tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post5559149823043066914..comments2024-03-18T21:17:01.996+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: NOT A DOCTOR'S DILEMMA. call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-75835789736379478202017-09-22T17:37:56.974+01:002017-09-22T17:37:56.974+01:00Hope all is well Mr Ishmael.....Hope all is well Mr Ishmael.....Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10320150196856020667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-83146436963407028862017-08-18T18:38:13.639+01:002017-08-18T18:38:13.639+01:00Hello Mr Smith, just popped in and read most of th...Hello Mr Smith, just popped in and read most of the above. I had to put the last of my cats down yesterday, probably should have done it sooner but it was hard to let her go. Frankly if I could have fixed what was wrong I would have paid it, sadly there's no cure for old age.<br /><br />All the best SB.Swiss Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05732145048794762624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-32131016090327456462017-07-30T09:01:40.376+01:002017-07-30T09:01:40.376+01:00Yeah, son, when you're sixteen, you'll be ...Yeah, son, when you're sixteen, you'll be able to sit in a car that drives you around, without you having to learn to drive, how so exciting is that? I mean, driving, what young man'd wanna do that, when Google can do it all for you? <br /><br />Welcome to the World of Cunt.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-32367623989348550042017-07-21T09:40:23.862+01:002017-07-21T09:40:23.862+01:00Whenever we have our steering-wheel free google re...Whenever we have our steering-wheel free google rentapods, an unwise tweet will result in a diversion to the copshop.<br />For our own good, justified by imported third world imbeciles flattening pedestrians.<br />The sad thing is that such control will seem normal and desirable. <br />-richardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-86937583077729662812017-07-20T22:40:10.024+01:002017-07-20T22:40:10.024+01:00One can only speak generally mr richard and not in...One can only speak generally mr richard and not in every specific, you must do as you see fit, it is not for my approval or disapproval, save to say that there is a huge difference between the dog-walking and the undeclared income from window installation, in this case about ten grand. One of our visitors, a retired dinner lady/housewife cleans house for her daughter and I am sure doesn't declare that income, fair enough but in fairness that should stifle her complaints about others' avoidances, shouldn't it? <br /><br /> I never break an urban speed limit, never, not even temporary ones but I do the high-speed thing on the northern A9, the last such opportunity in Nazi Scotland, there being average speed checking cameras elsewhere. I accept that there will be an increased risk of accident and of that accident being more fateful than if I kept to the sixty or seventy miles per hour limits. Should I be caught doing a hundred and thirty, however, more than twice the limit, then forfeiture of the vehicle seems only fair.<br /><br />I do understand the thrill and the pleasure, the idea of skill involved in high-speed driving but the risk to self and others is frightful. I want to go to the Nurburgring with my Citroen F One-Eleven, it costs 25 Euros for a thirteen kilometre lap; something a thoughtful government might instigate, here.<br /><br />In any event, the cashless, driverless-car Google future will make your current behaviours an imprisonable or capital offence, enjoy them while you still can. Imagine, driving being a thing of the past, that is what's happening, while the NewPeople, the Inkies and the Trannies, Facebook and Tweet their endless wank.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-24102596878329404072017-07-18T23:22:41.106+01:002017-07-18T23:22:41.106+01:00One more thing. I pay rates. The council has put a...One more thing. I pay rates. The council has put a huge metal life-sized replica oak tree in the middle of a roundabout. It cost £80k. <br />How much, for fuck sake, does an acorn cost? <br />-richardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-55996842426250391192017-07-18T23:05:04.405+01:002017-07-18T23:05:04.405+01:00Well Mr I, that's plain and to the point.
