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Seperatism

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celtic map of britain

view the page from whence this image comes lots of usefull info about english history though a pinch salt as always is required as concerns the mists of history.

the blue names above represent all the different tribal areas theyre boundarys are not marked, because in truth the boundarys of tribal groups are difficult to assert, but each tribal name represent tribes that might of at some point been at war with each other.

why is that people always think theyre going to be better off by dividing into smaller and smaller groups ? sometimes smaller societys are easier to manage efficiently … agreed. Seperatism can get very wearing though, especially history informs so often that often these distinction are based on arbitrary or often misunderstood lines about identity.

The story is dead

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well isn’t it ? for me it truly is …

the parable, the tail, the story, the scenes the setups, the getups, the plot, the backstory, the history, the switchbacks, the actors and what happens to them who cares ? its all way to well thumbed for me, and often so simplistic in manner as to be unworthy of observance, “the story” is a form of modern pollution, its educative up to a point and then the use of it it is over, there is little to be learnt that is applicable to the complexities of a real life, and should we live our lives like a story as portrayed in the media ? should we be happy and find entertainment in observing artificial portrayal’s of fictional yet real researched lives, why do people get pleasure from identification or rejection of a fictional other ? is it a demonstration of our taste, the storys we like, or is it just another demonstration of our egos’s, in thinking our choices in entertainment are a worthy demonstration of our own intellect in action, when really theyre mainly just noise in the stream of general consciousness, and what does it mean when the story is over for a person, is it a bad thing ? to not beleive in the story, is it a lack of metaphorical faith in ones own life ? is this what age is ? do we die of no longer believing in the human story ? does our spirit wain from belief in it ? when we see beyond the distractional noise, to view the great immutable predictable mess of it, the shape of a life swallowed as a whole in its entirety.

Barclays bloated idiot immoral corporacy

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Im with barclays for three account’s, why is it they can never do anything right ?

Hard limits on overdraft ? somehow theyre always soft limits ? so forcing accidentally into overdraft and charges what I want is hard limits on my account my card to not work if I dont have the funds, or such so that when one account needs topping up form another it is automatically done.

The Bank statements are designed appallingly badly, almost illegible, the advertising is larger than the stuff you need to read.

Their online banking is a chore and equally badly designed to busy and badly layed out.

their pin sentry crap is utterly irritating.

Their lack of interest on general accounts that are heavly in credit is appalling.

Generally their like a grifter at the fair, that needs allot of ostricisation and slapping, before their morality will come into check.

Soon i’ll move the lot to some form of co-operative style bank where I get something out of them having large amounts of my money.

Rather than them endlessly screwing me, and when i attempt to leave, only then asking if theyres anyway they can keep me. There a bunch of swindlers, who moan on the one hand at the cost of maintaining current accounts and go buy up other banks with the other hand, their an evil empire that needs bringing down. They have way to many employees working all over the shop, I can never enter my barclays branch without a 45 min queue to acheive anything via some half on the ball mid 30’s immigrant personal banker, who has to ask the computer what to do. really they might as well close my local branch its pointless.

Anybody know of the best co-operative bank with no branches but superb online banking. that can take online payments on my behalf, So I can force my clients away from cheques only the last vestage thats tying me to one of these old rubbish banks.

Network Railcard Terms & Conditions Review

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theyre aggregiously and unreasonably in the favour of the rail operators, ATOC is doing nothing for us, they take you address details but if you lose your card, no refund for the remaining time or new card containing the remaining time, why on earth are they taking address details if there is no refund for such a card loss ? unnaceptable !

we need to take this to the european courts and get them screwed into the ground on this one !

Jonathan Meades mauvist bleak treasure mind

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jonathan meades

pretty much most of that which he outputs, emerges as a condign and warming tableau …… cough

i love the way he refuses to dumb down his vocabulary, I agree … screw the illiterate, you cant learn new words unless someone is shouting them at you from the front of a classroom, and you have a marginal fear driving you to an increased vocabulary.

I learnt condign :) … go dig out the definition lazy

His sophisticated rants would fly high above and appear so abstruse to the subjects he targets, that he could probably let rip in their presence and they would still feel a great deal of uncertainty, about interpreting his meaning.

long may he haunt our screens with documentarys only a minority of the population will enjoy.

