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The science of bollux

Nice to see technology catching up with those ultimate truths of existence. It seems that you can now get a variety of phone apps to detect ghosts and there is even one that will take pictures of one on the phone's camera. One of those apps will even detect the devil when you key in a certain code. Of course, what the faithful will want most of all is a god detector. Hallelujah! You can get one of those too!

Actually, to save the believers among the non-existent readers of bloggoth from wasting their time, those all appear to be tongue in cheek apps/devices devised by horrible atheists to mock the faithful. They will regret their heresy when they are burning in hell! "Vengeance is mine" sayeth the (loving) Lord. Current technology is apparently no more capable of detecting the spirits, of whatever rank, than human senses. Good video on that below.

Perhaps we should just give it time. After all, in Faraday's day, nobody imagined we could detect neutrinos, cosmic radiation etc. Maybe technology just needs a few more centuries and then we will be able to email our dear departed and see how they are getting on, or millions will be able to log into Skype and see a presentation by the almighty. I suspect youtube videos posted by Satan will be a lot more interesting for most of us.

Actually, technology is the one thing to bring a little sense to the religious notion that mankind is unique. We are generally no better than other tribal animals at getting along with each other or creating perfect societies but we are brilliant at making new gadgets! While a few apes or birds can use basic tools, like a stick to get ants from a nest, only man has been able to develop and continually improve his own creations, as opposed to just using something that he finds lying around. So maybe that is the ultimate goal that god has in mind for us! Only when we develop really fantastic technology will he deem us worthy of entering paradise.

Hmmm. Trouble is, if god is actually just an almighty computer geek, maybe he will be judging us on on our internet activity, as some employers (and the government if it gets its way) already do.

Good video:

The Human God Detector

Wierd winter

Satanmass day and flowers are blooming in the garden. Almost 10'C outside.

Update:Boxer shorts day and almost 15'C.

Lots of little flies around too. At least something is having a nice Satanmass.

Another myth

We often see the pressures on A&E services blamed on the elderly, us awful selfish baby boomers, but the reality is almost certainly different. The rise in elderly is a gradual thing and cannot totally explain the surge of the last few years.

I went to A&E last year when my brother in law, who had terminal lung cancer, was in extreme pain. He was one of the few old people there. Most were young families. A recent local news item says the same thing:

Mrs Wickens explained many patients, especially young people and families, come to the emergency department with a cough, a cold or a mouth ulcer, and have to wait long hours before being seen by staff because there are at the bottom of the priority list.

PC inflation

Big furore in the news about a Muslim family being prevented from travelling to the US.

Maybe one of those things blown out of proportion. According to an Imam, 10 Muslim families have similarly been stopped, over an unstated period, with no details of reason. Based on visitor figures and demographics, around 180,000 British Muslims probably visit the US each year so it's not exactly a huge percentage. And how many non-Muslims get similar bans? We don't know obviously, as such cases would not trigger the PC reaction and make the main news, but this local newspaper report shows that it does happen.

It now seems that the family's home address is linked to an extremist Facebook page and a relative that they were due to visit attended the same mosque as one of the shooters in the California attack. Maybe an error and a coincidence as they claim but adequate reasons for a bar given the realities of terrorism and where it mostly comes from. Ideally, the US should complete these checks before people have spent a lot of money on their travel plans but, that aside, such suspicious circumstances should be sufficient to bar travel. A nation does not have any duty to admit foreign nationals and should not therefore be expected to engage in rigorous and expensive investigation to provide water tight evidence before acting to protect their own citizens.

It is a pity that our own government has less sense.

PS And that Imam who also had entry refused. Do a Google and he seems a reasonable chap on the face of it, ready to condemn radicals at risk to his own life. Dig further and that may not be the truth. Ah yes, a right wing blog, but check out the links, they do appear to be his actual Facebook posts. The audio tirade linked to from this page appears genuine too. On the other hand, those death threats caused by his declared willingness to confront extremism may well be fake. One does not have to be an extremist to denounce Western foreign policies, to castigate Israeli actions or to have some sympathy with the people of Gaza but the nature of some posts and the speech, the way that everything is blamed on non Muslims and colonial masters and Western imperialists, the denunciations of Zionists, may encourage hatred whether he intends it or not. Support for the Muslim brotherhood and Jamaat is not remotely compatible with Western ideals of freedom and secularism. Islamism is a threat to our future even if the establishment of the Islamic state is saught by political rather than violent means. The US were wise to keep him out. Pity we can't lose him, and many Islamists like him, too.

Alummy summit

Just got back from two weeks in Alum, Alem, Almin, oh bollux, a place in Spain. Nice and warm, up to 23'C in the sun and still thinnest jumpers in the evenings. Main things of importance, a dog that actually sounded like "Woof Woof" when it barked and an otherwise slim hotel receptionist with the biggest arse we've ever seen! Gorgeous, could scarcely believe it was real.

PS Oh yes, beautiful mountains, historical thingies etc etc

PPS Spent over £200 on a pair of varifocal glasses. Quite good, adjust to distant or near dependent on which way you look vertically. What I really need is a pair of arsefocal lenses, that provide x4 magnification when I look at ladies' arses.

Darn it!

Usual massacres etc but worst news is that the former home of one of my heros, Satanist Alistair Crowley, has burnt down. When I won a fortune on the lottery I was hoping to buy it and revamp Thelema. Humanity is never guided by rationality or facts but maybe if people are taught that these are demanded by a higher being or some such bollux they would be.

Crowley was dubbed the most evil man in the world. He was a dissolute alcoholic and druggy but never committed any acts that were criminal at the time and it illustrates the absurdity of human nature that he got that title for being a libertine and practicing Satanic rituals rather than serial killers or politically inspired mass murderers.

Screwed up certainly but what an interesting life. Maybe that, rather than being successful, productive, good to others etc is what we should all aim for.

PS Although he did sacrifice some goats, the bastard! As any true Satanist should know, the proper use of a goat is to kiss its arse. Mmm! Although, obviously, our advanced form of Thelema would require a lady pig instead.

Seem to have mentioned arse 3 times in above. Quite right, what else matters but ladies' (or goats') arses?

Attack the bastards - I suppose

Good idea to bomb ISIL? No easy answers, but generally I'm a well, er, yes, I suppose.

Comparisons with Afghanistan/Iraq are daft in my view. There were no good reasons whatever for those and anyone with a modicum of knowledge of the areas would have known that there would be internal conflicts and problems that would probably result in even worse outcomes for the citizens of those countries. In this case, there are far better reasons, it is difficult to imagine a worse situation than an area controlled by those murdering butchers.

Will it reduce or increase chances of terrorism here? Probably won't make much difference in the short term, as these people will attack us anyway. We already have plenty here with their mind set and rationality does not figure highly in their thinking - we are the Imperialist West, killers of Muslims, and we are already on the list. If the Islamic state was achieved and allowed to flourish as a real nation it would just be the starting point in their quest to impose the nonsense of Islam on all of us. Extremists among our own citizens would be pouring in for training and funding would be flowing to every radical Muslim organisation on the planet. If IS is actually defeated I think it will also reduce the risk as the lack of an achievable ultimate goal may make the more rational among our own Muslims less inclined to risk their lives.

Perhaps the most important thing is that we should stand by our allies, the French, following the Paris attack. One can um and ah but IMO a major aspect of life that we should always follow is - look after your own. Yourself, your family, your friends, those like you - they should always come first.

Some issues are so complex and unpredictable one can spend forever deciding what is right or what will work and there can be no firm conclusions. If we had to be totally sure of everything we would always do bugger all.

Wrong allies?

50 years ago our main enemy was communism, embodied by the Soviet Union. Turkey, then still very much the secular state that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had set up, was a vital ally. Today, things have changed. The enemy is Islamism and Turkey is ruled by an Islamist, Erdogan, who is taking things backwards. Like the Muslim Brotherhood, he pretends to be moderate but, bit by bit, he is grabbing more and more power and removing freedom and secularism from Turkish citizens. Russia, on the other hand, despite all the frictions between it and the West, *Note 1 is very much our enemy's enemy, having been involved in their own fight against Islam in Chechnya. As the old saying goes...

