HOME PAGE
The coven:
13 blogs we may look at when not lost in admiration of our own:

Bad Science
EU Referendum
HMRC is shite
News Bleat
Nobody′s Friend
the freethinker
Vacant slot
Vacant slot
Vacant slot
Vacant slot
Vacant slot
Vacant slot
Vacant slot
Islam totally sucks links:
Gates Of Vienna
Islam versus Europe
Jihad Watch
Last commenty thing that we could be bothered to create. (Lazy old git)
Links to items
Discrimination

Fairness and other "Green" crap

Those "citizens" are at it again

Talking of age

Let us go

Maggie, Maggie, Maggie. Hmmm, Er, Um

The new religion - join now

Google Glass

Just Stop Going There!

F* MORONS

You do wonder

Not racism, just reality

As long as it's cheap

He won't be a patch on the original

PS

Yeh, right

Keep it up

Foreign aid, yet again

The questions that organised religions need to answer - reprise

Learn the realities of the third world and stop wasting our lives and our money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just what we need (not)

Not a good shape

All going down together

Bombers and Pizzas

Advertisement

Horrible or beautiful?

Maybe this life is the purpose

Who cares?

What difference does it make?

Give us some REAL gadgets

Hmmm

Lazy fecks

You lookin' at me?

Reality

More reality

The wrong side

Story

Ok Sun, we surrender

State of the art soon becomes ancient

Scumbags

You know you're getting old when...

Original news

Swearing in

Hmmmm. Creeping Shariah or just creepy shits?

Whoooooooooooooooooooooor (again)

We need more insanity

Poor chap

What democracy?

Discovery

What an utter piece of crap

Cutting back

Song

Home things 1

Home things 2

Waheee!

More wisdom from an unexpected quarter

The really important monster questions

That TV program theme

More realities of Islam



Page 47

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

Discrimination

We were watching The Syndicate on TV and a Thai woman came over to meet a British guy she met on a dating site. Naturally, when she strips off, she turns out to be a bloke. Must have been one of the most totally predictable moments in the history of TV drama. What is it about Thais and Lady boys? Can't really understand this obsession with being one sex or another and can't really see that sex changes should be covered under our hard pressed NHS. On the other hand, if those with "gender dysphoria" can get free treatment what about those of us with different feelings?

Fairness and other "Green" crap

We are all in favour of real Green policies, stopping mass immigration for example. That would be one of the greenest UK policies possible as it would reduce the pressure to destroy our countryside for more houses, roads and other infrastructure and reduce our future power needs. The problem with the Green Party is that it principally just a stupid liberal lefty party. We accept that they have to have policies on other major issues as well, it's just that the green issues always seem to be after thoughts.

Council elections are coming up soon and we got their stupid flyer through the letterbox. It has a bit more about green issues than they usually manage, page 2 is about fracking, but none of them are apparently important enough to be on page 1 where the only things that are green are the banner at top and the word Green. The page itself is just a tirade against the government's health care policies with the usual ridiculous leftist comparisons to the US rather than more valid ones with Australia or France where the mixed healthcare systems work very well. In the section headed ECONOMY they call for a fairer distribution of wealth. Ok, lets be FAIR and check their manifesto. Oh dear! It's called "Fair is worth fighting for" and is mostly about bankers earning too much, inequalities in society, providing jobs from public funds and opposing cuts to public services. Read the main points and you have to reach number 16 before you get to the green issues. On the BBC news summary they are quoted as opposing welfare cuts and supporting renewable energy in that order.

Of the 6 main links on Caroline Lucas' website today, none were about Green issues but she is joining in with the Labour party and militant unions like Unite and Unison to campaign against austerity in something called the "People Assembly" to enforce their demands by strike action:

With the worst of the cuts to welfare and public services still to come, the People’s Assembly Against Austerity is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to unite against this reckless administration and expose the lie that there is no alternative to cuts. Now is the time to take a stand alongside the millions of anti-austerity campaigners across Europe – and ask ourselves what kind of society we want to create for ourselves and for our children.

People’s Assembly Against Austerity? Sounds distinctly Stalinesque. There is stuff on the flyer about democracy being sadly lacking in the UK due to our first past the post system. They are right there, it is almost impossible for minority parties to make that major breakthrough but what they neglect to mention is that, in general, it is the right that is the main victim of electoral bias and it is a bias that the left are increasingly adding to by promoting mass immigration given that ethnic minorities disproportionately vote Labour.

The British are now more concerned about immigration than any other issue. So what is the Green party's policy on this major issue? It is quite difficult to find as their views are not mentioned in the manifesto or the policy page. You have to look for the "International Manifesto" for any information at all. It has to be said that it is all extremely vague and it would seem that, unlike other leftists, they are not even prepared to be totally honest. Of the few things that they do reveal is their view that illegals should be regularised after 3 years and that asylum seekers whose case has been refused should still be allowed to stay anyway. Would an electorate so concerned with immigration agree that those who deliberately break the law should be rewarded in this way or that false or exaggerated claims to asylum should be treated as real ones? We rather doubt it, but then concerns about democracy always seem to be less important to leftists when the majority view is not in accord with theirs.

My advice to anyone who is concerned about the environment. Don't be fooled by that word GREEN, it means nothing apart from a nice green banner on the top of a webpage.

Those "citizens" are at it again

On the BBC TV news tonight a commentator was talking about the Chechen suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. This might be an instance of terrorism connected to foreign groups or, since they had been in the US for many years, it could be a case of "home grown" terrorists.

Home grown? That term might apply if they had ever once been proper Americans, with any actual sense of belonging or any sense of duty to the land they chose to live in but it seems they never did. So many migrants who come to the West remain outside and entirely separate from Western culture, refusing to integrate. For that reason it is ridiculous to draw a distinction, apart from the strictly legal one, between such ethnic minorities who are citizens and foreign migrants. These are people with a foreign culture and foreign loyalties who simply happen to reside here. Unfortunately, this nonsense is used in support of entirely false arguments in favour of mass immigration. We are told we need foreign immigrants because British people lack the work ethic but, when you look at the statistics, those most likely to be on welfare in the UK are some major ethnic minorities and it isn't mainly due to racism as this link on Tower Hamlets indicates:

Tower Hamlets Health and Lifestyle survey (2008/9) showed 38% of Bangladeshi women rated their proficiency in spoken English as poor. There is a strong correlation between language proficiency and worklessness. Those residents with English as an additional language who were workless were more than four times (30%) as likely to rate their proficiency as poor than those in full-time work (7%)2.

It is hardly surprising that, if people choose to remain outside of our society and especially if they have poor English, they will fail to participate in the wider economy - employees need to interact with bosses, clients, customers and fellow workers. A major problem is geographical limitation. If you insist on remaining in a small impoverished area like Tower Hamlets there is going to be very limited scope for a real career. As in other Pakistani or Bangadeshi Ghettos in the UK there is a ridiculous oversupply of tiny restaurants, shops, fast food takeaways and very little else. Another such place is Sparkhill in Birmingham where the latest (but not the first) would-be terrorists are from:

This latest terrorist case once again focuses attention on Birmingham, with those caught up in this plot living in the Sparkbrook and Sparkhill districts of the city.

West Midlands Police say that outside of London the biggest threat from al-Qaeda inspired terrorism comes from this area.

Along with the close-knit communities, small hard-working businesses and street madrasas sometimes no bigger than corner shops, the area has double the national unemployment figures.

About half of the children here live below the poverty line.

It is is hardly suprising either that low acheivers who remain outside our society are more likely to be hostile to it and engage in crime or terrorism. Before granting long term residence to any migrant we need to start examining their ability and willingess to integrate. Before granting citizenship we ought to check that they have done so.

