There are a few things making me a bit pissed at the mo.
Let's start with an easy one.
Jade Goody.
Firstly, it's an unfortunate occurance that a young woman is dying before her children are fully grown.
However - why is her wedding on the national news? - THIS ISN'T NEWS. The BBC don't devote even a tenth of the coverage to UK soldiers dying in Afghanistan (for example), but because she's famous(for being on a crap reality show no less!) she merits a mention on the 5 live national news bulletin. Utter bollocks (and don't even get me started on Big Brother).
I did spend several seconds ranting at the radio over this.
I can honestly say that I think this is the start of the new generation of reality TV. "People dying while you watch right here on Channel 4" (the pioneers of reality telly). There is a videogame in which you have to murder people live on camera and you get better points for the more gruesome execution you perform for the cameras. It's called Manhunt. It's not a great game and the interface was particularly shonky. The game got a load of abuse when it came out and was banned in several countries. I can see TV getting like this soon.
Another one.
Abu Qatada.
Came to this country with a forged passport, was described by various intelligence agencies as "Bin Laden's Right-Hand man in Europe". Wanted by lots of countries on lots of charges. Now, he's come from a country with whose government he doesn't agree with and wants to change his orignal government and ours to match his extremist lifestyle. Comes here and starts to preach hatred of non-muslims. I don't agree that he should have been locked up without charge, he should have been put on trial and the evidence heard at a public hearing. But, last week the European Court of Anti-British rulings has given him some cash to spend on explosives (for being locked up without charge) and will be shortly telling the UK Government that they can't deport him. Liberty and Amnesty keep sending mouthpieces to media outlets to try and say "this shouldn't happen" - So just for me, when the bombs are being readied can the terrorists please send the bombs to the families of people who work for Liberty and Amnesty so they can defend the rights of the terrorists and ignore what happended to their families? Tossers.
Dear Mr. Qataba - just sod off - go anywhere but don't stay here.
Here's a quick one for the people of Britain.
Why are we in the EU if they constantly vote against UK interests? No clue.
Would the EU change their tune if we sent Qatada to brussels and let him abuse his freedom there? Probably.
Another one.
The financial state of the country.
We're in a mess.
No manufacturing base, no real money being generated. Not a good time to be around, unless you work for a bank or the stock market (you guys will always get your money).
Dear Prime Minister - You want to raise some funds for the country and government? Try taxing religious institutions. It's not the 14th century anymore and you don't need to bribe a local charlatan/priest to guarantee you entry into Heaven/Kingdom of the dead/Eleysium/Valhalla/Jannah, etc etc*(substitute any fictional afterlife created by religions for gullible idiots here). The government would get loads of cash, and the religions who don't like it can dismantle their temples and sod off abroad - and that then solves the problem of religious extremists coming to Britain. Easy.
Transport.
In order for me to get the Newcastle this Friday for a funeral I may have to pay £93 to the train companies for the comfort of not having a seat, getting grief from surly staff and having random people come up to me and say "that's my seat".
British Rail - Ripoff Rail more like.
The cheapest Airfare I can get is £84 - and that's only if I leave at reallyfuckingearly AM and return on the day I am due to get back to work (and consequently be late).
Even the coaches are going to cost me £60+ (plus a 60 minute wait in Milton Keynes for my money) for a 8 hour journey.
The government can bleat all they want about climate change, but until they start making public transport more affordable everybody will still take their cars.
Rant over for the morning (this morning at least).
Jade Goody.
Firstly, it's an unfortunate occurance that a young woman is dying before her children are fully grown.
However - why is her wedding on the national news? - THIS ISN'T NEWS. The BBC don't devote even a tenth of the coverage to UK soldiers dying in Afghanistan (for example), but because she's famous(for being on a crap reality show no less!) she merits a mention on the 5 live national news bulletin. Utter bollocks (and don't even get me started on Big Brother).
I did spend several seconds ranting at the radio over this.
