wake up call?

It looks like Hurricane Irene may not be quite as devastating as initially expected BUT surely it's time for the US to start taking Global Warming seriously (as if Katrina wasn't enough!)

The general concensus is that this hurricane has taken this more northerly path because the sea temperatures are unusually high along the NE coast - 1 to 3 degrees F.

Hurricanes have of course taken similar routes before, in 1938 for example. But that hurricane took that course because of the way pressure systems were aligned, it had nothing to do with sea water temperatures.

Of course if this temperature anomaly is to become a regular feature then the NE will need to prepare for more hurricanes. If anything the sea temperatures will continue to rise. In fact it's this particular signal - sea temperature rise - that is the clearest and least ambiguous marker of clear global warming. Sea temperature rise is of course the least complex indicator of global warming and has been on the rise (in both senses of the word!) for decades.

And the most disturbing thing I've seen so far in relation to this? An MCNBC reporter standing in front of a fifty storey skyscraper - on a Sunday morning - with ALL the lights on!!! Why? Do people work in every one of these offices at 4am on a Sunday morning? Highly unlikely. It seems the US still doesn't get what's happening, or make the links. WAKE UP!!

I predict a lot of bullshit

Riots. Typical English recreational activity. And lots and lots of hand wringing and soul searching from people that really can NEVER understand what motivates people to do this because, let's face it, their backgrounds are as different from those of these kids as possible.

Rioting's wrong. Attacking shops and, even worse, individuals', homes is disgraceful. To be fair no-one is justifying this part of it. It did get rather out of hand ...

Of course a lot of it was opportunism from organised gangs. And have pundits made any real attempt to work out why kids join gangs? Of course not.

I was in a gang in my twenties. I absolutely loved it. I loved the power we had and the fear from 'straight's when we were around. We didn't ever start any trouble, and we were rather tinged with intellectualism and irony, but we did some pretty terrible stuff, far worse than a bit of rioting!

My other little bit of personal experience is that I actually live on one of the estates where rioters generally originate from. This time we had no trouble, but we certainly have had in the past. In fact the whole of Hartcliffe's pretty proud that the kids here didn't get involved. This estate does have a very strong sense of community which I'm sure helps.

So what really is behind all this? I reckon three things. Peak Oil and the end of growth, consumerism and crap communities.

Peak Oil effects seem to be affecting the whole world, principally by wiping out growth (from the 'credit crunch' onwards), which leaves almost all of us on the edge finacially.

Consumerism is a really sad substitute for real life. I hate it. I couldn't care less what things are or what they cost. It's pathetic.

Crap communities? Caused mainly by the idiot freak Thatcher and stupid rags like the Daily Mail, which seek to frighten people, setting different sections of society against each other.

It also didn't help that Thatcher, probably the most moronic prime minister we've ever suffered, created this dependency culture that led to the rise (in numbers) of the underclass. Whilst there was a chance of growth I suppose everyone had a chance, but those days are clearly over. When the Fed announces that interest rates in the US will remain 'extremely low' for at least two years you know the game's up. We need massive hikes in interest rates to bring the real message home, that the days of waste, credit and badly directed resources have to end. The government is still sending out mixed and pointless messages.

They've been stirring this pot for years and now it's boiling.

will the chickens be coming home tomorrow?

This was going to be a post on stupidity based around formula one, but today's market developments mean I really do need to allude to them as well! So I'm going to try to struggle through the anaemia and diabetes and hay fever and attempt to blend the two. Don't judge me harshly ...

This appeared on Facebook the other day -

Please vote, we don't want another sport on Sky

Keep F1 coverage on the BBC for ALL races from 2012

Oh dear! I thought it was 2011, not 1961!  

So I responded - very meekly for me!

I love the idea that there's a whole alternative world out there where oil isn't running out, where there will be constant economic growth and where something as unimportant worries people! The idea that there will be anything resembling car racing in ten or twenty years' time is hilarious!