Talking of age

Technology often changes faster than we really need it to. It's a problem when useful gadgets become obsolete and unsupported so quickly. We have a little Windows CE notebook that would still be quite useful on the move and it's not as nickable as our fancy Android tablet but you can't get any new software for it. Had it been some niche device admired by Geeks it would be ok; you can still get software, including some new stuff, for a Psion 5 or a Sinclair QL but Microsoft operating systems are never considered cool.

What we need is a few bridges between the old and new. Our ancient father in law is on his own now and could use email to keep in touch but such technology is completely beyond him. However, he used to be a wireless operator on Halifax bombers during WW2. Is there any email to Morse Code interface software?

Let us go

There's a street I know where a lot of elderly ladies lived and, oddly, they are popping off in house number order The one at number 3 died, then the one at number 5 less than a year later. This week, less than 4 months later, the one at number 7 went. All of them were incapable of caring for themselves and two could not even get out of bed on their own. The one at number 9 has been bed-ridden for some time and won't last much longer. It's awful when you see someone that used to be lively just sitting in a chair all day long scarcely able to get up, not even able to read or watch TV anymore.

We live on a long, steep hill and I always joked that I'd top myself once I could no longer run up it without stopping. I can still do it, although it's getting harder by the year and it's beginning to dawn on me that I am not an exception to the rule of ageing. I probably won't provided I can still do something I like, like go for a walk in the woods or potter round the garden photographing centipedes. But just to be immobile, unable to do anything? What sort of life is that? Why do we have this ridiculous obsession with keeping people alive long after any pleasure in living has died?

It's time we abandoned this absurd idea that life, no matter how joyless, is something that has to be preserved as long as possible. Bring in safeguards and checks by all means but, when there really is no life left in us except in the purely technical sense, just give us a pill and let us go.

Maggie, Maggie, Maggie. Hmmm, Er, Um

We were not a great Thatcher fan in general although some things she did needed doing.

On the minus side, selling off council houses would only have made sense if we had a) Sold them off at something close to market values and used the money to build new ones or b) reduced the number of those entitled to claim social housing in line with the lower availability of it. The latter option would have been much better in our view.

A definite plus, the Falklands war. Greasy Argy bastards!

Another minus, the obsession with privatisation. We were involved in a number of contracts for the Central Electricity Board and it was mostly a pretty efficient organisation. Any downsides of public ownership were more than outweighed by the fact that much of the money we pay now goes to France or other foreign nations. It is hard to see how the British public is better served by all the current ripoff power companies, especially when so many of them are foreign owned. We would make the same comment about our water companies.

The main plus was challenging the power of the unions who were turning the British economy into a fossil of its former glory. There is a load of bollux talked about this, that she destroyed the mining industry, the London docks etc. No she didn't, history and the unions together did that. Even leaving aside the EU's green aganda, much cheaper supplies from places like Poland, the US and Russia would have made most of our coal mines unsustainable anyway and it would have been possible to keep them open only with a huge subsidy from the UK taxpayer. The usefulness of the outdated London docks ended when most shipping switched to container ports like Felixstowe. As we indicated above, we are not totally against protectionism and it might make sense to subsidise our remaining coal mines but subsidising industry can only work if the subsidy is not too big and has the support of the taxpayer. To get that, the industry concerned must be seen to be as efficient as possible but the unions destroyed any confidence with their interminable and unjustifiable industrial actions.

Just two years after the 1972 strike that saw miners become the best paid workers in the country they struck again and were brought off by the Labour government in 1974 with a 34% pay increase. Just two years later they were at it again. In the London Dockyards, striking dockers obtained a decasualisation agreement that meant they could not be sacked and were paid regardless of how little work they did. Given that fewer and fewer companies were using the dockyards, in part because of continual industrial action, they were sometimes being paid for nothing.

Hardly suprising it made not an ounce of sense to prop up either. Those poor, downtrodden miners and dockers, like the Leyland workers, deserved everything they got. Pity they can't reanimate Thatcher one last time to take on those bloody London Tube Drivers, train drivers and the Civil Service Unions.

The new religion - join now

Here, disguised as a story, is the reality of what awaits us in the afterlife. James Martin RIP.

Google Glass

There is a big fuss about the privacy implications of Google Glass, a voice-controlled computer with a camera that is worn on the head. It connects to the net and can upload images or other information. We would share their concerns, especially in view of Google's previous record and there do need to be restrictions in law.

What does it mean for free speech? We have become used to cases of people being prosecuted for racist rants on tube trains etc. If you deliberately attract public attention you should be careful what you say as most have cameras on their phones but it's a very different thing if every quiet conversation you have with a friend is being recorded. There are pluses too; muggers and rapists might think twice if they knew their approach was being recorded and irrecoverably uploaded to the cloud in real time.

Google's product aside, there is nothing new about personal surveillance equipment. You can buy little video cameras that look like fountain pens that you can put in your top pocket, many cyclists in London wear head-mounted recorders in case of accidents and we have been thinking of getting the equivalent device for the car/van. All things that can be very useful to help protect innocent people.

Just Stop Going There!

Good to see that protesters are targetting the Maldives tourist economy after a rape victim has been sentenced to a flogging. The Maldives is a quite appallingly intolerant Islamic nation, even by the low tolerance standards of that backward shitty creed. Anyone who is not a Sunni Muslim is not even allowed to be a citizen. Check out the realities for others here or here.

I do not believe generally that we should interfere directly in the affairs of other nations, it rarely works and there are many downsides, human societies need to evolve at their own pace. However, that certainly does not mean we should be propping them up by contributing to their economy.

Honeymooners, find somewhere else to go!

F* MORONS

The Migration Matters Trust has said that, without immigration, the public sector net debt will rise by £18bn in 5 years.

We really can't be bothered to provide, yet again, the realities behind such slanted reports, like the ludicrous 2007 Home Office report, that ignore most of the costs of migrants, even that of educating their children. However, one would hope people could do the most basic calculations before claiming there is a benefit in such tiny figures.

Even if the figure was true, £3.6bn per annum is just 0.75% of annual government spending of £715.3 billion in return for a 13% increase in population, with all the pressures on land, housing, power and infrastructure of our overcrowded island that this represents. That does not even include the children of migrants who are born here. The rapidly rising cost of Islamic terrorism alone, another gift from our wonderful migrants, about equals that princely sum.

HELLO? HELLO? CAN YOU ACTUALLY THINK??

F* MORONS!

You do wonder

What do most of us really know about technology? Even those of us who have worked in IT for decades are only experts in our limited area of it.

This morning we could not connect to the internet and clicked the detect connection problems link. It started Looking for problems in web connectivity, name resolution, network gateway configuration, remote host availability, host connectivity and network adapter before telling us to turn the adapter off and on again which worked, as usual. No expert in networks and the internet but surely the host connectivity and adapter, which are local, should be checked before name resolution and remote hosts which are not? How exactly do you check remote hosts with a non functioning router?

Micrososoft knows best we assume. That's the problem! We just have to trust these buggers and keep paying them our money. What does your anti-virus software do really? It may pop up occasionally and tell you that some threat has been safely quarantined but how do we know that's true? It could all be a con. Maybe, if these viruses exist at all, it is the anti-virus companies who write them in the first place to make us buy their software.


PS Huge number of DOS attacks on the router log and that may, again, have caused the problem. Previously, look up on net showed most came from China. Just one was today. Some from the UK, Denmark, Russia, France, Italy, Turkey, Sudan (do they have computers in Sudan???) but by far the greatest numbers were from the US! OI!

PPS No we didn't go through a huge list online, we have a brilliant little bloggoth Excel sheet that does it all for us using the free GeoCountry lists.

Not racism, just reality

We at bloggoth were born in South London and, except for the four years in university, lived in various parts of it until 1982. We would never want to live there again and the major reason is immigration, especially black immigration.

