Evil bastards.

All the fuss about the Religion of Peace being upset about our honours system has taken the spotlight away from other matters concerning this evil stone age cult.

Have a look here

Just what century do these bastards live in ?

There is a very funny scene in The Life of Brian about a stoning, ( " I only said that the halibut was fit for Jehovah !"). Very funny but real life, or death, stonings are not a bit funny. It would be difficult to think of worse barbarism.

I sometimes joke that Chesil Beach will soon be ceded by that appeasing cunt Blair to our muslim minority so that their stoning may be carried out in accordance with their custom and their 'human rights',. Minor crimes, (if such exist under sharia) would be punished down at Burton Bradstock* where the gravel is pea sized; and really nasty crimes like writing books, not wearing a veil, or falling in love with the wrong person would be punished up at Chesil Cove where the stones are the size of large potatos.

The 'good and decent' muslims of which I am told there are 1.5billion ( no not in this country it just seems like it), along with their heros who advocate murder, bombing, and the destruction of whole nations could of course get a good view of it all from the top of the shingle bank.

* Perhaps when they are stoning down that way they could find some large stones and lob at that pretendy socialist cunt Billy Bragg who infests that area.

I'd go to watch that.

Last known good configuration.

Even the fuckwit programmers at Microsoft have realised that sometimes things go tits up and you have to go back a few steps. Now it seems that The Department for Education and Skills* has realised it as well ......and about bloody time too.
Back in my early days at school in the fifties, learning to read was a process of sounding out the words, the classroom buzzed to the sound of cuh ahh tuh spells cat, duh oh guh etc etc. Everyone learned to read; some later than others but literacy rates were probably higher then than they are now. Now the method has been given a trendy name of "synthetic phonics"

The scheme sets out a six-stage learning process.

PHASE ONE
Understand that sounds are different and words are composed of sounds or "phonemes". Children should learn to listen and talk about similarities and differences between sounds.

PHASE TWO
Understand that sounds/phonemes are represented by letters, hear and say sounds in words in the correct order and start reading and spelling two-syllable words.

PHASE THREE
Link sounds to letters and the alphabet, reading and writing one symbol or "grapheme" for each of the 40+ sounds/phonemes. Blend and segment words with three phonemes.

PHASE FOUR
Blending and segmenting words of four and five phonemes.

PHASE FIVE
Blend and segment words using alternative ways of pronouncing the graphemes and spelling the phonemes that have already been taught, learning that there can be more than one way to represent a sound.

PHASE SIX
By this stage children should be able to read independently and with increasing fluency longer and less familiar texts, spelling with increasing accuracy and confidence.

To translate into English; children should realise that words are made up of sounds, sounds can be represented by letter shapes. Learn them and you can read.

This is the system used for centuries, it was abandoned by the trendy twats in the sixties for flash cards, guesswork and the 'they will get the hang of it eventually' approach.It has taken 40 years for someone to spot, and say, that the Emperor has no clothes.
The shame is, that now the kids will be tought how to read they will have to read, not about Janet and John doing child type things but Colin knobbing John or some such PC approved brainwashing fucking claptrap.

It is said that 'resource packs' are being provided, how fucking thick are the teachers that they can't get the hang of it from my two-line description above ?
All they need is a brain and some books for fuck's sake.
Anyone using the word phoneme or grapheme should be slapped, and slapped fucking hard.

Some free advice for the Department of Education and Skills;

Do the same in arithmetic, junk the idea that you can teach all kids to be mathematicians..... you can not; just go back to 'Last known good configuration', i.e. before the introduction of set theory, mapping and tessalation bollocks. Just teach them the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Throw the calculators away for good measure. As they grow, a bit of light algebra and geometry would be good if they have learned the basic operations.

Some other fifties methods like a backhander for answering back would be good too.

* When did it become Skills, I'm sure DES used to be Department of Education and Science..... or did I dream it?

Ban it , Ban it ......New EU motto.

Lead weights have been used for fishing since Roman Times, now that fucking bunch of prodnosed cunts in Brussels are about to ban the use of lead in recreational and commercial fishing by 2015

Lead is used because it is plentiful, cheap, safe to use, easy to melt, easy to cast into shape, and is dense and corrosion proof.

The interfering and ignorant cunts have been reading their Dummies Guide to Nasty Things and have discovered that lead is TOXIC and is thus VERY DANGEROUS and MUST BE BANNED.