Amazingly this came back to me -

Clearly you know absolutely nothing about the sport, which for a non-fan is to be expected. If you took all the fuel from the cars for the year, and stuck it into a jumbo jet, you wouldn't reach New York with it. The FIA perform a series of initatives to try and keep the sport sustainable, balancing out the carbon effects. Additionally, road cars are now significantly safer today because of past developments through the sport - the energy recovery used in F1 today could have significant benefits for our road cars in the near future. Indeed, London Transport are in discussions with Williams GP regarding their fly-wheel energy recovery.

I suppose you'd have us all passing our free-time by knitting wooly jumpers, and watching cookery programs? I could only suggest that you report back immediately to the drugs company, that the trial batch they sent you last week has caused your brain to malfunction.

Oh dear - I appear to have rattled a hippy's cage!!

Let's analyse this.

Clearly you know absolutely nothing about the sport, which for a non-fan is to be expected. If you took all the fuel from the cars for the year, and stuck it into a jumbo jet, you wouldn't reach New York with it.

Really? I did ask for a source for this amazing claim, but obviously none was forthcoming.

Well I checked and here goes - A fully loaded 747 carries a maximum of 63,705 U.S. gal which is sufficient for an almost 8,000 mile range. Shorter trips or less cargo and it would carry less fuel.

So let's be unscientific and say that it's 4000 miles (discounting the lower fuel weight resulting in even better fuel efficiency) so say 32,000 US gallons.

The average F1 car has an 80 litre tank.

32,000 US gallons is 121,000 litres. This allows 1500 trips full tank to empty tank.  There are an average of 17 F1 races a year. So this will allow 88 trips each race. So I reckon he could be right - but I'd love to see his original source.

However of course the actual fuel used during a race is a tiny proportion of the fuel used to keep the whole show going ie transport from track to track, support vehicles and, most importantly, the fuel used to get punters to the racetrack! This is why EVERYBODY should be taught basic economics at school!

The FIA perform a series of initatives to try and keep the sport sustainable, balancing out the carbon effects. Additionally, road cars are now significantly safer today because of past developments through the sport - the energy recovery used in F1 today could have significant benefits for our road cars in the near future. Indeed, London Transport are in discussions with Williams GP regarding their fly-wheel energy recovery.

This looks like classic Greenwash to me. Amusing that this most unsustainable of 'sports' has to resort to it, but none of this is 'sustainable'. The end of cheap fuel and the eventual end of all fuel (for cars) will see to that. Our poster totally misses the point, then really descends into one ... and I love the idea that he thinks there will be road cars in the future!! Someone clearly hasn't had their Peak Oil moment yet - what a shock he's going to have!

I suppose you'd have us all passing our free-time by knitting wooly jumpers, and watching cookery programs? I could only suggest that you report back immediately to the drugs company, that the trial batch they sent you last week has caused your brain to malfunction.

Oh dear, here we go! What the fuck is going on in his head here? I think that because I've gently pointed out a few inevitabilities that he thinks there's some agenda here! There obviously isn't, he's probably confusing Peak Oil proponents with those scummy environmentalists. The last sentence is pure stupidity, and although he doesn't know me I suspect he'd want to retract that if he was aware that I need to take around 30 pills a day just to stay alive. Hippy moron!

So from the ridiculous to the sublime let's look at some of the events that have happened in the real world.

A week or so ago those bloated oddballs that run the EU, together with the dipsticks that run Greece, came up with a plan to keep the Greeks in luxury and indolence. 'Kicking the can down the road' is the phrase most commentators have employed to describe this money juggling.

But even I didn't expect it to blow up so quickly. The contagion has moved to Italy and probably Spain. This will pull the Euro apart and push the world back into recession. But what did we expect? Permanent recession now seems to be the only way forward, until we finally all realise that growth has finished, not for good but probably for at least a thousand years. We've obviously reached Peak Oil and those idiots and hippies in power haven't allowed for it. Some of them still talk about growth as if it's an option. It isn't. Once energy and commodity inputs start to level off and then fall all those caught with debt are NEVER going to clear it. That applies to individuals, families, companies and countries.

