The generalised contempt in which the MSM, particularly the DTP, are held can hardly fail to be deepened by this absurdly optimistic article in the Independent, which suggests that the replacement of zebra crossings with pelican crossings is a shame because the British tradition of stopping at zebra crossings to allow pedestrians to cross is [...]
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Extinction beckons
Posted in Rants, tagged zebra crossing on 14 August, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The Met Office: enemies of the people
Posted in Rants, tagged Met Office on 1 August, 2009 | 7 Comments »
When I was young, one occasionally came across people who were Official Met Office Amateur Weather Observers.
The signs were fairly clear. They were almost always either retired men of a certain kind or spotty youths who had yet to discover girls. They had impeccably tidy gardens, in the middle of which, like a Shinto shrine, [...]
National Shooting Week
Posted in Rants, tagged shooting on 23 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is National Shooting Week (h/t The Remittance Man).
The irony of this, in what must be one of the Top 10 of ‘countries with scared, cowed, submissive, dependent, unquestioning but above all else unarmed populations’, is perhaps lost upon the organisers.
Ignorance is no excuse
Posted in Rants, tagged teenage pregnancy on 26 February, 2009 | 8 Comments »
More angst in the Telegraph about teenage pregnancies.
This morning, to my disgust, there was one of those smug, self-righteous, patronising Labour Party managing-women on the wireless, wittering on about this. I believe her name may have been Toynbee. She was asking her listeners to believe that ‘we’, by which she means herself and her fellow [...]
A much worse problem
Posted in Rants, tagged Cold War, nostalgia on 16 February, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Speaking of flattery I note that I got the Ambush Predator’s Quote of the Month. I purr. I do.
However it occurs to me that anyone younger than a certain age will have little idea what we are on about. Though I discourage children on this blog (they make so much noise, and always seem [...]
Inmates
Posted in Rants, tagged inmates on 1 January, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One of the nice things about having to get up early and get Mrs. Underclass off to work is getting first go at harrumphing about what is in the Daily Telegraph.
Prison officers have been told not to refer to their charges as “inmates” because it might offend them.
Poppycock.
Prison officers have been told not to refer [...]
All about style
Posted in Rants, tagged benefits, office on 31 December, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It is clearly a harrumphing-at-stuff-in-the-Daily-Telegraph sort of morning. looking for a voice cites this:
More than one assault takes place in Jobcentres every day, official figures have revealed.
Guthrum remarks:
If you have ever been inside a modern jobcentre, you will be surprised that there are not more cases of violence.
I’ve been inside two.
I now communicate with the [...]
Bah; humbug
Posted in Rants, tagged Christmas on 28 October, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mean-spirited, joyless Scrooge Patrick Vessey (LPUK Unofficial) snarls bitterly at the spirit of Christmas; turning on retailers of Christmas gifts, and their financial associates, he says:
Rather than paying 200% or 300% APR for sh*t you don’t need, ever thought about not buying it in the first place?
At last!
Of course people in the UK should [...]
“It still goes round, though but.”
Posted in Rants, tagged BST on 22 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Galileo]
In an article in The Times, a columnist jumps neatly onto the Flat Earth Society’s annual anxious-young-mums’ bandwagon about time zones (“They’re Stealing Light from Our Children!”).
It is futile to try to argue with these people. The bare facts of orbital mechanics and the reason for the Earth’s seasons are beyond them. Centuries of [...]
