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What a typical stupid move by this govern... oh hang on a mo.. oh well, it must be stupid anyway
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Damn fools number 4 at least
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Page 29

The ramblings of an old git

bloggoth Mission Statement:

          We aim to never raise our sights above the gutter and preferably to stay much lower

Sketches

Local life drawing classes seldom get fantastic sexy young women as models but it is still interesting drawing the human figure. One never really gets time to finish them unfortunately.

     
     

Found these in attic during clearout. A self portrait of the incredibly handsome xoggoth and a quick sketch of the missus. Done long time ago. I remember that shirt.

     

Translation

We are not one of those free market fanatics who think that the public sector is NECESSARILY a waste of space, it's just that for the most part, especially under this blithering malignant bunch, it is.

Nothing brings out The Incredible Hulk in the rational and intelligent among us, ie not fucking lefties, more than seeing, yet again, {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff} blathering some crap on television. He was on just a moment ago using one of his favourite phrases. "Invest in public services". No, you fucking stupid Scottish idiot whom we all want to die painfully but most importantly, NOW, you don't mean "Invest in" you mean "Waste on".

It's WASTE ON.

Where it's really going

Just because games can involve you standing up and waving your arms a bit the Wii is sometimes talked about as if is it actually a solution to our no exercise, couch potato, TV-watching, internet-flicking lifestyle. It isn't of course, it is just an excuse for those slightly concerned individuals who might have made a bit of effort to exercise not to do so.

Worse, it is really just a softener for what is to come. It is to make us get used to interacting more with our computer and less with real life. Those Wii motion sensors are just the start of the human/machine interface methods that will end in us all being exactly where our masters want us, immobile in front of screens with no influences other than those they choose to feed to us.

We at bloggoth have been looking at how to make Vista Sidebar gadgets. Not for us yet another digital clock or calculator, we have seen the future and are in process of producing gadgets relevant to tomorrow's world and have just finished the prototype of our future life style reminder gadget. An audible alarm and an appropriate picture remind Twitter-obsessed individuals who have lost touch with reality when they need to perform certain essential tasks.

Stories

A couple of tales today. Of mundane dreams that take away everything a man has and an elderly friend who is not what she seems.

An essay for Miss
Looking for a will

A real man

SUPERHEROS Pictures, Images and Photos

Are you seriously trying to tell me Superman is not gay?

It's not just appearance that gives him away either; when an avalanche is threatening to crush a bunch of schoolkids trapped in their classroom he reveals an absurd feminine sensitivity by dropping everything to rescue them. A real man would finish his pint first and probably stop for a quick fag on the way. And why would a bloke with his speed and powers always change in a phonebox if he is not hoping some other chap will come along and catch him in his underpants? Other superheros are as bad, they all have a predeliction for tight or revealing costumes that show off their muscles and lunchboxes. That picture could be taken at a gay pride march.

There is only one exception, the Incredible Hulk. He does not make sure he is wearing something that is suitably fetching when it tears. We at bloggoth would like to be Incredible Hulk, he is a real man, reacting with irrational violence and smashing things up when angry as a real man should do. The only problem we can see would be that we are such an utterly stroppy bad tempered individual that we would never be in David Banner mode. Most of our village would have been destroyed long ago just as a result of us mislaying our reading glasses.

What a typical stupid move by this govern... oh hang on a mo.. oh well, it must be stupid anyway

A requirement that writers and anyone else visiting schools would need to be vetted appeared to be another entirely stupid move by this government to destroy our education system. If they are never allowed in contact with children on their own, if other vetted individuals like teachers or classroom assistants are always present, why is it necessary? It would prevent parents and others helping out and bring about a further descent into the unexciting, tickbox-driven regime that is boring children to death and turning even the talented off learning. But actually, it seems the rules only apply to those who have regular or intense contact with children and is not so daft as first appeared.

We at bloggoth do not really care, this government has done so much to destroy education in this country with a rigid proscription of the curriculum, over testing, an excessive safety culture and the huge influx of migrant children with little English and sometimes backward cultures. It has done so much to destroy everything else too, our economy, our culture, our quality of life, our industries, our incentives to succeed, our national independence and our trust in those that govern us.

Nothing they say can be believed. Nothing they do can be in any way positive or useful or sensible except by operation of sheer luck.

We have added an election count down to the header until these fucking awful corrupt useless socialist bastards can be removed. Bloggers among the non-existent readers, feel free to copy it.

Hurrah! hurrah! for Mel Gibson

Sad adults who have a relationship with cuddly toys or hand puppets are not new. Recent examples:

     
Mr Bean and teddy     Mr Garrison and Mr Hat

Images from photobucket

Now Mel Gibson is to star in a movie about a depressed man who finds solice in a hand puppet. At last! This sad affliction of some mentally ill or socially inadequate people is to be treated seriously. That means that we at bloggoth can at last come out and reveal we have a long standing relationship with a puppet parrot, Mr P, that the wife brought when we went to the Naval Dockyard shop in Chatham.

Mr P likes lots of vodka, in fact he seems to like everything that we at bloggoth like, it's uncanny.


Hic. Any chance of another vodka?

Home brew

Good to see (in principle, since we know this government always utterly cocks up the implementation of even good ideas) that the government is to simplify the procedures for householders who generate their own electricity to sell any surplus to the national grid.

But why is the principle of homes supplying the utilities to be confined solely to electricity? It's a sound principle, let's extend it. How about a connection to the gas main with a one way valve we could fart into? Maybe we could recycle our own waste water too.

Glamour pictures - 1

We thought we might tempt non existent readers with a series of glamour pictures, beginning with Kirsty here.

Kirsty is 115 years old, 26,25,26 and her hobbies include collecting maggots. She is looking to meet an exciting man to make her feel cherished.

Email us if you are interested and we can fix you up with a date with Kirsty.



Health

Many have commented on the ever changing nature of the health debate. Every week we hear about something else that is good for you or something else that is bad for you and many people are understandably sceptical of all of it.

A few months ago we heard that too much alcohol may increase the risk of Alzheimers and this week that drinking coffee may decrease the risk. We at bloggoth drink loads of coffee, probably at least 8 mugs a day, so our huge brain should stay acute until a ripe old age. Unfortunately, we also drink about 8 glasses of vodka a day, so there must be this huge fight going on in our heads between the coffee and vodka elements. It must be like the Somme in there!

