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Some Mother do ‘ave ’em

As I was leaving work and locking up our gates a mother of a young child, about 4 or 5 approached me and said “Did you know that there is some sort of awful black stuff all along the top of your gate?” the gate in question is nearly 7 foot high.
“Yes” I replied “It is anti vandal paint to stop people climbing up it”
“Well my son just climbed up and got covered in it” she remonstrated
“Well it is there for a reason, we have been broken into a number of times and we need to stop people getting in” I answered.
She then just stood there looking and waiting. I think she expected an apology or an offer to replace her snotty little off springs ruined clothes. Tough shit madam, if he climbed my gate, he entered my property.

Still in 8 years time we shall see this lovely little child running amok and smashing up cars and shop windows.

The Banks Should Pay Back Their Bailouts

Why have the banks not been forced to pay bay back their bail-outs before paying themselves bonuses, as if the financial crisis had never happened?

In December 2009 the official cost of the bank bailout was declared to be £850 billion.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/163850bn-official-cost-of-the-bank-bailout-1833830.html

Meanwhile bankers’ bonuses have been predicted to run to billions in 2011

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12131092

Royal Bank of Scotland predict £1bn in bonuses this year, and they paid out £1.3bn in bonuses last year, while Barclays paid £5bn-£6bn in total remuneration.
Even where bonuses have been cut, financial sector salaries have risen by up to 40%.

Why are we letting them get away with this? Why isn’t there a public outcry?

Oh, what a surprise – NOT (2)

Sorry to plagiarise Red Julie’s byline, but this one probably will not surprise most sensible bloggers around these here parts!

It turns out that Wavy Davy might have been spouting empty rhetoric yesterday when he said that all looters and rioters will be severely punished. It appears many of them are being let off to roam the streets and to cause more mayhem. Quelle surprise!

I suspect that if they make any more trouble, a good few of them might get (accidentally) battered, as the police and public will know they will NOT be severely punished, by the courts.

The Great Experiment

As some of you may remember, I agonised before my Antipodean trip as to whether or not I should conduct certain scientific experimentations whilst almost upside down. In brief, should we risk importing Brit Mars Bars and Marmite to check them against their Aussie counterparts?

As it turned out, we went with the Mars Bars but chickened (beefed, vegetarianed, whatevered) out of the Marmite v Vegemite debate. To be blunt, I did not personally feel that Vegemite was worth the necessary intellectual rigour.
Continue reading “The Great Experiment”

Dr Thomas Sowell on Responsibility and Cop-outs.

Strike one

For those of you that saw my blog last week about the scum in Orpington nicking the lead from roof.

After the event I coated everything in anti vandal paint, a black slimy greasy stuff that ruins your clothes and is a sod to get off.

Got to work this morning and the lamp posts outside our entrance are covered in the anti vandal paint where someone has tried to wipe their hands somewhere to clean them off.

Strike one for me and the paint. Pity I can’t add phosphorous to it so when they try to wash it off it bursts into flames, but I am told it is against their “ooman rites” Pity.