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Saturday, 16 April 2011
I watched a programme last night about the History of The Celts, and nearly threw my TV out of the window. Not because of the subject matter but because of the complete T**T presenting it.
Some effeminate Scottish bloke with long hair, who kept stopping in mid sentence as if he was reading a script handed down from God himself. It was the kind of overwrought delivery that I thought only happened in Lord Of The Rings.
I'm all for populism and making things easy to understand, but I do object to the kind of loose intellectual process that allows someone to pronounce as fact things that can only be pure supposition,. For example, at one point, he decided that a Woman buried with some artifacts or other, must have been "wise". How the f**k can you make that conclusion if you're supposed to be a scientist ? Only once did I hear him say "we know this because..." and produce some actual evidence to back it up.
Al the rest could have been completely made up as far as I was concerned.
The programme was littered with stuff like that, plus moody out of focus shots of this bloke staring into the middle distance at the sheer awesomeness of himself.
He kept referring to "our land", "this land of ours" and apparently there's some people in Cornwall, for whom the concept of "their Celtic heritage spanning the ages and this land of ours" (see how annoying it is) is a highly emotional and contentious subject "even today in our land".
He then proceed to have his DNA mapped and it turned out his paternal lineage came from Spain or somewhere. How I laughed (and then gazed wistfully into the middle distance).
At least you get the feeling with Brian Cox. annoying though he is, that a). he's done the hard graft and b). he's not so far up his own a**e as to be practically invisible.
to be continued...
Some effeminate Scottish bloke with long hair, who kept stopping in mid sentence as if he was reading a script handed down from God himself. It was the kind of overwrought delivery that I thought only happened in Lord Of The Rings.
I'm all for populism and making things easy to understand, but I do object to the kind of loose intellectual process that allows someone to pronounce as fact things that can only be pure supposition,. For example, at one point, he decided that a Woman buried with some artifacts or other, must have been "wise". How the f**k can you make that conclusion if you're supposed to be a scientist ? Only once did I hear him say "we know this because..." and produce some actual evidence to back it up.
Al the rest could have been completely made up as far as I was concerned.
The programme was littered with stuff like that, plus moody out of focus shots of this bloke staring into the middle distance at the sheer awesomeness of himself.
He kept referring to "our land", "this land of ours" and apparently there's some people in Cornwall, for whom the concept of "their Celtic heritage spanning the ages and this land of ours" (see how annoying it is) is a highly emotional and contentious subject "even today in our land".
He then proceed to have his DNA mapped and it turned out his paternal lineage came from Spain or somewhere. How I laughed (and then gazed wistfully into the middle distance).
At least you get the feeling with Brian Cox. annoying though he is, that a). he's done the hard graft and b). he's not so far up his own a**e as to be practically invisible.
to be continued...
Cutter Schmutter
I've been itching to wrote about "The Cuts" for some time now, but haven't been able to for a couple of reasons. Firstly, people more eloquent then me keep writing really good articles about them, and secondly, because the protests have lapsed into bizarre self-parody at which any attempt to be even mildly satirical about them is a bit like taking a piss in the Sea.
However, the best article I've recently seen was written by that totem of left-wing hatred, Toby Young in the Telegraph. I think it says just about everything that needs saying, but I thought I'd add some points of my own.
1). The "cuts", which haven't actually started yet, will bring public spending down to 2007/2008 levels. That's the level of public spending (ie the money that the government takes from you and me) applicable after 10 years of virtually unrestrained largesse by the last Labour Government. That's the scale of it. That's not a cut, that's a barely recognizable scratch. Let's have a sense of proportion.
2). The "March For the Alternative" didn't seem to come up with any alternative at all, unless it was "continue fire-hosing money at an unreformed public sector". What's your alternative ? If it's less awful than those nasty Tory cuts, then please explain not what you WON'T cut, but what you WILL.
3). Actually, there is an alternative, which is to keep going the way we were (are ?) and end up in the same boat as Greece, Ireland and Portugal. What is common across these countries is untrammeled public spending and fiscal incontinence on an epic scale. And when the money runs out, an easy option to go running to the EU to get a bail out. A bail out, incidentally, that the UK is partly on the hook for thanks to Alaistar Darling signing up to it 2 days before he was slung out of office.
$). Had Labour won the election, they would have put in place a series of austerity measures too. Not as bad as the evil Tories of course (for every £8 this Government saves, Labour plans would have saved £7 - after all, they have their client state to look after, assiduously cultivated by Brown and Blair over 13 years). But I'm afraid that some Lesbian Outreach Workers would have been lost to society. As would some Nurses, Doctors, Accountants, Social Workers etc etc.
3). Whilst we're talking about cuts, or as I like to express it, savings (but then I don't write for the BBC et al), when your local council closes down a Library, or an Old People's Home or scrapped a youth unemployment scheme, be clear that it's a Local Government decision done to make an ideological and political point. In this way, left-wing councils demonstrate that their ideology reigns above any other considerations and thus they are real enemies of the poor and vulnerable. If that enrages you, then use the new localism powers put in place by this Government to challenge your local authority and call them to account as to why that saving is favoured over another.
