Smoking in Cars With Children: Because Stupidity Should be Illegal

The government has apparently been wasting their time over the last few weeks debating whether to ban smoking in cars when children are around. They have been literally talking about how they can discourage parents from hotboxing their car with toxic fumes with their children present.
Of all the things...

The negative effects that smoking has on your health is pretty much public knowledge, to the point that you'd have to be a hermit to not come across some form of 'Quit' advertising. Chances are, if you smoke (and there's nothing wrong with that...if you want to spend hundreds, maybe thousands, of pounds on a one-way trip to an early grave then that's your right) - if you smoke you'll probably come across across that one asshole who complains or comments on that 'cigarette' you have in your hand.
So to say you know nothing about the effects of smoking is a goddamn lie. Hell, they even say so on the packaging.

By this logic, anyone who smokes knows the effects it has on them and the effects it has on others.

So let's say you have one of the most responsible jobs in the world...let's say you're a parent.
You decide to take your kid to the beach or the zoo, after all it's a nice day outside.
You strap your kid in, get in the drivers seat and head off.
Halfway there, you get that urge. You could wait an extra 10min but to hell with it, after all you have to enjoy the little things in life.
You pull a cigarette out, light it and take in a deep breath.

This sound like you? Then you are a fucking retard.

Only the most selfish of people would put their own needs above the health and safety of their own children. But apparently there are people like this out there because the government has seen fit to waste tax-payer money on such a menial debate that could easily have been averted if people were not so fucking monsterous.

Congratulations.
Thanks to you we now have a law that actually states the parents in the UK are too retarded to look after the well-being of their own children.
We actually had to physically declare it illegal to smoke in cars with children.
Because parents nowadays are to stupid to know how to actually care for their children.

Underage Pervert, Assualts Women, (Theoretically) Gets Away With It

The string of sex assaults in Manchester should hopefully be over, now that police have a 14 your old who pleaded guilty to the crimes. Yep, you read that right, fourteen years old. Oh what a joy it is to live in such modern times.
Out there, there was a kid, who's voice had probably only just broken and was getting his first spots, who figured he would go around and molester the nearest women he could find, in broad daylight no less.
I mean, puberty does weird things to you as a kid, it makes you horny, but we live in the modern age.
Let out your sexual frustration on the internet. Abuse the hand, not your fellow human.

And it's not as if it's a teen thinking it would be cool to admit to the crimes as the women stated that the attacks involved a kid who looked to be that age (unless its another 14yo who wants the infamy (or lack of, I'll get there in a minute) of being a sex-greedy degenerate.

One of the big problems with the law (problem in some cases, not all) is that under 18 year of age it is illegal to release your name to the public. This is good in most cases in that it respects the privacy of the individual, especially if you are the victim, but also if the crime is menial gives you a second chance at a real life.
This is not a menial crime. There are some women out there who will be emotionally scarred for the rest of there lives.
In twenty years time somebody will likely marry this pervert with no knowledge of what he did. Why? Because the law said so. (I know that he will be branded a sex fiend and will have to legally declare that he's a registered sex offender, but does that always work?)

With no knowledge of who this kid is we have no knowledge of what the driving force behind his decision to enact such heinous crimes was.
Was it life at home (probably, normally a overly touchy father or uncle)?
Mental illness (perhaps, though shouldn't he have been under proper observation if this was the case)?
Peer pressure (maybe some sex-themed fight club at school, which will still remain under the radar)?
Video games (because you can stroke the Pokemon in the new game and that's totally like sexual assault)?

What we're left with is the hope that the legal system will see he gets the much needed help...so basically no hope.
In twenty years time he'll be back, no one will know who he is and he'll be more than ready to start again.

2022 World Cup: Corruption, Lies and Slavery - An Ode to Qatar

Oh Qatar. Your continuing efforts to become the popular kid is only making you out to look like a fucking moron.
Seriously. You expect us to believe that you did not bribe anyone in the FIFA offices to get a chance to host the world cup?
Of course it wouldn't be so far fetched. I mean, it's not like you have any record of corruption and shady politics. And it's not like FIFA has a track record for accepting bribes.
But oh look, you managed to secure the 2022 World Cup with nay stadiums already built.
This looks completely, one hundred percent, above board...

