Guess what I've done today? Yep, I'm burnt to a crisp. My bald head looks like the top of a Vimto lolly. I should know better at my age. It's not safe and it's not clever but when it calms down I'm going turn a lovely shade of brown.
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Nerja part II
I always take the piss out of people who go on holiday, stay out in the sun to long and end up with sun burn.
Nerja
I'm writing this post sat outside a cafe in Nerja, Spain. The sun is in the sky and there is not a cloud to be seen.
I'm having a lovely holiday. My Dad lives out here so I'm staying at his place for the week.
Yesterday we went to the car museum in Malaga to see all the classic cars on display. If you ever find yourself in Malaga and have a spare afternoon I highly recommend it.
As today is world book day I'm going to find a nice spot in the shade and finish reading my book.
I'm only here until Saturday so I'm going to make the most of it before heading back home to the rain and the grey sky.
Sunday, 16 February 2014
Climate Change
It’s been another week of rain, wind, snow and floods. The British weather has always been a national obsession but it was usually on the level of conversational grumbling about the rain in summer. Now that we are having more frequent extreme weather events we have really got something to grumble about.
I’m no expert on climate change but it doesn’t take a genius to recognise the fact that the weather is changing in a dramatic way. I don’t know if climate change is caused by mankind or if this is just part of the planets natural cycle but I think the evidence suggests human activities are playing a roll in accelerating global warming. When I was a kid and people first started talking about climate change and global warming they said it could result in warmer but wetter summers, an increase in extreme weather events and prolonged colder winters. All these things are now occurring on a frequent basis. Is it a blip in the long-range trends or a permanent shift in weather patterns? Time will tell.
Recent studies claim the Jet Stream may have altered as a result of increased temperatures in the arctic. This could also have a dramatic long-term impact in relation to the traditional British and North American weather patterns. The BBC has reported on this today:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26023166
We have to face facts, manmade or not, climate change is now starting to impact our lives in a big way. We need to find ways of dealing with flooding and our Dutch friends can help with this. We need to be better prepared for more frequent heavy snow for longer periods of winter. We also need to work out how to cope with seasonal changes and how they impact farming and energy resources.
These are big challenges and we can’t kid ourselves that reducing our emissions will solve everything. It will help in the long run and is of vital importance but these extreme weather events will become the norm and we have to invest in the technology and the infrastructure so we don’t have the terrible scenes we have witnessed over the last few weeks on an annual basis.
I’m no expert on climate change but it doesn’t take a genius to recognise the fact that the weather is changing in a dramatic way. I don’t know if climate change is caused by mankind or if this is just part of the planets natural cycle but I think the evidence suggests human activities are playing a roll in accelerating global warming. When I was a kid and people first started talking about climate change and global warming they said it could result in warmer but wetter summers, an increase in extreme weather events and prolonged colder winters. All these things are now occurring on a frequent basis. Is it a blip in the long-range trends or a permanent shift in weather patterns? Time will tell.
Recent studies claim the Jet Stream may have altered as a result of increased temperatures in the arctic. This could also have a dramatic long-term impact in relation to the traditional British and North American weather patterns. The BBC has reported on this today:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26023166
We have to face facts, manmade or not, climate change is now starting to impact our lives in a big way. We need to find ways of dealing with flooding and our Dutch friends can help with this. We need to be better prepared for more frequent heavy snow for longer periods of winter. We also need to work out how to cope with seasonal changes and how they impact farming and energy resources.
These are big challenges and we can’t kid ourselves that reducing our emissions will solve everything. It will help in the long run and is of vital importance but these extreme weather events will become the norm and we have to invest in the technology and the infrastructure so we don’t have the terrible scenes we have witnessed over the last few weeks on an annual basis.
Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Griffin and the Holocaust
BNP leader Nick Griffin has once again denied being a Holocaust denier.