So we need a radical reappraisal NOW, not this constant nostalgic fiddling with a system that has died. How long will the politicians take to realise it? I don't know but those who understand it the quickest have the best chance of surviving this and taking their countries with it. There's not one British politician who gets it yet, at least the US has Ron Paul!

So, what next? The same advice as always - clear your debts, buy seeds, hand tools, gold, silver and land. Learn real skills and crafts that don't need energy inputs (other than elbow grease) and start putting down deep roots in your community.

it's dino time

Bomb in Oslo? Yawn.

For fuck's sake, when will these mummies  boys ever learn? WE DON'T CARE! The world has VAST problems ahead of it and your decadent, babyish gestures are pathetic.

Terrorists are all mummies' boys scum, brought up by priviledged parents, paid to get through uni, discover Marx, 'Jesus', some twat mullah or Hitler and, to gain kudos with their drug-addled, low IQ chums, start dabbling in explosives. Oh well, they're never going to get girlfriends, pets or jobs so why not take all their uselessness out on the rest of us?

Destroying is easy, creating is difficult. The mummies' boys ALWAYS take the easy way, never dare venture outside their safety zone.

And such cowards! They don't dare take on a big, serious country, but a little, uninvolved, quiet country like Norway. A PAGAN country for fuck's sake!

We ALL have a common enemy - the transition from oil to whatever comes after, and all whilst the planet's being ravaged by climate change. You mummies' boy Marxist islamic twats are a waste of space and have missed the point big time. Not one of you will survive the transition, you'll be crying your little baby eyes out when your allowance cheques dry up and you can't afford to fly or drive anywhere. Wankers.

a great leap backwards

'That's a small step for Man, a giant leap for mankind,' fluffed Neil Armstrong when he was the fourth person to step on the Moon in 1969. (The first three were Lionel Jeffries, Edward Judd and his girlfriend in 1900 of course).

1969 was the same year that Concorde was launched.

Perhaps 1969 was the peak year of human progress. US oil peaked the next year. Since then we've been treading water and now it seems like the whole world is drowning.

Yes, the final space shuttle flight has just landed, the shuttle, like Concorde, now destined for a museum. So what's happening?

Firstly the US is the world's poorest country, it really can't afford to continue in space.

Secondly, and more importantly, peak oil is clearly on us. The space programme has been fueled by oil, not nuclear power. Even the US can't justify the spiralling cost, even if it is putting it on the national credit card.

Obama, despite appearances, isn't stupid. He knows the reality of the energy crisis. He knows that there's little point in wasting vast amounts of increasingly scarce energy on a project that's doomed to failure precisely because of the nature of the energy crisis.

Sci fi writers have always seen our future in space, the human race gradually spreading out amongst the stars. Sadly it's not going to happen, at least not in the next few millenia.

Firstly we have to find a way of continuing technological progress without easy oil. That will take centuries. We're going to go through the most enormous upheaval over the next couple of decades as climate change and peak oil REALLY kick in. Civilization will practically collapse, we'll all return to subsistance farming and perhaps, if we're lucky, driving trams or steam trains, making furniture or frowing wood. Probably for centuries that will be all we do. The space race will become a distant fairy tale. We'll be too busy surviving to build spaceships. But eventually, once we've all adjusted and once we start progressing again in a solar economy we may find a way to get out into space again. And this time it won't be a race with an end. We really will get out amongst the stars.

california regrets ...

A ten mile stretch of an ironically named 'freeway' is to close - sadly not permanently - this weekend in Los Angeles. So? Why don't all those sad car drivers simply switch to the magnificent, world-leading, state of the art modern transport system that is the Pacific Electric Railway? With its fast big cars linking LA with its suburbs and other towns in southern California we should all be jealous of far thinking LA's preparation for the future ...

We wish - this magnificent system CLOSED by the 1960s, DELIBERATLY purchased and run down by a dinosaur combination of car and oil companies.

It's payback time commies! Okay, LA is gradually, slowly, reintroducing trams, but the current system is a tiny shadow of what it was and will be again.

