,
the ghastly neighbours 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?
Ta
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.
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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.
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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.
Balls to the lot of you. Signed ghtyrwqu
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