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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Sign: Leo

City: Peterborough
State: East
Country: UK
Signup Date: 11/7/2007

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Friday, July 03, 2009 

Current mood:  angry
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
Regular visitors will know that I've sort of become quite fond of my local (disused) graveyard. I spend a fair bit of time there taking pictures, and also clearing away empty cans of Polish lager that people tend to drop :-(

But it's the bloody limit - I discovered that someone had dumped a damn TV set in the middle of the graveyard!!

No, it didn't have an aeriel on it, no-one had set it up to watch "most haunted", it was dumped there

This takes disrespect to a whole new (low) level!
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Sunday, June 28, 2009 

Current mood:  betrayed
Category: Life
that title should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me very well ... recently however someone rounded on me because she "knows" that I secretly blame her for something

yeah, right, she "knows" that I blame her for something. That's news to me! But I'm not going to sit back and be accused without responding. And that (apparently) means that I'm acting unreasonably ("like a child" were the exact words used)

It's a bad time for everyone just now, we all have our problems. I don't need someone adding to my stress by accusing me of things I haven't said. As the saying goes, "with friends like that ..."
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 

Category: Life
Once again, someone in a position of authority makes a decision of such awesome stupidity, the sheer magnitude of it defies belief: To cope with congestion during Wimbledon, officials designated a graveyard as parking space!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8118493.stm

I frankly don't care how old the graves are, or whether their descendants can or cannot be traced, or even if the money raised goes to charity, or not

This is a f**king graveyard!

I would like to suggest that whoever came up with this scheme deserves to be ritually castrated with a couple of housebricks!

and so does whoever approved the scheme!

and so does whoever directed traffic thinking "I'm only doing me job"!

This is so fundamentally wrong, it doesn't need someone to examine rules to see if something wrong has happened. [think mp's and expenses, they were "within the rules" supposedly]

"Car parking in a graveyard" - it's a sentence that doesn't even belong in the English language

IT'S "W R O N G"

(clearly this needs spelling out to people, so as a public service, I HAVE spelt it out)
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 

Category: Life
A bit of nonsense to start the day with .....

Dear Jan,

I don't really know how to tell you this, You're a leprechaun. I think I realised it when we skinny-dipped in the bath tub in your car and I saw you pull the clothes off the Catholic Priest. I'm sure you're cowardly enough to understand that you need a sex-change. I'm returning your love letters to me to you, but I'll keep your glass eye as a memory. You should also know that I always wanted to break your legs and I will haunt you when I’m reincarnated as an Eskimo.

Greetings to your frog Leonard,

Mike


Here's how you do it.....

Dear (someone you recently talked to),

I don't really know how to tell you this,(1). I think I realised it (2)(3) and I saw you (4)(5). I'm sure you're (6) enough to understand (7). I'm returning (8) to you, but I'll keep (9) as a memory. You should also know that I (10) and (11).

(12),

(Your name)




1) What's the color of your shirt?
Blue - I'm in love with your cat
Red - Our affair is over
White - I’m joining the Convent
Black -Our romance is over
Green- Our socks don't match
Grey - You're a leprechaun
Yellow - I'm selling myself for candy
Pink - Your nostrils are insulting
Brown - The mafia wants you
No shirt - Purple hedgehogs want to destroy you
Other -I dislike your eyelashes

2) Which is your birth month?
January - That night you picked your nose
February -When I quoted Forest Gump
March - When your dwarf bit me
April - When I tripped on peanut butter
May - When I finally changed my underwear
June - When you put cuffs on me
July – When we skinny-dipped in the bath tub
August - When you smacked my ass
September - Last year when you peed your pants
October - When I saw the purple monkey
November - When your dog humped my leg
December - When I threw up in your sock drawer

3) Which food do you prefer?
Tacos - In your apartment
Chicken- In your car
Pasta - Outside of your office
Hamburgers - Under the bus
Salad – As you were eating Kraft Dinner
Lasagna - In your closet
Kebab - With Jean Chrétien
Seafood - In a clown suit
Sandwiches - At the Elton John concert
Pizza - At the mental hospital
Hot dog - Under a street light
Annat- With George Bush and Stephen Harper

4) What's the color of your socks?
Yellow - Ignore
Red - Put whipped cream on
Black - Hit on
Blue - Knock out
Purple - Pour syrup on
White - Carve your initials into
Grey - Pull the clothes off
Brown - bite off
Orange - Castrate
Pink - Pull the pants off of
Barefoot - Sit on
Other - Drive over

5) What's the color of your underwear?
Black - My boyfriend
White - My father
Grey – The Catholic Priest
Brown – The Montreal Canadian’s goalie
Purple - My corned beef hash
Red – My knee caps
Blue - My salt-beef bucket
Yellow - my child in ghana
Orange - My Blink 182 cd
Pink – Your ‘My Little Pony’ collection
Other --The elephant in the corner

