The march of the Lemmings

Society is one big march of the lemming heading toward the edge of a cliff,  Tv and mass media help us head in that direction, giving us soap opera's X factor, Coming dancing on ice, where the audience are invited to phone voted at £10 per minute for the minimum of 20 minutes.  Magazines and newspapers sell us the lifestyles of the rich and famous, who get up to alsorts, because they are bored and want attention, and the fact those publications have no real new to report

The conditioning starts at a very early age, when the children when they reach a certain age and are taught the ways which are going to help them find jobs and start families in later life,  I know this has been touched on in previous blogs

The class rooms are all full of children reciting the same answers as a unit, the ones who dont fit in are singled out and given a label, such as ADHD etc, but maybe there creativity is catered for in other ways, maybe they need encouraging to find there talents, and once those talents are found then those talents are encouraged, rather than being given up on.  We all have differant talents

You have those people who think differently in life, those who go against the grain of society, like a salmon swimming upstream and jumping the waterfall, countless fail on the way but there are the few that get there, and good luck to them, What is normal?  We are all differant, we are all individuals, every single one of us

How many of us exercise our own thoughts, and set our minds and spirits free, well not many.  Our fast paced lifestyles dictate we cant, so we follow the crowd like the lemmings and cast the ones who are differant as misfits.  The world is mad and we are all normal, or vice versa.

TTFN

Self actualisation do we ever reach it?

I'm starting the blog with a question, and to me the answer is no, we never fully reach self actualisation, because we are looking for the next fix, the next opportunity.  lets face humans are ambitious beings, they are the ones who made that extra step in the evolution chain. 

What is everyones idea of self actualisation?  well to some it is being comfotable, living in a new house, with a family, driving that ideal car and having the ideal job.  but not many people actually get there, but they dream of it, and media use those dreams and aspirations to sell there wares to the masses,  "you too could look good if you buy our product",

Lets look at me, Iam 34, worked hard for more years than I care to remember, I enjoy life, well when not walked over by people, but that is another story.  I dont have the best car in the world, At present I still live with my mother, but I have followed my dream, done my ideal job and have many hours of fun in the process. 
Iam still single, but the write one hasnt come along yet and doubt if she will because I am one picky bastard, but I refuse to let that get me down, I dont pay to go on dating sites and I dont spend the night going from pub to club looking for someone. I'm not interested and to be honest prefer to sit on my shelf at times observing everyone else.  I am digressing.

I suppose if we look at the Maslow the basic needs are shelter, food and companionship, now I have a roof over my head, and I do eat, I have skipped the third, although I was there once.  I do have lots of good friends though.  Ok so just the Esteem to achieve and self actualisation to get to.

Now Esteem or confidence, well I have it in some ways such as driving, and having a laugh with my mates, but when comes to finding the ideal life partner then it goes out the window. 

We all want to belong, be part of that clique and we do get there, its all about following the crowd, going with the flow.  Unfortunately something I wont do, I refuse to follow the crowd, simply because just because everyone else watches X factor then why should I?.  This probably explains why I get frustrated with things. 

I suppose to get where we want in life we have to think for ourselves, open up our minds to new thinking and get out the comfort zones and live a little.  Maybe have a read of Maslow yourselves.  We all have times of caos but we just have to get through them. 

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Well heres to the dawn of a new age

So last nights blogg was a catch up and reflection of the past few months, little did I know that life would have turned out the way it has.  Got to ask the question where do I want it to go next? 

This is the first in a serious of blogs, that will chart my progress as I get some projects in life off the ground,  My life plan or business plan of my life if you like.  I am holding alot of cards close to my chest, as events will unfold, but it will be interesting. 

One thing I did forget to mention was the return of a long lost friend back in to my life, I have known this person on and off for about 20 years now, and I used to spend many weekends sweeping his buses out as a kid.  He has shaped some of my ways.  This person came back in to my life just before the weekend I went to Scotland. 

Talking about Scotland, the Gorgious city of Edinburgh which is one of my favourite places, is part of my Clans ancestoral home, (the other place is Inverness), which explains why I feel at home there. 

Right down to business,  I am now 34, at a stage in life, where I have done my dream job now I want more out of life.  I know I am not ready to settle down, marry and start a family yet, dont think I ever will be to be honest, as I know there is so much I want to do and would be unfair on a future wife and family.  Sounds harsh but I am being realistic. 
If I was to have a family I would want to devote alot of time to them, I know I cant at the mo, but maybe a year down the line I will think different. 

So the last few years have been interesting to say the least I know I havent really spoke about the events but Somethings are best buried.  But they have taught me a vital lesson, and that is the most important thing we must learn, we can all sit a University course, but sometimes the school of life is the best way to learn. 

Now we all reach points where we have to take a look at our selves and see where we are going wrong, where we need to improve, our strengths our wekaness.  How many of us actually take time to sit and and actually do this, I dont, because I am caught up in the rigours of life. 
A very wise man,(and he will know who he is), once said to me, you have a problem, stand back and look at it, then the solution will be staring you in the face.

  The Chinese have the same word for opportunity and threat.   Infact the chinese are wise people, they speculate, well they leased a piece of land to the British empire, and what happened?  Well it was developed in to a world centre of commerce for the brits to hand it back in 1997 fully delveloped.  They only subscribed to communism in the last century, But I am digressing.

My strengths are I work hard, and care about things, my weakness is I work hard and care about things, we have to look at differant perspectives.  You watch the news about the war in Iraq and we get one side of the story, watch Al-jazeera and you get the other side of the story. I do look at both sides of a story.  To quote Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow in one of their songs there is are 3 sides to a story, mine and yours and the truth.  never a true word said. 

I know Iam at that time of life where I can still be in control before age starts going against me.  Only time will tell,  Stay tuned for the next installment.

TTFN

I'm still here, just had alot on recently.

I have looked at when I last wrote a blog and it was just after losing my dad.  I was going to write my thoughts on the 10th anniversary of the murder at the world trade centre, and thoughts about my birthday but had too much on my mind.

In the time past I have been dianosed with type 2 diabetes, buried my dad, and tried to get on with things,  Just want to say thank you to everyone who sent kind wishes, it is amazing how many people out there genuinely care.  I also know I have some very good friends.

So what has life taught me so far, well it is a stupid and sometimes corrupt world we live in, infact, those rioters should have concentrated less on getting their 5 fingered discounts from PC world. No they should have concentrated on going to every freemason lodge in the country and burning them down and smashing those places up.  What started off as a political statement, got railroaded by a bunch of kids and selfish bastards.

It has also taught me to look for opportunities, I am always looking at where I want to be in the next few years, but time will tell.  The biggest thing I learned following losing my is that life is too short, Why worry about the after life, because we are all living for the now, our lives are the biggest adventure we will all have, we all hold our future in our hands, so all this media that trys to manipulate us, and sell us shit we dont actually want or need can get lost. 

Being diagnosed with Diabetes has made me look at my ways, now before I didnt eat properly and would be up for hours on end, I do eat a bit better now and have lost a load of weight.  I am still living my life for me and not letting it get me down.  I still have loads to do in this life.

 so on that thought I will go for now 

TTFN

Saturday 27th August 2011 more words of wisdom

Looking back through my blogs, I have noticed that it is a while since my last rant, which was probably about the riots, the break down of society, probably more critisism of this government,  yes does not matter who is in power, they will be corrupted by that power.  I am not going to talk about that tonight, I know the Government are a bunch of zips,  Mind you looking at the wars in Afghanistan and Lybia, takes me back to the dicks pussy's and arseholes speech from team america.  good film might watch after writing this.

No I am dedicating tonights blog to my dad, who sadly passed away last week,  this combined with a mini holiday, means that I have not been around.  My dad was a kind man, honest man,  he served on the local council in Nottingham for many years. 

He was a socialist in every sense, who fought peoples corners, tried to make a differance to the City of Nottingham, a city I know he loved.  No words can describe the good he did,  as well as a all round good man, and public figure, was a family man, who would give time to his four children.  I know from my own events of the last few years he was there for me, and in a way provided guidance and helped me long during some real dark personal times.

He was an armchair sportsman and historian, and quite often I would come to find him watching documentaries about the battle of Starlingrad or the cricket.  He was an avid follower of formula one

 His biggest love after his family was music.  He enjoyed a wide variety from blues through to current stuff,  Looking at his Ipod reveals a wide variety of songs, and he is indirectly responsible for my wide interest in music, although i'm not so bothered about pre 1977 pop music.

