Not a Royalist but …

Who is the clown who let Charles Battenburg and his wife Camilla Porkbag Bowels drive right into the middle of a riot?

You have probably seen the story: the students were protesting over the tripling of student fees that had just been agreed in Parliament. The protests had, not surprisingly, turned violent and they were taking place in and around Regent Street.

Last night was the night of the Royal Variety Performance which is held at the London Palladium. If you know your London, you will know that Argyll Street houses the Palladium and to get to Argyll Street you can drive along … Regent Street. More importantly, you don’t HAVE to drive along Regent Street to get to Argyll Street.

So, they knew there was a riot going on and yet they sanctioned the car to carry on along Regent Street. Then some rioters saw Charles and his ball and chain in their car and they attacked it. Completely unforgiveable. Equally disturbing, given how high profile these people are, there was a window in their Rolls Royce that was smashed: didn’t look bullet or even brick and fist proof to me.

We had the same sort of thing when John Prescott was physically attacked in the street whilst campaigning in 2001 I think it was … he was Deputy Prime Minister and yet someone was able to get close enough to be able to throw a missile at the old man!

We are generally a tolerant society but these lapses are symptomatic of PC Plod’s approach to situations that someone higher in intellectual power than Plod should be dealing with.

The job of the Police is to maintain law and order. When protesters start to act in a violent manner then people are going to get hurt. Sorry, but they will. If the protesters don’t like the fact that violence usually needs to be met with violence then stay at home or do not act violently!

Finally, I do not agree with student fees at all since the economics of student loans and tuition fees seems fundamentally flawed to me and I don’t believe it is solving any of the problems laid at their doors.

DW

Good or Scary News?

I just read this on the Harvard Business Review web site, from the November 2010 edition of the HBR:

“In a study by Brent McFerran of the University of British Columbia and colleagues, dieters in a restaurant-like setting were offered menu suggestions by a thin waitress. She also donned a “fat suit” and made recommendations to a different group of dieters. More diners acted on the overweight server’s advice. That’s because the dieting patrons identified more with the heavier server, say the authors. This suggests that restaurants may benefit from having greater weight diversity among service providers.”

http://hbr.org/2010/11/stat-watch-do-you-want-fries-with-that/ar/1

What do you make of that? Birds of a feather?

DW

Rock Bottom Standards

I really am coming to the conclusion that television broadcasting should stop in Britain and be banned for five years. Such an action will allow the 12 year olds, as per Ed Reardon, who run our television stations to be considerably retrained and made to behave along the lines that I alone should set.

Blue Peter is a children’s television programme that is aimed firmly at children from the age of 8 until 12 years. In my opinion, such children do not need to be subjected to swearing and violence when they tune into such a programme let alone in real life.

A book, with an unsuitable Americanism as its title to start with, was chosen to be included in a list of books to be chosen as the Blue Peter book of the year. That book was then dropped from the list because, A statement from Blue Peter said the book should not have been shortlisted in the first place "because it contains scenes of violence and swearing that are not suitable for the younger end of our audience." http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/07/blue-peter-awards-drop-finalist-unsuitable

Here’s the sick part: "It does have menace, all good thrillers have menace, and the Daleks are very menacing," he said. "I feel that this is a very inspiring, exciting book, with a moral framework and that their audience at the older end of 9-12 is being denied something they absolutely should be reading. "http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/07/blue-peter-awards-drop-finalist-unsuitable

That comment came from David Frickling, the book’s publisher. Let me translate his true meaning: I hate those pompous, self seeking people at Blue Peter. Who do they think they are? With that book on their list we were sure to sell thousands of copies and rake in stacks of filthy lucre. So we infect a few kids with Americanisms, some violence a bit of swearing. So f****ing what? Crack their skulls if you ask me.

At least the twelve year olds got this one right.

DW

Be my friend … PLEASE be my friend

Whilst I do not support the WikiLeaks web site and initiative at all and will report on nothing substantial here in any way, I couldn’t help being amused by this one.

That’s the one in which William Gaygue begged and pleaded with the USA during the general election and beyond: by my friend, can I be your friend, if you’re my friend I’ll give you my biggest lollipop!!

Speaking of large lollipops and Gaygue, that reminds me of another story … already reported, however!

DW