We were born near Crystal Place, a mostly pretty decent area of London with fairly low crime at the time. It now has a high black population and this is the sort of reality that residents have to put up with. This is not some isolated thing but is in line with police statistics and with most mugging cases one reads or hears about. I used to go out with my sixth form mates to nearby Croydon, where muggings are even higher. It's now one of the most dangerous areas in London and has some of the most vicious black gangs, like Don’t Say Nothing and Shine My Nine, both of which had a high involvement in the 2011 riots.

The last area we lived in was Bromley, one of the nicest areas of outer London. As everywhere in Britain, the ethnic makeup is changing fast and today there was some bad news from there too:

HIV in Bromley doubles leaving it with one of highest rates in country.

BROMLEY has one of the highest rates of HIV in the country, with the prevalence of the virus more than doubling in the last ten years.

This is according to the National AIDS Trust (NAT), who say one in 340 people living in the borough suffer from the condition.

This compares to one in 850 in 2002, and a national average of one in 650.

Phil Glanville, NAT Policy and Parliamentary Officer, said: "It is only recently that Bromley has gone from low to high prevalence. I think it is probably due to people moving to Bromley from very high prevalence areas - for example Lewisham, Lambeth, which has one of the highest prevalences in the country, and Southwark.

Never heard of those being particularly gay areas of London, what else might they have in common? According to Wikipedia, they are 1st, 2nd and 3rd on the list of boroughs with the largest black populations. Black is too broad a description here, this is primarily an African problem and all three have high African populations. While Africans account for only 1.7 percent of the British population, they account for 28 percent of new HIV diagnoses and they are costing UK taxpayers around £18 thousand a year each! Do many of them pay that much in taxes? Unlikely. Their treatment costs are not the major problem, what about the risk of infection for others? This is high because, for various "cultural reasons" they do not take precautions, are ignorant of the risks and are more likely to be diagnosed late.

It would be sensible to do more to integrate the Afro Caribbeans we already have but we keep adding to the problems and further damaging perceptions by allowing in more low-skilled and uneducated people from failed nations whose previous migrants have a very poor record of acheivement, most recently with immigration from Africa. More and more, news about violent gang crime contains African names. When will our bloody governments start raising the barriers to immigration to ensure that people really are an asset rather than a burden? When will they start acting on their own statistics and tighten the procedures for immigration from any nation where previous migrations have not worked well? What exactly is the point of having that expensive census every ten years otherwise? For those with major health issues, when are they going to start doing proper health checks or requiring full health insurance before granting residence?

Never probably, what do the lives and wallets of British citizens matter as long as we can continue the PC pretence?

As long as it's cheap

The press constantly bombards us with things to worry about. Health is a big one, apparently we shouldn't even sit down for more than 20 minutes at a time. Now they have come up with another one, the dangers of death from appliances.

Today there was a warning in The Daily Mail about NEF dishwashers being liable to catch fire and we had to check the one in the kitchen. Just last week we had to check the Beko spindryer in the garage. Ours were both ok fortunately. Trouble is, when you check the Product Recalls page on the Electrical Safety Council's site, there are lots of manufacturers that you may have goods from and even more generic descriptions like "travel adapter" or "immersion heater". Are we supposed to go through this list of 263 items and check all the ones that might just be things we have? Do you know what make your travel adapter or phone charger is offhand?

Even the best manufacturers have problems occasionally and there are recalls from some other well known names like Dyson, Bosch, Braun, Morphy Richards and Netgear. In the pages for those manufacturers, the problem is usually some faulty part that may very occasionally overheat and relates to a narrow range of dates or batches. There will be a link for you to report your faulty product and find out how to return it.

In many more cases, there is no batch or date range because the whole product is bad and is stated not to comply with European standards. There may be a risk of electric shock and fire because of inadequate insulation, inadequately sized mains wire, unapproved plugs of the wrong size, loose wires, wires too close together, badly crimped terminals, mains wires held only by solder, no fuse in the mains circuit, mains sockets with no screens, casings that fall apart, live or dangerous moving parts that are insufficiently protected, poor assembly etc etc. Dangerous parts include chargers for toys. There is even an electric heater with a plastic cover that sags when it gets hot and exposes live parts - who'd have thought an electric fire would get hot? These are not strictly recalls because the manufacturer "may not have provided a way to exchange your product" Your only options are to carry on taking the risk, go through the rigmarole of trying to claim from the retailer or throw it away.

One other thing these pages on the highest risk goods almost all have in common - "Country of origin: China" Cheap goods anyone?

He won't be a patch on the original

So we have a Pope Francis 1 eh? Let's hope he is utterly incompetent, charmless and offends everyone *. If just a few people can be turned off religion it can only be good for mankind.

The irreligious are just as prone to irrational and impractical ideologies, the added problem of religious ones is that, because they are supposedly based on the word of god, they are very hard to challenge. It should tell us something that Christianity has been going for over 2000 years, while state communism barely lasted 80. People in the USSR and China could see that their standards of living and their freedoms lagged behind those in the West and, because Marx was just a man and not a prophet, they were free to acknowledge that reality and do something about it without being accused of blasphemy. If the USSR had been an Islamic rather than a communist organisation, Gorbachev and other reformers would have been assassinated before the reforms could even begin.

Back to Pope Francis 1. He chose the name because he claims to admire St Francis of Assissi, by all accounts one of the better Saints and someone who actually followed the peaceful ideals of Christianity in a century when the Christian establishment was routinely slaughtering Muslims and Cathars and burning heretics alive. Not burning people alive is a minor plus to we at bloggoth obviously, the really important thing about Francis is that he believed that nature was a mirror of god and that all men had a duty to protect it. Pope Francis 1 refers to it in that link and, if that is really important to him, then we might actually like him just a little bit.

We were disappointed that, during his post-election speech, he did not mention Wasps or Great Crested Newts even once, so we will not be convinced until he comes out on that balcony, has all those crappy people evicted from St Peter's square and starts preaching to the pidgeons as St Francis would have done.

* He's made a great start in the UK by being a fucking Argie!

Topic: He won't be a patch on the original       Comment here.       Comments so far: 0

PS

We went to Rome 5 years ago and have some photos of the Vatican but, unfortunately, they are all spoiled by having crappy people in them. Just one extract here, clearly a statue of Buzz Lightyear.

Yeh, right

The completion of a full term by an elected government in Pakistan has been hailed as a victory for democracy.

No it isn't. A real democracy would allow all citizens an equal say in the direction of society but that does not happen in Pakistan or any other Islamic society by definition. Law in Pakistan must be based on Islamic principles so non-Muslims cannot progress beyond the very lowest ranks in government or the armed forces. Violence against any non Muslims, as last week, is all too common and is increasing year on year. Hardly surprising when intolerance is actively encouraged in schools.

Some, like Oman, are better than others but people who use the words democracy, tolerance or freedom in respect of Islamic nations generally are simply ignorant.

Keep it up

So the queen is out of hospital again. Probably the best of care helps, any normal old biddy would probably have been dumped in a care home and beaten to death by a foreign nurse by now. For whatever reason, her and her old man are hard to get rid of anyway. The British are too bleedin' stupid not to ditch the monarchy, just as they are too dim to stop voting Labour or kick out religion, so that's no bad thing, we certainly don't want the Prince of Daftness on the throne.

Maybe with a bit of technology we could keep the old dears going forever. There are some very convincing animated dinosaurs in the Kensington Science Museum so making stuffed royals appear alive should not be very hard. It isn't as though they do anything difficult, just smile and wave, read prepared speeches and ask standard questions. Jim Davidson would be brill at supplying the Duke's occasional endearing faux pas.

