tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2326139257909744352024-03-17T07:16:41.661+00:00The MooseBuckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comBlogger1357125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-11317507737488500472024-03-14T09:37:00.000+00:002024-03-14T09:37:17.812+00:00That's where they all should be<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZN5hKxPxaiLrP0rZX0WG-b5wKKI2m85BSgcBdKbsIly-XjAp-4V6xBSybos_IVhsweHH70ZNP2uwcYs4lyX6_gwqPNilb_bAoHBUsT-qEIknxZkfAfDy1Tz3XCSGUkTShmNUIypK0qkJgKVUMMb1-PsqWvZh059mFyGlmYQJ6OypCP481A5uByhYba3UY/s901/Capture.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="252" data-original-width="901" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZN5hKxPxaiLrP0rZX0WG-b5wKKI2m85BSgcBdKbsIly-XjAp-4V6xBSybos_IVhsweHH70ZNP2uwcYs4lyX6_gwqPNilb_bAoHBUsT-qEIknxZkfAfDy1Tz3XCSGUkTShmNUIypK0qkJgKVUMMb1-PsqWvZh059mFyGlmYQJ6OypCP481A5uByhYba3UY/w640-h180/Capture.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>With heartfelt apologies to Reg Smythe, Goldsmith & Garnett and Go Comics, for blatantly knicking their cominc strip, without even the courtesy to ask<br /></p>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-91815590716911519692024-03-13T10:16:00.000+00:002024-03-13T10:16:21.963+00:00Wassaaaabi!<div style="text-align: left;">I've just seen some wasabi paste on offer. 15p for 45g. Bargain. Trouble is, I've no idea what wasabi tastes like, never having eaten it before</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So I did what any normal person would do, and I Googled, "What does Wasabi taste like"</div><div style="text-align: left;">This is what I got</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuC1xAvXCvRSqK59mlP-V_GgJLKfx3UHmvJlxrCs31vPZUX55IkcQMBDLZ5YqAvueyZB_WCgPH6-ultuFxYg5BVM5Q7IY8ZtCHGiazGSs06mQezF6IJFUr8_rVOOzgAmYmFptUuSJWiA2L68HryDhyxxaxIofOkGBcciMlLC644_qqRii2ADgsufOZpeV3/s580/Capture.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="156" data-original-width="580" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuC1xAvXCvRSqK59mlP-V_GgJLKfx3UHmvJlxrCs31vPZUX55IkcQMBDLZ5YqAvueyZB_WCgPH6-ultuFxYg5BVM5Q7IY8ZtCHGiazGSs06mQezF6IJFUr8_rVOOzgAmYmFptUuSJWiA2L68HryDhyxxaxIofOkGBcciMlLC644_qqRii2ADgsufOZpeV3/w640-h172/Capture.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">What the actual F does that mean? How does something taste green?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I guess I'll just have to buy some and find out for myself...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YQAG0JEb718?si=lQgZat5BO_DEUBDn" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-41232157751784484302024-03-07T16:36:00.002+00:002024-03-08T09:50:31.796+00:00They wonder why we hate them<div style="text-align: left;">I smoke cigars</div><div style="text-align: left;">I used to smoke small cigars during the week, and big massive ones at the weekend</div><div style="text-align: left;">I used to buy my cigars online from Holland or Germany</div><div style="text-align: left;">When various Governments stopped cross border sales, I had to start buying the little ones from Tesco (I can still get enough big ones in my suitcase to last a while)</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Tesco ones are far too expensive to smoke all the time, so I only buy a few. These days I mostly vape in the week. It's not as good as a cigar, but with the right flavoured liquid, it's certainly not bad</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We had a budget last night. I didn't bother watching it, just waited to hear about it on the web</div><div style="text-align: left;">According to <a href="https://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-vape-tax.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chris Snowdon</a>, the Government are now going to tax e-liquid. The one I use will be taxed at £2 per 10ml bottle</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This is to prevent the kiddies from taking up vaping</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I just bought ten bottles of my regular stuff on Ebay. You get a discount for buying ten, so the whole thing, including postage, came in at £8.90. That 89p per 10ml bottle</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When this new tax comes in (Not until after the election, but Labour aren't going to scrap it) it will be £2.89 per bottle. That's an extra twenty quid I have to give to the Government, to stop the kiddies taking up vaping</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The only peeople who should be stopping the kiddies taking up vaping, are their parents, and at a push, the police if they buy the stuff illegally</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I don't see why we should have to give all that money to the Government. And what are they going to do with it? Build a <a href="http://nannyknowsbest.blogspot.com/2024/03/nannys-1m-sectarian-war-memorial.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">statue</a> for <a href="https://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/2024/03/07/the-chancers-budget-2024/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">war muslims</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Jeez!<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-41743177354816889152024-03-05T13:06:00.001+00:002024-03-05T13:06:00.241+00:00Gone in 157,680,000,000,000,000 seconds<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2024/03/doomed-in-only-five-billion-years.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A K Haart reminds us</a>, via the Daily Mail, that the Earth only has five billion years left before the Sun kicks the bucket and takes the Solar System with it</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The science is pretty much standard stuff that we all knew</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>In five billion years the Sun will expand into a red giant 100 times larger than now<br /></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">And the reporting is pretty much what we'd expaect, as A K Haart says:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>I could never be a journalist. It would never occur to me to use words such as terrifying and gruesome for an event predicted to occur in about five billion years. </blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">But by then, maybe some positives to look forward to?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Humans will be long gone, everything we have ever built will be long gone and Net Zero won't even be a memory of a memory. Even the language will have vanished, even the BBC licence fee will have come to an inglorious end - probably.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">I wouldn't be surprised if the TV Licence fee survived the sun going nova, and the whole event was blamed on climate change, but humans long gone?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Nah. I'm a Trekkie and I reckon we'll be out exploring the galaxy Star Trek style, in the billions of years to come. Hell, that far in the future, we may even be living in a state of pure energy, having left our frail Earthly bodies behind long ago</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I know Einstein said we cannot travel faster than light, so can't cross the vast distances of space necessary for space travel, but let's be honest here, Einstein was a bit of a moron</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Ok, so the human race is still obviously well in it's infancy at the moment (Probably the toddler tantrum stage), so it's hard to imagine us ever achieving much beyond skriking and flinging feces (Metaphorically), but given a few millennia to grow up, I reckon we'll do better</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">One day, we'll be out there</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv7gBEbpDepdHKlNa2vinuzjA-NtkO9RZ7-hbVOqPST-s0kLANZb1DFYbBqBCVBds8BFc9nHL2YZqrkL9o_7vbk7VmVzJLQ-vbHa2rDxnXjju15toBsdzO9SE8jOZO0_QcAbnPBZExUUXwKuXO_hl2089sKP_bdkeCMXPsSl2kA_-lp7CapNJUJggxtW4Q/s640/USS_Enterprise_in_orbit_of_Earth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv7gBEbpDepdHKlNa2vinuzjA-NtkO9RZ7-hbVOqPST-s0kLANZb1DFYbBqBCVBds8BFc9nHL2YZqrkL9o_7vbk7VmVzJLQ-vbHa2rDxnXjju15toBsdzO9SE8jOZO0_QcAbnPBZExUUXwKuXO_hl2089sKP_bdkeCMXPsSl2kA_-lp7CapNJUJggxtW4Q/s320/USS_Enterprise_in_orbit_of_Earth.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-68467160108644720862024-03-04T13:03:00.000+00:002024-03-04T13:03:16.511+00:00The Guardian wants you!<div style="text-align: left;">I'm not sure when the begging paragraph at the bottom of Guardian articles changed, but it's the first time I've read this one</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgepPBl_VF3aAkH3tNi5yefuHCN3Mm_bXYh8g3DG018OievrXc7n-FtdukcGOKv8LTEj6nv74Sx5dcIZPA2B1Z3tKQMxY8Yv72ECiZjqE2rHHT2q6uzyjwUJQfgvNui5-JbbfcPiJHXkzVlITzVTamb4mnOAa4araP4a0FzwQ_xoTEI8HPO1CNbmhfBEUpd/s599/Capture.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="599" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgepPBl_VF3aAkH3tNi5yefuHCN3Mm_bXYh8g3DG018OievrXc7n-FtdukcGOKv8LTEj6nv74Sx5dcIZPA2B1Z3tKQMxY8Yv72ECiZjqE2rHHT2q6uzyjwUJQfgvNui5-JbbfcPiJHXkzVlITzVTamb4mnOAa4araP4a0FzwQ_xoTEI8HPO1CNbmhfBEUpd/w640-h514/Capture.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">So it's clear the Guradian don't like billionaires, but we already knew that. Even though billionaires create jobs and wealth that benfits everyone</div><div style="text-align: left;">And it's clear the Guardian don't like fossil fuel executives, but we already knew that too. Even though they create energy that we use to heat our homes, cook our food and power our transport and infrastructure</div><div style="text-align: left;">And it's clear they don't like populist politicians, but we already knew that one too. Even though populism, by definition, is doing what the people want</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Yes, we already knew that. I didn't know this bit though:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>And do you know who does like us? People who believe in a free press. People who believe that the truth should be available to everyone. And people who recognise the importance of challenging those in positions of power and influence. Does that sound like you?