why are they allowed to stay?

Read this: poppy burning disrespectful git.

Scroll down and read how much he is fleecing from taxpayers in benefits from a country he clearly hates.  They won’t take any crap from muslims who behave in that way. If you want to have the privilege of living in Britain you should speak fluent English, pledge allegiance Britain ideals and the British way of life and conduct yourself in a manner befitting the country.  If you cannot do that then leave or don’t come here in the first place.  I can’t understand how he is even getting benefits.  People who were born here and who have worked all of their adults lives can’t even get job seekers allowance without having to justify themselves on a 2 weekly basis, let alone any other benefits.  The system sucks.

Can you imagine if all the Indian, Chinese and Caribbean immigrants from years ago acted like this?  We would all have been shot or forcibly removed from Britain.  Yet most people from these cultures chose to come here and integrated into British culture, practising their own cultural celebrations as part of the wider community.  None of these cultures forced their extreme views onto anyone.  Yet these so-called extremist muslims are allowed to carry on disrespecting Britain, its people, its traditions and its laws in the name of Islam (thank you Labour).  The current coalition is not taking any action because they are all afraid of losing access to the Middle East’s Oil.  Learn to power cars with something else or make a deal with a non-middle eastern country with rich oil reserves.

I can see UKIP getting in next election.

Rant over.

You’re Fired! (Hahaha)

Well, I’m surprised by the broadcaster SKY.  I did not think for one minute that they would fire Andy “pig” Gray but they did.  Good for them and he got what he deserved.  Open the dictionary at misogynist and you’ll see his picture there.  His hatred of women was obvious and anyone who thinks either he or weasel Keys were stating comments in jest is seriously deluded (I refer to Rachel HeyHoe-Smith).  Jesty sexist comments are the domain of Top Gear who do banter but clearly do not mean to insult anyone.  The tone used by Pig and Weasel was entirely different and very unpleasant. I do wonder whether his colleagues had had enough of their bigotry and decided to let the public know what they’re  really like.  Unsurprisingly pig & weasel have loads of support from the “forward thinking” men of many internet forums (do a search on any of the popular British internet forums frequented by men and you’ll see what I mean).  British men are not doing themselves any favours.

Furore over a pig and a weasel

I refer to Andy Grey and Richard Keys.  Surely no one is surprised by the sexist comments of those pair of (in my opinion) bigots?

Leave the pig and the weasel to get on with it; they are never going to apologise (bigots never do) and I’m sure they’ve said far worse about many females presenters, players and officials that hasn’t been recorded.  I reckon someone behind the scenes thought it was about time the public knew what those pair of morons were ‘really’ like and ‘accidentally’ left their microphones on.

Is the shuffle option spoiling some albums?

They were talking about this on BBC Breakfast this morning – people loading a whole load of songs onto their iPod (or whatever) and then listening to them in shuffle mode (random order).  I am the shuffle button’s biggest fan.  I only ever listen to my iPod or Samsung phone’s MP3 player on shuffle, however there are a few albums I like that are ruined by listening to them in this way.  The ones I refuse to listen to on shuffle are:

1. Bat Out of Hell – Meatloaf

2. Exodus – Bob Marley & the Wailers

3. Caught Up – Millie Jackson

4. Still Caught up – Millie Jackson

5. It’s a Kind of Magic – Queen

6. Who is Jill Scott – Jill Scott

Link.

World of Warcraft – Ghostcrawler responds to the backlash

Ghostcrawler’s latest blog post.