This is the man who he once referred to the Holocaust as "the Holohoax" when he was an editor of The Rune. He criticised infamous Holocaust denier David Irving for admitting that up to four million Jews might have died in the Holocaust; he wrote "True Revisionists will not be fooled by this new twist to the sorry tale of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century." In 1997, he told an undercover journalist that he had personally updated Richard Verrall's disgusting booklet Did Six Million Really Die?
Don’t be fooled by Griffin. He has own agenda when criticises the NF, the EDL or any other far-right group. He doesn’t do this because he disagrees with them. He does it as he wants to be the face of British right-wing politics with his party leading the way. Griffin is a fascist, a holocaust denier and a homophobe.
Griffin's party is in deep financial trouble and has dropped so far in the polls they are on the verge of becoming irrelevant. The sooner the better in my opinion. We don't need scum like Griffin in our nation's politics.
This is the man who he once referred to the Holocaust as "the Holohoax" when he was an editor of The Rune. He criticised infamous Holocaust denier David Irving for admitting that up to four million Jews might have died in the Holocaust; he wrote "True Revisionists will not be fooled by this new twist to the sorry tale of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century." In 1997, he told an undercover journalist that he had personally updated Richard Verrall's disgusting booklet Did Six Million Really Die?
Don’t be fooled by Griffin. He has own agenda when criticises the NF, the EDL or any other far-right group. He doesn’t do this because he disagrees with them. He does it as he wants to be the face of British right-wing politics with his party leading the way. Griffin is a fascist, a holocaust denier and a homophobe.
Griffin's party is in deep financial trouble and has dropped so far in the polls they are on the verge of becoming irrelevant. The sooner the better in my opinion. We don't need scum like Griffin in our nation's politics.
Thursday, 30 January 2014
Head Mashing
This Week....
Racist misogynist Jim Davidson has won celebrity Big Brother. Let’s all just think about that for a moment - Jim Davidson has won a popularity contest!!! WTF were you thinking BB fans? I don’t know what this says about the quality of the other housemates but they can’t have been so unlikeable that Jim Davidson was more popular.
Michael Adebolajo, who was found guilty of the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby, has lodged an application to appeal against his conviction! This is the man who murdered someone in cold blood in front of dozens of witnesses and was then filmed with blood all over his hands explaining why he killed the guy. What on Earth is he appealing against? He can try and claim to be a soldier attacking a legitimate target but that would be utter bollocks. He is a murdering scumbag who should never be let out of prison.
Gagging Bill – Hard to believe this hasn’t caused more of a stir outside of the usual protesting political circles. Our freedom and our democracy have been diluted by this bill. If you’re not sure what the fuss is all about follow the link below.
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/01/gagging-bill-defeat-britains-democracy-just-got-worse/
On a final note - my beloved Bolton Wanderers are…… shite!
Racist misogynist Jim Davidson has won celebrity Big Brother. Let’s all just think about that for a moment - Jim Davidson has won a popularity contest!!! WTF were you thinking BB fans? I don’t know what this says about the quality of the other housemates but they can’t have been so unlikeable that Jim Davidson was more popular.
Michael Adebolajo, who was found guilty of the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby, has lodged an application to appeal against his conviction! This is the man who murdered someone in cold blood in front of dozens of witnesses and was then filmed with blood all over his hands explaining why he killed the guy. What on Earth is he appealing against? He can try and claim to be a soldier attacking a legitimate target but that would be utter bollocks. He is a murdering scumbag who should never be let out of prison.
Gagging Bill – Hard to believe this hasn’t caused more of a stir outside of the usual protesting political circles. Our freedom and our democracy have been diluted by this bill. If you’re not sure what the fuss is all about follow the link below.
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/01/gagging-bill-defeat-britains-democracy-just-got-worse/
On a final note - my beloved Bolton Wanderers are…… shite!
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Blame the Poor
The following is from The Independent and is both funny, true and very sad:
The poor spend all the money. Isn’t it obvious?
It’s a tricky argument to pull off – the poor caused the debt so they should pay it back
In a couple of weeks, the economy will be put right.
