A nomination for Ireland’s Criminal Justice bill being passed through Parliament and the wider war on freedom of expression snd conscience in our fucked-up society.

The very possession of offensive material, such as videos or memes on your phone, a gollywog doll or any anachronicist pictures, labels or artefact’s in your house judged ‘not PC in current year’ could be enough evidence to show intent to incite hatred and get you 2 years in jail.
Literal thought-crime.

As the link says, the Irish media and various civil liberties groups aren’t batting an eye over this massive invasion of private lives, homes and thoughts by the State.

When you add this to England and Wales’ piling up of our own thou…’hate-speech’ statutes -accelerated under Tory rule ‘cos tertorism’ – as well as those Scots accused of rape facing trial without a jury, it paints a bleak picture of democracy and freedom for the British Isles, and it’s been building up to this for a good 20 years when Blair had an obsession with biometric identity cards and throwing pensioners out of conferences (that was Jack Straw but that gang were all authoritarian freaks).

Some of this curtailing of freedoms we’ve had since COVID and protecting our communities, reducing online harm etc is revenge by the political-media class for Brexit, and some is most likely preparing to crush dissenting voices for the new project of Net Zero. Get climate change skeptics into the dangerous/terrorist camp with a bit of nudging by the Beeb and Behavourial Science teams.

They did it for Covid so why not?

They’ve already got protesting out in public and making noise criminalised.

So, enjoy this blog while it lasts gents and gals.

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Nominated by Cuntamus Prime.

 

My phone made that spelling mistake in the title and I decided to keep it because it is a lovely conjunction of crap and cheap.

Can someone please tell me why there is a proliferation of Chinese made goods that are crap yet we keep buying them?

I can’t even answer my own question. I bought a garden furniture set a couple of weeks ago from, oh the shame, B & Q. Spent a grand on sale. Didn’t want to spunk 3k+ on a Rawlinson set. Table top, allegedly tempered glass, was broken on arrival and the ‘rattan’ on the table sags. Looked nothing like the naffing picture either. I won’t bore you with the long sorry story of getting a replacement: B & Q suck but that’s another story.

I don’t understand the new furniture market. Veneered crap sold at Dovetail prices. All clever pictures, influencers and marketing to seduce you, punters paying a premium. So many sellers without an actual shop where you can see before you buy. Thank you returns laws, flipping hassle though.

Here is a link to a Forbes article that is over 10 years old but gives some insights with regards to the sellers.

p.s Amazon should be renamed Chinazon or something properly apt, yet plenty of people buy their purveyed crap.

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Nominated by Cuntologist.

I would like to nominate Ruth Hogg. A convicted criminal who thinks it is OK to go equipped to cause criminal damage and then cause very serious damage to others property.

Why? Palestine. Acting on incorrect information, our brave warrior princess in now on remand for sentencing.

She ,mistakenly,thought that the factory produced electronic items for the Israel Defence Force.So fucking what if it did?

Would she have done the same if the factory produced electronic items used by Hamas to launch rockets into Israel from hospital roofs in Gaza.
Of course not.

Does she demonstrate about the murder of the LGBTQQIA+ population in Gaza? No. The subjugation of women in Gaza? No. The total lack of religious freedom in Gaza? No.

This silly little tart believes what the Guardian tells her and thinks she is a martyr.

OK, princess. When you get out of prison, I will see you at the next Gaza gay pride: not.

I will stake my various pensions she has never been to the middle East but gets all her info from fellow brave warriors on marches demonstrations, left wing websites Owen Jones arsehole and the Guardian.

Why do the left hate Israel? Because it doesn’t fit their narrative of the helpless nomadic Jew. Sure the government of Israel is not perfect. Certainly, there are issues but people like her need to understand this: after the holocaust the message is simple: leave the Jews alone or they will fuck you over.

Entebbe?
Munich?

Israel may only be the size of Wales but it will not allow thier citizens to be fucked over.

Nakba? No. Occupation? No.

From the river to the sea: Palestine will never be.

Daily Fail

Nominated by Supreme Commander Servalan.

Are cunts. Now, I tend to shuffle the Shark around twice a week. But there’s only me, and that’s enough.
How the fucking hell can someone live in that. That is absolutely disgusting, not to mention the obvious stench.

I don’t envy those cleaners, what a shit job.
I don’t actually care about the cunt who built this foul nest, hopefully he died.

Untidy house, then there’s this.

Daily Fail

Nominated by Jeezum Priest.

Yesterday I was listening to ‘Harvest’, one of my favourite albums by the great Neil Young. There’s one song however that I always skip, and that’s ‘A Man Needs A Maid’, an overwraught, over-orchestrated effort that just gets on my nerves.

Later I got to thinking about how often it’s the case that there’s one dud on a lot of my favourite albums; that one song that’s just inferior due to weak writing, or over-production, or incompatability with the overall mood or ‘feel’ of things.

Take The Beatles’ ‘White Album’, that cornucopia of sounds which is a landmark in their catalogue. Or rather, just take ‘Revolution 9’, all fucking four hours of it. I know that some regard this as a sort of ‘avant garde’ piece, but I regard it as out-of-place snash. Oh and as this is a double album, let’s point the finger at ‘Wild Honey Pie’, a piece of pure McCartney crap which at least has the virtue of being short.

How about ‘Voices of Old People’, that burst of chuntering on the otherwise enduring ‘Bookends’ from Simon and Garfunkel? Okay, I know it could be argued that it helps to establish the album’s theme, but once heard, forever skipped.

The Smiths ‘Meat Is Murder’ would be perfect, were it not for that darned title track, with its abattoir noises and dragging, tub-thumping moralising. Nobody doubts the sincerity of Morrissey’s commitment but honestly, it makes me want to go out and eat a big, juicy steak.

I appreciate that The Police’s ‘Mother’ from ‘Synchronicity’ is a bit of a Marmite track; so love it, some hate it. I wouldn’t say that I hate it so much as find that its inclusion jars and upsets the ‘flow’ of the album. Would have been much better as a quirky ‘b’ side I’d say.

I don’t want wear out my welcome so I’ll conclude with one final example. ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ remains my favourite Dylan album, an almost perfect synthesis of his acoustic and electric styles. Almost.The bad apple in this collection is the oh so pretentious ‘Gates of Eden’. ‘Of war and peace the truth just twists its curfew gull it glides, upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides’. I’ve seen it described as Dylan’s most ‘surreal’ song. I suppose that’s one way of putting it.

Of course this is very subjective; one man’s musical meat is another man’s poison.
But I’d bet that when you think about it, there’s that album with THAT track on it that irritates the life out of you. Not a matter of life and death; just a bit of a cunt.

Nominated by Ron Knee.
No Dud tracks on the cover picture album C.A. or are there?