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