July 2010
30 posts
“Every now and again I shuffle my blog from place to place. I’m wildly...”
– Christopher England just said that!
Radio Jackie and the anorak pheromones
Radio Jackie is the last truly independent local radio station. It’s based in Tolworth and broadcasting to “South-West London and North Surrey”. ‘Independent’ means it’s not been assimilated into the typical ‘Borg’ (talk to a Startrek enthusiast for an explanation) groups that almost every other ‘local’ radio station has. It manages to...
Sex on TV
What is wrong with these people who scream and shout about sex on TV or in the cinema? (I mean, in the film you are watching in the cinema, not people just randomly having sex in a cinema!) I’ve never understood this fear of natural consensual acts that means we are told that sexually related material is some kind of evil to be banned, and yet it’s all perfectly fine to have TV shows...
God hating, fearing, avoiding...me?
People ask me why, on balance, I seem to highlight or even write a lot of anti-religion rants. Am I in fact afraid of a god, or angry with him/her/it? What terrible experience must I have had to make me this bitter? Was I yet another abused choir boy from the Catholic Church? Ok, let’s look at this. I was actually brought up a freethinker with no god concept figuring in my life. My parents...
Suicide is painless, part two
I recently reproduced a short article by a guy called Jason who wanted the right to a guilt free suicide. It’s here. I published his article because I’d just heard that he finally managed to kill himself. I don’t want to dwell on the details, but he died fairly instantly at his own hand.
I had previously had quite long chats with Jason trying to find for him the reason for...
Suicide is painless, part one
I’m re-publishing something previously published elsewhere by a guy called Jason. Please have a read through and try to understand or appreciate what he’s saying, then read Suicide is painless, part two (which will be here tomorrow):
“I am tired of living, so very tired of living. I want to die and for it to end. “You probably think I’m suffering from something and...
Severance
A friend of mine recently watched the film Severance and his talking about it reminded me of the time 4 or 5 years ago I went to see it at the cinema.
Whilst watching the somewhat predictable and highly obvious plotline filled slasher-fest at an Iford, Essex (basically an East Londonish area) cinema, I was left confused about how I should react. Not to the film, but to about 4 or 5 gentlemen...
The Cthulhu Cult - wanna join?
Ok. So, err, this guy’s an alternative to some of the more scary and dangerous gods like those of the Middle Eastern originating religious cults like Christianity and Islam, he’s the centre of the Cthulhu Cult.
And now it’s quiz time:
So if you think you have what it takes to become a serious black magician in the Cthulhu Mythos / Satanism vein, then this is what you...
“Jeez. Is this right about the Catholic Church cult? They now consider the...”
– Christopher England just said that!
The choices Raoul Moat made for everybody
Choices. We are all faced with choices that affect our lives or the lives of others. In an ideal world everything that happened to us would be our own choice.
Sadly, so often it is others that have the power to make choices about us over which we have no control. Some choose to hurt or destroy us, a choice we certainly would not make for ourselves.
When Raol Moat made the choice to shoot...
100 tests to see if you've discovered a cult
Here are a fascinating 100 tests you can make about any organisation or ‘collective thought’ process you support or believe in, to determine whether or not it’s exhibiting the signs of being a cult. The more of the tests that seem to apply to whatever you are testing, the stronger the cult actually is. Getting 100 is a bit extreme, because that includes test 100 which is where...
Did Sky News kill Raoul Moat?
Who killed Raoul Moat? He pulled the trigger, yes, but was he actually killed by the media? Did Sky News contribute to his death?
Raoul Moat’s death is a satisfactory outcome as far as I’m concerned. Regardless of whatever the mitigating circumstances might be that the chattering classes will dine out on forever, he was a man who took a cool and calculated decision to hunt down...
Urban regeneration? No! These need termination.
Hmmm. That looks very dangerous, somebody could fall into that and break their legs, I mused as I passed an open hole from which the large metal grating of a roadside drain had been prised. A few steps further on I discovered what it had been used for as the bullet-proof reinforced heavy glass front of a cash machine had showered the street with flakes of itself as it had been subjected to a...
Me: Hi. I've a few things I'm after. Firstly, I'd like to buy a watch
Shop assistant: Analogue?
Me: No, just a watch. I'd also like a goldfish
Shop assistant: Do you want an aquarium?
Me: To be honest, I don't care what star sign it is. Also can somebody sell me a kettle?
Shop assistant: Kenwood.
Me: Ok, I'll wait for him to serve me then.
Fear of Mono
Around and about radio enthusiast sites and mass debating pits I notice there continues this horror and fear of mono. Why are (radio anorak type) people so scared of mono? Just because you can broadcast in stereo on FM it doesn’t mean you have to, does it? If your programme content doesn’t actually need to be in stereo because it’s just voices, mainly on the phone or ‘down...
