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Firstly, I shall declare myself as an ex-smoker, I gave up 5 years ago give or take having smoked for 20 on and off. I’m no anti-smoker like some, but I don’t like the smell indoors any more and am quite happy not to smoke. I still love the smell of a cigar though, and occasionally I still get a craving. I’m happy for people to smoke if they want. I have the choice to move away.

Anyway, this article (linky thing) is the second story in the press this month about smoking, and I thought it worthy of debate. The first story was regarding the BMA in the UK suggesting the government should ban smoking in cars to protect children. Continue reading “Smoking – does the Nanny state have a point?”

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Uzbekistan

I’ve been on the Silk Road this past week, doing security reviews on offices, a factory and a tobacco leaf fermentation plant. (300km from Afghanistan, which is as close as I ever want to get, thank you very much.) It was hectic schedule with rotten weather over some prety rough roads, so I didn’t have much time for sight-seeing, but I snapped a couple of shots with the iPhone:

A pit-stop on the road between Tashkent and Samarkand. Continue reading “Uzbekistan”

Phil the Bubble does it again

Once again, Prince Philip has expressed a view that a large majority of the country agree with, but those in the corrupt political classes do not.

He has stated, to the face of the CEO of a major wind turbine manufacturer, that wind farms are useless.

Keep dishing it out, Duke!

20th November

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Mission Complete – Thanks everyone!

Have we really come to this?

I went to my office today to collect some items and well.

First let me explain, my office is in Orpington High Street, the entrance to my part is round the back from a private car park, the car park is closed off with a 7 ft tall gate and 7 ft wall all the way round it. To get to my door you go up 14 iron stairs, at the top is a fence round the stairs with the door in front of you, to the side is a flat roof balcony, to access the roof you have to climb over the tall railings, not easy. Got the picture?

There on the flat roof for all to see was a large human (if they can be called human) jobby, shit, poo, faeces call it what you like.

Has society really degenerated this far that they have to climb walls etc to have a dump?

Oh, the wonderful irony

A few years ago, if you typed the name of the town of Scunthorpe into any online post, the over-fussy and too zealous modbots, those little bits of software that filter rude words out of postings and replace them with ****, would remove part of the name.

Now it turns out that Scunthorpe is the fastest growing online hub in the UK. Oh, what irony 🙂

Freddy, my love

This is not cricket, old bean. They’ve spelt Freddie the wrong way.

At last, some useful scientific research…

Many people, including one or two contributors here, might appreciate this piece of scientific research. It definitely shows that they are out to get you!