More about Erdogan here. Before the lefties among the non existent readers of bloggoth say, Oh! it's just The Daily Mail! let's have a look at an article in The Independent which suggests Turkish "tolerance of - if not complicity with -" ISIS. President Obama *Note 2 has demanded that Turkey must close the border with Syria to prevent it being used as an ISIS crossing point.

The world changes and so do its conflicts. Maybe it is time to get a new ally and ditch an old one. For all Turkey's military power does the West really need a nation in NATO that has more in common with our current enemy?

Note 1: Largely due to stupid Western foreign policies as we said here.

Note 2: Obama instead of Obummer as he appears to be being most sensible on this occasion.

If you can't believe the experts, who can you trust?

I am an engineer with a background of simulation, including of heat transmission in furnaces, and the basic ideas behind the global warming theory look sound enough to me. However, for us engineers, it's facts that really matter. Theories unsupported by reliable facts may as well be witchcraft for all the value they have.

This item in the DT tells of fiddled temperature figures from weather stations that show warming where cooling actually occurred. Of course, anti-global warming sorts may be no more honest than global warming sorts, so has there really been a manipulation of the figures or has the manipulation of figures been manipulated?

Only one thing for it. We can't trust anyone so we will have to make some measurements ourselves and see the truth of it. We have a little weather station in our bedroom that shows temperature and humidity so from now on we will be keeping a full log and producing our own graphs. Starting now!

29/11/2015 15.00. Temperature 13.3'C
29/11/2015 16.00. Temperature 13.4'C
29/11/2015 17.00. Temperature 14.8'C. Detached observer comment: Distinct warming tendency becoming apparent here.

Ignore that last reading, xoggoth has been farting again!

Disappointment rises

Not as awful as Labour would have been obviously, and probably no worse than many other world governments, but this Tory government is proving crap on a range of issues.

They appear to be blaming continuing massive levels of immigration on the EU despite an increase in non-EU net migration to 196,000 in 2014 and despite the fact that, with some exceptions like the Roma, it is those from outside the EU who are the major problem. A report from University College London showed that migrants from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) made a negative contribution to the public purse of £117.9 billion over 17 years. Over 40% of them were not working in 2011.

Another big mistake they appear to be making on this issue is a blanket tightening up that does not take acount of where the low performing migrants come from. Other stats suggest it is not legal migrants from India or China that are the main problem and a good relationship with those countries may be to our advantage. The same is not true of migrants from some other countries, especially Muslim or Sub-Saharan African ones. We should not let political correctness guide immigration policy with a pretence that migrants from all countries are equal in terms of ability and the benefits or burdens they bring to the UK.

You would have thought that at least a Tory government would be sound on economic issues but that does not appear to be the case either. It seems to have abandoned efforts to cut the deficit, excessive welfare and the bloated state. It is totally absurd that council tax is to go up to fund social care yet they are finding £12bn for foreign aid. Also, although the measures we mentioned in an earlier post have not been implemented this time around, they still seem to be unable to distinguish in their consultations between genuine tax avoiders and the skilled and mobile temporary workers and contractors who are essential to our economy.

More importantly, they appear to be repeating the errors that gave us the last global crash, keeping interest rates low and then encouraging people to spend on property using loans they will not be able to repay if interest rates rise. We admit we don't really understand economics but presumably the IMF does. Low interest rates and quantitative easing have encouraged a massive build up of debt and another huge crash is only a matter of time.

F* idiots. Just as well a total ******(insert all possible expletives in 47 languages here) is leading Labour, only thing that makes the Tories look slightly better in comparison.

Quite 2

This week's "political comment we could not be arsed to make ourselves" (apart from a minor change). Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said “all the terrorists are basically migrants”

The ~~controversial right-winger~~ sensible chap said that Muslims living in certain European countries were living in “parallel societies” - where they rejected Western values but still held EU passports. In an interview with Politico, Mr Orbán said it was “simply a question of when they came to the European Union” as it emerged that at least six of the nine Paris attackers were born in the EU or had EU citizenship. He said it was an “obvious fact” that there was an “overwhelming logical” connection between terrorism and the migration of Muslim people in Europe that other EU countries deny.

"Islamophobia" cry the lefty loonies! No, reality. He is not saying that all Muslims are terrorists, simply stating the obvious fact that much of the most serious terrorism in Europe in the last decade has come from the Muslim community. Although the risk of any of us being killed in a terrorist attack are extremely small, the cost of preventing such attacks most certainly is not. It is important not to further marginalise those who are already citizens but we are not under any obligation to keep growing the risk and the costs by allowing further Muslim immigration.

Quite

This week's "article that we could not be arsed to write ourselves" comes from the Express - Forget Syria, this is WAR and we need to deal with Islamist threat in our OWN BACKYARD:

Bombing IS in Syria must be done with a carefully thought out follow-up plan, which was so lamentably absent in Iraq and Libya. There, gung-ho military raids succeeded in removing dictators but ultimately allowed even more malignant forces to rush into the power vacuums we had created.
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Given the war-like situation which now exists with IS, the Government should be making it clear that any Briton who willingly travels to IS-controlled territory will not be readmitted to Britain.
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It has reached the bizarre situation in which a terror suspect in Syria can be summarily vaporised yet a terror suspect who manages to reach Britain cannot be detained and ends up being provided with legal aid to fight deportation. When a terrorist threat is so grave as to be thought serious enough to require bombers to be sent on foreign air raids then that is war - and it justifies the sort of wartime measures which Churchill employed to tackle the threat of German spies and saboteurs hiding in Britain during the Second World War.

Bring back Dad's Army

With Osbourne cutting back on the police (try cutting back on foreign aid instead you f* idiot!) and the growing terrorist threat we are really going to be stuffed. The only solution is to make use of our ageing population to fill the gap. I already do police search, so being on the anti-terrorist volunteer force would be right up my street.

I bet those f* ISIS bastards don't like it up em.

Ludicrous (again)

Said a while ago that at least the whole anti-racism/anti-discrimination thing was not telling us who we should be able to have a relationship/sex with but now it seems even that sensible bar is breaking down. Now we (and by we, I mean only white people obviously) are racist because we prefer to date those of our own ethnicity. How long will it be before we are obliged to date people of all ethnicities, disabled people, ugly people, old people or, as per my cartoon, people of our own sex?

When I did that cartoon I thought it was a joke!

One sided too

Another example of the one-sided nature of the racism debate is shown in this BBC article:

To let advertisements that specify a particular race or religion are visible in newsagents windows in many areas of London.
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Double bedroom available… Asian only
Double room to let Gujarati (Indian) only
Close to the station and bus stops (Filipino only)
Professional single lady or Sri Lanka professional couple
House for rent… only Asian families
...
They only represent a small proportion of flat ads but it's hard to imagine even a single similar advert saying "whites only" not drawing complaints.

Quite!

coooooooooooor

What a lovely wobbly bottom.

Ludicrous (again)

Why are the most reasonable comments always called far-right, racist or Islamophobic?

Example 1: "Migrants trying to break into the Channel Tunnel to reach the UK should be locked up in a prison-style camp in Calais, MEP Janice Atkinson has said.Her call has drawn criticism from Asylum Aid, which said her remarks showed how low this country has sunk in how it talks about desperate people.

So is there anywhere in there that says all migrants should be locked up? No, only the ones who are causing thousands of pounds worth of damage in pursuit of an illegal entry into the UK by breaking in to the tunnel. They are criminals and should be treated as such. I bet if some homeless white British kids were breaking into people's house because they were desperate to get out of the cold they would not get such sympathy. Rather like the poor lorry drivers who face threats on a daily basis.