What is even more worrying is the way that the amounts we need to stay healthy continually escalate. A few years ago we were urged to get 20 minutes exercise three times a week, now it's half an hour five times a week. We are supposed to eat five handfuls of fruit or vegetables every day but just one apple a day used to keep the doctor away. What will tomorrow bring?

You bastards - why did nobody tell me?

It seems that Kiera Knightley has been filming in my locality and I didn't know. Pah! another great stalking opportunity missed.

More total crap on the pointless war

We are used to it from this government but saying that defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan is vital to the UK's future reaches new heights of stupid crappiness.

Not doubting that the Taliban would support terrorism in the West but are we seriously to believe that the Taliban or similar Islamists can only operate from Afghanistan? Bangladesh and East Africa, especially Somalia, are becoming increasingly Talibanised in case nobody has noticed. Attacking a powerfully armed state like Hitler's Germany made sense because all their military production was there. To concentrate on one country in a confrontation with a group on the grounds that they might support terrorism, when the actual terrorists can just as easily make their plans and their dirty bombs and other small scale weapons in numerous other places that welcome and protect them, is just plain stupid.

If we are talking about an immediate threat from advanced weaponry the real problem is Pakistan. Some serious commentators believe that the Taliban have infiltrated the Pakistani military and government at the highest levels and that the fight against them is a sham.

An article from New Europe.

The Anglo-Saxon media are all presenting a very precise, yet rather distant from reality, picture of what is going on in Pakistan. Reality is that the Taliban is advancing, slowly yet steadily and over three quarters of the country’s territory without major cities is ruled by them or by War Lords, close to the Taliban. The success of their expansion is because the Pakistani army isn’t fighting back or challenging them and no real battles or large military operations are taking place. That’s because the Pakistani army is informing the Taliban leaders as to where they will they advance, when, and how, so that when the regular army arrives, the Taliban is gone, having been tipped off by its high-level military informants in the government.

From John Humphrys

Finally, the Pakistani army went in with their tanks, heavy artillery and helicopter gunships. While I was in Karachi the defence minister claimed victory - but many I spoke to in Pakistan were sceptical. 'Where are the bodies of the Taliban?' they asked me. 'Why have they not produced them for the cameras?

If we are talking about terrorism by those in our midst proper control over immigration and travel from that region would be far cheaper in terms of soldiers' lives and money and a darn site more effective in protecting British citizens. Many of the would-be illegal immigrants in France who are being allowed to carry on their attempts to reach the UK (usually succeeding) are Afghans. If the Afghani Taliban really are intent on striking against the UK, are we seriously to imagine that they have not thought of using this route to get terrorists into the UK?

For a fraction of the cost of the fight in the Helmand Province we could be searching every lorry and removing every illegal and properly scrutinising every application for entry to the UK. That might go some way to really securing our future.

Tedium of horror

Watching "land of the dead" the other night. We at bloggoth are great fans of zombies but it has to be said there are some huge flaws in the concept. The darn things are so slow and lumbering they could never catch anyone, let alone slurp their brains. Difficult to creep up on anyone too if you have the coordination of a two legged spider and smell of a hundredweight of rotten meat.

Corpses with little or no brain and muscle left would not be able to wander about anyway, so clearly there has to be some sort of supernatural motive force involved in animating all but the freshest zombies. That being so, why shouldn't cremated bodies share in the fun? We look forward to people peacefully asleep being choked by malignant ashes pouring out of funeral urns.

Another useful USB toy

It has to be said that we at bloggoth could use some anger management on occasions, well, most of the time actually.

Few things annoy us more than f* Windows Vista. Go away for a little whole and it has started thrashing the disc, reducing performance to a crawl or even hanging while it does whatever pointless thing it is doing that we didn't want it to do in the first place.

Anger is bad for the blood pressure so what we need is a little USB toy that will rage and swear on our behalf whenever we feel annoyed. All we can find is a crappy little turtle with a fixed vocabulary, we need something much more ragey and furious, that we can teach extra rude words to and which we can plug into a 50w stereo system.

Not a USB toy but we did see this. Like it.

It's an ill wind

Falling into a vat of hot chocolate must be a horrible death but it does give we at bloggoth the chance to reference a story we wrote a few years ago. Praline

Some things are true even when they are made up

A post on the Gates Of Vienna is well worth a read. It's about socialism rather than Islam for a change. As is often the way with little anecdotes that so perfectly illustrate the point the teller is trying to make, one suspects that there is a teensy weensy bit of creative licence in there.

Nevetheless, the anecdote is absolutely true. Even if it isn't.

The dream cabinet grows

We live in a super sensitive world or at least ready publicity makes it seem that way. Somebody is always in the papers being offended by something or other. It is often over a single sentence or remark taken out of context, often the meaning objected to is not what was intended and frequently it was some quite unmalicious bit of fun that most would take as such.

As this article on Lenny Bruce suggests, it is absurd to think that just by banning certain terms we eliminate predudice. Maybe we need a world in which everyone is gratuitously offensive to everyone else as a matter of course then no single section of the community need feel picked upon and we would all get used to it *Note 1 leaving us free to concentrate on more important issues than 1950s jam logos.

We need a government to lead the way in this and we at bloggoth are pleased to welcome our latest minister Bernie Ecclestone who has offended people by remarking that Hitler got things done. *Note 2

The bloggoth dream cabinet now comprises:

Note 1: Or we could end up with everyone killing each other. You never know until you have tried it.
Note 2: He did.

If it's not a one off it's a strategy

There is a "silly" news item in the Telegraph about a scarecrow policeman put up in a village to promote a festival.

So what? cry the non existent readers of bloggoth. Well, on it's own that news would be insignificant but only last Thursday while driving home from the beach what did we at bloggoth see in the town of Battle? That's right! A scarecrow policeman. This one was outside the police station glaring balefully at the traffic. Part of the Beautiful Battle Scarecrow Festival 2009 supposedly.

Odd coincidence, two village festivals 150 miles apart with scarecrow policemen. Or is there more to it? We all know that cuts in public expenditure are necessary and we all know they won't be made in essential services like MPs' pay or BBC executives' pensions or asylum seekers' benefits.

Much more likely is a big reduction in the police forces but they will attempt to fool us, as they did with PCSOs, into believing we are actually getting a better service. It is an obvious progression:

If the strategy of replacing policemen with scarecrows proves successful, who knows where the same principal will be applied in the public sector next.

Theatre from Photobucket. Hard working nurse Copyright © Charles Thomson, stuckism.com

Missing the point

So migrants "do not jump the housing queque". Maybe the housing authorities are not putting migrants ahead of British people with equal points but is that what people mean by saying they jump the queque?