Aside from being partly responsible for the size of my arse, this truly addictive game has got somewhat frustrating of late.  One of my characters hit 85 ages ago, yet due to a number of reasons I haven’t done much more than the fishing/cooking dailies and dig for archaeology.  My 85 is a priest.  I don’t belong to a raiding guild (raiding is an awful way to spend an evening in my opinion).  Along with guild group achievements, I had hoped to be running rated BGs with a guild but no-one is interested in those.  As for heroics, unless you belong to a raiding guild who are “gearing up” you have to use the group finder tool and enter heroics in a random group and after an average 30 minute wait in the queue, endure around an hour of torture or suffer the group deserter debuff (which lasts 30 minutes).  It is currently quite difficult to raise the rep or currency required to buy a decent level of gear as the rep/currency gains in normal instances are pretty low.  Prior to Cataclsym I used to heal raids/heroics without any problem.  Now I don’t bother as I am out of mana after 3-4 efficient heals due to my gear being devoid of enough spirit (catch 22 situation as my main character’s item level is 343 which is good enough,  I can’t run any heroics as my as gear is too low to survive them).  Normal cata dungeons are pointless as they are not suitable for a level 85 (joining the random puts you in a group of clueless randoms and low item level rewards).  So I’ve resorted to levelling alts until I get bored and cancel my subscription.  Ghostcrawler seems to imply that people are exaggerating on the forums about the lack of fun there is in the game and/or people not bothering with certain class roles any more (primarily healing) at the moment but they’re not.  I have one example; I moved servers (costly as I moved two characters) to join a large guild that shared what I wanted to do in the game.  Within three weeks all but 3 people (in a guild of originally over 100 players) either cancelled their accounts or just stopped playing due to frustration/annoyance with the game being no fun.  I joined a new guild who are of the same opinion and all seem to be levelling alts as that is much more fun than being level 85.  Going back to rated BGs – the fact that they don’t exist is the biggest disappointment of all.  Several players (myself included) believed that it would be possible to join either a rated BG or a normal BG in the usual way.  No-one realised that you would have to form a group and then queue for 15-20 minutes to enter (by which time people will have got annoyed with waiting and left the raid, meaning you have to start all over again). I think rated BGs need to be re-looked at for ways to improve entry into them.

It will be interesting to see what changes they make, if any.  If WoW continues to favour the “hard core” raider over any other player, than no matter.  I got myself a Nintendo Wii for Christmas and I’m sure that will be ample electronic entertainment!

One more thing; when will the developers realise that only the very immature consider random strangers that happen to be in the same guild do not consider other guild members to be “friends”?  That concept is for the Facebook generation (12-19 year olds; currently no-one in the guild I’m or was in previously falls/fell into that age-group).  “Guild members” is a far more appropriate term.

My experience of the “Fat Club”

I joined last night – a child belonging to one of the new members referred to it as ‘fat club’.  It wasn’t how I thought it would be.  I had hoped for a small group of supportive people all with similar goals.  Instead it was a massive money making machine full of people (primarily women) with little else in their lives.  The sensible people got weighed then left and it soon became apparent why they had legged it so quickly.  Those of us who were new had to stay for the full session and were treated to a room full of miserable looking middle to old age people arguing about a raffle (the prizes included tinned beans and cheap diet lemonade).  I lost the will to live at this point.  Then began the public humiliation of a variety of members by the person hosting the group.  Each name that was called out was given their weight loss or gain and condescendingly asked to declare their weight loss target for the next week (and woe betide them if they didn’t lose it).  To me, this sort of information should be discussed and imparted in private on a one-to-one basis.  It was  not a supportive environment contrary to their advertising claims.  The consultant allowed one particularly uneducated, loud-mouthed, annoying woman to take over the whole group.  I got so bored that I upped and left before the end.

As for the actual diet plan, last night in the introductory discussion (in which the consultant failed to tell people exactly how it worked), I could not see how it would be possible to lose weight following the plan.  Today however, I can see how as it forces you to really think about all the lovely extras you can have.  For example, I thought a simple bowl of soup and a slice of bread would be a perfectly good lunch.  Wrong!  This little meal would account for two thirds of your sinful allowance.  In addition, I was very smug in thinking I could swap chocolate (read snickers – I love snickers) bars for cereal bars and win all the weight loss.  Wrong again – the best cereal bars are worth half the points and my favourite – the 9Bar – is worth almost all of them. Basically the diet forces you to view treats as treats, rather than items with which to stuff ones face with on an hourly basis.