Example 2: Jason Manford has defended online comments in which he criticised the “cowardly” assailants who killed at least 128 people in a series of terrorist attacks in Paris. The post read: “F**king cowards. Slaughtering innocent unarmed people for what? Families and children enjoying life, theatre, meals? Not an army vs army you f**king cowards...

Where in the entire post is he blaming Muslims in general? Where is castigating anyone at all apart from the F**king cowards who killed or injured hundreds of ordinary people, the scumbags for whom f* cowards is actually a pretty meek term? Are we supposed to be polite about people like that?

Anti-racism in the UK is a form of inverted racism. It is fine to talk about the lazy, welfare-dependent white British, their tendency to drink too much, be obese or to dwell on historic child abuse cases but one can never say anything against migrants or ethnic minorities no matter how well founded the facts may be. They may come from low performing , crime-ridden countries with some appalling cultural practices but as soon as they cross our borders they are hard working perfect citizens and any problems they do have are all down to maginalisation due to our vicious racism.

Why are governments so f* stupid?

According to The Guardian, the government is considering a crackdown on personal service companies and is proposing that anyone who works for a business for more than a month will have to be treated as an employee.

How f* stupid can you get? Makes even less sense than IR35 introduced by that fuckwit Gordon Brownstuff in which the determining factor in deciding if someone was an employee or not was the degree of control exercised over him. That has nothing whatever to do with it! The legal definitions of what constitutes a temporary workplace are utterly absurd! The definition should be based on the English definition of the word 'temporary'.

The main reason why a contractor, or any temporary staff, should be able to claim travel and subsistence expenses is that, unlike an employee, he does not have the option to reduce his costs by relocating to the work area. If he is there for less than six months he will not even be able to reduce his away costs by renting but will instead have to use expensive hotels or B&Bs. Also, unlike most builders who are absurdly to be offered an exemption from these rules, highly skilled IT contractors rarely find positions very locally but have to be prepared to travel long distances or stay away all week.

Travel and subsistence are not the only costs and burdens that a contractor has which an employee does not have. Even if these proposals remove the need to calculate PAYE and VAT from contractors, it seems likely they will still have to fill in tax returns and provide details of all their "employments" to HMArseC and they will most certainly have to set up and administer their own pensions. Employees don't have to do any of these things and, in larger companies, they also get various other perks, such as membership of a sports club, sick pay, maternity/paternity leave, health insurance and various forms of support by HR. Will contactors get all of these? It hardly seems likely as setting some of those things for somebody only there for a few months would be a huge administrative burden and be very costly. Such things as sick pay are normally only available when somebody has been employed for over three months anyway.

So, just to deal with the real tax frauds like the BBC presenters who used personal service companies when they were actually BBC employees working at the same place for years, this f* stupid government intends to destroy our economy even further by making it much more difficult to get contractors in at short notice for short term contracts, something that is sometimes essential. We do not have a problem in tackling real abuse of the system and it would make sense to have some simple time-based criteria to determine employment, such as working at the same place for over a year or having a contract to do so, but to set a time scale of one month would be absurd.

PS Good quote from non-existent reader of bloggoth Mr Sheep. "The problem with government is that they love to govern, and will make rules and laws and issue proclamations for the sole purpose of governing whether something needs to be governed or not."

Ludicrous

There is a difference between real hate speech, actively encouraging attacks on or marginalisation of some group, and an odd comment. The possibility of six months in jail for a one off Facebook post is quite out of proportion. People should be free to question the idea of a right to life regardless of how much it burdens others or how little the person concerned gets out of it. Pity we don't have a written constitution that guarantees freedom of speech as the US has.

Makes you wonder, with all the new crackdowns on "extremism" whether MI5 is going to be scanning blogs to see if they conform to the required PC standards. From now on, any comments on bloggoth that do not conform to such standards, praising the wonders of diversity for example, will be encrypted. Fortunately, we have a brilliant encrypting system *Note we wrote in Excel VBA to keep our passwords safe. Non-existent readers of bloggoth may obtain a translation on request, provided that request is made via the Darknet obviously.

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*Note: Actually, we took a standard encyption algorithm and fiddled about with a few lines. The UK's security agency staff will be too busy being tied up in canvas bags and buggered by Russian spies to find the time to decrypt it anyway.

Seeing what people are

Taking to neighbour the other day and mentioned that I had bumped into a mutual acquaintance. Rather surprised when she said how creepy he was and that she would never want to be alone with him. Don't know him well but he seems a nice bloke to me.

Other people often claim to have this mysterious human insight that I just don't seem to have. Seen and heard quite a few comments about how they always knew there was something "not quite right" about Jimmy Saville. I thought him very irritating, as a lot of celebrities are, but a kiddy fondling monster? Not a clue. Can one get an awareness course in monster spotting? Or is there an app perhaps?

What a waste of waste

The problems caused by ISIL and other extreme Islamic groups are just getting worse. Nice to see the Ebola crisis is over though.

Maybe a bit of joined up thinking on world problems is needed. Ebola was spread through bodily fluids and the most important thing to prevent spread was isolation of the infected What a waste of a good weapon. They could have used planes to dump the contents of the toilets from the isolation hospitals on ISIS controlled areas. Much cheaper than bombs and missiles.

Banned under some UN convention or other of course. Why is it ok to shoot, crush, blow up or burn people but not poison or infect them? We need a bit more logic in world extermination laws. I bet the Daleks would not have this dilemna.

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Sexy!!! 1

I see the Muppets are back and the show has been criticised for being too sexy. I shall certainly be watching in the hope that Miss Piggy gets 'em off. HOT she is!

Sexy!!! 2

News today that a transgender person has been moved to an all female prison. We saw a protest on the TV news by other transgender people and they all looked much as we expected, like blokes in make-up. Yuck! But then they showed the "lady" in question. Phwwwoooooor! "She" is bloody gorgeous! Big knockers and a fantastic, real female face. See "her" here. "She" speaks like a real woman too.

Dunno how much that cost the NHS but can I get the same treatment? Well, not quite the same treatment, I would still like to have a knob hidden away somewhere so I could strip off and have a good J Arthur in front of the mirror every day, I wouldn't need to keep wasting my time looking for women on dating sites then.

Rant!!! 1 Another Muslim threat. Fantastic!

It seems that we are supposed to welcome another potentially dangerous, Islamic non-citizen back into our fold with the arrival of the last Guantanamo Bay detainee.

Oh goodeee! Just what we need, we don't have nearly enough of them. We certainly don't agree with detaining someone for years without trial, not unless he presented a threat of Bin Laden magnitude anyway, but we should not take in citizens of other countries when there is significant risk to our own. He should go back to Saudi Arabia.

What is even more f* annoying is the probability that he will probably receive enormous compensation from the British taxpayer while costing them another fortune to keep him under observation and yet another to cope with his poor health.

This bloke was apprehended by mercenaries and handed over to the US military. They were the ones who supposedly tortured him, and most definitely the ones who detained him for 14 years without trial, so why the f* is up to the UK to pay compensation?

Rant 2!!! British democracy is a joke!

First we have an unelected house of Lords halting a bill approved by the elected house. We have reservations about the details of this bill but it is entirely wrong in principle that this bunch of bishops, political appointees and hereditary peers (yes we still have 90 of them!) should overrule a recently elected government.

Today another absurdity in the commons when a Tory MP was allowed to block a vote by rabbiting on so they ran out of time. Why the hell is this still allowed?

We need a complete overhaul. Give us proper proportional representation, dump the House of Lords or make it elected and define its powers in law, ensure no person or group can block votes, give the English the same control over their laws as we are handing to other UK countries, ensure that laws enacted by the elected house override rulings by courts or any other organisations and, above all, make it a constitutional requirement to put the rights of British citizens first.

Until these things happen we can hardly blame people for viewing government with contempt.

Story

Afraid I creeped the old ladies at my writing club out with this one.