Major weather warning?
By this time next Monday we should all know about a number of major events on Planet Earth.
Apparently it’s 85% confirmed that this coming weekend the planet should be receiving a number of major solar burst influences to which the planet will respond as it usually does by reacting with events like Earthquakes, Volcanic Eruptions, Floods, Storms and Major Tornadoes. There should be a...
How to Nap →
Heh heh. Another concept to try to sell to the boss then. If we all catch some zzzzzzzed time when we should be working then we sell it as our brains are being recharged to make us even better at our jobs! How to Nap
David Irving and the Christian couple's £10,000
A few years ago there were two pieces of news that happened within a month of each other that I found confusing.
Firstly was a ‘victory’ by some Christians. They were given a payout of £10,000 from the police for the way they were dealt with when the local council tried to stop them putting their ‘anti-gay’ literature next to some ‘pro-gay’ literature and accused them of being homophobic. Now,...
Muslim children excluded from school music lessons
People are allowed to get away with so many unacceptable and bad things under the disguise of it being a religious practice.
We all know how the Catholic paedophile rings operated by pretending that they were providing pastoral care and a religion when really they were just a huge network of homosexual kiddie-fiddlers disguised as caring god-botherers.
We all know how men are able to breed...
Food Porn
Christopher just slowly ate: Freshly cut very juicy pineapple resting on a bed of St Agur blue cheese on crusty hot buttered freshly toasted slices of bread.
June 2010
30 posts
Female Muslim prisoners in education
This is the time of year that confuses those involved in education not ‘in the know’ about the life of an average Muslim girl in their early 20s or late teens.
Muslim girls are a strictly guarded commodity ‘jailed’ by their fathers and brothers until it is time to sell them off to the family of a young lad who wants them to be their son’s wife.
For these girls the first taste of ‘freedom’ is...
Time keeps on slipping slipping into...
The Passage of Time: Time and time again I hear people discussing how fast time seems to be going. They have a whole range of theories as to why this seems to be happening, from the speeding up of the general exploding outwards that is the Universe, to end of the world alien intervention. Years and years ago I remember my granny saying, “Oh Christopher, just look at you. Haven’t you...
“Listen, if I was to lay my dick on my computer’s keyboard it would stretch...”
– Christopher England just winked and said that!
“I can’t believe that the Co-op is actually able to produce an own brand that is...”
– Christopher England just slobbered that!
“Name 3 things you could do with 30,000 sheets of freshly printed headed...”
– Christopher England just kinda asked that!
And god so loved, erm, nobody?
With love and respect to the victims of the recent earthquake, the tsumami, or the humans that are destroyed on mass by cyclones or any other natural disasters, and inspired (if that’s the right word) me to think about them, let’s talk about these natural disasters. As in, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, hurricanes, cyclones, etc., etc. When the initial time spent telling...
Why people hate commercial radio
Why does commercial radio do everything so boringly? What are they afraid of? Here’s an example of some programming elements and how they are put together by the BBC or how they’d be put together by the commercial sector.
Ok, let’s have: A 15 minute news bulletin, followed by 3 records as good as segued back-to-back. Before that let’s have a presenter coming to the end...
July will be mega-wet. Or will it?
As I’ve mentioned before, I have limited trust in any organisation, like the Meteorological Office, that consistently fails to provide the service that they charge Millions of Pounds each year to provide. Despite their huge and expensive computer modelling equipment the Met Office has been unable to provide much more than a ‘now cast’ and certainly has been proved to be so bad...
The great water hysteria
A few years ago (before the years when it was doing nothing but non-stop raining!), we were having to watch mass hysteria in London. It was about water.
Apparently we needed to save it or the world would end.
We were given lots of advice about how to save it. Yeah, there’s the usual about not leaving a hose-pipe emptying non-stop into a garden – and that kind of makes sense – but the mad people...
Non-linear Universes
I dunno. That Professor Stephen Hawkin, eh? He’s a one. I mean, right, the information paradox that has blighted debates for over 30 years, yeah? You know, the idea that information disappears in a black-hole versus the idea that information continues. What a debate, eh? So, right, he now comes out with this theory of alternative universes based on alternative histories, and only the one...
“Ok, ‘Moist’ wipes for one’s bottom I can accept. It’s probably cleaner than...”
– Christopher England just said that!
Emergency radio
Reading through the ‘Preparing for Emergencies’ book we all got quite a while ago, I notice that I have to gather up my belongings and along with a load of spare batteries, I need to have with me a portable radio. Indeed, I also have to make sure I know how to tune in to my ‘local radio station’. As a radio anorak, I think I know how to do that. However, I’m slightly puzzled about the lack...
