Well, it's official. Scientists have determined that alcohol is actually good for the intellect. Apparently, it blocks the analytical part of the brain thereby allowing more creative thinking to take place. I knew it all along; I get terribly creative when I've had a drink - even to the point of forming an opinion, which I'm prepared to fight to defend, on a subject about which I know absolutely NOTHING! (Even when I'm sober, I never let lack of knowledge get in the way of my expressing an opinion. Haha!!) Now... if that's what alcohol can do, just think what super-human cerebral powers harder drugs might tap into, eh? Entheogens here I come... I think I owe it to my fellow Man to give it a try (and if I don't unravel the mysteries of the Universe at the first attempt, I'll have to keep trying!)

1st April 2012

God has become as irrelevant to me as I seem to be to him. I'm approaching a crossroads and can hardly see the road ahead through the grey. Should I slow down or floor the accelerator?

29th March 2012

Seems like the only time I write anything on my Blog is when I'm partially (or totally) inebriated.... and so it is tonight! I feel like a rant but I'm not quite sure what to rant about (there's SO MUCH, I don't know where to begin!) I heard someone define Democracy today .... "Where two morons can out-vote one genius". That just about summed it up for me. This is the Political and Social system we're trying to force upon the 'uncivilised' Middle-East??? What we actually need is a system where everyone is 'intelligence tested' and if they're found to be below acceptable levels**, they shouldn't be allowed to vote. Also, ALL politicians should be independent rather than representing a party - a 'party' is simply a tribe and tribalism is the main reason (apart from oil of course) why people are still killing each other in masses in this modern world in which we live. Another selection criterion for politicians ought to be that they receive no pay and that they are doing what they do purely for altruistic reasons. That would stop the fuckers fiddling their expenses - there'd be NO EXPENSES!!! Ha! I'm going to publish my Manifesto soon and if anyone e-mails me in support, I swear, I'll stand for the next local elections!

**(Who decides what are "acceptable" levels of intelligence. Me of course! Meglomania rules OK)

4th February 2012

I've been reading quite a lot about quantum physics recently and I really like the concept of the 'Multiverse' which favours the theory of an infinite number of universes. I have hopes that perhaps there's a Universe somewhere in which I don't always behave like a complete arsehole!

28th December 2011 (and about to transition into a new year feeling imperfect, insecure and a little unappreciated)

That's it. I'm off to Kepler 22

28th December 2011

(In no particular order) Kike cracker nigger wop slint coon frog honkey wog slope paki chink dago camel-jockey kraut ghost paddy jock jigaboo muzzer raghead whitey - poof lesbo queer dyke paedo homo - fuck shit twat cunt wank piss bitch bastard toss. I'm sure there are many other 'offensive' or supposedly 'racist' words out there but I think I've gathered enough to make a point.

I actually have no idea why certain words appear to have a power and a significance which other words don't. 'Swearing' is a rather strange concept, don't you think?? Words which differ by only one consonant are deemed socially unacceptable compared to words which are 'ordinary'. Racism shouldn't be determined by what's said but more by what's done. Isn't everyone getting a little oversensitive? We've not had slavery for a few generations now and we have a person of colour (but I daren't call him coloured, dare I?) as President of the United States (arguably the most powerful man in the World). The Jews run Hollywood and much of American politics and Homosexuals vitually monopolise showbusiness. Frankly, I don't give a fuck (and yes, I'm using the word for emphasis rather than to be offensive) whether someone is black, brown, yellow, red or green. I also genuinely don't care if they're straight or queer, old or young, male or female, tall or short as long as they're decent people who are contributing to the society I'm a part of in as determined a way as I am trying to do. Why, oh why, can't we just all get along and embrace the differences? I know I'm not black and I'm hetrosexual so you may say I'm speaking from a position of priviledge but for fuck's sake, get the chip off your shoulder. The "Let my people go" shit is beginning to wear thin. Stop the tribal bollocks and let's try to act as one people, one culture, one species, without primative pejudices, hangups and taboos. If we can't get there, I'm afraid the long-term outlook for Humankind is less than favourable.