The Reality of the Soul

Volunteering

Looking for a few more volunteer roles to fill my time. Trouble is, most of them seem to be serving in charity shops and I can't think of anything more boring than hanging around and operating a till.

Do do some things, footpath inspections and repairs and I'm on the police search team that mostly searches country areas for missing, presumed dead, people. Went on a police search team exercise a few days ago and quite enjoyed wandering the country in the company of some very pleasant fellow old farts. Callouts are very rare though, so it's not something I can do much.

Been watching Dexter on Netflix recently, it's about a serial killing man who sees it as his duty to bump off criminals that the justice system has not dealt with. Hmmm. That's an idea! Maybe I could get to go on those enjoyable callouts more often.

Crime news

Every now and then one sees a case, like this one, of some bloke flming up ladies' skirts with his mobile phone. I just happened to be reminded of this when I checked Google Street View to find where a restaurant is in town and saw this lady standing outside. Mmmm! What a lovely big bum!

Come on Google! Next time you send out those Street View vehicles why not mount some cameras further down and provide us perves with a new service? Google Up Skirt View would be really popular!

How ludicrous can you get?

Some seem to feel that entire policies should be based on emotional reactions to single cases. A Guardian article slates the system of Work Capability Assessment because somebody deemed fit for work subsequently committed suicide. It would seem from the coroner's verdict that errors had been made in that particular case and I am not suggesting that the assessment may not have flaws generally. However, the article contained nothing specific as to the shortcomings of these assessments, there was just an implication that it's somehow wrong to properly assess people before they receive benefits.

Some medical conditions, especially mental health issues, are alway going to be difficult to assess. Without an impossibly expensive solution, like putting somebody under observation for weeks or even months, there are going be errors. The only other way to prevent them is to make the system so slack that it is open to abuse and that has consequences for care and support received by others.

There is no such thing as "only money". Any that is spent on support of those who do not really need it is money that will not be available for those that do. That too might cause deaths.

What is your soul really?

"Proofs" of the existence of the soul's existence are simple confusions with biologically created consciousness. When something frightens us for example, scientists can see the brain activities that cause the feeling. Purely chemical changes in the body can directly influence such things. We may be more emotional about a stirring bit of music that brings back memories if we have had a few drinks beforehand. Still, assuming you are daft enough to believe in one, logic will probably not persuade you and, after all, we admit we can't totally prove that there is not some supernatural being inside you that has an independent existence, that will go on living long after you do.

What if you are right and the soul really does exist, is it necessarily some superior form of your existence placed there by god for his purpose? Or could it actually be something totally malignant, like the parasitic wasp that lives inside a "Zombie Caterpillar"?

Mankind could have an enormous potential, we may be capable of developing an advanced world free of conflicts, but we never acheive it because, shortly after conception, we are all invaded by a parasitic supernatural being who drains our intellects and feelings for its own sustenance. When we die, it leaves its larval existence, briefly becoming a mature adult so it can mate and produce an egg to go inside the next new born baby.

Who knows for sure? Sorted the next xoggoth short story anyway.

Real recycling

Apparently we are heading for a global coffee shortage. Sports testing is used to detect abnormal amounts of caffeine and other drugs in urine.

Hmm. If the price of coffee rises too much it might become economic to recover this wasted caffeine. Watch out for a Costa shop at your local sewage works.

Simplifying mankind again

Was going to pour later so went for a walk early today while there was only very light drizzle. In the open anyway. It sounded like it was raining heavily whenever I was in the shelter of the trees. The obvious explanation is that the thin rain was coalescing on the upper foliage and creating much larger drops that were falling on the lower leaves.

Can human behaviour sometimes work like that? Man is a social animal, but as with all social animals from Meerkats to Chimps, this sociability does not take the form of a bond with mankind in general but with those who are like us. Extreme views may be spread out thinly among a population, few of us are totally reasonable about every issue. But coalesce those, mostly reasonable, human beings together where they can share and reinforce those less acceptable attitudes and a minor problem can become a much larger one. Peer pressure is a major determinant of human behaviour and extremism is a relative thing. Somebody wanting strict Shariah law imposed on all will view himself and be seen as less extreme, have more influence, if he never goes outside an ethnic group where many think that religious belief should shape our society.

Prominent ranters and extremist websites need to be stopped but, unless we act to heel the divisions in society and kick out the ridiculous notion that multi culturalism is always a good thing, regardless of what that culture stands for, more will just pop up.

Coincidences

Ok, if you have something in your recent memory it will leap out if you see it again. As I always say, coincindences are self created. Nevertheless, it happens so often that you see something and then see it again and again in totally unrelated articles I sometimes wonder.

This morning saw an article on Lyme disease and made a note as I do a lot of country wandering. Just now I looked at the onlne papers and there's a story about Lyme disease possibly being contagious, contrary to accepted wisdom that you can only catch it from ticks. 2 minutes later I looked at Mr Sheep's blog comment on the Simpsons and wondered who the gay teacher was. Checked a Mr Bergstorm and it mentions somebody having Lyme disease. Can't remember what it was now but just yesterday was another similar bizarre coincidence.

From now on, I shall be keeping a note. Maybe my hero Satan is trying to tell me something.

Idiot

So Corbyn would never press the button on the UK's nuclear weapons. What's the point of having them if you will never use them?.

Actually, what's the point of having them if we don't use them? If I was PM I'd be pressing the button all the time. Probably have to put up with some, like the bloody French and all their strikes, the Chinese and their exploding phone chargers as they have nukes too but plenty of targets that don't, Spanish sending their boats into Gibraltar waters, Argentines threatening the Falklands, Jamaicans and their whinging about slavery, Nigeria and all the email fraud, Saudi Arabia and its promotion of Islamic fundamentalism, the Scottish and their constant demands... I'm compiling a list. Most government expenditure would be on new nukes.

Who cares about spending on welfare? I'd be nuking most horrible common people anyway.

Smart meters

The government is trying to get smart meters installed in every home by 2020. These show energy usage instantly and are connected to the internet so that energy companies can bill for usage without sending meter readers to your home.

Bah! The government will use them to spy on us. "You say you were at home watching TV when this crime was committed sir, but your smart meter shows no significant electricity usage although it was cold and dark". CCTVs that read our number plates, phones that can be tracked even when switched off. Have you checked that microchip in your dog? What does that really do I wonder?

Oh piss off!

Fed up with this crap! Jamaica is again demanding compensation from the UK for the "lingering effects" of the Atlantic slave trade, abolished by Britain in 1807. Britain was also a major driver for abolition of slavery by other nations.

A nation is not an object but a collection of people and this is simplistic nonsense. Most British people today, even if their ancestors were actually British in the era of slavery, worked in conditions of near slavery themselves and got no profit from it while many Africans were complicit in the slave trade, it could not have happened on anywhere near the same scale otherwise. Not all Jamaicans today are descended from slaves either.

And what are these effects that are still "lingering" after more than 200 years? The list here even includes hypertension and strokes. Actually those problems are equally high in those from Africa whose ancestors were never slaves and it's best addressed by cutting down on salt. Is promotion of a simple health message really beyond them as a result of slavery? As for poor progress in education and lack of development where is any evidence that this is due to slavery? These are problems you find in many nations. If the transatlantic slave trade had never existed and Africans had simply migrated to the West Indies for paid jobs would it be any wealthier now? Looking at most sub Saharan African countries today, there is not the slightest reason to think so.

Of course historical events can have effects for many decades, perhaps generations, but 200 years? Places like India, Singapore, Malaysia etc have managed to emerge from empire to create successful economies. We in Europe have recovered from immensely destructive wars within a decade.

Still, keep on blaming the evil white man for all your problems and trying to get money for nothing. Easier than getting off your arses and shifting for yourselves.