  I hope you are reading this dad, where ever you are, and I hope you are proud of me, I hope I can make you proud in the future, what ever I do.  I know he will be with us all in spirit, so lets keep that legacy going.

One thing you do learn when you lose someone, is you look at yourself, look at your past mistakes and thing about what we can do in the future,  now as far as I am concerned we have one shot at this life. So we can look at our past and regretting things or we can use the past to help us look to the future, make those plans and do our best to see those things through, and yes our circumstances will change, but where there is a will there is a way.

What holds us back, we the simple answer is go and look in the mirror, life might be hard but things will get better, sometimes you have to stick your middle right hand digit in the air and say fuck you life, I am going to do this.  Dont put yourself down because there are plenty of bastards out there who are more than happy to do that, and there is no such word as cant.  bollocks to cant, you find a way, it might just take you slightly longer to get there, but when you do then you and look satisfied and say I did it, I got there. 

I am roughly half my dads age, I know what I want out of life, and ok there are some barriers to some of the things I want out of life, but I am going to find that way,  fuck the mass media manipulation, I know what is wrong and right. I have made past mistakes, and I have learned from them too.  Now this is something that irriates me.  Society in this not so great britain are happy to judge people on past mistakes and not what that person could offer in the future, we are all individuals we are all differant, lets celebrate the fact.

Right I am going now talk soon

TTFN

The aftermath

Ok, we have seen 2 press conferances today.  Cameron spouted out the usual toryboy crap, threatened to bring back a sort of National service for 16 year olds, declared war on gang culutre and blaming the problem on the break up of the family unit credos, IE blaiming single parent families living in deprived council estates full of ferral kids..  Milliband made more sense, saying that it does what the background or the area that person is from, it is the upbringing that is the problem.  For example one of the so called ferral kids could come from a very affluent area, with parents bringing in a good income and that kid attends private school, where by a kid from a single parent family, could be in every night, is polite and respects the community.

The people rioting in particular areas were the minority, most of the people from that area are good honest genuine people, who go to work, struggle to make ends meat.  They just want live their lives. 

Some of the greedy selfish immoral bastards who did the looting, came from good backgrounds, had good jobs.  Some had travelled great distances to take part.  One of the looters was the daughter of a millionaire, and another was a teenage ambassador for the olympics.  One of the looters in Nottingham was an 11 year old girl.

Why do we have the problems?  well the country has gone too PC, people are scared to discipline their children, the same children are too familiar of their rights.  We have had hysteria caused because of the register.
Now here is an example for you,  Your child is playing up. you try and discipline them.  they get angry and tell tales. the next thing the social services are involved.  next thing you end up on the register, and guess what, because of the press about sex offenders etc.  you become tarred with the same brush.  Society has alot to answer for. 

So cameron is blaming single parent families and gang culure.  easy targets,  I blame the state of the country and society's letting these things happen, letting the liberal PC brigade dictate, saying "you cant say black coffee" and " you cant smack your kids".  Allowing the trouble causers to know about their rights, so they keep pushing the boundaries. 

Gang culture has been a around since the dawn of time.  look at the Mods and Rockers during the 1960's with the punch ups on Brighton beach.  The teddyboys from the 1950's, the skinheads from the 1980's.  fact of the matter is young people are rebelious, and this is good,( I believe that the establishment, IE the government need to be constantly challenged to keep them on their toes), and they also need a sense of belonging, with people of the same ideals,.  Gangs will be their forever.  So you have a group of lads who hang out together, like the same music, dress the same, is this a gang? are they going to get targeted?  and the forced national service for 16 year old.  What cameron forgets is that these people he is on about will be eligable to vote very soon, IE by the time of the next election,(unless he decides to meddle with the voting age and raise it to 21), what are these people going to do.  Well they could vote him out.  These teenagers are our future.

I personally do not like any of the political parties, but that is because I have seen crap government after crap government going right back to when I was a babe in arms.  So one who comes along and gets the economy going, and allow us to have a decent standard of living will get my vote.

 So Mr Cameron, once you sort this problem out are you going to sort out the people who really looted us.  You didnt see them on the streets, but they have robbed every single one of us.  They are the greedy fat cat bankers, the phone hackers and the MP's who fiddled the expenses.  In my opinion these people should be brought to trial.  But it is not in the public interest, or in the case of the banks they are just too big to fail.  Trouble is Cameron went to the same public school as half of these people, and it is going against the code, if he investigates.  The fabric of society is unravelling, just hope we are not too late.

One last thing before I go.  To stop more problems I think the TV companies should stop broadcasting the fly on the wall programmes showing children of millionaires, who live of the fortunes their parents worked hard to build up, Programmes like this show spoilt rich wastes of space living it large, spending money like water.  These tossers have never had to get up and go to work.  They have never had red overdue letters coming through their letter, or dreaded the phone ringing.  No wonder people were looting.  These programmes glorify the something for nothing bling I dont have to go to work culture.  And the viewer following the programmes like lemmings and have to live the same.  just a thought.

TTFN

A quiet night for a change

Ok things were  more quiet last night, but the weather was bad in places, so the kids were probably told to stay in and not go out looting and rioting because they might get wet and catch a cold.  It also trnaspires that some of the people doing the looting are from well to do backgrounds, some have good jobs, some had even travelled some distance to take part, so it is not all council estate scum from deprived areas doing it.

There was a huge police presence, and I spotted a convoy of 20 police vans from the Grampian region on the M6, whilst I was on my way to Blackpool.  Things were quiet indeed, have the government got things under control?  have the Looters got bored of looting, or are we in the eye of the storm?

Through out the night courts in some cities were.  Cameron sanctioned the use of water cannons and rubber bullets, which is a sad sign of things to possibly come.   Thank you for cutting short your holiday and sorting the problem out.  It still think you are a twat though.

 Britain is a nation of rioters, in the 19th century groups of weavers and knitters smashed up, framework knitting machines and looms, because they thought that these machines who cost them their jobs.  The action cost them their lives or freedom. as they were either strung up or transported to Australia.  You can not solve the problem. 

A couple of interesting sites I chanced upon told some interesting insights, one story was saying that the government were looking for powers to pull the plug on social networking sites,  now because some fuckwits have used it why should everyone else suffer.  Another story said that the police were ordered to stand back and allow the looters to get on with it, their images would be captured on CCTV and used later on.  It also suggested agent provocotures, which is a low underhanded tactic.

So the actions of these idiots, has caused more problems,  demands for troops on the streets, water cannons, rubber bullets,  well you might as well take away democracy, and impose a totalitarian regime.

Ok.  On a lighter note I will be having a break for a few days, which is well overdue and needed.  Off to scotland, and I am going to enjoy myself, so bollocks to the the government and the looters. 

TTFN

So did you do last night?

We are now entering the 4th night of rioting looting and violence, the trouble has spread to cities far and wide, with trouble in Wolverhampton, manchester, even Nottingham has had some incidents,  Tonights Blog is a continuation of last nights, Cameron cut shot his sailing trip with the Rothschilds, to take charge of things, even Boris has been seen in the streets complete with brush.  Thankfully no one has been killed during the riots, but it is only a matter of time. 

The real point of the protest has been lost, and the angry people may have gone home, the gobshites, the kids who think it is a good idea are out and about, the attacks are co-ordinated, with the use of Blackberry phones and kids on bikes. 

Debates are going on, and even armoured vehicles have been deployed to disperse crouds.  I watched a Russia today report and the anchorwoman described about having to get out of a particular street, as a gang was eyeing up the broadcasting equipment.   It is co-incidental that all this is going on when the country is on the verge of another recession

Infact The USA are in the shit big time too, as the moved down the credit scale, so grim times ahead.  Not quite the winter of discontent, but the way things are going we will be not far off.

I have heard people saying send in the troops to London, but our brave boys are already busy fighting pointless unwinnable wars in volatile regions, wars which helped get us in to the mess in the first place.  Things. 

No easy answer, and I just hope people dont take the law in to their own hands and go down the vigilante route, because this causes more trouble than it is worth.

TTFN

Is this the new 1981???

We have all seen the riots spreading across London, and a possible civil unrest in Birmingham,  The riots are reminicent of the ones in 1981.  In fact I am sure that Tottenham was one of the places involved in both cases,  I have previously likened this year to 1981, with rising unemployment, uncertainty with the economy, a royal wedding.  We sort of had the the seige when Bin laden's compound was stormed and the twat was excuted.  I cant really remember 1981, as I was a 3 year old.

