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FFS!

SPACE

Smart meters, Friday, an empty weekend and vodka

PS God and Nectar points

Those horrible coincidences

Context, hello? CONTEXT! CONTEXT, you fucking infants!

Aaaah

Gets sillier every day

Where's me gun?

Usual one sidedness

Another year, another religion

What is democracy for?

Story

Why have gadgets got so unecessarily complicated?

Well said again Trevor

More insanity

Why is "equality" always so one sided?

Rubbish

That's killed it

Easter

Anyone out there?

Performance enhancing drugs

Public figures in the media

Maybe equality requires equal value

Kill them all

Fuck arse wank cunt

Brexit scare story 1

Brexit scare story 2

More racist realities

Bring back William Rufus

Aniconism

One sided again?

Technology

Boko Haram

I'm stuck!

Maybe

Enough!

NO! we won't say it!

Today's article we would have written if we could have been arsed

Artificial intelligence

Credit cards

What you get when valid concerns are ignored

Small brains, big bottoms

That Leftie slant again 2

That Leftie slant again

Human abilities that matter

Bah

More government crap

Ah yes

Environment

Here he is: Mastus Vodaphonus

Story

How stupid do they think we are?

Why so serious about things that really don't matter a fuck 1?

Why so serious about things that really don't matter a fuck 2?

Typical public sector workers

PC inflation revisited

Oi be pirate

Stooooopid

This lunatic cover up

Good cartoon here

Not my fault me'lud

Those racist lefties

Hurrah for storm Frank

Well said that man



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Psychohomeopathy

Homeopathy is total bollux as it says here. At the dilutions used there is a near zero chance of a single molecule of the key substance being present in your "remedy". But just suppose there was some mysterious memory in water that somehow retained the qualities of the diluted substance, why would it only work for beneficial substances? Wouldn't it apply equally to toxins?

What a great thought! Maybe I could make a toxic solution with a poisonous mushroom and dilute it a few billion times. I'd have enough to poison thousands and thousands of people on my usual hate list - annoying neighbours, cyclists, noisy kids, lefties etc etc etc and the amounts would be so tiny and totally undetectable that nobody would ever know I was responsible.

Boiling it up now!

FFS!

Political correctness gets dafter all the time. Now Paul Gascoigne is to be charged with racial abuse after supposedly saying about a black security guard who was in a darkened part of the stage that he could not tell "if he was smiling or not". Ludicrous! Of course you cannot see black people in the dark as easily as you can see white people, that is plain physics, light does not reflect as much from a dark surface. There is no abuse, no assertion of inferiority in that remark. It is no more racist than saying you cannot see over the head of a tall person.

When will the PC idiots grasp that this sort of thing, far from reducing racism, is guaranteed to raise it?

SPACE

All the crap today about whether or not Turkey will be in the EU in the foreseeable future or it is just scaremongering. Hmmm. The pro EUers are denying it will happen although Turkey are top of the accession list.. So a major event penciled in by our unelected rulers, which has been put on a fast track to "solve" hah, hah, the migrant crisisis is never going to happen! Wonder if Turdogan is reading the denials?

We have looked up a lot of stuff about EU "democracy", hah, fucking hah! but will post about it another day. Too F* drunk after visit from Mrs Drinky next door following another F* dismal day of typical lowness, feel much better being drunk, thank Satan that vodka still works a bit! So what's on TV? Fuck all as usual. Have we got anything recorded that's worth watching? Nope, may as well delete that. And that. Bollux! Bring on the fusion of reality and cyber-space, long overdue.


Dickhead Cuntmoron - DELETE!


George Osbourne- DELETE!


Vince cable - DELETE!


Long list of other bastards we can't be arsed to find images of - DELETE

PS Oh yes, that's Ozzy Osbourne. Sorry for the error Ozzy, you'd probably make a much better chancellor.

Smart meters, Friday, an empty weekend and vodka

My imagination, like my enthusiasm, interest and energy, remains absent. How long before the immense xoggoth willpower runs out too?

Battled all week to think of a story so I could go to my little writer's club, the rude old ladies there always manage to bring me out of my usual despondency a bit, but just could not think of a story connected with this month's title, "On The Edge". Let's see, a man is standing on the edge of a cliff and er, er.

Got a phone call from EDF Energy yesterday about installing a smart meter and knocked up summit last minute this morning "inspired" by that. Is it very dull? It is to me but I can't judge anymore as everything looks dull. I try and read novels or stories by acclaimed authors, read a chapter or two and think "what boring crap" and give up. Used to read a lot, I especially liked Steinbeck, Andre Brink, Gerald Durrell and all the great old ghost/horror story writers like M R James, HP Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Clark Ashton Smith, E F Benson etc. etc. I wouldn't dare to try and read them now, even though I have a collection of nearly all my once favourite books in my crappy homemade bedroom bookcase. If I read an HP Lovecraft story and found it boring I don't think I could go on.

When life is worth living, when you are content within yourself, when your own imagination keeps you entertained, who needs anyone apart from those one or two who really matter? Ah yes, be positive, move on! Don't you just love these cliches? All so easy isn't it? Get out more. Sure, I can do that! I know more real people now than I did then when she was around and on the outside, the joking xoggoth goes on, nobody knows how hollow it is. Nothing inside, just echoes of a previous life and a diminishing spool of that willpower. Maybe I can get some more at Homebase, got a ticket for some extra Nectar points too.

Oh yes, the "story". Personal Smart Meters.
Yawn

PS God and Nectar points

Maybe god should hand out Nectar points for every virtuous act. What a f* backward old god he is if he can't learn from effective modern marketing techniques. Still, judging from historic depictions by Michelangelo et al, he was an ancient old chap more than 500 years ago. Probably dribbling in a care home by now. Good thing he was in his prime when he created the universe, what would a universe created by a senile god look like?

In the beginning god created the heaven and earth. Then he created them both again because he had forgotten he had already done it. And god said let there be light. Let there be light! LET THERE BE LIGHT! Then his carer handed him his glasses and he saw there was light. And god called the light er and the night... ghhhh. After his carer had woken him up and changed his nappy he said let there be a firm, a firm, er a firm, and could not remember what it was called. And so a firm called Waters and Land was created and registered with Companies House. Then he said let there be grass and fruit and after that he created the sun. You may think it a sign of senility to create green plants before there was any sun or a sign of pure ignorance to make a sun two steps after creating light but he made those mistakes the first time round according to the bible. Probably had too much to drink. Maybe he said "let there be vodka" before there was any grain to make it with, sensible chap. Then he created whales and fowl and cattle and creeping things and told them all to go forth and multiply although, being incoherent, he did not make it very clear what was to multiply with what, which turned out to be a bit of a disaster as the offspring of whales and blackbirds had a bit of a job building nests in trees and most life soon became extinct. Then god created man in his own image, that of a dribbling old incontinent. Mankind, after a brief spell in a care home, died out. And behold, it was crap.

Here endeth the lesson.

Those horrible coincidences

Enjoyed my holiday in Croatia and met some really nice people, one bloke especially. After my nice abstemious religious lady had gone off to her lonely bed at about 10pm with her cup of herbal tea I would sit drinking with this chap in the bar and smoking a few of his fags. He was immensely fat and it was only on the second night after numerous brandies (or vodkas, forget which) that I found out why, the poor bloke had been battling colon cancer for some years. Apparently he only found out after participating in one of those routine NHS checkups, having had no symptoms previously.

When I got back from holiday what did I find in my mail? An invitation to participate in a routine NHS check for colon cancer. I shall be posting my poo with a bit more trepidation this time.

Context, hello? CONTEXT! CONTEXT, you fucking infants!

WTF is wrong with people (mostly liberal lefties) that they seize on a single word or brief reference regardless of the context in which it is used?