Foreign aid, yet again

If you want an almost certain guarantee that something is an idiotic waste of money, there is nothing better than support of it by Tony Blair. It hardly needs mentioning that this was the f* idiot who got us involved in Iraq and Afghanistan, who cost the British taxpayer a fortune to no good effect and greatly boosted the power of the Islamist state of Iran and of Muslim extremism in general. Here is some of the crap he is trotting out:

I want to answer the aid sceptics – those who think aid doesn't work or is all swallowed up in corruption. Look at the facts. Aid from the UK alone has in the last two years helped over 5 million more children go to primary school, and 6 million people to access emergency food supplies. ..

"As the west struggles to get single-digit growth, African countries are nearing double digits. Africa is among the fastest growing regions in the world. The Gleneagles agreement can claim some credit for this."

The first is probably true, but is that the point? It is a given that if you keep handing out food to beggars more of them will survive but surely what we should be asking of foreign aid is this - what is it actually doing to make those nations achieve long term self sufficiency? There's no obvious point in educating youngsters if they do not have any worthwhile jobs to go to, if they are still going to be scratching out a living in sewage covered slums like their parents.

The second point is wrong. The fact is that although there was a 2005 agreement to cancel Africa's debt it was only a partial cancellation and African countries say it has not had much effect because of the impact of other measures like structural adjustment policies. The real reason behind recent growth in Africa is down to Chinese investment but don't take our word for it, see what KPMG, one of the world′s largest financial auditors, has to say:

China is the 21st-century story of Africa. It is near impossible to overstate the impact of the Asian superpower's drive to invest in the continent, and while Africa's trade relations with other emerging partners such as India, Brazil, South Korea, and Turkey are growing in importance, south-south investment is mostly still a Chinese game.

..

For Africa this new relationship has translated into impressive growth. According to the latest African Economic Outlook report, produced by the Africa Development Bank, the OECD, and the UN, Africa's total trade was worth US$673 billion in 2009, up from just US$247 billion at the start of the century.

..

The IMF predicts continental growth of close to 5 percent at a time when many world economies are struggling. Dr. Martyn Davies, chief executive of Johannesburg consultancy Frontier Advisory, says African growth and Chinese investment are now inextricably linked. "Chinese demand for commodities is underpinning African GDP growth. The robust growth rates of sub- Saharan Africa are due in large part to this new coupling, and in time a component of China's growth will become dependent on Africa's ability to supply those commodities," said Davies. ..

Analysis by Frontier Advisory shows a close to perfect correlation - 92 percent - between Chinese and African growth since 1999.

This will certainly not help Africa's Rhinos and Elephants. In the long term, will it have helped Africa to be really self-sufficient or is this just colonialism part 2?

The questions that organised religions need to answer - reprise

The crappy "religions of the book" anyway.

Hinduism at least has major parallels with what we actually perceive. In Hinduism there is a perpetual cycle where we move from one state to the next; we are born, we die and are born again and a rebirth may take us to a higher level or it may take us backwards to a lower species. In nature, a species may evolve into into a higher one or regress. Individually, we die and provide the necessary sustinence for other living creatures, either a more advanced one or a less advanced one. In Hinduism there is a distinction between the physical and the immaterial world. In nature there are many things we understand to be purely chemistry but others, like consciousness that, while they may be created by biological processes, we do not fully understand. Unlike so many of the religious we do not claim that simile is any sort of proof but nevertheless, in a universe that appears to have universal rules, parallels cannot be ruled out as indicating possibilities. Buddhism, while not strictly a religion, has much in its favour too.

Back to the crappy "religions of the book". Jews, you are free to go too, you may have started the whole thing but blaming a race for something they did 3000 years ago is a bit too Adolph-like, even for we at bloggoth. You may be deluded but the only important thing is that you don't affect the rest of too much, so go in peace. Same with all you Scientologists, Mormons, Sikhs, Rastifarians, Animists, Spiritualists and assorted nutcases. Private beliefs that do not significantly impact others should be nobody else's concern. It's just you Christians and Muslims we object to because you will not f* leave the rest of us alone! You are always trying to impose your ludicrous crap on the rest of us.

Here, finally, the revised (now 15) questions that we think you should be answering.

Learn the realities of the third world and stop wasting our lives and our money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another thing we keep saying, you can't bring forward a society in a few short years, it takes generations.

Anyone in the West who thinks our military interventions can acheive anything should take a look at this Panorama program about Helmand. It shows the Afghan troops trained by our money to be lazy and ill disciplined, most of them high on Marijuana and Heroin. They go out on "patrol" and fire indiscriminately, often at civilians. Armaments and defences we pay for are flogged off, often to the Taliban. They routinely enslave and sexually abuse young boys on the bases. It is impossible to imagine that this lot can create security in the country. This failure of our interventions to acheive anything is not unusual, look at Libya, where people are being arrested for preaching Christianity and Christians are being driven out by Muslim extremists, things that did not happen under Gaddafi.

Is there any evidence to suggest that foreign aid, to Haiti, Bangladesh, Uganda and many other countries has any more success? In many cases, aid money does not even raise the GDP per capita while it is being received, let alone provide any long term change in the recipient nations that will lead to self sufficiency. Wells and roads are provided and soon crumble into ruins. Just take one example, Nepal. It has received billions over several decades, much of it spent on capital projects and yet "Despite a rise in ODA, Nepal is the only country in South Asia that has not experienced any significant improvement of its micro and macro economic prospective"

Maybe it is time that developing countries were allowed to develop at their own pace over centuries as more advanced countries had to. Anything else seems to be a waste of our money.

ODA=official development assistance

Just what we need (not)

Another f* pope. Mr Sheep has already written this article on the subject that we at bloggoth would have written if we could be arsed. The election will be held in the Sistine chapel apparently. We were there a few years ago and it's a magnificent place but, in hindsight, what is that famous picture actually showing?

Not a good shape

The arguments about a new runway or airport in the South East just go on and on. We blame Darwin. If man hadn't evolved our complex and fragile shape filled with hard bones, if we had had the sense to develop intelligence but just stay as slugs or, even better, amoebas, just think how many of us they could have packed into a single plane. We wouldn't need anywhere near as many runways.

All going down together

It is a major concern for we at bloggoth personally that we seem to have lost our ability to come up with decent short stories any more. By "decent" we mean ones that we like and can have pride in. Of course it would be nice to be famous, to be admired or to make lots of money but, not being quite so f* egotistical as some of our close relatives, it honestly isn't the primary consideration.

On the other hand, perhaps it isn't the onset of Altzheimers as the whole world seems to have forgotten how to write stories. There is still some great creation out there, tonight's episode of Call The Midwife on BBC had us silently sniffling and the Ripper Street story line was great as usual but what the f* has happened to short stories? We brought the latest "Best New Horror" and after skipping over one story about zombies because it was so dull, we managed to finish the next. A man finds some wrong items in his online grocery order, gets curious about who ordered them and finds a lady a few streets away scoffing raw meat. Implication, she is a werewolf or similar, the end. Fair enough, I suppose, but it's all padded out with a lot of crap about the contents of his shopping bags, conversations with the delivery man, his feelings for his wife and a lot of stuff about how we all seek change in our relationships. If we at bloggoth has written something as tedious and unoriginal at least we would have only bored our readers for a page and a half instead of 18. We can't remember a single story in the last book of horror stories we read either and that chap compared himself to Bradbury.

Some think that nothing really exists outside of our imaginations. That's it! As we at bloggoth decline in mental ability, our invented world is declining with us. Our imaginary people are no longer capable of the great works of fiction that we ourselves invented and that once enthralled us. Maybe that's also why what we once thought of as real people are getting fatter, progressively stupider and more useless, less talented and rational.

When we reach our deathbed what will the world still hold? Vague shadows drifting aimlessly and emitting random squawks perhaps.