So why is this 'freeway' being closed? So they can make 1 billion dollars worth of 'improvements' including widening a bridge. Why?? Who's going to be using it in ten or twenty years time? California surely should be investing for the FUTURE, not the past? They are even planning $4 helicopter trips to avoid the mess, though there are FREE journeys on mass transit. California is the crazy state that still thinks it's the 1960s, that there's still oil in USA oil wells and that the world's their oyster.

Not so long ago California planned to convert its entire road system and accompanying infrastructure to take hydrogen fuelled cars - no doubt until some bright spark explained to them that hydrogen wasn't a fuel but just an energy carrier, and one that required MORE energy than existing internal combustion engines. This is of course the state that has suffered from energy blackouts due to lack of generating capacity - how exactly were they going to generate even MORE electricity to fuel their hydrogen cars?

California really needs to start taking the future SERIOUSLY!

the underwhelming 'right' in the USA

The so called 'right' wing in the USA are in terminal decline. They are supporting the candidacy of a complete moron - Michelle Bachmann - for the US presidency. You would have thought they'd learned their lesson with the borderline retard Sarah Palin, but hey, these folks ain't for learnin'!

This Bachmann twat has many failings. Firstly she's a 'creationist'. These idiots believe the world was 'created' by a 'god' 6000 years ago. Not just the world but the whole universe. Now, we can disprove this on any clear evening. Michelle, ask your warders to let you out one starry night. Look up in the sky. See the stars? The light from many of them has taken well over 6000 years to reach us. We are seeing them as they were 10000, 50000, 100000 years ago! And look out for little blurry shapes as well. These are galaxies. They are at least a million light years away. Yes, these have been around for at least a million years. TWAT!

Secondly she thinks global warming is a 'hoax'. For fuck sake you commie cow - the only people that believe that are far leftist scum who don't want it to be true as it will be the end of the socialist dream if we can't just exploit the earth's resources for ever. The evidence is everywhere, no sane person 'disbelieves' it. It's happening. Don't be such a fucking moron!

Thirdly she doesn't believe that gays should have rights! Her fuckwit of a husband actually said, last year, on a 'christian' radio station, that gays are 'barbarians', and that they 'need education and discipline'. Discipline eh? No doubt with him wearing leather pants. I think we've sussed out his agenda right away.

In reality the USA is both the world's poorest country (because of its huge pile of debt) and it's last communist nation. Joke candidates like Bachmann are a sure sign of the once great nation's decline into irrelevance and decadence. It's sad to see that the 'right' is the worst offender. The USA is heading for collapse - I have two more trips there, New York city in December and Orlando next October. I suspect they may be the last times we'll be able to go. The USA will collapse sooner rather than later.

The right isn't all stupid and decadent - the excellent Ron Paul holds true to REAL RIGHT wing values with no hint of the communism, fiscal childishness and absolute uneducated stupidity of the other right, of which Bachmann is just one of the stupidest and most incompetent examples. But he won't be voted in because he actually confronts Americans with the reality of their situation.

Meanwhile in the UK we don't even have a right wing party!!

pravda ...

Thanks to Rupert Murdoch and his parade of brainless, immoral twats, we've been given a taste of the communist media. Decent people live a life that never thinks for a second of the sewer that is the Sun and News of the World. But it's been rather waved in our faces over the last week or so.

But who are the real villians? Why, the readers of those rags, that's who. People whose lives are so damaged, so vile, so fucking STUPID, that they allow this muck into their lives. People that have no respect for anything, the uneducated, smoking, litter dropping, thoughtless scum that should, let's be honest, be the victims of mass murder.

I know that none of my readers would ever allow this filth into their houses, so you are safe, but surely now is the time to begin building a register of worthless people to be culled once Peak Oil hits? It's hardly an extremist viewpoint.

never again

I thought I was dreaming this morning when I spotted the following, unbelievable, headline in the Evening Post.

'Let us smoke in pubs again'.

This is ridiculous. Life should be lived moving forwards, not backwards. The smoking ban in workplaces is there to protect employees from secondhand smoke. IT WILL ALWAYS BE THERE. From now the war against this old man's habit should be stepped up, with smoking banned in all open spaces, and within 5 years completely. It is an embarrassment that a few old men still do this, I suppose they've simply given up on life. But should a tiny minority ever have the  right to force this on others? Of course not.