</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Well yes that does sound like me. I believe in free press and that the truth should be available to everyone, although I don't ever remamber seeing the truth in the Guardian</div><div style="text-align: left;">I believe in challenging those in power, but all I ever seem to see in the Guardian, is demand for more power and more influence, for our glorious leaders</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Yes, that does sound like me, but I certainly do not, never, not in any way, not at all, not on this Earth, like the Guardian</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Presumptious bastards<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-18424732505077309212024-02-26T13:00:00.001+00:002024-02-26T13:00:00.132+00:00Misleading headlines from The Guardian<div style="text-align: left;">If you're abreast of what matters most to the Government and media at the moment, you'll know that they have a large bug up their arse about misinformation. This being the telling of porkies in public online forums such as Facebook and such</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Social media may be a big cesspit of the utter bollocks, but the biggest source of misinformation is the Government and media themselves. I mean come on, who can actually remember a truthful thing that either of them have said</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/feb/21/four-day-week-made-permanent-for-most-uk-firms-in-worlds-biggest-trial" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Case in point</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><blockquote>Four-day week made permanent for most UK firms in world’s biggest trial</blockquote></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">I suppose there could be a case here for commas, grammar or interpretation, but on the face of it, the headline is a lie - most UK firms have not introduced a four day week</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Most of the UK companies that took part in the world’s biggest ever four-day working week trial have made the policy permanent, research shows.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">So it's not most UK firms, it's most of the 61 companies who took part in the vanishingly small trial of a four day week</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The report’s author, Juliet Schor, professor of sociology at Boston College, said the results showed “real and long lasting” effects. “Physical and mental health, and work-life balance are significantly better than at six months. Burnout and life satisfaction improvements held steady,” she said.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">The initial findings do sound very positive, however reports have also recently found that smoking causes blindness, cow farts change the climate and lockdowns work</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>But Matthew Percival, a director at the Confederation of Business and Industry, said the four-day week was not a “one size fits all answer” and would be “unlikely to pay for itself in many industries”.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Indeed. The companies that took part are not listed in this article, but I remember looking at it when the trial started and they were mostly financial services companies. I can't think of many other sectors where a four day week with no loss of pay could be made to work, although I imagine there may be some</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Unfortunatley, one of these may be the civil service</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>This month, the Scottish government launched a four-day working week trial for some public services. Autonomy is calling for the Westminster government to introduce policies that would enable its wider take-up, including giving workers the right to request a four-day week with no loss of pay, a public sector trial, and funding to support the shift in the private sector.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">As Timmy points out, </div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The usual claim here is that productivity goes up with the extra day off. But as we don’t – can’t – measure bureaucrat efficiency that’s not a useful argument for them, is it? </blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">As usual, Tim Worstall describes the situation a lot more eloquently than I could. My thoughts would be something on the lines of, They're all a bunch of lazy grifters and the only way to cut their hours with any meaningful result, would be to sack the lot of them and be done with it</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The idea that they would spend even less hours working than they currently do, on our dime, really grips my shit<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-12667572066160570672024-02-23T13:00:00.001+00:002024-02-23T13:00:00.250+00:00Who understands 'Inclusive'?<div style="text-align: left;">Not <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1869532/green-party-mayor-meat-ban-worcester" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the first Green Party mayor of Worcester</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><blockquote>Fury as Green Party mayor bans meat from menu to save planet and be more 'inclusive'</blockquote></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Just the kind of thing you'd expect from the Green Party. A total lack of understanding of both green issues and inclusivity</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">The first Green Party mayor of Worcester has been criticised for removing meat from the menu at mayoral receptions to be more 'inclusive'.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Councillor Louis Stephen said that only vegetarian or vegan food would be available after full council meetings at the Mayor's Parlour in Worcester Guildhall. He argued that plant-based food is "more inclusive" as many non-Christians do not eat pork.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">The only argument he makes here, is that he's an imbecile</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">If some 'non-Christians' don't eat pork, the way to be inclusive is to offer a no pork option. Removing all meat for all people is the total opposite of inclusive</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The councillor asked: "Why has a decision been made to deny any choice for the 93 per cent at post-Council receptions by instructing that no meat option for the 93 per cent should be provided?" He questioned: "Who made this decision? Who else was consulted? Is this another example of the tyranny of the illiberal Left?"</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">It is. It's also an example of the brainlessness of the liberal left. To normal people like us, being inclusive, means including everyone</div><div style="text-align: left;">To the left, being inclusive means only including the people they approve of and excluding everyone else</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The councillor, who was a mayor between 2014 and 2015, added: "We always had an option for vegetarians and an option for vegans.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">That's inclusive</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Green councillor Marjory Bisset, joint leader of the city council, hit back saying he did not believe it was a "diversity and equality issue".<br /><br />She explained: "I do not think not being able to eat meat at a particular event is a diversity and equality issue. There are only six such meetings a year, is it really such an imposition to be deprived of meat on these six occasions?"</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Yes it is. Because it absolutely will not end there<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-3609050015063620142024-02-22T10:33:00.003+00:002024-02-22T10:33:56.586+00:00Bananas<div style="text-align: left;">I just ate a banana. It was surprisingly good. So I had to work out why that was surprising. Doing the maths, it's been at least six years since I ate a banana</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I might do it more often<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-56378646392684549152024-02-02T13:00:00.001+00:002024-02-02T13:00:00.147+00:00Crazytown<div style="text-align: left;">We don't use that word to describe nutjobs anymore. We say 'Trans People'</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Transgender people in England are much more likely to have a long-term mental health condition, the first study of its kind shows, with some facing a risk five times higher than cisgender people.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Ok. So I have a question </div><div style="text-align: left;">Are trans people more likely to develope a mental illness becuase they are trans?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Or are people trans <i>because</i> they have a mental illness?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I reckon the people that think you can change gender as you please and men can get pregnant and have periods, started life on the crazy train</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Guardian believes they boarded at a later junction, because causation / correlation, or something</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Oh, and there is no such thing as <i>Cis</i>gender. Sod off with that already<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-43154729107819977672024-02-01T13:00:00.001+00:002024-02-01T13:00:00.134+00:00Sustainabollocks<div style="text-align: left;">Sustainable. Carped on about by every single issue charity and pressure group, spouted by MPs and the public sector, and written into every companies mission statement and even painted on the sifde of all the vans</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">But what does it mean? Buggered if I know. It might have meant something one day, but now it's just a word that everybody uses to pretend they're environmentally friendly</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><blockquote>Move to sustainable food systems could bring $10tn benefits a year, study finds</blockquote></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Of course it's also used in many headlines in The Guardian</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>A shift towards a more sustainable global food system could create up to $10tn (£7.9tn) of benefits a year, improve human health and ease the climate crisis, according to the most comprehensive economic study of its type.