6) What do you prefer to watch on TV?
One Tree Hill - Senile
Heroes- Frostbitten
Lost - High
Simpsons- Cowardly
The news - Scarred
American Idol - Masochistic
Family Guy - Open
Top Model - Middle-class
Annat -shamed

7) Your mood right now?
Happy - How awful you are
Sad - How boring you are
Bored - That I get turned on only by garbage men
Angry - That your smell makes me vomit
Depressed – That we’re related
Excited - That I may pee my pants
Nervous - The middle-east is planning their revenge on you
Worried - That your Ford sucks
Apathetic - That you need a sex-change
Silly - That I'm allergic to your earlobes
Cuddly - That Santa doesn't exist
Ashamed - That there is no solution to you being a dumb kid
Other - That your driving sucks

8) What's the color of your walls in your bedroom?
White - Your toe ring
Yellow - Your love letters to me
Red - The pictures from Vegas
Black - Your pet rock
Blue - The couch cushions
Green - Your car
Orange - Your false teeth
Brown - Your nose hair clippers
Grey - Our matching snoopy underwear
Purple - Your old New Kids on the Block blanket
Pink - The cut toenails
Other - Your Hannah Montana underwear

9) The first letter of your first name?
A/B - My virginity
C/D - Your photo with the mustache drawn on it
E/F - Your neighbors dog
G/H - The oil tank from your car
I/J - Your left ear
K/L - The results of that blood-sample
M/N - Your glass eye
O/P - My common sense
Q/R - Your mom
S/T - Your collection of butterflies
U/V - Your criminal record
W/X – Your sucide note
Y/Z - Your credit cards

10) The last letter in your last name?
A/B - Love your sweet, sweet ass
C/D - Always will remember the pep talks
E/F -Never will forget that night
G/H – Will not tell the authorites that you stole the whale from the backyard.
I/J – Mocked you behind your back constantly
K/L - Hate your cooking
M/N - Told in my confession today about the moose poaching
O/P - Told my psychiatrist about the bruises
Q/R - Get sick when I think of your feet
S/T - Always wanted to break your legs
U/V - Will try to forget that you broke my heart
W/X - Haven’t showered in a month
Y/Z – am better off without you

11) What do you prefer to drink?
Wine- Our friendship is ruined
Soft drink – I’m off to lead a new life as a lemon
Soda – I will haunt you when I’m reincarnated as an Eskimo
Milk - The apartment building is on fire
Water – I'm scratching my butt as you read this
Cider– I have a passionate interest for mice
Juice – You ruined my attempts at another world war.
Snapple/Vitamin water – You should get that embarrassing rash checked out
Hot chocolate – Your Cucumber-fetishism is weird
Whiskey - I love Oprah Winfrey
Beer – Thanks for the Cocaine
Other – you should stop picking your nose

12) To which country would you prefer to go on a vacation?
Thailand – Warm tingly sensations
Australia - Greetings to your frog Leonard
France - Love always
Spain - With tears of sadness
China – You make me sick
Germany – Please don’t hurt me
Japan - Go milk a cow
Greece - Your everlasting enemy
USA - Best of luck on the sex change
Egypt – Kiss my butt
England - Go drown yourself
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 

Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
Feeling out-of-sorts just lately, I know two people who have lost their jobs, and in this economic climate, that's bad news.

One of them was a colleague, even if not a close friend, and I've known his for 5 or 6 years. He was almost out of a job once before, because he made a howling mistake, and he got caught out. I don't believe he did anything with any malice, but it WAS a howling error of judgment, and I understand why the company took action against him, even if personally I was concerned about what happened to him. He was given a second chance, and redeployed elsewhere within the company, only to be caught stealing, and now he really IS out of the door!

I feel personally let down, even though this latest turn of events doesn't have anything to do with me. I've known the guy for a few years, and I didn't expect him to do this. It's stupid, and it's deliberate, there's no was of calling it a mistake.

The other guy who lost his job, (apparently) upset customers (a bad thing to do at any time), with racist language.

Now, again, I kno the guy, and I don't think he's "racist" in any overtly malicious sense of the word, but the problem is that he always believes in speaking his mind, (and in England you can't just say what you think, without the risk of someone being offended and taking action against you for it), and secondly, sure, he has used racist language, but never in an overtly malicious way.

What I mean by that, is that they guy would tell racist jokes. (for example). And he saw nothing wrong in that, partly because people of his age-group haven't been "conditioned" to think of racist jokes as "offensive". He would probably claim that it's not the same as walking up to someone and insulting them on the basis of their colour, reigion, or whatever. That would be overtly an act of aggression, and of racism. Whereas the jokes (while unacceptable in this day and age), are not overt.

But he's upset people, and he's lost his job.

