Monday, May 9, 2016

Brexit


 Well it's getting silly now.   Apparently if we leave the EU we're more at risk of terror attacks, all the jobs will go, your house will be worth 7p.  The rest of the world will not speak to us or sell us anything, nor will we get any intelligence.  The US President, the Germans, the French and anybody else who doesn't actually live in the UK has told us to stay in (If Obama thinks it's such a great idea why doesn't the US join the EU)  Whilst 250 million cowards running away from a distant war (and leaving their wife and children behind) don't care if we stay in or leave.  For some reason Britain is the place to go, that would be the money of course.
 So whats the truth, well the answer is quite simple, all the countries will still trade with us, the intelligence sharing started long before we went into the EU, and we share a lot more their way than we get so it would be their loss if they stopped, beside all the countries outside the EU share with us anyway.
 You house price isn't going to change much, why should it?  Or are house prices controlled by Germany now.  No is the answer to that, you sell your house for whatever you want and can get.
 The scaremongering does make me wonder what exactly our leaders are personally getting out of the EU, they are making so much fuss about staying in (despite what the voters think) I wonder what part of the gravy train they are on.
 We fought two wars not to be controlled by Germany, and we fought the French around 13 times since 1066 (I think) to stop them telling us what to do.  It's time we decided whats best for us and bollocks to the EU.

Lord Billy of Port Talbot





Lord Billy, or "spit the dog"

Friday, May 6, 2016

A selection of pictures


 Heres a rather odd selection of pictures.  Theres macro, long exposure and some sort of abstract stuff.  Oh and the dreaded "spot colour"












Thursday, May 5, 2016

For goodness sake!!! (rant)


Seriously is it me or has the whole world gone properly bonkers while I was asleep?
 I went to pick up my prescription today, there's a huge queue at the surgery, not helped by the receptionist chatting to all the people as they get to the window. Yes I know it's nice and friendly but there's a big queue waiting, some people probably missed their appointments just waiting to get to the bloody window.
 Then I went into Morrisons (I really should know better by now)  Now I'm only grabbing a few things, shower gel, something for lunch, milk etc. 
 First I have to fight my way into the fucking shop!  The twats have blocked three quarters of the bloody entrance off with a bloke wrapping flowers, then they stacked boxes across a bit more, in the end I had to shout at a customer to get her out of the only bit of aisle left to wheel a trolley down.  Then I get to the counter for hot food, one person in front of me... Except she cant make her mind up what se wants so she starts asking the little girl (daughter?) who is with her, after what seems like weeks but was probably only 10 minutes I finally get served.
 The next hurdle apart from trying to walk through a shop full of zombie brain donors was the checkout.  One old chap being served (and most of the checkouts closed)  Then the till operator starts packing the old chaps bag for him.  Fair enough if he cant do it himself, but my god this woman on the till was slow.  Honestly I've seen bomb disposal operators work quicker.  You'd swear she was packing a live 250 pound bomb that hasn't gone off, not a packet of cat food and a tin rice pudding.
 Seriously she took fucking forever to pack his bag, the chap didn't have much shopping, only a few things, but it took longer to pack than my mothers big monthly shop.
 What happened to the world, I remember going shopping years back and it never took this bloody long to do something simple.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Canned laughter and railway lines.


 Canned laughter, I've mentioned it before but I saw a program last night and it reminded me of just how bad it can be.  Lets face it if yor program is so appallingly unfunny you need to add a recording of laughter to your studio audience your doing something wrong in the first place.  Secondly why add the hideous canned laughter in the wrong places if you must add it.  Some things are just not funny, someone saying hello and a huge burst of laughter doesn't make sense, it's not FUNNY!

 Railway lines.  Heres a pic from last night. 
  Please don't play on the railway it's really dangerous, this is a siding and I'm allowed to be where I am, I also take great care theres no trains about and have someone with me to watch my back.
 Do not try this on active main lines, no really don't do it!

 

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Some more photos


 Heres a few more photos, all taken locally.






MH 370 The mystery deepens


 It seems theres more to the disappearance of flight MH370 than was first though. It's coming out now that both the US and Chinese were tracking the aircraft and there was another as yet unidentified aircraft in the area at the time the plane shut down it's transponder.  The other aircraft supposedly maneuvered oddly and at very high speed.
 Then theres the wreckage that has washed up, while the two main pieces have been identified as from the missing aircraft (both from the right wing) it seems experts agree they haven't been floating around for the 2+ years it's been missing.  Most say it's only been actually floating for a few months at most, which suggests it's crashed ashore or floated up from great depth which explains the lack of marine growth on the parts. Although for the wreckage to float up from depth is very unusual this long after the accident as water pressure would have found it's way in, and theres nothing much to disturbe the sunken aircraft.