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It’s no big deal, it’s natures way.

Some twat in Scotland has proposed that a tax should be levied on chocolate; the BBC HYS forum is currently red hot. It’s not a bad idea to do something about obesity but we are attacking it from the wrong angle, the current thinking is to tax everyone in order to waste money telling fatties that they should eat less and exercise more, all the while the fatty food companies are spending more money getting the fatties through the door and plying them with lard. We are now considering taxing everyone for eating crap in the same way that we tax smokers and drinkers, something which the tobacco industry fought by making smokes a luxury and desirable product and something the booze industry fought by lowering production costs, lowering margins and increasing volume.

So if we know that these things don’t work why are we doing them? We tax booze and fags not to lower demand but to line the coffers of the treasury so that they can offset the cost of booze and smoke related illnesses. So why not attack the costs head on rather than trying to scrabble around for the cash to pay for it? Why not just withdraw free NHS treatment for smokers, drinkers and fatties. Not only does it provide a real incentive for people to stop smoking, drinking or cramming junk down the gullets, it means that those who don’t can continue to make that choice without impacting on the rest of society. Sure a few fatties will die but they are going to die anyway and prolonging their lives is a pointles waste of time. Parents who allow their kids to become fatties can of course be prosecuted for child abuse and the kids rehomed with parents who are actually going to take care of them.

I was quite pleased to see that noted scientist, economist and government policy advisor* Alistair McGowan has been speaking out about the proposed (and de facto approved) plans to expand Heathrow with a further terminal and runway. I wonder if Mr McGowan has gotten a little carried away with his day job; one where he impersonates people who either know what they are talking about or whose opinion the public cares about. Along with a bunch of other well meaning luvvies, McGowan would rather see an investment in high speed rail links and people being ferried around the country between smaller distributed airports.

The BBC, meanwhile is doing a Have Your Say item in which literally dozens of people who live near Heathrow are complaining that it’s too noisy and they don’t think that there should be an airport expansion. Oddly enough they are quiet about their choice of airport to fly from, one must assume that they trek up to ‘London’ Stanstead or ‘London’ Luton for their flights or down to ‘London’ Gatwick or maybe over to ‘London’ Bristol airport. Maybe they take the tube, bus and walk to the easily accessible London ‘City’ airport which is somewhere in the docklands and great for those who happen to also own a helicopter to get them there.

Heathrow is the busiest airport for a bunch of reasons, most are pretty dull and have something to do with it being a major carrier hub, close to London and well connected on the rail and tube networks. It is, in fact, the only airport in the UK that is within the M25 and connected to both the rail and tube networks so logically it’s the airport of choice for anyone in the south east who does not want to:

Let’s just get a grip here on the breaking news that the papers have delivered to us three years after the event. With nothing going on in the McCann household, nobody getting their cock out on radio and everyone bored of doom and gloom in the economy it’s time to dredge up some frankly hilarious footage of Prince Harry dicking about with some mates.
My only complaint with Harry is that he needs to be aware that there are cunts with agendas everywhere all the time trying to take whatever he does and make it fit their cause. Newspapers are here to sell newspapers so those in the public eye (and especially the royals) need to be very careful with what they say.
If you had a mate who suggested he called you ‘paki’ then not many people would bat an eyelid but then you aren’t the heir to the throne with a few thousand bitter and twisted middle class journo fuckwits itching to make a few quid by making you look bad. With all the bullshit that the princes have to put up with it’s a wonder they have turned out as such a nice and well rounded pair of individuals. They have impossibly high standards set for them and even if they are mates with the guy and and the name ‘paki’ is a term of endearment there is always going to be some stone faced twat who can sell a few shitty rags by whipping up an outrage.
Let’s look at the sources to see who’s outraged… the person quoted as saying that the term was not used by one mate to another was not the young fellow soldier himself but an uncle who probably picked up about £25,000 from the papers (the going rate for this sort of thing) for his comments. The group calling for Harry to be disciplined are ‘Republic’ a fruitjob anti monarchy group who would say the same thing if Harry had singlehandedly saved the lives of an entire platoon.
Others will jump on the bandwagon but they are most likely easily led politicians who want to draw a bit of limelight by looking suitably outraged, most likely the same tossers who stood up and made pricks of themselves during the Ross/Brand thing.
Guys, this is not a big deal. Harry is a kid who is trying to live up to the expectations of a nation and doing a far better job than the fucktards at the Screws of the World ever could.

Thanks to Grumpy for the tip off about this little storm of stupidity. I am almost loathe to  mention it because it’s such a ridiculous idea that people would complain about something so entirely unimportant. Can’t we all just rise above complaining about the little things and concentrate on fixing the big things?

You may have heard recently about the “retard” brouhaha in the recent movie Tropic Thunder. This particular flick, if you haven’t seen it, centres on Hollywood actors and their attitudes towards acting jobs.

After much moral outrage and huffing and puffing and blowing houses down at the utterance of the “R-word”,  disability groups forced DreamWorks to put aside their artistic integrity and shoehorn this video onto the DVD.

Yeah, that’s right. You laughed at a dumbass joke, you bitch – so now it’s time for us to make you feel guilty about it. Mwahahahahaaaaa (etc etc).

As Graham Linehan mentioned in his blog, either you allow the joke or you don’t. Simple as that.

Of course, what they actually did wrong here is they should have got the film banned for being the most god-awful shitfest waste of cellulose that I had the misfortune to lay my eyes upon in 2008 (and that’s after some pretty stiff competition from You don’t mess with the Zohan and Four Christmases, I can tell you).

Merry solstice to one and all.