Ranting Siberian Tiger

Tiger Watches

2011-01-08T14:10:00.000-08:00

Well I never, while looking for my blog on Google I was 'googling' my name and came across this other website!

Sells watches, i've bought one, will keep you updated with info on they're delivery and stuff followers.

Mens Watches << Linky!

My Watch <<<< Linky!

It's Been A While

2011-01-08T14:09:00.001-08:00

Have hardly managed to update this blog since first creating it!

Over 40 posts later and i'm back..finally.

Lets see if we can find some interesting information to rant about

Above The Law..Who?..The Law Themselves!

2010-07-22T07:16:00.000-07:00

Mr Tomlinson was walking home when he became caught up in the G20 riots in the City of London on April 1 last year.

Mobile phone footage taken by bystanders showed Mr Tomlinson walking away from officers when he was hit by a baton and shoved to the ground by a policeman in protective clothing.

He was seen moving away after the incident but was found collapsed 100 metres away in Cornhill. (via The Telegraph website)

Interesting to note then that the police themselves have found that there is no reason to investigate..themselves any further.

No prosecutions. No punishment. Not a jot!

They're at it again aren't they! The law thinking it's above itself. Thinking that its duty is to bludgeon those within the bubble and instill fear by carrying batons, tasers and firearms. Anything to stop us doing what WE want. Even if we are just walking back from the shops and happen to chance across a mini riot.

Mr Brain meet Mr Mosquito..you could learn a lot from him you know

You WILL Pay Your Council Tax

2010-03-30T08:49:00.000-07:00

'Super-Taser' shotgun bullet that can knock down criminals from 100ft assessed by Home Office

according to the article in the Daily Mail Clicky Here

Criminals? so i take it that refers to those who don't pay a parking ticket or council tax then? even though its not written in law that you have to pay Council Tax!

Labour - Tough On Crime! Tough On The Causes Of Crime! < E.g. the residents of the Military State of England

it won't be long before they start snooping on where you're going in your car with the missus..oh wait..they already do! ANPR! they know where you are, where you're going and who you're going with...marvelous!

Brown just loves to snoop doesn't he, he clearly doesn't watch television, just us..trundling along on our way to work or out for a meal with the family! ohhhh yessss!

Don't Say The 'V' Word

2010-03-08T12:33:00.000-08:00

VEGAN VEGAN VEGAN

there..i said it!

In the future (if Labour stay in power) i won't be able to say that any more for fear of causing offence. I also won't be able to single out someone if they wear leather shoes.

Hard-faced Harmann is on the war path. The 6 foot man-woman wants to ban ALL forms of singling out or as it may also be called 'Giving someone a name if you don't know there actual name because you've never met them before'.

Soon i won't be able to call someone Irish or American as that will be an offence. I also won't be able to say 'the man over there in the leather boots wants to beat you up' because i will have broken two laws there, causing offence to leather man and threatening behaviour in a public place.

i give up.

Link to the Article

Pay Our Childcare Minions!

2010-03-06T09:02:00.000-08:00

'That's right you rot ridden, minions of the state, forget about your own disease infested children and pay for our, much more important and worthy children..NOW' <<< well, that's how i imagine them scheming behind our backs in the gold encrusted halls of Parliament.

Some incompetent women from the .. hang on... 'Parliamentary Labour Party Women's Committee' or as i would put it 'Porky Lying Pigs With Cun**'

These over paid, over indulged, overly incompetent mares are demanding that the battered and bleeding tax payer pays for ALL childcare AND increase there wages to £100,000 as they're women and they need to buy a f'ing strap-on to compete with the men in the party!

FOR FERKS SAKE JUST CRAWL TO DOVER AND DROWN!!!

oh..in my rage i almost forgot the linky. Click Here for the evidence.

Multi Storey EFFIN Car Parks

2010-02-21T18:15:00.001-08:00

Right, this is a rant! unlike all of my other posts of course!

multi-storey EFFIN car parks! who designs them? well..the ones specifically in locations in Middlesbrough and Leeds. The ones i've 'attempted' to shove my car in to have been designed by a man who owns a smart car, it is quite obvious, either that or he drives a satsuma!

it's ridiculous, first of all they have this really low pavement reservation thing in the middle, now, if you drive a smart car, you're fine..or a satsuma..go ahead! you just whizz right in there mate, but try and complete the turn in a family sized estate or hatchback and you'll rip you're flipping bumper off.