Bombers and Pizzas

There are many problems with the PC view of Islam. As we have said several times before, the frequently parrotted idea of a tolerant religion generally bears no resemblance to the reality. Anyone who is not determined to live in ignorance can find out the facts regarding the marginalised and sometimes dangerous existence of those of other faiths in many Islamic countries from the Religious Freedom Reports from the US Department of State.

Islamic extremism is a reality all over Europe and, while there are genuinely moderate Muslims, the picture of moderation that the religion as a whole tries to project is a deceit and this is revealed and over and over again. Here in the UK there is extremist literature in public libraries and in bookshops, extreme teachings in schools and in universities, rocketing numbers of extremist websites and Muslim vigilantes claiming our streets. Just this week we had OFCOM rulings about hate speech on British radio channels. Another reality is the contempt that too many Muslims clearly have for others. This is evident in the various hate preachings about Jews, homosexuals and Western society and in the large scale grooming of white girls.

The BBC recently gave us another example on Fake Britain when it emerged that 9 out of 10 Muslim-run Pizza establishments investigated were selling "Ham Pizzas" that had no ham in them. Some had been warned before but had carried on doing it. Some may say this is not a terribly serious issue (although horse meat being sold as beef apparently is!) but it is perhaps indicative of the scale of the contempt that ordinary Muslims have for others. Those interviewed said they could not sell Ham and sounded rather surprised at being challenged at all. Deceiving non Muslims about what was in the Pizza they were paying for did not appear to be important, only their own views on Halal meat.

Such attitudes matter. If most Muslims have to choose between us non-Muslims and those extremists, either the bombers or the Shariah imposers, which do you think it will be? We probably know that already from the latest terrorist news:

It emerged that some people in Birmingham knew Naseer had sent four other men to Pakistan for training but did not alert the police.

..

They also warned parents would not raise concerns because many were in denial that their children could be caught up in serious terror planning.

It really is time our authorities started waking up, not just to about what the Islamic creed really is but about what far too many Muslims think about the nations they adopted. A few isolated extremists would not present such a problem if it was not for the facilitators, the say nothing attitudes, the silent support and sympathy they get from the Muslim community as a whole. This week a university began locking a Muslim prayer room, justifiably, given some of the sermons that had been given there. We need far more of this, let's start checking university and other Islamic societies, bookshops, schools, Islamic groups and mosques and shutting them down if they don't cooperate.

Let's stop regarding Islamic extremism as something very unusual, because it isn't.

Advertisement

The xoggoth Excuses App - available now!

We have all been there. You are looking forward to a nice lazy weekend pottering in the garden and watching the football on TV and some bloody relative rings and invites you to a family do. As you weren't expecting it, you can't think of an excuse quick enough and have to accept.

Not any more! The xoggoth Excuses App recognises a relative's number and immediately pops up a list of excuses in most believable order. You can tailor make your list; choose from over 2000 excuses provided or create your own. Never have to spend an afternoon trying to think of something to say to your aunt Mabel again!

The xoggoth Excuses App is available for Apple, Android, Blackberry and Windows phones. Do a search for "xoggoth Excuses" now!

Horrible or beautiful?

Lovely and sunny, so went out on a long footpath inspection today. We were a bit annoyed when we got back and compared the track from our little GPS gadget with the map to find we had taken a wrong turning and made notes about stuff that was not on our designated patch at all.

On the other hand, we did find another interesting Fallow Deer corpse. Like others we have seen, the blood, still moist flesh and the complete absence of any smell indicated it had probably only been dead a few days, yet it was little more than a skeleton. Corpses do not last long in the countryside, foxes, badgers, domestic cats, rodents, crows and magpies will all have had their share.

Nothing in the world, even death, is ever an ending, just a means of allowing life to go on. We will never be persuaded to believe in the malignant and illogical nonsense of the "religions of the book" but the idea of some deeper purpose behind existence is not without its merits.

Maybe this life is the purpose

I know what you mean Hzarg, I've been thinking of giving up creating too. It's bad enough that the ungrateful little bastards moan about what we've already given them and demand paradise when they die but, in pursuit of their "something better than this" fantasies, many of them pass up all the physical pleasures that we spent so long making for them. We may as well have not bothered.

Topic: Maybe this life is the purpose       Comment here.       Comments so far: 0

Who cares?

We don't have anything against the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge personally, from the limited and probably highly selective information available, they seem like a normal and pleasant young(ish) couple but we don't have any sympathy whatever regarding the supposed latest invasion of their privacy.

We would do in the case of most celebrities. Worth is an entirely subjective thing and the nearest one can make to an objective measurement is to count the number of people they have convinced of their worth. The success of some here today, gone tomorrow, X Factor celebrity is at least the result of their own ability.

Not so with royalty and others who inherit wealth and power. Hard cheese, Kate. If you expect to live in huge mansions, to have servants who cater to your every whim, to be ferried about in limousines, to be feted and admired by crowds wherever you go, to know you are going to receive, for free, the very best advice and services available on every issue that concerns you, all of these things totally unrelated to any acheivements of your own, there is going to be a price to pay and loss of privacy is a very small one relative to all that.

PS If the paparrazi would like to publish intimate personal details of the xoggoth private life we would be most happy to negotiate a deal. For a 3 month all-expenses-paid holiday at a top hotel in the Bahamas we can supply you with pictures of the Missus taken with our hidden toilet cam.

PPS But don't tell ′er they came from us, for chrissake!)

What difference does it make?

So Pope Grandpa Munster has resigned while still alive and that's most unusual apparently, for 600 years they have only resigned when they're dead. What other major job would that happen in? Can you imagine a PM or president, the head of a major bank or IT company or whatever carrying on into their dotage?

Of course not and there's a reason for that, people in other jobs actually do need all their mental faculties to do such jobs effectively. Not so with religious leaders, just bleating the accepted bollux is quite enough. Put a slightly different slant on it or move it slightly in the direction of modern reality and you can be feted as a reformer.

The founders or prophets of religions had it even easier. Being a fraud or delusional has been an essential qualification.

"A Theologian is a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that is not there--and finding it."
H L Mencken

Give us some REAL gadgets

We are always losing our keys and the missus brought us one of those little key finders to put on our key ring. The idea is that when you can't find your keys you whistle and it beeps. Apart from the fact that it only seems to beep when there is some random screeching noise, like when we close the garage door, and never when we whistle to try and locate our keys, it's a ridiculous idea anyway.

I ask you! What REAL MAN finds it easy to whistle when he loses his keys? That's like asking somebody to sing a selection of songs from The Sound of Music when he's accidentally sliced his thumb off with the garden shears. When any REAL MAN loses his keys he immediately flies into an uncontrollable rage and issues a deluge of obscenities before slamming doors, hurling furniture though the window, smashing up the kitchen, kicking the cat and murdering his wife. A recent US survey showed that in 87% of major gun massacres by a lone killer, the perpetrator had lost his keys just prior to the incident.

Surely the solution is obvious? The only way to prevent such incidents is to have a key finder that responds to swearing, and in a way that a REAL MAN can relate to.

Hmmm

Lots of fuss about beef that contains horse meat at the moment, from a French company importing from Eastern Europe, not surprisingly. Much worse food scandals are nothing new. Two years ago, Channel 4 revealed that shrimp brought in the UK had an unpleasant origin:

But what is the process by which they are farmed and produced? To find out, we travelled to ­Bangladesh to film undercover at the prawn pools. What we found was truly appalling.

Latrines filled with human waste were sited over the sea water canals, whose contents are swept into the prawn pools with every tide. Stray dogs chewed prawn fragments in the trading market.

One farmer we spoke to routinely doused his pool with a pesticide known as Thiodan, to keep disease down among his prawn stocks.