You are allowed certain foods in unlimited quantities (for my plan I can have things like pasta, rice, potatoes and baked beans in unlimited or ‘free food’ quantities).  The diet I’ve successfully followed in the past (Dr Clark high protein, low carb) banned these types of foods so eating them all the time when I’m supposed to be dieting to lose weight is alien to me.

Fortunately I have three months free from my GP so I will stick with it for that time and see if it actually works.  My target weight is 9st 1.5lbs.  Last time I was disciplined enough to diet and exercise I got down to 10st 6lbs.  Most people thought I was too thin then but I could still see some rolls of flab.  I haven’t weight under 10st since 1994 (17 years) so this will be a challenge.  It’s got to be done though; fat women don’t get husbands (if you’re offended I don’t care.  You don’t have to read this)!

Wii Fit Plus – it’s pretty good

I managed to put on an entire stone between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day (don’t ask.  On the bright side, probably good material for a feature).  Anyway, I now have a total of five stone to lose to get to my perfect weight for my height and bone structure.  So I decided if I’m going to stuff my face I need to exercise.  A lot.  To that end, I bought a Wii with Wii Fit Plus.  I’m aiming to build up to 1 hour of exercise six days a week (or everyday).  So far I’m up to 30 minutes a day since I started on New Year’s Day.  My problem is because I’m taller than average, no one believes I am overweight until I step on a scales.  Even my doctor didn’t believe me.  I’ve given myself until my birthday in July to get thin again, which is six months.  Last time I lost 4 stone (5 years ago) it took me three months, which was probably a bit quick.  I managed to keep it off until  December 2009.  I’m not just relying on the Wii; I also have a cross trainer so I use both daily.  Second body test is tomorrow.  Hopefully I’ve shed some weight and reduced my Wii fit age (mine was 52!! A good 10 years older than my real age).  Shocking.  I’m considering Slimming World.  Maybe the public humiliation will help!

I have to recommend this mattress topper!

From Dunelm Mill: Teddy Bear Mattress Enhancer.  I have to say this is the best item I have bought this year.  My mattress is fairly new and is a silent night mattress with a built in mattress topper, which is rubbish; you can still feel all of the mattress buttons.  I got the mattress enhancer from Dunelm as so many people raved about it.  It is excellent. It makes you mattress unbelievably comfortable.  So comfortable that I sainsbury’s had to phone me to tell me they were outside the door with my shopping as I had overslept!  Worth every penny.

Why is moaning about stuff so much fun?

Moan 1: The Gadget Show.

Spectacular failure adding that 5th presenter Polly-Anna.  She is just awful.  I thought it was just me however speaking to other people who watch the Gadget show most people are in agreement that she was unnecessary.  She clearly is clueless about anything technical and seems to be acting at being a knowledgeable presenter.  Get rid.

Moan 2: F1 on the BBC.

Who the hell was that woman they had presenting the other week?  Never bring her back again.  It was as if she had no idea what a car was.

Moan 3: Cheap Stuff in supermarkets

I generally buy the best money can buy since you are what you eat, however since we being led to believe we’ll all be destitute after Weds 20th I was shamed into buying cheaper versions of what I usually get.  FALSE ECONOMY!  Tesco own brand dishwasher tablets wash nothing.  Fairy may cost £9 per pack (as oppose to £1.36ish for the Tesco stuff) however at least they do an excellent job.  And no, I do not wash dishes by hand if I can help it.  Thankless task.  And cheap instant coffee is just poison.

Moan 4: Daybreak

Well not so much of a moan, more of a ‘what ITV were they thinking‘?  GMTV wasn’t that bad; at least it provided some light entertainment whilst you got ready in the morning.

Moan 5: The Tax Man

They come for you even after you are dead.  Bastards.

So, some boring looking middle-aged guy is the Stig? Meh

What a let down.  Maybe he’s bored being the Stig and that’s why he revealed it in a book?  Fire him and get a new one.  And give new Stig a red outfit this time.  And actually get yourselves a proper racing driver.  When Schumacher pretended to be the Stig, everyone loved that.  I was secretly hoping that the stig was an ex F1 driver.  But in reality it’s some nobody (I don’t care how much money he’s got or how stunty he is; no-ones ever heard of him).