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">You'd be forgiven, on reading that, for asking what type of food system do they mean, what would be the economic benefits, how would it improve human health and what would it do to prevent climate change?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You'd be forgiven, but you really should know better</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>It found that existing food systems destroyed more value than they created due to hidden environmental and medical costs, in effect, borrowing from the future to take profits today.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Food is causing health problems. food is causing climate change. Food makes profit. The first two are unlikely and unproven, and the third one is the pinnacle of all evil, according to the Guardian</div><div style="text-align: left;">God forbid, the people who create food for us, should be paid for their labours. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Food systems drive a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, putting the world on course for 2.7C of warming by the end of the century. This creates a vicious cycle, as higher temperatures bring more extreme weather and greater damage to harvests.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Greenhouse gas being carbon dioxide. Now it's been a while since I did basic science at high school, so please help me out here. There's a gas that all plant based life breathes, just like we breathe oxygen, and this gas is absolutely essential for growing food. It's on the tip of my tongue...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And speaking of greenhouses, they're what we use in colder countries, to grow food that requires higher temperatures. Am I right? As for extreme weather, when it's cold they tell us that weather isn't climate, but when the weather whips up a bit, they tell us it's cow farts</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Food insecurity also puts a burden on medical systems. The study predicted a business-as-usual approach would leave 640 million people underweight by 2050, while obesity would increase by 70%.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">How do you even respond to that? Schrodinger's fat whap? Sure, food insecurity might leave some people with not enough, but maybe that could be dealt with by encouraging people not to live and breed so much in the deserts of the world, where it's quite difficut to grow stuff<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We still haven't got to some kind of proposal</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The study proposes a shift of subsidies and tax incentives away from destructive large-scale monocultures that rely on fertilisers, pesticides and forest clearance. Instead, financial incentives should be directed towards smallholders who could turn farms into carbon sinks with more space for wildlife.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">They want to stop subsidising Big Farmer (See what I did there?) and give the money to people with a large back garden?<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To be honest, I don't actually understand what they mean by this, if anything</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And what the blithering fuck is a carbon sink? Growing food, by it's very nature, is something that uses up carbon dioxide, if that's what they mean</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>A change of diet is another key element</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Ahh! I suspect that is where all this bollocks was leading us</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Overall, they estimate the costs of the transformation at between 0.2% and 0.4% of global GDP per year.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">The ten trillion in benefits mentioned in the headline, actually not being financial benefits, but intangible nonsense about how much money could be saved by not being fat or not having climate change. In actual fact, the only financial impact would be a huge monetary cost</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>As well at the climate impact, it is a major driver of land-use change and biodiversity decline, and is responsible for 70% of freshwater drawdown.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's also responsible for keeping eight billion people alive, so there's that</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Numerous other studies have demonstrated the health and climate benefits of a shift towards a plant-based diet.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Yes, this whole thing has been another push to force everyone to go vegan</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>A report last year by the Climate Observatory notes that Brazil’s beef industry – and its related deforestation – now has a bigger carbon footprint than all the cars, factories, air conditioners, electric gadgets and other sources of emissions in Japan.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">The only thing that says to me, is that we don't need to worry about the carbon footprint of all the cars, factories, air conditioners, electric gadgets and other sources of emissions in Japan</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Changing the ways we produce and consume food will be critical to tackling climate change, protecting biodiversity, and building a better future. It is time for radical change.”</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">What radical change? Do tell, because this is getting tedious<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The new study is not prescriptive about vegetarianism, but Rockström said demand for beef and most other meat would fall if hidden health and environmental costs were included in the price.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">They want to raise the tax on meat to get us to stop eating it. That's it, isn't it? These people think they're so clever, but all they ever do is regurgitate the same old crap</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The main challenge of the proposed food transition is that costs of food would rise. Rockström said this would have to be handled with political dexterity and support for poor sections of society otherwise the result could be protests, such as the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) demonstrations held in France over petrol price hikes.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Political dexterity? I assume that means either more lies, or police with batons. So he can see that artificially inflating the price of food for no reason may result in civil unrest, but he's right, so he wants to do it anyway</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>This opportunity should capture the attention of any policymaker who wants to secure a healthier future for the planet and for people.”</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">In my ideal world, any policymaker whose attention this cpatured, would be swinging from a lamppost, post haste<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-70353996919778067792024-01-31T12:10:00.000+00:002024-01-31T12:10:51.552+00:00Not Doing Brexit<div style="text-align: left;">Let's face it, we voted to leave the EU in 2016, but we're never going to go. It first became apparent to me when Theresa May enshrined all EU law into Uk law, then told us they would repeal anything that we didn't really need</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Brexit had been dragging on for ages before that, then we're told we're having all the laws anyway? EU Regulations were the main reason I voted for Brext. And when have you ever seen a Government repeal a law?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Brexit could have been a wonderful thing if the powers that be, both here and over there, didn't choose to act like a bunch of toddlers having a tantrum in a supermarket</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/30/brexit-border-rules-could-cut-shelf-life-of-fresh-food-from-eu-by-a-fifth-say-experts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this</a>:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>New Brexit border rules could cut the shelf life of fresh food from mainland Europe by a fifth and leave some deliveries from the EU unsaleable, major food bodies have warned.<br /><br />The SPS Certification Working group, which represents 30 trade bodies covering £100bn of the UK’s food supply, has said new rules requiring importers to notify authorities a day before they arrive in the UK was “unfeasible” and could mean that some European businesses decide to stop supplying the UK.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">More unneccessary regulation, not less. Tim Worstall <a href="https://www.timworstall.com/2024/01/bureaucratic-convenience/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">says</a>:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>No reason for this other than the convenience of the bureaucrats who process the paperwork.<br />Fire them all.