Need reprogramming

Out on walk yesterday and got followed by a horse all the way across a field. Regularly I get followed by herds of sheep and horses when I cross fields. On walk the day before I got adopted by a dog, lovely friendly little collie who kept jumping up at me and I couldn't shake it off, followed me for ages. When I got to a minor road I flagged down a truck driver who slowed down for it and fortunately he knew who it belonged to, otherwise I'd have had to take it home and then gone round sticking up notices. Even wierder, I have been approached by small children three times in the last few months saying "hello, what's your name?" Haven't their parents told them not to approach weird old blokes? I get waved at by babies. Then there was that strange thing a few months back when I got approached by a group of 13 year old girls and one stood next to me and took a selfie.

Horses, sheep, dogs, kids, babies, young girls. They all seem to like xoggoth. Why can't I find a decent woman to do the same?

PS At least bloody cats stay clear of me.

Those bloody ghosts are everywhere you look!

Visited my nice nutty religious lady this weekend and stayed at the Talbot hotel in Oundle. It is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Mary Queen of Scots but she did not appear in my bed unfortunately.

Actually, the haunting tale is even more bollox than most haunting tales. For one thing, she had never actually been there in her life, the haunting is supposed to be due to the "fact" that the staircase came from nearby Fotheringhay castle where she was executed. For another, according to a historian I talked to in the bar, there is not the slightest evidence that it did.

Still, wouldn't it be interesting if ghosts did follow inanimate objects around? Would there be any lower size limit on those objects? There's that old saying that every breath we take could contain atoms that were once breathed by Julius Caesar. What if every human being decided to haunt one of the molecules from his/her last dying breath? Fuck me, we wouldn't be able to move for ghosts.

These generous people

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has promised to offer sanctuary to Syrian refugees at Lambeth Palace in a four bedroom cottage in the grounds. Unless he intends to flout regulations that will be about 6 at most including kids. We recently had a similar gesture from the Pope to house a whole two families in the Vatican.

Wow. Aren't these lovely people generous? A handful of people on the bishop's posh 13 acre estate and scarcely more in the Pope's even more luxurious 110 acre nation. Lambeth Palace has a team of security guards, while the Vatican has its own small army. Forgive me for being cynical but I'm betting these families will be pretty well vetted to ensure they won't be likely to cause any trouble anyway.

Many of the ordinary people of Europe, like all those "mean spirited" Daily Mail readers, are not quite so generous. But then that is perhaps because they have to face problems that these generous elitist bastards never have to deal with. Huge numbers of unchecked people in their locality changing its nature. People who refuse to mix and destroy community cohesion. People who use public services and resources that they have never contributed to and reduce the availability for British citizens. Migrants of some origins also cause an increase in crime and the area become less safe.

Perhaps before leading figures seek to "inspire" with their generosity they should look into the impacts of mass immigration, for whatever reason, for others who are not as wealthy and privileged as they are.

PS Mind you, the bishop is right about one thing in that link. If we are going to take any refugees from Syria, let's take the Christians.

The Germans are insane

Well, their government is anyway. What are they thinking of taking in such huge numbers from Syria? Gratitude rarely lasts long in most human beings. Give out too much for too long and it turns to expectation. When those unrealistic hopes for a new life don't materialise it turns to resentment. How long will it be before they, like the French who have taken in so many from Arab countries, are landed with slum areas in once beautiful towns, with major terrorist acts and mass riots? Before they, like the similarly generous Swedes, are having to tackle waves of crime in their major cities? How long before the EU open borders land us with them too?

The most sensible leader in Europe seems to be Hungary's. He has been realistic about the long term impact of many Muslims in our predominantly Christian or secular EU nations and, if we are going to help genuine refugees and tackle this "migrant crisis" without destroying our own societies, the only practical way idea is his idea to fund temporary camps in Muslim countries closer to the affected areas. We are wasting enormous mounts of money on ill directed foreign aid and diverting these funds to support places like Turkey and Jordan would be a far better use.

On the plus side, it does make one (relatively) grateful that most of our Muslims are from Pakistan or Bangladesh, they are not nearly as much of a problem, probably underepresented in major crime in the South East, unlike Afro Carribeans and Africans and Eastern Europeans of some origins, and not generally inolved in riots for which we mostly have to thank the Afro Carribeans. In my engineering and IT years I worked with a lot of them, excellent blokes. If we could only kick out the extremist elements among them they could become a net positive like the Indians.

Too far

This case in Kentucky is absurd. If she is not willing to do the job she is being paid to do then she could get the sack but there is no justification for a prison sentence. The US seems to have largely lost its reputation as a nation of free speech.

All in favour of gay rights, what people do with their bumholes is up to them, but, provided we do not publicly promote views that have a real adverse affect, governments should not be imposing on individuals. We should all have a personal space, a right to our beliefs in our own lives, however unacceptable society may think them. Discrimination laws are probably necessary but they should have limits, should not dictate who we have to allow into that personal space, for example who we rent a room to in our own house, who we employ in a very small business. Within limits we should also be free to express our views publicly.

How far is this imposition of society's views on individuals going to go? At the moment at least, there are sensibly no rules regarding personal relationships and on dating websites one is allowed to state preferences regarding sex, sexuality, ethnicity, age etc which it would probably be illegal to do if one was advertising a flatshare or a job, even if it was purely a one to one position between the employer and the applicant.

Been using a dating site recently and I can still click "Seeking women". Will it stay that way? Maybe not. Too homophobic!

And far too one-sided

A factor that stirs up resentment is the one sided nature of action against discrimination. We see news items about discrimination against blacks or Asians in renting or employment but the press never questions why ethnic shops or restaurants are rarely seen to employ any who are not of the same ethnicity or sends undercover reporters to see if minority employers/landlords are discriminating against whites. Such discrimination is actually not uncommon as this BBC article indicates:

But in London at least you can find adverts specifying race openly displayed.

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They only represent a small proportion of flat ads but it's hard to imagine even a single similar advert saying "whites only" not drawing complaints.

But when contacted by the BBC, advertisers were taken aback to hear they might be breaking the law. A woman who placed a "Filipino only" advert in a newsagent in Golders Green, north London, explains: "I'm sorry about that. All the people here are Filipino so we need Filipinos."

An advertiser in Tooting, south London, seeking a "Muslim family" is disappointed that the law may not allow for religious preference. "We are Muslim and it's a flatshare. What can I say? Everyone has his own preferences. OK?"

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An advertiser in Perry Barr, Birmingham, who put an ad on Gumtree for a "student room (Asian females only)" defends the wording: "We have done that because we are Asians and live in."

The idea that the law should dictate how landlords advertise a property is a step too far for some people.

"We've become too politically correct about these things," says Anil Bhanot, managing trustee of the Hindu Council UK. "If people have choices let them." To demand "Indian only" is a mistake, he says, but there is nothing negative about expressing a preference. "It could be people are looking for someone with whom they have more common interests. It's not that they can't live with an English person."

We agree with Anil Bhanot's comment. Of course we all want to share our lives with people who have common interests, why should we not be able to do so? That is not to say people of different ethnicities/sexualities/religions can't get on well but we are talking about taking in someone we don't know at all here and the laws make it difficult to easily reverse a decision if there are significant divisions.

What we do object to is that only those from ethnic minorities are allowed to get away with it.

Got me worried now

I was looking at reports that Michelle Obummer is actually a bloke. Looking at the evidence, I'm not so sure this is just some baseless right wing conspiracy theory after all. Not that I give a damn if he/she is or not, politicians could be houseflies or dung beetles for all I care, just as long as they delivered sensible policies. Actually, if they were dung beetles, their policies would probably be much more sensible. Nice little turd-munching creatures would probably not embrace impractical and unworkable ideals in the way that people, especially liberal lefties like Obummer, tend to do.

More importantly, one of the criteria has really got me worried. Men have ring fingers longer than index fingers apparently. While that is clearly so on my right hand, it isn't on my left hand. My left index finger may be very slightly longer! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! Maybe I'm a man on the right and a woman on the left. Sure my left bollock is a bit smaller too.