Now i know that some reading this will be men, they will say 'what a plum, he must drive like a woman' but no..really...if we overlook the problems of actually trying to get a pass then we come to the idiot who decided to place every other parking space across the centre of a concrete pillar!

and it's not just me that feels the rage bubble inside when i enter the concrete garage of hell.

i have seen people having to let the whole family out of there mondeo first, then back in to the space with the wing mirrors folded in down the passenger side. i have seen land rovers parked at unusual angles across two spaces, i've seen people park so incredibly sandwiched between other cars that they only realise they won't get out when they open there doors and 'thud'.

it's a menace! something has to be done! we need to start a facebook campaign for the reinstatmement of normal size car parking spaces! you know, the types designed for a 15 foot long and 6 foot wide car not a 3 foot long and 1 foot wide satsuma on wheels.

UK Transport Madness

2010-02-21T18:06:00.000-08:00

Lets go on a journey together, from my location in the UK to London. It's a distance of around 6 hours by car so I thought to myself 'Hey Tiger' << i say that alot, to myself, nobody else will say it 'Why don't we head on down to London by the power of public transport?"

Great, thats an excellent idea brain, lets do this. We'll go and log-on to a website, say, Virgin Trains, they were very good the last time i travelled with them (4 years ago). Tum te Tum. 10 minutes later it is calculating my one way fare.

£80....!!!!..CATTLE CLASS
£147...!!!!...FIRST CLASS

something must be wrong, maybe i've entered it for 4 people or something.

The increase is shocking, the last time i went south towards Bristol it cost me £60 RETURN! in cattle class and then another £20 each way for a first class upgrade. Thats £50 each way, station to station.

Today the same journey would cost me £147 each way thats nearly 3 times as much...and there seems to be less ticket availability than before, yet a more confusing website ordering system, tickets that seem cheap come with restrictions e.g. you have to have a student pass or you have to be over 50 to enjoy the price that i had 4 years ago.

To summarise. I can get to london and back in my car, direct from my home to the meeting and in half the time it takes to piddle about with taxis and waiting for trains to arrive at the wrong platform. I can do this journey for less than £100 including some food along the way and i can do it all in one day..by train..i'd probably need to add atleast £50 for a hotel room for the night.

and they still keep taxing me on my god darn car!!!

EMI U-Turn on Abbey Road

2010-02-21T17:58:00.000-08:00

When i saw the headline in the Daily Mail i was outraged.

ABBEY ROAD TO BE SOLD OFF

Or something along those lines, i cannot be bothered to go back and search for it now, it's 2am and i'm on an old laptop that keeps disconnecting from the interwebs.

so anyway, back to EMI, they've actually taken notice of the outcry from the public over the proposed closure and sale of Abbey Road Recording Studios. Now i know there will still be mixed feelings on this, those hard-nosed business people would say..'yes but it would generate a multi-million pound cash injection if it were sold off' but the fact still remains, the building is in use, it serves a purpose and it is a world renowned site, the Beetles recorded there for crikeys sake!

It looks as though the Facebook and Twitter campaigns have made there mark though. Unlike with the Cadbury - Kraft Deal which was a blatant 'let sell it for as much as we can get then go on holiday to las palmas'

Good Old Hugh

2010-02-21T17:50:00.001-08:00

I remember him from the Blackadder series mainly, the lanky and stupid first world war sergeant (or whatever he was, i can't remember)..but he never struck me as a superb actor or indeed comedian.

Zoom forward to 2010 and Hugh Laurie is a sex-symbol in the states. His new hit series 'House' i haven't watched, but understand it to be quite a gripping series and it has been met with great applaud from both the States and the UK audiences that have propelled Hugh Laurie from being a bit-part comedic actor to being a headline grabbing act on screen.

I think it's excellent. Christopher Goodwin over at The Times also thinks it's cracking. Linky

Randy Chelsea

2010-02-21T17:42:00.000-08:00

Just what on earth is going on over at Chelsea HQ..first the revelations that eternally bewildered looking John Terry is humping away like a pornstar earning commission by the hour then we hear that the very pretty geordie Miss Cole is having to hear stories that her slightly boring husband is having it away with several other women.

