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 !
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.
An extended response to a comment I made about this article in the “femail” ! section of the dailymail, written by two “mail colleagues” (see we can all wordplay … wretch) perhaps responding in a lack lustre way, to defend a fellow columnist Liz Jones.
Hmm people, who bring the gains of a city existence & buy up the tranquility of wilder places, & are then distressed that those who live their, can’t identify with them ? I guess it doesn’t require a great deal of imagination to be a journalist, and the imagination, that it does require, by the lazy will be spent on presenting the inflammatory or the rosehip hip itch down the back, kneejerk kind of journalism designed to offend for the sake of sales. Liz Jones failing to see that such types as herself are rarely liked by locals, is an almost darling lack of foresight. In Most situations in the world people who live in one location to exploit an economic boon, and then move to another location where that financial gain from the first location can yield an even better situation, are rarely approved of, except in cultures like america, not everyone … lives their lives to maximally exploit every situation to their own advantage.
The natives on both sides of this equation, ie those who do not trade situations purely for their own advantage, tend to dislike the fickle lack of loyalty displayed by those who do. Not many country people can identify with those who have a gardener, or who deliberatly slip in the amount they pay for wine, or who title a book “how i lost a husband and found rural bliss” as though its a fair exchange or even something that can be tastefully weighed against each other ? Bringing in 850 bales all by yourself ? or is the unwritten labour & help of others complicit in most personal triumphs ? ego & money generally brings isolation, and that coterie of people that is often found around rich people, rarely express their true feelings to such a person, and as most human creatures, are fully capable of being civil to such types who employ them, whilst at the same time holding some a high level of contempt, in the back of their mind.
And I think to most peoples minds employing people by using their labour cannot as yet, be tallied as a form of charitable distribution, and nor do such people who are employed rarely feel obliged or grateful for it, in a tug forelock sense of the word any longer thank god. Also no doubt students you help into jobs must generally succeed on talent, once you have helped with the social grease of obtaining them an interview, unless the world is so unjust, to indicate as we all suspect that really its about who we know, who they know and the third pride-less element of whose ass were good at kissing in a feudal sense.
Likewise phoning in distress from an exotic destination, about something which is genuinely upsetting, to a collection of ones labourers and a “femail” police officer (I know its gratuitous but hey the dailymail started it lol) tends to engender less sympathy, than being their in person on the scene, As those of certain classes still look down on those whose work lifestyle involves trans-atlantic travel. No doubt the police will have failed to highlight, exactly how low their chances are of finding the culprit/culprits concerned. Certainly any person has a right to be worried about it, but your emotions on this matter seem as robust as the offense you seem to have caused to some of the wider community you have joined, but I think you are wise to not let such intimidatory behaviour get to you.
Living happily in an area, is sometimes not just about having the money to buy a place, its also more often than not, about having an ability to identify with the people youv’e chosen to live amongst, as under the modern structures of culture today, poor people still seek the stability of tribalism, though coming from the isolatory bankrupt culture of London, I can understand your perception of money as being the prime requisite, yet most people actually rather despise it, for it seems to have bartered the common sense of identity away from people, for a shallow enslavement to some bland form of endless economically obsessed consumerism, at the cost of the things people eventually realise later in life they really need. And the supposed economic benefit of the last 40 years seems to have actually resulted in an greater disparity between the rich and the poor, such great divisions will never be healthy in any culture. You will probably find that those who have taken a disliking to you in that community, are probably divided into two groups.
Group A: The hunting shooting classes who wished that you had courted their approval upon arrival, as most rich arrivals did 40 years before.
Group B: The local born and bred who cannot afford the basics of a home in the area you have chosen to live (quite likely in the employ of the feudally landed from Group A), due to the “London Types” disenfranchising them, whether real or imaginary in your observance of the situation.
As for your assertion that perhaps if you were a posh young man, this wouldn’t have happened, I think that almost has the feint whiff of feminist paranoia, my perception would be this scenario is probably more about disparity of wealth and the disenfrachised in your local vicinity showing their displeasure, or perhaps your views on the hunting lifestyle, has won you some hotblooded gun wielding detractors, The scatter pattern looks close range to me, did the police search for pellets nearby ?
Truth is people are generally not keen on seeing others around them who have obtained a lifestyle thats is say ten times in scale their own small lifetime aspirations they perceive no chance in attaining. It is this disparity of situation, which causes most afront to the emotions of others, and truly peoples time and labour should not be worth such dramatically different amounts of reward, that such disparity can occur in the first place. That “American dream” of extreme wealth and making it, so rarely attempts to publicise the vast casualty’s of such agregious social propaganda.
Though mainly in the culture today it is the governments lack of penaliseation over multiple house ownership, and the monopoly-esque buy to let scenario that left unchecked has rocketed house prices to unearthly levels, that has seen so many driven to dis-enfranchisement and the extreme polarisation of people viewpoints in culture today. This is further tarnished by a lack of foresight from people whos perspective of power is fundamentally over-privileged, and cripples them from seeing things from the outsiders perspective, unless it is to empathise with the foreign poor we import to increase housing and services pressure even further on the native poor.
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.
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.
organised religion’s function and use, should pass into history the need of it is over, it is nought more than a commercialist self preserving masonic lodge for the wilfully ignorant. Its best virtues instruct a person to be less selfish, but hardly anyone who claims to be of such a faith, practices the best virtues of the creed.
it is time those who have been tolerating religion so far, gave up and just blatantly put forth why it is full of falsity and wilfull ignorance. Aronra couldn’t put it more gently no matter how tired he becomes of responding to such delusions, religion shouldn’t argue with science on the basis religion is about faith, which can roughly be translated to belief without evidence, whereas science is founded on the opposite, those who believe in blind belief will always fail when entering into logical discourse about things when science is the only language weve invented to have such discussions.
no longer exists.
Media Noise x Democratic impotence x Consumerist Monetarism = inert population
The Human world is to large and complicated for the average human being to grasp, hence the vast proportion prefer to be ignorant and focus on themselves, in a way this kind of brainwashing is acheived through the noise of the media, which is like being drowned in a psunami of information about everything, but the shitty democracy we have means you can change nothing. No Wonder people switch off, its too stressfull to remian switched on, and mantain and improve a generalist sense of understanding a truly broad set of issues and their interelations. Thats why people focus on consumerism, money and their own well being which is what society wants you to do.
theyve just grabbed a new cyber tsar :
problem solved, who better to work out how to guard digital information than he who can break into it.
although wait a moment he recently revealed ? >
“I’m not, you know, a master hacker. I didn’t write my own programmes or anything”
he mainly used this commercially available product “remotely anywhere”
what ! this must surely be is the first case of a “user”, being able to hack government sites ? which must indicate their security is more slack than we can possibly imagine ? In that case I’ve have no empathy for the US government in the sense it imply’s their prosecuting an intelligent but largely unskilled guy who was just curious ? Only in america could you say it was illegal to look. If their security isnt good enough thats there business, he wasn’t after money just information, the world we live in where information is illegal … really, to my mind the only infomation that should be illegal is that which is lies or noise within the signal of life.
Gary Mckinnon you did the right thing, why was it the right thing ? because as per usual mis-behaviour gifts you more of societys attention, than remaining anonymous, think of who you would be now if this event hadn’t occurred ? lets hope the americans see sense and offer you a nice well paid job as security risk advisor, as blank passwords are quite obviously wrong.
In my opinion shareholders requirements of dividends, mean these company in general can be less aggressive in investing in new technology and innovation than not for profit organisations. Or well run public companys.