All Fine And Dandy

I am off work for a long holiday break this year!!

I had a lot of holidays left which I was not allowed to carry over .... a practise that while common enough,  always seems a little counter productive to me. Anyway's, as per last year, no more posts until the New Year as I have other fish to fry (again) .... well Turkey's to baste.

So having enjoyed celebrating by reviewing 'The Beano' cover from December 1966 last year .... childishly transporting myself for a few moments into reliving a happier time for both me and the UK. So this year its a picture of the sadly defunct 'Dandy' Annual book from 1968, another that I will have read and enjoyed as a child, accompanied by a sugar mouse from the Xmas stocking, while waiting for my parents to say we could go downstairs to look at our main present.

The Dandy Annual 1968

Happy Christmas and New Year !!

Deep Fried Christmas Dinner

As we all prepare to pig out on the festive foods that we all like to eat ..... I was much taken by the idea that in some parts of the country, we could possibly see the advent of the all fried Christmas dinner.

Deep Fried Mars Bar

Now I freely admit that I was well aware of that culinary delight known as the 'Deep Fried Mars Bars', and that they are served in Edinburgh and other parts of Scotland ....

Britains Criminal Masterminds

There seems to be no lower limit for the stupidity of most of the common criminals. Master Criminal minds like 'Moriarty' in Sherlock Holmes, they are not ..... unemployable idiots or thugs, they are.

Take the jobless man from Birmingham in the Midlands in the UK ... who for reasons that probably only he will ever know, dialled the police with a false report of seeing a gunman walking down Law Street in West Bromwich, placing a hand gun in and out of his pocket. Presumably he wanted the pleasure of seeing armed police turn up and waste their time, but only another idiot would really know what he got out of it.

However his 'cunning plan' for a bit of fun at the polices expense, all started unravelling when he gave the description of the gunman - he very carefully gave the police operator the description and put the phone down. he then walked away to no doubt enjoy the fun and games. However he had hardly got 5 minutes down the road, when he was surrounded and arrested by armed police. They had recognised him from the description given to them by the call operators ...... yes the dumb-ass had given the operator his own description for the gunman, including his clothing.

The 20 yr old, even had used his own phone to make the call, and when arrested police found that the phone in his pocket was dead, but later found the phones simcard inside the shoes he was wearing. He then tried to claim that a cousin had somehow made the call from West Bromwich, and then 'hidden' the simcard in his shoes without his knowing.

This 'story' was tested at a Wolverhampton Magistrates court and was found wanting ..... he then pleaded guilty. He was sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court to a two years supervision order, after he admitted wasting police time, and was also ordered to pay £160 costs. It's rather a light sentence all things considered (the court case will have cost thousands), and the fact that 'Brains' (as we shall be forced to call him), had also breached a suspended sentence for armed robbery given to him by Warwick Crown Court. Yes, a suspended sentence for armed robbery.

Armed Robbery - Warrants Only A Suspended Sentence In The UK

When an armed robbery only warrants a suspended sentence, you have to wonder what line in the sand someone has to cross, to go to prison in Britain these days ...... no surprise then that the head of Group 4 Securicor recently said that: " ....Britain is the worst country in the world for [armed] robbery."

BBC's Last Word On Mandela

The BBC never miss a chance to promote their own racial agenda .... Take Nelson Mandela's death. Following a large number of complaints about the 'excessive coverage' (and it did seem to go on, and on, and on, for 9 days of 'national mourning'. Which seems a tad excessive as he's not British, but hey, apparently the BBC feels it had to broadcast the whole event for some reason), the head of BBC news James Harding, refused to apologise .... In fact he said that in Mandela "we are probably talking about the most significant statesman of the last 100 years".

BBC Says: 'the most significant statesman of the last 100 years'

Really? The head of BBC News, genuinely believes that since 1913, the most significant world statesman, has been a one term black (and that may be the key word), former president, of a middle ranked third world nation.

So for example, the defeat of Fascism led by Churchill, was a less significant statesman like act, than a black man peacefully becoming President of South Africa and not taking revenge? Wasn't Nazism more of a threat to the whole world, than the apartheid system in southern Africa was? .... maybe Mr Harding should talk to his father or grandfather, about how nears to a Nazi conquest of Europe we came in 1939-41 ....

Winston Churchill: Stood Alone Against The Nazi's

Maybe we should also dismiss the achievements of Lech Wałęsa, or Václav Havel, who both peacefully set in motion the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe? ... they undoubtedly freed millions more from dreadful tyranny, than Mandela ever did.

Václav Havel and Lech Wałęsa Risked a KGB Firing Squad To Peacefully Lead Their Countries Out Of Communism. 

In fact, according to this man who studied history at Trinity College Cambridge, Mandela peacefully becoming President of South Africa, was a more significant world event than the election of the first Black President of the United States of America, or more statesman like than President Roosevelt leading the US and the free world out of the 'Great Depression'.

But perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised by Mr Harding's opinions, despite his degree in history, as he has made it a mission at the BBC that the "BBC must tackle diversity 'problem'", which tells you all you need to know about his attitudes to race .... by 'problem' he means putting more ethnic diversity on the screens (so more of the Black Ancient Brits, like the Merlin 're-write'of white British legends to Multi-culturalise them).

What dangerous garbage the BBC spouts whenever it represents its own PC views, and not ours. When it voices its own opinions, instead of simply reporting ours, and we can do nothing to get rid of them ..... a state within a state.

The unelected ruling elite of Britain have held our white British culture' in complete contempt since the 1950's, but now they are apparently in a position to actively pursue their agenda's, unhindered by the need to reflect majority public opinion.

Hidden Clawses

We sign our lives away in agreements and terms and conditions, which few, if any of us, ever read ….. however most of us would expect that its only when the 'Devil goes down to Georgia', that agreements may have an ‘Immortal Soul’ kind of risk.

In Georgia The Devil Strikes A Tough Deal

But you would be wrong ….. for in what they said was just a bid to prove that very few people actually read their Terms and Conditions (and who are we to disbelieve their claim?), in 2010 GameStation.com - a UK-based games retailer - added an "Immortal Soul Clause" to their T&Cs (The clause was added to their standard T&Cs on April 1st …. 'April Fools Day' ..... funny).

The website claimed 88% of customers hadn't read the clause, which gave the company legal ownership of thousands of their customers souls for all eternity.

Now apart from the obvious gags about their lawyers always being on hand in hell for consultations, it also makes you wonder if only Jehovah or Satan can actually legally ‘own a soul’? Or would in fact GameStation.com have had full eternal rights and be able to enforce this in some Infernal Court?

Perhaps we will never know, because although thousands signed away their souls (more than 7,500 customers), about 12 percent of their customers did notice the clause, and on clicking the relevant opt-out box, netted themselves a £5.00 gift voucher in the process.

Perhaps fearful of the outcome of a challenge (and this gag will have netted some US fishes, who might not get the joke), the GameStation executives assured all customers via an email that contained a notice of nullification of that part of the deal, and confirmed that they were not enforcing the Immortal Soul Clause.

We have touched before on the subject of selling ones Soul, and at what price (even if you’re an unbeliever), so I won’t try and claim that I would have seen the funny side of this if it had been me, even though I veer toward atheism.