4). In that scenario, rather than making a few Accountants or HR people etc redundant, they've decided to pic on a soft target. which brings me on to my next point... It's unfortunate, and sad, for the people involved when anyone loses their job. In the private sector, where the notion of a job for life disappeared years ago (as did the notion of a decent final salary pension, a generous redundancy pay off and any hope of early retirement), most people feel as if they're self-employed in the sense that they need to move around to develop a career or find work somewhere else when the axe falls, as it inevitably does. These are the facts of life. Get used to it and for heaven's sake, stop fucking whingeing.
I didn't see any marching, any Public Sector employee and Union indignation, or the great and glorious leaders of the Left out in protest for the hundreds of thousands of financial services staff who lost their jobs over the last few years.
But I guess an Accountant or a Project Manager (for example) losing their job in a bank is just not the same thing as one losing their job in the Public Sector. Still, thats "fairness" for you.
5). More people marched on the Countryside March (notionally against the ban on Fox Hunting, but more broadly about a Government that didn't "care" about them). I suspect that the March for the Alternative will have about as much impact on Government policy as the Countryside march did. Quite right too.
6). I saw some of the people on the march carrying posters of Margaret Thatcher. I mean, come on, grow up. What on earth has any of this got to do with an octogenarian, ex-Prime Minister who's been out of power since 1991 ? You really couldn't make it up. As if further evidence of the ludicrousness of the event were needed, witness (r)Ed Millband invoking the Civil Rights movment and (I still can't quite believe this) Nelson's Mandela's struggle as somehow equal and indicative of the "struggle" for the "Alternative". I'm sure Nelson Mandela was overjoyed at the comparison. As for Red Ed, I suggest he moves out of the Sixth Form Common Room and into the real world.
7). At least in the 70's and 80's real working class people (a) existed and (b) had a pretty strong case for grievance. Most of the protesters I could see looked like over privileged middle class whingers with a sense of entitlement that can only be engendered when you've spent most of your formative years under a Government that made you a state supplicant.
8). As for UKUncut, go back to school and do a business studies GCSE, and then you might understand a little about how business in a Capitalist society works. Oh, you don't like Capitalism ? Well, we're stuck with it I'm afraid, but I'm sure North Korea or China would welcome you. To crown the general ludicrousness of their position, I understand they now want to occupy Monaco. Twats. Every single one of them.
9). While we're here, let's take a little look at Student Fees. No one has yet given me a sufficiently compelling explanation as to why I should pay for the University education of other people's children. Most people I know who went University are grateful that they did so, and most of them relay stories of spending their grants on generally having a great time. Well, fair enough, but not with my money, thank you.
If I don't go to Uni and, say, get a job and get a credit card and save money to get a house and then get a mortgage, I have debt. What exactly is the difference ? It was my life choice, and Uni is yours. So you have to pay. Not all, but some.
Speaking as someone who's entire career has been characterized by having to elbow past individuals with the over-weening sense of entitlement that only a 2nd can give you, I can pretty confidently state that, with rare exceptions, there isn't anything special about them, and certainly nothing I've seen to convince me that they are worth paying for out of my money. Sure, we need Doctors and Scientists, and if everyone who went to Uni did that, then there might be a moral case, but whilst there is one single Media or Social Studies degree course out there, no way, not in today's world I'm afraid.
10). Finally, the reason we're in the state we're in is almost entirely down to the fiscal incompetence of the last Labour Government. It is too lazy, easy and convenient to blame banks or whoever else. The real villains of this piece are the likes of Blair, Brown, Milliband (Snr and Jnr) Balls and Morris et al. The sight of these charlatans merrily going on their way, pronouncing from their ivory towers as if they were in some way entirely blameless makes me puke. Unless or until you own up and say sorry, and moreover, come clean with what your solution is to the mess you created, I suggest that you shut the fuck up.
Mind you, they do say that one thing you can't afford in politics is a conscience, so I won't be holding my breath.
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However, the best article I've recently seen was written by that totem of left-wing hatred, Toby Young in the Telegraph. I think it says just about everything that needs saying, but I thought I'd add some points of my own.
1). The "cuts", which haven't actually started yet, will bring public spending down to 2007/2008 levels. That's the level of public spending (ie the money that the government takes from you and me) applicable after 10 years of virtually unrestrained largesse by the last Labour Government. That's the scale of it. That's not a cut, that's a barely recognizable scratch. Let's have a sense of proportion.
2). The "March For the Alternative" didn't seem to come up with any alternative at all, unless it was "continue fire-hosing money at an unreformed public sector". What's your alternative ? If it's less awful than those nasty Tory cuts, then please explain not what you WON'T cut, but what you WILL.
3). Actually, there is an alternative, which is to keep going the way we were (are ?) and end up in the same boat as Greece, Ireland and Portugal. What is common across these countries is untrammeled public spending and fiscal incontinence on an epic scale. And when the money runs out, an easy option to go running to the EU to get a bail out. A bail out, incidentally, that the UK is partly on the hook for thanks to Alaistar Darling signing up to it 2 days before he was slung out of office.