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Fire them all indeed, I would be 100% behind that, but I don't think keeping bureaucrats in gainful employment is the real reason</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's so that Remoaners can complain the shelves are empty and the prices have increased 'because of Brexit', and the UK Government can be seen to be doing something, when they one day claim Brexit has failed, and take us back into the EU</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We may rejoin officially or just behind the scenes, but it will be without the few minor benefits of membership and without another referendum<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-39334753871158186532024-01-17T13:00:00.001+00:002024-01-17T13:00:00.133+00:00Get in line<div style="text-align: left;">Something has just made me remember a (boring) story from when I recently went on holiday</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">We had little choice but to fly with Ryanair this time. I've give over saying I'll never use them again, as we always do, and to be honest, they were actually quite good this time. Anyhoo, they fly from Terminal three, which we don't often visit</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The last time we were at terminal three was when covid restrictions were still in place and we were advised to turn up three hours before departure, because of all the delays with check in and security</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Check in took ten minutes and security took fifteen. When we got to the bar though, there was a huge queue going all around the perimeter of the pub (if you've been, you'll know the layout). It took me an hour to get through the queue and get some beers</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If it wasn't for all the doom-mongering about delays, we may not have had time for a couple of beers, so thanks to the packickers for that</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Anyway, we're back there in December, Mrs Bucko got us some kick arse seats, while I went up for beers. There were roughly seven people in front of me and they were all forming an orderly queue, starting three or four meters away from the bar, due to people walking past with cases and stuff<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's quite a big bar and in your average boozer, people normally just walk up to the bar to get served, they don't queue. I joined the queue but it felt really awkward. It felt wrong to be queuing and it felt like a normal person at any minute, might just bypass the queue and walk up to the bar, so you would have to say something or uncomfortably look away like you hadn't noticed</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So I got the beers, sat with Mrs Bucko and pointed it out. She also thought it unusual, but what the hell?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When it was time for a second beer, there was one person being served at the bar and no queue, so I just walked up to the bar. Someone popped up and served me, but while doing so, two other people walked up to the bar</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When I got back to the table, there were a few at the bar again, but all waiting at the bar rather than queuing. I pointed it out to Mrs Bucko, as I felt responsible for this little act of rebellion and return to the normal way of doing things</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It didn't last long. After that rush had been dealt with, people started forming an orderly queue again. Is it just that one bar in Terminal 3 where people are weird, as I've never seen that before?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So we got on the plane...<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-67274191785936778412024-01-16T13:00:00.001+00:002024-01-16T13:00:00.137+00:00Oui, J'aime Le Jambon<div style="text-align: left;">And so ends my knowledge of the French language. Well, I can actually speak a bit more than that, but not a lot.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There are many reasons why I'm rubbish at French, even though we 'learned' it at school, but I think the main reason is becsue I am English*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>An American tourist who took a trip to France was left in tears as she said she felt “isolated” during her trip, despite wearing a pink beret.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://longrider.co.uk/blog/2024/01/14/good-grief-10/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Longrider</a> tells <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/tiktok-tourist-cries-holiday-feeling-31878913" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the tale </a>of an American influencer who went to France, but fell foul of the languag barrier, with hilarious consequences</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Which got me thinking about my experiences with the French. It's oft told that the French hold their language in such high esteem, that they refuse to learn other languages. Having visited France twice, I can tell you that's only partly true</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Mrs Bucko does know a few French words, and where it was necessary (Asking directions, restuarant), she had a go ot it. After a couple of sentances, the French would switch to English. It could be they were encouraging her to make a little effort first, or it could be they simply didn't want to hear their beautiful language spoken like that</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There are many French people though, who do not speak any other language than their native tongue. I've met quite a few on my travels, but the one I think of often was in Serbia</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We were sat in a bar and the only other people were the staff and one French man. Other people slowly began to drift in and it eventually got quite busy. It was a small bar and people just naturally began to start conversations until there was a right good chit chat going on with the people around the bar</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Most of the people appeared to be from the Balkan region among other areas, all speaking different languages. At first, I over heard a few languages being proposed, but eventually everyone settled on English, as it was the only language that they could all understand</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Except the lone French man</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I think this is one big reason why most English* people do not speak a second language. English has become the international language of choice, so if you speak it, you can generally communicate well with most others</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">French however, is not. Most people outside of France don't tend to speak it, and let's be honest, it sounds ridiculous</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Obviously if you visit another country, you should make some effort, but I think it's time the French got over the idea that French is the only language. It can be quite isolating</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And don't get me started on the food...<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-49278379602975615622024-01-15T10:36:00.000+00:002024-01-15T10:36:37.385+00:00And they really are...<div style="text-align: left;">...starting as <a href="http://fuelinjectedmoose.blogspot.com/2024/01/start-as-you-mean-to-go-on.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">they mean to go on</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><blockquote>I was 'gang raped' in the metaverse -the trauma was similar to a real-world assault</blockquote></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">That's two. I suspect the 'virtual rape' may start to be a thing in 2024. But was anyone really thinking we'd reached the peak of batshit crazy yet?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>‘They relentlessly harassed me and then proceeded to (what can only be described) as the sexual assault of my avatar,' she explained.<br /><br />'Their behavior was offensive and disturbing.’</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Bus as <a href="https://longrider.co.uk/blog/2024/01/13/avatar/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Longrider</a> quite rightly points out:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Rape is a physical assault involving forced penetration. Avatars are not
real. The metaverse is not real. This woman could have stopped this
immediately by just disconnecting. A real rape victim cannot escape so
readily. This bullshit trivialises sexual assault.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Indeed </div><div style="text-align: left;">This has never been a thing before, but now we've got two in 2024 and it's only January. One has even been reported to the police</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I feel our descent into clown world, still has a long way to go<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-80618839110367559122024-01-03T13:30:00.001+00:002024-01-03T13:30:09.972+00:00Start as you mean to go on<div style="text-align: left;">Hi everyone. Hope you all had a great Christmas and stuff, but it looks like we're jumping straight into 2024 with the <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-cops-probing-1st-case-31785666" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">same bollocks</a> we've become accustomed to for the past few years of nonsense</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><blockquote>British cops probing first rape case in 'metaverse' after child 'attacked' in video game</blockquote></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">That's right! British police, who currently believe they are not stupid enough, are now investigating things that happen in video games</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Police are investigating the first case of rape in the metaverse after a child was "sexually attacked" in a virtual reality video game.<br /><br />It is said a gang of men raped the avatar of a girl aged under 16 during a video game. The victim wasn't physically injured but is said to have suffered the same psychological and emotional trauma as someone who has been raped in the "real world".</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">So. Many. Questions.</div><div style="text-align: left;">The first and foremost being, what the fuck are the police thinking, even touching this?</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">I assume, as this is a virtual 'crime', it will need to be investigated virtually? The police will need to create their own online personas, log into the game and investigate online. If they do manage to catch the e-perps, judges and a jury will also need to be added to the metaverse for the trail</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And of course, once convicted, they will be sent to an online, virtual reality jail. I mean, if a girl can be raped online and get the same amount of trauma as a real rape, her attackers can be put in online prison and get the same trauma as being banged in a real slammer</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Right?</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Police leaders are now calling for legislation to tackle a wave of sexual offending in such a sphere, saying officers’ tactics must evolve to stop perverts using new technology to exploit children.