David Beckham
So, he's retiring at last. To be honest, I got the impression that's he's not being playing football properly for quite a few years now, and has been wandering around playing the odd half game for mad money/publicity. Anyway, nice enough chap who certainly knows how to look after himself and his family. Nevertheless, I resent buying The Sun yesterday to find that 22 pages [yes, that's right!] were devoted to him!!! The whole rage was only 60 pages, including all the adverts and advice on how to submit a claim for a refund of PPI.
Nigel Farage
It seems he had a spot of bother in Edinburgh this week. Having listened to the news on the radio and interviews with him, and having considered the input from Alex Salmond as well, I have come to some conclusions. Nigel Farage remains someone who will shake things up a bit - something that is absolutely necessary, considering the self-serving tossers all around the political arena wold otherwise continue to pussyfoot around key issues. Farage seems to have a point or two when summing up the treatment he received by yobs. The spokesman for the 50 'protesters' showed just how targeted the input was, to gain publicity. Alex Salmond subsequently proved to all that he remains as much of a pompous arse as ever, with skewed views and sanctimony oozing from pores. He is thoroughly unlikable. Keep going, Nigel, and force all of them to come clean about what they think, what they propose to do, and listen to the people.
Dambusters - Bomb Delivery
It was always one of my favourite stories and favourite films from a young age, and the amazing feats of those pilots can't ever be forgotten. There was certainly enough commemoration this weeks of the 70th anniversary. I did notice, though, as is typical of me, the language used by Air Vice Marshall Atha, who was speaking about events all those years ago. He used the word 'deliver' six times in three minutes, and proved beyond any doubt that anyone speaking these days, whether a politician, leader, institutional figurehead or someone with an agenda, will overuse this word. After some peculiar words on how the RAF managed to "deliver a precise and exact attack", he went on to include, via one of the mentions of 'deliver', details of how the bombers were also "delivered". Yesterday morning, on Radio 2, the current Squadron Leader of 617 Squadron joined in, with: "We take the task on and deliver it." What nonsense. I suspect that tonight we'll hear how Sweden has "delivered" the Eurovision Song Contest.
Cunt In A Van
I was driving along on the M1 just south of Sheffield yesterday when my progress was impeded by a silver van. There was nothing in the left (slow) lane, I had come up behind the van in the middle lane, and I could immediate go around it because a faster car was looming in my right hand mirror. I slowed to the 60mph necessary to avoid hitting the rear of the silver Ford van, and got annoyed because it should have been in the vacant slow lane. After the faster car passed me on my right, I followed suit to pass the van and then pulled back into the middle lane. In my rear view mirror I could confirm what I thought I'd seen while passing, and saw worse. The driver of NJ04 XWA was on the phone, in a world of his own, oblivious to anyone behind him or around him. The 'worse' that I mentioned in the last sentence was that while one hand was to his ear, holding the phone, the other hand was to the other ear, no doubt blocking out the sound from his noisy cab! No cunt was steering! Scandalous.
This is rather more dangerous than my exceeding the speed limit on the morning, with no cars around at all, in a new car on a dry road, with excellent visibility. However, the cuntish and sneaky behaviour of the police was highlighted to me as I passed a small van parked sideways to the road, but set back out not in view, with a camera positioned behind the driver. Yes, this lazy policeman simply sat in his vehicle, hiding, and filming to see how much money could be raised on a national speed limit road miles from anywhere. So, another one in a van, eh? This country is fucked up, because priorities are skewed.
Fuel Fix
What a surprise! Actually, no surprise at all! The price of fuel has been kept higher than necessary, with Shell and BP ripping us off. How can this be news, considering they make millions of pounds per hour, and have done for decades (when they've not been causing environmental mayhem). Of course the price of fuel has been too high, otherwise the obscene profit levels would have come down a long time ago. The thick CIC have managed to ignore the cunting obvious for fucking ages! This is not 'news'. Surely we all know that corruption is everywhere. Price-fixing, expenses fiddling, tax avoidance by individuals and massive corporations managing to pay fuck-all while raking in millions/billions. Meanwhile, ordinary people suffer. There is no morality left, and trust is something that is a rare commodity.