Pubs have improved no end since the ban. It seems incredible now that it had ever been allowed. The pubs are now full of decent people, families, teenagers etc. Okay, we still have to (for a few more years) have to run the gauntlet of a few elderly losers in the pub entrance showing the whiole world how uncool and fucking stupid they are, but once in a pub I'd challenge anyone to say that it's not 1000% better than the old days.

So a simple message to all smokers - FUCK OFF AND DIE!!!!!!

greece ... oh dear

There's something very wrong with Greece, and if you stand back and apply logic to the situation it gets even stranger.

Greece was the cradle of civilization, but it really isn't European in the sense we think of 'European'. And the behaviour of its people at the moment is about as un-European as you can get.

Situation - the countrty has been living beyond its means for years. Entry into the EU made it even worse. And membership of the Euro simply gave them another layer of  protection from the real world.

And now some very large chickens have come home to roost. Greece has enormous debts, a crumbling economy, Stalinist style infrastructure and a people who seem to think that it's 1972 and there are still 40 years of cheap oil in front of them.

And how do they react? Do they pull together to get the country out of the mess it's in? Do they start paying taxes rather than think they are voluntary? Do they give their government the respect it needs to get through this? Do they fuck! No, they stick to that 1972 mentality and call a general strike! How exactly is that going to solve their economic problems? Will it increase productivity? Efficiency? To my simple mind all I can see it doing is decrease economic activity and cause even more problems.

And who's behind this? The usual suspects - communists (remember them?), socialists and trades unionists - the very groups that think the world owes them a living, that the future will be one of increasing wealth and sod the environmental destruction.

In a year's time Greece will be bankrupt, Europe's first (but not last) failed state, and its people will be much, much poorer than they are now. They may even have been expelled from the EU.

The simple fact is that the centuries of growth are over. Without growth interest and debts can't be paid off. Without growth our huge nanny states will have no option but begin to shed parts of themselves. Perhaps the Greeks will be lucky, being first to suffer they will scale down, build resilience into their communities and start living off the land again. Perhaps, at least in that sense, they are fortunate. Who will even remember socialism, communism and trade unions in fifty years' time?

trees - your time is coming

Amazingly British orchards are in decline. It seems incredible that something as important as our trees can be neglected in this day and age. Trees are going to be our lifeblood in the future, for food, fuel, building and controlling climate change. The reason British orchards are in decline is because the chavs and the supermarkets are working in collusion to destroy the British apple market.

It won't work. Supermarkets are beginning to source food locally. This has nothing to do with environmental responsibilty but everything to do with economics. Transport costs are rising and are only set to rise faster and faster as the cheap oil vanishes.

Now is the time to start planting. Trees take a long time to grow but even our two year old apple tree, less than five feet tall, is absolutely full of apples this year. We've only room for three trees in the garden, but one advantage is that they have a very small footprint and tou can grow other things underneath them.

In fifty years wood will be everywhere. It will heat our homes, the trees will produce tonnes of fruit and nuts, even our steam trains will burn wood rather than coal. Houses, furniture and carts will be built from it, and there will probably be hundreds of other uses we haven't even thought of yet.

£50 fine? A bullet more like ...

They're planning to amend the littering law so that the driver of a car is responsible for the people in the car not throwing rubbish out of the windows.

About time. But you know what - some fuckers are whining that this is wrong! The classic was the mother who said she couldn't be expected to keep an eye on her kids and stop them throwing rubbish out.

Er, why on earth has she not educated her kids not to do this? What sort of people are these? Her kids should be taken into care and she should be taken out and shot. Scum.

They are only planning to fine between £50 and £80 yet some civil liberties baby was whining about the 'huge' fines.

If we want a clean country we can be proud of perhaps the law should be £1000 for a first offence, £10000 for a second and deportation for a third. We'll soon see a cleaner Britain.

absolutely insane

We live in seriously peculiar times. Now I'd have expected a Labour government to attack allotments - all that freedom, fresh air and working class accents make them sick to their stomachs. But the tories? I'll grant that Eric Pickles looks like a 1950s cross between Humpty Dumpty and a far left northern Labour councillor, but does he have to act like one?

