29.11.11 Radio 4

Radio 4 offered some strange input today, during my car drive.  The randomness of the following is simply representative of the stuff relayed over the airwaves.

I listened to a report that confirmed government help for "disadvantaged families".  What the fuck is a disadvantaged family?  These days, every pissing family is disadvantaged!  Of course, I know what the meaning behind this is - it's families which have a member who claims some sort of benefit, or a family with a substantial tax credit.  I am sure there are various other qualifying factors, but the end result is that, as ever, any normal family is by default told to "fuck off" while those with a reason to feel hard done by will benefit in some way.  It gets to the stage where any normal family is itself disadvantaged because the cuntin' government is so much in favour of the disadvantaged that it discriminates past the point of common sense, decency or fairness!

The news included a report on claims made by Ginger White regarding an affair with presidential candidate Herman Cain.  I am sorry, but anyone with such a silly name does not warrant listening to.  Ginger White?  Puts me in mind of a tabby cat.  Also, anyone with a colour for a surname ought to be careful about a nickname.  If you like the first name "Red", don't pick it if your surname is Green.  'Scarlet Brown' would be another faux pas.  Olive Gray could be another.  Anyway, you get the message.

A silly woman insisted on bemoaning the state of the country and the government's policies, citing input from the Office of Budget Responsibility.  She said, "The Office of Budget Responsibility are the arbiter . . . . ."  I lost interest in what the twat was saying after she completely failed on grammatical grounds to relay information properly.  The OBR is !!!  Even after an appalling error, she made it even worse with horrendous inconsistency by not saying 'arbiters', after making the singular body a plural entity.  Half-wit.

On a complete tangent, but puzzling enough for me to mention, does anyone know why on the westbound M62 on the hard shoulder just before junction 27, there is a sign in the area cordoned off for workmen, giving a site speed limit of 11mph ???  That's right, eleven miles per hour.  What a strange pitch for a speed limit.

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