As if there were ever any doubt that this country is running permanently ‘hot’ here’s a few examples of how the incredible lack of spare capacity, or even good old fashioned ‘contingency planning’ has nearly brought us to the glorified status of Zimbabwe.

1. Storm Arwen.
It beggars belief that there are citizens STILL without an electricity supply, two weeks – TWO WEEKS- after the event. As ever the army were mobilised far too late. See also 2. below

2. Petrol shortages
It’s all gone quiet again now but how the fuck did the mere rumour of fuel shortages cause such unnecessary disarray?

3. Carbon Dioxide
St Greta constantly berates the planet for frying in the stuff, but it turns out the country’s entire food processing industry relies upon just 2-3 Fertiliser factories Oop North…… who produce CO2 as a biproduct. They threaten to shut due to high energy costs, result, chaos.

4. Heating gas
Apparently the whole U.K. only has capacity to store less than a weeks LPG compared to 50-60 days common on the continent. WTF?!!

This isn’t Covid or Brexit. The simple lack of foresight and basic contingency planning beggars belief. Does anybody running this shitshow even know where the next one will come from? Here’s one for 2030….. insufficient power cable capacity to cope with the shift to electric cars etc.

Nominated by: Isaac Hunt

Yes, we all know it’s that time of year when our wallets are shamelessly pried open by a perfusion of chuggers and retailers after your hard earned money, but I admit that I totally missed this little bugger : Giving Tuesday

Hot on the heels of Brats in Need and Black Friday, this was apparently on November 30th. Passed you by? Yeah, me too!

Maybe it’s because I’m a tight fisted old cunt who works on the basis that no bugger ever gave me owt fer nowt, or maybe it’s because I’m so overloaded by the relentless onslaught of the meaningless modern Christmas that it was just too much to take it all in. I leave you draw your own conclusions.

Whatever it was, if you missed it like me then you’ve been told now – so you’ve no excuse next year…

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Nominated by: Dioclese

Dio really doesn’t like charities! Here’s another from him …

Charity fatigue

Is it just me or does anyone else suffer from charity fatigue? It’s out just my that is sick and tired of being bombarded with Christmas chuggers?

You can’t turn on the telly without being assaulted by a never ending barrage of appeals for animals, children, starving Africans, Afghans, homeless people, Oxfam (a cunting in their own right), meals on wheels, food banks, etc etc etc – far too many to list.

And then there’s the endless doom and gloom from the media about how everyone is destitute because of covid, lockdown, furlough kmoney for nothing) and wicked Tory scum.

Well here’s my Christmas message : Fuck ’em all. I never got handed anything for nothing, I had to work my arse off for it.

As Norman Tebbitt once so succinctly put it “Get on your bike”.

The good Lord helps those that help themselves…

And another charity nomination has popped in, this time from Vernon Fox

The poor starving freezing Afghan children.

Allow me a moment to wipe away my tears as I listen to yet another report about the “imminent danger of Afghan children starving and freezing over winter” – but, maybe just me being dumb here, but is it not the responsibility of the Taliban to deal with this alleged crisis?

And as China Joe sent the Taliban 1.7 billion US Dollars in cash on pallets, left them 84 billion Dollars worth of arms and military equipment which the Afghan “Army” fell over as they bravely ran to join the Taliban and the Taliban are currently selling all the rare earth mining rights to China for a fortune how about these evil murderous little fuckers deal with the alleged “humanitarian crisis” –

I am confident they will be right on it as they have such a great record of upholding human rights..

NOT our problem, not our responsibility and not our bill – but that won’t stop the flood of adverts from the tax dodging scammers calling themselves “charities”.

I am not feeling charitable – fuck them.

And another one… this time from Andy

Toy Charity Christmas Donations.

These are cunts.
Why?
You would think that they would be grateful, and accept anything.
You would think that they know that if a child is in a family, where for whatever reason, the likelihood of them opening a present in Christmas Day is zero, then the child would be appreciative if anything.
But this is not the case.
No, a child would be appreciative, but the twats organising it have different ideas.

Because of my own experiences as a child, whom I was lucky if I received something on Christmas Day, the thought of a little one not experiencing the joy of opening a present, strikes home for me.
I decided to scour free ads, and I have a few collections to make in my free time this week.
I spoke to the people running the Toy Drive in our area, and they won’t except used toys.
Instead, they expect people to buy a new toy, give it to them, to in turn donate it.

I get that it is nice for a child to receive a factory sealed, brand new item, but not every child has this luxury.

What a bunch of fucking characters.
They will get nothing from me now.
As for the toys I am collecting, I know if a few families through a friend, of appreciative children, and children who don’t have much, so that is where the toys are going.