It seems the bulky bolshevist wants to take away the requirement that councils provide allotment spaces. WTF?? There are huge waiting lists for allotments, and they will only get longer. EVERYONE grows their own these days, and in just a few years once oil-based inputs such as fertilizer and tractors wither and die we are going to need to grow on every available square inch of land. It will be grow or die.

Churchill encouraged us to Dig for Victory. I doubt that the corpluent commie has ever even heard of him. Peak Oilers often quote Churchill - he was a man centuries ahead of his time. Growing food will become the most important thing for all of us soon enough.

And what's forecast for the abandoned allotments. Social housing! What the FUCK!

We need to be planting fruit trees everywhere NOW. Parks and open spaces need to be planted with crops NOW. Every single allotment and garden needs to be planted NOW. People need the skills, the seeds, the tools and the space to learn to grow successfully NOW.

Can't someone just puncture this Trotskyite twat with a pin?

hunter's rest

 

The pub car park.

Entrance.

Stilton and Cheddar ploughmans.

A surprise extra - miniature railway on site!

The Hunters Rest is one of those pubs you have to work hard to find. All I'm saying is that it's to the south of Bristol! Great atmosphere, great range of drinks and a decent vegetarian food selection.

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And a real treat is the miniature railway in the grounds which gives an excellent ride through the woods - and was open today.

the good the bad and the totally fucking stupid ...

Everyone in Bristol should be very proud of yesterday's event, when a group of local people defied the police - including foreign officers imported from Wales - and told Tesco's that it wasn't wanted in Stokes Croft.

Stokes Croft is a Bohemian and forward-looking community in Bristol. It's a place of small local shops and sustainable initiatives. Yet multinational hippy supermarket Tesco decides it's the ideal location for one of its useless Express supermarkets. No need to ask the locals, what's it got to do with them?

So yesterday they paid the price. Decent Bristolians went out on a sultry evening and told Tesco's exactly what the community really thinks of them. The police, duffers that they are, totally misunderstood what was going on and decided to randomly strike out at locals looking on. What a chance for the Welsh to have a go at the English.

But of course what happened is that the heavyhandedness of the outsiders was splashed all over the media. Local heroes have ensured that  not only will Tesco's NEVER open a shop in Stokes Croft but, hopefully, as a result of this sharp learning curve will NEVER do the same anywhere else.

Does this mean that all supermarkets are bad? Of course not! Here in Hartcliffe Morrisons opened a new store in a very run down part of the area giving locals a good place to shop, where most of us can walk to, and providing dozens of jobs in the area. They didn't take trade from anywhere else (apart from the ASDA in Whitchurch) and certainly nobody in Hartcliffe opposed it.

Of course in the long term all supermarkets will fail as the oil runs out, but hopefully the building itself will find a new role in the future, perhaps as an indoor market and bring and take centre.

And as for Tescos in Stokes Croft? Well this is what one of their spokespeople said (probably a 23 year old middle class prefect who seriously believes he'll be driving an electric car in 20 years' time) - 'we'll defy local resentment and reopen the supermarket'.

No you won't you hippy twat! 'Cos if you try the WHOLE of Bristol will chace you back to fucking London!

barricades ...

Seething. There is some socialist dinosaur twat scumbag currently whingeing on about how it's the workers in the country who create the wealth, not the entrepreneurs. We should bring the gallows back for these maniacs.

This is of course a response to the disgraceful scenes in London where some scumbag prats have got it into their tiny brains that Fortnum and Masons is a legitimate 'target' for their 'protests'. This is because in their middle class world anyone who is not a lifelong student and member of the Socialist Workers' Party is some elitist, Eton-educated git.

Alongside the dinosaur was a very sound fellow who bore an uncanny resemblance to Paul Whitehouse and made the BRILLIANT point that if we (that is mainly the public service workers) continue to pay ourselves for doing fuck all we are stealing money from our kids and their kids. This should have shut the lefty up but of course it went through one ear and out the other two.

