Litter Fine
Can this really have happened? Has the country become so fucked up that this is what is regarded as normal these days? In Cornwall, it seems that the ever vigilant inspectors have turned into vigilantes on a mission, and that their employer (the Council) is worse in its outlook than the Stasi ever was. Dave Jode, a Burger King manager in Truro, was 'spotted' putting a cigarette end down a storm drain. He refused to pay a £50 on-the-spot fine and in court, the magistrates fined him £100 plus he was ordered to pay a further £100 towards costs. He did not create any litter by disposing of the butt this way. In the news we see all sorts of actions going unpunished, or under-punished. What the fuck has gone wrong, and what are the priorities now? If these twats with an attitude (I mean the appointed vigilantes) want to target something in the litter world that's a bit more harmful than Mr Jode's single cigarette butt, perhaps they would like to go to the various takeaways dotted around towns and service centres, where they'll find fucking great pizza boxes and polystyrene cartons lobbed out of car windows and blowing across car parks on to grass verges. That would be a good start to prioritisation, I think. However, the CIC have defended the Council's actions, unsurprisingly, and the pathetic pettiness evident to anyone reading and assessing this story. Finally, does anyone know if a litter-spotter is a step up from a traffic warden, or a role into which traffic wardens move when they achieve heightened pettiness and anger with life?
Morrisons
This week I have been annoyed as fuck by the stupid adverts (masquerading as 'sponsorship') by Morrisons at the start and end of commercial breaks in Britain's Got Talent. I thought that the annoyance was at a steady level, even if rather high, but today I see a blip upwards after seeing the stupidity displayed in respect of the poppy badge fiasco. Adam Austin is on suspension and is being dealt with under disciplinary procedures that now threaten his job because he wore a poppy badge at work, to remember the soldier murdered in Woolwich - Lee Rigby. This is yet another example of complete stupidity. The priorities are now all over the place in modern Britain. Get real, Morissons!
Irish Fags
It seems that the Irish are going down the path of plain packaging for cigarettes, as a measure to reduce smoking. Dr James Reilly says that this initiative will stop cigarette companies from using marketing tactics to attract young smokers, particularly girls. Oh, I see, James. Having all cigarettes in Ireland contained within the same type of box will mean that girls won't be able to 'accessorize' anymore? What bollocks. I actually think there's a brilliant marketing opportunity available immediately the change comes about. Individual designs, adornments and stickers. Yes, I guarantee you that people will either design their own covers or there will be special stickers available online. The novelty factor alone will encourage added attention to smoking, "particularly" for girls who will colour co-ordinate things. As for the attack on tobacco companies making it difficult for them to adopt marketing tactics, what about the fact that illicit traders selling black-market fags will have a field day, especially as one in four cigarettes smoked is 'illegal' in Ireland. I think I need to go and design some funny, fashionable and spoof versions of cigarette packet covers asap.
Sun Cream
It seems that one in five of the nation's six-year-olds refuses to wear sun cream. That will of course be a concern to some of the over-fussy mothers who insist on smothering their offspring with dollops of the stuff and turning them into sticky people ready to polluted water, attract sand and develop rickets through lack of vitamin D. The obsession with FFF if simply weird and parents swallow the shit fed to them by retailers who need us all to do what we're told. This overkill is daft, and against all the actions of a society where common sense prevailed - it's been gone a few decades now though. These days, if you're a mum and you don't smear chemicals and shit on to a kid's skin before he runs off and plays (unless it's night-time, and he can safely mess about in or near a tower block, practising mugging old ladies) then you are an awful parent who doesn't deserve kids at all.
BBC Bias
here can surely be no surprise at all at the findings of Ed West, who's conducted a study of the BBC which concludes: "In its coverage of the topic of immigration, the BBC has given overwhelmingly greater weight to pro-migration voices even though they represent a minority (even elitist) viewpoint." This is just one subject that the BBC has treated with bias because we all know that leftism prevails. Even Mark Thompson (the Director General in 2010) accepted the BBC had once been guilty of a massive left-wing bias, with weak coverage of immigration. In political matters generally, the bias is acknowledged.
Key
CIC = Cunts In Charge
FFF = Factor Fucking Fifty
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