tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post816046111948917201..comments2024-02-06T07:57:54.467+00:00Comments on underdogs bite upwards: The Kray model of government.Leg-ironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-84506890016318804092011-08-09T03:41:10.961+01:002011-08-09T03:41:10.961+01:00The 100-year fag-end (cough) might have been one o...The 100-year fag-end (cough) might have been one of mine. I drop ridiculous ideas in their laps once in a while, using another identity.<br /><br />The real reason there are always fag-ends is that smokers are all banned from indoors. New ones appear every day. If they really lasted 100 years (which is, I think, longer than filter tips have existed) we'd all be up to our necks in them by now.<br /><br />They don't need facts, these people. Playing with them is cruel but so much fun.<br /><br />I'm a little disappointed to see that the 'they decay into radioactive isotopes after ten years' part didn't take though. Maybe they're saving that one.<br /><br />I wonder how the old 'ash gets into the paws of pets on walks' line is progressing? No sign of the doggie footbaths yet.<br /><br />Wait until they have to bleach the cat...Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-61543865851147219122011-08-08T18:13:53.805+01:002011-08-08T18:13:53.805+01:00Electro-fag Relay Race
1 - Tell Park Inspector th...<b>Electro-fag Relay Race</b><br /><br />1 - Tell Park Inspector there is a smoker (EF1) on a bench over there.<br /><br />2 - Bench-sitter EF1 shows electro-fag and says "No, the smoker is on that bench over there" (EF2 in the distance).<br /><br />3 - As Park Keeper goes towards EF2, EF3 shows up in the distance. EF1 moves to different bench for next lap.DerekPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-57086143375517644502011-08-08T17:11:59.223+01:002011-08-08T17:11:59.223+01:00I think that One show idiot spat out "1000&qu...I think that One show idiot spat out "1000" years for a fag butt to degrade, just a tiny casual remark but still on the same smokers are scum agenda.<br /><br />No wonder Crawford asked "how do they know"!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-33888078544285474642011-08-08T14:46:11.663+01:002011-08-08T14:46:11.663+01:00Imagine if someone who was involved in the illegal...Imagine if someone who was involved in the illegal trafficing of human organs to wealthy sociopaths, managed to get a job that granted access to the DNA database. Imagine they had contacts in the DVLA. <br /><br />Maybe if the money to be made were so great, gangs could be funded, people placed in the ambulance service, doctors and surgeons bought off etc. Its not like any of these people are incoruptable.<br /><br />Strobes and laser pointers are easy to obtain.<br /><br />But of course, its unlikely. You'd need to live in a corrupt and valuless society for such things to happen.kitlernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-45083999136758516612011-08-08T14:20:06.674+01:002011-08-08T14:20:06.674+01:00'Private cars are already in the process of be...'Private cars are already in the process of being owned by the State.'<br /><br />In the process? The state already owns every car in the UK. We are simply the registered 'keepers' of the vehicles. <br /><br />And if you tick 'yes' to being an organ donor on the new driving licence applications, the state will then become the legal owner of all your valuable spare parts, I mean internal organs, whenever you are contained within a stae-owned vehicle.kitlernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-32556583547727433652011-08-08T14:01:34.835+01:002011-08-08T14:01:34.835+01:00From samizdata
Writing in today's Times behin...From <a href="http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2011/08/an_mp_belatedly.html" rel="nofollow">samizdata</a><br /><br />Writing in today's Times behind a paywall, Natascha Engel, Labour MP for North East Derbyshire, relates how she stood in the rain outside a miner's welfare hall smoking with a angry but partially mollified constituent.<br />...he told me about his father in law who used to come to the welfare every night and spent all evening drinking one pint of Guinness. He was a chain smoker. Since the smoking ban he's never been back. <br />"He's can't stand outside in the rain like this. He's an old man." He told me about how his father-in-law never goes out any more. "He's lonely and miserable. And he still chain smokes."<br />Natascha Engel now says that, given the chance again, she would not vote for the ban.<br /> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Too late now, luv. Or is she just getting worried about her 2,445 majority in the 2010 election?View from the Solenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00930587784230398787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-60650719141320615392011-08-08T13:14:59.292+01:002011-08-08T13:14:59.292+01:00I'm sure that a BBC reporter stated on TV last...I'm sure that a BBC reporter stated on TV last week that cigarette butts do not degrade for years. I'm sure he saud it was 100 years that it took. This was on the One Show. that is One view of the world according to BBC obviously. <br /><br />The guest was Michael Crawford who reacted by asking how anyone new this. The reports face was something to behold. Astonishment that anyone would say something like that and annoyance that they had.<br /><br />I think carrier bags which last 1000 years apparently, come into the same category as fag butts. Maybe we should be building houses from fag butts and used carrier bags given their inherent longevity? <br /><br />Just a suggestion. <br /><br />I should also say that I don't watch the One Show it just happened to be on. Honest.petem130https://www.blogger.com/profile/15948128258971700269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-86552755295993620802011-08-08T11:13:42.849+01:002011-08-08T11:13:42.849+01:00I think they'd simply argue that you are not b...I think they'd simply argue that you are not banned. Only the smoke from your fag, which does not pay the council (although every ciggy does in fact raise about 25p in duty and vat for the benefit of all, including the EU).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-24119675376902586642011-08-08T08:38:35.408+01:002011-08-08T08:38:35.408+01:00While only one person has been fined for smoking i...While only one person has been fined for smoking in any New York park, a cameraman who kept goading the warden to fine him as he filmed it, we all know, here in the Home of Democratic Parliamentary Representation, how much fun the mini-Stasi (and how money the Councils will be mentally totting up on their abacus) will have persecuting those who might just be in possession of something you could set light to.<br /><br />And yet, the Fail illustrates their article with a lovely smoking nymph and all the comments I read, bar one, are fuming with indignation. The disjunct between TPTB and the rest of us cannot hold in this uneasy equilibrium for ever.<br /><br />wv = forit (or not)PT Barnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-86993818607519495892011-08-08T05:37:47.693+01:002011-08-08T05:37:47.693+01:00I've been pondering on this item as well. I wi...I've been pondering on this item as well. I will stop paying if my Council does this. <br />I feel like I'm being poked with a pointed stick to see how I react.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com