So now we get to the fact you need stadiums before the crucial date. Sure you've got just under ten years to build them but you need to hurry to make sure they are all up to speed.
You've got to go through all the right channels, submit your plans to the planning offices in your legit government, choose sites that will have little if no impact on geological or ecological wonders.
An added bonus will be the thousands of jobs you'll be able to provide, all the lives you'll be able to temporarily improve.

What's that? You're using slave labour?
Of course you are.

Nepalese migrants, seeking a new life, promised hope and freedom and subjected instead to long days in blistering heats with no water or shelter.
Packing them into cramped conditions, allowing disease to spread.
Letting them die in droves knowing that there's another just round the corner to take their place.

The problem is we've already been there. Slavery is no new marvellous invention to us modern countries. We still have to contend with the fact that our ancestors saw a group of humans as sub-human and implored them to do horrible unspeakable things, while horrible unspeakable things were done to them.
This happened not once, but twice.
The effects are still felt even today. You should check the history books.

So here you are, pretending to be the kid with that shiny new watch because you have a city in the middle of the desert that looks like a computer gave birth.
But the truth is you still have a lot of growing up to do.
The rest of us aren't perfect, far from it, but we're slowly learning from our mistakes.

You would think that being able to buy off an entire organisation would allow you to provide the necessary basic human needs for your workers.
You would have thought that a sport where a single player can earn more in a week than a person makes in his lifetime would have enough money to not resort to slavery.

It's only a matter of time.

Violent Video Game Forces Kid to Shoot Grandmother, Apparently

So last Thursday an 8 year old kid was playing Grand Theft Auto IV when he suddenly decided to stop playing, pick up a gun and shoot his grandmother in the head.
Naturally the media had an orgasm. They could blame the video game, again.

Let's look at the situation again, ignoring the whole 'violent video games lead to violent behaviour debate'.

An 8 year old kid was playing Grand Theft Auto IV
An 8 year old kid was playing a game that's quite clearly made for adults. That's like putting a cat in charge of a 747. The cat will sit and look at the instruments but it won't understand what the hell is going on. Naturally, the cat is likely to be confused.
But more importantly, who is the idiot who put a cat in charge of a 747.
And even more importantly, who is the irresponsible parent/guardian who gave a child a game that was not meant for children.

He picks up a gun
A child has easy access to a device that has been used for many centuries in the slaughter of humans for political and religious motives.
Why? Why did he have access to it? Who's the idiot who doesn't know the fundamental law in owning a firearm that you do not keep it in reach of children. Do we seriously need to put one of those retarded labels on all guns from now on? Is that what this incident is telling us?
Also, who keeps a loaded gun in their house? That's pretty much just stating that you expect to shoot something or someone some day soon.
Also, why was the kid not being supervised while all this is happening.

And shot his grandmother in the head
OK, so is somewhat more tragic.
But I'm curious to know. How does a kid who has only (apparently) seen guns in a video game suddenly know how to both fire a gun and aim it at an object as small as a persona head. Unless he was at point blank range this was one hell of a lucky shot for a first-timer.
Playing Grand Theft Auto does not automatically make you a better gunman. If it did, the US Army would have bought out Rockstar years ago.
The kid must have had prior shooting experience.
Otherwise, as I said, this was one hell of a lucky shot.


So is the game to blame?
Abso-fucking-lutely not.

If games were as violence-inducing as people claim them to be, the whole of the US would be in a state of anarchy not unlike Syria or Egypt. It'll be like 'The Crazies' (lets say the remake version).

And if the kid did want to shoot someone because of the game? Well it's not the game's fault.
GTA is a violent game, sure, but it's also a richly-satirical world full of exploration and intrigue. The violence is only a minor aspect of it and yet they clearly state "For Adults Only".
If the brakes on your car fail, do you blame the guy who sold you the brakes or the entire Ford Motor Company?

Door-to-Door Religion, or Why am I Afraid of the Jehovah's Witnesses?