Why do they do it? because they can? possibly...but then, there is the fact that as soon as you step outside your home you're confronted with a dozen or more photographers..you know that ANYTHING you do thats either illegal or slightly unusual will be picked up at some point down the line, it's really not worth it! they cannot say they're wives are not attractive...they also cannot say they don't get to take the odd trip to ann summers because money is a bit tight!

I just don't understand it.

Linky from the times.

Playground Bully

2010-02-21T17:38:00.000-08:00

As if things were'nt bad enough as it is already. Poor old Jonah (McBroon, McDoom,McCavity, One Eyed Scottish ****) is now being battered and bruised in the national papers..just like his mobile phone and stapler by the sounds of it. It appears that behind closed doors, McBroon gets a tad irate and descends in to fits of anger towards anything..anything at all..from stationery, to people, to chairs, to tables, to the odd window or three...what a total looney!

OUT OUT OUT OUT

oh and heres the linky..again..i know its the daily mail and i get reports that they do like to sensationalise the opening of an envelope but this stuff is being published across the net...it's spreading like wildfire. LINK

Here It Comes Folks 20%!

2010-02-13T08:27:00.000-08:00

Yep Yep! It's on its way. We kind of already knew it didn't we, the thieving, lying, incompetent and now irrelevant politicians at Westminster..oh wait..i haven't told you what it is yet!

20% VAT! yeah, those scallywags are at it again. Promising action on Expenses yet behind the scenes, scurrying around the gold leaf corridors of power, they work on ways of squeezing more money out of the poor inhabitants of this tired, barren land. No jobs, No Future! Should be the NuLiebore strapline.

Oh and here's my source! The Times Online << clicky clicky

unlike this report over at Old Holborn about some guy who's a reporter but decided it was easier and faster just to make the whole sh*t up! Click Here people.

NOT Climate Change WORLD RESOURCES

2010-02-05T06:01:00.000-08:00

Please try to refrain from focussing on Climate Change. The Climategate scandal has only backed up those who believe global warming is a natural occurance, it happens, temperatures rise, deserts are formed, ice caps melt, sea levels rise and then cool down the earth again..ta da..the earth is a perfectly balanced and powerful creature, do not underestimate the fact it can repair itself efficiently.

whats more worrying? well perhaps the coral reef, i mean, that is dying and it's really important actually but whats more pressing at the moment, something that isn't being addressed on a global scale, World Resources. We're running out, well, we already have if the latest stats are to be proven correct (statistics though, they're a bit dodgy ain't they).

Basically, if everyone on the world wanted to go for a meal right now, using organically sourced materials e.g. fish, beef, apples, something like 20% would have to wait a few days, because we don't actually have enough food left in production right at this moment to feed everyone. There aren't enough fish in the sea to feed everyone on earth at one sitting..we're living outside of our means on a massive scale.

You Plonker Terry!

2010-02-05T05:57:00.000-08:00

So we've all heard about the John Terry goings on! Bit of a shocker but then..some of us are not surprised! We'd be more shocked if we found out he was a non cheating, bible bashing, vicar in training posh boy (i don't know why i inserted the vicar comment, its pointer toward virgin like perfection is somewhat bent).

Should he lose his captaincy for the summer failure in the World Cup? hmm...he's been getting jiggy with a team-mates ex while remaining with his wife and children.

then again..like i say...i really do believe this happens all the time, they're all at it, every one in the england team, in manchester, in liverpool in chelsea, it's one giant great big pit of money bags and skimpy clothing. they spend 180 minutes a week on the field the rest they're playing off the field, endless parties, endless drink (and yes, probably lots of drugs)...they splash the cash like its Zimbabwe.

N.I. Peace Process...DOOMED

2010-01-25T09:45:00.001-08:00

That's Right! McDoom has 'rushed to Northern Ireland' ... the saviour of the worlds financial crisis is here...the creature that said something like 'Saved the World' or whatever is going to tackle the N.I. Peace Process.

This is the same person who got involved in the Cadbury deal, the Recession, the sale of Gold Reserves and many other disasters..including Iraq.

Another fine mess.

Linky to Times Online article

Rickets? But they said....