Ok, alot of the riots happened in deprived innercity areas, full of ethnic minorities, who felt that the police was persecuting them,  alot of these people we ruled by the gang culture.  Ok now look at the ones happening today and yes, the same causes,  gang and drug culture are rife in these areas.  Ok, the event that sparked it all off happened on thursday with the shooting of a man, who was in a minicab. 

I am sure the tension was there before the shooting, and it was just waiting for a catalyst to spark it all off.
However in these situations what can start of as a peaceful protest can escalate when the rentamob brigade get involved, they are happy to travel anywhere with the sole intention of starting trouble, turning people against people, making hell for those trying to live their lives.

London has far too many people crampt into dense spaces,  take a load of rats and put them in the same cage and they will turn on each other.   Society is interwoven, and one tug means the whole thing starts unravelling.  We are at an interesting time, and yes I do not like the government, I do not really trust the police, and I believe things need to change, but you cant change things by damaging property, putting normal peoples lives in danger.  There is no easy answer to this, Society is to blame, we created this culture.  The culture that allows crime, drugs arms gangs and so on to thrive, the young people join these gangs because they want a sense of belonging.  territories are defined by post codes.  So wrong.

Things are looking very Orwellian, unnecessary rules and regualtions are brought in, people going about there everyday business are targeted because they are doing slightly differant things to everyone else, and being individuals.  Again things get like this because we as society let it happen.  So I look at the footage, look at the news about the global recession, and come to the conclusion that we all reap what we sow.  We are all to blame. 

You may not agree with me, but I have said my piece, we all have individual thoughts, if only we were allowed to carry out our individuality the world could be a wonderful place.  just thing about the picture taken from the moon of the earth.  Then we will truely understand the world we live in. 

That is all for now TTFN

Are we in the Shit?

Well I had settled down to watch torchwood, whilst sorting my pictures on my Flickr sight, and interesting has caught my attention.  Stock markets crashing, possible.  America looks like it is screwed, Countries that joined the Euro look forward to a similar fate.  Good job our Nation never joined the Euro.

So, grim times to look forward to, but enough of that shit, it is the greedy bastards who over trade in the Stock markets who caused the problem, and it is the rest of us who foots the bill.  So next time you see a stock trader in the street, I as a tax payer give you permission to take his car, because you have paid for it. 

Torchwood is becoming gripping stuff, and really playing on the world wide conspiracy stuff.  It amuses me how many conspiracies originate in the US.  Well it is a very paranoid country at the best of times, well look at the coldwar, the invasion of Granada.  The 10th anniversary of the murder of thousands of people is nigh, now people can argue about whether it was an inside job or not, til they are blue in the face.  But the fact of the matter is thousands of people died that day, for a distorted idealology, some crazy dreams thought up by some crazy people, seem intent on world domination.

Sometimes we all have to say fuck it, stop worrying, and find a distraction, how many people rule their lives rather than let life rule them.  Well better go for now

TTFN

Happy Birthday this blog is one year old.

So it is a year ago since I typed my first thoughts on this blog.  Loads of things have happened in that time, this time last year I was living away from home, about to move employers.  I had lots of other things going off in life to,  some not so pleasant, but I created this blog and channelled my frustrations.  I have built up a following too, and quite alot of people regularly read my rants, 

Some people have asked me what are my political persuasions,  well the answer is very simple,  I think they are all a bunch of twats, who are out to give themselves more power.  Just thing at this moment David Cameron is probably sailing round the Med on the Rothschilds Yacht,
I also do not like secret groups such as the Freemasons,  I just cannot see a point, if these people have nothing to hide, why belong to such an organisation.  It also makes a mockery of law and order, when law enforcers and criminals belong to the same lodge,  in public they are enemies, but in the lodge they are Brothers,  what utter bollocks.  As far as I am concerned, Freemasonary, corruption and politics all go hand in hand.  Sometimes I think the biggest organised criminals reside in a big building just off Parliament Square.

Another reoccuring theme is my frustration with society, and the way it acts like lemming walking to the edge of the cliff.  All the while we are manipulated by the media, advertisng executives, pricks like Rupert Murdoch are on a power crusade, to control knowledge, by giving us watered down piss, with stories about Jodie Marsh and the supercar repainted pink by Katie Price.  Next they will be going on about what colour her piss is.  All she is, is some slapper who flashed her tits in the daily star and the sun several years ago.  Just goes to show the decent and talented people die young, thats why she is still here and annoying us all.

This time last year I was totally stressed out, due to various reasons but I am coming round to the conclusion that why worry life is what we all make it, and there are 3 certain things, we are born, we are taxed then we die,  we only have one shot in this life, I dont even worry about the afterlife, why, what is the point.  Life is for living. 

So here is for the next part in this journey of life, wonder where it will take me?  who knows. 

TTFN

My last few days

So I left you all, a few days ago with a bee in my bonnet, We when you see society for what it really is, which is basically a modern day Pompei, which is on the brink of reaping what has sowed.  More of that later!!!.

So Friday was more of the same, which involved driving round and round in circles during graduation.  Lots of proud parents which nice camera's, wonder if any will end up on Ebay, hmm I will have to have a look, as I am in the market for a new one, as my trusty Fuji bounced off the floor.  I have been using my dads Olympus compact, which is ok, but not the same.

Saturday involved an outing to London, all was going well until I had a blowout on the motorway, but after an hour the problem was fixed and we were on our way.  Well after negoiating my way round London, including a bit of impromptu sightseeing, I even passed the headquaters of the controversial News International.  But I survived and got back ok.  I still do not like London I find it over rated.

On the Sunday I went to Wirksworth for the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway bus gala.  I had a ride on 2 lovely examples of Leyland Tiger PS1/2 variety and they were a delight.  A great pint was had in the pub in Duffield and a great laugh with some good friends.

 The day was slightly marred by the Death of singer Amy Winehouse and the massacre in Norway.  There have been lots of comments about both, and I know that one cant be compared to the other and are devastating in their own ways.  There is something that keeps cropping up which does annoy and that is all these people comparing Amy Winehouse to the death of a solder.
I do not agree with either war that our country is involved with, they are both huge waste of resources, and I do not think we would win either, Afghanistan is in a particular volatile region.  The solders join up, because they wanted to see the world and get in on the action, they know the risks of the conflict, and yes it is upsetting to families because they are losing someone. 

What the guy in Norway has done is truely evil, killing innocent people at will, because someone wants to send a warning message out proclaiming his distorted rightwing views.  As I keep saying we all live on a small planet.  Thing is if the man was to die, then he would be a martyr to the cause.  We have had enough innocents dying at the hands of the extremists.

All extremists, be they be right wing, left wing, muslim, christian, black white Martian, whatever.  They all have distorted idealologies, dreamt up by people who preach to impressionable people who go out to act as footsolders for the cause.  These idealologies are bollocks, they would never work in the mainstream, because to work the views have to move to the central.  Thats why the politicians are all more or less the same, the mavericks get ousted or sidelined.  Let me know what you think if you like.  anyway I will leave you with a nice picture   TTFN

Right thats it

The News of the world scandal is getting tasty, it now involves the government, and has resulted in the resignation of 2 senior people in the metropolitian police.  So society is corrupt, and everyones hands is dirty. 

Senior people involved with news international, have also resigned, namely that bigotted bitch, Rebecca Brookes, it was interesting seeing the boot on the other foot as she was grilled by the MP's,  had she been sat in the with the other journalists then I am sure she would be relishing the whole circus. 
Someone chucked a foam pie at Murdoch and got a good slap off mrs Murdoch,  shame has was taken away by the police before he could smack the bitch back.

The general public is also to blame, because they buy the rancid papers there by helping the scandals and corruption, but what do I know, I am one man, but I am proud of one fact, I dont not buy the sun, infact I dont buy any newspaper at all.  I get my info from lots of sources, both mainstream and alternative. 

Murdoch reminds me of the baddie in one of the Bond films, who wanted to start a war, just so he could have exclusive coverage of it. 

The more I look at the world the more I am convinced we are all reaping what we have all sowed.  everyone is so suspicious of everyone else, someone is fortunate in someways and lots of people are jealous and try to bring that person down. 