I am proud to say that I attended both the Poll Tax events in the 80s. But I went because I DESPISED Thatcher and her socialistic policies. These fat, soft, tory scum that now go on protests are opportunist lowlifes of the idiocracy.

In this case we should have taken a leaf out of the soon-to-be-late Colonel's book and GUNNED the fuckers down!

fool prices

(Copyright Steve Sainsbury Collection/Rail Thing)

George Osborne - yet another socialist trying to keep consumerism going. Pathetic. Why are British politicians so frightened to let the price mechanism determine the pace of the change from oil to renewables? Why keep subsidising gormless motorists rather than let the market dictate quicker pick up of mass transit development and change the amount we drive?

And what do you make of the BBC giving air time to idiots (of the conspiracy theory persuasion) whimpering that garages put up fuel by 1p a litre yesterday morning as if they had foreknowledge of what was probably the biggest surprise in the budget? What world do these dickheads live in and why do the BBC pander to them?

So the idiocracy continues to get ludicrously cheap petrol, still go for growth and still push their bullshit conspiracy theories.

Never have I felt so needed or wanted!

idiots

There's been a parade of idiots this week! A couple of days ago a group of real skanky humourless looking chavs took a petition to 10 Downing Street claiming that fuel prices were too high and would the government kindly subsidise their anti-social behaviour and spread its costs on to general taxation. Morons. Listen you fucks - petrol and diesel is incredibly CHEAP. Make the most of it because prices are going to skyrocket over the next decade and most of you will not be able to get fuel at ANY price. Get used to it.

Whilst here in Bristol a bunch of equally chav dinosaurs were celebrating our spineless council's pathetic attempt at keeping the past going by authorising a new Sainsbury's supermarket. The chavs are some football team supporters who seem to think that this is a green light to build a new stadium. Miles from the railway!!

The best thing about Ashton Gate is that it has its own railway station, currently unused but easy to reopen (it's on what will be the extremely busy and profitable Portishead line) which is obviously Sainsbury's main criteria for grabbing this site at a knock down price. Not that supermarkets have a long term future, but it may keep customers coming for a few more years after oil, and will of course make it easy to bring in fresh stock.

All in all a bit of an anachronistic week!

the war on bullshit

Yes, this blog gets a new name yet again, but I reckon this will be the last one!

There is a theme in most of what I write, and pretty much a life theme too. I HATE bullshit. Whether it's lying christians, multi-level-marketing, meat eaters, politicians, socialists, Ufologists, cowards, racists, smokers, the BNP and a horde of other morons, I'm sick of them all. And from now on this site will attack every bit of bullshit I come across, whether in real life or on the news.

So use it. I'll try to post every day, I promise. Have stuff on students, multi-level-marketing and 'Chrsitmas' in the pipeline. Please feel free to comment!

the wisdom of students ...

This is a true story. You won't believe me but it's no less true for that!

University Plymouth, this week. Question by lecturer - 'Who believes in global warming'. A sea of hands obviously goes up. But just to be naughty he then asks 'Who doesn't believe in global warming?' A few hands go UP!

Now remember, these are students - they are supposed to be reasonably informed and intelligent. And they are on a travel and tourism course, one of the areas already affected by global warming. WTF??

A simple fact - you can't 'believe' or 'not believe' in global warming. Global warming is happening. Climate change happens nearly all the time. Nobody disputes it. All scientists agree it is happening. So you can't 'believe' or 'not believe' it - it's a simple, recordable, scientifically proven FACT.

Where there's dispute is in the level of global warming caused by human action. Common sense suggests, and scientific records prove, that as carbon dioxide increases so do global temperatures. But the earth circles the sun in an orbit that changes over long periods of time. Movement of continents also change ocean currents. Volcanic activity can drop the temperature, pollution can mask levels of temperature rises. How much climate change is caused by human activity? That's the question.

What's scary is that despite the facts a proportion of even educated people haven't got it. I know it's not nice having to deal with it, and their lives will be a lot harder than ours were, but hiding from it won't make it go away. Idiots.