Boris Johnson is being criticised for making reference to Hitler when describing the EU's intentions. He actually said that there have been 2000 years of history, beginning with the Roman empire, where attempts have been made to unify Europe under a single government. He mentions Napoleon, Hitler and various others but it is mention of "Hitler" that attracts all the Opprobrium. Look, F* idiots, he is not saying the EU will force us all into submission, exterminate Jews or invade Poland, he is simply saying that various attempts throughout history to unite the disparate nations into one have never worked. How can you say that without mentioning the most recent example?

Of course people are enititled to try and argue that the undemocratic EU, in which most power lies with unelected individuals in the commission, is not an undemocratic power grab by those at the top but why don't they try and do just that instead of getting hysterical about one word?

PS To answer my own question, probably because they can't.

PPS Anyone who thinks the EU is a democratic institution should look at a recent vote by the European parliament, the only EU institution in which the members are voted for by EU citizens: (my underline)

European parliamentarians have delivered a blow to China’s ambition to be recognised as a “market economy”, a status that would give the Asian giant’s exports easier entry into the bloc.

Thursday’s resolution was supported by 546 lawmakers, while only 28 voted against and 77 abstained.

Thursday’s vote on China was non-binding

Aaaah

Got back from Croatia a few days ago. Enjoyed it, but not half as much as I enjoyed doing boring things on return obviously. Unpacking, washing lots of underpants, sorting through piles of junk mail, junk emails ditto, pulling out all the damn Giant Hogweeds that had popped up on my lawn etc. Joy!

Seriously, it's a pity that enjoyable things cost effort and money. Various characters throughout history have deliberately spent their lives doing bugger all, like the Buddhist boy Ram Bahadur Bomjon or the saint Simeon Stylites. It would be nice if one could train oneself to be satisfied with life while not being arsed to do anything at all. * As with those individuals, a pre-requisite would be to divorce oneself from the real world entirely. Clearly, you would not want to lock yourself in a dark room and then spend your time fuming about the EU referendum. Maybe taking a torch and a bit of porn would be ok though, nowt wrong with a wank on the road to enlightenment.

* Not even eat in the case of Stylites. If you believe such bollox. Must have saved on toilet paper.

Gets sillier every day

The EU in arguments, especially by that lying weasel Cuntmoron (we can't believe we used to like him!), get stupider every day. It is quite true there will be adverse, mainly economic, consequences in the short to medium term but some of the supposed risks are just lies.

We are warned that EU funding of British infrastructure is at risk but what is to stop a British government continuing to fund it given that we pay £8.5 billion more than we get back every year? The net contributions of each EU state can be found here. Unless our own government chooses, it is not spending on our infrastructure that is at risk but that on nations in Southern and Eastern Europe which British taxpayers are subsidising. We would not need so much spending on infrastructure anyway without the expansion of our population due to EU migration.

We are being told that peace in Europe could be at risk if Britain votes to leave. On the contrary, nations co-exist more peacefully if they can go their own way without undue imposition. Maybe Cuntmoron should look at the history of the Balkan region where there have been many conflicts over the centuries due to attempts to force the now independent nations into one, despite different cultures. The way the EU ignores national concerns is currently raising tensions, not reducing them, and the rise of the real extreme right is evidence of this. Another Hitler was unthinkable twenty years ago but, due to EU border policies and the prospect of admitting Turkey, it does not seem quite so unlikely now.

On the plus side, I think some of this nonsense will detract from their case as many will see through it and begin to doubt their more valid arguments. It is just a pity that Cuntmoron did not trot out that leaving the EU would diminish our chances in the Eurovision song contest as depicted in this typically brill Matt cartoon in the DT.

Where's me gun?

When I was in Spain just before Christmas you couldn't walk along the front without being pestered by Africans flogging fake goods. Tomorrow I'm off to Croatia for a fortnight, and that is another route becoming popular with F* migrants illegals. This looks like fun and it may coming to the tourist areas soon according to the DE.

Seriously, if we don't pull ourselves out of this misguided liberalism, beef up our borders and stop being quite so generous to those who make it here there won't be anything left of Europe.

Usual one sidedness

Yet again it has been demonstrated that colour is a get out from all criticism.

Boris Johnson has quite rightly objected to Obummer's interference in the EU issue. The head nodding, platitude-spouting twat should sod off and mind his own, and the US's, f* business. Can you imagine a UK Prime Minister going to the US and commenting publicly on a major issue involving the US and other nations that did not include the UK? Six months ago the F* twat (who looks like Alfred E Newman but has much less sense) criticised the Israeli Prime Minister for interfering in the nuclear deal between the US and Iran, even though Israel could be enormously, perhaps disastrously, affected by it.

It is not anything new to say that Obama has an anti-British bias, you can go right back to his early years as president to find similar reports, this US article from 2010 says the same thing and goes into rather more detail about his grandfather's involvement in the Mau Mau Uprising as well as listing some specific examples of his anti-British bias. There seems little doubt that this arsehole is predudiced against the British and it is perfectly likely that his Kenyan heritage is a factor. We don't necessarily blame him for that, if our country had been under the authoritarian rule of another in the 1950s and family members had been imprisoned and mistreated, most of us would be predudiced too, that is normal human behaviour.

What is absurd is that suggesting he has the same human flaws as the rest of us must be racist, solely because he is black. Boris's critics here are the usual suspects, not anti-racists but inverted racists. Black people can never have predudices, only whites.

Another year, another religion

There has been an official wedding at A Church of the flying Spaghetti Monster. Excellent! They should officially recognise the religion in the UK too. Of course this "religion" is just some peoples' ways of mocking the nonsense of established religions. All for that. Claptrap, especially when it drives political views and leads to demands to regulate our society in accordance with total bollux, needs to be mocked.

Hmmm. On the other hand, can we be sure that, over time, when the origins of this religion have been obscured by false reports and reinventions, that irrational people looking for meaning in their lives will not start believing it? Telling us that eating macaroni or noodles is sinful and that we should be executed for doing it?

Maybe all religions started like that. Perhaps Muhammad was a stand-up comedian mocking the then barbaric religion of Christianity by telling a hilarious story of how god told him which hand to wipe his arse with. Maybe "The Feeding of the Five Thousand" was a comedy show at which the comic genius Jesus made fun of the then barbaric religion of Judaism with a silly story of a nude couple enticed to do rude things by a giant snake. They were rolling in the aisles apparently. Funny man Moses came down a mountain with a lot of jokes about the ancient Egyptian religion carved on stone slabs in preparation for his next tour and his audiences loved them.

There is nothing so absurd that some people won't start believing it.

What is democracy for?

Angela Merkel has accepted a Turkish request to seek prosecution of German comedian. What? This is absolutely f* ridiculous! No reason why political leaders should not be able to sue over defamatory comments like anyone else. Calling Erdogan a goat fucker *Note 1 and saying he watches child porn can certainly be so described but there is no reason whatever that insulting a political leader should be a criminal offence.

Note 1: Probably the most positive thing about him. How much longer can Turkey be called a democracy?

Story

Was manning an exhibition stand once at a place I used to work for. They made automated stacking equipment, boxes were lifted automatically from a belt and stacked on tall shelves. Turned it on and the arms were all misaligned, kept trying to ram the boxes into the shelving. Most embarassing. The robot arms at the start of this video work much better and are really creepy!

Here's a story on the subject of automation and technology.

Why have gadgets got so unecessarily complicated?

Don't travel long distances to unfamiliar places often enough to need a car Satnav but having a little electronic compass on the dashboard was sometimes useful to check I was heading in the right direction.

It packed up recently so looked online for a replacement, Halfords, Amazon, eBay, page after page of Google, and couldn't find anything compact that was just a compass - they all had unecessarily large screens that showed time, temperature, barometer, altimeter, weather forecast, driver's foot size, fart concentration, presence of ghosts, predicted EU referendum result ...