27th December 2011

I've just read a newspaper article about a single mother of 3 young children boasting about that fact that she's going to be spending £3200 on presents and entertaining this Christmas (£400 for a New Year's Eve party for her friends!) and that all of it is paid for by Benefits payments. This lazy, fat, (obviously fat as she sits on her arse all day) fucking cow of a sad excuse for a human being believes that she's as entitled to enjoy Christmas as anyone who works for a living and has no hesitation in rubbing everyone else's nose in her State funded extravagance. Whilst I have no wish to deny her happiness, I am somewhat concerned about the fact that she seems to have fallen pregnant, not once, but THREE times (probably to different men) and this apparent lack of self-control is financially rewarded by the provision of free individual accomodation and a NET income of some £18,000 per annum. I'm not suggesting that single mothers be thrown out on the street and have their children taken into care but WHERE'S THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONE'S OWN ACTIONS. The idea of an automatic entitlement to benefits of this magnitude (which far exceed the income levels attained by many good, honest people who work hard for a living) seems to be sending the wrong message to the young, poorly educated X-Factor generation. SOMEONE has to pay for all this and there's absolutely no incentive for this young woman to get off her backside and go to work when she can sit back, watch daytime television and wait for the benefits payments to roll in. What's even more disconcerting is that her kids will grow up in a dependency culture, fully expecting (as their lazy fucking Mother has shown them) to be provided for by the State and the problem grows and is perpetuated. Last time I checked, the 'State' had no money and can only generate revenue through more and more punitive taxes which they then misappropriate. I'm getting close to blowing my stack. I would normally not wish another human being any harm but, for the good of Society, I hope this lazy, selfish bitch (and all the other fucking parasites) choke on their Christmas turkey dinner!!

6th December 2011

Angela Merkel is an evil genius!! She's fast becoming my hero.The Germans have allowed the Eurozone crisis to develop to the point where it all looks like it's going to unravel and we're all doomed and then she'll come in at the last minute with a "this is the only way" speech and the rest of Europe will concede power and sovereignty to the Fourth Reich. Roll on a Federal Europe. The Germans can't fuck up our lives any more than UK Governments have done and at least I won't have to worry about Sterling continuing to fall in value against the supposedly weaker Euro. I just hope the UK isn't given a referendum as all the brain-dead nationalists in this country will vote against us being a part of it and we'll be left out in the cold in our underpants!

30th November 2011

I don't want to sound like a smartass but I've always thought that the conclusion drawn from Einstein's General Theory of Relativity - namely, that the speed of light (186,282 miles per second) cannot be exceeded, was flawed. I just don't like the concept of 'unbreakable' limits. I DO like the idea of limitless development, up and down - for example, they've now discovered that what was previously thought to be the smallest part of an atom actually has its own constituent parts ( a quark is a particle of a Hadron - the most stable of which are the neutrons and protons of atoms).

The scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Cern have accidentally discovered that neutrinos have travelled from A to B marginally FASTER than the speed of light. The results have to be checked and the experiment has to be replicated by others to verify the findings but, all of a sudden, the scientific community is prepared to accept that Einstein could be wrong, This is good. This is groundbreaking. This is the same as Roger Bannister breaking the 4 minute mile which everyone said couldn't be done (afterwards, once people KNEW it could be done, a number of runners ran a sub-4 minute mile and today, it's commonplace).

This dicovery that the speed of light could be exceeded doesn't put bread on my table and it doesn't directly change my life but it shows that we have the capacity to keep breaking boundaries. I truly couldn't be happier!

22nd September 2011

For some reason, I've started putting my pants on left leg first - I've also started picking things up with my left hand, even though I'm right-handed. Not quite sure what's tickling new parts of my brain - probably the fact that the normal parts are now non-functioning due to excessive alcohol.