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Of course they are. They never miss an opportunity to demand more legislation. Notice how they use the usual, 'Protecting the kiddies' as their excuse? I just see this as being a step up from the Twitter police though. Coppers spending hours on end in the metaverse looking for e-crimes, rather than doing some actual work and catching criminals in the real world</div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Might be fun though, in that reality you could blow the coppers away with machine guns. But then guns would need to be banned in the metaverse. Yes, I'm over thinking this</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>However, the landmark case has prompted questions about whether police should be pursuing virtual offences.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">That question should never need to be asked, but we do live in a clown world<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-22271216938021443422023-12-22T09:31:00.000+00:002023-12-22T09:31:47.765+00:00Merry Christmas Everyone<div style="text-align: left;">We're having a change of tradition this year and going to lanzarote for Christmas. We fly tommorrow afternoon, so I won't be around for the usual seasons greetings on Christmas Day</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So, with that in mind, I hope you all have a great Christmas. I'll try to post a picture of us supping piná coladas on the beach</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I don't know what to expect on 2024 and I'm not thinking that far ahead yet. Maybe I'll have a lot more to say on the blog next year, but maybe I won't. Who knows?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I wasn't going to bother posting any Christams tunes this year, but I decided to do one. Garry Glitter may be a raging peado, but he did some good music, which you don't hear any more, as people don't like playing music by a raging peado</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Enjoy</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s3f52ddC2TA?si=qBurw7d1rauP0Mma" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-82152079493720788722023-12-21T13:29:00.001+00:002023-12-21T13:29:24.395+00:00Whatever Happened to the Daily Mash<div style="text-align: left;">I have a link to the Daily Mash on my sidebar. It's just a left over from the good old days now, I haven't touched it in years. I think they blocked people with ad-blockers or something, so I gave up on it</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Anyway, I was bored the other week and remembered how much I used to enjoy Daily Mash goofery, so I decided to try it again. It did let me through with an ad-blocker, but what I found on the other side was a lot different to the content I remember from days of yore. The Mash appears to have gone woke</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE7w6JVoH4wftBIPmHit-ayOcLn0BANqIkwDHAKMXpfjh5kf9q2ODveFodGJ2wlaoNKAU14t1qpDtPJBQ27HLhMc0qkKBMYgSTDiPxsam1MGSnShuvvoOeWESnT069mvL6uVvMHjaocx4KPbUyN4Ug0yq4Nqrcp7altCdB1roDVdj913LC6NMtcEenEkSJ/s941/Capture1.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="941" height="60" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE7w6JVoH4wftBIPmHit-ayOcLn0BANqIkwDHAKMXpfjh5kf9q2ODveFodGJ2wlaoNKAU14t1qpDtPJBQ27HLhMc0qkKBMYgSTDiPxsam1MGSnShuvvoOeWESnT069mvL6uVvMHjaocx4KPbUyN4Ug0yq4Nqrcp7altCdB1roDVdj913LC6NMtcEenEkSJ/s320/Capture1.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-bvNqsSG0ukXpxTFeMpf5glJC-UeZMfG2fMdI8CEKaD9c6VH4WyzxeUkMagGvnbf5-Cqj12rMBnhD0NM3wVV0wyJqccYb8di9EvPLpEp18nRzcH22wls7u2QQk-wGvbR8zcHF12Ztzbt_i3BLnIN663ThLYhBm4zrQ0FkMdTVlvMAB9yp7ZKOyQDs6IqW/s468/Capture2.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="124" data-original-width="468" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-bvNqsSG0ukXpxTFeMpf5glJC-UeZMfG2fMdI8CEKaD9c6VH4WyzxeUkMagGvnbf5-Cqj12rMBnhD0NM3wVV0wyJqccYb8di9EvPLpEp18nRzcH22wls7u2QQk-wGvbR8zcHF12Ztzbt_i3BLnIN663ThLYhBm4zrQ0FkMdTVlvMAB9yp7ZKOyQDs6IqW/s320/Capture2.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAj0jDk09z_yA0gY_koYkkjqyZTWNbwf3Spmi3011Gv2b7V3kB2fPO-9ydT1WuIyG2tulZL97XAutcw4E36ixKQa8pH2G1RSoD9P_PAfd6udgJckZK3smKjrW8vG0L6NCy04X54N-RSAd594ZBB0xVGUAOaa-BoCBtSlH0eKz_3a9kfi3PQPzQOHEZtccQ/s449/Capture3.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="149" data-original-width="449" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAj0jDk09z_yA0gY_koYkkjqyZTWNbwf3Spmi3011Gv2b7V3kB2fPO-9ydT1WuIyG2tulZL97XAutcw4E36ixKQa8pH2G1RSoD9P_PAfd6udgJckZK3smKjrW8vG0L6NCy04X54N-RSAd594ZBB0xVGUAOaa-BoCBtSlH0eKz_3a9kfi3PQPzQOHEZtccQ/s320/Capture3.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRry4LrEGMgc8g0ZI1cUVgtBfKgeK9Wqy44A-RO_9lsO6Gg5w8P-2vUvQ9BEgVDYCvFQoFRrAUTTd7htxLsr2o3MNpW6WwVAiEH_x62uXVb-vyDl4Z-p1n3hlBoWs3Z8X-xlx1M4ffWBo9noWvXKAs4SDMbwmzp2e_HmzZQt4OfOZ-PrNponypJBy-KNCG/s456/Capture4.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="456" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRry4LrEGMgc8g0ZI1cUVgtBfKgeK9Wqy44A-RO_9lsO6Gg5w8P-2vUvQ9BEgVDYCvFQoFRrAUTTd7htxLsr2o3MNpW6WwVAiEH_x62uXVb-vyDl4Z-p1n3hlBoWs3Z8X-xlx1M4ffWBo9noWvXKAs4SDMbwmzp2e_HmzZQt4OfOZ-PrNponypJBy-KNCG/s320/Capture4.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVajwjQBoMqU54GX0KBhtBKr6yxU01NtM2CeVbqRaOnIo5_i-NtXwVvnnzD3VeXbJpKrU7IWikFEpsMpXhOZs-dSoeLWtWo1hukUxVqARzB9KMl14N0MrutFdLaNwpcIZ7OdfqOrh68eFQWKpb26tjr5oFrxqO-sF5kWZC3WSIvbLDcF14o_uY7_jN4QI8/s458/Capture5.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="123" data-original-width="458" height="86" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVajwjQBoMqU54GX0KBhtBKr6yxU01NtM2CeVbqRaOnIo5_i-NtXwVvnnzD3VeXbJpKrU7IWikFEpsMpXhOZs-dSoeLWtWo1hukUxVqARzB9KMl14N0MrutFdLaNwpcIZ7OdfqOrh68eFQWKpb26tjr5oFrxqO-sF5kWZC3WSIvbLDcF14o_uY7_jN4QI8/s320/Capture5.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQ_xJeSoE2bZDTGVLyFEVkTnS98I7n9GP8XddDn-ivo-yjD4M3HNnxpbBDhHmF0pLto4esPERC0WW1LX37sRqnmVQWNNT0xrNAdCc5bKNiwCJMBFheVWhY42ylNpiJt4KJ6owYTefQhVd2sfZVgHtO8335dsjbsTYsX3J0xCWX_uXr40M3EXpa6I__mDc/s629/Capture.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="629" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQ_xJeSoE2bZDTGVLyFEVkTnS98I7n9GP8XddDn-ivo-yjD4M3HNnxpbBDhHmF0pLto4esPERC0WW1LX37sRqnmVQWNNT0xrNAdCc5bKNiwCJMBFheVWhY42ylNpiJt4KJ6owYTefQhVd2sfZVgHtO8335dsjbsTYsX3J0xCWX_uXr40M3EXpa6I__mDc/s320/Capture.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br />I wasn't expecting the Daily Mash to be taken over by left wing barmcakery, but here we are. The trouble is, the left have absolutely no sense of humour</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Oh well...<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-76517529217173066852023-12-15T10:56:00.000+00:002023-12-15T10:56:34.765+00:00Ups and Downs from the NHS Ambulatory Care Service<div style="text-align: left;">I have the flu. Not the flu where you cough a bit, take two days off work and then everything is fine with the world again, the flu where you wish for the sweet release of death and you can't get out of bed for so long, even countless episodes of Star Trek start to get boring</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This week has been particularly bad for me for the following reasons:</div><div style="text-align: left;">1) I'm a man, and Man flu is so much worse than the regular version</div><div style="text-align: left;">2) I'm a wuss</div><div style="text-align: left;">3) The NHS</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you've read a bit of my blog in the past, you probably know I have nothing but scorn for the NHS. You also should know that my ire is directed at the system, the management, the waste, and not the people you actually meet when you need treatment (And before any lefties start with their lefty logic, yes, if I need treatment, I will get it. Allow me to opt out and I will)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I do still have some niggles with the frontline staff though (Tik Tok videos during Covid aside for the moment). Eveything takes so long and they are never honest about how long things are going to take. They also seem to have a lack of communication, which makes things take even longer</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I had the proper bad flu a few times in my early twenties for some reason. This was back before man flu was properly diagnosed. It always started with chronic back pain, then a few hours later, all the symptoms would have kicked in and I would be circling the drain. This would last about a week before I recovered and I remember it happening to me on four different occasions</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's been twenty three years since I've had it though, so when the back pain started as I was leaving work on Monday, I hoped I was dying of something a little more mundane. No other symptoms appeared in the evening, so when I took a handful of painkillers and went to bed at nine, I asumed I was correct</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I woke up in the night though, sweating like a Kennedy at a gun show. I have never sweated so much in my life. Even when I was in Corfu in August and decided I would be fine in jeans, I didn't loose this much water. My pulse rate was also in the 120's, so I was concerned I might have a kidney infection and rang the doctors in the morning</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I could tell the doctors were also concerned, as when I asked for an aoppointment, they seemed a little put out, as giving people doctors appointments really isn't what they are there for, but after I described my symptoms, they invited me in at 11:00, which barely gave me time to throw up and put some pants on</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The doc asked a lot of questions, did all the usual tests and then had me pee in a cup so he could dunk a lolly stick in it. He quickly ruled out kidney infection, but he was still convinced it was an infection of some description, so he referred me to the ambulatory care place at the hospital for further tests</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">He gave me a printed sheet with all his findings on it, to hand in at the hospital and I went straight there. It was only an hours wait to see a nurse, but she did all the same tests and asked all the same questions again. She then took blood samples and told me it would be a hour before the results came back. When I told her I would therefore be back in an hour, she told me to wait as the doctor may want to see me in the