Apologies for the ‘genre of silence’. Having apparently caught the fashionable ‘flu I am concentrating on repelling the accurate simulation of the Viking Hell outside by the customary means (eighteen-inch stone walls, a good fire, folk-remedies and stories of the valour of my ancestors).
Briefly, then: leg-iron appears to share my view of charities. A commenter to my earlier piece suggested the title of ’sockpuppets’ for those ‘charities’ which are wholly parasitic upon the taxpayer; unfortunately I believe that this term now has a technical meaning to do with the internet. Perhaps sticking to the more specific ‘faked-up quangos masquerading as charities, being paid from public funds to deceive the public into supposing that there is public support for government nannying’ might be better.
Al Jahom still doesn’t seem to connect the fact that
local councils face extra costs of £3.2 billion over the next five years to fund recycling measures, which would equate to a £150 council tax increase.
with the fact that
Families who overfill rubbish bins are to face bigger fines than those imposed on drunks or shoplifters
We cannot have a £150 increase in council tax; that would look bad. So instead we will have the money collected by ‘fining’ ‘criminals’. If each fine is going to be £100 and the true population 80 million, what proportion of the public will have to be thus criminalised to raise £3.2bn? (4 marks)
Finally this obviously useful but expensive little gadget; Messrs CPC also sometimes have similar devices for rather less. For myself I’d rather have a recorder in a pocket linked by cable to an ultra-sub-miniature camera head and microphone which could be disguised as something like a pen (there is a tiny recorder built into a pen, but its lens is axial, requiring it to be pointed at the target; better to have a 45-degree mirror and leave the pen clipped to the pocket).
That’s the lot for today, I suspect. More of this, if all goes well, anon.
I plead guilty to not giving a full analysis, yer honour. :-)
The EU card is, I’m afraid, coming up every time I turn one over at the moment.
The more I read about the damnable institution, the more the horror creeps over me.
And I might have had to go into the office. Bah – the inhumanity.
AJ
‘Valour of our ancestors’…yes! I am re-reading the /Saga of Burnt Njall/ just now with great satisfaction, over dishes of cod boiled in milk, boiled beef, boiled cabbage and onions, goat cheese, fruit soup boiled of raisins and dried apples in honey, black bread, loads of butter and bottles of Schell’s best. It is so far here a GOOD new year….
AJ – ‘damnable’ is perhaps somewhat mild, to my way of thinking.
Emmett – This menu reminds me of the ancient British one portrayed in ‘Asterix’.
“‘damnable’ is perhaps somewhat mild, to my way of thinking.”
Yeah – I try not the use the words ‘clusterfuck of clarified cuntitude’ on other people’s blogs.
AJ
There is always that, I suppose.