September 2011

Can't help thinking that what's happened in Libya is just plain wrong. Yes Gaddafi was (is?) a crackpot dictator but the World's full of 'em and NATO don't start a bombing campaign based on that alone. If they did, why aren't they bombing Assad in Syria and why aren't there a series of United Nations resolutions supposedly protecting the 'people' from their leaders in numerous African and South American countries? (By the way, the UN is now, in my eyes, a joke, after sanctioning the prosecution of an illegal war in Iraq and this latest debacle in Libya promoted by spoiled public schoolboy Cameron and that little stack-heel tosspot Sarkosy - both of whom would like to be seen on the International stage to divert attention away from their domestic political and economic problems). I've no doubt that when Gaddafi is caught he'll be tried and hanged barbarically like Saddam Hussein. The West will say that he's been judged by his own people but nothing will happen without our approval and frankly, I think we should be ashamed of ourselves given that this is not at all about 'liberating' the Libyan people but much more to do with oil and extending the West's power base in the Middle-East. We need to be careful meddling in these areas - we haven't a clue who the Rebels forming the NTC in Libya actually are and I think it's highly likely that when sham 'democratic' elections are eventually held in Libya, it will be the hard-line, anti-West Muslims who fill the vacuum. I truly hope I'm wrong.

Post script - William Hague the UK Foreign Secretary has today (28-08-11) indignantly rejected the offer from Gaddafi to form a joint governing body with the rebels. Forgive me for being dense but what the FUCK has this got to do with a UK Foreign Secretary. I have never seen such misplaced arrogance and it makes me ashamed to be British. The days of the Empire are gone Mr Hague. It's time to recognise that this country has been in decline since the Victorian era passed and we're fast becoming an international joke. Don't make it worse by being a conceited little prick!

August 2011

There's no doubt that there were some opportunists taking advantage of the latest ** UK riots to get themselves a new pair of trainers or a new flatscreen 3D TV. There's also little doubt that the initial flashpoint was the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham and the typically poor communications with the black community in the aftermath of that shooting. What worries me, however, is not the spark that ignited this civil unrest but the amount of tinder and kindling to which the flames spread. The Powers-that-be can blame youth fecklessness and Facebook and Twitter all they like but that fails to acknowledge the degree to which there is a deep undercurrent of disaffection and dissatisfaction in the Britain of 2011 - not just among the young people but across all age ranges - (My Dad is in his 80s and expresses more anti-establishment feelings and is more restless than at any time in his life!). We maintain that we are now a 'classless' Society and I think it's safe to say that the days of the Gentry and Nobility versus the Commoners have changed over the last Century (The Second World War had a significant influence on this). However, we must not fool ourselves into thinking that we are now a socially-enlightened, classless, altruistic, community-spirited country. Three distinct 'classes' seem to have developed:

1. The power brokers - politicians, entrepreneurs, the wealthy (even the stupidly, disproportionately paid footballers and entertainers seem to direct our lives). Money, power and influence are inextricably linked - if you have enough of one, the rest follows. Anyone with enough money appears to be outside the rules which are supposed to apply to all of us. These people live in a bubble and have no idea what real life is like and yet it is they who determine how our Society runs. Few of them are people of humility, integrity and vision and most are self-promoting, egotistical, selfish, power-hungry and greedy to the point where they are exactly the wrong sort of people to hold positions of authority. It has been said that anyone who seeks a position of authority should automatically be disqualified from holding one. These people lend weight to that idea.