Because at last cuts such as the “bedroom tax” and universal tax credit come in, so we’ll finally get some money back off the richest people in this country – the poor. Any glance at our society makes it obvious who’s run up all the debts; the poor, that’s who, swanning around in charity shop cardigans and galavanting on shopping expeditions like the women in Sex and the City, squealing “Hey let’s go to Poundland and buy a dishcloth”, in ways the rich can barely dream of.
The rich have to pay for the poor’s avarice, with many currency speculators at Price Waterhouse having to take on extra work to make ends meet. They’ve barely finished destabilising the yen when they take two buses to a cleaning job, polishing a bedsit in Tower Hamlets. Many CEOs find their salary runs out and live on cat food until their bonus arrives, and 40 per cent of the board at the Royal Bank of Scotland are now on the game.
This is mainstream economics, that the poor are richer than the rich. Modern politicians must see a film on Comic Relief about starving children in Somalia and cry: “What a tragedy. Is it any wonder Africa’s in a pickle while the extravagant pigs flaunt their mosquitoes like that?” Then they call the number on the screen and pledge to help out the village by shutting down their well.
It’s an imaginative approach, because less qualified types might imagine the banking crisis may have been caused, in some part, by bankers. But it takes a trained mind to understand that the people who robbed us are the poor. If a government minister stormed into a bank in the middle of an armed robbery, he’d yell: “There are the robbers; those bastards lying on the floor tied up and snivelling that they don’t want to die. And someone help out this man, the poor chap’s trying to carry a sack AND a sawn-off shotgun, he’ll pull a muscle.”
It’s a tricky argument to pull off, that the poor caused the debt so they should pay it back. Maybe that’s why most weeks there are stories in certain newspapers about a woman with 45 kids on benefits, who then bought a giraffe and now that’s on benefits but she said it was cramped so the council has put it up in the Shard, and two of the kids have got Compulsive Potting Disorder so they’ve been given a snooker table but she couldn’t be referee because she’s allergic to white gloves so the mayor has to do it, otherwise he’d be put in jail by Europe.
Then they quietly drop the story when it emerges that the reporter missed out the detail that although it did happen, it was in a dream he had while suffering from food poisoning.
So it’s replaced with an article about a man on invalidity benefit who turned out to be secretly competing in triathlon tournaments in his loft, and there’s a woman who hasn’t worked since 1975 who receives so much in housing benefit that she pays Martin Amis to fill in her claim forms for more money. And they’ll print an extract that starts: “You ask why I have attended no job interview in 38 years and I can only weep the tears of a fallen angel, reach to the constellations and ask that you, dear assessor, replete in your cruddy crude crudeness, be spared the dodgy knee I’ve had all that time. Time. Whatever, whenever, whoever my succulent sobriquet, that may be. Oh, and I need a new fridge.”
Iain Duncan Smith will raise the case in parliament, until it turns out it was made up on a website called “People On Benefits Are Aliens From Jupiter – FACT!!!” and it is never mentioned again.
Then they turn to immigrants, and this time all politicians agree we can’t carry on as we are, paying all these benefits to them because we’re about to run out of everything. If he was to glance at his own department’s figures, Duncan Smith would see that 6.6 per cent of immigrants claim benefits, compared with 16.6 per cent of non-immigrants. Which goes to show that he doesn’t have time to look at figures because he’s a very busy man given that he’s working, and anyone who receives benefits who quotes a statistic correctly should have their money cut since they’ve been arsing about looking at numbers when they should be trying to get work.
At least they’re attacking the poor, though, who caused the mess in the first place. Because the banking system, as we know, was ruined by the residents of a tower block in Toxteth. In league with a woman from Sunderland on invalidity benefit with chronic back pain, they lent vast sums to international investors at the bottom of a stairwell by the bins, with not a thought for the damage caused to the global financial system. So now they’re being turfed out of their house for having a spare room for their kids. That’ll teach them.
The poor spend all the money. Isn’t it obvious?
