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The Humboldt Squid

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Odd that I was given to handing over 45 minutes of my life to a TV programme this evening but my eldest son wanted to watch the 'Killer squids' on Channel 5 this evening whilst at his nanna's house.
As it gets dark earlier in very late August gardening, which was our reason for being there came to an end just after the programme started. Without realising it until it was too late I ended up watching the thing and I am glad I did... but not because the programme was brilliant.

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I Get It Now!

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The problem with this country is it is full of moronic idiots who are incapable of thinking for themselves. This fact was brought home to me on a sojourn to my local Co-op (was a supermarket but is now just a giant convenience store).


I had nearly stopped shopping at the Co-op once it was made clear that the local labour stooge was standing on a Labour and Co-operative Party ticket. I knew such a thing as the Co-op party existed but to my chagrin I didn't realise my bread and milk purchases went to fund buffoons who fancied a place at the Trough of Westminster. Still I was saved as I actually ended up costing the silly shop workers union USDAW and its sponsorship of Labour buffoons because one of the staff said she hated Labour and what it had done to her country. That's what she called it 'her country'. I wish the some of the 21,000 socialist sympathisers around here could have heard her.
Anyway's she said she was working when Woodcock and his socialist crew turned up for a photo shoot outside the shop and it sickened her that her union dues were helping fund his campaign. So I told her about the political opt out form that somehow USDAW had neglected to mention was available. To say she was gobsmacked was putting it mildly. Anyway she was going to pass the message around the store staff as many of them didn't want to support their unions support of people like Mr Woodcock.

Result.

So I can continue to use the local Co-op for life's essentials and was in there this morning when an 18 year old lad on the other side of the till espied a dapper old gent complete with Trilby rolling up to the till.

"Did you vote on Thursday" shouted the lad.
"Always do" replied the old fellow.
"Who did you vote for. Was it Labour?" enquired the young'un.
"Yes of course I did. I know which side my bed is buttered on!" came the incredible reply.

This is what anyone wanting to bring personal liberty to the masses is up against. The masses aren't interested in personal liberty.

Well That Was That.

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The election that was 'supposed' to damage Labour for many a long year.
The election that was 'supposed' to return the Conservatives to power.
The election that was 'supposed' to be the Liberal Democrats breakthrough election.
The election that was 'supposed' to give the BNP at least one MP.
The election that was 'supposed' to give UKIP at least five MP's...
The election where no-one from the armed forces was allowed to vote, a frankly sickening turn of affairs that beggars belief.
Is over.

It's A Stupid World...

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No really it is a stupid world.

Continuing with my study of things I and millions of others take for granted even though we know they are just plain wrong I was looking at the world of licensing again and it has become clear that a licence gives the issuer two things. The power to charge and the power to control.
These two powers underpin EVERYTHING that goes on in this stupid world... at least everything that goes on in the stupid world we take for granted.

My Vote

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Is there an election on?

I've taken the simple step of ignoring the election and you know what it almost goes away. I've not watched any politician lie in public on the BBC and get away with it. I have never answered the door to a local political activist who would only stand there and lie. I've only heard about the storm in a tea cup surrounding Brown because I cannot wean myself off the blog of Captain Ranty. Bstard!
Captain Ranty a heady brew of lawful rebellion and politics.

The question is am I missing out?

Consent & Society

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As far as I am aware I did not join an unnamed society at the moment of my birth. I did not receive an application form or a verbal invite and even if I did I could not speak nor could I read or write. I must have had some sort of awareness of self as I was able to suckle and shit although arguably that might have just been instinct.

I had no name when I was born. I had no concept of what a name was or why one is necessary I was just a baby human being. Had my parents not given me a name, had my mother not been attended by a state midwife, had one of my parents not registered my birth with the state then the government wouldn't have been aware I even existed.

Just A Thought

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Council tax seems to me to be a tax on the property paid by the human beings living within that property. Ostensibly the money it generates is used by a council composed of elected human beings and unelected human beings to provide 'services' for the people who live within the purely artificial geographical boundary of that council.
The range of 'services' this artificial body has to provide are set in part by the council itself, in part by the larger regional council, in part by the national government, in part by the gargantuan behemoth called the European Union, in part by the UN, and finally in part by lobby and pressure groups across the United Kingdom collectively called the righteous.

Tax

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In so much of what passes for life in this country we, the great unwashed, are ruled over by people who must be members of the Law society. This society has its own language called legalese. I have no idea why a society needs its own language let along a constantly updated dictionary which seems to exist purely to take everyday common English words and give them different meanings.
In the Legalese language the word tax has a myriad of meanings. There are pages and pages of them in Blacks Law dictionary and all of the legalese definitions are so vague and ambiguous it is clear from the number of definitions applied to a simple three letter word that the Law society cannot thrive on clarity.

Bans.

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On another blog I frequent Marvo's place if you must know, the author was asking for people to come up with the most STUPID, POINTLESS or UNENFORCEABLE LAW (or statute) produced by Labour over the past 13 years. There is so much to choose from I gave up trying to pick the most idiotic.
They are all idiotic in my humble.