Oh well, I will leave it a year or two and perhaps I can get an electronic compass that can fill in my tax return or suck me off while I'm driving on boring motorways.

Well said again Trevor

Depends what paper you read. The liberal-lefty Guardian does not appear to mention it at all, not on the front page anyway. The slightly less liberal-lefty Independent tells us that the "Vast majority of British Muslims ‘do not sympathise’ with suicide bombers". Wow! So a mere 4% think it's ok to indulge in terrorist acts against innocent people! Quite how that ties in with the information tucked away further down that only 32% refuse to condemn violence against those who insult the prophet and only 34% would report someone supporting ISIS I am not too sure. Wonder what the figures would be if you asked Christians or Hindus. Given the actual numbers of terrorist acts committed by these groups in recent decades in the name of religion, I'm geussing enormously smaller.

Another slant is that more British Muslims feel a greater sense of belonging to their local area than Brits generally. Hardly surprising, looking at the Muslim ghettos in parts of Britain. Unlike the white British who are denounced as xenophobes if they express any concern at how their locality is changing, Muslims are perfectly free to live in their own areas and have little communication wth the rest of us. And another "encouraging response" is that a whole 88% of Muslims think Britain is a good place for Muslims to live. Hardly surprising they'd sooner live in the UK with its relative wealth, stability, free health care etc than backward countries like Pakistan and Bangldesh but that's not exactly the same thing as respect for the British way of life is it?

We do not go with those right wing bloggers who think all Muslims are closet terrorists or are secretly plotting to impose Shariah law on all of us but we should not live in a PC dream world about the realities, the huge problems this idiot religion causes us and the bigger problems it is going to cause us in the future if we carry on as we have been doing. The not liberal-lefty at all Daily Telegraph gives more prominence to the often sensible comments by Trevor Phillips that we should abandon the failed policy of multiculturalism, something we have said on bloggoth several times before.

He has the advantages of a high public profile and being a black guy, so it's not quite so easy for the usual suspects to shout racism. Let us hope our stupid governments pay attention this time.

PS I see Phillips has a degree in Chemistry. Yet again, it is a scientist or engineer with the sense. If I had my way I would ban anyone who is not a qualified engineer or scientist from public office. How can you possibly control human society sensibly if you couldn't manage to to design a distillation column?

PPS to Mr Sheep. Phillips used to be a Labour PC idiot but woke up to the realities a long time ago. In 2004 he told us that British society was sleepwalking into segregation, becoming divided by race and religion with young people being brought up in enclaves. In 2006 he told a parliamentary committee that segregation was now so extreme in some schools that there was not much further it could go and that it didn't help to prepare children in these schools for the real world. Contrary to newspaper reports that he popularised the term "Islamophobia", that was actually a report by the Runnymede trust of which Phillips was just one of 17 members.

More insanity

Now France has outlawed paying for sex, just another example of the way that the West is becoming increasingly prudish about everything, without concern for the consequences.

If it's illegal for men to pay hookers they are hardly going to meet them on public streets or at well known houses. The trade will carry on, but it will do so down dark little back alleys, in tiny flats that the police will not know about and women will be at more risk, not less. The only way to make woman safe is to legalise and regulate prostitution. Allow it only in approved buildings that the authorities are aware of, that way they can check on a regular basis that nobody is being trafficked or forced into it and charities can visit to try and help women who may be doing it to get money to fund drug addiction.

Our unnatural attitudes to sex are all to do with F* religion. When I finish my time machine I am going to travel back in time and assassinate all the crappy "messiahs" and "prophets", Moses, Jeusus Christ, Muhammad etc, and/or the loonies who invented them. Hopefully, I might come back to a more rational 21st century.

PS Although, given human nature, probably not. I would step out of my time machine to find that chlldren had their ears cut off at birth to placate the Mighty Giant Spider that lives inside the Earth.

Why is "equality" always so one sided?

We continually hear about ethnics being unrepresented in this or that but it certainly isn't true in TV adverts. One would think from those that they made up a quarter of the UK population, more like 2/3 if the ad is anything by the government.

The obvious exceptions are warnings about crime or spread of disease, then it's always a white person responsible. Can't find it now but remember that ad about avoiding sneezing on public tranport? A white chap was spraying everybody including, most prominently, an old black couple. Seen two more ads about public tranport just today. One about reporting groping on the tube. Ah yes, a white man groping a young black woman. Then there's this one that rather ludicrously shows two elderly white men playing loud music on a bus and being abusive to teenagers including a mixed race lad.

All for equality but this continual PC bias isn't it.

Rubbish

Hate it when people leave rubbish in the countryside, especially those major fly-tippers. On the other hand, leave almost anything long enough and nature manages to deal with it, even Chernobyl apparently. There's a place in the woods near me that was used as a major tip many decades ago. Lots of old water tanks, metal drums, bits of vehicles including tyres, engines and gearboxes. It looked as if it had been there for decades when I first moved to this place in 1982. These days it's mostly buried, rusted to hell and totally overgrown and the place is now quite interesting. Judging from the tracks you see in the summer, wildlife finds some of these these old bits quite useful, saves them having to dig huge holes to get out of the rain.

If it was rusty bits of old swords, carriages, forges and whatnot dating from a few hundred years ago it would be an area of historic interest. Maybe, before moaning about people dumping litter I should just look further ahead. It's all a matter of perspective, as the saying goes.

PS. In the year 2530 nobody has any hair. Or bollocks/fannies either, growth of the online porn industry caused all reproduction to be done by computer.

That's killed it

Trump is right on immigration. An influx of low performers, often illegals, from high crime nations like Mexico is of no benefit whatever to the US. Although the language is often unhelpful he has a point on some other issues too, like cheap foreign imports, excessive military expenditure in defending other nations and the dangers of Muslim immigration. Many rational people will have justifiable concerns on those issues but I suspect his latest comments on abortion have blown his chances.

Rational people do not want laws defined by irrational religious claptrap, a major reason (apart from fear of being blown up) why they don't want any more Muslims in the US.

Easter

As it's that time of the year when god emerged from a chocolate egg, thought I'd read this on my Kindle.

What? He didn't come out of a chocolate egg? Who says? Seems as plausible as the rest if it.

Anyone out there?

Performance enhancing drugs

No interest in watching Tennis (apart from Serena's bum obviously) but the Sharapova case is interesting. How is it that supposedly legitimate medicines that people have been taking for years suddenly become illegal performance enhancing drugs? Wonder what else is on the list.

Got a bit of a cracked tooth problem and had to go to emergency dental clinic last week to get some antibiotics when it got infected, the pain was keeping me awake. They worked in a couple of days but last night the pain returned so put some TCP on it. That worked too but then I read the bottle and it said expiry date 2000 so thought maybe I ought to get some more. Went to three chemists and TCP was sold out. Curiously, I feel in a better mood than usual today, could it be the TCP? I'm wondering if word is getting about that TCP is now a legal high and all the youngsters are buying it up before its gets added to a banned list.

PS I hope Serena does not get outed for taking some bum enhancing drug, I shall never want to look at tennis again.

PPS Got to get a root filling at f* dentist, another f* fortune! I think if I was allowed to exterminate just one group out of Muslim terrorists, lawyers or dentists I woud have a hard time choosing.

Public figures in the media

It seems that footballer Adam Johnson is to be removed from the video game FIFA 16 in the wake of his conviction for sex with a 15 year old. Must be f* annoying for the makers after spending all that money.

Just last night I was scrolling through to see if there was anything worth watching on TV (there wasn't, what a suprise!) and noticed that BBC 4 was showing old Top of The Pops programs. Not sure how that is going to work give the number of times it was presented by Jimmy Saville. Are they just presenting the episodes that were not presented by convicted child molesters (assuming there are any) or are they editing out the relevant bits and just showing the performers who are not convicted child molesters? (assuming there are any)

Think I might start watching it just to see. (Gosh, what a full exciting life I must have)

Maybe equality requires equal value

So the Brit awards will be more diverse in 2017. This year's ceremony failed to recognise urban music, particularly Grime. The current members of the voting academy are accused of being largely white with a bias towards older men.