I just really don't understand why, in the current climate, people are being so careless about work. Jobs aren't growing on trees. Losing your job is nothing to be proud about

Just seems all wrong ...
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Friday, June 12, 2009 

Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
the high point of my career has passed, but I feel like talking about it anyway ...

I was taken on by Compact Catering (a 3rd party catering contractor) to be the night chef at one of the McCain factories. What a mess I walked into!

The kitchen hand needed (according to the manager) "a cattle prod up his ass", the kitchen was a mess, almost everything was deep fried, and the customers (factory staff) were *NOT* happy

Well, it was a challenge ... and I was up for it :-) customers didn't like everything deep fried? Fine, no problems, I started cooking things on ovens - that's what bloody ovens are for! Customers had religious reasons for being vegetarian? OK, separate utensils and chopping boards for vegetarian food. Every night - get there early and CLEAN. Handling food? Use blue food handling gloves.

All very simple straight forward stuff, but I started to win the customers round. (There was an excited buzz when I arrived with my set of Japanese knives. "You got your own knives? So you're a real chef then!"). The kitchen hand fell by the wayside, he was a pain in the ass anyway, and while he was on long term sick, I started going though agency workers.

And I did "go through" them, few of them lasted very long, was I easy to work with? No, I wasn't, I was on a mission, and anyone working with me had damn well better keep up.

The new canteen manager started, and claimed to be the architect of healthy eating. "Chef already does that!" my customers protested :-)

My takings were getting better every week. When I first started, the night shift takings used to be 3rd out of 3, but I pushed and pushed until I was regularly drawing level with the evening shift, and I was preparing a big push to take more money than the day shift :-)

Now - as part of my career plan I have never wanted to be a canteen manager, but I decided that I wanted to be the manager of THAT canteen. I really did. I was sure that I could carry my improvements forwards across the other shifts, and turn the canteen into something the catering company would be proud of.

But things don't always happen the way you want. The manager wasn't going to move on just 'cos I wanted her job, and anyway there was her 2nd in command who had his eyes on the job as well. So I gave it a lot of thought, and I realized that the company had nothing else to offer me, except more of the same, more of being the night chef. And I'd had a massive falling out with a member of the management team (to this day I feel sure that I wasn't the one who was in the wrong); And someone on the day shift was going out of her way to slander me. (jealous of my success I guess).

Well "F*ck it" I decided, and quit.

It didn't go down well, the unit manager was in a flap about what to do, (she was on the phone to me for about an hour the next morning), and when I said that I wanted her job, she made some vague promises about what could be looked at, at some point in the future.

I really wasn't at all taken with that kind of talk, it didn't resolve the issues there and then, and so I walked out of the job. (Gordon Brown has sat on his ass for YEARS in the treasury waiting for the PM job, but at the time I wasn't prepared to do likewise)

I also managed to get an exit interview with my area manager to sort out the person who'd been slandering me. It was a very positive meeting, I was very glad to get together with her before I left. (Strictly speaking I'd already left the company but when the area manager got a message from me she realized something wasn't right, and agreed to meet with me).

Do I look back on the job fondly? Of course I do, and I regret the fact that I had to leave, but the fact is that I did have to leave, or stagnate, and you just can't stagnate in the food business.

At one point I actually thought about trying to return to the company, but there was still the issue of the falling out with one of the management team, and I wasn't prepared to work for the company so long as she was still there. (it may seem petty, but it was a massive issue to me - she was told something in confidence and rather than honour the confidence she blurted the information out to someone else - when I asked her nicely to come and talk to me she threw a major tantrum and kept telling everyone that she was a senior manager & so therefore I had no business contacting her. That told me a lot about what sort of person she was).

Ah well, no real point to this blog, except to say that, that was the high point of my career, and I wish I could have done more for the customers than I did.

I wonder if they even remember me?
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Friday, June 12, 2009 
I'm deeply concerned about the state of the democratic process in the UK

In the recent European elections, the BNP had a certain amount of success - this is because, simply, a number of people voted for them. The BNP are now the elected representatives of "x" number of people ... this is the democratic process in practice.

HOWEVER, when he has appeared in public Nick Griffin (leader of the BNP) has been met by egg-throwing protesters of the UAF, who seek to prevent the BNP having a public voice.

Quite simply, it is these protests which are undemocratic!

* Perhaps you are a supported of the BNP's policies.

* Perhaps you haven't heard from the BNP what their policies are, and you only know what the UAF have accused them of.

* Perhaps you are a UAF supporter.

Whichever scenario applies to you, we have a principle in this country (albeit it's being rapidly eroded!), called FREE SPEECH. The BNP have something to say, and the thing to do is to hear what they have to say, and debate it - Let the media question Nick Griffin - Let him respond.

Let the people of this country make their own minds up.