2. The people who were once classed as working class but who now see themselves as middle class. The chattering masses; Middle England. They've nearly paid off the mortgage on their 3 bed, semi. He has a middle-management job and is in constant fear of redundancy. He drives a 4 year old BMW 3 series with a not-very-special personalised number plate. He hand washes the beemer every Saturday. He takes golf lessons at weekend. He 'jogs' even though he'll likely have a heart attack before he's 60 as he's slightly overweight, eats the wrong food and drinks too much wine and G&T. She has a part time job and goes to Yoga and French lessons twice a week. She's bordering on anorexia. She has her hair and her nails done regularly. She drives a 'green' car or a little town-car which she can't park at the local Sainsburys without dinging someone else's car door. She watches soaps and reads trashy women's magazines telling her all about the lives of celebrities and giving advice about achieving multiple orgasms or finding her G-spot alongside this week's 20 minute meal recipe from some celebrity chef. They give to Charity to appease their consciences without ever questioning why such charity is still necessary in today's world. They get shafted with Council Tax, speeding tickets, parking tickets, fines for leaving their bins out too long, fuel prices, inflation and insurance premiums. They take one foreign holiday each year of exactly 14 days duration and it's usually to the same place in Ibiza or the South of France. They both profess to be happy but they're really not and a sense of time running out pervades their day-to-day lives. They look back fondly on their University days. They always vote in Local and General Elections but they have a vague unease about whether it makes any difference if they only get to choose between a handful of candidates who neither insipre them nor represent their wishes and views. They read the Daily Mail and are concerned about the way the country's going but ... well, what can you do?? The kids have been sent to private school as they would never admit to being racist but they don't want little Jonny (sic) and little Samantha going to the local Comprehensive which has a 90% Pakistani, Indian, Afro-Carribean and Eastern European intake. The private education fees are cripplingly expensive but it'll be worth it if Jonny gets a job in the City and Sammy bags a wealthy playboy or footballer even though the kids will bang Mum and Dad in an old-folks home and only visit them Birthdays and Christmas, when inevitably Dementia or a Stroke means they can't look after themselves and, after a working lifetime of paying punitive taxes, National Insurance and VAT (all of which they've seen wasted and misappropriated by Government), the Local Authority puts a charge on the semi which they've now paid off and purloins the only significant asset they have to pay the care home fees.

3. The underclass. These are the poorly educated, largely forgotten sector of Society. They breed like rats. Their kids get pregnant at 14. They live off benefits and because there are now 3 generations of their family who have been benefit dependent, they know no different and see benefits as a right even though they've contributed little to the system. They read the Sun. They drink, smoke and use recreational drugs freely. They like a bet or two on the horses. They tend not to be monogamous and many families have siblings with a number of different Fathers. They have a deep-rooted suspicion of the Police and they have little regard for Authority. The chinless, retired ex-headteacher on a power trip who is the Chairman of the Magistrates bench which they are hauled before for driving without a licence or insurance and whilst over the drink-drive limit may as well be speaking a foreign language and come from another planet. They have undoubtedly been betrayed by the system but they have also been bred to take no responsibility for their own actions and to have no drive, self esteem or sense of worth. They don't plan for the future but live more day-to-day. They collect ASBOs as badges and petty criminality is the norm. They are growing in number and one day soon will become the majority.

Riots always start with the underclass. They are the ones who will take to the streets at the drop of a hat because they, largely, live in the streets. Violence and action rather than rhetoric and diplomacy comes naturally. They are growing in number and their discontent and resentment is growing too. They are tuned into hypocracy and are set no worthy example by tax-cheating Captains of Industry, empire-building bureaucratic officials, expenses-fiddling MPs, tax-exile celebrities or bent Coppers. They will, without doubt, riot again and if their numbers continue to grow in proportion to their growing discontent then we will one day soon see outright revolution in this country.

We've spent the last 50 years fucking up this country. Experimenting with education, stifling individuality, removing the manufacturing base, dismantling the Family unit, being too politically correct, pandering to minorities, interfering in international issues when we can't even get it right at home, encouraging greed and selfishness (Thatcher) - we are now beginning to pay the price for these failures. Some of our problems are now endemic and have crossed generations. It's going to take 100 years to put it right even if we start NOW and it would seem that no-one in authority has a clue how to start. I REALLY must win the Lottery soon so I can buy a small, uninhabited island and start my own Society!

