Grumpy Old Man Rants

Bloddy Hackers

Well loads of my sites were hacked on Sunday the Turkish Muslim Hackers did for around 45 sites the gits, have they not got anything better to do than waste my Bank Holiday day off. May their bollocks drop off the shits.

Still they have reminded me that I havent had a decent whinge for ages so I am back moaning again, so while the wife is watching Corrie I can sit outside and have a rant. Why is it so hard to earn a buck these days, in my alter ego as a human I run a wide format printers, I print Canvas Prints and other big prints and even though my prices are half the competition I just can’t seem to get the punters to my site www.gosport-printing.com still chistmas is coming so maybe I can interest some people to come and buy.

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Budget Day

I see the politicos have their noses in the trough again. Two different ways to line their pockets, when will they find a way to get dodgey dosh without being found out.

Not to many surprises in the budget, a  bit boring really.

Recovery

The UK recovery, well lets hope so but I fear that our manufacturing industry‘s days are numbered, I believe that once a factory closes its doors it wont open again.

As a country we have put too much emphasis on the financial services, which are to be fair shagged. We are all in the doo doo due to these guys poor performance. I have a deep distrust of currency traders who pray on countries bad fortune to drive in the final nails, while rubbing their hands in glee of all the profit they have made.

 The city cannot sustain our recovery, we need to have industry in place to earn some real money for the country, and really all our good stuff has been sold on to foreigners or just gone bust.

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Great Britain or Grand Bodgeup

So last night I flushed the toilet, and the handle snapped, oh well its a simple job unscrew the old one slip in the new one a 5 minute job. Wrong as usual nothing fits the hole in the cistern was too small for the new handle so I had to file it down and of course now it cant be secured. Why dont we make stuff that is a standard fit  or is that too simple.

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New Government

we need to get a new goverment in charge, what really gets  my goat is suddenly we are told by our leaders that they will do this for people or do that to improve the economy when they get elected. But if they are already in power like this bunch, why have they not done these suggestions already, after all they have had years to get it all sorted, so why should we trust them to do it if they get back in power. But of course I forgot we are sheep.

welcome to the flock

Dementia

The curse of the modern age, we are all living longer lives and unfortunately all our bodies are not up to the job. When we popped off around 70 ish things were stable, we left before Dementia’s struck.

The government is slowly waking up to the fact that what the general public has known for some years, Dementia is a massive problem.

My Mum is suffering from Vascular Dementia, my poor old dad is trying to cope with her but she is getting worse, yesterday the police were called because she was convinced that my dad was not my dad, she has threatened him with a kitchen knife and hit him with her walking stick.

Her specialist a doctor Dr Hogg is either to busy of does not really give a damn, and although she was going to visit my mum six weeks ago she is a no show. A doctor was called by the police and he increased her meds.

My dad is getting very worn out and I really think that the time has come for my mum to be put in hospital for a while to see if her medication can be sorted. I fear that if this does not happen my dad will just go down hill and die.

I know the government want people with Dimentia to be treated at home but really when it gets to stage mum is now, it is just too much for the carers. She has been getting more and more violent over the last year, piling up furniture in front of dads bedroom door and wandering off, accusing him of being a stranger and worse.

I was talking about it to people at work and to my surprise they all had a relative or parent with the same problems, this is only going to get worse, it is a terminal illness anyone who saw the moving Terry Pratchett Dimbleby lecture recently must agree that people must be given the choice to end their lives when it just gets to unbearable, my mum is lucid some of the time, but its getting less and less, she will be 87 in October and I really think that in her rational moments she would not want to carry on. This is a serious problem and really needs the government of the day to start realising that they need to put some plans in operation. NOW!!!!!!

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British Gas v the Bankers

You know me I hate the unjustness of fat cats, but yesterday I was amazed about 2 news stories that followed each other on the British news broadcasts.

1. British Gas have made  £530 million profit, they do supply half the countries gas and as the spokesman said that is only £3.00 profit per household per week, and considering all the investment they have to put in surprisingly I think that is not to bad, we know they buy the gas on the spot market and we are still using gas the bought 2 years ago.

2. RBS banking group 83% owned by the British tax payer made a 4.3 billion loss, and still are going to pay there money grubbing suits some 1.3 billion in bonuses. So just how good are these suits, when they can steer the bank to a 4.3 billion loss and still expect a bonus! I am gobsmacked if I was in charge of RBS I would be sacking the lot of them for incompetence. Oh I forgot we are the owners of the RBS, so why are the media not raising the roof about this, then the boss of the RBS has the cheek to say, well the exchequer will be getting a big tax windfall! but its the exchequers money in the first place, they would be better off repaying us with the 1.3 billion so come on Alistair slap a 100% tax on all bank bonuses they don’t deserve them.

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Asbos

So its costing us 5.8bn a year to issue and maintain asbos, and it would seem thta they don’t work so why bother, when will our leaders grow some and get to the root of the problem. I have said this before and I will probably say ti many more times. Bring back public birchings, stick the arseholes in the stocks for a month or just hung them they just a waste of a good skin, so wipe them out. I am sure the only ones who will miss them will be the people whos lives a made a misery by them.

Come on Gord take some firm action, and the sort the bastards.

Aaaaargh

Billy Bragg witholds his Tax

Well done Billy. I have admired his music for many years, and now he is kicking back against the greedy bankers. I totally agree with his stand on tax witholding, if the government does not cap these greedy bankers with their noses in the trough. These people are just obscene in the way they just grab vast lumps of dosh for nothing, well not really nothing how about plunging us into massive recession with sharp practices. I cannot believe that these people are really going to be given more money in a bonus that probably exceeds about 100 families yearly income, it is just not acceptable.

aaargh

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Reasonable Force

I think that if someone enters my house or place of work, threatens me or my family, I have the perfect right to kick the crap out of them if I can. I am not a man of violence but I am sick and tired of people getting away with ruining my life and the lives of other people. Why should the mindless bunch of morons be allowed to rule our country with their now consequence culture. The courts say wait for the Police to deal with them, I don’t think so they just do not seem to have the time to attend until several hours after the event, mostly when it’s all over, I don’t blame the police they are undermanned and busy chasing the motorists to get their tally’s up. I blame the liberal nanny state that we seem to have fallen into these days, where winning is frowned on, discipline is non existent, and our kids can’t play hopscotch or conkers in case they hurt themselves, and their parents sue the schools to make a fast buck.

So our kids can’t play games to keep themselves fitter, yet they are all growing into lard-arses without any exercise, they are not taught that if they do something that offends the community, they will be punished, and not a caution a full scale birching would seem to fit the bill. I would like our kids to be taught that life has consequences, and then maybe I wouldn’t have to be arrested for beating the crap out of intruders to my home.

but its all a pipe dream

what do you think?

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