I think they really mean that those of UK origin who have been waiting for long periods are being pushed down the housing list by migrants who really should not be on it all. It matters not if their need as measured by means, number of dependents or disability is greater; unless they are previously high earners who have made a major net contribution to the British economy via their taxes, non UK citizens should not be provided with social housing.

One out of ten of those born abroad are in social housing, rising to four out of ten in the capital. It is unlikely that more than a tiny proportion are high earners struck by unexpected misfortune. By what earthly measure is anyone likely to need social housing a benefit to the UK? Most of these people should not be here. Ah yes, it's all this "low paid jobs that British people don't want to do" crap. Does it ever occur to anyone who spouts this nonsense that in a free market there is normally but one reason why a job is so low paid that nobody wants to do it? It's because it is not a job worth doing at all.

Look at what these jobs usually are. What is the value to the UK economy of yet another little ethnic restaurant that makes so little profit that its can't pay its employees a normal wage? That can only survive if the state subsidises its migrant cooks come bottle washers by providing social housing and benefits? Persistently unprofitable businesses need to go under and their owners forced to find more lucrative employment.

To prop them up by subsidising their low paid migrants workers via the welfare system makes even less sense than pouring state money into British Leyland. At least that largely benefited British citizens.

A foolish move

It seems that Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, will not have his three-year contract renewed. What a shame, the first time that this organisation, in all its various incarnations, has had a leader prepared to take a balanced view and recognise that the white British do have legitimate concerns over the scale and nature of immigration. The reasons seem to vary depending on the newspaper but according to The Mail many want someone who will be more robust in confronting the BNP.

How typical of our idiot leaders that they choose to address the symptoms and not the cause. How many times during the recent EU and local elections did we see comments that votes for the BNP were merely a protest vote on the expenses scandal? No, people who wanted to protest on that could have voted for UKIP, the Greens or other fringe parties. The main reason the BNP did relatively well was because of the long standing public grievance over the one issue that only the BNP is prepared to address, massive and almost uncontrolled immigration.

Take away even this illusion of a solution and we may see more prepared to take direct action against the useless or criminal as in NI recently against those "Romanian migrant workers" who, as most of us expected, turned out to be Roma with few skills, little English and a propensity for begging and claiming welfare paid for by the rest of us.

If the main parties gave us an immigration system that really delivered the useful people they continually tell us it does, if we saw more people from ethnic minorities like Trevor Phillips with ability and a committment to Britain rather than so many who, at best, add nothing whatever to our economy or our society, we might be surprised at how quickly ethnic tensions diminish.

Replacing Phillips with the usual sort who sees every failure of our ethnic minorities as the result of unjustified discrimination will do nothing at all.

Free air conditioning

While slurping our dinner the other night we were watching some crappy paranormal thing with Michael Aspel. Funny how so many apparitions are preceded by a change in temperature, in one bit the investigator found a hotspot several degrees above normal suddenly appearing. Usually of course, the arrival of ghosts is supposedly accompanied by a pronounced drop in room temperature.

In these days of expensive energy how come nobody has thought of tapping this free source? You could construct specially designed thermal engines in known haunting hotspots using a volatile liquid that boiled at normal room temperature and condensed again at haunting temperature. Somewhere like Borley Rectory could probably supply 50% of Sudbury's power requirements in the summer. We could find other uses for psychic cooling too.

Nazi

There are far too many of the bastards, they have come in from other countries and are taking over the UK, competing with and often driving out the natives. Our solution at bloggoth is shooting or poisoning, exterminate as many of them as possible to restore things to the way it used to be.

They are a problem too. Physically imperfect. We should be breeding for physical perfection and eliminating those that threaten attainment of this goal. Why should we even have to look at those that fail so totally to conform to the proper norms of appearance? They should be eradicated by any means possible.


Eh? No, I'm referring to intrusive species like Grey Squirrels and American Freshwater Crayfish and the ill-shaped vegetables that the EU was insisting until recently could not be sold for human consumption.

What different standards we have for people and squirrels and vegetables. Surely vegetables are people too?

Brill

Found on the blog of recent commenter Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs, this song on the tube drivers. Too true, the tube could actually be run without them as this comment in the DT says. The song says it more succinctly, they are all Lazy Fucking Useless Cunts.

PS What? You expect topicality on bloggoth?

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.


Feck em

We at bloggoth had to buy a new coal bin and have been spending money and time concreting and fencing just so we could accomodate the two feckin' ugly great recycling bins the council have landed us with. If they offload another feckin' ugly great recycling bin on us we shall go ballistic. Nothing sums up the public sector and government at all levels better than the feckin' ugly great recycling bin.

They are extremely intrusive and inconvenient and they waste your time and money. They are also all feckin ugly.



Every time you look there are more and more of the bastards intruding on your life.



Every extra one does a smaller part of the original job but costs you more.



The Italian partisans knew what to do with recycling bins!



This week

Little animals have been annoying we at bloggoth by...


Making footprints all over his nice smooth cement.

Another brilliant solution from bloggoth

We see that the BoE made a mistake on some 20p coins and they are now worth 50 quid each.

Surely the solution to the UK's debt problem is obvious? the BoE only has to print a billion pounds worth of notes with errors on them and it will instantly be worth £250 bn, enough to pay off the national debt.

Do we have to think of everything?

PS Why a link to China Daily? Dunno, it was just top of the Google page. Do you think we at bloggoth have nothing better to do than look for UK links?

A new roof for Wimbledon

As we have mentioned more than once, we live in an armchair sports mad family and there is nothing we hate more than Wimbledon fortnight. It is bloody tennis morning, noon and night. Seems like it anyway.

There seems a lot of disappointment that this year the weather is likely to stay good and there won't be much opportunity to use the marvellous new high tech roof. Perhaps they should have an alternative roof more suited to good weather. We at bloggoth have written to the Wimbledon sponsors with our new enhanced design.

Image from photobucket

Control

We never buy them but we at bloggoth do like those little USB gadgets you can get at PC World or Dixons. How much more useful if one could plug in wives and children.

PS People controlled by USB always talk in Courier or MS Sans Serif fonts.

Balls and arse

New short story

Josh

Spiritual

xoggoth has been consulting a wise Chinese guru in an attempt to remedy his blogger's block.

 

Damn fools number 4 at least

Well, here's a surprise! Chavez threatening to close down news stations for criticism of the government.