Seems that Amazon may no longer allow its customers to use Visa Credit Cards when paying for items from its site. The reason Amazon gives is because of “the continued high cost of payments in terms of fees charged.”

This will take effect from 19th January 2022.(This only affect Visa Credit Cards and not Visa Debit Cards or Mastercard etc.)

The problem involves Visa increasing its fees, and therefore Amazon retaliated by slapping an additional 0.5% surcharge on all Visa Credit Card purchases in Singapore and Australia (with more countries to follow).

Inevitably, the loser is the Amazon customer in both countries, stung with the Visa fee increase, and the Amazon surcharge on top.

However, more closer to home Visa slapped an additional 1.5% fee on cross-border payments between the UK and the EU purely because of some EU loophole that suggests there is no longer a cap on fees for countries who are no longer a member state.

Therefore, Visa, can run roughshod with British consumers when they use their credit cards, and not just for Amazon purchases.

That said Amazon does have a close affinity with rival company, Mastercard. Amazon’s own credit cards are underwritten by Mastercard, and by pushing Visa out of the frame it means Amazon/Mastercard has a nice monopoly going on that the Office of Fair Trading (or whatever the fuck they’re called these days) need to take a look at.

Whatever happens, the customer will probably end up being shafted one way or the other. Amazon is worth £1.7tn, Visa $400bn and Mastercard $320bn as of 2021. It would be interesting to know how much corporation tax these cunts pay to the UK Treasury?

So not only can the UK public look forward to a whole raft of price/tax increases next year, this will just add to the misery index forced upon the Little People, while the rich cunts laugh all the way to the bank!

Anyway, if you have a Visa Credit Card linked to your Assizon account be aware that it may no longer be valid come 19th January.

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Nominated by: Technocunt

Hershel Fink anti-Semitism row

What’s the problem? He is a billionaire controlling CEO of some big corporation. Lots of Jews in that position. We all know the Jews like to control things.

I cant see the problem.

Anyway if they change the character’s name I suppose Shylock will have to be changed. Shylow maybe.

Say they changed the name to George.McDonald of somdthing couldn’t that be constued as being anti WASP?. But its ok to be anti WASP.

What about changing it to Iqbal Patel. Certainly now there are very rich Indian tycoons. But would that be allowed?

Just thought-what I am doing is sticking up for stereotypes. They are stereotypes for a reason. They are typical of a class or race.

A lot of humour indeed serious creativity rely on stereotypes. It’s shorthand. But sometimes you need shorthand.

What comes to mind? Say ‘The Man Who Would Be King’. Two adventurous colonial soldiers in India. Freemasons. Proud to be British. ‘Billy Fish’ a great character. Full of admiration for them. Admiring of the the ‘British way’.

Stop there! Billy Fish would be a stereotype of the subservient Indian. There’s a similar character in A Passage To India.

If those two films were being made now….well I don’t know how they could be made. There would have to have a disclaimer; something like (TMWWBK) ‘this motion picture contains stereotypes of subservient Indians. Please be aware.’

But more deeply. We need universally recognised ‘characters’. Or ‘types’. Or its just like creating the wheel every time you do a play.

All this putting black people in ads. People don’t believe it because it is not typical. You could almost say it is not stereotypical.

We are losing all humour because we cannot talk about types anymore. Because somebody will be offended.

“Hershel Fink anti-Semitism row: Royal Court theatre backers withdraw – BBC News” BBC News Link

Nominated by: Miles Plastic

(Usual hard-up poverty story, but note the Apple phone! – Day Admin)

An octagonal cunting required for this benefit sponging bike who must by now have a snatch like a butchers bin.

This tart is whinging because she is now having to frequent the food bank, because 2 of her litter are now to old to claim benefits for and now she is £160 down a month and no one will give her a job….

Now this sickens me, is it just me who thinks what fucking business has she got popping out 8 fucking brats probably by various different blokes and expecting the system to pay, which is you and I to pay for them.

The leech has fucked up her life, no boss in his right mind would employ someone with 8 kids, image how often she, s going to want to start late, finish early, not turn up, sue you when you sack her.

Maybe she should look at hiring them out, or getting odd jobs done around the council estate she lives in, you know cut grass, pick up dog shit and broken glass, wash cars that sort of thing, at least Katey Price used Harvey to make some money.

I know everyone including me gives the dinghy divers a hard time, but I don’t think cunts like this are any better, just as fucking useless, the only thing I think she needs is a lorry load of condoms and a video on birth control.

Ho Ho Ho it’s Christmas so surely it’s time for another bun in the over for her to claim for…. Cunts like this need to be told no, I you can’t support one don’t have seven more, she obviously follows to non plan, plan, maybe time for her to start filming rough porn to pay her way….

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Nominated by: Fuglyucker