I'm sitting in my kitchen making the most of the weather when suddenly I spot two smartly dressed men approaching my door and I immediately know who they are and why they are here.
I have two options. Open the door and greet them, or cower and hide. I choose the latter every time, as do most people in this situation. But why?
These men pose no threat, other than a mere inconvenience, and yet I treat them as though they were highly contagious. But who is to blame in this situation. Them or me?

Let's look at the Jehovah's Witnesses first.
First of all there are always two of them and they are always well dressed, normally in a white shirt and black tie and trousers. Often they carry a satchel or briefcase containing various bits of literature on Jesus and God. In other words, you can normally spot one coming from a distance, which is nice as it's kinda like a messenger announcing his presence in a castle.
When at your door they only ring once, or knock the appropriate amount of times (three?) and never hang about for longer than a minute, even if they know someone is inside the house. They might leave you a leaflet through the door, but it's small and easily disposed of.
They are always polite, which in this day and age is a very rare trait to find in a person, however once they start talking they do seem hard to stop (if only because you feel rude trying to interrupt them). But tell them you aren't interested and they thank you for your time and leave.
And then it's over.

Now consider a chugger, or other unwanted door person.
Normally they are dressed in rags (if asking for contribution to something) or over-dressed if looking for (political) support. Others dress like the rest of us, luring us into that false sense of security to open the door in the event that it might be something worthwhile.
They will hang around your door for a while, especially if they know someone is in, often guilt-tripping the house-owner to answer the door just for hanging around for so long. If by chance you resist opening the door you are instead greeted by the sound of a thousand dead trees hitting your door mat - leaflets and booklets about every minor detail that you purposely avoided trying to find out about.
Now the people themselves aren't exactly rude but they always go off on some little tale on how something happened and how they are the only ones who can fix it (or how you can, if they want money). By this point you can look like a complete bastard and refuse or give in and let them take your dignity.
In short, it's not a pleasant experience.

So between the two, the one you would most hope for would be a Jehovah's Witness right? Right?
Wrong?
Why? Because I feel so damn bad turning them down.
They have done absolutely nothing to offend me. All they want is to try to talk about the thing they are most passionate about (like I would tell my friends about a great game of golf I just had) and my response is to tell them "Not interested" and close the door in their face.
It's not like they are standing on the street corners shouting passages from the bible. They aren't strapping explosives to their bodies, killing innocents in the hope of getting laid in heaven. They are just knocking on my door hoping to have a chat. And I won't let them.

I'm not exactly anti-social, and I certainly don't mind telling people to sod off, but for some reason I just can't bring myself to doing it to these people.
Part of what scares me I guess is that they are willing to go door-to-door in the first place, willing to subject themselves to the sneers and jibes of the arseholes they try to talk to.
I couldn't go door-to-door, not in a million years. I'm just not that brave. And the fact there are people who are that brave, in this day and age, scares me.

I had another experience a few years back where some other people knocked on my door (an old couple, in plain clothes, the bastards) and I opened it like a chump. They were peddling some religion (I can't remember which) but the audacity with which they were trying to shove it down my throat prompted me in having some fun of my own.
I'm not exactly proud of this (a lie, I am), but I pretended I was part of this great organisation (I think I called it 'The Children of Alphamus Prime') where we believed we were all the children of aliens and that by acknowledging our true heritage would mean we would be chosen to return to the home world (I promise this was NOT inspired by any current cult religion...).
Anyway, they became somewhat unsettled by my rantings about aliens and space, especially when I tried to "recruit" them into the organisation.
They pretty much hurried off, ignoring the other houses on the street.

But I could never do this to the Jehovah's Witnesses.
I keep telling myself that one of these days I'll open the door, tell them I'm not interested but try to talk about something else. Sport or movies or hell heck, even the weather. But I never do. Because I'm a wuss.
If it's a hot, sunny day I could always invite them in for a cold drink. Praise them for what they are doing even if I'm not one of their target audiences (I mean who in this world still is able to be swayed by a door-to-door religious person?). But I don't, because I'm a wuss.
Part of me is curious to know if someone does invite them in how they would react. Would they be put off because it rarely happens (that first episode of Black Books springs to mind) or they be happy someone actually cared?

So there it is.
In a world where disease and war and famine and horrible, horrible things happen, there's still some people out there who mean us no harm.
And I can't even bring myself to open the door for them.