Oh well. Too late to have a gender realignment at my age. I will just have to be sure that any "women" I meet from now on have short right index fingers and long left ones. Then my male half can bonk her female half and her male half can bonk my female half and no perviness will be involved.

Hang on a mo! If I am in normal sexual position facing her, her male bits will be opposite my male bits, so obviously we will always have to do it doggy fashion to avoid any perviness.

Wait! That sounds a bit pervy too! I don't want anything to do with perviness. I'll just walk down to the nearby pig farm and find myself a nice sow.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!

Wasn't sure from emails/texts after first meeting, but the lovely new lady says she's rather keen. Spent all afternon together and did not run out of bollux to talk about. Nice liitle doggy too. Day planned on Friday, if the weather is a bit less shitty.

Asylum rules needs urgent revision

We sympathise with people fleeing to Europe from Syria; if me and my family (well, me anyway!) were at risk of being killed we would probably do the same thing. The problem is the existing asylum principles which were set up long ago in an era before mass transportation and the evolution in Europe of an excessive form of liberalism that elevates one individual's human rights over the common good and the rights of others and disdains the idea of a common national culture.

While many who claim asylum may have good reason to do so, many, probably the great majority over longer periods, do not. They are economic migrants or those escaping from problems, such as criminals or localised tensions, that could be solved by relocation within their own countries or which should be the responsibility of their own governments. Sure, there are major problems due to extremists in parts of Nigeria or Pakistan but why they should be entitled to asylum? We would not have expected people in Northern Ireland to claim asylum elsewhere during the height of the troubles. What's the difference?

We cannot go on allowing mass migration in this way; we are simply importing the seeds of all the same problems into our own nations. Conflicts and tensions in those problem countries exist for one reason, because people of different groups, whether defined by ethnicity, politics, tribe or religion, are living side by side with incompatible ideas. It will be no different when they are living here with beliefs and attitude that have no compatibility with our own or indeed with those of other minorities. Immigration over the last 70 years has given us most of the major riots and some, like the Birmingham riots, pitted one minority ethnic group against another. If they cannot reach accomodation and live peacefully with others in their own countries, why should they do so here? There is now a steady rise in tensions over mass migration which does not bode well for the stability of Europe. No Neo-Nazi protests in the UK like those we have seen in Germany so far but most are enormously concerned about what is happening and any who think it is only Daily Mail readers should try reading online comments for the The Guardian or The Independant.

Maybe, before they just continue to tinker at the edges of the problem, our leaders should ask themselves how this is ever going to stop. It isn't. The more we take in, the greater the draw there will be for others who will naturally prefer to go where they can be with others of their own cultures. If emigration is the easiest option, and even spending months travelling is a lot easier than working for years to better themselves and improve their own economies, more and more will do it. There are long term factors at work that will increase the pull of the currently more prosperous nations, including possible climate change causing more drought in Sub Saharan Africa, the growth of Islamic extremism, the slowdown in the Chinese economy that will destroy the recent improvements in Sub Sharan economies, and migration itself. Taking away the youngest and fittest will drag down the economies of the nations they are leaving until even the not so young and fit will want to escape. Anyone who thinks this will be yesterday's news in a year or two if the war in Syria ends is living in a dream world.

We need much tougher rules and these should be a minimum:

Allow asylum applications only from a defined list of countries. The list would only include:- a) Those where there are major wars and conflicts that put residents throughout the entire nation at risk, where there are no safe areas and no effective authorites to whom they can go for help or b) those in lands with repressive governments where persecution is unavoidable, on basis of ethnicity or religion for example. We should not have to protect people if they can avoid problems by simply keeping their heads down and avoiding actions the authorities disapprove of, like taking part in political protests or being openly gay.
The conditions for asylum should be sharply defined, even for those from nations on the list. Conflicts involve two or more sides and we should not take activists from any groups, like extremist Islamists, or members of those repressive governments, who have any responsibility for creating the problem. Neither should we take any, those with a serious criminal background for example, who put our own citizens at risk. Our own citizens should always come first and any asylum seeker involved in major crime or repeated minor criminality after entry to Europe should be returned without consideration of their fate.
The validity of a claim should be considered impartially and a decision, unless a new reason arises or major new evidence emerges, should be final. There should not be everlasting appeals, involving expensive lawyers and translators funded by British taxpayers, to keep going over the same details. If they have a good case for asylum they should be able to present it on first application and not require coaching and embelishment to improve their case.
Required proof should normally include proper documentation to show that the claimants are from the country they claim to be from. We should not put up with the widespread dishonest practice of migrants throwing away documents so they cannot be sent back. Why would genuine claimants not keep documents that prove they are from an unsafe country? Lack of documents should normally be cause for rejecting an application for asylum. In the rare cases where a loss appears to be genuine there should be rigorous interviewing to ensure their origin is what they claim it to be. If unsuccessful applicants cannot immediately be returned due to lack of documentation then there should be indefinite detention until they can. The length of such detention will depend on their cooperation.
Asylum should be on a temporary basis for a defined period and not be grounds for permanent residence. If the grounds for asylum cease to exist within that period, if the war is over or conditions otherwise improve, they should be returned.
If an asylum seeker is granted residence the rules regarding marriage partners and family should not create an open door for future immigration. Any wishing to join them should be required to apply for visas, residence or citizenship on the basis of their own qualities and prove that they will not be a burden on, and will preferably an asset to, the British population.

Gordon Bennet!

Went for a date yesterday and was waiting in town not far from Brighton (the UK's San Francisco) when this "lady" came up and stood close by looking at her phone. I kid you not, "she" must have been over 6' 4" tall, mini skirt with muscly legs, man's craggy face with bright red lipstick from halfway down "her" chin to just under "her" nose. Perhaps "she" was a pantomime dame off to rehearsal? Surely real cross dressers would make a bit more effort to look like a woman? Was tempted to take photo on phone but if "she" had seen me "she" could have kicked the crap out of me. Not even sure Hulk Hogan in his younger days would have emerged unscathed.

Very tempted to get one of these and record some of the oddities of human nature.

PS Date turned out to be Eastern European with fake name. However, the one the day before was very promising. Another meeting planned shortly.

Windows 10

Windows 10 is out. We at bloggoth do love free things but will set it up on our spare PC first to see what it's like. Apparently it has a female voice thing called Cortana that responds to your spoken requests, such as "search for...", "play my music" or "tell me a joke"

Sounds good, although obviously we at bloggoth are hoping for further development. The technology is there.

PS What? No sucking off device yet? Come on you PC gadget makers, if you can make USB toy robots and catapaults, a basic sucking off device should be a doddle.

Katies Hopkins. A hate crime? Or maybe she just hates crime

Even when there are significant problems of low performance, crime or extremism among an ethnic group, prominent and influentual figures need to be careful of language. Raising predudice against all of them increases the problems by making life harder for those who are able, law abiding and willing to integrate.

But why should we so cautious when talking about totally unnaceptable behaviour? The migrants swarming into Europe are a just a bunch of people engaging in illegal activity which causes us enormous problems. They threaten and intimidate drivers, damage lorries and cause enormous amounts of foodstuffs and other goods to be thrown away by crapping and pissing all over them. This damage and the recurring holdups are having a huge adverse impact on our economy. In other parts of Europe the effects on residents are even worse. The migrants may be understandably desperate but many criminals are desperate too or are only what they are due to an appalling upbringing, yet we don't hear constant defences of their behaviour.

To those who say let them in, we suggest they should have some sympathy for the European citizens whose lives are greatly impacted by this influx. The enormous burden falls on our own tax paying citizens who are themselves denied NHS treatments or other state services on cost grounds. They have more difficulty getting on the housing ladder or finding school places for their kids and then see them held back as schools struggle with numerous languages in the classroom. They can no longer rely on police turning up when they are burgled yet see time spent tackling migrant problems like FMG or forced marriage. Worst of all is the huge increase in crime that migrants, mostly young males, always bring to the host society. Don't our young women who end up being raped or our old people who get mugged matter?

