Keep your job then.

Advertise 'over 60 exciting careers' and then tell you to fuck off because you are over 60.

Voting for children.

Polling Booth for next General Election

Sometimes politicians come up with such fucking stupid rubbish that it is difficult to rant about it. Give votes to sixteen year olds, fuck me.... they only know about voting in the context of voting people out, as with Big Brother ( that idea for Parliament may have merit). A lot of them won't be able to read a candidate list or spell the X required to vote.
I first voted in the days when the voting age was twenty-one and the age of maturity, the age at which you were deemed to be an adult, was that same age. A few years before that the school leaving age was fourteen and apprenticeships lasted until the age of twenty-one ; at that age one became a man, a tradesman, a qualified man. The newly qualified 'man' had had the benefit of the company of his 'elders and betters' for seven years and knew how the world he lived in worked and his place in it, he had lived in a grown-up world.
Following the modern practice of knowing best despite thousands of years of history, it is deemed that the young can, on reaching the age of sixteen, make grown up decisions, despite being wrapped in cotton-wool and insulated from the real grown-up world. (Don't argue that the teachers they meet teachers are part of the grown-up world, I've been there, they are not.)

What arrant nonsense, complete fucking tosh and nonsense..

If they want a vote at sixteen the little fuckers ought to leave school at the age of ten and work in a mill, a farm or up fucking chimneys, then they perhaps wouldn't vote for the politician with the coolest name or hairstyle or who wears the most fashionable trainers.

trendy names, branded for life.

the couple then had seven of their own: twins Parris-Jordan and Kesla Blu, eight; twins Mason and Peaches, six; Logan, four, and the three-year-old twins Skye and Kalifornya.

from a Daily Mail story

Is there a chav name book out there somewhere ?

When I started teaching I was told to look out for the Waynes, Duaynes, and Shanes..... the list must be much longer now.

Parris-Jordan.... fucking hell what sort of image of shallow chavishness does that conjure up?...poor kids

UPDATE The Queen of Celeb, no not that fucking poof Norton, I mean Jordan,has upped the game.....

Jordan and Peter Andre have named their baby daughter Princess Tiaamii.

Tiaamii - pronounced tee-ah-me - is taken from the names of Andre's mother Thea and Jordan's mother Amy.

Why the FCUK hasn't a Chav had the wit to call his kid CNUT and outdo them all ?

PS Mutley, it is irony indeed that someone who lives in a fantasy world of beetroot and howler monkeys should be named after a fantasy character

English Holiday

Swanage Pier. Dorset.

I'm off on holiday; an English holiday of sand, sea, stunning scenery, fish and chips, fishing from the pier, catching crabs with a 3 year old, renewing my acquaintance of Punch and Judy, spending time with my sons and daughters in law, grandson and granddaughter..... and maybe enjoying a few pints of beer and bottles of wine in the sun.

Blogging will resume in about a week; it has been light recently, not because of nothing to say but a case of just where to start.

Perhaps a week of persistent wind,rain, litter on the pier, dogshit on the beach and feral chavs roaming the town after dark will put me into the right mood on my return.

UPDATE 23/07/07.
Thanks for your comments and good wishes, a good time was had by all.... including, I assume, the dogs who shat on the beaches, the people who threw there litter about and the feral chavs, up to the point of throwing their last meals about.

Scary ?

from Daily Telegraph letters page today;

Ethnic Border Guards

Sir - There are certainly very serious questions to be asked about the manning, mission and effectiveness of the Border and Immigration Agency of the Home Office, previously the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (Letters, July 5). It says its role is "securing our borders, enforcing our immigration laws and managing migration to the benefit of the UK". Its catastrophic failure to perform these functions correctly is plain for all to see.

When I said to a previous Home Secretary that the controls at our ports of entry were "beacons of political correctness", he replied that I had made a demeaning remark. I therefore asked the Home Office what proportion of its staff in the various immigration, identity and passport services were from ethnic minorities.

Given that ethnic minorities are estimated to form about 6.7 per cent of our total population of working age, I was alarmed to receive the reply that, of those staff whose ethnicity was recorded, 29 per cent of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, 30 per cent of the Immigration Service and 14 per cent of the Identity and Passport Service were from ethnic minorities.

While it is only right and proper that all law-abiding bona fide citizens, regardless of ethnicity, should have equal opportunities, the manning of our front-line immigration services is curiously disproportionate. It does not promote confidence in the agencies responsible for the control of our borders and therefore the security and integrity of our nation.

Geoffrey Van Orden MEP, Conservative Defence and Security Spokesman, Brussels

A little while back we were told that a department had to be moved from Corby to somewhere else because there was not the 'correct' mix of ethnic groups.( i.e. not enough black or asian workers). I'm not even going to ask why this mix business doesn't work the other way.

So we English have the fucking Jocks running our country ( that bit that is left to our parliament by the frogs and krauts), muslims and suchlike guarding our borders against illegal immigrants and dishing out passports and islamic murderers manning our hospitals ( and denying jobs to our own trained junior doctors. )

What a fucking scary mess, I fear for my country, I really do.

How long will it be before the English finally say for fuck's sake we have had enough and take our country back ?

UPDATE

Seems the police force suffers an infestation as well.

When will people realise that the net effect of bending over too far backwards is the same as falling flat on your face.

Blair's new car.

Actually he has bought a Chrysler Grand Voyager.

He should have bought this car, just for the personalised number plate.

Enhancements

Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset

Shaftesbury is an old town in Dorset, made famous by an advert for bread that was filmed from the top of Gold Hill ( using a voice-over that suggested a location far further north ). The town has a traffic problem, as do many old towns, in that the main street is narrow. It was laid out in the days of horses, carts and good manners, that enabled one party to wait while the other drove through the narrow bit. In the narrow bit is a bank with an ATM, no prizes for guessing what causes traffic jams here.
What do the council do ? no, they don't tell the bank that it is a fucking silly idea; they spend the thick end of half a million pounds on an 'enhancement'.
Pavements and roadway were paved with tarmac that replaced many years ago the cobbles of old. There was a zebra crossing where the old dears could cross the wider part of the street. Now the same old dears will just have to leg it across as best they can, the area has been 'enhanced'.

Old cobbles at the top of Gold Hill

The area has been provided with 'cobbled' pedestrian areas; not cobbled as the example above which is authentic and pleasant on the eye....

but with this........

What a fucking mess !.

It has made the whole place look like a fucking chav's patio.

And of course the fuckwitted selfish twats still park in the narrow bit to use the ATM.