Obviously, we cannot be arsed to look for it but we said before when you voted to allow him to run indefinitely, you have opened the door to dictatorship. If it hasn't sunk in yet, Venezuelans, you can either have socialism or you can have democracy. You can't have both. Worse is heading your way, you can count on it.

Back again

Here we go again! xoggoth has just come back from Madrid (not Barcelona as he said before, senile old git) and expects us to post more boring photos. He got all stroppy last time because we only posted 3 and those at 25x25 pixels, so we won't be doing that again!




Prada Museum or something



Hey, one picture at 10x8 pixels! Big improvement!



Here's one he took of the paper place mat at a cafe. He thought it was really great because it has uparse in the word.





That Voluntary Tourrette's Syndrome is a sad affliction! PS For non existent readers, according to Babel Fish it means "in order to become lean the fingers", colloquially "finger lickin' good"




We all have a duty to defend our country

Me and missus are off to Barcelona on Tuesday. Great time for tensions over Gibralta to start up again. How dare they? Unlucky for them that our real christian name is Francis, just like Drake's. We shall certainly be sinking a few Spanish ships while over there.

Oh ok, we shall probably just sink a few vodkas and crap in the hotel drinks cabinet before leaving for the airport. It's the spirit that counts.

Damn global warming

Species that normally live a lot further South are entering Britain due to a warmer climate. I find my computer desk has been invaded by Mediterranean Ruby Starfish again! How do you get rid of these things?

Try again

Lots of bloggers rant comment on current affairs but very few attempt to look into the future and say how they think things will develop. Coven members Mr Sheep and Wolfie are a couple of exceptions.

The first we heard of the looming credit crunch and its probable catostrophic nature, some time before it happened, was on Wolfie's blog. The last time we did a link to one of his very intelligent items on the economic situation he took it down. Maybe better luck with this one.

Bonds anyone?

Don't be fooled

We are supposed to have a warm glow about them because "moderate Muslims" have tackled extremists in Luton.

Why are they doing it? As one said, these people fan the flames of the "right-wing extremists". Does it in any way alter the nature of Islam? If most Muslims are really such tolerant moderates willing to stand up for non Muslims against their co-religionists, what explains the things that go on in Muslim lands across the world?

People will often be very reasonable when it is in their own interests to do so. Would we see this sort of defence of British values if (when) Islam takes over? Not a chance. Islam is the threat, Islamic extremism is just the icing on a very nasty cake.

And yet more moderates

The most bizarre Muslim arse-sucking news of the day is that the BBC is to pay some of our licence fee to the MCB over an alleged slur, that they have encouraged attacks on British troops abroad.

Yet according to this article from the Communities Secretary they admitted themselves that their deputy secretary general attended the Istanbul conference and signed a declaration that calls for violence against foreign troops and Jewish communities. We note the MCB have taken no further steps to sue the government over this supposed libel, given an issued document from a major conference with a signature on it, that might be difficult we geuss.

In protesting about the BBC they indulge in typical weasely "moderate" Muslim crap about speaking out against terrorism. That is not what Charles Moore said of course, he did not accuse them of supporting terrorism, he spoke specifically about supporting fighting against British troops abroad. Exactly, according to Ms Blears, what they have admitted one of their leaders put his name to.

For once we have to give credit to the government for standing up for British interests rather than appeasing this shitty "moderate" organisation. What a shame the BBC is so craven at our expense.

Imagination lost and modesty gained

Apologies to non-existent readers for lack of bloggoth recently. Everyone else is to blame:

  1. Missus for making us do boring things like decorate kitchens

  2. Worldpay/Microsoft/spammers for causing us a lot of grief and making us spend ages revamping business programs and website

  3. The old man for kicking the bucket due to a massive stroke when only a year or so older than us, causing us to decide to get healthy by spending loads of time at gym or on exercise machine

All this has killed our imagination, although the exercise (can't be decorating kitchens surely) seem to have done wonders for the libido. What a shame we have no suitable outlets these days apart from the missus. Where have all the local prossies gone? There used to be various "recreational facilities" not far away, now there is nowt. What is the point of the wife's teacher's pension if we can't spend it on prossies?

We seem to be entering a new era of sexual repression. At the gym changing room most of the blokes change by fiddling around under their towels like a bunch of nuns. The religious bastards seem to be winning. Speaking of which, The atheist blogger is back after finishing his exams and has been promoted to the coven. His latest posts are well worth a read. Is this really what is happening in our universities now? Time for us non believers to stop being so nice.

Didn't we say?

A little while ago here we commented on a hover-fly that seemed strangely interested when we were voicing a bit of sedition. It seems that the idea of a robotic flying insect equipped with a spy camera was not a bloggoth fantasy after all.

Given the way that democracy and freedom is going into reverse the world over, bulldozed by Islam and socialism and beurocratic empires, those who will still be around in a few decades should be very, very afraid.

Bring back the Greek gods

It isn't saying much but Greek mythology was at least as sensible as any "modern" religion. Each area of life was allocated to a different god and we all got to worship the one we liked the most. If he/she did not deliver the goods we could take up our prayer mat and go and worship another one. It wasn't exactly democracy but it's much closer than having an awful egocentric dictator god like that of the "religions of the book", even old Zeus didn't have things entirely his own way.

What a great idea if every aspect of nature really was controlled by a different god. What impact would that have on modern problems like deforestation, pollution or global warming? Instead of everyone being affected equally by the actions of selfish people the god concerned could send his retribution down on the individuals responsible. It would be a marvellous system.

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There's a reason for that

The ghastly Daily Express reports a survey supposedly showing that eight out of ten British Muslims are loyal to the UK.

Giving the standards of living in Pakistan and Bangladesh and the welfare statistics for those groups here it is hardly surprising they prefer the UK to their countries of origin. Other surveys have shown that over 40% wanted Shariah in the UK. Loyalty to this country clearly does not mean loyalty and committment to current British laws and traditions.

The survey also says that British Muslims were less likely than the general public to find other religious practices a threat to their way of life. We daresay. "Other religious practices" for the rest of us include Islam. For Muslims they don't.

The attitudes of non Muslims are put down to the sometimes hysterical reporting of sections of the media regarding these issues. The laws in many Muslim countries that see others marginalised and attacked are misreporting by the press? Perhaps the hate-filled contents of the Qu'ran or the prophet's barbaric teachings and acts in the Haddiths are inventions by the newspapers? Or the backward practices of the religion in relations to women, animal welfare, private sexual practices or the penal code? Maybe Jews, Christians, Sikhs and Hindus are equally likely to be found at terrorist training camps, carrying placards calling for beheadings, making speeches calling for homosexuals to be thrown off cliffs or advocating a Britain ruled by their religion but the biased press never mentions it.

