Rant of the day

Fletcher!!!!

 

My gripe de jour is cosplay outfits and the idiots that wear them. Went to the Photography Show today at the NEC and the train up there had some weird looking people on it in fancy dress. When I got to the NEC I found there was also a Comicon on today and the number of eccentric costumes was only equalled by the shit Star Wars-esque ones and the number of equally crap pseudo super heroes. Realising the Photo Show meant lots of people with cameras they were all clamouring for attention and getting in the way. Pillocks.

 

So were you appropriately dressed for the DOMCON then Trev?

 

Very good very funny

 

Har har.....

 

Flagrant use of a pug in a YouTube video, that I frigging hate!!!


Much as I dislike the humour used, surely the freedom of speech concept should allow him to say those words to his dog on a YouTube video, he doesn’t appear to be incitinting unwarrented behaviours towards a religious group... he is clearly Saying those words to his dog, not asking a question of the audience.

He’s still a prick for posting it though... in MY opinion.

 

You've certainly got to be careful what you say these days. For me it is difficult to take. I grew up in a country where you could speak freely. Now you can't. The population has changed and the new technical age media has arrived. we don't have free speech anymore. It comes with having diversity. We are not all 99% the same anymore.
I think free speech is now a thing of the past.

 

Back in time Enoch for President (bollocks to the Tories versus Labour nonsense) rivers of blood speech! Always be aware that you can't be arrested or prosecuted for what you are thinking!
We still have freedom of speech but it's called Political correctness.
All those in favour?
Absolutely definitely not me!

 

Enoch Powell was knowingly and wilfully misquoted by Labour opponents to hoover up immigrant votes and misrepresent Powell. Immigration has been politically toxic ever since. Powell never actually spoke of ‘rivers of blood’ in his speech but later referred to the Roman ill omen of impending doom when the Tiber flooded and ran red (foaming with blood) with ochre soil. It was a metaphor.
Judge for yourself......
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3643823/Enoch-Powells-Rivers-of-Blood-speech.html

His calculations were a major underestimate. His mistake was to speak honestly like the educated Edwardian he was; deeply untrendy by the 60s and his language was out of date. Ironically some of his closest friends were Indian from his time there before independence.

 

Meah Culpa!

 

Just want to vent my frustrations after a week of travelling a couple of hours each way for work, in the van and sadly not the bike, firstly, have indicators become an optional extra on cars as it seems there are a lot of tw*ts out there that haven't bothered to have them fitted, secondly, and one to watch out for when on the bikes chaps, and that's erratic pothole dodging, could easily catch you out, last but not least, when approaching a roundabout where the traffic is jammed up heading from right to left, if that makes sense, why is it nobody wants to lose an inch in the queue to let you through to continue your journey, grrrrr, OK, I'm done

 

Suicidal pedestrians, this happened to me this morning

 

Seen this on YouTube last night didn’t realise it was you

 

Clue is in the name

 

Totally unfazed or what.....

 

Lucky is weren't Dilly on the Speedie, he would have mugged the granny for her trolley to tow behind the portaloo, think Australian land train & that's what Dilli is trying to achieve with a motorcycle!

 

My little rant for today is people who use indicators wrongly on roundabouts. I know it's nice to see people using indicators but now and then I find myself waiting to join a roundabout when, a car comes round indicating to turn off at the exit before me. So I start to move out only to find that the car continues to come round and go off at the exit past me. In cases like this it would be better if they didn't try to use high tech gadgets at all.

 

I think I'm on a roll. Why do nine out of ten of you stay out of bus lanes when they are not bus lanes. I'll explain. Typically around here bus lanes operate between 7:00 to 10:00 and 16:00 to 19:00, Mon to Fri. Outside of those hours they are not bus lanes. Yet nine out of ten cars treat them as 24 hr bus lanes and drive towards the centre of the road. Why ? Surely more than 1 in 10 people can read ? You don't usually drive towards the centre of the road holding up traffic, you allow faster cars to pass you.

 

That’s because lots of people don’t appear to have peripheral vision when they’re driving and therefore don’t see or read the signage.
They’ve no idea what’s happening around them.

 

I think it's because by the time they have Googled it they are passed the bus lane or they miss the sign because they are drinking their coffee or eating.
Tucker