We have CCTV everywhere, which watches our everymove, yet someone points their SLR camera in the wrong direction then they are being hassled by police officers or CSO's quoting imaginary laws, while at the same time criminals are running riot.  So there we are

Rant over TTFN

This blog is nearly a year old

Well the last week has been full of the news of the world scandal, with copies of the last edition apparently selling on Ebay for good money, but I am not going to talk about that brand of toilet paper, or the fact of wondering if Freemasons and the current government play soggy biscuit?,  I will let you draw your own conclusions about that one.  I have my ideas and theories, well it must be the reason why freemasons wear capes, and roll a trouser leg up.  maybe the funny handshake is to show how firm a grip the brothers have, afterall it is top secret and no girls allowed. 

When I started the blog a year ago, my life was full of frustrations, to do with life in general, the way society was going, The incompetances of all governments, who are all a bunch of tossers in my book.  Plus other observations. 

This time last year I was coming to the conclusion that I had to move employer, and at the time I did not look forward to that prospect, as I learned to drive a bus there, and cutting my driving teeth there, due to a wide range of reasons I had to move, before it was too late.  So I was doing the Skegness service, and schools, along with airport jobs.  I remember doing the last school runs and looking at my colleagues, think that this would be the last time I work with alot of these people,  It was quite an emotional feeling, but the move had to be made. 

The Skegness service involved quite along drive, and I would use this time to run things through my head, and I tried to work out why things were happening in this particular way.  I actually wanted things to be so differant, where my next move would be working for myself, not to be at the time.
Events between sep 09 and June10, were to shatter my confidence, be it the companies run ins with the authorities, competitors, and lots of other reasons.

 But the trick in this life is not to let those who do you down win, hold your ground and find that strength to fight back in your own way.

On top of this was events happening in my personal life, which were clashing with my work life, but I will go in to that another time, But the events did cost me a relationship, forcing me to move home.

So it has been an interesting adventure, and well the year has been used to get myself back on my feet, find my voice again, and speak my mind, So if I think the government are a bunch of c***s then I will say they are a bunch of C***s. 

So hear is to the future, I will say what I think and to hell with those who want me silenced,  freedom of speech, that is what we fought 2 world wars for.

TTFN

News of the world

So it has been announced the rancid rag called news of the world is to cease after this sunday.  The whole saga started off when it was alledged that, an undercover investigator had hacked in to the phone of Milly Dowler.

Then it came out that casualties of the pointless wars that our country is engaged in, had had their phones hacked.  The former editor who is now a political aide, was arrested and questioned.  The red haired Rebecca Brooks has been moved within the organisation.  It would surprise me if she got to that postition by laying on her back. 

It is a fact of life that scandal sell, the sleazyer the better, now I dont give a shit, which footballer is shagging which dumbing blond model from Essex, they want to do that sort of thing, then let them get on with it.  Ok it is all invasion of privacy, but hey they work for the Meglomanic Murdoch, so they can walk on water. 

My information is beig read by civil servants, police operatives all the time, and it makes me crawl when some big fat perverted hack can get hold of my info, hack in to my phone if they so wished, in order to make up a story to sell to that purveyor of toilet paper, to keep some media elitist mogul selling more papers and getting richer all the time.  Mind you the news of the world, the daily mail, the sun would make bad toilet paper, because they are all full of shit already.  

So Willam and Kate are in Canada, but who cares about that, well I dont.  be funny if their visas ran out and they were stuck there. 

Unfortunately this is a very corrupt world we live in,  it is dog eat dog and the one with the bigger teeth survives.  I have just been reading Mr Nice, the book by Howard Marks and I found it very imformative, and ok he dealt in Hash but he took on the system and fought it. 

We have to fight our battles, after all if people didnt we would be either living in a facist of communist state.  after all it is that British spirit.

 Going back to Murdoch, past prime ministers have sucked up to the slimeball, and his organisation of disinfomation, to the point where he effectively became untouchable, thing is everyone else who works for the organisation and he will get away,  The people such as Rebecca Brooks and Andrew Coulson, who is involved with the current administration, will be the scape goats, they will be dropped from a great height.  I just hope this causes the share capital of News international to plummet.  I will never forget what the sun did back in 1989 to the families of the Hilsborough Victims, when journalists posed as social workers to interview the families and get their scoop.  Truth be known Murdoch does not care who he stamps on, who he as sucking up to him, as long as the papers keep selling and the money keeps rolling in.  What a scumbag.

So the end of the news of the World, well good ridence, lets hope the scandal takes the rest of the empire with it.

TTFN

Nearly July.

Well we move in July in a couple of days, half of 2011 has gone, 1st July will mark the 10th anniversary of passing my car test.  tomorrow marks 10 years of buy the Leopard, That story is for another time.  I have driven thousands of miles in the 10year period, gone through 3 cars.  although the 2nd car was a disaster, although fun while it lasted. 

Cant believe how quick the last 10 years have past.  looking to the future now and I wonder what I will be doing in 10 years time, well that adventure is beginning, will be interesting though.

 We lots of public servants on stike regarding pensions, the age is going up, so people will have to work longer to get the pay.  Now I know for a fact that when I get to that age there will be bugger all in the pot.  So why pay in lots for something i might not get.  Put the money elsewhere. If I was to pay in my money would pay for the baby boomers, who are in the process of retirement.  Yes the early post war years, well I suppose with all the men just returned from fighting, they had alot to catch up on. 

Petrol prices are begining to go down, Greece is in the shit, and is looking likely to be going to the IMF for a loan, well that is them screwed.  Gadaffi is a wanted man, and a complete tosser, talking about tossers Obama has announced that the American armed forces are making a a gradual withdrawal from Afganistan.  A place where no one has been able to tame since Gengis Khan. 

I suppose we will here how the demonstrations went along with the strike, I know most of the schools were off today.  More blogging for another time

TTFN

Monday 27th June 2011

Well the nights start drawing in now, we say byebye to Glastonbury for a couple of years, Something due to the diamond jubilee of the coronation of some woman from a big family of imbreads, whos ancestors came and took the country by force.  Thank goodness we dont have to bow down to the bastards anymore, as I am not their subject.  I am a free man.  Doesnt seem 5 minutes since the last celebration which was 9 years ago, blimey alot has happened in that time.

We have Andy Murray through to the quater finals, it makes me laugh that we call him british whilst he is doing ok, but when he loses the he will be Scottish.  typical of the Great British elitism  Mind you the Williams sisters are out, so we do have to put up with their grunting. 

Is Britain still Great, well, we once had a mighty empire but gave it away, we developed Hong Kong in to a major global centre of commerce, then we give it back.  Most of the industry has gone abroad, because the labour is cheap.

So I have a feeling something big is going to happen that will change, this is due to some weird dreams going back to my childhood, and other important times in my life.  mind you I was shit on by a bird yesterday, which is supposed to be good luck, if you believe in that sort of thing.  As they say things happen for a reason.  Is this my own personal self awakening?  well only time will tell.  

So very soon we will have schools breaking up for the summer, and Parliament also breaks up for the summer recess.  Well I hope Messers, Cameron, Clegg, Osbourne Etal have a nice time crusing round the mediteranian on the Rothschilds Yacht, whoops, been listening to the conspiracy theorists again, naughty me, I shall be a good boy and only listen to BBC, Sky and FOX, and get the info which is deemed safe for me to have,  I am being sarcastic on this one.

Well time to go TTFN  and talk soon

Sunday 26th June 2011

So I sit here and we move in to July this year, and yes time waits for no man.  Glastonbury finishes tonight and there has been some good acts on, It finishes with Beyonce, but I wont be watching that, because she gets on my tits.

I would love to go one day just to take in the atmosphere, there have been a few problems there this year, such as the U2 performance being marred by the demonstrations and clashes.  The problem is the fact they avoid paying tax in their homeland of Ireland, but hey we will avoid it if we got the chance.

It has been a nice hot day today, and it has been a case trying to stay cool.  Us Brits are a Nation of moaners, we moan when it is too hot, too cold.  When the weather is raining, when it is too sunny.  Some people are never happy if they are not  moaning. 

Well going back to Glastonbury, it is always good to see new up and coming groups, I like to listen to differant stuff.  I do get very bored with mainstream stuff.  I touched on that earlier in this blogg.  To be honest I own a copy of the Kings of Leon first 3 albums, but the fourth one, with the track "sex on fire" and "need somebody", I simply didnt bother with.  The reason was everyone was listening to them, even the ones who dismissed them when they first started out.  It is reflect in my choice of music and collection of albums, which consists of bands who are up and coming, or were underrated that they became cult icons. 