$). Had Labour won the election, they would have put in place a series of austerity measures too. Not as bad as the evil Tories of course (for every £8 this Government saves, Labour plans would have saved £7 - after all, they have their client state to look after, assiduously cultivated by Brown and Blair over 13 years). But I'm afraid that some Lesbian Outreach Workers would have been lost to society. As would some Nurses, Doctors, Accountants, Social Workers etc etc.
3). Whilst we're talking about cuts, or as I like to express it, savings (but then I don't write for the BBC et al), when your local council closes down a Library, or an Old People's Home or scrapped a youth unemployment scheme, be clear that it's a Local Government decision done to make an ideological and political point. In this way, left-wing councils demonstrate that their ideology reigns above any other considerations and thus they are real enemies of the poor and vulnerable. If that enrages you, then use the new localism powers put in place by this Government to challenge your local authority and call them to account as to why that saving is favoured over another.
4). In that scenario, rather than making a few Accountants or HR people etc redundant, they've decided to pic on a soft target. which brings me on to my next point... It's unfortunate, and sad, for the people involved when anyone loses their job. In the private sector, where the notion of a job for life disappeared years ago (as did the notion of a decent final salary pension, a generous redundancy pay off and any hope of early retirement), most people feel as if they're self-employed in the sense that they need to move around to develop a career or find work somewhere else when the axe falls, as it inevitably does. These are the facts of life. Get used to it and for heaven's sake, stop fucking whingeing.
I didn't see any marching, any Public Sector employee and Union indignation, or the great and glorious leaders of the Left out in protest for the hundreds of thousands of financial services staff who lost their jobs over the last few years.
But I guess an Accountant or a Project Manager (for example) losing their job in a bank is just not the same thing as one losing their job in the Public Sector. Still, thats "fairness" for you.
5). More people marched on the Countryside March (notionally against the ban on Fox Hunting, but more broadly about a Government that didn't "care" about them). I suspect that the March for the Alternative will have about as much impact on Government policy as the Countryside march did. Quite right too.
6). I saw some of the people on the march carrying posters of Margaret Thatcher. I mean, come on, grow up. What on earth has any of this got to do with an octogenarian, ex-Prime Minister who's been out of power since 1991 ? You really couldn't make it up. As if further evidence of the ludicrousness of the event were needed, witness (r)Ed Millband invoking the Civil Rights movment and (I still can't quite believe this) Nelson's Mandela's struggle as somehow equal and indicative of the "struggle" for the "Alternative". I'm sure Nelson Mandela was overjoyed at the comparison. As for Red Ed, I suggest he moves out of the Sixth Form Common Room and into the real world.
7). At least in the 70's and 80's real working class people (a) existed and (b) had a pretty strong case for grievance. Most of the protesters I could see looked like over privileged middle class whingers with a sense of entitlement that can only be engendered when you've spent most of your formative years under a Government that made you a state supplicant.
8). As for UKUncut, go back to school and do a business studies GCSE, and then you might understand a little about how business in a Capitalist society works. Oh, you don't like Capitalism ? Well, we're stuck with it I'm afraid, but I'm sure North Korea or China would welcome you. To crown the general ludicrousness of their position, I understand they now want to occupy Monaco. Twats. Every single one of them.
9). While we're here, let's take a little look at Student Fees. No one has yet given me a sufficiently compelling explanation as to why I should pay for the University education of other people's children. Most people I know who went University are grateful that they did so, and most of them relay stories of spending their grants on generally having a great time. Well, fair enough, but not with my money, thank you.
If I don't go to Uni and, say, get a job and get a credit card and save money to get a house and then get a mortgage, I have debt. What exactly is the difference ? It was my life choice, and Uni is yours. So you have to pay. Not all, but some.
Speaking as someone who's entire career has been characterized by having to elbow past individuals with the over-weening sense of entitlement that only a 2nd can give you, I can pretty confidently state that, with rare exceptions, there isn't anything special about them, and certainly nothing I've seen to convince me that they are worth paying for out of my money. Sure, we need Doctors and Scientists, and if everyone who went to Uni did that, then there might be a moral case, but whilst there is one single Media or Social Studies degree course out there, no way, not in today's world I'm afraid.
10). Finally, the reason we're in the state we're in is almost entirely down to the fiscal incompetence of the last Labour Government. It is too lazy, easy and convenient to blame banks or whoever else. The real villains of this piece are the likes of Blair, Brown, Milliband (Snr and Jnr) Balls and Morris et al. The sight of these charlatans merrily going on their way, pronouncing from their ivory towers as if they were in some way entirely blameless makes me puke. Unless or until you own up and say sorry, and moreover, come clean with what your solution is to the mess you created, I suggest that you shut the fuck up.
Mind you, they do say that one thing you can't afford in politics is a conscience, so I won't be holding my breath.
Sent from my iPad
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