tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post4045564503663473333..comments2024-02-06T07:57:54.467+00:00Comments on underdogs bite upwards: When God flicked his cigarette...Leg-ironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-59738894282575047692010-05-02T18:01:34.388+01:002010-05-02T18:01:34.388+01:00You forgot to mention this possible reason for the...You forgot to mention this possible reason for the 'no-fly' order.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoUkobHYAlkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-78600646506751136302010-04-21T23:14:50.377+01:002010-04-21T23:14:50.377+01:00Money certainly talks. When I was 16 years old I c...Money certainly talks. When I was 16 years old I could find jobs, low paid and often non-unionised with attendant risks attached. However, I worked and earned a wage and I was happy because I was a 'real adult'.<br />My son is 17 and he attends college two adys a week so as to eventually become an electrician. He wants to be his own boss, make money and enjoy the fruits of his labour. Remember, for any trolls or twata out there, he is only 17 years old before you start attacking his naivety. He couldn't even get a job at McDonald's! There is no work and any there is tends to go to over 18's because of the laws pertaining to children, health & safety, etc... He wants to work but there is bugger all to be had. Before any New labour trolls get started, I am a nurse working in the NHS who has done well under this govt. but why then do I feel that if I vote for Brown I am selling my country, the future of my son and others of his generation and my soul. The one saving grace is that I have the skills, experience and knowledge to move abroad but why should I?delcattohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02925044785996454603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-796903529786727782010-04-21T21:58:41.735+01:002010-04-21T21:58:41.735+01:00I wouldn't call Brian Aldiss a climatologist!
...I wouldn't call Brian Aldiss a climatologist!<br /><br />We've set up a group for readers to leave a comment for him in his 85th birthday year over on Facebook. Don't know if you'd care to say something on there but I thought I'd post the URL.<br /><br />http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=120586967951630<br /><br />Thanks for a good read.<br /><br />TimTim Aldisshttp://www.aldissandmore.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-3672873227197743802010-04-21T16:24:49.243+01:002010-04-21T16:24:49.243+01:00Were the RAF or USAF grounded?Were the RAF or USAF grounded?Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-55022269504744839862010-04-21T13:52:44.488+01:002010-04-21T13:52:44.488+01:00LI, the one question no-one’s being allowed to ask...LI, the one question no-one’s being allowed to ask on radio or television is, “how much carbon is this volcano spewing into the atmosphere?”<br /><br />The answer to that question would totally f**k up the eco-mentalists because it’ll be thousands upon thousands of tonnes over just one week.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-83853764107303828972010-04-21T13:25:24.148+01:002010-04-21T13:25:24.148+01:00Pioneers have always been fearless or have had enq...Pioneers have always been fearless or have had enquiring minds. The great majority are scared - always have been. Fear of failure. Riddled with insecurity. Held back by lack of self-esteem.<br /><br />Labour panders to the lowest common denominator - actively encouraging its thinking. Now, that lowest common denominator has a voice - several voices; in every organisation in the country, especially state schools. They are now the chattering class.<br /><br />Failure likes company and if it had its way, would stop everyone else from achieving, because it makes them look and feel bad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-3596135540596689672010-04-21T04:55:22.672+01:002010-04-21T04:55:22.672+01:00I think that LI's main point here was that peo...I think that LI's main point here was that people in general are terrified of taking a risk, even though they seem to take silly risks such as crossing roads without looking. I think LI sees the situation in terms of people being so brainwashed that they see risks in terms of what the government tells them are risks rather than using their own intelligence and powers of observation. <br /><br />But do you not think, LI, that the worm is beginning to turn? On the politics show at lunchtime today, the Labour Minister (I forget his name, Ainsworth?) was getting a terrible roasting from Paxo over police excesses - such as arresting people for taking photos, the DNA database, using the anti-terrorist laws unreasonably, and such. And that was on the BBC! <br /><br />It may be that this fracas over the volcano will continue the process that people like you, Frank Davies, Dick Puddlecote and many others started. The thing is, regardless of the result of the election (which is only a passing thing, of no real importance whatsoever), keep on keeping on! Fight against the non-scientific stuff put out by climateologists. Fight for liberty. Above all, as regards the smoking ban, fight against the use of publicans as enforcers of state decrees and fight for the right of people to allow legal acts on their own properties. <br /><br />How on earth publicans allowed themselves to be used as policemen is totally beyond my comprehension. It really is. The only excuse is that the government actually sprung this law on us all as a trap. Until the third reading of the Health Act 2006, the law was supposed to be going to be a ban in food serving places, but not in non-food places and private clubs. The trap was sprung and it worked, and that is the real reason that government ministers are claiming that the ban has been a great success.<br /><br />I think that people are gradually learning. Not the masses, but those who can think. I know that that sounds awful, but it seems to me to be a matter of fact. It is not awful if one understands that by 'The Masses' one means those who are so wrapped up in their own personal circumstances that they find it difficult to look outside. <br /><br />There is always a straw that breaks the camel's back. We wait to see what that will be. Smoking in private cars? Who knows.Junicannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-15603713062354837702010-04-21T02:50:45.187+01:002010-04-21T02:50:45.187+01:00I now switch off when anyone speaks about planes, ...I now switch off when anyone speaks about planes, or the lack of them.<br /><br />So many people moaning. I was shouting at the TV 'for gawd sake get up for your backside and make your way towards the English Channel.' Then decided people are so indoctrinated these days they need to be told what to do.<br /><br />I'm sure if I'd been 'stranded' I'd have turned it into another travel adventure. Had quite a few when a lassie. ;)subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-39016488233122004132010-04-21T02:40:27.754+01:002010-04-21T02:40:27.754+01:00Money talks. It just doesn't seem to say anyth...Money talks. It just doesn't seem to say anything that makes any sense.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-44850912238106213752010-04-21T02:14:07.171+01:002010-04-21T02:14:07.171+01:00I strongly suspect that the reason why all the fli...I strongly suspect that the reason why all the flights were grounded were simply because or the Government, or the Met office, or air traffic control, or the airports authority, or whoever ultimately had the authority to ground everything, was worried about one thing and one thing only – getting sued if they’d allowed a plane up into said cloud and it had dropped straight back down again. Then, when it didn’t just drift away as they hoped within a day or two, and the airlines started bleating about how much money they were losing, the risk then grew that if they didn’t let the planes up, and it turned out to be harmless after all, they’d get sued by the airlines instead. And the longer the cloud hovered about there, the greater the amount of money they’d be likely to lose in a court action brought by the airlines. Now that the amounts being talked about by the airlines have become greater than the (presumably estimated) amount likely to be demanded by a few hundred individuals whose friends or relatives might have died in a crash, the restriction has been lifted. As with everything with the "authorities" these days, it all boils down to liability and money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com