For many years, the two-and-a-half major political parties have adopted the mantra "immigration: good", now there is a party which DOESN'T accept the mantra, and people have voted for them in sufficient numbers for them to gain seats in the European parliament.

So let's TALK ABOUT IMMIGRATION.
Let's HEAR WHAT PEOPLE THINK.

Whether you're pro- or anti-immigration, get up and SPEAK.

DISCUSS.

That's how things are done in this country.

Egg-throwing demonstrations are for extremists who have no respect for the democratic processes upon which this country is built.
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Sunday, June 07, 2009 

Category: Life
The BCA have gone to court because (very briefly) a piece published from writer Simon Singh used the word "bogus" in relation to treatments which the BCA promote. You can study the nitty-gritty detail of the case online - google is a great resource

What fascinates me is the way certain people have tried to defend the man. A group including Ricky Gervais, Stephen Fry and Richard Dawkins have apparently given their names to a statement calling for the laws of libel to be "kept out of science", and that basically they see the law being used as a tool to prevent good scientific debate.

I'm a bit hot on the concept of litigation over defamation just now (soon to be launching action against someone myself in fact), and I want to say that I think it's right that the BCA had the option to go to court. (what ruling is eventually delivered after god-knows how many appeals doesn't interest me right now)

Scientific debate is not conducted in the public arena. It's conducted within scientific peer groups, who have the background and the body of knowledge available for a given subject to be able to debate it. In general, the public do not participate in scientific debate, they merely receive the results

From what I understand of the case, Singh had his comments published in the Guardian newspaper, and I doubt that readers would necessarily be able to weigh his comments with scientific objectivity. So Singh has chosen to state his case publicly, where the law of the land (regarding defamation) is still applicable, and he is free to seek to defend himself against the action the BCA brings against him.

This is a matter of a comment (maybe defamatory?) made in public, it has no bearing on scientific debate. A great shame that Singh's supports don't seem to appreciate the difference
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Sunday, June 07, 2009 

Current mood:patriotic
Category: Life
Whatever your personal politics are, whoever you support, it is hard not to reach the conclusion that Gordon Brown is badly out of touch with the real world.

The MP's expenses scandal broke at a time when millions of normal, everyday citizens are struggling to pay their bills because of the current economic problems.

Brown said "well it's a bad system but no rules have been broken"

Cameron said "rules or not it's wrong, and I'm sorry"

Two little words - "I'm sorry" - and Cameron won so much public admiration for standing up and appologising. When he realised that an appology was what was needed, Brown also delivered an appology - but it was seen as too little and too late.

Any Government is made up of representatives of citizens - supposedly. And citizens to not want to hear that their representatives have their snouts in the trough claiming expenses for anything and everything.

Gordon Brown has just had a cabinet "re-shuffle", except so many ministers have quit to distance themselves from him, it's been more of a start-from-scratch exercise

Cameron is right to say that the Government is in disarray. And right now, if the Government goes for an election, they will undoubtedly crash and burn more so than at any time previously in the history of the Labour Party.

The question is who will then steer this country back onto course? This Government has ensured that we will be in debt for the next decade.

Whoever takes over needs to take a firm hand with the country's finances, and be prepared to take unpopular measures if it means sorting the mess out.

They will need to steer the country OUT of the disasterous "EU" project, we are an island, we are NOT part of the EU, and the best thing we can do right now is to bomb the channel tunnel to decisively break the link.

We need to concentrate on revitalizing our own economy, creating jobs, securing our borders, and NOT enacting European Laws and sending money abroad

Who's up for the job?
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 
George Tiller, a resident of the USA & controversially a provider of late abortions, was murdered in church recently. I've been wading through online articles and discussions since the killing, and there seems to be confusion in some people's minds ...

The man was a provider of [late] abortions - yes.

A lot of people disagree with the fundamental priciple of late-term abortions - yes.

This murder has solved a thorny issue - no.

In this world, if you disagree with something, you can get up and say what's on your mind, (that's called "free speech", something so precious that it is protected by the constitution of the USA, even if it's not protected elsewhere in the world). People have thought it so valuable that they have died to protect it for future generations. If you really feel strongly about an issue? You can get up off of your ass, meet other like-minded people and campaign to get things changed. That's another wonderful freedom of living in the west.

Picking up a gun and murdering someone you disagree with ISN'T the way to go.

It was "Dirty Harry" who said that he hated the system, but that he'd still work WITHIN that system because it was all we have, and otherwise you end up killing your neighbour when his dog fouls your lawn.

If you believe passionately about an issue, then get out there and campaign for change, I'm all for that. And whether OR NOT I agree with what you want to campaign for, I'll support your right to be heard. But if we are to all live together in the same society then no one person can set themselves up to be "judge, jury, and executioner", as the saying goes.

The structures within our society are there for a reason, they safeguard everybody.

To gun down someone simply because you disagree with them is an act of terrorism.
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