Yecch! Just as well we don't buy "beef" from The Democratic Republic of Congo.

Or do we?

PS Democratic Republic. Hah! Hah!

PPS This seems to have been happening a lot in the DRC for more than a decade. Unless racist organisations, like the BBC and the UN, are spreading their lies again.

Lazy fecks

We can understand self interest, it can be a problem but it's also a major driver of human acheivement. If we took away the incentive to act in the interests of ourselves and our families we would end up as dreary low-income nations like the USSR used to be.

It's understandable in the context of conservation too, whether it's about clearing rain forest to increase farm production or shooting a Tiger that's eating your goats. TBH, even us nature freaks at bloggoth have a limit of tolerance. We feed the little mice in our shed because they don't cause us any real problems but if we had rats in there nibbling everything to buggery as they do, we might well reach for the poison.

What really pisses us off most are those who just wreck nature, and other people's enjoyment of it, out of shear laziness and indifference. Walk along any footpath or country road and you see empty bottles and discarded sweet wrappers. Why? It must take as much effort to wind down a car window and chuck a bottle out as it does to put it in the bin when you get home. There is more serious junk everywhere too, dumped either by fly tippers or by the land owners. From the quantity and mixed nature of it, it often doesn't look like commercial stuff and no disposal charges would apply, so why can't they just take it to the local waste tip where it can be recycled?

You lookin' at me?

Reality

When some comment on the nature of the third world and the developing world, on the appalling practices, beliefs and high levels of criminality that exist, if they express concerns about the import of such things into our own country due to lax immigration controls, they get condemned as xenophobes or racists.

Thank heavens for the "liberal lefty" papers and TV channels, The Guardian, The BBC and The Independent. Having established their reputation as non racist, they don't feel the need to avoid the truth as some right-wing papers do. In this week's Guardian, some more of what should be old news to anyone who does not avoid reality, the appalling level of rape in South Africa:

..rights groups complain that rape has become normalised and lost the power to shock. In 2010-11, 56,272 rapes were recorded in South Africa, an average of 154 a day and more than double the rate in India. *Note 1
...
Rachel Jewkes, acting president of the South African Medical Research Council, said it had been researching sexual violence for 20 years and found between a quarter and third of men admit rape, indicating widespread social acceptance.

This is not unusual for Africa, The Guardian has reported previously that a major impediment to a goal of their Katine project, to get more girls into education, was the fact that it was difficult for them to walk to school without the risk of being raped, even though Uganda is probably one of the better governed sub-Saharan nations:

Peter Georges of the St Nicholas Uganda Children's Fund, writing about child poverty in Uganda, says defilement of school-age girls is common. "Rape is always a danger as girls travel to and from school through risky neighbourhoods at dawn and dusk..."

This level of sexual violence puts the furore about the Jimmy Saville stuff in our own country, covering a few hundred complaints going back decades and pursued by a very thorough police force in a low tolerance society into perspective. If anyone thinks the crime level in the UK or other more advanced nations remotely compares with the level in third world and developing countries, they are truly deluded. Sexual violence is just one of many crimes that are far higher in the third world. The liberal left will say it's all due to poverty and they are right, the correlation of crime with poverty is undoubted. Where they are wrong is in their frequent implication that all these problems will somehow disappear when these people come to the West and share in our prosperity.

For one thing, they don't and it's not mainly about racism. Far too many don't have the English, the education or the skills to succeed here. Lack of willingness to integrate is a problem too, you can't expect to fully participate in our economy if you are determined to stay out of our society; business requires interaction with customers, bosses, fellow employees and others. For another, adults whose attitudes and beliefs have been forged by poverty, conflict and backwardness are not somehow going to lose them when they cross our borders. In every case where there is a cultural problem with a minority in the West, absentee fathers, youth gangs, school dropouts, low acheivement, religious fundamentalism and a host of crimes like honour killing, FMG, counterfeiting, electoral fraud, pickpockets, muggings or drug-related violence, you will see exactly the same problems in the country of origin. We, and the decent members of their own ethnicity, pick up the bill for lax immigration controls.

Note 1: And India has 23 times the population of South Africa.

More reality

Sexual violence is but one of many problems. Some 9000 children have gone missing from Uganda alone in 4 years and they are not used solely for sexual purposes but for blood rituals associated with witchcraft. According to the BBC, many children trafficked into the UK are used in such rituals:

According to Christine Beddoe, director of the anti-trafficking charity Ecpat UK, a cultural belief in the power of human blood in so-called juju rituals is playing a part in the demand for African children.
"Our experience tells us that traffickers can be anybody. They can be people with power, people with money or people involved in witchcraft," she explains.
"Trafficking can involve witch-doctors and other types of professionals in the community who are using those practices."

This is not unique to Uganda, belief in witchcraft is widespread in other countries like Ghana and Nigeria and there is a major link between witchcraft and human trafficking to Europe. Apart from a tiny percentage of loonies, the UK mostly left witchcraft behind 400 years ago. Do we really want to see the growth of nonsense that makes even Islam look rational?

Time the government stopped asking would-be citizens crap about who built the Tower of London and started doing proper assessments. Apart from bringing in better checks on criminality and health and greatly raising the bar for qualifications and expected income, they should be testing attitudes and beliefs. Anyone who believes in crap like witchcraft or creationism or who wants a role for religion in framing our laws should not be allowed residence in the UK.

The wrong side

We were going to go up to the village club tonight but probably would have had at least three large vodkas and that does not sit with our determination to lose a few pounds. So what's on TV? F* all as usual, so we tried something we had recorded, StarShip Troopers 2. What a load of utter crap!

The first one did not take itself too seriously and we quite liked it. #2, the ten boring minutes we could be bothered to watch anyway, is totally tedious. Just a lot of soldiers shooting huge insects. Shooting huge insects? Bastards! So whose f* planet was it anyway? Come on nice big insects! Bite the hell out of the invading so and sos, they should not even be there!!!

In any conflict between man and nature we usually tend to side with nature. If we had our way we would breed billions of Tigers to invade China and Vietnam and grind up the bones of the

slitty-eyed bastards to make medicine with and whales would be harpooning Japanese.

Story

Inspired by two 5-star reviews (about the same as number of sales) of xoggoth Tales on Kindle, we were quite determined today to get back into story writing. It's taken us hours but here is a sequel to A chaotic end to the Blackpool conference in which the geeks find a solution to all crime:

Blaming the Right People

For inspiration we also have to thank that appalling bastard Tony Blair. We wanted to watch the BBC interactive news service this morning which, unlike good old Ceefax, shows the normal channel in reduced window at the left and he was on. We had to turn off the sound and chuck a pllowcase over that half of the screen. A chaotic end to the Blackpool conference was all about his violent demise. We can but dream.

Ok Sun, we surrender

The Sun keeps on running these fantastically erotic articles about absolutely fantastic women, first here, then here and then here. Damn it! They've gone and done it again.

State of the art soon becomes ancient

Out for a jog today and went past the entrance to a local quarry where they extract very expensive decorative sandstone for use in buildings, gardens etc. At the entrance is a big sandstone pillar that, at first glance, appears to be some ancient artifact. It's only when you look more closely that you see it's got a website address on it.

This juxtaposition of the ancient and modern made us wonder how man, or whatever the dominant species is then, will view our communications in a million years time.


This ancient parchment you've found appears to be from the late 20th or early 21st century, there's a reference to their god internet. They believed the god internet was the source of all knowledge and could pass wisdom from one person to another.

Scumbags

They wanted electoral reform when it suited them but now the Stinking Lib Dems have voted, out of sheer spite, to delay the redrawing of constituency boundaries. Hardly surprisingly, the even more awful pusbags in Labour, who have inflicted enormous numbers of useless migrants, welfare scroungers and pointless public sector parasites on us to increase their own election chances, have joined them in the lobby.