The fact that Sex on fire was played to death on all the wanky local commercial stations had something to do with it, you know the sort. the ones with a playlist of 50 songs, have one adverts that get on your tits to the point that you want to throw the radio out the car window, then put the car in reverse to make sure it is dead.  Half the songs are the ones released by the tossers who have been contestants on X factor.  but I digress. 

Mind you the samething has happened with TV programmes.  It must be my way of wanting to do my own thing, To be honest I dont tend to watch alot of TV, if I do it is discovery turbo, or Bear Grylls sort of programmes.  Again I lost interest in My family years ago, it is time they killed that show off in my opinion, it will get to the point where it is not funny any more. 

TTFN

Friday 24th June 2011

I have been writing these blogs for nearly a year now, and well looking back makes interesting reading.  I have been through alsorts of states of mind, and been through lots, quite a bit of which I dont publish on here

The reason I dont publish certain things is due to the fact that they are personal, and also the fact that I am still getting my head round things.  This year has overtaken me to a large degree, and yes back in jan I was making lots of plans, and we are in June now.  Some of the plans havent happened yet, due to unforeseen circumstances, so it is a case of being patient.  I am a dogged determined guy and I do get there in the end, even if it takes longer than planned. 

One thing that will not change with the blogs is my criticism of the Government,(whoever is in Power),  My opinion of them is they are all public servants.  We as citizens are effectively their boss's and to make them work then we need to stand up and give them a hard time.  Without us voting them in they would be nothing.  The Royal family are as far as I am concerned here for the civic pomp, and to encourage the foreign tourist to come over here and buy tatt spend lots of money in the hope that they glimpse a royal corgi.  Ok I live in this country, but I am not a subject of the queen, and as far as I am concerned, she eats and drinks the same as us, and her shit smells as bad as everybody elses. 

I am an individual, with my own thoughts, and yes like everyone else I get things wrong, but unlike those in power I dont try to brush it under the carpet, to be shielded by the offical secrets act.  No I get on with it, and try and figure my way out.  Ok, sometimes I might dig myself deeper but, life is one big test for us all, and challenges are constantly being thrown at us, and yes the challenges will get us down at times.

The challenges do take us to the point of disspear, but we just have to get on with it, do the best we can, and take opportunities when they are put our way.  Tell society to bollocks when it tries to keep us in our set place in the scheme of things, stick 2 fingers up to adversity.  We are all individuals and capable of so much if we set our minds to it, and set our creativity free.  So many of us hold our selves back, myself included.  But we need to sometimes do that leap of faith, the faith in ourselves, and not something we are told to worship.

Too often society follows each other like lemmings going to the edge of the cliff, or a field of sheep.  infact us humans out-sheep the sheep at times, by the manipulation by media, having them telling us what to think, what to wear.  It gets ridiculous when we cant even enjoy an evening in to be brainwashed by the last soap or programme spreading paranoia, when the phone keeps ringing.  It is from a call centre somewhere with some underpaid person at the other end, who is on a targeted commission, and this person is there trying to sell us shit we dont really want or need.  I just wish they would sod off and leave me alone, we have busy days at work and that is the last thing we need.  quite a rant tonight. 

On a differant note, as I write this I am watching Glastonbury, which I must admit I do enjoy, I like to see the up and coming bands who havent quite made it yet.   apparently it is not on next year due to the olympics, lets hope there are some decent music things happening.  I will rant about the olympics another time.

Thanks for reading and TTFN

Oh god yet another pointless talent show.

I was out on a job today, and one of the rare occasions that I read the papers, I quickly remember the reason why I dont normally bother reading the things in the first place.  The front cover had a story about Cheryl Cole doing another talent show, as a screw you to Simon Cowell and X factor.  The reason she was dropped was because they thought she would not fit in and they could not understand her accent.  Well what about all of those bushwacking, cousin marrying slackjawed hicks from the deep south, the ones who like Nascar, drink moonshine and listen to country music.  well America rules yeah!!. 

So Cheryl Cole is doing yet another talent show, which I will not be watching, as I feel the market is saturated, If it is not X factor, then it is Britains got Talent, or come dancing or something else.  Surely the bottom is going to fall out of the market very soon.  It is just feel good tv, so people watch and forget about the country and the world being screwed. 

Talk about be being screwed, there some more demonstrations coming up on the 30th of June, and they relate to pensions, now I know by the time I get to retirement age, there will be sod all in the pot, so what is the point paying lots of money in to a pension scheme, besides knowing my luck I would probably drop dead shortly after retiring.  Morbid thought but I know people who it has happened to, so why not just make the most of life for now.

There could be lots more job cuts on the horizon, but the ones who caused the damage in the first place get away with it.  These people are the over paid high level civil servants and the bankers.  The ones who will  suffer will be the ordinary ones who raise families, struggle with the mortgage, so wrong.  So when these bankers, award themselves large bonuses I hope they choke on them. Mind you they are all probably enjoy the sensation of being choked, as they all probably attended public school, and well the sort of environment they were used to with discipline and weird rituals. What is it about the prviledged and rituals. 

You have secret societies and they have rituals for the members, and to be honest I dont see the point of them, because what good do they do?  well bugger all.  Just a place for men to go to.  Good knows what they do, but it is a load of bollocks. 

Going back to the opening of tonights blog, Wouldnt it be funny to form a band, possibly a controversal one, with an offensive sounding name, kids are impressed with that, and offensive sounding somgs, which will become band upon release, again the kids will buy it or even download it.  Now that would be worth it.  TTFN

A nice Blog for a change.

Following my last blog, I got feed back that it was a bit on the strong side, even though they agreed with me on some of the points.  So in the true style of a Shakespear play, I intend this to be light hearted. 

Ok, last weekend, I went to the Autokarna event, as a spectator this year, well I did used to attend with a vehicle from my former employer.  I once single handledly took 4 one year, with a mate ferrying me backwards and forwards to fetch the next vehicle.

So we move on to other things now, I am currently reading a book about Clydeside Scottish, and finding the story very interesting, they certainly pushed the boundaries, and interested new ways of thinking, unfortunately, this was hampered by political interference, from people stuck in times of old. 

Other books I have read are driving the dream by Bob Dunn, another very interesting character.  and various books about Richard Branson Howard Marks and even the Facebook story, which is about the .com millionaires.  All mavericks.  Yes I respect people like this, Even though Howard Marks was importing Hash, and I done condone drugs.  These people pushed boundaries and in their own way took on the establishment.

Talk about taking on the establishment I understand we have more demonstrations well thats until the present government outlaw it, well if Vince Cable had his way we would not be allowed to strike, or speak our minds.  Maybe he should go to North Korea, yes he would really fit in there.  Mind you this current government do not like being criticised, but the cracks are forming.  Lets hope that we have a new government soon.  I also hope that whoever takes power will tell the bankers who made the mess to F.O.A.D,(I think you all can work that one out), I also hope that they will give opportunities to people who want to make something of themselves. 

So it is same shit differant day, but lets all carry on in defiance.  It is funny, all these people who talk about revolution must remember one thing, If they overthrow the present system, then what sort of  system would take its place?  I will leave you to ponder on that one. 

One last thing, to move one into the future, then we must look to the past and learn from it.  I will leave you on that one TTFN

Wednesday 8th June 2011 The world is bullshit

I am going to elaborate on the other nights blog, I watch the news, and all that it goes on about is the fact that we are in the shit,  more have been killed in the conflicts we as a nation are involved with.  even though half the solders dont agree with the very war they are fighting.

We have democratic Nations behaving like totalitarian nations in others.  These Nations are declaring war because they are simply after the oil reserves, and the terrorists that are being faught were the ones who were secretly funded to do the dirty work against another regime, so they served their purpose at the time.

We have Governments funding and bailing out banks after greedy fat cats had gambled and pist the money away and these banks are proclaimed to big to fail.  The same governments are cutting things left right and centre putting good honest hard working people out of work, while there mates, ie the big fat cat mentioned earlier are allowed to award themselves big bonuses as a thank you for fucking up and getting in to a mess in the first place.

We then have a nation of people blatantly taking land which does not belong to them and persecuting another group of people because they belong to a another religion.  There is also the factor that the people doing the persecuting were persecuted by a totalitarian state run by a war mongering nutcase who had done crap art earlier in his life when he was homeless and living on the streets.