They...Well Mr I, that's plain and to the point.<br />They don't want you to stop speeding otherwise they'd mandate a stop on the throttle wbich kicks in when your car goes into various speed zones. How easy it is, since they don't do that, to rake in the fines! <br />A beautiful empty road across the Antrim plateau, nobody for the miles you can see it's clear. Open up the bike and let it fly, long curves turn into right/left flicks as the little machine does the ton then adds an effortless 30mph on top of that. You feel alive again after a week of shit hard work.<br />And then along comes Plod and a crusher. Best stick to golf like the rest of the walking dead, eh, or TV?<br />If you speed in town and village it's a different matter but I don't do that.<br />I avoided tax by brewing my own beer. I bought a small car to avoid paying high road tax and fuel duty. And if it was me who walked the dog for an old man whose son had died, leaving him a big dog he wasn't fit to walk, and kept all the money he gave to me - not the Government, me, three hours a week for £20 which barely covered my fuel, it became an act of friendship rather than business - undeclared income my left ball. PAYE is all they're getting and damned little of that since I don't get paid much. <br />-richard<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-19070473001001431982017-07-18T22:18:04.257+01:002017-07-18T22:18:04.257+01:00It is quite basic, really, mr walter, the questio...It is quite basic, really, mr walter, the question of immigration; either this is a nation state, planning, budgeting and resourcing for the needs of a predictable size of population or it isn't and if it isn't the only possible outcome is chaos. If chaos is to be avouided there need to be hard borders between good neighbours, especially between Eire and the UK.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-26040032293919686632017-07-18T21:02:46.266+01:002017-07-18T21:02:46.266+01:00My 29 year old son whos never had a days illness i...My 29 year old son whos never had a days illness in his life, developed a gastric problem, the waiting time too see a consultant six months, he paid £250 to see a consultant who told him to wait and not waste his money, the local doctors say what can they do, if you allow 250,000<br />migrants a year to enter the uk all services will collapse even if you pay all your fucking taxeswalternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-70800010061610020332017-07-18T18:11:53.558+01:002017-07-18T18:11:53.558+01:00And on the fourth hand there is an insufficency of...And on the fourth hand there is an insufficency of punishment. Take speeding, if you want to stop speeding simply start crushing the cars of those apprehended, no messing, no trials, no lawyers, no sob stories, just crush the fucking thing, doesn't matter who owns it, they can sue the driver who was speeding in it, friend, employee or hire company, doesn't matter, start crushing Five Series BMWs and planting them along the motorway and just you watch speeding disappear; anyone earning more than the average wage and found to be fiddling tax, take his fucking house off him and if he doesn't have a house strip him of his citizenship and the rights attached thereto, You wanna fiddle your tax, OK, educate your children yourself and tend yourself when you become ill, live out on the streets. And anyone on high incomes found to be avoiding or evading tax, well, let's jail them and their accountants, set them to breaking rocks on Dartmoor, that'll fucking teach them; this is the Corbyn manifesto we should be reading.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-9501847158986535332017-07-18T10:28:32.023+01:002017-07-18T10:28:32.023+01:00Mr Mongoose, I agree with that.