2010-01-21T09:19:00.000-08:00

According to the Telegraph, Rickets are on the return. That unusual disease where by the persons legs bow outward. Apparently it's caused by Vitamin D deficiency which..is fine but did they not say 'THE SUN IS BAD FOR YOU...IT BURNS...STAY INSIDE' ???

more confusion from the release of scientific notes and such.

Linky Here

Argie Bargie Round Two

2010-01-20T17:47:00.000-08:00

Thank you Captain Gord. As British Armed Forces prepare for yet another Big Squeeze, Argentina have began sabre rattling over the whole South Georgia, Falkland Islands stuff.

Last month they changed Argentinian Law to declare that the above mentioned islands are now under the Sovereignty of Argentina. (or at least a bid to that effect).

One does ponder how the UK would respond to this move..the Argies know that we've got an election coming up but they also know that McBroon is a weak link, he's teetering on the edge and he would prove totally incompetent at organising an effective task force..in fact..i don't believe the Royal Navy is capable of matching a force that was sent in 1982. Sure, it was a random assortment of commercial craft and ageing 50's and 60's warships but strength in numbers and effective strategy eventually won the conflict in such harsh conditions.

today, our troops are equipped with rifles that won't work in extreme heat, or extreme cold, or sand, or mud ... land rovers that don't have any armour, a shortage of body armour for troops and yet more shortages in supply of helicopters.

with the Navy, the carrier project is delayed and may be withdrawn all together. the brand new hunter killer submarines are 4 years behind schedule (or something), and have only just begun sea-trials.

Linky to Article

Education, Education, Education

2010-01-20T17:45:00.000-08:00

or perhaps not.

One in Four Children Think Bacon Comes From A Sheep

Dimwits

EClear we make it Disappear

2010-01-19T16:01:00.000-08:00

£100 million that is. Click here for the linky chaps and chapessesesesse

The End of Man U?

2010-01-19T15:57:00.001-08:00

They Came, The Saw, They Conquered, They Spent Quite A Bit on Fancy Meals, They Hit A Bit of a Cashflow Problem, They Went on a Tour of Asia to Find Investors, They Lost 2-1 to there Arch Rivals...Man Utd Are FC'UKd

it's another shocker...Manchester United, the great pride of Britain in Europe over the last decade. European Finalists, European Championship Winners, League Title Winners, FA Cup Winners, Carling Cup Winners, World Club Championship Winners.

all un-done by the americans and there credit cards!

Ban Flowers..Stick In Humps

2010-01-19T15:49:00.000-08:00

It Boils My...Cuppa Soup (Trademark, Copyright, argh...court case)

so yip..Bolton Council will tear down roadside floral tributes to those who have died in terrible car crashes...after 30 days!..literally, rip them from the fences and burn them.

'that'll teach 'em won't it bazza...makin a mess o' my f'in fence' says Gazza

you evil little f'cks. now i think they could make them a bit nicer, better floral displays, more permanent perhaps..or something that breaks down over the course of a few months, releasing nutrients in to the soil. but to say they're a distraction? if you're distracted by that then try driving past a field full of cows.

Linky <<< i know its daily mail but come on.

the DVLA..we sell your details mate

2010-01-19T15:46:00.000-08:00

those lil nutters at the DVLA have come up with a great Performance Related Bonus.

'alreet guv..hows bout we sell everyones private details..£2.50 a pop down at market?'
'crackin bazza.. lets do it'

the little....

heres a linky for you

Famous Futurist...The Final Curtain

2010-01-19T15:43:00.000-08:00

So Scarborough Borough Council have got there grubby little fingers in the 'Regeneration' pie again.

The FAMOUS Futurist Theatre on Scarboroughs historic Sea Front is to be demolished and replaced with a block of flats. Now, the theatre doesn't look great at the moment but that's because it had a 1970's facade (front) added to protect the delicated architecture from the brutal North Sea weather conditions. With that in mind..i declare we all get behind a project to keep the theatre open.

Comedian Rob Brydon has already publicly declared his support for the theatre as have other famous faces, even including Jo Brand. They want it saved..lets save it!

The alternative? We lose a theatre and gain a block of brand new apartments which have no architectural future or indeed history. Shocking.