This world is full of contradictions, full of bullshit.  We are all sold on bullshit in order to stick our cross in a box and elect another bunch of power mad self serving crettins every 5 years, and these same people pass laws and directives that keep us in line.  So there you are TTFN

Life

Ok, So we are now in to June, Cant believe nearly half the year has gone already, another couple of weeks and it will be summer solstace.  I really cant believe that the year has gone so quickly, too quickly infact, to the point that it has run away.

We have the AutoKarna coming up in the next couple of days, which should be good and I intend to be there with my camera.,  Wont be going far for the next couple of days as the clutch on my car has gone, which is very annoying.  Oh well, and at a time when I have some time to myself,  as they say such is life.

Talking about life, Have you ever gone through a bad period in life when everything seems to get worse, no matter how much you try to sort things out, it is never good enough or the next thing comes along when the light is at the end of the tunnel.  this is how things have been for me over the last couple of years.

I am not going to bore you all with details, but lots of demons have been fought, and the battle continues as i write this,  sometimes life is one battle, and one persons actions has consequences that affect other people.  Some people give up the fight on life, Life is a journey and like all journeys' it is fraught with delays, a blocks.  It also seems that everytime we try to better ourselves something comes along to drag us back down, and when we are down that something kicks us to make us stay in that place.

  I look at it this way too, none of us asked to be put on this planet, and we arrive into this world as an infant, with nothing, we have the unconditional love of our parents who take care of us, as we develop.  At the age of 4 or 5 we go to school to be conditioned and manipulated by the system.  We learn the skills which will help us gain employment, and once we gain the employment, then we are manipulated by the media, with advertisements trying to sell us shit we dont actually need, or are lied to by the ones we elect to serve us, but in reality serve the ones who dish out the biggest brown envelopes. 

The world is a very corrupt place at times.  I sometimes have days where I think what is the point in carrying on.  We are laws and directives which contradict other laws and directives, and few of us leave the house without breaking a law.  The laws are usually thought up by some civil servant who is paid lots of money to think up the laws, and alot of the laws that come out of the European Union are there to justify their existance.  I saw and interesting clip in a film called network which was made in 1976 and the issues of that film are appropriate to today.  We have a recession, high oil prices, and manipulation from the media, and a scene where the lead character has a rant on live tv, and tells the viewers to stick their heads out of the window and shout " I have had enough of this sort of thing I am not going to take it anymore",  and the scene show voices being heard across the city.  No that could be classed as the rantings of lunatic, but is that person a lunatic?  I will leave you to answer that one. 

We are all kept in our places, well they try to keep us in our places.  There are the ones who think hang on I can do alot better and try and do things with their lives like set up businesses or live alternative lifestyles, and what does society do to these people, it puts obsticles in their way.  Because people do like seeing someone who is doing ok for themselves.  We are a jealous specie, and are prepared to do others down even if comes to slander purgery and litigation.  The so called law makers ie politicians will lie in court if it suits their purposes.  Even the authorites themselves will commit purgery to suit their cause.  We have people who set out not to put a foot wrong in life, and they maybe speeding, not by much I hasten to add and the authorities will jump on these people and let the bastards get away with it, simply because the bastards know how to play the system.  If that person being prosecuted, is a hard working person then in affect they are paying to be prosecuted  twice over,  once through the taxes paid over to the government, and second through the fines they recieve. 

They you have the system for the unemployed, where the ones who follow the system are treated like shit and looked at in contempt.  Yet you have others who are on every benefit going and get away with it.  Yes to make it in life you have to be a back stabbing bastard, who is prepared to take and stamp on those who get in their way.
Rant over.

I will talk about AutoKarna in a further blog, but I found it to be very enjoyable.

TTFN

rules and regs, and red tape

I have just been watching Casualty, and for once the story line makes sense.  For once it is not about which doctor is sleeping with a certain nurse.  No it is taking on the the bureacracy and stupid government targets set by a bunch of civil servants who lets face it dont live in the real world, and set stupid targets.

This is across the board and many departments are going to be made to be self financing.  So the enforcement agencies are going to be going out and picking on the easy targets, to get the fines in so they can finance these totalitarian organisations. 

Now you put all the rules red tape and targets together and you get alot of contradiction,   To achieve the targets you have to bend some rules, which puts the pressure on the operatives at ground level, causing them to leave that profession, through stress, and sheer frustration.

Lets look at health, now some departments have to have a high turnover of patients so those there is not a backlog of beds.  You have doctors spending more time filling in endless reams of paperwork rather than looking after the patients.

In schools the pupils are just figures on a spreadsheet, and no wonder so many are being failed by the system.  The kids are not figures on a spreadsheet, they are individuals with separate needs, the schooling system is conditioning for later in life.  designed to instill discipline into their lives, but how can discipline be instilled when due to medelling and bureacracy people are afraid to say anything to those who cause trouble, why to they cause trouble, because the system that is educating them is not stimulating them in the right and productive way for that individual. 

Then we have the industries affected by red tape, where there are directives for that and directives for that, and to properly function you have to bend rules, and the way the rules are written leads to differant interperations.  I will give you an example,  As all seasoned reader will know I work in the coach industry.  now go to a coach park where there are say 30 coaches and if you go round and ask the drivers about rules and regs and you are going to get 30 different answers, and there are so many grey areas and confusion, it sometime makes to question is it all worth it.

Humans are individuals with different capabilities and abilities,  we all have a different way of making sense and understanding things.  I try to look out of the box and analyse things.  I also hate systems that expect us to behave machine like, and if your opinion is different then you are an outcast.

 Now I dont subscribe to conspiracy theories, what is the point, but I dont expect to be made to behave as a cog in a machine.  Life is full of mavericks and it is the mavericks who make the changes for better or worst, and I respect those people, be it the inventors, scientists and political leaders who yearn for change to make it a better world.  We live in hope.  Yes I hate unnecessary red tape, corruption.  I also hate legislated manipulation instigated by mass media, which spreads propaganda.  To know the truth you have to look at both sides and tape information from alternative sources.  Yes I am anti establishment but I dont want to smash the state, far from it. 

Lets look at Israel, which was given to the jews after world war 2, because the western world felt guilty for the mass genocide caused by Hitler.  but what they are doing in Gaza, is no better than the Nazis who persecuted them.  Humans are naturally distructive.

So  rant over TTFN

Thursday 26th of May

Yes we are nearly halfway through the year and things have gone faster than last year, whereas last year lots of things all happened at once, this year has been a year to straighten things up, and sort out the aftermath.

We hear people aged 55-60+ harp on about how good the 60's were, but I dont remember them, I wasnt around.  Year it may have been a revolutionary decade, were the Nation moved from an Austere country still getting over world war 2. 

I am a baby of the 1970's  thankfully I cant remember much from that decade, the year I was born saw punk being the in thing, with the Sex Pistols releasing the well known album, never mind the Bollocks, anthems such as anarchy in the UK and that well known Hymm god save the queen. 

Yes a child of the 1980's but again I was too young to appreciate things,  I grew up in the 1990's.  we saw things move from analogue to digtial.  technology really developed in this decade.   

So forgive me if I look bored when people talk about how good the sixties were, yes they may have had a good time, but I was not around so dont really care.

As I write this, the sky is dark and grey, we have had showers today and maybe we might have a thunderstorm.  I find thunderstorms fascinating, all that power and force, infact it hasnt been unknown for me to go out during one to try and find a strike.  Having been close to a lighting strike at a young age, when a bolt hit the house next door, I suppose I would love to see and may photograph another one.

It is yet another bank holiday coming up, followed Autokarna,  which promises to be a good day.  Now in it fourth year, it makes a good day out with lots to do.  I have took a few vehicles there myself, one year single handedly taking four buses and coaches there. 

So what do I have planned for the next 6 months, well I am not sure to be honest, maybe improve my photography more.  Although I would like to get a camcorder and make a film,  do know why, I think it would be fun to do.

I know the dark nights will creep up on us all again, and we will be another year older.  time to enjoy life more me thinks  TTFN

saturday 21st May 2011

Ok, at 6pm, according to some bloke who died hundreds of years ago, we were all supposed to be taken away in a rapture, where the earth was to end, the sky would darken, and the four horse of the apocolypse would come and wreck havoc.  What a load of crap, at 6pm I was in a coach on the M42, listening to radio 2.  If the horsemen are here then bring it on and bring your mates.  So we are still here, and Mother Earth has not shaken us off the planet like a good dose of flees, yet

It makes me laugh, all these people who spend their lives worrying about the about the afterlife,  whether they go to heaven or hell.  Well here is a wake up call.  Heaven and hell is a state of mind, which we create for ourselves.  All this sitting on a cloud with a harp surrounded by Angels or burning in a pit whilst being poked in the arse by a red devil holding a giant fork, is crap.  Afterall a cat which kills a mouse, doesnt go to hell. 