Mr I, you have mad...Mr Mongoose, I agree with that.<br />Mr I, you have made a good case.<br />I am reminded of the Conan Doyle short story where a delegation of Britonchiefs meet the Roman governor and demand home rule. He tells them that he has just received orders to take all Roman citizens and soldiers back to Italy. Exultation is followed by pensive reflection followed by pleading for the governor to leave troops, which he can't. Within a year Britain has fallen to picts and vikings and the chiefs are dead or enslaved.<br />On the other hand - The Roman citizen, in Rome's golden age, paid a poll tax which amounted to one days's wages per citizen. Our own citizens pay nearly half their annual wages in tax. And, not having engines or other technology, had to maintain a large staff of retainers, servants and slaves, pay for education, fresh water amd so forth. Plus he generally rose at dawn and worked until lunch time and spent the afternoon at the baths or gymnasium and the evening dining with friends.<br />By that rationale our taxes should be even less since we have machines and technology but they aren't. The "why not?" is the problem.<br />If a man earns £40k he loses nearly half in tax. £18k a year would buy a lot of stuff. Access to private roads (I drove on several in France, cheap tolls and smooth) good medical insurance, a private detective if you need a crime solved, a night-watch via annual subscription to guard your street - the benefits can be bought or not on a voluntary basis and they will be better because, unlike State employees, if they're shit they won't get paid and if they're overpriced they won't get hired.<br />On the third hand a colleague of mine's son (the colleague is a Slovak who lives here) needed a series of life-saving opertions which would have cost eight hundred thousand dollars if he'd gone private but the NHS did it.<br />The lad's alive and I can't see how he would be otherwise. Whould I be able to look into the good honest face of his father, so happy and relieved, and begrudge my taxes? If the money is not available elsewhere, then no.<br />You can - or I can - state with accuracy that the taxpayer's investment was unjustifed because the father had paid little NI and that the lad might producd his own children in the future with equally problematic and expensive problems but hell's bells we aren't ants or bees, the chap was over the moon and so grateful for the NHS.<br />Whether this empathy is a good survival trait or not - and I believe it isn't, look at Sweden's crime statistics since they "helped the migrants" - it's hard to argue against. The case that empathy helped us for most of our existence as hunter-gatherers but merely leads to exploitation and weakness in an agricultural setting is strong. Our ancestors were taller, more muscular and (because unlike us they needed them) had bigger brains as evidenced by larger crania (craniums?).<br />Now we're worse off as physical and cognitive specimens. Although survival of the fittest makes sense it doesn't feel right. But it is. Yet it isn't.<br />There we have a problem.<br />-richard<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-22995186808866169032017-07-18T00:39:11.702+01:002017-07-18T00:39:11.702+01:00Steal a little and they put you in jail.
Personal...Steal a little and they put you in jail.<br /><br />Personally, I do not hold that law-breaking is necessarily wrong-doing, or immoral. The fuckers can make any law they like. We have discussed this back up the road. A single mum cleaning a floor for cash and not paying a few quid of taxes is not a crime worthy of punishment or even notice. There a thousand ex-politicians with their snouts now in the trough who I would dearly love to see hanging by their bollocks from a dungeon wall in Dartmoor.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-70758508568869349292017-07-17T23:36:12.857+01:002017-07-17T23:36:12.857+01:00Thanks for that.
There is no doubt that at senior ...Thanks for that.<br />There is no doubt that at senior levels HMRC is a nest of thieves, that cabinet ministers and MPs and senior civil servants and public sector managers are filth, mr richard, there is no doubt that HS2, starting today, is a bonanza for government- bribing crime cartels but corruption and impoverishment are not the only nor the major fruit of taxation. I would pick "Yes" to your tax query for as well as the plant waterer the tax makes possible my safe transit throughout the land, removes my sewage, treats my ills and those of my kin, the tax saw me schooled, inocculated and nourished daily; I simply could not perform these services for myself, that so many exploit collectivised funds is abominable and they should be jailed or otherwise ejected but I simply do not see how we can do without them.<br /><br />I met someone, today, a seniorish public servant, who had taken a lucrative retirement package and bought a 'pub; her partner, had also been golden handshaken from his public sector position in the local tourism body; they are doing very well, they will have had insider knowledge of every grant and start-up scheme, they had their redundancy packages, their pensions and his connections to the tourism regulators have filled his bar with coachloads of lunching foreigners, from the cruise liners. If you asked them, both of them would say they had done it all on their own - a lifetime employment and now a business, all funded by the taxpayer.<br /><br />I know what you mean, mr richard, believe me, I do, and I know what you feel but just beacuse the system is abused does not mean that we should all join in wrongdoing.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-81685868195410875952017-07-17T02:18:58.415+01:002017-07-17T02:18:58.415+01:00Aha, we disagree.