Does it never once cross the minds of these self-serving arseholes that a voting system that gives all voters a roughly equal say in the outcome of elections is a cornerstone of democracy? If it does, they obviously don't think it matters; the contempt that the left of centre parties have for the opinions of the ordinary people of Britain, also apparent in their refusal to countenance a vote on EU membership, has no bounds.

Not that the Tories are much better. The Lib Dem spite is over the Tory refusal to consider reform of The House of Lords. Nearly 80% of the British public support the idea but the Tories preferred to keep an outdated system where our laws are scrutinised by unelected Bishops, political appointees and hereditary peers.

Scumbags, the lot of them.

You know you're getting old when...

...you're sitting watching TV and there's a dark scene so you can see your own reflection in the screen and briefly think the missus must have changed channel to watch another rerun of Father Ted.


Original news

There actually was some in the papers today. It seems that wildlife is thriving in the exclusion areas around Chernobyl and, despite showing "incredibly high levels of radiation", is showing almost no sign of abnormality. We look forward to some scientist telling us that radioactivity is actually good for us.

Such novel news almost never happens, everything in the papers is just a variation of something that has happened umpteen times before. If you had watched Attila being proclaimed supreme ruler of the Huns, I doubt it would have been much different to Obummer's swearing in, apart from the superficial details of dress and furnishings. I daresay people were saying similar things about him behind his back too.

Maybe there's a good case for saving license payer's money at the BBC by getting rid of most of those expensive news broadcasters, reporters, investigators and backroom staff and replacing them by a computer system. A low paid clerk could type in the basic details and a very simple bit of AI would find the best match to the news item in the existing archives, perform a bit of CGI and dub over a few names and places. Almost nobody would notice. Some news items, such as a sportsman or celebrity arrested for sex offences, a "promising footballer" stabbed on the streets of London or an Islamic terrorist attack, happen so often that there must be loads of footage to choose from and nobody remembers the details.

They could rerun this footage for example whenever there was some news item about President Assad. Maybe the computer software could replace that hat but otherwise De Gaul and Assad look exactly the same.

Swearing in

Today Obummer was sworn in. What a curious phrase, sworn in. Given his unpopularity in some quarters, including the non-existent bloggoth readership, it gave us a great excuse to try an Obummer cartoon.

Hmmmm. Creeping Shariah or just creepy shits?

Gates of Vienna has disappeared.It says there has been a violation of terms of service but this suggests there may have been a site hack.

Is this part of the ongoing campaign to shut down free speech about a political creed that is genuinely objectionable? It is unlikely to be a justifiable complant about hate speech, we only link to GOV because of its considered and fact-based approach to the subject. You don't need lies and abuse to counter Islam, the realities of it should be enough to convince any sane person who is not determined to bury their heads in the sand.

On the other hand, it could be just due to injection of malicious code by the usual arseholes who do this sort of thing against sites indiscriminately as they did to our small business site last week. Clicking on it caused a redirection to another site and we found changes to the page code and a whole bunch of encoded scripts in every directory. Checking up on causes, cleaning it all out and changing all the passwords took us hours. Fortunately, we noticed it before a Google visit, otherwise we would have had to go through the process of getting it unblocked on their search engine. One wonders why anyone would bother with a tiny business site like that, what on earth drives these arseholes? Clearing up attacks on major websites, not to mention trying to prevent them in the first place, must cost the world umpteen billions.

Whatever the motives, maybe we should stop concentrating so much on individuals and start treating them as just causes of a major problem that needs eradicating by whatever means possible. Things like that are hardly the result of a rash impulse and nobody has to do them, so why do we concern ouselves with a criminal's rights?. We don't concern ourselves with the rights and dignity of a mosquito when we combat malaria.

Whoooooooooooooooooooooor (again)

Little bloggothing here recently, just not in the mood but thought we should post something to let the non existent readers know we are still alive. Mind you, we did come very close to wanking ourselves to death over yet another fantastic lady in The Sun.

If we are ever critically ill and are seeking an end that's how we want to go, just park an arse like that on our face until we suffocate and we will go out smiling.

We need more insanity

Somebody posted a link on CUK to an online test for OCD. We always thought it was about wierdos who spent their waking hours time washing their hands but apparently not. We at bloggoth scored quite high and proud of it too! There are a few characteristics on there that we really loathe, especially that one about following rules exactly and believing there is no excuse for bending them. On the contrary, rules should only be followed when doing so makes logical sense for the circumstances at the time and sometimes they never do, our laws are often written by irrational idiots after all.

Taken over all and within reason though, what is wrong with many of those things, like keeping a workplace tidy, finishing what you set out to do on time, checking you've done it properly, saving for future contingencies or expecting others to do work properly? If those things are faults they are better ones than the lazy, just enough to get by, leave it all to tomorrow, keep your fingers crossed approach of so many of the UK population.

Perhaps insanity is not always so undesirable. Is there a drug that could induce OCD in all those lazy welfare scroungers? If they were all working late hours and weekends most would probably acheive something no matter how thick they were and it would be a great improvement on their current lifestyle of rolling out of bed at 11AM and wandering along to the job centre. If some did not manage to do much right despite all their effort they would be so angry with themselves at not doing so (question 10) they would probably commit suicide and that would save the rest of us some money too!

And what about psychopaths? Maybe we could do with a few of those in government. Some realism with respect to the value of humanity in general would help to counter the liberal lefty claptrap, the idea that everyone has equal potential, the wealth distribution, the foreign aid and welfare that is denying Darwin his evil way and taking mankind back to the primordial soup.

A psychopathic army would be great too, just think how efficient they would be!

Poor chap

Sometimes, when you think life is not going so great, you get a glimpse of a much worse hell that others are going through. The other day I got a call from the police who needed volunteers to search for a missing person and, as it was quite nearby, I went along. There were about ten of us volunteers and about 30 police at the site.

For missing persons they initially send out a professional rapid response team which moves quickly, looking through all the most likely areas. Only if they have no luck does the second search team, like the one I'm on, get sent in to check methodically through the bushes etc. We all stood around waiting for half an hour before being stood down as the rapid team had found a body and it wasn't pretty apparently. As it was a farm I am geussing shotgun. Funny how these things tend to happen more near Christmas and the new year. Loneliness is said to be a factor, the feeling of isolation becomes more acute when others are seen to be experiencing that extra love and cameraderie.

We at bloggoth have an alternative theory - an overdose of relatives!

What democracy?

When you think about it, Islamists are a lot more honest than the rest of the world. Islamist governments don't believe in democracy but at least they say so openly. In the West, our leaders pretend to believe in it but they certainly don't deliver it. They have elections in Pakistan and Iran too but elections on their own do not make a democracy. Real democracy should mean that citizens should decide the broad direction of society and they should all have an equal say in it.

All that matters to our leaders is their own interests and the pursuit of their grandiose unrealistic ideals and they do everything they can to rig things in their favour. Romney was right. Both Labour in the UK and the Democrats in America have deliberately set out to rig future elections by creating a huge base of welfare claimants and and immigrants whose own interests would be jeopardised if they were to vote for any right of centre party.

We are never consulted on even the most basic major issues like the independence of our own nation. We were never given the chance to decide whether to join the EU in the first place and have never been consulted on any of the major treaties since. Now there is talk of a referendum, leading politicians of our supposed democracies are jumping up and down to denounce the idea.

Fifty years ago many people may have believed that society was moving forwards but all that has really happened is a relaxation of the rules to qualify as a lord and master. You get to vote for which faction you want as dictators for the next 5 years but otherwise it's much the same. Maybe we common people should stop believing anything has changed.