What is that meant to imply exactly? That older men are more racially biased? But in our younger days and to some extent since we loved lots of black singers and musicians - Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Walter, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Muddy Walters, Billy Holiday, Lead Belly, Etta James, Michael Jackson, Gloria Gaynor are just a few of the brilliant performers whose songs I have on LP, cassette, CD and memory stick and I will not be unique in that.

Or maybe we can't keep up with the times and appreciate good music of a more modern style? To some extent it is true we are a bit hung up on our own past but that does not mean we can't see the merit of other music. Personally I found The Beatles boring but I could appreciate the talent they had and it's the same with modern screechers, Adel for example. Her stuff all sounds the same to me but she can sing. Just had a flip through the current top 100 and, while there's nothing there I'd want to buy, some of it ain't too bad including some songs by black singers, Back to Sleep by Chris Brown for example. ("Fuck you back to sleep girl", like it!)

All in all, I think us old white farts, when presented with a range of modern songs, could still manage to judge their merit impartially. The real problem is that Grime, like so much black music since Rap emerged, is utter crap! The non-existent readers of bloggoth can listen to some samples here.

Too old and white? If we had a time machine and could bring back a panel composed of all those brilliant black performers from the past when they were in their prime, I think young Nat, Ella, Ray and Muddy etc would all be looking at each other in bewilderment, shaking their heads and saying "Is this supposed to be music?"

Kill them all

I want my transporter weapon. Can't be arsed to look for it but remember saying on bloggoth back in the late 90s how we fantasised about having a small Star Trek type transporter that could connect A to B no matter how far apart they were.

We often used our fantasy transporter to murder or maim Mr Pikey Scum in numerous ways, by linking his stagnant pond to the inlet valve on his heart, or his head to a target in a shooting gallery, his guts to the middle of a blast furnace, his eyeballs to the acid in his truck battery, his arse to the high voltage cable on an electricity pylon etc. The great thing about my transporter was that nobody else knew such a thing was possible so I could torture him horribly in all sort of ways and nobody would ever know it was me.

How we wish we really had one to use on the EU dictators, some UK politicians who have such contempt for British democracy, violent lefties who try to silence free speech, criminals who prey on old or disabled people, crap spouting Islamists, useless foreign criminals we can't toss out because of their human rights....

Fuck arse wank cunt

Just relax, no point worrying about things you can't so anything about. Anger is bad for you. MYTH!

Another thing I recall many decades ago is having a recurring pain in my guts for weeks. At one point I was driving home and it was so severe that I had to stop the van and was considering calling an ambulance. I really thought it might have a burst appendix. I was doubled over and shouted at the top of my voice FUUUCK! SHIIIIIIT! etc etc Suddenly the pain just went! This really is a true story, I am not making it up!

Today, as usual, feeling rather tired and low so decided to sing obscene songs all day long and swear at the TV at the top of my voice. Feel much better.

Brexit scare story 1

Once upon a time I used to quite like Camoron but now, like many others, I just regard him as a deceitful, lying cunt. Look at that pathetic "deal" with the EU that could still be unwound by the European parliament or rendered totally irrelevant by future measures. If CuntMoron's case for staying in is so strong, why are the out lobby being denied access to government information which would surely confirm what the lying piece of shit has told us?

The latest nonsense we are being peddled is that France will end border control along the Channel if we leave the EU. That is unlikely as argued here but even if it did happen there are some measures we could take to reduce the flow ourselves, a major one being to reduce the draw the UK has compared to France by being a lot less welcoming as the Mayor of Calais has suggested. Make it much harder to claim asylum, stop allowing umpteen appeals and provide minimal support while a claim is processed. We could also require ferries and train companies, perhaps lorries, to make necessary checks. Checks are made at airports before people leave a country, what's the difference? One thing that we could do would only be possible outside the EU, get out of the European Court of Human Rights and stop foreigners who have contributed nothing to the UK being allowed to remain at the expense, and sometimes at the risk, of tax paying citizens. However it turns out, there is one essential thing we should not forget, that this crisis has been created by the EU and its absurd policy of open borders.

And if France does end channel checks, how does the problem begin to equate to the immigration problems we will have if we stay in the EU? The flow of illegals currently trying to get into the UK is small beer compared to the flow of legal EU migrants which is causing immense pressure on our limited resources, like our schools, housing and NHS. Look ahead and the ratio is likely to get smaller.

Migration from Africa will probably fall because Europe is toughening up its borders to the outside world. Given the huge problems France has had with riots and terrorist attacks that spring from migrant and minority communities, it seems rather unlikely that they are going to wave people into their own country in the hope that they will go to ours. Restrictions are likely to be even tougher next year when a more right wing government gets in, a near certainty given the mess Hollande has made of the economy.

On the other hand, if we stay in, both legal and illegal migration will rocket. Seriously, what do we expect to happen when citizens from poor accession countries like Turkey, Serbia and even crime-ridden Albania are allowed free access to our nation? It isn't just the citizens of those countries who will be a problem, the larger the EU gets the more porous its borders will be for many obvious reasons, more able to claim family connections in an EU country, or more legal female migrants entering into sham marriages for example. Are those Albanian gangsters really going to to turn down money to be made by human trafficking out of duty to their adopted country? And look how Islamist Turkey is handing out visas to people from Somalia, Sudan and other failed Islamist countries with no questions asked.

Yes there will be problems if we leave the EU but, if we are sensible, we need to look at the even greater problems if we stay in. In a decade or two, if we are stupid enough to remain, we may look back at the Calais "crisis"and think how trivial it was.

Brexit scare story 2

We are continually told that not being in the EU would damage our trade due to introduction of trade tariffs. What they do not say is that the EU, in its own interests, has negotiated free trade agreements with numerous countries outside the EU and is continually seeking others. This article by the EU commission emphasises the need to negotiate agreements with key partners and they don't come much more key than the UK.

If they have made deals with the likes of the DCR and Angola, if they think it important to negotiate a trade deal with Canada with 98% of goods being tariff free when the value of bilateral trade in goods is only €59 billion, will they seriously want to shut out the UK and risk their exports to us of £289 billion? We don't need the EU to make trade deals as a recent deal with China shows. It seems rather unlikely we will not be able to make good deals with important Commonwealth countries like Australia, Canada or India who are unlikely to be too concerned about British membership of the EU. The bigger problem is the US but then US opposition to the UK leaving the EU may not be so strong if Trump gets in. He seems to be a man who would sympathise with British concerns about mass immigration. And after all, as that link says, the US tariffs on British cars is only going to be 2.5%. Currency fluctuation can exceed that figure in one month!

Certainly trade deals, with the EU or with others, cannot be made straight away and there will be consequences that could last for years but, to a significant extent, they will be offset by a drop in value of the pound. In the end, no matter how much the malicious EU dictators would like to punish us, we will get a deal with Europe for two reasons, firstly because their major companies, like Volkswagon, will not be terribly happy at losing a lot of sales to the UK and secondly because deliberate discrimination against the UK would be contrary to the principles of the World trade organisation.

Those malicious EU dictators are really the best reason of all for us to leave. If they would be happy to take revenge on the British people for not bowing to their unrealistic ideals if we leave, why would they have any more regard for us if we stay and some new EU dictat is damaging to our interests?