That tax-free ten grand would h...Aha, we disagree. <br />That tax-free ten grand would have been perhaps six grand after tax. So he's now done four grands' worth of work which pays him nothing. Where does the four grand go? And what do you call a guy who works for nothing?<br />Would that four grand pay for a magnificent private insurance policy and generous pension? Yes. Which costs other people zero? Yes.<br />Even if he saved his illicit income for twenty years and "wasted" it on a luxury item, like a helicopter, his money has benefits for thousands of people.<br />Flight instructors, engineers, miners, foundrymen, CAA, the guys who produce flight manuals, met officers, ATC, fire crews, anyone who makes their sandwiches or sells petrol, <br />tyres, lawnmowers? or fixes their coffee machines or photocopiers, farmers who breed the cows for leather seats, tanners, paint manufacturers, all their paperboys and grocery stores and all the people upon people as that one "corrupt" purchase reverberates. Warehousemen, drivers, forklifters, and their local chipshops and offlicences, mobile phone companies - on and on it goes, your tradesman's secret stash, making the praire bloom.<br />If someone doesn't buy a duty-free bottle of Scotch or 200 fags because he's saddened that the taxman won't get his cut and therefore waits until he's back in Blighty to pay the full whack?<br /> people would think him mad. Which it is, and my dog-walker and your tradesman are exhibiting sanity.<br />How much did HMG send to, for instance, Robert Mugabe? If it was more than four grand (it was) then your tradesman's ahead of the game because that's where it would have gone.<br />As I said before, someone's paid 16k a year in Stormont to water pot plants. Would I rather be taxed to that tune or behold the intoletable spectacle of a drooping frond? <br />So no, good sir, corruption and impoverishment is the fruit of taxation<br />and you can ondeed be a bit law-abiding, such as handing in a found wallet but pocketing a stray 50p. Or paying tax on a main job but keeping a smidgeon away from prying eyes, lest the insolence of keeping the reward of your own skill be detected by the unskilled and plundered. <br />Tell me this, if HMRC sent a form saying "You've been selected for optional tax for one year, please tick "Yes" to be taxed or "No" to keep your full salary" which would you tick? <br />I'm on a low-paid part-time job these days so I don't pay income tax and if I did have an extra income I'm damned if I'd tell the expenses-scandalous profligate buffons and crooks who think it should be theirs by right. <br />-richardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-56448762749880512152017-07-16T23:05:15.233+01:002017-07-16T23:05:15.233+01:00But it doesn't stop with the dog-walker, mr ri...But it doesn't stop with the dog-walker, mr richard. What about a relatively well-paid tradesman, also a friend, working five days a week for a glaziers and at the weekend doing cash in hand foreigners, which, in our case, alone, have earned him nearly ten grand, tax-free, it is a greedy, lawless eleophant in the room, a wrongdoing in which we conspire, I don't believe there is any advantage to us and I am happy, in any event, to pay taxes, few of usa pay-in more than we take-out and seeing as how we pay tax, why shouldn't he? Either one is law-abdibg or one isn't, can't be a bit law- abiding and this foreigner, cash-in-hand econony is widespread and corrupts and impoverishes us all.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-90818309748984576572017-07-16T20:39:45.546+01:002017-07-16T20:39:45.546+01:00Sell your cloak and buy a sword.