Even More Rubbish TV

2010-01-19T13:52:00.000-08:00

Yeah, So I see all these advertisements ALL over TV and Radio (well, not see them on Radio) and it's all about this 'GLEE' thing!

now i'm not one to be bossed around by infomercials and radio banter but i thought, hey, this thing is up for some comedy awards. Maybe its the all new Only Fools and Horses. Ok, it's american, so it won't be that great but lets go have a look anyway..nothing better to do.

10 minutes later..i want to shoot myself. not only is it rubbish, its cheesy, its predictable and the acting is atrocious. so i go for a flick around the channels..nothing..not one thing...theres nothing there, its just Glee Club or Look at the Fatty Run or 1949 westerns.

I give up...we're all doomed. How this Glee thing can be up for comedy awards I don't know.

and now France have gone mad!

2010-01-05T09:11:00.000-08:00

France is to introduce a new law which means you cannot shout at your wife when she drops your laptop or dents your BMW after reversing over a garden rake.

France will become the first country in the world to ban 'psychological violence' within marriage later this year.

this is sillyness...another blanket law! they can't solve the problem so they ban the problem.

we're all going to hell on a moped!..honestly.

Thanks Iceland

2010-01-05T09:09:00.000-08:00

Iceland's president today blocked a bill to pay Britain and the Netherlands £3.6billion for losses caused by the collapse of one of its banks.

cheers! we slap some cash in your piggy bank and you run off with it..then say we're not getting it back..ner ner ner and stick your tongue out.

watch McBroon invest more of our billions in to a country thats sunk..oh wait..he's already doing that in the UK!

we're DOOMED!

16 INCHES of Snow?

2010-01-05T09:08:00.001-08:00

Sweet mother of the baby jesus! you would have thought it would be nice to get more than 24 hours warning that you're about to be buried alive in the arctic snow thats embracing the UK..but no...this adds to the effect! just let em know 24 hours before and watch em scream.

cheers

More Proof That Its a Hoax?

2009-12-16T02:07:00.001-08:00

So Charles and McBroon take seperate jets to the climate change thingy and then preach to those attending that they should walk back to whichever country they came from, yes, leave your limousines, leave your mercedes slk and leave your eurostar trains...go by foot! with sandals..they want to say!

or is it just that Prince Charles couldn't bare to put up with McCavity..perhaps he didnt want to be seen getting out of the same plane, he'd rather crawl out of the window...infact..he'd rather poison the atmosphere with jet fumes than sit in the same oxygen bottle as our dearest leader.

Free Presents .. UNLESS YOU WORK!

2009-12-16T02:03:00.000-08:00

God forbid that you should actually want to get a frickin job in this god foresaken hell hole we call the United Kingdom!

To the millions of us struggling to pay for Christmas this year, Dean Evans and his teenage girlfriend Catherine Scott have a simple message - save up.

After all, they've managed to set aside £1,000 so they and their eight children can enjoy the festive season together.

So pleased are they with their budgeting that they feel qualified to hand out advice to the rest of us - advice which might be better received if their Christmas piggy-bank wasn't full of state handouts. Daily Mail.

Now I know that the Daily Mail does like to bathe in the moonlight of despair and doom but still, this is getting rather silly now.

it goes on....
The couple, who live in a four-bedroom house paid for by the council, managed to save the money after Miss Scott, 18, gave birth to twins in May - resulting in their benefit allowance being raised from £7,000 to £23,000.

Each week they put aside at least £15 of their £480 state payments in a jar so they would be able to enjoy the festive season.

i don't begrudge anyone a hand out..but having twins? when you ain't got a job in the first place?

i just...i ... the...what...i mean! FOR F*(@

We'll Welcome Them on The Beaches!

2009-12-16T01:55:00.000-08:00

For the first time in modern history, the Government has raided the budget of the Ministry of Defence to fund a continuing military operation.

The Royal Air Force will bear the brunt of the cuts which will see an air base closed, a Harrier squadron scrapped and a reduction in the number of military personnel. from the Telegraph.

Yeah, so the podgy barstewards in Landon Town have decided to get there own back on us for finding out and exposing there expenses gravy train (not that its made much difference anyway, apart from dragging a few podgy MPs further in to the mud) they've now come up with the opportunity to allow more terrorists through our weak borders by reducing the size of our military yet further.

Not content with decades of pinching pennies from the MoD to pay for things like the Millenium Dome (which had to be sold off to the Private Sector to make it viable) they now want to really cut deep, oh yes, they want to make our armed forces bleed on the battle field and at home.