Now I am not denouncing religion, and I respect the people who hold religious views, no matter what they are, Spirituality also comes from within.  There are still many things we do not understand and perhaps we never will do.  So all I can say is lets enjoy our time while we are on this planet, and stop worrying about something we are yet to experience. 

So we the leader of the IMF in prison accused of rape, no I wonder whether he might have been delibrately set up on this one,  only time will tell, be it is yet another thing to keep the conspiracy theorists going.  Talking of which they are still going on about Bin Ladens death, and the jokes are also going round too.

As for me, it is business as usual, even though last week I was doing alot of soul searching, well I am well in to my 30's now and still have lots to do in life.  I have had some interesting experiences over the last 2 years through the efforts of other people, and last weekend I felt like I was loosing my mind, but I am picking myself back up and getting on with life.  I have no plans for a relationship, or meeting anyone in that way, but I will welcome friends.

 I am taking the world on, as I have lots to say and society has a good habit of kicking those who do not toe the line, the ones who think different, have their own opinions and refused to be manipulated by mass media, or crappy soap operas who dictate who us mere mortals live our lives.  We are all unique and have alot to offer the world,  The people who are in power will do all they can to stay in power, even if it means pugering themselves and lying in court.  Put a begger on horseback and he/she will ride it all the way to hell.   

So my outburst for tonight is basically me saying I am back and noone is going to keep me down, and a message to those who have shit on me from a great height, they can go and **** themselves. 

Talk soon and TTFN    I am back

Tuesday 17th May 2011

It is a funny thing life, it throws alsorts of things at you, and when you least expect it something comes along which really throws things.
 Life is a journey down an unknown road, for which there is usually no map, and we follow the road sometimes blind.  The interchanges are usually the decisions we all make, those life changing occasions, and yes some times we take the wrong direction, but we keep going til we get to the point where we say bugger, wrong turn. 

I have had lots on my mind, lots of questions.  Where do I see myself in 1 years time? 5 years?  10? etc.  We all look for quality of life, but how many people can say that we are happy?  How many of us get to the self actualisation level in the hirearchy of needs?   which was set out by Maslow.

 How many people take time out from the hustle bustle of daily, where they get up, go to work and come home, to watch the tv loaded up with soaps, adverts trying to sell you things you dont need?   I think very few indeed.  We have all got to a certain point in our lives where we may have got jobs, got a house, a car, gone and got married and started a family.  But we think, what do I want next?    What do I want next?  to be honest I dont honestly know.

Lets think about that one

Monday 16th May 2011

Yes i am still here, Just had alot on recently.  It was an interesting week where something was put to bed and hopefully for good this time, I am not going in to it now, save to say it there were many surprises and twists and turns, most of them unpleasant too.  I will talk about it indepth on another occasion, or you can read about it in the book I am writing.

It has been an interesting weekend, where I was driving the shuttle bus for the Diesel gala at both the Great Central Railway and the Northern operation, which is based at the Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre.  I was running a shuttle service between East leake and Loughborough Central.  naturally my camera seemed to jump in to the cab of the bus, and lots of pics were taken.  A good time was had by all, which is what matters.

I am keeping it short and sweet this time.  TTFN

The May Elections

We have had a local election, for people to sit on the local councils and a vote on the Alternative vote referendum, which I could not get my head round as it sounded like a load of complicated bollocks so I voted no.  There is only one reason I went out to vote, and that was to justify my right to criticise those in power, although it was a close thing this year as I didnt get to the polling till the last 5 minutes of polling. 

The schools have been back this so it has been early starts again, the kids seemed shell shocked on the first day of term, obviously the thought of going back to school  has been traumatic, but by friday they were back to their boisterous selves.

Well the jokes about Bin laden have been circulating, but no footage, although someone had been trying to spread a virus by sending a link claiming to be footage of his death.  I think the fishes have had their feed, but surely it is polluting the water by dumping such a peace of evil in to the sea.  Apparently one of his suns was implicated in terroist acts and he was only 19.  Just hope the mad mullers dont issue Jihad and launch another campaign of terror.

I am off to the Potteries bus rally tomorrow, which should be good.  I am just happy to go along and take some pictures,  the results should appear on my facebook page. 

Talk soon TTFN

Bank holiday monday

I am going to be slightly controversal today,   The news started off with news that Bin Laden is dead, he was taken out by a unit of the US special forces in a compound in Pakistan, 100 miles away from Islamabad.  Jubilation is ringing around the country, that armed and used him nearly 30 years to fight the Russians in Afganistan.  I am glad the man is dead, because what the tall bearded twat stood for was not Islam, it was a religious order in the name of Islam, in which he would rule like moses ruled the isrealites. 

Whilst I think the man should have been captured and brought to trial, I dont think it would have been practical, due to the fact nature of the man, and his devoted brainwashed followers who would try and break him out.  It is only a case of wait and see what reprocussions happen, by these people who in their heads are still fighting the Crusades, got news for you guys, (if anyone of you reads this), the crusades finished a 700 years ago.  The death of the bearded one will surely raise him to martyrdom. 

Whilst I have had some time off I have been looking at storys I came across a video of a guy in Soho Square, on the day of the wedding, singing " we all live in a Facist Regime" to the tune of yellow submarine by the beatles, only to have a load of rentamob lookalikes come and bundle him in the back of the van, while anyone who happened to be in that park at the time were effectively held hostage by the Metropolitan police.  Well in that case the words of the song were true, and it was like scenes of 1970's Russia with people bundled away for not agreeing with what they were told to think.   People are free to express opinions as long as it doesnt affect the staged wedding of a load of imbreds whose family took the country by force nearly a thousand years ago. 

Well it is a case of sort the photos out, and put them on the site, but as the weather is still nice I might go out and get some more shots.  TTFN

The second bank holiday weekend

Well the weekend started off with the Royal Wedding, which is an orchestrated fairy tale for adults, with live coverage from all angles of the route, when Westminster Abbey fills up with members of the imbred elite, celebraties, political leaders and dictators from rogue states who buy lots of arms off us so they can use them on their own people.  Oh and I forgot the hundred or so invited mere mortals to sure that the Royals do care about their subjects.  The whole specticle was there for people to wave their little flags and go ahhhh when the ring was placed on her finger. 

I thought screw this and went out for the day, I found better things to.  I decided to go and visit some off my other wedding avoiding friends.  I was back to get ready for the school reunion, which was interesting as only 5 people from my year, ie those who left in 1994, were in attendance.  Well it was cheap to get in but I thought I was going to have to get a bank loan to buy the drinks, a bottle of bud being £4 a pop.  They must have a deal going as Smifnoff was on offer and that seemed to be the drink of choice.  I had a good night.

Saturday dawned and it was off to work, and the enthusiasts running day, we did have some early morning visitors but they didnt want to pay to come in so they were waiting outside the gates like the paparazzi.  A good day was had by all and everyone involved did the company proud.

Sunday came and after receiving some very bad news, I cant really go in to this at the mo, that is for another time.  I decided that to take my mind off things I went to the Wollaton Park steam rally.  I had to switch the camera to video mode, due to the compare on the showground, leaving his microphone on and being rather short of breathe.  I found it hilarious,  Please visit my youtube channel, Calumbus1411.  So here I am Talk soon TTFN

My Thoughts on the Royal Wedding

So we have a wedding, and as a result I have a day off work, whoopy doo.  Prince William and Kate Middleton. 

So London is going to closed off as a result, lots of businesses are closed, while the toffs hooray Henries, That seriously deranged git who runs the country, other figure heads of the establishment, plus 100 priviledged ordinary commoners. 

Mass media have been ramming the event down our throats all week, even to the point that I switched the radio off in the car and put a CD on, while the DJ's were banging on about some none important detail of the wedding, probably, what colour socks the Prince of Wales would be wearing, or what brand of toothpaste Kate Middleton uses. 