Protecting your ...Sell your cloak and buy a sword. <br />Protecting your mortal frame is optional when turning the other cheek doesn't work. Note that it isn't the police advice of "Run hide tell" then summon someone else to take risks for you; the responibility for turning the other cheek - or not - is yours entirely. <br />It's there (the sword and the option) if you need it and because you have it, hopefully you don't need it. <br />Or maybe I'm wrong.<br />Mr I, the British public dig deep for charitable causes all by themselves with their own money. The welfare state just takes money. Even if it was equally efficacious, money freely given is a more ethical gift because it comes from the heart and not under compulsion and duress.<br />As for your friends I'm sure you value their good points and and that they value yours, as do I and my fellow Ishmaelites. <br />Any of one's friends might be good at heart or evil.<br />There's a way to find out. Ask them if someone made a thousand pounds cash in hand, twenty pounds a week over a year, by walking someone's dog rain or shine, should he declare the income and be punished if he doesn't? <br />If they say yes then they'd rather see you, their "friend", in jail or beaten for resisting arrest over a poxy £250.<br />Which is evil so goodbye to them.<br />I'm probably missing the point about rendering unto Caesar as well but then I haven't sold everything and given all the money to the poor so I'm not overly-qualified in such matters. <br />-richard<br />NB I just asked my Government employee wife the question about the cash-for-walking-a-dog. She said "Best say nothing." Not bad!<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-79277877463526035062017-07-16T14:08:59.826+01:002017-07-16T14:08:59.826+01:00As I understand it was to fulfill prophecy; He was...As I understand it was to fulfill prophecy; He was to be found among aggressors, trouble makers, that two swords would be " enough" to make the men who had come for Him believe that He was dangerous.<br />Indeed He healed the ear of a man injured by His main man Peter, to show His followers that they should " love thine enemy."<br />inmatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-24357067936104041942017-07-16T13:29:17.203+01:002017-07-16T13:29:17.203+01:00Yes, me, too, mr richard; "I looked up Luke ...Yes, me, too, mr richard; "I looked up Luke 22:36 and have thought about it and still don't understand the meaning. Can you help?"<br /><br />The only consistent and credible explanation which I can find for these lines - by some described as a King James Version mistranslation - is that anticipating the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus said, Hard Times're Coming, lads, get tooled-up, metaphorically, anyway. Beat your ploughshares into swords, sort of thing.<br /><br />Maybe a reworking of Isiah's cautionary, Go, set a Watchman in the Tower. <br /><br />call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-83260627145640031412017-07-16T12:32:00.335+01:002017-07-16T12:32:00.335+01:00Mr Richard: hard to disagree with any of that. I...Mr Richard: hard to disagree with any of that. I fear the future is not too bright.<br /><br />I looked up Luke 22:36 and have thought about it and still don't understand the meaning. Can you help?Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-4681715971359061092017-07-16T12:00:09.562+01:002017-07-16T12:00:09.562+01:00Thank you, mr richard, there is no immediate ripos...Thank you, mr richard, there is no immediate riposte to all of that, no roaring counterblast, everything which you say is correct and although, as usual, my heart tells me that my head's agreement with all of the above is in need of fettling and although I would staunchly make all of your points to others, in my heart I must amend some and reject others. I currently have visitors here, the very sorts against whom you rail, multi-cultural, Blairite, Clintonite second-generation public sector employees, now raising a third and a fourth and if we discount "caring" none of them have or ever will produce anything - save more of themselves - but they are my oldest friends, and like the Sufi I must - as must we all - care for the widow and orphan. I would love to sit them down at this screen and say, here, have a look at this but I must, instead, make their stay as affirming and positive as I can, for even they, smug, secure and pampered, mourn their men, it is my application of statism, it is mr bungalow bill's surrender to duties amd obligations, even to rituals; uit is mr mongoose's beningn liberalism; it is mr tdg's implacable pragmatism; mrs narcolepts aching kindness, mrs woman on a raft's endless auto-didactism; it os the stuff of us all, the state we're in.<br /><br />I must away but I will reflect on your catechism and return to it later, thanks again.