Friday tunes - Bad day

What a day! My week started out shit and got steadily worse. I hate clients. Can't live without them, can't chin them.



REM are always good too have around when ou feel like shit and wish everybody would just nob off.

I did a quick Google search for songs about having a bad day and someone had suggested Dido. I didn't ask for depressing songs. I feel bad enough as it is without listening to her. Dido is so depressing she makes me want to give her two pounds a month.

I did spot this one though,



I only have the blues today though, not every day. What happens if you play a blues record backwards? You get your wife back, your house back, your dog back....

I have to go for a Chinese meal with the family tonight. I'm not going to enjoy myself!



Well if you put it that way...



Go on then. I'll give it a try. I'm driving though. Can't have a beer!



I'll just have to pick up a six pack for when I get home and hope that tomorrow is a better day.



I know what will cheer me up. Some Friday Funnies.

Hope you had a better day than I did!

The BMA does it again

Just when you think you've heard it all...

...it seems you have. There's nothing new in this 'report' from the BMA. It's the usual socialist cockwaffle.

A raft of coalition policies threatens to have profoundly deleterious effects on children's lives, driving widening inequalities and sending more families into poverty, according to a scathing report by the British Medical Association.

Scathing must be the new word for bollocks.

The report says that cuts to child benefit, Sure Start centre closures, and regressive tax policies, have affected women and children.
This has occurred, it adds, at a time when there appear alarming trends for young people in society driven by poverty and inequality.

Cuts to child benefit and the closure of Sure Start centres is not a government attack on children. It's not the governments place, and by government, read taxpayer, to pay for peoples children. Before making the decision to breed, potential parents should make sure they are financially able to raise their offspring.

'Regresive tax polices, presumably an attempt to reverse Labours policy to take it all and give a little back, may ultimately mean that parents receive a little less state help but it doesn't mean the state is taking more from them.

Women and children may be more adversely affected by the changes but only because Labour encouraged single mothers and benefit dependency. This needs to stop. Doing so is not regressive.

And as for inequalities, life is not equal, life is what you make it. The closest a society have ever become to being equal was Communist Russia. Back then, people died on the operating table when undergoing simple surgery because the drunken surgeons were paid the same as the factory workers.

I say again, life is not equal. If you want the nice things in life you need to work for them. Or at least you should.

Extreme disparities include 250,000 children a year failing to meet a school standard of good development, such as the ability to speak, recognise words and dress themselves, the BMA reports. It says it is not acceptable to fail children on such a grand scale.

Because now it is the governments responsibility to teach kids to dress themselves. Where are the parents?

Even when the government has made the right noises about alcohol and cigarettes, it has drawn back from legislating for minimum pricing and plain wrapping for tobacco, the BMA notes.

What has that got to do with the price of fish? Minimum alcohol pricing and plain packs are just more nanny state nonsense. Collective punishment that will do nothing to combat any of the perceived problems caused by alcohol and tobacco.

Where ministers have acted on healthy eating, they have done so by co-opting the fast-food industry to tackle the spiralling rise in obesity, the group says.

Overconsumption of snacks, fizzy drinks and fast food has caused 20,000 children now starting school to be obese at the age of four.

Bullshit! Excuse my French but I make no claims about his being a child friendly blog. Nobody is obese at the age of four. Utter crap. And again, consumption of food and drink is a personal issue. The BMA only make up bollocks about four year olds being obese so they can campaign for the same type of collective punishment they want with regards to fags and booze.

Some parents may be irresponsible, granted, but that's no reason to tax and regulate the activities of all adults.

Parents must be left alone to make their own choices about raising their children, even if they make the wrong ones. We cannot regulate adults to gain the illusion of protecting a few kiddies. We live in an adult world, not Never Never Land.

Sir Albert Aynsley-Green, the first children's commissioner and adviser to the BMA,

No conflict of interest there then?

said that more worrying still was the government turning a deaf ear to global evidence on health policy.