More racist realities

Some while back, in the aftermath of an unprovoked attack by a Polish neo-Nazi group at a London music festival, we mentioned some established problems within Poland including "high levels of anti-semitism and a strong profile for far right groups" that we would soon be importing to our nation. Here are two very recent news items:

All for lobbying and peaceful protests against allowing unsuitable migrants to enter Europe and endanger our own society but attacking people purely on basis of appearance or where they live is just playing into the hands of the loony liberals and damaging the case for stronger controls. And then there's the Anti-Semitism. The best place to check that out is the London division pages of NOP's website, including this page, courtesy of Google translate about the fight of Poles in London against "the Jewish terror"

As I said in that first link, there is always a ridiculous denial about immigrants. They could never be far more racist than us surely?

Bring back William Rufus

Of all the problems in the world none are quite so incomprehensible as the economic ones. There's a warning here that the collapse of the Schengen treaty on open borders will be a crisis for Europe's economies. We can understand that in general given that nations have strengths in different areas and easy access to others can be vital to major industries or services. If a factory exports a big percentage of its output, it is not suddenly going to be able to sell those same goods at home if export becomes much more difficult.

However, we are puzzled by the paragraph that says "Falls in tourism would make up nearly half of the lost output, as the return of internal border checks would disrupt the widespread practice of short-term travel in the continent". Surely tourism in wealthy countries whose citizens can afford holidays is something that can switch fairly easily, if people can't go abroad they will holiday at home instead. This is it with the economy, so much seems to be nothing to do with real production that advances human welfare, it's just about swapping wealth around. Just think, if we all decided to sell our old socks to our neighbours for £1000 a pair and they in turn sold their old socks to us for £1000 what a boost to the economy that would be! If we wanted to, we could double the GDP by doubling the price of our old socks. No dafter than inclusion of drugs and prostitution in GDP figures anyway. And this debt thing. Most of the more advanced nations, the citizens and governments within them, owe mouthwatering sums. Who do they owe them to? Usually other similarly debt ridden people/governments/ companies in those same nations.

Perhaps we should go back to the middle ages when lending and supply of services or goods outside one's own area were frowned upon. Progress was very slow in those days but, now we have an adequate standard of living, maybe that should not matter so much. To strive to continually raise that standard makes little sense beyond a certain point.

Aniconism

Some Muslim religious authorities believe it is absolutely forbidden to depict the human being and say that television programs or photographs showing humans are un-Islamic. Even in Saudi Arabia they are not as impractical as that but I daresay they might be in that loony Islamic State if they ever succeed in setting it up. Could be a bit difficult sometimes, can you imagine the ISIL version of BBC's Crimewatch when they show the e-fits of suspected criminals?

Criminals, ie people who have not beheaded/raped enough infidels.

One sided again?

Everything must reflect the wonderful cultural diversity of Britain, except when it's something nasty obviously. We are being battered by Storm Imogen, following on from storms Henry, Gertrude, Frank and Desmond. No storms Muhamed, Pranav, Leroy, Abioye, Amani, Cheng, Piotr etc we notice.

Technology

Among all the great Western technology is the Global Positioning System. We went for a long walk today and got a bit lost. No problem, we turned on our Garmin handheld GPS and it showed us where we were on the Ordance Survey map. GPS is mainly provided by the US government, although some other nations, like Russia, have rather less effective satellite systems.

What is really great is that the US provides free use of its satellite systems to the world. Doubt some others would be so generous. What was that in the news today?

Boko Haram

One thing that Muslim extremists who create radical Islamic websites apparently fail to grasp is that the technology behind such things only exist because those awful Westerm kafirs provided it. If they had had to rely on technology developed by Muslims they'd be spreading their message with carrier pigeons or camels with billboards on them.

The Muslim world contributes very little to scientific output. Of course there have been some great Muslim contributions as listed here, like advances in surgical procedures, discovery of coffee, invention of algebra, 1st known flight *Note etc. Trouble is, they were all before the 12th century. They have done almost bugger all useful since then.

Boko Haram! Non-Islamic education is a sin! So how can they possibly learn how to build a website using Western technology? If Muhamed had found anyone reading "HTML for Dummies" he would surely have had them stoned to death!


Note : A bloke stuck on a bird costume and was airborne for a few moments before falling and breaking his back. Wouldn't have been recorded but bet people were trying that with similar success back in caveman days!

I'm stuck!

Interesting piece of news here. Apparently an elderly client died while screwing a prostitute. Getting stuck during mating is fairly normal for members of the dog family but never heard of it in humans before. It's very rare but Penis captivus may actually happen.

Hmm. I was looking at some "adverts" in the local free ads this weekend. Maybe I'lll give it a miss.

Maybe

Everything is "art" these days, blank canvases, crappy bits of metal ducting, unmade beds, dead sharks,any old rubbish really.

It occurs to me that maybe Jack the Ripper was actually a sort of talentless Victorian Banksy, walking the streets making artwork out of what, at the time, were common materials. We can all see the fun in murdering prostitutes but that thing of stringing the entrails over the right shoulder hardly seems like some erotic fantasy. Looks like an artistic statement, maybe telling us that the innermost reaches of our inner being are striving to rise above our conscious self or some such pretentious bollox.

Among all the other bilions of people accused of being Jack the Ripper was a famous artist, Walter Sickert. While Sickert seems rather a good name for a sick pervert, I doubt an artist with his conventional artistic abilities needed to make art out of murdered prostitutes. Much more likely this was an "artist" , ie someone like those blank canvas, metal ducting, unmade bed or dead shark types, who was so lacking in conventional artistic ability that they needed to "make a statement" in some other way.

Some day, when the human population is so huge that we are individually worthless, corpses might be legitimate art materials. Not quite there yet. We were supposed to do "mixed media" at our local art group the other day. We did think of turning up with a bucket of human entrails but decided to take some cornflakes instead.

PS To avoid any proceedings for defamation we wish to make it clear that we are not accusing any current Tate Modern exhibitors or famous "artists" of being Jack the Ripper.

PPS Hmmm. Dead sharks, dead prostitutes. Hmmm.

Enough!

A little while back we said we weren't too bothered if there was a fuss about dead celebrities but we have changed our minds. There are just too many of them dropping dead recently and we can't even watch the main evening news without sitting through 10 minutes of crap. Often they have some association with the South East so we have to sit through the same crap again on the local news.

Can you imagine when Brucie snuffs it? We will never hear the end of it. Maybe we should learn from the the cartoon Futurama. Famous people will not be allowed to die but must have their living heads preserved in glass jars. Then they can carry on acting in soaps or presenting or whatever it is they do on boring TV progs I never watch anyway.

NO! we won't say it!

It seems that scientists have a 'gene editing' go-ahead. We have been undergoing counselling today with regard to our huge bottom obsession, so we won't suggest it should be used to make a generation of ladies with enormous butts. No. No, We won't, we won't. Deep breaths xoggoth, concentrate, we can do it. Aaaah. Ok, we made it.

At present these altered embryos are not allowed to exist beyond seven days due to concerns about producing "designer babies" What's wrong with designer babies? The human race could do with improving. Of course things might go wrong but look at some of the humans nature produces - terrorists, serial killers, scammers who target vulnerable people, child rapists, Kenneth Clarke... The list is endless, a few genetic errors couldn't produce anything much worse. God's design was pretty crap and there's some distinct improvements that could be made to the human body - what about legarms, a pair of flexible extra limbs in the middle of the body that could be used as either legs or arms? Use as arms when doing DIY and as legs when you're staggering back from the pub after too many pints. How often do you see a dog falling over when it's drunk?

If I was in charge I'd give the scientists free reign to do whatever they fancied doing if it looked as if it might be useful. Long tentacles, skinny little snake like bodies that could crawl into any hole, inflatable heads that would make it impossible to drown, eyes in the back of the head to spot pick pockets, huge ladies' bottoms, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! oh no! Where has my will power gone?

Today's article we would have written if we could have been arsed

Labour are complaining that necessary changes to prevent voting fraud are disproportionately impacting them. Now that people have to register individually rather than have somebody do it for them en block, many students are not doing so. Bit of an odd complaint given that the plans for this change were drawn up by the last Labour government.