meantime</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Two hours later I overheard a woman complaining that her blood results hadn't come back yet. The conversation went like this</div><div style="text-align: left;">Woman: My results are not back</div><div style="text-align: left;">Nurse: Yes it may take up to an hour</div><div style="text-align: left;">Woman: It's been an hour</div><div style="text-align: left;">Nurse: Yes, it may take one to two hours</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">After three and a half hours, the pain in my back was going nuts, so I took the two paracetamols that I had brought with me. Ten minutes after that, the doc summoned me</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">She asked all the same questions and did all the same tests again. She was also a talker, and quite a rapid one. Fortunately the words, 'Kid, take a breath, you're rambling on and making no sense', stayed in my head and didn't leave my mouth</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">She told me the blood tests showed I had a low white blood cell count, which may or may not mean I'm fighting an infection. I'm sometimes over-awed by modern medicine</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The next step, she told me, was to have an x-ray. At this point I just wanted to go home and die on my own couch, so I asked her, as they were certain it was an infection, why can't they just give me a course of decent anti-biotics and send me away, but she said they have to know exactly what it is before they will prescribe anything<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">However, she was kind enough to offer me some industrial strength pain killers after I told her my crappy Tesco paracetamols weren't even numbing the pain of this conversation. "I'll go get some!", she happily announced, before skipping out of the room, whistling A Spoonful of Sugar</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Twenty minutes later, a nurse came in, asked me my name and then said she'd been asked to get me some super duty painkillers. She couldn't do it right away however, as she had to get them from another department and needed to wait for her colleague to return from her break. "Won't be long though!"</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Forty minutes later, another nurse came in and said she had been asked to get me my arse kickers, and she was going to do it now. At this point I remembered that I hadn't eaten anything all day, and asked if this would be a problem. This nurse came back five minutes later with a tuna sandwich, some coffee and a couple of tiny little pills that made the whole days experience a little more worth while. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Then she wanted more blood. This was for 'cultures'. Something about growing a clone and seeing if that gets sick. Or something. So after draining me a bit more, she then sent me off to get the x-ray</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I took this opportunity to leave the hospital for a short break though. Mrs Bucko was in bed when I left the house as she was working nights. She had been trying to contact me when she got up, but there was no signal in the building so I went out to phone her with an update from the area where all the smokers go</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">After another hours wait, the x-raying person sommoned me, gave me a blue dress and told me to change in a little room, then buggered off. Do I leave all my things in this room? Do I take my underpants off? Where was I supposed to go?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">After she found me wandering the corridors in my frock, she collected me and took me to the x-ray bunker, zapped me and told me to report back to the ambulatory place again. I changed out of my dress first, as I just assumed...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Back at the ambulatory care ward, I managed to scrounge another coffee, then settled in to watch The Chase and wait for another doctor. This one was the closest thing to an ageing hippy I've ever seen in the flesh. Groovy man<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">He asked me all the same questions and did all the usual tests (How many times can you have your blood pressure taken before your arm falls off?). And then he concluded that it wasn't an infection, but a virus. I have the flu. The virus is causing inflamation at the base of my spine, hence the pain</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">He gave me (No prescription I had to pay for, just here you go) a box of hard drugs and said to take these for the pain until the virus clears up in a few days</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But it's not over yet. He wanted to do one last test. An MRI scan. After a little questioning, it turns out that with all these tests, they were actually looking for something specific. It's apparently a rare situation where you get an infection in the discs of your spine. It's imaginatively called 'Diskitis' and apparently it's a little bitch to treat. Six to eight weeks on an antibiotic drip, he tells me, and although they are now convinced it's not that, there's no harm in having that last test done</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And I agreed. As inconvenient as it all is, I don't really mind having random tests done every now and then. I'm almost 50, so that's like 100k miles on the clock and the age where things can start to go wrong, so whatever. The MRI is booked for tomorrow at 11:30. What is the betting that it actually happens at 11:30? I'm going to take a book</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Anyway, I got home that evening, ate some food and took a couple of these pills. With the drugs, I actually managed to enjoy a relaxing evening. I took two more later and got an early night</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I then woke up at two thirty in the bastarding morning with the worst sore throat ever. So painful I couldn't even swallow. It was like my body was taking the piss out of me. Painkillers that work, but you have to take them after food? No more eating for you, looser!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">By the morning I was at grown man crying point. I managed to work my way up from sucking a couple of halls soothers, to drinking a brew, to forcing down some yoghurt, before finally gobbing the drugs. Yesterday it was eat, drugs, sleep, eat, drugs, sleep, every four hours</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I managed to sleep ok last night and the sore throat is now manageable. The pain has also gone down considerably. I've not yet bothered with the drugs and I'm going to hold off to see if I'm actually getting better. Mrs Bucko is still in bed at the moment, but when she gets up, I'm sure she will be pleased to find I'm out of the 'whining like a little girl' phase of my illness, and on to the 'please will you do me a brew' phase</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Tomorrow I'm hoping to be well enough to have moved onto the 'will you get from under my fucking feet and find something to do' phase. She likes that one<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-53995140111497182162023-12-11T10:18:00.000+00:002023-12-11T10:18:26.826+00:00Cock or no cock<div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><b>Put trans criminals in female jails to help with their gender identity, says Scottish prison service </b></blockquote>All of them?</div><div style="text-align: left;">No, not all the trans criminals, all the Scottish Prison Service. Do they all really think this is a good idea? I suspect this has just come from one woke idiot who has been promoted above his brain level, but as <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/10/trans-criminals-serve-time-female-jails-scottish-guidance/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">it's behind a paywall</a>, I can't check that for sure. I bet you're not wagering against me though</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Trans criminals should serve time in female jails to allow them to prepare for life as women on release</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">One would assume, if they are trans, then they are already prepared for life as women and have been living as women for some time. Or are these just the male criminals who exploit the system and turn 'trans' the minute they are looking at time inside.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">One good way to weed out the grifters would be to look at what gender they identified as when they comitted the crime. There is <a href="https://thylacosmilus.blogspot.com/2023/12/and-its-bred.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">precedent for it</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Of course it shouldn't matter. The prison system should not be affirming mental illness any more than they should be allowing grifters to exploit the system. If you were born male, you should go to a male prison. Object? Don't do the crime</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I wonder how many female criminals are asking to be locked up in mens prisons?<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-75520773918449403942023-12-04T09:57:00.000+00:002023-12-04T09:57:42.745+00:00Push the bugger off!<div style="text-align: left;">If I'm ever walking across a motorway bridge and I see someone threatening to jump, I'm gonna push the fucker off and save everyone t<a href="https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/live-m65-closed-both-directions-28222668" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">he hassle</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><blockquote>Heavy traffic as M65 reopens after police respond to welfare incident - updates</blockquote></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">All the reporting of this, in the news and on social media, is 'Police Incident', or, 'Concern for Welfare'. Nobody says, 'Selfish twat threatining to jump off a bridge'.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Or even, 'Police over-react and close both sides of the motorway in rush hour traffic, just to pleaed with some attention seeking muppet'</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You can probably tell I'm annoyed</div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-67760054276105075312023-12-01T11:34:00.000+00:002023-12-01T11:34:27.144+00:00And we all know why this is...