Lead is toxic if ingested. Never have I seen a fisherman eat a fishing weight, the chances of any creature eating a sea fishing weight is remote. Fishing weights made of lead, under a certain size, were banned years ago for freshwater fishing as the small size of the weights used made it possible for the lead to be swallowed by aquatic birds; that was fair enough, child anglers, who might lose a gramme or two of lead per day had to pay considerably more for 'non-toxic' alternatives. The use of lead shot in the sport of shooting, where perhaps 35 grammes of lead per shot, is discharged was exempted from the regulations (there being more shooting types than small boys in parliament).

So now the nannying fuckers have someone else in their sights.

......members of the EU Committee on Fisheries are all in favour of a ban.

They agreed: 'Lead, used in fishing equipment for both recreational and professional fisheries, is a source of water pollution. In order to reduce the level of lead in fishing waters, Member States should encourage the fishing sector to replace lead by less hazardous alternatives.'

Added Jan Kappel*: “Most likely it would be a waste of time - and too late - to try and educate the MEPs on this highly emotional issue.”

* spokesman for The European Fishing Tackle Trade Association (EFTTA), a trade association for sportfishing equipment

Looking at a table of elements and densities;

Lead weighs in at 11.35 g/cc, (grammes per cubic centimetre)

the metals denser that this are;
various iums that no one has heard of,
mercury at 13.546 g/cc, a liquid so not much use as a weight, difficult to tie on.
uranium at 18.95 g/cc, could be a problem, have to shield it in lead.
gold at 19.32 g/cc only MPs could afford to go fishing.
so none of these seem to be a good choice, so let us look at less dense materials....
they include;
silver at 10.5 g/cc, can see a problem here.
copper at 8.96 g/cc, world shortage, will corrode in seawater, toxic to micro-organisms
iron at 7.874g/cc rusts quickly in seawater.

Anyone but a complete fuckwit can see that there really is no alternative to lead, does anyone think this will bother these interfering fucking vermin ?

Jan Kappel is obviously a man experienced in lobbying politicians; it is a complete and utter fucking waste of time trying to make that bunch of cunts see sense on any issue.

Belt up !

Prince Harry has revealed that he will "never stop wondering" about what happened in the Paris tunnel on the night his mother died.

I will tell you, bluntly but honestly,

What happened is that your Mother died because she did not wear a seat belt. French law probably meant she should have done.... but she did not.

Many other people have lost loved ones because that loved one did something stupid. Some of these grief stricken people have agreed to the use of details and or photographs of these loved ones and of their death to try to warn others of danger.

Perhaps something useful would come out of the whole expensive fiasco if her sons could 'front' a publicity campaign for seat belt use..........up to 40% of people in London are still not using a belt.

royals doing something useful..... what a thought.

What ?™

The Royal Mail has gone the way of that purveyor of Kentucky Fried Something Alleging To Be Chicken and has claimed more of my language for themselves.

Post Office™
Special Delivery™
Recorded Signed For™
Royal Mail Tracked™
International Signed For™
PO Box®

they can fuck® right off™

these are just normal words in common use for a century or more, are they suggesting there was no use of the expressions special delivery or signed for before they came up with it ?

cheeky cunts®™

What the little odd bit is for

For all of you who are wondering what that little bit is for, other than forming some part of a sex act........




We all know it will be late, the designer is cleverer than we thought and has a contingency plan.

Hat tip to No1 son.

EDM 1584

Update on my previous post;

Those adding their name to the EDM now up to just 14 signatures, a mixture of Lab, Con a SNP and a DUP.

please use the link on the right to contact your MP to suggest that he/she/it acts according to the wishes of the majority of the electorate and signs the motion.

Yawn, Olympic logo, yawn.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of anything in lycra, must be in want of a life."

Jane Austen (with apologies to)

I have just watched a few minutes of the launch of a logo.... people wetting themselves in the excitement of waiting for the logo to be revealed...... some boring twat enthusing about us 'owning' the logo.... fuck right off ! I don't want to own a logo, not yours or anyone elses.
It incorporates, wait for it , 5 interlocked rings, fuck me who would have thought of that !
Actually that is the good part, the rest is a fucking annoying flashing wobbling garish fucking mess, the sort of fucking mess that is thought to appeal to the yoof.

It nicely sums up the dumbing down, flash fucking razmataz shallow fucking leadership this great country of ours is lumbered with.

How pissed off will we be with that logo by 2012 ?

I don't mean the year 2012................. I mean by just before a quarter past eight this evening.


UPDATE.
I am always amazed at how quickly things are picked up on....
have a look here, from the spine via david b on DKs comments

Politics is too depressing, going fishing for a few days

Stolen from Lucky Rich who stole it from someone else