Like some grotesque fetish, Prime Mentalist has decided that it would be jolly good fun to watch the UK military struggle more, overstretched? ever so slightly!

those in the military want more troops, more equipment and more time but the Prime Mentalist keeps on squeezing them in all three sectors.

22 Helicopters for the loss of 1,000 staff, 2 warships and probably the much delayed but much needed multi-purpose fighting platforms (aircraft carriers)...doesn't seem quite right somewhere along the line..does it? and anyhoo..even if they do cost as much as all of that, the first of these choppers won't be in use till 2012 so as much use to the armed forces as a carrot and a piece of string but no stick.

Tosspots!

Yeah Great!

2009-11-20T17:20:00.000-08:00

So all of those who have been administered the Swine Flu Vaccine (thats not actually a vaccine at all because its just like taking a cough medicine in your veins that could leave you disabled for life if it goes wrong, which it has, in several cases nationwide) but yeah back to the point erm, yeah so the Times report on the fact that Swine Flu has now mutated to a strain that is resistant to drugs and such!

flippin great init!

oh i forgot the link..here you go

Rock on BBC!

2009-11-20T17:17:00.001-08:00

Thats right..not happy with over paying your management you then wee tax payers money up the wall still further by sending 35 Staff to Climate Talks .. so having splashed the cash, they then decided to add to the carbon footprint...which by the way is probably just another scam but i won't go there..i won't...yet!

40% Interest Merry F'in Christmas

2009-11-20T17:11:00.000-08:00

Thats right! 40% interest on your christmas shopping thanks to the money grabbin b'stards over at Capital One.

I know its a daily mail report, and they have a tendency to report doom and gloom on an epic scale but still..have a goosey gander at this Clicky Here

Sugar Rubbish

2009-11-20T17:10:00.000-08:00

Sorry but the Sugar Babes are total rubbish..just watched them on Children in Need and had to turn them off, i know it's for charity n all that but they're out of key, out of tune, can't hear one of em (probably for the best) and it's among the worst performances of the night to be honest! Sorry.

In a Curry

2009-11-19T16:29:00.000-08:00

So the guy who's responsible for trying to sort out the 'Sleaze' is one of the trough suckling piglets??? i mean...WHAT!

Daily Mail Article

this has got to stop.

Dictionary Entry (The Government Handbook):
Independent Investigation: - Investigation carried out by your best friend, brother or cousin in to your accounts and professional practices.

the pigs!

French Clowns

2009-10-30T12:30:00.000-07:00

Good ol' Sarkozy shows that it's not just our lot of trough scoffing bags of fat and fluid who know how to organise a big bash and then wee taxpayers money up the wall.

While they spend a moderately large amount of money on our MPs new toothbrushes and electric pig warming blankets the EU can be relied upon to provide one seriously massive cash pit...this lot are literally smoking there way through our taxes (using gold plated pipes).

The F******

Clicky Here for a linky

You're An Advisor! Don't Advise!

2009-10-30T12:19:00.000-07:00

So Johnson has sacked a drugs adviser for advising his department about drugs. Click Here for The Times article.

It seems that David Nutt (you couldn't make it up) has outstayed his welcome over at the gold plated headquarters for Nu-Lab after a 'string of controversial statements' e.g. basically he should shut the f*** up and stop giving the general public even more ammunition with which to sink Brown and Co, you're unfriendly, unelected and unhelpful ruling party (and by god..do they rule).

Your Children Are Racists..Apparently

2009-10-29T13:51:00.000-07:00

According to the Daily Mail report i've just come across Clicky Here up to 40,000 children a year are being branded racists..without being told what that actually means.

Yet again, we see the state starting nice and young. Get them while they don't understand Cause and Consequence, increase the amount of those being told off by the elders and those they look up to so that they all become racist, alcoholics who spend there days puffing on a spliff down an alleyway behind a local take-away. then they can be 'controlled' as they have no rights, they're criminals, they can be arrested and re-arrested as many times as the state requires.