Daily Happenings (24/06/13) - Evening Edition

Had a good day? Think again.


NHS or Tesco?
Doctors rebuke suggestions to make hospitals more customer friendly like Tesco did.
Hmm...Tesco actually care about their customers, but the NHS does not. Tesco doesn't kill people at the weekend, but the NHS makes you 44% more likely to die.
So it may not be a fair comparison but something needs to be done to curb these late-week fatalities.
Premium pays for weekend workings are out of the question and shifting labour across the full week will apparently make things worse at the beginning of the week. So what's the next step forward?
Give the doctors less pay. If they want to slack off for the weekend, that's fine by me. But why should I pay their salary.

Berlusconi Guilty
The law has finally told us exactly what we knew all along.
At least his global media empire didn't sway the outcome...yet.
I doubt he will actually get his sentenced jail time for this. Just another re-election.

Nelson Mandela Condition Critical
It's a sad state of affairs for such a respected individual, but we have to accept that all humans, even those responsible for saving millions, will die eventually.
There's not much else Mr Mandela can do with his life. It's up to others to carry on his good deeds and let him rest for once.

Carrey Does U-Turn of Opinions
Jim Carrey was always a big fan of the Kick-Ass movie, an ultra-violent superhero comedy and voiced his gratitude when he won a role in the sequel Now it seems he wishes he didn't due to the Sandy Hook shootings.
There's no doubt that the Kick-Ass movies are overtly violent (that was their main base of appeal), but why criticise a movie you voiced strong support for just because of a sudden burst of real world violence? Media relations perhaps?
I would go on to say it's because it happened in domestic America and not some city in the Middle-East but something tells me I probably shouldn't...not just yet.

'Lawrence' Smear Campaign Investigation
The Met should just apologise now, regarless whther the accusations are true or not.
They do an excellent job, don't get me wrong, but like most organisations out there, they have a lot of skeletons in the closet and they need to atone for them.

Daily Happenings (19/06/13)

A slight absence from posts..holidays and whatnot...the world may be turning to shit but it doesn't mean I can't at least try to enjoy what little there is left to enjoy.
Anyway, the latest...


Banking Reforms?
It finally seems as though the system has caught up, with reckless bankers to be rewarded with a luxury hotel room a prison cell rather than a million pound bonus.

Hospital Cover-Up
To be more precise, for there are a lot of NHS cover-ups these days, this is related to the deaths surrounding mothers and babies.
I'm glad we have the NHS, make no doubt about it. We don't have the fascist regime that America suffers from. Instead, we have a corrupt government run organisation that takes as much money from the tax payers as possible, with very little returning to the patients. I myself opt for private care after going to numerous NHS GP's and finding they did not seem interested in what was wrong with me but instead guessed to what my symptoms could be.
As far as the cover-up goes, people everywhere in the UK are being screwed by their local health care organisations but no one is speaking out against it. About 80% of people are doing their jobs in the NHS but it's up to the public to wrangle out that 20% who don't care whether you survive or not.

Radioactive Material Found Near Fukishima Plant
Bad news for Japanese locals but equally bad news for nuclear power in general.
The sudden panic over the safety of nuclear power was blown completely out of proportion (I'm blaming the oil companies) because of one incident which, severe as it was, was due to poor safety checks.
Nuclear power is one of the most reliable ways of sustaining power for the future and it is currently in complete jeopardy due to public fears over the Fukishima incident, fears that are going to be elevated now due to current findings.

TV License Fees Used as Pay-Off
After all the fuss the BBC make over ensuring we pay our licenses, we can now see why. It's apparently so they can pay off their staff so they don't report the nasty stuff happening within the walls of the studio.
To be fair I'm more annoyed at the employees who allowed themselves to be bought off. They obviously didn't care about the morally just course of action to take the money but if they shipped out their story to another studio they could probably make three times the amount the BBC offered them.

YouTube Claims Rihanna is Bigger Than Bieber
And no one cares.
Oh wait, sorry. That's me living in an ideal world.
Unfortunately 85% of this culturally obsessed world of idiots care. On the plus side, at least Rihanna has some form of talent.