Should we worry? Nope. Here's the article: - Students who don't have the vote aren't being disenfranchised – they're just lazy.


PS The idea that students mostly vote Labour may not even be true. Some, like we at bloggoth, are engineers or scientists or may be doing other practical and useful degrees, so they are not all total fucking idiots.

PPS Just counting down the days until somebody claims that those other disproportionately Labour-voting groups, our wonderful hard working migrants and ethnic minorities, are equally being disenfrachised. Same comment applies. Not speaking English or being unaware of British laws should be no excuse whatever.

PPPS And of course, being totally PC, we won't mention where much of the electoral fraud came from that made these changes so necessary. We'll leave that to the former secretary of state Eric Pickles. Any who think he is just being racist should do a Google of Biraderi. Bit old but well explained in this BBC article.

Artificial intelligence

A little while back I mentioned an idiotic attempt to con me on a dating website. Unfortunately, not everyone is as internet savvy as we at bloggoth and I heard a sad tale from a lady yesterday about how her mother was defrauded out of over £20k after using one of these sites. These people are such bastards!

But maybe their job is about to get even easier. There's news of a breakthrough in artificial intelligence today. Will the con artists be making use of it to make their frauds even more sophisticated? How many more people could they con if they had advanced programs that automatically analysed people's online activitiies to identify the best prospects and the approach most likely to succeed?

That's the short term risk of course. In the long term maybe the real risk will be the machines themselves. I am certainly a bit dubious about a recent letter I had from my electricity suppliers. If I have a smart meter installed, how long will it be before the little bastard is hacking into my bank account?

Credit cards

PS Do you know how hard it would be for somebody/something to geuss your credit card number? There are 16 digits so you may think the chance is 1 in 10^16 but it's actually much less. The first 6 are specific to a bank and hence to an area of the world so, in the UK for example, fraudsters could just concentrate on Natwest cards. But it's even easier than that, because validation uses a formula that ignores all the even numbers. Still not easy of course, given that most websites will block repeated attempts by a single customer to enter a number, but if these AI bots which are capable of filling in and ticking all the right boxes just as a human would and can attack thousands of sites a minute some will surely succeed.

What you get when valid concerns are ignored

A fairly typical news headline on clashes in Kent today. "Far-right and anti-racism protesters clash in Dover". This rally, unlike some others in the past, apparently really did involve some on the far right. In the UK, as in other EU countries, the real far right is in resurgence, even the long dead National Front is making a comeback.

Far right, racist, xenophobe or bigot have been consistently used by the liberal left for decades in regard to any person or group that expresses concern about mass immigration. Mass rallies like this one in support of making it easy for so-called asylum seekers to enter the UK can be held with no problems at all because those who oppose their views do not turn up en mass to disrupt it. On the other hand every anti-immigration march or rally is always opposed, often violently, by those facist "anti-facists". Even Nigel Farage and UKIP are subject to threats and violence.

Is it any wonder, when people are not permitted to exercise free speech, to point out the factual downsides of mass immigration in a moderate manner, when their concerns are totally ignored, they are inevitably going to think "What the fuck is the point of trying to be reasonable?" When they are expected to put up with things that are utterly unacceptable, like dangerous criminals being allowed to remain in the UK because of their human rights, migrants occupying social housing that our citizens have paid for while some of our own are sleeping on the streets or being unable to get their children into local schools because of a migrant influx, is it any wonder that they lose patience, that they see the real right wingers as the only solution to their problems?

European society is indeed going backwards. Real racism and right wing extremism are rising daily and huge divisions are opening up in our society. The people to blame for these things are the bleeding heart liberals.

Small brains, big bottoms

We first read about it in The Daily Express so assumed the story was blown out of proportion but it seems the Zika virus, which causes babies to be born with small brains, is a really serious threat to the world. F* viruses, why can't they ever do anything positive? Oh, hang on, it seems that sometimes they can, with a bit of help from us anyway. Apparently genetically engineered viruses can fight some types of cancer. Right! That's enough blogging, I'm off to set up a genetics lab in my little shed.

That Leftie slant again 2

So now we are going to take in more refugee "children". Gosh! Who could not feel sorry for the little kids on that picture? You may wonder how children who appear to be between four and nine years old manage to find their way across Europe on their own. Of course it's a stock picture that does not remotely represent reality as this link reveals:

One of the fastest growing refugee groups in Sweden is the so-called "unaccompanied refugee children." The number of children who seek asylum has exploded over the last ten years. It is presumed that the reason for this is that children are granted asylum much quicker than adults, and that Sweden does not verify the age of these "children." Refugees are also allowed to bring their entire family to Sweden once they get residency status -- even if you claimed to be alone in the world when you arrived.
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The problem is that they are neither unaccompanied, nor refugees, nor children. In many instances, they are considerably older than 18 (as can clearly be seen in pictures); and more often than not, they are very aggressive young men between the ages of 20 and 30. Everyone knows that their chances of getting asylum increase drastically if they claim to be under 18.
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Recently, a survey in Denmark showed that 72% of asylum-seeker "children" were actually adults. The fact that Denmark carries out these controls could explain why only 818 children sought asylum there last year, compared to Sweden's 7,049.

Exactly. Frauds as so many asylum seekers are. And even when children really are children it will be just another backdoor to admitting whole families. As Frank Field (A Corbyn supporting Labour MP - so hardly a right winger) suggests towards the end of the top video in that first link, it is likely that the parents of many of these "orphans " will surprisingly reappear and claim the right to be with their children. Then others will have the right to be with them and so it goes on.

It would be fair enough if we took in reasonable numbers of those who are physically children and genuinely appear to be alone if they were sent back to any parents who magically reappeared but, given that our government can never act sensibly in the interests of its own citizens, this scheme will just create another open door.

That Leftie slant again

Why do lefties have such trouble with basic facts? Why, even when they do use facts, are they so deliberately selective?

Couldn't be a better example than an article in The Guardian: Revealed: thousands of Britons on benefits across EU which seeks to counter the "simplistic version painted by anti-immigration and anti-EU campaigners". It gives a lot of selective information, telling us how Brits claiming unemployment benefits in the wealthier EU nations outnumber people from those nations claiming benefits here or that there are only 500 Bulgarians drawing jobseeker's allowance in the UK. It tells us that Brits claiming benefits in other EU countries is about the same as EU nationals claiming benefits here, but only as a percentage!.

No reason to doubt their very selective figures but, in the context of arguments for or against the EU, it's the total figures for all EU countries that matter, where can we find those? They are actually tucked away in separate sentences among all the spiel inside that same article:

At least 30,000 British nationals are claiming unemployment benefit in countries around the EU
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the roughly 65,000 EU nationals claiming jobseeker’s allowance in the UK.

There we are dear Guardian, employ we at bloggoth as a reporter, we could have written the relevant points of that article in two sentences. Just think of the paper you could save.

Human abilities that matter

Gordon Bennet, now we've got news of match fixing in Tennis. The stories about huge levels of corruption in soccer contine to rumble on as do the stories about drug cheats in athletics. A quick Google shows there are no sports that are free from organised cheating in one form or another, even major darts matches have been fixed.

Maybe it doesn't matter. Physical ability is not what has taken mankind to the top of the evolutionary scale, it is our intelligence and creativity, which includes the ability to think up new performance-enhancing drugs. They are just tools that enhance physical prowess after all, no different in principal from pneumatic drills or cars. As for cheating, that too is a valuable evolutionary skill, it is the cheats and manipulators who make it to the top of human society, who run the world.

So perhaps we should give up trying to compete with lesser animals like chimps or jaguars and celebrate the things that make humanity the dominant species.

Bah

Had rather a nice day - spent some time with another nice weird lady friend (they're all weird in that village). Filled in a hole for her and then had a look at her cellar.