It’s a tricky argument to pull off – the poor caused the debt so they should pay it back
In a couple of weeks, the economy will be put right.
Because at last cuts such as the “bedroom tax” and universal tax credit come in, so we’ll finally get some money back off the richest people in this country – the poor. Any glance at our society makes it obvious who’s run up all the debts; the poor, that’s who, swanning around in charity shop cardigans and galavanting on shopping expeditions like the women in Sex and the City, squealing “Hey let’s go to Poundland and buy a dishcloth”, in ways the rich can barely dream of.
The rich have to pay for the poor’s avarice, with many currency speculators at Price Waterhouse having to take on extra work to make ends meet. They’ve barely finished destabilising the yen when they take two buses to a cleaning job, polishing a bedsit in Tower Hamlets. Many CEOs find their salary runs out and live on cat food until their bonus arrives, and 40 per cent of the board at the Royal Bank of Scotland are now on the game.
This is mainstream economics, that the poor are richer than the rich. Modern politicians must see a film on Comic Relief about starving children in Somalia and cry: “What a tragedy. Is it any wonder Africa’s in a pickle while the extravagant pigs flaunt their mosquitoes like that?” Then they call the number on the screen and pledge to help out the village by shutting down their well.
It’s an imaginative approach, because less qualified types might imagine the banking crisis may have been caused, in some part, by bankers. But it takes a trained mind to understand that the people who robbed us are the poor. If a government minister stormed into a bank in the middle of an armed robbery, he’d yell: “There are the robbers; those bastards lying on the floor tied up and snivelling that they don’t want to die. And someone help out this man, the poor chap’s trying to carry a sack AND a sawn-off shotgun, he’ll pull a muscle.”
It’s a tricky argument to pull off, that the poor caused the debt so they should pay it back. Maybe that’s why most weeks there are stories in certain newspapers about a woman with 45 kids on benefits, who then bought a giraffe and now that’s on benefits but she said it was cramped so the council has put it up in the Shard, and two of the kids have got Compulsive Potting Disorder so they’ve been given a snooker table but she couldn’t be referee because she’s allergic to white gloves so the mayor has to do it, otherwise he’d be put in jail by Europe.
Then they quietly drop the story when it emerges that the reporter missed out the detail that although it did happen, it was in a dream he had while suffering from food poisoning.
So it’s replaced with an article about a man on invalidity benefit who turned out to be secretly competing in triathlon tournaments in his loft, and there’s a woman who hasn’t worked since 1975 who receives so much in housing benefit that she pays Martin Amis to fill in her claim forms for more money. And they’ll print an extract that starts: “You ask why I have attended no job interview in 38 years and I can only weep the tears of a fallen angel, reach to the constellations and ask that you, dear assessor, replete in your cruddy crude crudeness, be spared the dodgy knee I’ve had all that time. Time. Whatever, whenever, whoever my succulent sobriquet, that may be. Oh, and I need a new fridge.”
Iain Duncan Smith will raise the case in parliament, until it turns out it was made up on a website called “People On Benefits Are Aliens From Jupiter – FACT!!!” and it is never mentioned again.
Then they turn to immigrants, and this time all politicians agree we can’t carry on as we are, paying all these benefits to them because we’re about to run out of everything. If he was to glance at his own department’s figures, Duncan Smith would see that 6.6 per cent of immigrants claim benefits, compared with 16.6 per cent of non-immigrants. Which goes to show that he doesn’t have time to look at figures because he’s a very busy man given that he’s working, and anyone who receives benefits who quotes a statistic correctly should have their money cut since they’ve been arsing about looking at numbers when they should be trying to get work.
At least they’re attacking the poor, though, who caused the mess in the first place. Because the banking system, as we know, was ruined by the residents of a tower block in Toxteth. In league with a woman from Sunderland on invalidity benefit with chronic back pain, they lent vast sums to international investors at the bottom of a stairwell by the bins, with not a thought for the damage caused to the global financial system. So now they’re being turfed out of their house for having a spare room for their kids. That’ll teach them.
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