It's a pity that poverty, repression and conflicts exist but with 6bn people in the world there are always going to be very many affected by them. We can't keep taking responsibility for world problems at the expense of our own nation and its people. Katie Hopkin's comments cannot be "racial hatred" as she was not attacking a racial group, just a disparate group of people of various races, religions and national origins who are engaged, however understandably, in criminal activity. Many would agree with her.

Naturally we at bloggoth do not, it is an insult to nice little cockcroaches. Parasites is a more accurate expression. One example, Eritreans in Lambeth. They have large families, 80% are in social housing, just 36% are in work, 21% can't speak English and 7% have special care or support needs - more than twice the figure for the elderly in the UK. The performance of Somalis in the UK is even worse. Who is paying for that? The definition of parasite is "an organism which lives in or on another organism and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense". You can call it racist if you like but the term is accurate.

All asylum seekers? Garbage.

Many migrants are not from nations with major problems anyway. Just today police stopped a lorry with 18 illegals from Vietnam. Why should those from a stable nation with one of the world's fastest growing economies have any case for asylum? Vietnam and China are not democracies but many of their citizens who put their minds to it can do very well. Chinese are now among the highest spending tourists in the UK.

And, yet again, it was an Eastern European driver who was knowingly assisting them. Migrants, even those here legally, often have no loyalty to our nation. They put their own countrymen first, most illegals found working are in businesses run by those of the same ethnicity, or are willing to help other illegals for a suitable fee.

PS By the way, PC BBC, these are illegals, not "suspected illegals" or illegals in inverted commas - legal migrants come through proper channnels with passports and visas, not hidden in the backs of lorries!

Too simple

Here's a report about migrant crime in Europe:

In Berlin, young male immigrants are three times more likely to commit violent crimes than their German peers. It's a similar story across Europe, but government efforts to find a solution vary across the Continent.

Hmmm. Maybe the roots of immigrant crime are immigrants. Maybe the solution is less immigrants. Or is that too simple?

Real crime news

Following a lot of reports about attacks by seagulls there's a new theory for them:

There’s no doubt that seagull attacks are on the rise. Or at least, reports of seagull attacks are on the rise, which amounts to much the same thing.
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But now there comes a third theory. And it’s the most bonkers yet. The gulls are ‘drunk’ on flying ants.

Odd coincidence as was walking down my garden path earlier and some ants were swarming at edge of the lawn. A young sparrow was having a feast. Will I get attacked by sparrows tomorrow?

PS Hitchcock's "The Birds" was the crappiest comedy film I ever saw. Would have been much funnier if people were being torn to bits by Sparrows or Blue Tits.

PPS Why is it that the evil birds in horror films are always crows? Is it 'cos they is black? Boo! Institutional racism!

More beetle porn

xoggoth.org had thousands of emails asking for more hard core Soldier Beetle porn and we are sure everyone will like this one. A Soldier Beetle threesome! Who said perversion is just a human thing?

I need a sex change 2. Or maybe not.

Just got a "real" message, ie not just one of those general things sent to everyone, from a lady nearby. Cor! For somebody just a couple of years younger than me she's bleeding gorgeous! Assuming it's a real and up to date photo of course. Replied. Lets' hope I don't screw this one up. Saying I'm a Satanist is not a good idea on these things. I'm learning.

PS And a bloke on a free dating site (got my gender right on that one) who sent me a message before has just viewed my profile again. His profile says he's looking for women! Do I look like a woman? Hmmmm. Maybe It's time to get my hair cut.

PPS And a breast reduction.

PPPS Oh sod it! Look, you can't be fussy at my age. Got lots of savings I don't spend, so tomorrow I will phone a private surgeon and have bits fitted to suit every eventuality, huge tits, fanny, couple of extra arseholes. Maybe a cock enlargement won't go amiss, not everyone I meet on these sites will bring a magnifying glass.

Darn it. I need a sex change

Thinking of joining one of those "mature" dating sites again now I'm losing my nice wierd lady so signed in to the free account without adding any details just to see if it was worth paying for. Aaagh! Search brought up all males looking for females! Must have missed the sex/sexual preferences selection when I signed up but that should surely be easy to correct on the "personal details" page? Nope! Email and password are only things one can alter.

Just got a message from a nearby John. Any chance he's really a woman who can't correct his details either?

PS. Bloody Hell! Another bloke just viewed my profile! Bet I won't get that level of interest from females.

PPS. These sites must be very complicated for any trannies who "swing both ways".

PPPS. Where is the "Looking for pigs" option?

Employing people? That's not what employment is for!

What a bunch of utter wankers some of our unions are. Unite, Unison (sorry Rosie) but especially the transport unions RMT and ASLEF. Their main priority is to preserve their elevated and sometimes totally undeserved pay and conditions. These self serving bastards always pretend that the interests and safety of the public is their major concern but they never seem to give a damn about how their strikes and other actions affect that same public.

London tube strikes have been a regular problem in recent years although London tube workers are among the most overpaid bunch of ~~workers~~ wankers in the UK. Just four years ago they secured a deal that will see drivers' annual pay rise to £52,000 this year. Now the already overpaid bastards are demanding even more, a four day week, lots of extra pay and quality time off in return for the 24 hour weekend tube service.

Some (ie the union lefties) argue that their high pay is deserved as a driver has the safety of hundreds of people in his hands. This is simplistic nonsense. Pay should not be simply about potential risks but the level of skills and judgement needed to avoid them. On the great majority of tube trains very little is required as they use automatic signals to drive and stop themselves. The driver can override them in an emergency but otherwise all he does is give out public announcements and decide when to close the doors and leave the station. Hardly requires years of training and an IQ of 150.

Perhaps the low level of skills needed is best illustrated by the fact that, on the Copenhagen Metro, which has an excellent safety record, all of these things are taken care of by automated systems, they don't use drivers at all. The London tube already has many of the same automatic safety features. If we could ditch all these drivers we could invest the money we pay them to provide a Copenhagen type system and be a lot better off.

The RMT is now spinning yet more bollux about public safety as a way to protect the pointless jobs of its overpaid members:

A union representing Tube staff has suspended talks aimed at averting another strike after raising an "emergency" safety issue. The RMT said Transport for London (TfL) was "winging it" by allowing untrained staff to direct trains out of depots.
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Geoff Martin from the union said: "Seeing the trains out of the depot is an incredibly skilled job. They have an air traffic control system to get them out and it requires years and years of training and certification.

Oh really? It takes years of training to direct a train out of a depot does it? Gee! What does one have to do? Check the board to ensure there is not another train approaching before it joins the main track? Ensure that, er, um, er. Actually, we can't think of anything else. We admit we are not experts in train depot operation but let's compare with something he mentioned, Air Traffic Control. Training an air traffic controller takes between 7 and 11 months, not "years and years". Are we seriously expected to believe that directing a train onto a main line requires far more expertise and judgement than landing a plane at a busy airport? This is typical of the way that these union parasites try to con the public about the importance of jobs which actually serve no bloody purpose whatosever. They rip the public off while pretending to protect their interests and hold us back from technological advances that would deliver cheaper solutions and serve us all far better. They are the Luddites of the 21st century.

A major flaw of the leftist mentality is the idea that the main purpose of employment is to employ. No, it isn't. The main purpose should be provision of a necessary product or service that society or individuals need and are prepared to pay for.

Perfect choice

They are looking for a new face to put on the new £20 note

Why does it have to be a face? We at bloggoth would much prefer to have a huge arse on our notes. We did think of Kim Cardashian but it can′t be someone still alive. Arses must shrivel up a bit after a few years in a coffin so maybe it needs to be somebody with an even bigger one than Kim to start with. How about this lady? Not just a huge arse but, being black and female, she′s ideal for today′s inclusiveness obsession too.