I can honestly say that I think this is the start of the new generation of reality TV. "People dying while you watch right here on Channel 4" (the pioneers of reality telly). There is a videogame in which you have to murder people live on camera and you get better points for the more gruesome execution you perform for the cameras. It's called Manhunt. It's not a great game and the interface was particularly shonky. The game got a load of abuse when it came out and was banned in several countries. I can see TV getting like this soon.
Another one.
Abu Qatada.
Came to this country with a forged passport, was described by various intelligence agencies as "Bin Laden's Right-Hand man in Europe". Wanted by lots of countries on lots of charges. Now, he's come from a country with whose government he doesn't agree with and wants to change his orignal government and ours to match his extremist lifestyle. Comes here and starts to preach hatred of non-muslims. I don't agree that he should have been locked up without charge, he should have been put on trial and the evidence heard at a public hearing. But, last week the European Court of Anti-British rulings has given him some cash to spend on explosives (for being locked up without charge) and will be shortly telling the UK Government that they can't deport him. Liberty and Amnesty keep sending mouthpieces to media outlets to try and say "this shouldn't happen" - So just for me, when the bombs are being readied can the terrorists please send the bombs to the families of people who work for Liberty and Amnesty so they can defend the rights of the terrorists and ignore what happended to their families? Tossers.
Dear Mr. Qataba - just sod off - go anywhere but don't stay here.
Here's a quick one for the people of Britain.
Why are we in the EU if they constantly vote against UK interests? No clue.
Would the EU change their tune if we sent Qatada to brussels and let him abuse his freedom there? Probably.
Another one.
The financial state of the country.
We're in a mess.
No manufacturing base, no real money being generated. Not a good time to be around, unless you work for a bank or the stock market (you guys will always get your money).
Dear Prime Minister - You want to raise some funds for the country and government? Try taxing religious institutions. It's not the 14th century anymore and you don't need to bribe a local charlatan/priest to guarantee you entry into Heaven/Kingdom of the dead/Eleysium/Valhalla/Jannah, etc etc*(substitute any fictional afterlife created by religions for gullible idiots here). The government would get loads of cash, and the religions who don't like it can dismantle their temples and sod off abroad - and that then solves the problem of religious extremists coming to Britain. Easy.
Transport.
In order for me to get the Newcastle this Friday for a funeral I may have to pay £93 to the train companies for the comfort of not having a seat, getting grief from surly staff and having random people come up to me and say "that's my seat".
British Rail - Ripoff Rail more like.
The cheapest Airfare I can get is £84 - and that's only if I leave at reallyfuckingearly AM and return on the day I am due to get back to work (and consequently be late).
Even the coaches are going to cost me £60+ (plus a 60 minute wait in Milton Keynes for my money) for a 8 hour journey.
The government can bleat all they want about climate change, but until they start making public transport more affordable everybody will still take their cars.
Rant over for the morning (this morning at least).
Labels: yet another rant
posted by damo at
11:38 AM
4 Comments:
Don't get me started on the price of trains. Why they don't just renationalise the whole thing I'll never know. Well, I do really.
Calculate fares based on distance not the time of travel and when you bought the ticket, take shareholders' profits out of the mix and hey presto you have a reasonably priced, environmentally-friendly transport option.
Yep.
THing is they won't reduce the price of trains until Honda bring out the FCX Clarity in this country.
Powered by Hydrogen, waste product water. Once the facility is created to make Hydrogen cheaper the prices on transport will have to come down
Anyhow, it's nice to still be able to blame the Tories for something these days. Almost as stupid as privatising the Post Office...
Screw getting money from the churches. Why don't they simply *stop* giving it to the fucking chavs simply because they're too fucking lazy to get jobs, preferring instead to just drop more and more sprogs?
We pay them - effectively - to get pregnant and those children in turn are a bigger drain on the economy.
Neuter the bastards, take their children off them (they don't care about them anywat - they're just a cash cow) and empty their bank accounts. Fuck them.
Take all that money back and we could reduce fuel duty etc.
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