It appears that 'Diversity Missionaries' are now monitoring nursery and primary school children to ensure they 1. dont swear 2. aren't racist 3. don't offend someone 4. don't bully someone 5. don't fall over 6. don't show signs of anger or depression
if they find any of these signs the children will be severely dealt with by teachers and will have broken some new code of conduct without even knowing why they are being told off.

the UK is on a downward spiral..it starts at the bottom and just keeps going down.

Google Invades Sat-Nav Territory

2009-10-29T13:26:00.000-07:00

Well here we go again. The clever people over at Google HQ have now launched another 'App' (or Application for those of us who don't use LOL to express our laughter) but this App, yet again, treads on the toes of other established businesses. It's a GPS Sat-Nav solution for mobile phones (I-Phone and such) is it Anti-Competitive? possibly! Google has billions of pounds of backing for projects that stretch outside of its normal focus, whereas other companies tend to be industry specific e.g. Garmin stick to navigation and radar as opposed to search engines and design software (other strings to Googles bow).

Is it anti-competitive for other companies? yes but it is also anti-competitive to prevent Google to offer this product/service! If they have the software and the ability to provide Sat-Nav for mobile phones then it seems there is very little anyone can do about it.

I'll blog about this more at a later date, this row will no doubt rumble on.

Well Done USA!

2009-10-29T13:06:00.000-07:00

Yep..it's official! The United States of America have broken out of the downward spiral..they're on the mend! So that just leaves us..the UK!

Didn't someone say that 'The UK is best placed to survive a recession'? or something to that effect. Whoever they were, they were wrong. The UK now has to break out of recession the next time the data is measured and Gordon Brown must surely be crossing his fingers and his toes, because if we don't..it just adds yet another dose of misery for the fast approaching festive period.

For everyone (except those in Westminster) it is quite apparent that the problems of the UK stem around the fact we have nothing what so ever to sell to any other country. Its impossible to think of a reason behind why the UK has no national product. We once built ships, we once built washing machines and we once built cars. Now? well..we have a few call centres, those that aren't being transferred to Delhi ofcourse. What else have we got? oh! a Buckingham Palace and an upside down Wok in our capital city! hardly good enough to generate the billions needed to keep the economy stable and people in work.

The UK is a great help to the other nations that inhabit this planet. We buy cars from South Korea, TVs from Japan and electric from France! Don't forget that we also buy wardrobes from China and toys for our children from America. Yet it is blatantly apparent that we actually need to pay for these goods...so surely we need to sell something else in order to pay at the checkout? well seemingly not, if the government are to be believed. We can just add it all on to our credit card and worry about the repayments in 2050! It's becoming increasingly hard to find anything British made these days...i did pop along to Curry's the other day and noticed that they now have a cooker with 'BRITISH MADE ME OL' MUCKER' emblazoned across it..the salesman was very impressed with it, shame the handle fell off when i tried to gain entry to the oven bit!

The UK has gone from bridge building genius of the world to international laughing stock, our economy is still in recession, our factories have closed, we no longer have the ability to build our own warships or our own fighter planes..we used to have Concorde, the fastest aircraft in the world, but that retired..along with our good friend 'Common Sense'

Holidaymakers and the Somalis

2009-10-29T12:54:00.000-07:00

I can't help thinking that many people in the world have the inability to recognise that well known phrase of 'Cause and Consequence'.

Take this example (one of many found when trawling the web). 'Yachtsman Paul Chandler tells of capture by Somali pirates' .... now this article, from the Times, poses the exact question that i am raising. Want to go on a sailing trip? sure thing mate...but where should we go? oh i don't know..how about the coast of Somalia, i've heard that you can go pirate spotting around there!

I do feel for the family at this point but it has to be noted that this couples decision to sail in to pirate invested waters has now affected dozens of other lives..those of the worlds armed forces..those men and women who have now been tasked with trying to locate and rescue this couple from a heavily armed gang of high seas ransom hunters! It's not as if they didn't know the coastline had the highest rate of piracy in the world and that hundreds of innocent men and women from around the world are being holed up aboard stolen container ships. They decided that they would take there 40 odd foot pleasure boat for a tour around a coastline that is currently being policed by the worlds navy's and is incredibly dangerous...potentially life threatening in more than a dozen ways.

i just don't understand why...maybe its me..maybe i'm not a thrill seeker, but for some reason i just don't identify with buying a boat and sailing to a large expanse of ocean where i have a 50/50 chance of survival..just to get a tan.