Police and security have been looking at every speck of dust to make sure there isnt a bomb attached to it.  known activists and anarchists are being put under survaillance, ohh are they planning on saying some rude words and spoil the day, and do they have to behave and be good little Royal subjects???. 

I live in this country but I will never swear alleigence to the royal family, I was born a free man.  Yes they do some good, they support charities, and bring in tourists in the shape of fat American tourists who will tour round Windsor, Buck house and Sandringham, (as well as Stone henge),  spending money.  Kerching.

So the next few days will be full of pictures of kate and william along with the rest of the imbred clampits. and a big spread in OK i can imagine.  wonderful,  So I am showing my feelings on the whole thing by going out for the day, possibly with the camera, and making sure I am nowhere near earshot of the TV or radio.  So CD's only during the day.  So there you go My views. TTFN

Bank Holiday weekend 1

Well it has been Easter Bank holiday, which means one thing for me and that is the annual visit to LVVS, for their annual spring gathering.  I find it as a nice start for the rally season. 

If you read my observations of the rally scene then you will know that there are differant factions of the hobby.  Before I go in to ins and outs of rallies, I was out with the camera on Good friday, and as I stood at Broad marsh and a group of enthusiasts approached, what was a good sign was that one of these enthuiasts was a 10 year old lad.  So it may not be a dying interest after all. 

The seems to be young females taking an interest in public transport, as there were lasses with cameras at LVVS, again a good thing, because the common perception of the hobby was a geeky man who had now social skills, couldnt get a girl friend and still lives with his mother aged 60, and yes there are enthuisasts who fit this bill, and I must add, this is the one who will be shouting abuse at anyone who happens to breathe never mind walk in to the frame while he takes to 20th picture of that particular bus.

There are the rivet counters who insist everything has to be perfect down to all screw heads lining up, but wont put their hand in their pocket to assist in any way, but without the the buses there would be know show.

At the other end of scale you have the cranks, alot of whom I get on with.  These people dont necessarily care if the bus is original, but they will happily travel round trying to ride on every single remaining Leyland Olympian or Metrobus, travelling many miles to achieve the object, they mix this with having a laugh and basically enjoying themselves. 

Anyway, getting back to the rally.  There were some nice new restorations, but the numbers seemed to be down which is a shame really but a sign of the times.

Well back to work tomorrow, to have a break from all these bank holidays.  Well one good thing is all this royal wedding stuff will be over.  TTFN

A weekend of celebration and my views on good friday and relationships

Ok it has been a very quiet week work wise, with one day on and one day off, not that I mind too much, ok, I am not earning so much, but I am getting the rest in.  I have been using the time to catch up with things and obtained more material for the Calumbus page on Facebook. 

My thinking is, I like photography, so why not sure my pictures with my friends, Non transport subjects will go on there, and I will eventually do commission work for people.  The important thing is getting the material on there.  In a way it is replacing my fotopic page.  Calumbus is my own personal brand for myself, but that is for another time.

Today is Good friday, which is a celebrating the death of a man, who if he was around today would be classed as subversive, and anti establishment, he started something that was to become establishment in time when the religion was adopted by the Roman empire.  His message was basically be nice to your fellow man, and forgive him, which contradicts the crusades, and events of persecution during the middle ages, where people who didnt agree with the church were hunted down and executed.  Just think I would be burnt at the stake for writing this blog.

One thing this weather does is bring out the couples who insist on sitting near me, while I am minding my own business, then start a public display of affection.  I sitting there eating my sandwich thinking go away and get a room and bring a sick bucket while you are at it.
I am not in a relationship, nor do I intend to be in the near future, I loved and lost and got hurt in the process.  Some people move on to the next person, then there are people like me who build up walls so high and unbreachable, so when someone does come along they dont get a look in.  I am still good friends with my ex, but there is no way we will get back together, nor will anyone else come along, I know time is ticking away, but I will live life how I see fit.  rant over.  We are put here to breed and carry the genes on.

I can imagine lots of people are going to be all lovey dovey next friday during the royal wedding, wonder how many couples will propose?  who knows.  I am going to set myself a challenge last the day with out seeing any footage.  So total media blackout for the day for me.  Lets see if I can do it. 

So I am doing a bus rally on Sunday, where I intend to attend the LVVS rally, which I find a pleasure.  It is more a social thing, and I enjoy meeting up with friends during the day. So expect a full report on Sunday.

Remember keep living looking learning and moving on.  feel the fascination and keep it real.  TTFN

tuesday 19th April 2011

Well we are well and true in to spring, with temperatures due to reach the heights of 23 degrees, I am writing this as I am working this evening.  but I must admit I am looking forward to the weekend, where I will be going up to the LVVS for the easter sunday rally.  The saturday afterward will be the Paul S Winson running day, in which I am driving.

The Calumbus facebook page is upa and running, with lots of photos going on, I am hoping this will develop in to something good, although it was developed for something else, which I planned to do before the events of 2010, I do believe there is a brand there, we just need to find that right product.  I went off the idea of directly operating buses and coaches last year, but maybe the brand could promote support functions for the industry.  it is just lots of ideas I am thinking about, but for now I will display my photos on there, as well as providing the odd link which maybe useful.

What do I have planned for the rest of the week?, well at the mo I am unsure, but one thing I do know is that I will be getting very busy after the schools go back, which is what I need.  anyway talk soon ttfn

Monday 18th April 2011 the schools are off

As I write this, I would normally be driving a bus full of kids, well more like running in to the depot.  The sun is out and it is nice weather.  It will be a short week work wise, due to the fact that it is good friday, then easter weekend, with next week being even short, because there is some wedding on at the end of that week.

I am personally not fussed about the wedding, but I have noticed that everyone is starting to cash in on it, with mugs, plates, coins even condoms being produced for the occasion.  I dont know why the condoms, probably expecting the nation to feel romantic that even,  I dont know.  Its all bollocks to me.  It is the supposed to be the feel good event in these austere times,  One last thing about the royal wedding is that we as tax payers are paying for it, so go down to London wave your flag and celebrate, by giving glory to a family whose ancestors came over to the country and took it by force nearly a thousand years ago.

I will hopefully be attending the LVVS rally on easter sunday, so hope to get some nice pictures,  I will place these on my Calumbus facebook page, and on the transport menagerie page, as well as do a write up on here, in my own unique way.  Talk soon so take care TTFN

More views of the Government, and more thoughts of politcal correctness

Right, we all agree the country is in a mess, and because of the forced austerity caused by the Rothchild loving tosspots  namely the Prime Minister and the chancellor, who come from a knucle shuffling public school background, and have never lived in the real world.  People have stopped spending money, esstential services are being cut, while the corporate bankers are allowed to continue giving themselves stupidly high bonus's. 

We are in the process of scrapping the flagship the Ark Royal, and if you remember a couple of months ago a fleet of planes were scrapped at huge cost, what was horrific was the fact that these aircraft hadnt even entered service.  They say the previous adminstration was crap, but every adminsitration going back as far as I can remember have been equally crap.  The fact of the matter is put someone in power and they will do what it takes to remain in power.  Take Gadaffi for example, his defiance is the very fact he is clinging to power, and will do until the bullet is put into his head or the noose tied round his neck.  Saddam Hussain was arguing that he was still in charge right up to the point of his neck being stretched.

There is the referendum for the alternative vote, and I am still unsure and confused about it, I know the intentions are good, but, is it going to open a can of worms?  only time will tell.  It will also be interesting to see what the council elections will be.  This affects my own personal family as my father is standing for re-election on Nottingham City Council and I wish him luck.  I do believe politicians do have to work harder for the people, and as I have said many times the person who comes in to power and governs the country for the benefit of the people, instead of looking after old school chaps and business interests, yes that is the reason our once grate nation is intervening with Lybia, it is oil basically, we are running out and they have it.  It is the main reason Gadaffi has been tolerated for so long, and I still think that wanker who went home after being diagnosed as terminally ill, was relaesed as part of a business deal.

I did a rant about political correctness, and the fact I thought is was bollocks.  The real problem with political correctness is the people who spout on about it.  These are the liberal minded types who usually work in the public sector or social services.  They are the ones who believe the kids should be wrapped in cotton wool, whilst the same kids live in a virtual world or text messaging computer games and social networking sites.  The kids need to be out, learning about the world.

So more rants, and if you have been offended by reading this then get back to your copy of the Daily mail you government worshipping, curtain twitching PC nazi.  lets making a change during the next election, however you vote, remember it is your choice, and that is what matters.  TTFN