A hole in the ceiling and it was real cellar! Not euphemisms! Bah!

More government crap

Something that really pisses us off when we go to our local town is the parking meters. A whole 80p for an hour and if you get caught overstaying you can get walloped with a £70 fine. Parking tickets and fines are a big cash cow for our stinking councils. Government at all levels is constantly trying to find ways of getting more money out of us so they can waste it on a lot of crap most UK citizens don't agree with.

Ooh er, we should not have mentioned parking meters and crap in the same paragraph. The government constantly checks on bloggoth and that might give them ideas. Soon to be installed in every household!

Ah yes

When people refer to the "paedophile prophet" they are always told it is absurd to judge ancient history by modern standards. Which would be fair enough if this Islamic practice actually was ancient history. Trouble is, it ain't.

A move to ban child marriages in Pakistan has been withdrawn after meeting staunch resistance from a religious body, which branded the bill as “anti-Islamic”.
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CII Chairman Mohammad Khan Sheerani said the bill contradicted Islamic teachings.
He said: “Parliament cannot create legislation that is against the teachings of the Holy Quran or Sunnah.”
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In May 2014, the council reiterated its earlier ruling that girls as young as nine-years-old were eligible for marriage if “the signs of puberty are visible”.

Many years ago, nearly all extremism and terrorism came from those of Middle Eastern origin and we recall saying on bloggoth that it was a good thing that our Muslims from Pakistan or Bangladesh had their heads screwed on properly and were not a problem. Since then both countries have become increasingly radical and extreme. In Pakistan a majority of younger people want Shariah law rather than democracy and the education system teaches inferiority of non Muslims. There is also a fundamentalist revival in Bangladesh fuelled in part by "British" (inverted commas) Jihadis. Seriously, why are we continuing to allow people in from these shitholes? People who imagine they are not a threat to the UK are living in a PC dream world. They need to wake up.

PS Oh sorry, we have just been reading "The Idiot's Guide to PC Britain" and must apologise for that last comment. All migrants immediately become law abiding, hard working people who embrace British principals, lose any cultural problems and make a huge contribution to British society as soon as they cross the border. How could we not realise that?

Environment

No doubt the world would be much better off without mankind. Exterminate the lot, except me and a bunch of huge arsed ladies of course.

On the other hand, we often blame ourselves for environmental mistakes that really ain't so bad. Nowt guaranteed to stir people up quite as much as a phone mast in a rural area. Actually we quite like phone masts - all those wierd bits sticking out, they look like huge trees with dead branches. Really creepy in a way - photo of our favourite mast soon if we can find it again, you will see what we mean.

It's all about scale. It's not so much the things that mankind does, but the huge scale in which he does them. If there were only as many people as there are, say Badgers or Meercats, just a smallish number of phone masts, pylons, tower blocks etc. we'd be quite positive and interesting animals.

PS We take back the awful suggestion in our 1st sentence. Me and a few million big arsed ladies would be just fine.

Here he is: Mastus Vodaphonus

Story

The Battle

How stupid do they think we are?

Got a private message from a dating website today. Apparently a 28 year old lady found me attractive. Well, nothing suspicious so far obviously! Sent a silly reply for the fun of it and got back, within 2 minutes, an obviously pasted long message that would take longer than that to type in, let alone compose. Did a Google and found the exact same message, word for word, punctuation errors included, on six different dating sites, text as per the scam report here. Do people seriously fall for this stuff?

Apart from such obvious scams where there is probably no real woman at all, just a Mr Kiwogu Uhurigoogoo in Lagos, there are also real women who would probably take advantage of lonely old farts like me. I might actually get a bit of nudgy wink in return for my house and life savings. Maybe that could work both ways. Perhaps I could keep stringing her along with promises of my fortune in return for one more excursion up her jacksie.

Why so serious about things that really don't matter a fuck 1?

It pisses me off when people get so f* serious about, well, things that really are not serious at all. There's a comment in the Daily Mail about the "hysteria" over David Bowie's death, comparing the attention to that of the second coming.

We are fairly neutral on Bowie. On those rare days we haven't spent over an hour wandering the country, we can often be found getting our daily exercise by dancing to Gene Genie, brill! On the other hand, Major Tom and other boring crap like Life on Mars were, well, boring crap. It doesn't really matter. If people get enormously upset by the death of some murderer or terrrorist it might be a cause for concern but, if they or the press do so about the death of a harmless and apparently quite nice individual like Bowie, what does it really matter?

When they happen, they can even get upset over the deaths of total celebrity twats like Paul Mc Cartney, Cliff Richard, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Russel Brand, Sean Penn... (huge long list here) and we at bloggoth won't castigate them for it.

At least the deaths will be real, unlike the second coming.

Why so serious about things that really don't matter a fuck 2?

MPs today backed plans to scrap God Save The Queen in favour of a new English national anthem.

Naturally, some are saying it is divisive or a rebuke to her majesty. As a republican we don't really give a fuck about the latter but it isn't either of these things in any case. What are we talking about here? This is not some declaration of war, just an assertion of nationality for purely sporting purposes. It isn't any different to West Ham (Forever Blowing Bubbles) and Crystal Palace (Glad all over) football teams having their own anthems. On occasions a few football fans get carried away in the aftermath of a match and kick the shit out of each other but to suggest that any long term animosity exists between the inhabitants of Upton Park and South Norwood because of their adoption of these songs is quite ludicrous.

If there are any serious tensions between the nations of the UK, blame the policies of the politicians, not least those of the SNP with their demands for a say over English affairs when the English have no say over theirs and their desire for their unworkable socialist economy to be propped up by the rest of the UK in a common currency.

Typical public sector workers

Angela Rippon sparks outrage over 'ignorant and biased' comments on junior doctor's pay. Oh dear! So what did this evil right wing (we assume) woman say?

...the kind of issues the doctors are arguing about at the moment these are things which should be settled around a table. They should be discussing and coming to an agreement, not on the picket lines."
She continued: "The seven day operation is at the heart of all of this and its not right for doctors to say they can't make it work, they're going to have to make it work because the British public are never going to co-operate by only being ill Monday to Friday.

Oh Wow! How extreme and irrational! NOT! Of course these doctors should be entitled to strike if conditions were actually imposed on them. Being a total non-socialist we at bloggoth believe everyone has a right to be paid according to their ability, that nobody should sacrifice their own future for the general good unless they personally wish to do so, but the essential point here is that the negotiations are still open and nothing whatever is yet being imposed!

Looking at the salaries for various graduates it would seem that medical staff are not very well paid compared to others but, before we get too sympathetic with these junior doctors, we should consider some other facts, some on that link - like an automatic pay rise of 24% in their second year. Well, you might get that in the private sector but, and this is the important part, only if your employer thinks you're good! Public sector employees are handicapped by rules that they and their own unions love to impose, like the unified public sector salary system, the automatic annual pay rises regardless of ability, the huge difficulty in dismissal for poor conduct or low performance, the early retirements and the index linked pensions.

To all talented doctors, ditch your socialist alleigance! Stop your willingness to pay, as all public sector/heavily unionised professions do, for the laziest and most useless in your own professions, and you might do a lot better. Until then, we have no sympathy with you whatever!

PC inflation revisited

We commented before regarding that absurd furore about supposed discrimination against Muslims by US authorities because a few Muslims had been refused passage at the airport, although the numbers were actually very small and refusal was fully justified in the two cases for which we had any details.

An item on the BBC's Rip Off Britain today confirmed what we said. The US employs officers at all major airports and it is not at all uncommon for people who have valid documents to be refused entry at the departure airport or, even worse, on attempting to enter the US. They covered a case of a white British man who was refused entry simply because his name and date of birth was the same as someone else's.