Alert GM big pharma on the move again watch out.

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Alert GM big pharma on the move again watch out.
good article here in the daily mail

not the line which reads :

“But the Government has ordered the Food Standards Agency to carry out a year-long spin campaign to win support for GM. Ear-this year Sir Terry Leahy, boss of Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket, said supermarkets may have made the decision to reject GM products too hastily.

i didnt realise it was the governments right to tell a governmnet agency to spin something at us ?

Monsanto is pure evil and it wouldn’t surprise me if they weren’t behind all this crap desperately trying to crawl there way into irrecoverably polluting our landscape or environment if they can. I f you think im overreacting then you need to watch the documentarys that i have seen :

yes shes looks like a guru but shes talking to a great deal of sense :

also check my post here :

we need to set the precedent that GM technology comes into the environment, wehn we the public chooses on the basis of each individual case and not at the timeline pressure of some corporate who has targets to meet, as in reality the risks of getting this stuff wrong in the environment would be a global disaster. And america has already polluted the whole of North America and is beginning to pollute South America environment with GM modified organisms loose in the environment.

good link here

Tesco’s Granny Smith from Africa ?

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Is it only me that has noticed the degradation of the “Granny Smith” apple by Tesco, a few years back Tesco used to sell quite nice tight and small deep green “granny smiths” apples ? But now the Granny Smith’s apples they sell, seem to be getting closer to that sweet foam crap that is ‘golden delicious’ : never a brand more innaccurately phrased, ‘enemic sweetened old seating foam’ might be a more accurate a name, I think the problem started occurring when they switched to a south african supplier, someone who also supplys the golden delicious perhaps ? and there is some cross contamination genetically ? or worse as my worst fears suspect maybe its some kind of modified granny smith ? crossed with some commercialised golden delicious generic apple gene, thrown in to the mix, as these apples seem to be too uniform and bland looking to be real “granny smiths” ? Im sure theres quite a few granny smith crosses, some with a heavy commercialised genes and the granny smiths from tesco seem to be of this type ?

Having eaten both the golden deliciious and the granny smith as photographed above in a taste test, purchased from the same tescos, I can state the granny smith has the right smell (the golden delicious smells of nothing ?) But the flesh and taste appears way to similar to a golden delicious, not tight enough or tart enough. I swear someone has been dabbling here and crossed it, so that it crops, shapes and tastes like a golden delicious(with a slight taste inflection towards grannyness but not enough), but with just enough appearance of granny smith to be classed as one by identification. This granny smith is no longer a pleasant apple to eat, way too foamy and soft texture wise, nowhere near tart enough. It is this endless blurring of distinction with commercial crosses which will eventually ruin the biodiversity of real fruit varietys. and is a dangerous precedent to set, as eventually the un-iniated who can barely spell and are overly concerned, with which new twat Katie Price is fucking, are not the generation capable of determining the correct flavour pallete of a specific variety of apple. though who knows maybe my taste choice on this apple is based on an australian seedling grown in our climate ? but non the less these apple have changed and their unifomity of shape is now concurrent with that of the golden delicious which to me smells suspicious.
Hmm some shite ad agency won an award for a tescos granny smith advert ?! what the hell ? that bangs on about them being the same quality as waitrose granny smith ? but at asda prices ? I fing doubt it !

link here

To be Honest the selection of real english variety’s of apple at Tesco seem to have massively decreased, now all we can find are the slightly bulbous foamy non definitive types, the galas and the braeburns and the pink ladys of this world :( makes me think they have a woman buyer heading up apple purchasing. The only quality variation we find is in the distinction that they still sell Bramley Cookers. But in my local Tesco’s this whole season I could find no “Cox’s Orange Pippin’s” ? mine is admiteadly a sort of oversized tesco metro, but none the less no cox’s orange pippins !

There was also complaint from the remnant local apple industry over them being an african import.

although most of the degradation has occured in the plum and peach aisle, where all tesco ever seems to purvey is round bullets of unripenable bland fleshyness.