You can show damn near anything with a suitably worded survey. Those indigenous British who reported no committment to Britain, what did they mean? Being among them, we suggest that they feel that anything resembling a nation or culture of their own has been taken from them. We have no nation anymore, we are just a dormitory area where a mass of disparate and often mutually hostile people live. Britain no longer feels like home.

But would any significant number of that group actually contemplate fighting against the UK? We doubt it. Not a comment you could make about the less patriotic Muslims in that survey.

So that's why!

we at bloggoth are almost never ill! The last time we can remember was in 1996 after a dodgy supermarket Khorma. An article in New Scientist explains it.

Enough of the emotional crap, let's have a bit of considered policy

As we said some time ago we do not share the general enthusiasm for the Ghurkas.

The eulogies about them look distinctly overcooked. Is there not one who is not an absolute hero? Not one who is likely to prove a less than perfect citizen? Ex servicemen from the ranks of any country, including our own, find it hard to adjust to civilian life and are often not the best citizens, in part due to the stresses of service. To say that all the Ghurkas are leaving the forces as well adjusted and useful is just the usual inverted racism whereby nobody who is not white and British may be criticised.

We are not questioning their fighting ability in general but should there really be a blanket approach to admission, without individual scrutiny, that gives them all the pensions and NHS entitlements of our own soldiers after as little as FOUR YEARS when, unlike our own soldiers, they have spent much of their wages outside our country?

As Not proud Of Britain has commented more recently, this may be one of the very rare occasions when {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff} is right. He is accused of lying over the issue by claiming they are going to cost taxpayers £1.4bn.

Another major factor nobody is considering is the current political state of Nepal of which we had more news just today. What happens if that country's "tenuous peace" should break down and civil war returns? As with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Kurdish Turkey, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, unrest in a country which has significant numbers of its citizens in the UK soon sees the fallout for UK citizens in the form of illegal migration and asylum, public protests, crime and radicalism.

The Ghurkas are mercenaries *Note 3 who volunteered and were paid for their services. In this case the government is right, service in our armed forces should provide no automatic route to UK residence.

Note 1: We don't wish to sound too picky or anything but why is Nepal the world's 12th poorest country (and that after receiving 60% of national income as foreign aid) if all its people are such industrious paragons?

Note 2: We heard that about the Tamils too. In fact 30% in London were unemployed before the recession.

Note 3: Yes, they are engaged under contract and mercenaries is an accurate description.

And as if they weren't wasting enough of our money...

...by the very fact that so many of the useless bastards exist, they are determined to waste even more by getting involved in every conflict going. Now a bunch of MPs is visiting Sri Lanka.

Why? What possible positive contribution can they make to the situation? After 50 years of conflict and negotiations to end the conflict by those concerned is it likely that one of our expenses-fiddling party-poodle MPs is going to say "Why don't you..." and the leaders of the government and Tamil Tigers are going to say "Hey! You're right! Why didn't we think of that?"

We at bloggoth have fed the facts and figures into our political computer and calculated to a 999.99% degree of accuracy that the chances of this visit producing anything positive at all are 0.13711x10-46. The chances that the visit will cost the British taxpayer another umpteen million pounds paying for the first class air fares and accomodation and lavish entertainment, on the other hand, is 100%.

Why do these arrogant political globalists assume that it is easy to solve conflicts when those concerned cannot? Problems with Somalian piracy? ALL we have to do is solve the political situation in that country. Simple, send in some Western politicians to mediate between two warring Muslim factions. And change the violent tribal nature of the country's culture on their day off. That'll work. After all, we soon sorted Afghanistan out didn't we?

Ethnic conflicts that have existed for generations take generations to sort out. The only quick fix to the violence is overwhelming force, pretty much the solution the Sri Lankan government is embarked upon. A very unjust solution given the history of the conflict but at least it works. It took a Tito to impose unity on Yugoslavia, a Saddam Hussein on Iraq. Neither solved the problems. Only the people concerned and time, a very, very long time, can do that.

Is it really an embarassment?

The problem that concerns most taxpayers is the money bloody MPs get from us.

There are far too many of the bastards in the first place, why the hell do we have 646 MPs and 670 eligible for the Lords for a population of 61 million when the US has 535 congressman and 100 senators for a population of 303 million? It is not as if they do the main job they are paid to do, represent their consitutuents in a consultative democracy. They have given away far too many powers to an unelected EU without any consulation with the voters and most file through the lobbies like the trained rats they are, motivated only by the prospects of advancement in their parties.

Why should MPs not have outside jobs? Given their sheer pointlessness in The House, they may as well. Tory MPs are reckoned to have more outside jobs than Labour MPs which some say will be an embarassment to Cameron. He is worrying needlessly in our view. Most sensible people (ie those less likely to vote Labour) will rightly take this as a measure of their greater commercial value and experience outside politics. When they do turn up to debates or serve on committees they at least might bring some practical real life experience into their decisions.

The way to look at this is, what commercial company in their right mind would employ the average Labour politican?

Some defence

Nice to see that Mr Fat Sleezy M4 outer lane all for me playing croquet on taxpayers' time overpaid violent totally pointless John Prescot and Mr Blind Sleezy lover's rail fares and private lawyers's fees (alledgedly (ie probably)) out of taxpayers' money authoritarian irrational lunatic bully Blunket have popped their heads out of the dungheap to defend {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff}.

As far as the general public are concerned, a bit like Count Dracula and Jack The Ripper defending Adoph Hitler. Keep it up chaps.

All sayings are true

Big bugs have little bugs upon their backs to bite 'em. Little bugs have smaller bugs and so ad infinitum.

On second thoughts

As stated in previous we thought there is overreaction to the swine flue thing. Until we read this. It seems that {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff} has said that "The UK is one of the best prepared countries to deal with swine flu" Like the UK was one of the best prepared to cope with the recession when the IMF, among many others, has said we will be among the most severely affected due to high debt levels?

Aaaaagh! We must be doomed. Panic! panic! panic!

Buncha cranks

Warn of a pandemic and a lot of daft hypochondriacs start to panic. Fair enough for any just back from Mexico/Southern US we suppose but what are these other nuts fussing about?

Flue, pah! We at bloggoth don't think we have ever actually had flue, not unless feeling slightly under the weather is flue anyway, we have never had this week in bed feeling exhausted and achey thing like people are supposed to get. This is probably because we are nice to little germs and viruses as were are to other little creatures. We can accidentally pick up a stone and get an arm covered in red ants and they don't bite us. We can pick up a wasp to rescue it from a pub window and we don't get stung.