Discovery

So yet another end of the world has been and gone. Still, let's not be too hard on the dipsticks who believed in it, after all, the only difference between them and all those billions of deluded Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs etc, is that they had proof within their lifetimes that their ideas were utter crap. Most religious sorts will never realise their ideas are utter crap because that moment of proof only comes around when they die and then they'll be, er, dead.

As a yoof of the nutty sixties who yearned for "truths" and briefly embraced the loony ideas of the time we have far more empathy with the "druids" who recently gathered at Stonehenge to mark the winter solstice. At least their understandable search for meaning does not seem to involve imposing the nonsensical bollux of their holy text or the dictats of their demented prophet on other people.

Still, although we do really like you guys, we feel it is our duty to try and bring you more into line with the rational teachings of The Blessed Perry. The numerous expert archeologists at bloggoth have been researching this issue for a very long time and have at last unearthed conclusive proof, summarised in the learned article here, that the function of Stonehenge was not quite as mystic as it is often supposed to be. Sorry chaps.

What an utter piece of crap

Excellent to read that Scargill has lost his battle to live rent free for life at the expense of others. Was it any coincidence that most of the worst offenders in the MP expenses scandal were Labour? Are there any leftists who are not total hypocrites? Who do not bleat about the rights of workers and the poor and yet who never pass up a chance to feather their own nests, often at the expense of those same workers or poor people? Or who are students and the like who have never had to contribute to the costs of all those poor, deserving people themselves?

Must have been some but, for the life of me, I can't think of any.

Home things 1

The missus had a bloke in to clean the cooker and other kitchen appliances last week, cost about £100. He did do a great job but really! Surely a WOMAN should clean her own cooker, that's a WOMAN's job my lord!

Still, if that's the way the world is going, maybe we should just fit in. Ring ring, ring ring. Hello, Derriere Cleaners, how can we help you? Oh hello, xoggoth here. I haven't wiped my arse for over a year and it's getting a bit crusty. Can you come and give it a good going over next week?

Home things 2

Why do things always go wrong at the wrong time? Was getting ready for my son's wedding last year and the best man had just turned up when all the bloody electric went off because the shower pump had decided to spring a leak all over some wiring. Today, we were trying to get ready for a ghastly family thing tomorrow and xmas the day after with same son+baby daughter staying (BASTARD! we are far to young to be a grandfather!) and the central heating stopped working. Spent over an hour fannying around trying to trace the fault logically, not helped by incomprehensible wiring diagrams in Danish and a sealed adapter on the main control, before resorting to our usual fannying about technique and replacing bits at random, which worked, thankfully.

Electrics, heating, plumbing. Not looking forward to next year's celebrations, doubtless the sewer will decide it's been left out. An Easter or wedding anniversary knee-deep in shit will be just great!

Waheee!

We just have to pay tribute to The Sun again. After that fantastic Miss Bumbum thing they covered before, now they are paying tribute to some really large ladies.

Cooooor! Who wouldn't want to get stuck into them eh? Assuming they could find it.

More wisdom from an unexpected quarter

Previously this series has revealed unlikely wisdom from total fuckwits like Bob Crow, Polly Toynbee and the Arsebishop of Canterbury. Now we have a brillant observation from Hamas.

Palestinian officials say Tony Blair shouldn't take it personally, but he should pack up his desk at the Office of the Quartet Representative in Jerusalem and go home. They say his job, and the body he represents, are "useless, useless, useless"

Well said chaps. The negligible chance of any agreement between nutjobs like you and the awful current Israeli leadership is not going to be helped by input from that man. I would only quibble with "shouldn't take it personally". He should. This self serving, self enriching, egotistical piece of crap should go to the nearest tree and hang himself.

PS Reliable bloggoth sources in the Middle East have provided irrefutable evidence that Blair always wipes his arse with pages from the Koran while facing Mecca. Do your sacred duty and avenge this insult against your prophet!

The really important monster questions

Do different blood types taste different to vampires? Do posh vampires only drink AB negative leaving the type O for the plebs? Do vampires ever get HIV or hepatitis from all the blood they drink?

Equally, are zombies at risk of BSE from their diet of human brains? How come rotted zombies can wander about in summer but not get covered in flies? Do they use some sort of fly spray? If zombies eat brains they must poo, what must poo from rotted corpes smell like? Phwooor!

What do ghouls think of zombies? Ghouls like to feast on decayed bodies in cemetaries so a zombie outbreak must be the equivalent of all the food in your freezer getting up and wandering off, together with your Sunday Roast that you just spent hours preparing. Bloody annoying! Do ghoul supermarkets mark corpses "Not to be consumed before xxx" ?

One way to transform a man into a werewolf is by magic ritual. The words of a ritual are important and one wonders what problems a mispronunciation could cause. Have any would-be werewolves mispronounced Lycanthrope and ended up stuck to a garden fence as a blob of lichen until the next full moon? That could be pretty annoying and would certainly make for a very dull horror film.

If poltergeists received appropriate counselling for what is clearly a behavioural disorder, would they become normal, well adjusted ghosts, just floating around instead of chucking things about and banging on walls?

As their brains were hooked out of their noses by their embalmers, can mummies only think if they take the jars with them? Assuming they are carrying their innards jars, what do they eat? Superficially, they are very elderly zombies but eating brains would make a right mess of their bandages and they can't change their outfits easily.

That TV program theme

You know, that US thing starring the woman with the big teeth. Looks utter crap, never watched it, but we do like this song they keep playing on the ad. PS It's Eta James not Ella Fitzgerald.

More realities of Islam

Every conflict has its share of atrocities but there is a very big difference between those committed by people in the heat of war who may be angered by seeing their own people killed and quite deliberate actions in the name of an intolerant creed. Given a few short years, anger will cool and some degree of civilisation will return but deliberate acts in the name of an extreme ideology will not cease until that ideology does.

This truth is grasped in most contexts. The Russians, for example, committed many atrocities in the occupation of Germany during WW2 but they had seen many of their citizens killed and brutalised during an unprovoked invasion of their country. Most would rightly see their actions as more understandable, more human, than those of the Nazis who sent millions of ordinary people to their deaths because of a political theory.

Unfortunately, this reality is rarely grasped by the apologists for Islam which, in many parts of the world, is as extreme and repulsive as Nazism. Maybe they should read this item in The Guardian and start thinking up their excuses. The quote here only covers some of the barbarism reported in the article.

Mass rape, amputations and killings why families are fleeing terror in Mali
At refugee camps, reports are flooding in of horrific human rights abuses in a country once famous for its music and joyous lifestyle. Mark Townsend reports on the jihadist nightmare in the Sahel

..

A man accused of using tobacco was escorted before the crowd by several members of the al-Qaida splinter group Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa.

"Then they chopped off his hand. They wanted to show us what they could do," said Ahmed, 39, a meat trader from the town in northern Mali.

That was not the end of it. The severed hand was tossed into a vat of boiling water. Then, according to Ahmed, the man was pinned down and over the next hour the bent, misshapen hand was sewn crudely back onto his stump. Ahmed, too terrified to disclose his full name, fled Gao the next day, 8 November: "I had to go. I could not live my life."

Fresh witness accounts such as this, from people arriving smothered in the red Sahel dust that clogs every pore at the refugee camps straddling the border with Burkina Faso, suggest that the situation in northern Mali is deteriorating fast. Given the dangerous situation in the region, it was impossible to verify the accounts, but they were numerous and disturbing.

Islamist militants who seized control of an area larger than the UK six months ago have imposed their ultra-conservative brand of sharia law. The tales recounted suggest a population subjugated by a regime well versed in appalling brutality. Allegations of war crimes include summary executions, mass rape, racism and the targeting of elders by child soldiers recruited by the extremists. Some allege that child soldiers are being forced to rape women.

Topic: More realities of Islam       Comment here.       Comments so far: 0

 

Copyright xoggoth