<div style="text-align: left;"><b><blockquote>Black people in Lancashire more than twice as likely to experience forceful policing as white people</blockquote></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's because bllack people are more likely to resist arrest and require restraint, right?</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Right? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The Race Equality Foundation said the data exposes "systemic racism and bias in policing that demands immediate action", and called for scrutiny of racial profiling and unfair police practices.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Not if you're the Race Grifting Foundation. So what is this data that 'suggests' Lancashire coppers are a bunch of raving racist knobs?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Home Office figures show Lancashire Constabulary used forceful tactics, including restraint, using a conducted energy device, such as a Taser, or other equipment 495 times against black people and 22,235 times against white people in the year to March.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Doesn't seem that bad to me?</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">Census figures from 2021 estimate 10,096 black people and 1,325,538 white people live in the Lancashire area.</div><div style="text-align: left;">It means police used a forceful approach approximately 49 times per 1,000 black people, compared to just 17 per 1,000 white people, suggesting black people were 2.9 times more likely to experience such tactics.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">But why? Were black people 2.9 times more likely to kick off with the coppers than white people? Have the Race Grifters Foundation managed to find any instances of use of force, that were not proportionate and justified? If so, they make no mention of it. If all the uses were justified, then the only conclusion can be that more black crims deserved it than white ones</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And I would dispute those figures. By encompassing the whole of Lancashire, you include vast rural areas that contain little or no black people, thereby inflating the number of white people. While most of the 10k black people live in the centre of Blackburn and Burnley</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The figures should actually be, the number of people who had force used against them, out of the number of people who were arrested, not the number of people in the entire county, criminal or law abiding alike. This is just blatant fiddling</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The National Police Chiefs Council said it remains committed to the Police Race Action Plan, which aims to build "an inclusive, anti-racist organisation" and address black people's negative policing experiences.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">The more this nonsense is tolerated and responded to with meaningless appeasing gibberish, the worst it will get. That statement really should have read:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The national police Chiefs Council collectively rolled it's eyes and said, "Oh do fuck off".</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">If only</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Jabeer Butt, chief executive of the Race Equality Foundation, said the higher prevalence of forceful policing against black people is "incredibly troubling".</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">It is incredibly troubling. Why are black criminals so much more violent that their white counterparts?<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>We have to scrutinise why black people face higher rates of police encounters and use of force.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">And I suppose that requires taxpayer funding? But the rest of us all know the answer, no funding required</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Stop resisting arrest. Or even better, stop comitting the damn crimes in the first place<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-21212821888797205802023-11-28T12:29:00.000+00:002023-11-28T12:29:17.860+00:00Broken Record<div style="text-align: left;">Anyone who uses Windows 10 will know about the little weather notification on the bottom right corner. Throughout this 'summer', I've noticed the little icon very often says, 'Near Record', almost on a daily basis</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm tapping away this morning and notice it says this again</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3enzfcBZFKXpjZ75MwARFMvbajpsoLmqbHyRML3mVsMu3exsWVHDxy-KG5QF1Y9d-M6zTp-xt61IMuY9A3xrca0VRmi-ByI0UexivvzZeyxo_1ff0_0D-C3jpzKtesq6Xn1hmrXgKnFhGMrBYOo7OR5KT8f22C7vBerG3gQEDJMUgsd1Ctv1PR8v3_Iga/s147/near%20record.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="44" data-original-width="147" height="44" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3enzfcBZFKXpjZ75MwARFMvbajpsoLmqbHyRML3mVsMu3exsWVHDxy-KG5QF1Y9d-M6zTp-xt61IMuY9A3xrca0VRmi-ByI0UexivvzZeyxo_1ff0_0D-C3jpzKtesq6Xn1hmrXgKnFhGMrBYOo7OR5KT8f22C7vBerG3gQEDJMUgsd1Ctv1PR8v3_Iga/s1600/near%20record.PNG" width="147" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Well one thing is certian today. It's bloody freezing. I mean freezing your bollocks off, freezing</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I've always ignored the 'Near Record' icon, as I've always believed it's just another little nudge towards getting us to believe in Global Boiling. It's bollocks anyway. Near record only means that the temperature has been higher in the past</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Considering I've almost froze me knackers off going outside twice this morning, I wondered if today it actually means near record low temperature, so I clicked through, for lack of anything more interesting to do</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Todays temperature is</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJJ8tABa_wMe_8edZOZTrHBGnjoyGR3x2chil0TcskgM7UeKo3AIaKZt2jG5nfCdDpeVmSAI-CvTSCpXLUwcVyvvy0e7-138FrWu1JqW8n8XPW4tOjxszF6n8VXU8boUIiWh2uRXtGgi3PZ3RIIwiukpqt7Vrz_4qmIuu7F69NM1rl5NkufYMoe1TVEsfQ/s85/5%20deg.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="57" data-original-width="85" height="57" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJJ8tABa_wMe_8edZOZTrHBGnjoyGR3x2chil0TcskgM7UeKo3AIaKZt2jG5nfCdDpeVmSAI-CvTSCpXLUwcVyvvy0e7-138FrWu1JqW8n8XPW4tOjxszF6n8VXU8boUIiWh2uRXtGgi3PZ3RIIwiukpqt7Vrz_4qmIuu7F69NM1rl5NkufYMoe1TVEsfQ/s1600/5%20deg.PNG" width="85" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Trust me, it feels a lot colder</div><div style="text-align: left;">Fortunately, Microsoft has a little tool where you can fact check their 'Record' assertions yourself</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoSDKzt9mAG-bCaBVlLlFemPTm-YnCdLGXGZ48XaKv-jqNkbzk5jlZGBmbqCwvBXTgAe0S8fEZ2eLhFj8HWzl6OQVa_-x5_yf6F1JybARmm2Q1U8nhvP9jmxeeBh3qe-8bdRwwzpNTe7AhyCrYvFNWEvvORr0ieOuYiij7V9EZOAml3mE1uins6BtQlU8W/s301/record.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="301" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoSDKzt9mAG-bCaBVlLlFemPTm-YnCdLGXGZ48XaKv-jqNkbzk5jlZGBmbqCwvBXTgAe0S8fEZ2eLhFj8HWzl6OQVa_-x5_yf6F1JybARmm2Q1U8nhvP9jmxeeBh3qe-8bdRwwzpNTe7AhyCrYvFNWEvvORr0ieOuYiij7V9EZOAml3mE1uins6BtQlU8W/s1600/record.PNG" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">So todays temperature is exactly in the centre of the high and low average, three degrees either way. Exactly in the centre. Todays temperature couldn't be, more average. And it's eight degrees lower than the record high and 11 degrees hotter than the record low</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And do you notice how the record low was recorded twenty years after the record high? I thought temperatures were supposed to be going up?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Anyway, I think the little icon thingy knows I'm on to it. It's just changed</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLbi6caLBMmpmTGoJrmh-WdEC_M2qkbm_Y9Pnz3OHXRZvndYLfnz2BbtdUd1EQqw0qN5gnp1_rfj28frTBfFqyWoRdc2xf-W2hiq1c5i_ZQEDizsjb9iETYNCuk7G-s49UVjV7_e_EBlCL_2gs8Paxqe1AOmc98i4D_jw_X85SZZjsS-TmZFSdNgIKAKs3/s164/Capture.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="34" data-original-width="164" height="34" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLbi6caLBMmpmTGoJrmh-WdEC_M2qkbm_Y9Pnz3OHXRZvndYLfnz2BbtdUd1EQqw0qN5gnp1_rfj28frTBfFqyWoRdc2xf-W2hiq1c5i_ZQEDizsjb9iETYNCuk7G-s49UVjV7_e_EBlCL_2gs8Paxqe1AOmc98i4D_jw_X85SZZjsS-TmZFSdNgIKAKs3/s1600/Capture.PNG" width="164" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Another seven degrees and it might be a pleasant day<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-16449898263215721212023-11-23T12:17:00.000+00:002023-11-23T12:17:00.925+00:00We really need a statute of limitations...<div style="text-align: left;"> ...on crap like <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/23/guns-n-roses-axl-rose-accused-sexual-assault/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this</a>*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>A former Penthouse magazine model sued Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose on Wednesday, claiming he raped her in a 1989 attack at a New York hotel that left her with anxiety and depression and harmed her career...</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">34 Years ago</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thirty Four years ago!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">No forensic evidence, no reliable witnesses, nothing more than he said, she said</div><div style="text-align: left;">There's no possibility of a fair tial here. Everyone involved in this action probably understands that and is just hoping for an out of court wedge of cash to make it go away</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Hopefully this former stripper, down on her luck and chancing it, will be told where to take a running jump from</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Of course it's always possible that these allegations are true, but after so long, there's no way of proving it and it's unlikely anyway. If they were true, she would have come forward a lot sooner</div><div style="text-align: left;">We need a statue of limitations on allegations of sexual assault, if only to put to bed frivolous claims against famous people who might just stump up rather than accept the hassle of defending it</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If it were up to me, I would make the time limit something in the region of 24 hours</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And</div><div style="text-align: left;">He's seen better days:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH5R0YW0ge3Xnc-TOBnmXnPAjTdexqN7-mzqntS7Iu-CPaI17wqZjZpEH_QZl4ShUty_kk7bvfE90iOzEFdtAmIlufhLiWUg4L88ld9Q0wDOmjNysVCP9fQDIIRqm-MNgih60hGeIS5Dsc1E8iUcpvEwjQUIan7cbMjUgsGNBqJqmDKp5JNBmBX4_00X6E/s575/Capture.