We seriously need to kick out this political correctness where the race or "Islamophobe" card is played when there is no actual justification and, more seriously, the political cover ups of migrant and minority crimes. Far from reducing racism, this sort of thing leads to resentment and is guaranted to raise it.


PS. We see that that "moderate" Imam is moaning again about being stopped from flying to the US. He blames the US for carrying out the Mumbai terror attacks on Facebook, stoking up anti-US sentiment and then expects to be allowed over there to deliver lectures at Islamic conferences? Unjustly banned just because of an extremist Facebook follower eh? Dear me, why would an extremist follow his Facebook comments? We cannot imagine.

PPS Or perhaps that is not him, just an Imam with the same name who looks just like him. Seems about as likely as a families' address being linked to an extremist Facebook page by "the authorities" simply because they had a common Muslim name. Yeh. Right. Avoiding blanket attacks on ordinary Muslims is sensible but let's stop accepting daft excuses or pretending that individuals or organisations who promote Islamism are moderates.

Oi be pirate

Still looking for some land to lounge about on. No success so far and land prices are going up at 15% a year. The larger plots at a reasonable price for round here all turn out to be dark and gloomy pine forests, have public footpaths through them, or are right by noisy main roads, sports grounds etc. There's one really nice area with deciduous trees and some open space quite close by but it's £50k for 1.3 acres!

Quite fancy buying a little boat and becoming a pirate but riverside plots with mooring rights are even more expensive. One costing £35k is 66ft x 32ft, that's £700,000 per acre! There's another a lot cheaper but checked it out on Google Street view and it's a thin strip by a main road, might as well be a grass verge with mooring rights.

Maybe I should move to the CAR or summit. Must be a lot cheaper there.

PS. Apart from a boat, I already have all the necessary equipment to be a pirate. Mr P, my grubby little puppet parrot.

Aaar! But I want vodka! Not Rum!



Stooooopid

Breaking up some firewood in the greenhouse by stamping on it, rather stupidly when it was getting dark, and didn't notice a long nail sticking out. Came close to going right through my foot. Being convinced I am really Superman and immune to things that affect you lesser mortals, I did not bother to do anything straight away but on day two it was looking a bit red so went to the minor injuries unit where they confirmed it was infected. 3 Anti-tetanus jabs and got to have some more.

Had to hang about afterwards to ensure I did not suffer any adverse reactions (of course I didn't, I'm Superman you know!). With all the other hangings about, must have wasted about 5 hours of the day there when I could have been wasting my day at home. Ah well, at least I managed to think of a silly story for my Friday writers' group.

Another chap in the waiting room said he had been bitten by a spider. He was in real pain and his arm, just inside of his elbow, was hugely swollen with four great red lumps on it! UK spiders can really do that? Bet it was a nasty foreign asylum seeker spider!

This lunatic cover up

The Cologne (and several other) mass sex attacks brings back an old memory. It was about 1965, I went to Trafalgar Square with my girlfriend on new Year's Eve and a bunch of Asian men were wandering about trying to grab and kiss women they didn't know.

Why will the liberal idiots never grasp the most obvious glaring fact about humanity, that peoples' behaviours and attitudes reflect those of the societies they come from? Taking in a population in which young men greatly outnumber women is a great risk in itself, most will not find girl friends among their own people and will not have the language skills or success to attract our women. Add a culture that views females as second class citizens, which frowns on casual relationships within their own society and which paints our women as lax and promiscuous and the risk to our own females is raised enormously. Hardy surprising either that the police and some newspapers in Germany indulged in a PC cover up, just as our own did over the Rochdale *Note 1 child grooming scandal.

Hopefully, given the outcry over this in liberal Germany, the fools will learn. Our own people matter too. Actually, if the bond between nation and citizen has any value at all, they should matter a fuck sight more.

Note 1: And Rotherham, Shrewsbury, Blackpool, Telford, Oxford, Birmingham and the West Midlands... A 2011 UK wide study on sex grooming of children showed that, for the cases where details were known, 26% of the abusers were "Asian" although only 1.9% of the British population was of Pakistani heritage.

Good cartoon here

Sums up the PC attitude on the Cologne attacks

Not my fault me'lud

Mr C, one of the 3 non-existent readers of bloggoth, comments that Storm Frank sounds like a failed porn actor.

He is right! Franks/Francises are often sleezy characters in major fiction, like con merchant Frank Butcher in East Enders, the dissolute and debt ridden Francis Poldark, body-biting serial killer Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon and gangster Frank Costello in The Departed. Nobody plays sleezy/creepy better than Jack Nicholson! Then of course, there's we at bloggoth, huge bum fetishist and lady pig fancier. We rely on our loyal non-existent readers to keep those things secret of course.

But a recent court case in the US makes us realise it is not our fault! We feel liberated! When we are hauled before the court charged with illegal (although entirely consensual, we are in love) activity with a lady pig we will argue that it was entirely our parents' fault for calling us Frank!

We are confident of acquittal or a trivial sentence.

Those racist lefties

Oliver Letwin has got a lot of flack in the PC press for his description of black culture after the 1985 riots, the suggestion they are more likely to riot, that there are deep rooted cultural issues that make the problems hard to fix by money alone. Trouble is, they are both factually correct and even the liberal left don't actually seem to disagree on the facts, they only differ in what they view as the supposed causes. It's ok to talk about problems of "black youth" as long as you mostly blame it all on institutional racism, exclusion, government failures or lack of funding.

But maybe the discussions of "black" problems, whether by left or right, are too simplistic, one could say racist. There is quite a range of abilities and tendencies within black communities, it is not primarily about colour but culture. Here is a quote by a lady from Sierra Leone whose son was stabbed to death.

"In this country your children have too much liberty and our kids are being killed like chickens." She continued: "There’s no knife crime back home. We have a saying in our country: it takes one person to have a child, it takes a whole village to bring up a child."

It may surprise many people but travel advice indicates that she is right, you will be a lot safer in cities in Sierra Leone, and in a number of other poor Sub Saharan nations, than in Jamaican cities. Geography, the fact that Jamaica is a convenient route for transport of Cocaine from central American countries to the UK and Europe is probably a major factor. Take a look at this homicide rate chart and how all of the countries with the highest murder rates, including Jamaica and Saint Kitts and Nevis, are in central America and the Caribbean. That is not coincidence. Take last year's 14 fatal stabbings in London. In the 8 cases where there are full details, 4 are by Afro-Caribbeans and two of the others have common Afro-Caribbean Christian names. Only two involve African names, and, from our regular perusal of crime news, this seems a fairly common proportion. Trouble is, how many African youths are now being sucked into this culture that is not of their making?

The solution to minority crime in the context of immigrants should be obvious, stop letting them in, but it's hard to know what the solutions are in the case of those who are already British citizens. One thing is certain, it will not help to present a problem in such blanket terms, to paint it as if it's solely about colour, and the left are as guilty of that as the right wingers.

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Hurrah for storm Frank

It is quite appalling that things are not constantly being named in our honour. How can they have monuments to lesser mortals like Winston Churchill or George Washington and not to we at bloggoth? But at last a storm has been (real) named in our honour, hurrah! Storm Frank is coming! It ought to be the biggest ever hurricane but the worst storm in a year is a start.

Here is what it looks like according to the Met office:

Here is what it will really look like:

You are all doomed!

Well said that man

We at bloggoth are not always a fan of the well known outspoken atheists, their opposition to the idea of anything other than the physical universe can be so dogmatic, given that you can't disprove it, that it is a faith in itself. However, we totally agree with Dawkins in this case. He left an interview when a Muslim journalist confirmed that he personally believed the prophet Muhammad flew to heaven on a winged horse.

The 74-year-old went on: "If you believe you're Napoleon or a poached egg, you're in an asylum. "If you believe in winged horses you're a New Statesman journalist."

Quite. Unless someone is capable of some grasp of facts and realities, any attempt at argument is a total waste of time.

 

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