Hello, H1N1 viruses we say, what are you up to today? Fine, xoggoth they say, we are just off to infect some horrible common and foreign people. It is a fact that horrible common and foreign people get far more viruses and other illnesses than us educated British sorts, this only proves the discerning nature of nice little germs in our view.

Whoops. Bang goes another liberal lefty lie

If anyone got too nasty about those Somali pirates some liberal lefty sort would pop up and assure us that if not for illegal fishing and toxic dumping by other nations (in other words it is all our fault as usual) they would all be peacefully fishing.

That hardly excuses indiscriminate piracy against ships of companies or nations that have nothing to to do with their problems. It seems from this that actually real Somali fisherman have among among the major targets.

Horrible foreign people rig sports to suit themselves

The Missus was watching some boring tennis final with Rafael Nadal today. She seems to like gormless Mexican looking sorts, she used to like Lou Diamond Phillips once. For those who never watch it, tennis is a game where some bloke hits a ball and goes oooogh! and the other bloke hits it back and goes uuuuuugh! This repeats with minor variations for two hours.

Nadal's even better on clay than he is on grass apparently. Probably because Mediterranean countries don't do grass very well in summer, it all goes dry and brown, so they pick a surface that suits them. Why don't we do the same, pick conditions and surfaces that suit us and demand that players from other countries compete on it? Moss courts would be great, or soggy algae courts, even better.


The great new British sport of soggy algae court tennis

So much to panic about

Drinking a bottle of Corona Extra beer today. Aaaaagh! It's made in Mexico! Do Mexicans put pig in their beer? We wouldn't put it past them.

As we have observed before, it's funny how these viruses always jump the species barrier in third world countries. Bird Flue from China, now swine flue from Mexico. What are they doing with their animals that this should keep happening? fnaar fnaar. Pigs. Not that we would really blame the Mexicans if they were, we would. Some reckon HIV jumped the species barrier from baboons in Africa. Phwoar! Some people have all the fun.

PS And the sun is unusually inactive. That will be {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff}'s fault.

We should all be slumdogs

There probably aren't too many things we can learn from the poorer parts of the third world but one of them is surely the way they are so much less wasteful. Over here that bit of corrugated iron from your henhouse goes to the dump where it will be shipped to China and used in some shiny new steel thing with the expenditure of a lot more energy before being shipped back to the uk and sold wrapped in masses of plastic packaging. Over there it is roofing to patch a leak.

Under the lash of the missus, we at bloggoth have been busy transforming our house and garden and, as an utterly mean old bastard, have taken great delight in reusing bits. What is the point of buying lengths of wood to support those planters behind the decking when the bits of old greenhouse on bricks are only visible from a ghastly neigbhour's garden? What is the point of buying expensive storage units for the new shed when you have those old kitchen units? It's a shed! You don't spend your life in there. *Note 1

Sometimes the things you want cannot be purchased in shops anyway. A large fire in Arthur's Seat needs something on top to protect the Horse Chestnut tree that has suddenly blossomed just behind it, the old shed door was ok but we used that for the raised flowerbeds. It really needs a large metal cylinder (that we can store behind the shed out of our sight but in full view of ghastly neigbhour's garden) but you can't go into Homebase and ask for an old dustbin with no bottom or the drummy bit out of a spin dryer.

If the government wants to cut down on waste it should change its policies on disposal. Instead of banning people removing things from dumps just allow anyone to take what they want. Let squatters move in and make homes out of bits of old corrugated iron and make a living collecting stuff together. What bliss! Could there be anything more satisfying than wandering around a rubbish tip rummaging through the contents? We wonder if that slumdog place is taking bookings?

Note 1: Although we at bloggoth do obviously. When not staring at the wall, we spend our lives endlessly sorting and polishing our huge collection of wood screws and old washing machine parts.

PC conclusions

This sort of thing is irritating. Black workers in a council being paid less than white workers is proof of institutional racism.

No it isn't. If a detailed study showed that there were as many black workers as white workers applying for the same positions and they were being turned down despite being equally qualified or if there was a similar bias, all other factors being equal, in promotion and dismissal that would be proof of institutional racism. Has such a study actually been done? Apparently not. It is always easier for unions and other lefties to apply their inverted racist logic and blame whitey.

In our socially and economically immobile society the factors that determine more than any other how well migrants and their descendants perform are the abilities and skills they brought with them. If you import poorly educated people as railway cleaners you get several generations of railway cleaners. Had we ever had a proper immigration policy that selected only the best educated and most able with a committment to British society we would have almost none of the strains and tensions we have now. I don't think most whites really care too much what colour someone is but they do care about crime, welfare dependency and hostile cultures.

Especially, they get pissed off with being blamed for failures of minorities that clearly mirror those in their countries of origin where they control their own destinies. Poor economic performance, violent crime, youths giving up on education and far too many fatherless children are major problems in Jamaica too. As for Africa... Ah! but it must be the legacy of empire. We knew whitey had to be to blame somehow.

Yes but

Various blogs, including Wolfie, I Love Juice and Lionheart at left, are all honouring St George's Day.

We can understand celebrating England and saying up yours to all the ghastly non-English and refusing to be English people who infest England but what about that NICE LITTLE DRAGON? How can anyone support slaying a NICE LITTLE DRAGON?

Real English people would never have speared a dragon, rather they would have kept it as a pet and called it Dragony and fed it with chocolate and let it sleep on their bed.

We at bloggoth are celebrating Englishness in our own way by remembering NICE LITTLE DRAGON day.



Environmental protesters lay siege to the house of commons

It appears that green activists have blocked MPs from entering the Commons. It is amazing that the police are doing nothing about this illegal protest.

PS. Oh no, sorry, we got our news items mixed up a bit here. It is not green activists protesting about British policy on coal fired power stations but Tamils protesting, at the expense of the Beritish taxpayer, about something which the British government has no control over at all.

It is only white British citizens who suffer enforcement of the law and get their heads cracked. Silly us.

Another sign of the times

Unecessary violence used by The Met at the G20 protest seems to be becoming the norm for this once respected organisation.

Once upon a time they used to relieve their tensions from doing a difficult job by knowing nothing whatever about how chaps with thick lips and dark complexions came to fall down the stairs to the cells and suffer fatal head injuries and would then have been relaxed and smiling when they came out to deal with the citizens who don't have thick lips.