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="575" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH5R0YW0ge3Xnc-TOBnmXnPAjTdexqN7-mzqntS7Iu-CPaI17wqZjZpEH_QZl4ShUty_kk7bvfE90iOzEFdtAmIlufhLiWUg4L88ld9Q0wDOmjNysVCP9fQDIIRqm-MNgih60hGeIS5Dsc1E8iUcpvEwjQUIan7cbMjUgsGNBqJqmDKp5JNBmBX4_00X6E/s320/Capture.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*The article is behind a paywall, which is why I only quoted the bit I could read</span><br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-15642502996350573752023-11-21T12:38:00.000+00:002023-11-21T12:38:06.063+00:00One Monkey<div style="text-align: left;">May I refer <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1837308/united-nations-just-stop-oil-sentence" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this man</a> to my <a href="http://fuelinjectedmoose.blogspot.com/2023/11/12-monkeys.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">previous post</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Just Stop Oil sentences slammed as 'severe' in damning letter from UN chief</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Is anyone else wondering what purpose the UN still serves? And how more woke they can possibly get?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The United Nations has condemned jail sentences handed to two Just Stop Oil protesters as "severe" in a letter to the Government.<br /><br />Two activists who caused traffic gridlock at Dartford Crossing when they scaled the bridge and unfurled a banner must serve a total of five years after judges ruled their stunt had caused a public nuisance.<br /><br />Morgan Trowland, 40, was sentenced to three years behind bars, and fellow activist Marcus Decker, 34, was sentenced to two after they used wires to climb the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge in October 2022.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">I remember thinking at the time, 'At least they got sent down'. The justice system seems to pussy foot around these idiot climate protestors. It's rare enough for the coppers to actually nick them and bring them before the courts. As we saw in my last post, it's equally as rare for the courts to impose any kind of meaningful punishment</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So I suppose in the history of dealing with disruptive climate muppets, these sentances actually were severe</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">That's not to say it's a bad thing though, more of a much needed breath of freash air</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The official has warned the lengthy sentences could severely impact people's protected rights of freedom of expression and assembly</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Climbing on a bridge, gluing yourself to the road, walking in front of traffic, causing criminal damage and climbing on trains is neither expression nor assembly. The rights of people to get to work on time or go about their general business on public roads far outweighs the rights of these deluded bellends to stop them</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For a UN official to describe the disruption of society as expression and assembly, tells me all I need to know about him</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Ian Fry, the <b>UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change</b>, sent the Government a letter in August outlining his fears stemming from the sentences.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">That they have such a position (my emphasis) tells me all I need to know about the modern UN</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>In the letter, seen by the BBC, Mr Fry states the sentences handed to the activists were "significantly more severe than previous sentences imposed for this type of offending".</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Yes, that's the point. The previous sentances, when imposed, did nothing to prevent belmtards scaling bridges. Tougher sentances were needed</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Sentencing Judge Collery KC said he wanted to deter copycat actions, stating: “You have to be punished for the chaos you caused and to deter others from copying you.”<br /><br />The judge ruled that the 40-hour closure the pair had caused affected “many tens of thousands" of people, some "very significantly”.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Indeed</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>But Mr Fry received little by way of a reply from ministers after raising his concerns.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Oh?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>He told the BBC he is used to having his letter taken seriously and that recipients generally respond, but despite requesting a reply within 60 days from the UK Government, he has yet to receive one.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Heh! Oh dear. The big important man is not being taken seriously? Maybe he should try a more direct action, like lying in front of a bus<br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232613925790974435.post-44791208826960590292023-11-17T16:02:00.000+00:002023-11-17T16:02:49.967+00:0012 Monkeys<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjebZiZxOUhFWMvkuDslTRmpbdHL_uqBH3x15VdvDPYYFAWOz0XT25UuRhdj4hNu6ktIX09SifgcGlBZuqGCpcCU_5xUk4KvymSZ_yNnlBezY8OWYYn_s71FtR1uR3R59HQY4aHIMpMmmRfIDqjWMJ1qh52-CBjywLFgLQOSS84LvTmgg5htgRQosrbXe0V/s697/Capture.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="697" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjebZiZxOUhFWMvkuDslTRmpbdHL_uqBH3x15VdvDPYYFAWOz0XT25UuRhdj4hNu6ktIX09SifgcGlBZuqGCpcCU_5xUk4KvymSZ_yNnlBezY8OWYYn_s71FtR1uR3R59HQY4aHIMpMmmRfIDqjWMJ1qh52-CBjywLFgLQOSS84LvTmgg5htgRQosrbXe0V/w640-h180/Capture.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">From Sky News via my MSM feed</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Nine climate activists have been cleared by a jury of causing £500,000 worth of criminal damage for shattering windows at HSBC bank's headquarters in London.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">I was a little surprised to read that, to say the least. I remember when this happened and those climate idiots made no attempt to hide what they were doing or who they were, so it doesn't seem possible that any jury in their right mind would find them not guilty</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9EfC4Ms9Vg8nAxG5pcn5jPAzvk2rP4z_tcZzQiYGEasFEVtZvZ-AE1ZMmVeAW9BLJuOTq4uh9hZrJw9ehS-KDDVFT39IEG2xMxz1RmRGHUy1alIwnxjEFUALBjdLdAupNO9HPlSB44Aq3ck3a-YDjSXOYOGHKoRLWnoomui2-jKV_QLBG3PHGZtQnTR4x/s676/Capture.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="676" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9EfC4Ms9Vg8nAxG5pcn5jPAzvk2rP4z_tcZzQiYGEasFEVtZvZ-AE1ZMmVeAW9BLJuOTq4uh9hZrJw9ehS-KDDVFT39IEG2xMxz1RmRGHUy1alIwnxjEFUALBjdLdAupNO9HPlSB44Aq3ck3a-YDjSXOYOGHKoRLWnoomui2-jKV_QLBG3PHGZtQnTR4x/s320/Capture.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not guilty. It was like that when I got here<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">So WTAF?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The Extinction Rebellion campaigners admitted using hammers and chisels to break windows at HSBC in Canary Wharf in the morning of 22 April 2021, but denied this was criminal conduct.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">So admitting using tools to break windows (that were not their own), is a guilty plea. No two ways about it. Claiming it's not criminal conduct, challenging the charges in effect, must be what got them a jury trial I suppose, but still, how can breaking someone elses windows not be criminal conduct?</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>According to the group, the jury made several requests for further information during the course of the trial, including for an explanation of the Paris Climate Agreement...</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Paris climate agreement has nothing to do with the trial. The Paris climate agreement does not give thugs the right to break windows if they disagree with the policies of a business</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>...information on what the British government had done to address the climate crisis...</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Also irrelevant. The 'climate crisis' and the Governments handling of it, does not excuse these actions under the law. Breaking windows is not protest, it's criminal damage</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>...and an explanation as to how HSBC was able to come up with the estimated cost of the damage to the windows - just over half a million pounds - within hours of the action</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">And this one really grips my shit. Is it now legal to damage someone elses property, as long as they are rich enough to be able to replace it quickly?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>The jury returned a not guilty verdict after two hours of deliberation.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">Nuts</div><div style="text-align: left;">That jury has just made a mockery of the trial by jury system</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">These eco nutters believe their actions were justified, because they disagree with what HSBC does. The result of this trial means I can now go round and smash these eco loons windows, because I disagree with what they do. And I have to be found not guilty, right?</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Pull the other one. They would throw the key at me <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Buckohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.com3