Water
I see that £5.3billion was not enough to secure the sale of Thames Water. I am sure that an increased offer will mean a sale goes through, and that there will be further attempts to buy other companies controlling water in the UK - plus other essential things. I find it outrageous that the UK is wandering blindly into a cul-de-sac on a scale that will mean metaphoric 'eviction' in the future. The country is no longer in control. Gas, Electricity, Water, Communications, Railways, Postal Services - key elements that dictate for society whether it can exists and survive. Yet we have no control over any of it. The sell-off under the free market approach means we are fucking ourselves over. I am no fan of the Labour twats who have sold us short on PPI approaches meaning we will pay billions more than necessary for hospitals, prisons and schools, but it is equally stupid to allow everything significant to dwindle away. We will soon be living as tenants in the UK, hoping the landlords do not squeeze us to death.
Payday Loans
Wonga, QuickQuid, Cash Lady, Liquid Loans, Purple PayDay, Vivus, Payday UK, Peachy, WePayAnyDay, Kitty, Payday Ninja, Payday First, Mummy Payday . . . . . there are literally hundreds of companies that I could list. Cash Converters do them as well, there are pawn shops everywhere, and companies still desperate to take gold off us, whether items are broken or unhallmarked. [NOTE: Gordon Brown sold off the country's gold reserves at the bottom of the market, and at a lower rate than fucking Ramsden's would have given him for it! What a complete wanker!] Then there is Amigo loans that for some reason charges JUST 49.9%. That's right, I think we're supposed to view that sort of interest rate as reasonable, considering all the others range typically from 400% to over 4000%. Amigo though requires a guarantor so in effect, there's no need to sting you when someone else will cough up if the applicant can't. On that basis, then, there's no justification for 50% then. Anyone who fuels this industry is doing himself/herself no good at all, and is doing nothing for society at all. Worse, though, is the fucking government that has allowed this legalised loan-shark approach to prevail and grow to a stupidly high level. The prevalence of these leeches masquerading as helpful companies is a national scandal, and only now is the government half-heartedly suggesting a 'tightening up' of things. Hundreds of thousands of people will already be fucked up completely. The government is fucking useless. There is too much control in so many areas, with the 'nanny state' being a cunt, and yet it seems the UK is allowed to become a centre of gambling and borrowing. There is also a section of society that will merrily play bingo at one or more of 17,000 places/sites, and then borrow at ludicrous interest rates to survive, while claiming benefits that they feel entitled to while doing no work at all. The UK is sinking, and the CIC haven't a fucking clue.
Antiques Road Shit
This week I have unfortunately had to witness complete bollocks via the Antiques Road Trip offering on BBC2. This is the programme that makes no sense at all, and is flawed in a number of ways. The first is that it features a nob called Mark - one of the supposed dealers who wanders around buying stuff and selling it at auction. As ever, the BBC expects viewers to get excited about some shit being bought for a tenner and sold for fifteen quid at the next town. Yes, there are occasional examples of something going for a lot more than it was bought for, but there are equal numbers of examples of poor deals, and loss-making transactions.
Last week, Mark haggled and got a jug made in the 1820s for £8 instead of the £20 the shopkeeper wanted for it. The typical creepiness led to him giving in and allowing the sale for £8, and then it sold for £18 at auction. Why the fuck didn't the shopkeeper tell Mark to fuck off because in effect, the profit was transferred from the antique shop owner to Mark. I reckon he sold it that cheap because the cameras were on him. So, the deal of the fucking decade (not) was a £10 profit for Mark, before costs. So, £7 then. What high finance! Let's now examine the fact that the dealers have for the week travelled around Wales, clocking up hundreds of miles in knackered old cars, with fuel at over £6 per gallon. Ignoring the time and effort, and the cost of overnight stays, these twats have made nothing - in fact they've lost a fortune. This is simply SHIT. 'Bargain Hunt' is worse because they ignore the auction costs!
[CIC = Cunts In Charge]
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