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Small business owners should be allowed to flout the law apparently...
A couple who run a B&B should be allowed an exemption from the law - because it is run from their house. So by the same logic I should be able to run a bakery from MY house, but be allowed to flout Health & Safety laws? I'll put rat pellets in the dough, and if anyone complains I'll squeal that my rights are being violated and sell my story to the Daily Mail…
Or if I run a pub (and live in the flat above) I should be allowed to refuse service to people because they don't read the Harry Potter series of books or because I don't like them?
Anyway, cue the usual comments from readers of a certain publication…
IT'S PEEEEE CEEEEEEE GONE MAAAAAAADDDD!
IT'S ALL NU LIEBORE'S FAULT
BROKEN BRITAIN - ALL BROWN'S FAULT
NOT IN MY DAY
BAN THE BBC LICENSE FEE
etc…
Before you Americans get any ideas about boycotting Scotland (and let's face it, who doesn't like boycotting stuff?), just take a minute to remember WHO is fighting (& dying) for YOU in YOUR WAR. So if you're thinking of boycotting Scotch (you'll have to move to something else to feed those nasty little alcohol receptors in your brain), why not go the full hog and boycott everything made by us (the telephone, television, tarmac, vacuum flasks, penicillin, guns, Treasure Island, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Harry Potter (which the religious goons are starting on anyway) et al etc etc etc)?
While we're on the subject of boycotts, might I draw your attention to the boycott of Pepsi products initiated by the morons at AFA? This the news that Pepsi have engaged in a “Culture War”… that's funny, I thought it was a fight for basic human rights that so many sickos take a perverted pleasure in denying. Please tell me nobody is falling for this utter tripe. Sadly, many people are each day indoctrinated into this vitriolic bile. Next thing you know you have kids committing suicide because of the senseless (and often blind) hatred directed at them from their peers & being beaten up & murdered in streets because of what a fairytale book may or may not say. Then the same monsters are offering “Therapy” for those “Suffering” from “The Disease” - even though The WHO, American Psychological Institute & Medical Professions all have evidence that there is no such disease, no such “cure” and that these measures often leave the victims highly traumatized & distressed. These sickos have the solution the to the “problem”; why is it a problem? Because they say so.
THEY are the problem.
However, with such a huge nation, you're bound to get the odd inbred brain dead numskull. The problem is, WHY are they given attention?
If you're into all this nonsense, you would know you can't judge other people: which is exactly what these people (for want of a better word) do. Also, they wear clothes made from mixed fibres, eat shrimp, advocate killing (usually of Harry Potter fans, Pepsico employees or gays), don't keep black people as slaves, don't burn everything a woman having her period touches, drink alcohol etc etc etc. All too often, the freak weather conditions are misinterpreted as “God's Wrath” - such as tornados in Stornoway (“God's Wrath for the Sunday ferry sailings”) or floods in America (“God's Wrath for tolerance of gay people ”). So what about the coach full of boy scouts thrown off the road? Or the earthquakes in Italy - home of the most homophobic nazi sympathizer in the world? Or how about Swine Flu in Mexico; one of the most homophobic places in the world? The pendulum swings both ways. If the weather reporter were to say “Today, severe rain will be caused by God's hatred of homosexuality, wind will come from the East because of God's hatred of female bishops…” - they'd be laughed all the way to the nuthouse.
Youtube: taking down a 30 second clip of a song WILL NOT stop file sharing. The technology is there for distributing an artists work for next to nothing. Long gone are the days where you need a distribution company to deliver the physical product. I'm not advocating that artists & creative people should not get paid - quite the opposite; just that the outdated business models need to go. Charge £5 a month for high-speed broadband (what's the point of Digital Britain, if there's sod all to do on it?) & add another £10 for people who want to download shed loads of media & then divvy up all the £10s proportionately between the creators (or the rights holders & which are more often than not the record labels). Which brings me to another point - why do record labels get up to 99% of an artist's profit? Surely it should go to the people who made the music/media possible (writers, composers, DJs, musicians, sound engineers, producers, studio assistants, mastering houses, session players, actors, directors, programmers, coders, testers, developers etc etc etc) and not some Hollywood fat cat.
The music industry (it's about money only, not music) has had decades to get it right - and still screwed it up. They had the chance to accommodate the consumer, they failed, we told them how to do it, they ignored us and now they are paying the price.
Windows Vista was not my idea.
The Daily Mail: such quality journalism… Home of Littlejohn, the man with “many gay friends” (I really do wonder sometimes) and who has “always supported 'the gays' when it comes to equal housing rights” - and yet trying to find such an article is like finding a virgin in a maternity ward. A place where the inhabitants of Middle England can whinge on (and give themselves headaches) about pornographic sweet wrappers and the fact that their wheelie bin can only be collected once a fortnight - and shock horror, they will simply have to recycle - (even while there are impoverished millions in the developing world who have no need for wheelie bins as they can't afford food to waste to fill them with). Aw Diddums!
No matter the story line, the comments always read the same: “Ban The BBC License Fee!”, “This is all Nu Labour's Fault!” & “This country has gone to the dogs!”. Daily Wail over, back to the armchair.
One mention of equalities for blacks, asians, women, disablers, the elderly, gays & lesbians, other religions and it's “This is PC gone too far!” - and if you fit into any of these categories and want treated fairly under the law, then you are automatically “Part Of The PC Brigade”. Notice how they always miss out the Christians (a group of people that are persecuted at every turn and should be given diplomatic immunity & freedom to offend everyone else) in their tirade.
One mention of NHS cuts/budgets/MPs on the fiddle and it's the usual “Nu Labour PC Gone Mad!!!” - but when faced with chaplains leeching of the NHS or wishy-washy schemes like Homeopathy, THEY are a necessity. Talk of double standards (something Mail fans constantly accuse 'Nu Labour' of; but it seems they have some experience of it). Speaking of which; they claim that Muslims shouldn't be allowed free speech - yet think that they should have free speech to be able to bash gays etc under the law. Then of course, they think that faith schools should not be forced to teach that being gay is ok, even though they are funded by tax payers (including gay people). Typical Mail reader: “If being gay was normal, everyone would be like that - and we would all die out”… So under that logic if having ginger hair was ok, everybody would have it. Therefore, ginger people are abnormal, immoral and going to the devil.
The only place where you'll hear the faintest suggestion that it was a gay man's own fault he was murdered in Jamaica - because he refused to respect their beliefs (that gays et al are scum). So by the same standards, Wail readers, a christian who steps into a Muslim-only area of London and is murdered only has himself to blame because he didn't respect their beliefs? Thought not.
Oh, just for the record, I don't want to know what Victoria Beckham had for tea or what time LiLo fell out of a club.
In other news, one fifth of the armed forces are due to be cut due to budget shortfalls (Nu Labour PC Gone Mad!).
In other news, one fifth of the armed forces are unfit to serve (Nu Labour PC Gone Mad!).
Just cut the one fifth that's unable to serve and everyone's a winner! DUH!
Anybody who disagrees with wind turbines should have their electricity cut off.
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