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-66626040531271870332017-07-16T11:12:06.487+01:002017-07-16T11:12:06.487+01:00I would argue that the Sheffield Hordes occur prec...I would argue that the Sheffield Hordes occur precisely where statism is at it's most virulent and is analogous to what Crufts have done to dogs; interference to manufacture dependency and thus create a reason for it's own existence. How many "dog lovers" care that an English Bulldog can't breathe, run, or clean it's own arse? None, because they make a living from blasphemous caricatures. <br />Benefits, Social workers, police, state housing, Government "education", these are influences which produce fatbastardism and make a nice living out of it. <br />Any political party which attempts a remedy doomed. Would Mr. Pug vote for a diet of bones or for more "mummy's darling" pureed duck, paid for by non-fatbastards?<br />To my mind the State has but few duties, such as to protect borders and to oversee the administration of justice. Anything else is better via private enterprise.<br />No two-year waiting lists. No crumbling roads. No mentally-retarded sub-Saharan Africans fished from leaky boats and provided with resources.<br />Socialism and Capitalism, both great on paper but both have a flaw. Those want power are not admirable. You highlight this regularly. <br />Would we be better to trust a system in which slipshod work results in instant punishment via loss of profit or one in which it is disregarded or excused with the cry 'if only we had just a bit more money and a few more laws!" <br />Grenfell Tower - Government sign-off for cladding made of sparklers; the manufacturer would never have used it, having clearly stated that it was not designed for tall buildings. <br />Has anyone been arrested? Nope.<br />Isle of Bute - a man says that the refugees are not behaving themselves. Has anyone been arrested? Yep. <br />Going back to the fatal flaw, psychopaths who rise to the top. Their ill-effects are enhanced by lobbying (bribing) Governments or candidates who then ignore their machinations or make laws allowing them indulge in unfair competition.<br />Is this a fault of capitalism? Arguably not, a Government contract will please the shareholders as much as any other, but if there was no State, or a small one, concentrated on few essential duties instead of having it's fingers in every pie? <br />No Clinton foundation, Blair foundation, Bank bailouts, millions of hostile immigrants who will never get work, foreign wars against non-threatening powers, or any one of a hundred evils.<br />Christianity was a great unifying force and strength in Europe and now it's gone without being replaced except by self-destructive en masse guilt instead of a reason for individual self-improvement. <br />Islam, however, is still a great force, rapidly increasing in the West like those little wasp grubs which parasitize caterpillars. Nothing seems wrong at first but they re-wire the caterpillar's brain so that it's barely-living husk of a body defends the pupae of the grubs that ate it alive. <br />Unless Europe wakes up sharpish and orders some one-way tickets today, or else smart new uniforms from Hugo Boss and a million pickaxe handles tomorrow. Yes OK, a government contract, but if they can't protect us then what the fuck are they for? I've never been a Christian and still aren't, an atheist indeed, but very occasionally wavering; the more I see the results of Christianity's decline, what is replacing it now and will likely replace it later, the more I wonder if I've been wrong. Luke 22:36 if nothing else. <br />-richardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-71602839509462473722017-07-15T23:10:19.601+01:002017-07-15T23:10:19.601+01:00It might also be one aspect of the Peace Dividend,...It might also be one aspect of the Peace Dividend, Fat Bastardy; this is, I believe, the longest period of, well, not peace but the absence of a global or continental war requiring large scale mobilisation and the inculcation of discipline and regularity which that requires; there is no period of complusory national service, nor the equivalent of practising at the butts, no-one drops bombs on us, our food supplies are secure, generally we are warm, well-clothed and perhaps over-cared-for by the NHS; FatBastard does not even need to leave his FatBastard chair in order to change the TeeVee station, telephone his FatBastard mates, order himself a FatBastard pizza, look at some FatBastard porn or speak to his FatBastard Body Artist anout getting some more inky shit over his FatBastard body, the useless FatBastard.