The McPherson report has a lot to answer for.

Paranoia is the new normal

We had a late bit of sun today and me and the missus were sitting on the decking seat when this big Hover-fly came down and started hovering above and just in front of us. It was so persistent I took this picture. I was just saying that I wanted to assassinate {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff} at the time. Funny markings it has.

Better late than never

Chris Eubank appears to be down on his luck.

We do not follows boxing much so we missed the news a few years back that he had been bankrupted by the Inland Revenue. Belatedly, Chris joins the list of absolute bloggoth heros who can do no wrong.

TAXATION IS THEFT!!!

This law is nuts

When people get mad they tend to come out with the worst insults they can think of and that may include racist abuse. That does not necessarily make an assault racially motivated because the fight may have started over an issue which has nothing whatever to do with race. The distinction appears to be lost on our idiot legal system unfortunately.

Although one can see that repeated verbal insults will be very distressing, that situation is covered by laws on harrassment. Does it really make sense to prosecute for a single verbal exchange in the heat of the moment? By what bizarre value system is it worse to insult someone's race, something people are not normally ashamed of, than to abuse them for some physical defect that they may be accutely sensitive about?

One also has to question if an insult, whatever its nature, should somehow be treated as something far worse than a physical assault. The maximum sentence for common assault is 6 months. The maximum sentence for racially aggravated common assault is 2 years. So you if you break someone's jaw and call them a name, the jaw breaking gets you 6 months and the name calling gets you 18? That is an insane departure from any sense of proportion.

In many cases one reads about one also cannot avoid the conclusion that these laws mainly work one way. In this rather minor incident the only one prosecuted was the white youth for his "racist assault" even though it was in response to having curry powder flung in his eyes. Any prosecution of the Asian neighbour for that? Apparently not.

A ghost theory

Following on from previous, we would never totally reject every aspect of the supernatural even though 99.99% is probably drivel. The mind can play all sorts of tricks and chance can generate illusions which appear totally real. How many ghostly faces looking out of windows have been patterns on a wall with some leaves stuck to the glass in front? Even allowing for all that, most of us have has some totally inexplicable experience, not imagination because others experienced it too and not some mundane coincidence when it is clear and happens a foot in front of your face.

If you look at the more "convincing" ghost stories they never suggest sentient spirits at all, rather just some recurring memory that got left behind and plays over and over. They never seem to depict great traumatic events in someone's life either, just figures wandering pointlessly in corridors or through walls.

One thing we have all noticed is that when we forget what we were going to do, we can usually remember by going back to the place where we first thought of it. If we lose something we go back to where we remember having it and even if it is not actually there we can often remember what we then did with it. Maybe that's what ghosts are trying to do.

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Does god exist? Who cares if he doesn't give a shit about us?

The atheism of we at bloggoth is not founded on a belief that there is no god, one can no more prove divine non-existence than divine existence and "intelligent design" appears as good a theory as any. It is founded on the belief that there is not an interested god who rewards us in the afterlife according what we do in this one.

In as far as anything can be shown as manifest nonsense that can. Our personalities are determined by our genes and our upbringing and can be totally altered by accident, drugs, disease or experiences, any of which may be totally outside our control. How is there true free will? How can we all have an equal chance of salvation? Since we are so clearly always just the products of our chemical and physical processes, where is this independent essence, the soul?

Then there is the problem of which is the true faith. If we have been brought up to believe in the wrong faith or in none at all, how is that our fault and deserving of everlasting damnation? The faithful trot out nonsense about the true faith being somehow revealed to us all, we have but to grasp it. Even if that was true, the fact that salvation is a lot harder for some than others indicates a rather arbitrary and unjust god. It is utter nonsense of course. Why would children have to be taught religion if the knowledge was there already?

Some modern style believers may say that none of the above really matters, god only expects us to do what we can within the limits of our natures and that we may all worship him in our own way. That sort of wooliness might work if the differences in religions were all minor details of worship but they are fundamental and each makes firm demands. If a man of another faith fights against my religion should I turn the other cheek as Christianity demands or kill him as Islam or Judaism allow? How can I believe in Christ's resurrection and the teachings of the prophet when the beliefs are not compatible? If we can pick and choose what we believe according to our natures then what is wrong with being an agnostic or atheist? If you can question one part of the bible or Qu'ran then why not another? Blind faith is the very basis of religion, once you start to question any part of the central teachings the whole edifice comes crashing down round your ears.

Then there is the crazy nature of the beliefs. The Christian god made man with an ability to think for himself and evaluate his world and then condemns him for doing so. To rectify this error on his part he sends some aspect of himself to get nailed to a cross so we can all use the same flawed judgements he condemned us for in the first place in deciding what it is supposed to mean. If he really loves us why not make it a darn sight clearer what we are supposed to do? Sorry Christians but your god is clearly a dimwit.

Then we have the Muslim version who created man with an ability to think for himself and then required him never to do so but rather to follow the dictats of a vicious and probably insane 6th century warlord even down to how they should wipe their arses. His sole purpose in creating man seems to have been to bask in total obedience and worship for eternity and to exact violent revenge on those who did not see it that way. Sorry Muslims but your god is clearly a total arsehole.

Alien parasitic daffodils infesting 90% of all living things say scientists

For several months people have been reporting mysterious green shoots. Ministers in the government and other public figures have been publicly derided for reporting sightings of green shoots. In the US, politicians and senior government figures including the chairman of the federal reserve have reported seeing green shoots.

Now scientists have discovered that those reporting green shoots were right all along. A species of parasitic alien daffodil, probably brought to Earth on a comet, have been spreading largely unseen beneath the surface of the Earth and growing tendrils in living creatures which have so far gone unnoticed due to their minute size and the exudation of a natural pain killer.

With the coming of spring scientists anticipate that the alien daffodils will start to grow and multiply enormously and burst forth from their hosts with probably fatal results. The plus side will be that the credit crunch will be ended as there will be no demand for credit whatever.

A few have sprouted already with tragic consequences. This youth was discovered lying in a Deptford street last week. Paramedics applied Weedol but were too late to save him.

They are quite right

The Pakistani government has rightly hit back at {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff}'s criticism that they are not doing enough to stop terrorists coming to the UK.

How utterly absurd the man is. Everything is someone else's fault. It is our government's job to have proper immigration controls to protect the British public. If their fucking party had not been pursuing a deliberate Marxist agenda to destroy any concept of British nationality for ten years, allowing anyone to come in with almost non existent checks, allowing phony colleges that are just fronts for illegal immigration, we would not have half the problems we have now.