He pointed out that Canada had recently begun public information campaigns warning that drinking while pregnant increased the risk of brain damage and "the link to criminality" in the unborn child.

Then the Canadians are idiots who watch too much sci-fi.

I'm not going to dwell any further on this article because it descends into unintelligible gibberish. Go read it if you want to, I'll just finish with this message for the BMA.

Stop trying to tax us more
Stop treating everyone like children
Stop trying to micro manage everyones lives.
And above all, fuck off. Please.

What the hell is wrong with this?

Mother who won £700,000 payout when NHS failed to detect spina bifida in her unborn baby faces having to sell home after being ordered to return half the money when he died

The story begins with a headline that screams, look how awful the NHS is being, trying to throw this woman out onto the streets after her child died.

A mother who sued because doctors failed to spot her unborn son was disabled has to sell the home she bought to care for him in because the NHS wants almost half the cash back after he died suddenly.

Deborah Mackay, 33, took legal action against Bedford Hospital NHS Trust after scans failed to detect spina bifida in her unborn baby Calum, depriving her of the choice to terminate the pregnancy.

The Trust admitted negligence and agreed an out of court settlement beginning with £705,000 of interim payments with a final figure to be set when Calum reached 10.

Ms Mackay was free to spend most of the money on a specially-adapted home where Calum could be provided with full-time care.

The sum of money was supposed to be for the childs care. Part of that care was the caveat that she could purchase a house where the child could be raised and adapt it to meet his needs.

She was living in a bedsit at the time. She spent the money on a four bedroom detached house in Clapham:



Totally above and beyond what was necessary.

But she says she can't bring herself to part with the property which is full of memories of Calum - and parting with it would leave her homeless.

No it wouldn't. I'm sure there would be enough left to return to the bedsit. £75,000 according to the article.

This has never been about the money,

Give it back then.

Life imitates parody

Or the future of things to come.

I've been watching Sliders recently. For those of you who are not familiar with the series, it's about a group of people travelling through different dimensions to alternate Earths. For example, they have travelled to Earths where the USA is controlled by Communist Russia and one where dinosaurs exist in a national park.

Anyhoo, I got to one yesterday where they actually arrived on the Earth that we live in. Watch this brief clip:

Isn't that right where we are heading? The series was created in 1995. I bet they never imagined that less than twenty years later there would be a multitude of lobby groups, all funded by the taxpayer, demanding the creation of the fantasy world in that clip.

That's what the bansturbators want. That's what we need to stop.

Cash sale

I met another one of those sales staff who get confused when you refuse to give your details today.

I went into Cash Converters in Darwen and bought a second hand amplifier. To be honest it took me a bit by surprise. I didn't expect my address would be required for a cash sale of a second hand item.

When she asked for my postcode I asked why. She said it was for the guarantee, so I asked if she could just give me a receipt. She paused, said yes and then she actually spun around twice while she figured out what to do next.

It was quite amusing, but I never give out my details when it's not necessary. It only encourages them.

I bought some mail order cigars over the internet the other day:

http://www.hollandcigarhouse.co.uk/index.php?do=AgeView&uri=/CigarillosView.html[QM]from=0[AND]step=20

If you buy a hundred or more, the postage is free. I picked some cheap ones to test the waters but they arrived today with no problems. You do pay English tax on them so it's above board (Unfortunately) but I didn't want to risk too much money on my first try.

The ones I picked were on offer so they were nearly as cheap as going to Belgium and buying them in person. They taste good too so I'm gonna buy another batch.

I've recently run out of the cheap ones I brought back from Belgium in February. When you've been smoking good quality cigars for a few months, British ones taste like crap. Even British Café Creme taste worse than the foreign equivalent. Inferior tobacco and loosely packed.

I think I'll stick with the website while there are no cheap cruises on.

It's all part of starving the beast. Just like the new batch of home brew I started today. £14 for forty pints of bitter. It even tastes good.

I'm saving a fortune at the moment. It won't be long before I have a nice pot saved up...

...just in time for my MOT. And back to square one :-)

Have a good night.