** I say "latest" as I'm sure we'll (regrettably) see more of this type of ciivil disorder

August 2011

Just got a full tank of petrol in my car. £115.00!! It used to cost me £60 only a year or so ago. I'm thinking of going green and putting a mast and a sail on the roof.

July 2011

I was driving along the Motorway the other day and I saw a lorry which, along with the usual company logo etc, proudly fanfared the following phrase: "Driving considerately to reduce emissions." I'm not quite sure why, but that message, overflowing as it was with pious, self-righteousness, REALLY pissed me off. It somehow summed up what's wrong with this country. It reminded me that we are turning into a nation of limp-wristed, tree-hugging, spineless, risk-averse, namby-pamby, pussies! We're concentrating on the wrong things. No-one takes a risk anymore, we don't make anything, the evolutionary process has stopped and we're becoming dumbed-down, Health & Safety obsessed, politically correct wimps. The lorry in question was doing a steady 59 miles per hour in the middle lane of a 3-lane motorway and gradually easing past another lorry in the slow lane which was going 58.5 mph in a maneouvre which would probably take 2 weeks to complete. If I'd had an RPG, I'd have blown both the fuckers off the road but in the absence of a bazooka, grenade, flame thrower or any other suitable weapon I did the only thing which I could to vent my frustration... I dropped the gearstick into sport mode, unfastened my seat belt, pulled into the fast lane, turned up the music and floored the accelerator. I hit 115mph in short order and probably burned 50 quids worth of petrol. Fuck your "driving responsibly"! It felt good to know that I'd done my bit to move us closer to exhausting the World's fossil fuel. When there's no more oil, maybe the Yanks and the Camel jockeys will stop killing each other. As the lorries became too small to see in the rearview mirror, I dialled up the office on my mobile (which I DON'T have a hands-free kit for), slowed to a comfortable 95mph and felt a little better.

June 2011

The Only Way is Essex winning a BAFTA? Spoiled footballers shagging away and then obtaining super-injunctions? Pippa Middleton's bum? Cheryl Cole being sacked from the US X Factor. Astonishingly, these are apparently the burning issues of the day. Is there any intelligent life on this fucking planet?

May 2011

Can anybody tell me what the fuck we're doing interfering in Libya? It wouldn't have anything to do with oil would it?

April 2011

The Royal Wedding eh? Apparently, over 2 BILLION people will be watching it Worldwide!! I shall not be one of them. Our illustrious leaders have graciously given us an additional bank holiday to mark the joyous occasion. Great...another day when the self-employed can't earn anything. It's all bollocks. If William and Kate really love each other and want to get married then I wish them all the best but why, oh why do we have to have television coverage of the whole thing from 7 am on the day and unending Diana documentaries in the weeks leading up to the wedding? I'm so pissed off with seeing newspaper speculation about the guest list and what designer dresses will be worn and £25000 handbags carried by the pampered socialites attending that I'm actually beginning to hope it rains on them all! Thank god for DVDs and re-runs of Two and a Half Men on Comedy Central.

April 2011

Well, it's 2011. I certainly hope it's going to be a better year. It's not putting it too strongly to say that 2010 was absolute SHIT. However, 2011 is not getting off to the best start - I've not won the lottery yet, I've had to sell my aeroplane due to financial pressure and some friends who I thought were good people haven't even bothered texting me to wish me Happy New Year. Well happy go fuck-yourself new year to you too!

1st January 2011

I've not put anything on my blog for ages as I became quite bored with the whole thing. Posting innane personal details to a website began to seem silly and I've certainly lost almost all interest in the likes of Facebook and Twitter. I suspect my life's not particularly interesting - it even bores me most of the time. Nevertheless, writing certain things down may be theraputic and may help to vent the frustration which normal life inevitably causes from time to time. Who knows, it may even stop me from throwing myself off a bridge one day (or, more likely, throwing someone else off a bridge!).....I shall write something again when I'm sufficiently motivated but I've got a lot of issues to deal with at the moment (I might even write about them in due course).

September 2010