In the current circumstances of that country, there is only one sane policy with regard to immigration from it other than for short term business reasons and family visits - stop it altogether.

Update. Anyone who watches UK Border Force where illegal migrants are invariably let go or or who follows the news at all when criminals frequently turn out to be illegals or "failed asylum seekers" (AKA illegal immigrants) knows the reality of Britain's "tough controls". The quote in this artice sums it up.

A police source said that the decision to admit the suspect at the airport had been "a shambles". He added: "This man’s documents were all over the place. He was allowed to proceed on the basis that he had to come back for an appointment with immigration and show them correct documents. He was never going to do that. He was effectively left free to do whatever he wanted."

According to the DT he was not the only dodgy entrant. At least two breached conditions. One was working but was still allowed to stay. How many foreign students from third world countries, even if enrolled at bona fide colleges are actually studying there? Maybe they should run a full check.

And This also shows how totally typical is the failure to deport illegal immigrants, even criminals.

Voting rights

Ministers have "caved in" to EU demands to give votes to prisoners. I bet they did not resist too hard, they must be desperate for votes and a bunch of murderers, thieves and rapists are much more likely to vote Labour than responsible law-abiding people who work to feed themselves and their families. A large prison full of Labour voters might just swing the odd seat.

I bet we will soon see a labour initiative to allow others to vote who legally have not been allowed to previously. Peers of the realm? Probably not, at least as many of those would vote Tory unless bribed and a few hundred votes scattered across the country will not affect anything. What is the other group barred from voting? Ah yes! The insane! Who is more likely to vote Labour than insane people? I bet they are poring over the inmate figures for secure psychiatric hospitals in marginal seats at this moment.

You read it here on bloggoth first. Look for this legislation soon.

Sod 'em, let 'em jump

Why do Londoners continually have to suffer disruption and pick up the bill for protests by foreign nationals about issues which have nothing to do with the British? *Note 1

There is a not a damn thing the UK should be doing about this issue anyway. Vague sympathy with people who want to run their own affairs and preserve their own cultures is one thing *Note 2 but the realities are much more complex. For every Tamil with a viewpoint you will find a Sri Lankan with an opposite one. Outside governments with no proper understanding of the issues should not get involved in these things other than in the most extreme circumstances.

Like so many other organisations with a basic cause we might otherwise sympathise with, the Tamil Tigers have forfeited that sympathy with hostage taking and indiscriminate terrorist attacks on civilians in Sri Lanka and criminal activities in Britain and elsewhere to finance it and are rightly held to be an illegal terrorist operation. Like that other group which uses any means in the fight for independence, the Kurds, the Tamils are more than averagely useless, with more than 30% in London being unemployed before the credit crunch due to factors such as poor English and low numeracy and sharing the former's distinction in requiring a special allocation of police manpower to cope with their criminality.

Don't you just love the "benefits" of immigration?

Note 1: It might be fair enough to feel some responsibility for events of 60 years ago if other nations ever did but nope, it is only former white Anglo Saxon nations who are obliged to feel guilty about everything in their history without time limit. Those involved who have had 60 years to solve their problems are quite blameless.

Note 2: Although obviously if WE want to do so we are racist and zenophobic! We have to put up with hordes of violent and useless people (like too many Tamils) and go around saying how enriched we are.

Good for the NUT

They have called for an end to faith schools. They have said that the policy has created "segregated schooling" in many parts of the country.

We all know what they are really referring to, even those who do not have teachers in their families. State primary schools try their best to promote understanding of other cultures with lessons in how different faiths work and visits to churches, mosques or temples. There is no attempt to make children actually take any part in practices of these religions but nevertheless some parents refuse to let their children participate at all. Three geusses who these parents usually are according to the missus and no it isn't usually Christians, Sikhs or Hindus.

Faith schools were never a problem once and it is a pity that those of other faiths should be penalised but that was before our foolish leaders inflicted the backward political creed of Islam upon the West. We can't afford to let it be perpetuated at our expense.

Yeh

Forgotten this one but it's on a CD collection I got recently. So many things we regret.

Unpleasant medical conditions 3 - Vibration White Fanny

The condition Vibration White Finger has long been known to be a problem among navvies, miners and other manual workers who use vibrating power tools such as pneumatic drills. More recently, due to increasing use of vibrators, doctors are seeing more and more cases of women with a similarly caused syndrome, Vibration White Fanny.

Generally, given a prolonged rest from use of Rabbits and other devices, Vibration White Fanny will clear up on its own. Unfortunately, a small minority of women with the condition, finding that their fannies have become too numb for their usual vibrators to give them orgasm, have resorted to using pneumatic drills, leading to the onset of the fatal condition Vibration White Everything.

PS The over long arms are an initial symptom of Vibration White Everything syndrome and not just crappy drawing at all.

Do we need personality tests for scientists?

The impartiality of science is often called into question, as here on the issue of passive smoking. Unfortunately, there is nothing new about scientific theories becoming unchallengable orthodoxy. Perhaps when we choose our scientists and engineers we concentrate too much on their academic abilities and too little on their personalities. Maybe profiling could ensure we choose only those with the required degree of scientific detachment, able to look at issues on their logical merits.

Why not

we were reading PC Bloggs' item on the difficulty of catching a serial rapist. There's the old chastity belt idea of course but why not use a more modern technique commonly used to protect large sums of money? Women could have exploding bags of indelible dye up their fannies. This could also be used appropriately by incredibly attractive and sexy blokes like we at bloggoth to guard against arse bandits.

The role of underwear in evolution

A naked pole vaulter has been protesting at something or other in Paris. It seems he did not do any pole vaulting but if he had I bet he would not have come anywhere near his personal best let alone broken any records. There is no doubt that men's wobbly bits, women's too probably, are a huge impediment to athletic endevour; when subjected to significant G force or just plain gravity for a prolonged period they are just too bleedin' uncomfortable.

We at bloggoth can understand a spot of nude sunbathing but how nudists can actually enjoy spending all their time nude we have no idea, after a while one longs for the support of one's good old Marks and Spencer Y fronts. So many things man does are uncomfortable, not to mention decidedly hazardous, without underpants. How do primitive peoples manage without clothes? Maybe that's why they are still primitive.

Could it be that mankind only started to be the dominant species when some chance discovery gave him underpants? If we put underpants on animals, would they start building pyramids? It's worth a try.


In initial tests, a bull fitted with underpants was able to assemble this MFI medicine cabinet with only minimal reference to the instructions.

 

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