<br /><br />We diverge, generally, you and I, mr richard, over the merits of statism; I believe thay are many and undowithoutable, that large numbers of people cannot successfully live together without overarching care and control, that state collectivism is preferable to oligarchical mayhem; it is not intrinsically so, Man is not special merely because I am Man, merely because of Bach or Newton or Wren or Michaaelangelo, or because of the welfare state, I just believe that it is the least worst option evolutionarily speaking. You broadly disagree with most of that; we do agree, however, that on the heels of the Rights Industry - and that is largely what it is - there has arisen a caste that is selfish and stupid, beyond education or re-education, mr mike's Sheffield horde is in every town, city and hamlet, he may not be clearly and visibly a vulgarian, he can be like the Gards, superficially articulate but as thick as pigshit, he is a waste of space and that he flourishes is because we no longer have any use for him, neither as labourer or as cannon fodder. I am not sure what the state can do with those it has made redundant but some sort of compulsory national service might work wonders.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-4187236303827474442017-07-15T10:27:16.090+01:002017-07-15T10:27:16.090+01:00Fat bastardism is a result of the Welfare State. N...Fat bastardism is a result of the Welfare State. Not the natural human condition. And television doesn't help. Alan Watt (conspiracy nut but not always) described where he lived in Scotland before TV, crowded parks at the weekend and improptu street parties which was replaced almost overnight by empty evening streets illuminated by the TV glow through rows of closed curtains.<br />-richardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-33126547990734450392017-07-15T09:16:48.021+01:002017-07-15T09:16:48.021+01:00Yes, and the Frogs, from whose Norman ranks I spri...Yes, and the Frogs, from whose Norman ranks I spring, they sashay about, thrice daily, clutching a small dog under one arm and a fresh baton du pain under the other, no stale bread for Jean-Paul, and a big Non to fighting les Bosches; le fresh bread, 'owever, mes amis, c'est tres important. The "cake" purportedly referred to by Marie Antoinette, was not a gateau or Swiss Roll but just le pain inferieur; the Northern Irish, from whose ranks I also spring, still have a "pan" loaf which, if memory serves, is like floor sweepings from the Warburton's factory, baked in a rusty tin and left for eighteen months to dry properly. I think that probably the only important bread in your life was that Body-of-Christ stuff, popped into your mouth by Father Wotsisname at the Communion rail, little wafers of Salvation.<br /><br />I do not know the intelligence of the Gards but I suspect it is limited and that instead of a capacity to think she - at any rate - has developed a sense of hysterical outrage, the New World is full of such arsehole people - I don't, in fact, mr mongoose, agree that all would "shout and scream and refuse to believe it;" maybe some would, among themselves, internally, initially but this tantrum is a wickedness thankfully unusuial.<br /><br />As you say GOSH will be highly adroit in handling these delicate matters but probably Mrs Gard's shrill sense of Entitlement would short-circuit and negate Compassion herself, would affront even the Sisters of Mercy. They are where they are because this is where they want to be, threatening tantrums and shouty walk-outs in a medical conference in which they have no place. Fuck 'em.<br /><br />People, parents bereaved and parents blessed, aunts and uncles, run the Grateful Marathon to raise funds for GOSH, money for all the sick children, and now this horrid little shrew causes it to be squandered on her ego-trip.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-18039270178980186922017-07-15T02:30:28.567+01:002017-07-15T02:30:28.567+01:00Only sliced bread, of course, comes in slices, and...Only sliced bread, of course, comes in slices, and that's what my 1960s mum made my school lunches out of, and how the cancer crept in to me and countless others. I am pretty sure that I never saw my dad eat a slice of sliced bread. Indeed he never ate any part, however named, of yesterday's "unsliced" either. That'll be the lingering effect of childhood poverty in the wilderness of the West poking its head out, I reckon. If the day comes that we have no socks and shoes, we'll still have fucking fresh bread. If we cannot afford a fresh loaf every day, son, we are fucked for sure. <br /><br />Yes, the courts have ruled but now they have been asked to think again and they are doing so. The root of the mess must have started in the corruption of the transmission of the terrible news in the first instance. Who would not shout and scream and refuse to believe it? Doctors surely are trained to hold the hands of patients and families as the truth sinks in and nature strikes home. Either this was done badly - and GOSH, surely to goodness, must know how to do this terrible craft - or the parents are McCqnning it in some hideous way I cannot bring words to, or the bastard Press have fucked them over and sucked them down the path to horror.mongoosenoreply@blogger.com