John Terry
He refused to shake hands with the FA chief David Bernstein on Friday, in the pettiest attempt to get revenge. JT was of course found guilty of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand by the FA, and so is rather unhappy with Mr Bernstein. I suggest that JT is a bitter and rather horrible individual. I am sure you have already made up your own mind as to whether he is perhaps a white version of what he was exposed as having said to Anton.
Councils
The Labour council in Durham was revealed as having spent £12,000 on an annual clothing allowance for a couple of people to 'look smart' - whilst cutting expenditure by £200million by 2018. Hypocritical? Self-serving? Oh yes! Meanwhile, in the Cotswolds, Tories were spending £19,000 on a "motivational magician" for fuck's sake!
Compensation Claims
As ever, there have been stories confirming details of payouts that defy logic and defy explanation, especially relating to those involving schools. £50,000 for a pupil who hurt his hand climbing a gate (his own fucking fault) while another received £6,000 for cutting his leg when sliding down a handrail (his own fucking fault). One got £12,500 after falling while climbing a tree (his own fucking fault) and one even got £2,500 after pricking a thumb on a needle (own fucking fault or what?). The sharp-eyed amongst you will have seen a common theme in the claims detailed. I suspect there are parents now training their kids to be thick cunts who do daft things and collect loads of money. When they grow up, they can enter the police force where it's now apparently acceptable to maintain this approach, and start suing anyone who calls upon them for help. 'Tripping into a drain' is apparently worth £10,000 in compensation, according to the case being brought by PC Richard Seymour after an alleged mishap in the line of duty. The claim is mostly for 'loss of overtime', a complete joke you might think, especially considering while off work for six months he was on full pay! What a country we live in!
Geri Halliwell
It seems the dozy doll decided to tweet and refer to Mrs Thatcher as the "first lady of girl power", which is probably true although the pathetic concept of 'girl power' does not deserve continued reference, and I suspect Geri felt duty bound to say giddy-up to the bandwagon. Some fans (apparently there are indeed some of them left) had a go at her for her tweet, and so she removed it. What a wimp; how pathetic you are Geri, and your subsequent apologies and acknowledgement did nothing to undo that view.
Electronic Tag
What's the fucking point of making someone face charges and finding them guilty if the sentence is not carried out on grounds that are weaker than a wafer under the weight of a brick? Sophie Dalzell trashed a man's car and then failed to complete her community service. Her excuse for this failure was that she'd had a boob job. She refused to have the electronic tag fitted. Her appeal was allowed, after she claimed that it would stop her doing modelling work. Just for the record, this 'modelling' is actually featuring on an adult chat channel and Sophie's plea was "who would want to see me wearing a tag?" Well, the first answer to that is "no one", whether you are tagged or not. The second possible answer is that anyone desperate enough to look at you is not really interested in your ankles and whether a tag is loitering just above one of them! Magistrates allowed her to walk free, proving that as ever, the UK is simply NOT the place in the world where justice is dealt out, and that some of the wetness of people in office is unbelievable. Of equal bafflement is the reason she gave for not completing her community service; "They sent me to a workshop where I had to mend bikes, and I was the only girl there, and all the men were perverts touching me and leering at me." Says the woman who works as a supposed 'babe' so that men can leer at her.
Foreign Aid
It is quite simply appalling that the UK has for years been giving ludicrous amounts of money to India, when India spends million, in fact billions, on all sorts of inappropriate things while its citizens suffer awful lives. How can it be right that there are millions in complete poverty, yet the government does nothing about it, while taking money from the UK? Then we see last week the pictures of a small girl, Runa Begum, who at 16 months has a head that's ballooned because she's suffering from hydrocephalus. The £1000 cost of an operation has been beyond her father who earns £1,79 per day. Shame on you, India, for not doing the right thing for your people. As for the UK, it would be better serving the people of India if money was handed directly to those in need, and not channelled to the Indian government.
Postman's Sentence
How can it be right to give just eight months as a prison sentence to a postman who: buried more than 29,000 letter, burned over 400 other items, and dumped even more on a canal path? The pathetic excuse offered by his lawyer was that Jabur Hissan "was finding it hard to keep up with his rounds" - wtf? The sentence means that the actual time served will be between 2 and 4 months. Right, so well over 30,000 individual misdemeanors count for little. That's a day in jail at taxpayers' expense for every 600 letters buried, dumped or burned. No real deterrent then.
Luis Suarez
At last we've seen him put his teeth to use in the Premier League. It was only a matter of time before these tombstones were employed to chomp at flesh on the football field. The thing is, whatever the FA decides to do about it by way of fine and ban, there's no getting away from the fact that the incident is more surprising than actually dangerous. I suppose he'll be banned, quite rightly, for a number of games and I have no sympathy at all for this cynical player whose history shows he's more than ready to cheat. However, I see challenges that could end a player's career and the offender gets at worst a red card and three-match ban. When players go in with studs on shins and ankles, there is less outrage. I think it's fair to say that the world of football is actually well and truly fucked up now. On Sunday I watched an edition of The Big Match from February 4th 1979. It highlighted the differences between then and now. The state of the pitches was shocking and some of the camerawork was below standard, but in all other respects it was a far better time for football. The funniest incident was when a chap in a brown suit wandered into the middle of the pitch (Middlebrough v Nottingham Forest) and calmly told the referee what he thought of him, before wandering off to the touchline again, where a bobby in a helmet and NO hi-vis attire guided the 'fan' away. So low-key that it was simply hilarious.
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