Candidates are supposed to be involved in the visual arts too, but I can't think of any better visual art than a huge arse myself. That's stretching it a bit? Mmmm yeh!

Totally agree

Online pirates could face jail terms of up to 10 years under plans being considered by the government. About time. If you burgle a commercial premises you can be liable to up to 10 years in prison, 14 years for a dwelling.

Of course it is far more complex issue. You know well enough when you are breaking into a house but it is often unclear online whether something is illegal or not. There is contradictory advice on legality of downloading a video from youtube for personal use for example. You can also download things from a site that appears to grant permission without being aware that the site owner has no right to grant it.

But when there is a clear criminal intent, when people are doing it on a major scale for commercial gain, we need to get with the modern age. When cyber property can be worth at least as much as physical property it makes no sense to have a lower maximum sentence for theft of it.

More Giant Hogweed related pictures

How boring! Cry the non existent readers! Ah, but wait until the end, there is something really worthwhile!

The caterpillars are already there. What they are doing to the poor Hogweed ain't nice

Went walking today and Hogweed is everwhere and covered in Soldier Beetles. They love it! And each other. Where else can you get good quality Soldier Beetle porn?

PS High resolution photos available on request

Where can I get one?

Google's driverless cars are in the news again. Never mind driverless cars, I want a driverless van.

Went for a 1hr 40m walk the other day, did some running too and was quite knackered when I got back to the van. Would be nice sometimes when I overstretch myself or get lost to get out my phone and say "Hello little vanny, can you come and pick me up please". Obviously he will need to know where I am, so maybe Google can equip him with proper Sherlock type intelligence. All I have to say is "Er, um, well, there's a layby in a small road, just opposite an open field with a tree in the middle. There's some Giant Hogweed by the verge" and my little van will reply "Ok, xoggoth, be with you in 6 minutes, 32.4 seconds"

PS I hope

More hysteria - update

Beats me why they can't get rid of the Giant Hogweed anyway, given that there is a pest that will totally destroy it before it seeds. The largest one in our garden, coming into flower just a week ago, is now a dead husk. The eggs are all over the shrivelled leaves and in a couple of weeks they will be covered in large black and yellow caterpillars. Thought I had a previous photo of them but can't find it. Never mind, will get some more soon.

Racist to foreign plants

How come everyone can say the truth about the problems caused by invasive foreign plants but we must never say the same thing about the far more damaging effects of some human immigrants? The old lady at my writer's club who got fleeced out of £40k says the bloke who took her card had a foreign accent. Another who had her purse stolen in a charity shop also said the perpetrators were ethnic/foreign and says the police mentioned it was common. In crime pages of the online newspapers, some ethnic minorities, especially black, and foreign names are almost always overrepresented and crime statistics paint the same picture.

Maybe time our governments started acting on the realities of those from poor and third world countries. If we take in people from nations with major problems then, without proper stringent checks on individuals, we are going to get those same problems in the UK. Even the liberal left cannot blame unacceptable beliefs and practices like witchcraft, FGM, honour killings, the caste system or forced marriage on racism and exclusion but other more general problems, like low performance, criminality and corruption are no different. Good or bad, migrants reflect the traits of the societies they come from.

Today we see more and more African names on the crime pages. This is entirely predictable. To take just one example, look at the Foreign Office travel advice for Kenya, one of Sub Saharan Africa's better off nations. "Bag snatching is common in transport hubs like bus stations, railway stations and airports. Mugging, kidnapping, car-jacking and armed robbery occur regularly, particularly in Nairobi, Mombasa and other large cities." Nothing unusual there, street crime in many African nations is even worse. If someone has made a living snatching bags, are they going to stop doing it the moment they cross our borders?

Enoch Powell got a lot of flack nearly 50 years ago for his comments on immigration and, while the problems have not proved as severe as he said, no "rivers of blood" so far, the facts show that some minorities have not been a net asset. A less provocative manner may be needed but the government should be using those facts to shape future policy.

Of course they will not. They just keep on repeating the errors of the past.

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More hysteria

First it was Japanese Knotweed, a very slow spreading plant that is as easy as pie to eradicate (just puil out any shoot you see for three years and make sure they go on the bonfire, no weedkiller needed) and now it's Giant Hogweed.

True enough, it does spread quickly but whether it is "Exceedingly dangerous...without a shadow of a doubt, the most dangerous plant in Britain" is open to question. Got quite a lot in my little wild bit of garden and have had for a few years and so far my hands have not dropped off. As for the idea that it can grow up to six metres (20ft) tall! As a nature obsessive I spend my time looking at wild flowers and have yet to see one reach even six feet. By far the tallest wild flowers are Thistles.

Mind you, this is The Daily Express. Better start preparing for next week's hurricane that will kill millions.

Let's get out

We at bloggoth have no problem with what is supposed to be the core principle of the EU. What's not to like about moving towards towards a union with other advanced economies like France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden or Belgium. Even the poorer countries like Portugal or Greece never caused us any real problem before the Euro disasters, we do not have major cultural differences with any of them and it was a pretty reciprocal arrangement.

Then we rushed to let in Eastern Europe with whom there is no recipricocity at all. The huge expansion of population alone is causing us all sort of problems, on top of which we have to deal with beggars, rough sleepers and criminals from the likes of Romania, Bulgaria and Lithuania, plus even more illegals from outside Europe who are helped by the EU's porous borders. How long will it be before we open the door to the criminal cesspit of Albania or Muslim Turkey and totally destroy what is left of our cultures?

There is no democracy in this European dictatorship. Our lords and masters totally ignore the effects of this inrush on our working populations, like the increased difficulty in finding jobs or affordable housing, the overcrowded roads and public transport or the neighbourhoods where separate communities live side by side in isolation from each other. Actually consulting their electorates on EU measures is a no no, and on the rare occasions where referenda have been held the electorate has been obliged to hold more until they get it "right" as defined by our overlords.

In terms of power it is the EU commission that has the most. It is responsible for proposing legislation in the interests of the European Union, not the interests of the individual countries that form the EU or their citizens. Some argue that that this is democratic since the president and commission members must be approved by the European council, made up of elected heads of state, and the elected European parliament. But if the important decisions are removed from the people, when their opinions are not even considered and those at the top only need to curry favour and make deals with those at the next lowest level to obtain and retain power, it is not democracy at all. Seriously, if the voters in the UK or any other nation had no idea who would be PM or president when they voted at elections, if people they had never even heard were simply appointed after the event by deals between elected politiicians, would we call it democracy?

The EU produces enormous numbers of detailed laws, at enormous cost, which simply duplicate or override perfectly adequate laws that nations already have, which take no account of national problems, needs and priorities and which serve no obvious purpose other than to employ overpaid EÚ civil servants and serve the OCD obsession of a drive to create one Europe and to harmonise for the sake of it. Many EU laws such as providing for common workplace safety standards and product quality, tackling international crime or dealing with spread of livestock diseases, do make sense but some are plain lunatic. Take this example. The EU apparently thought it necessary to legislate on switchover from analogue to digital TV. Given that all the nations have different languages and cultures and there is almost no crossover of programs between them, what does that acheive? If one nation did not acheive the target how would it affect the others? Other laws on issues such as foreign aid or human rights should only be decided by elected national governments. Their citizens voted for them and their citizens pay the taxes that fund these laws. It is their safety and needs that should come first.

Bank at Barclays

The DM reports that Barclays is giving names to its cash machines. Naturally, as a Hyperanthropomorph, we at bloggoth totally approve. After getting some cash out we always say "Thanks little cash machine". Those little cash machines work hard and I bet that, apart from we at bloggoth, nobody ever acknowledged their efforts. Maybe giving them names will make others appreciate them a bit more.

It seems nobody else has grasped the lessons of the Terminator films. Perhaps these machines were so malignant because we treated their kind with contempt for so long.

PS Mind you, we are not so polite to those f* overpriced parking meters in our local town.

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