Join the army?

Why DO people join the army?   We should make it illegal!  In fact I think it's a crime to allure youngsters into joining the Army as a "good reliable job" abuse them, brainwash them, brutalise them and then send them off to kill people!

It's a lie to say our young people are "fighting a war" - there IS no war!

If no one joined the army - how good would that be? If everyone sued the army for abuse - how good would that be? If people who worked in the armed forces became pariahs instead of heroes (we know how to do this because we've already done it to smokers) - how good would that be?  If every person on this alien planet, practiced harmlessness - how good would THAT be?

What IS the matter with Mary-Jane?

A.A Milne's poem comes to mind every time I hear that Britain has a bad body image leading to depression, eating disorders and mental health issues. We have a bad self-image. What IS the matter with us?  The media are blamed for presenting body images that are impossibly unachievable for ordinary people.

But I think it is much more complex than that. Blaming the media is a cop-out. I think the blame should also be placed in front of the scientific health experts (our leaders) who hammer on and on and on about  health, fitness and diet to the masses tediously repetitively. Everyone is measured against BMI or some other scientific standard - we're preached at and legislated to have lifestyles that remove almost anything pleasurable like smoking, eating and drinking. No wonder people are depressed - we have impossibly unachievable lifestyle disorder. We are never good enough!
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"What IS the matter with Mary Jane?
There's lovely rice pudding for dinner again."

I'll tell you the matter with Mary Jane - she doesn't like rice pudding, it's only someone elses opinion that it's lovely or good for her, she's the one that has to actually eat it, she's bored of it, and it's stressing her out. Unlike us ordinary folk she has enough guts left in her to complain. Just leave her alone for God's sake.

Ah! Dogs know....

Canine Empathy: Your Dog Really Does Care if You Are Unhappy

New research shows that dogs respond to their owner's unhappiness. Published onJune 7, 2012 by Stanley Coren, Ph.D., F.R.S.C. in Canine Corner

People often report that it seems as if their dogs are reading their emotional state and responding in much the same way that a human would, providing sympathy and comfort, or joining in their joy. For example an acquaintance named Deborah told me that she had just gotten off of the phone after learning that her sister's husband had died and was sitting on the sofa wiping tears from her eyes and trying to deal with her sadness. She said, "At that moment Angus [her Golden retriever] came over to me and laid his head on my knee and began to whimper. A moment later he quietly walked away, and then returned with one of his favorite toys and gently put it in my lap, and gently licked my hand. I knew he was trying to comfort me. I believe that he was feeling my pain and hoping that the toy which made him happy might also help me to feel better.."

Such incidents involving pet dogs appear to be quite common and at face value they seem to show that dogs are showing empathy for their owners. Generally speaking empathy can be defined as the ability to put oneself into the mental shoes of another person to understand and even share their emotions and feelings. Although dog owners seem to be quite sure that their dogs have empathy for their feelings, if you make that suggestion to a group of psychologists are behavioral biologists it is more apt to start an argument rather than to bring out nods of agreement.


I was interested in this blog I quote, as I have noticed how in-tune my dogs are with me - and what happens around them regarding interpersonal relationships. I think constant dis chord can make them sick, just as it does us.

I remember an amusing incident (in hind sight) when one of my daughter's husbands came to visit her whilst she was staying with us, to try to sort out their very unhealthy, manipulative marriage. His rage at her non compliance to go home with him was palpable. We left them together in one corner of the lounge and withdrew with the dog who was distressed and anxious. There was no shouting or yelling - only a sinister silence. Suddenly the husband stomped out of the house, slamming doors and spreading silent fury all over us. As soon as he had gone, our dog ran over to the chair where he had been sitting, sniffing it anxiously. Suddenly, to our surprise, our otherwise house trained wise old dog, then wee'd all over the carpet in front of it.

What point was she making I wonder. Was she frightened? Was she putting her scent on an unpleasant place? From a human perspective, why do such a very odd thing?

But for us, it was the best symbolic summary of how we all felt - pissed off!

Isn't that a shame?

Today, I looked after my grandaughter. She's just started walking. Fortunately she was confined to one side of our lounge on carpeting that would not trip her. She spent hours practising walking, launching herself across the space with determination to reach the otherside. I could see her skill improving before my eyes. She loved the feeling of it, the discovery, the surprise, almost, of doing this new thing - walking! Lovely to watch.

I've been walking for 66 years. I've forgotten how fun I once thought it was. Isn't that a shame?

But tomorrow I'm going to register my gratitude to fate, kismet, the spirit of life - whatever - that I can still do it without pain.

(Memo to self - (to do daily) - walk for "fun")

Going too far

I am alarmed at how far the persecution of smokers is going: how the thoughtless waste of money proceeds in the history of the ant-smoking movement.

Now, all cigarettes are to be hidden from view in case their bright, alluring packaging attracts people to smoking. Shortly, it is possible all the packaging will be dun coloured with no labels, no colour, no allure. What will there be to "cover up"? Milions of pounds of our money has been wasted on NRT, with a poor success rate, abusing and persecuting the millions - MILLIONS - of smokers who have no rights, advertising campaigns, educational campaigns, covering up campaigns and the closure of thousands of pubs - once the hub (and pride) of English life.

Where is this madness leading us? How can we stop it? When smoking has officially been stamped out, what cost a war on illegal smoking? And who will pay the salaries to the thousands of workers in the Ash Industry?

I do not smoke, I vape.

But I feel sick at the idea that lobbyists' insanity can infect our Government to such an extent that citizens are denied the right to physical pleasures in the name of "Health".

Smokers do not cost the  Government a penny - they have paid their dues and more. As our servants, the politicians who wage war on smoking on behalf of a Government funded anti-smoking industry, have gone too far. They know not what they do.

Limos for little kids....

Don't want to be a killjoy - maybe I AM a killjoy or maybe I'm just old. Something seems wrong with society.

My little granddaughter is leaving primary school to go on to high school. On the last day, the parents have ordered a limo - yes a limo - to take the group to pizza hut for a fun meal.

My mind boggles. I feel uncomfortable. I feel repulsed somehow. I feel something is very strange about this. So I am analysing my thoughts here.

Firstly, how incongruous to arrive at pizza hut in a limo! It's comedic! Limos and Fortnums feel correct. But the kids go to a little village school out in t'country and there is no Fortnums here.

Then, the limo at the ages of 11 or 12 repulses me by its ostentation (remember village school) and by the subtle sophistication implicit of decadence, sex, celebrity and shallow materialism.

I think it's horrible to be frank.

I have erred by mentioning my misgivings to my daughter. She thinks its "wonderful" - the kids will remember the ride for the rest of their lives.

Well, if a limo becomes the symbol of celebratory success, by the time they are grown up, it will be old hat. What a shame.

Are you "Socially engineered"? Probably.

A very interesting movie to watch if you enjoy to be mentally stimulated....long...

But you're WORTH it!

Social Engineering in the 20th Century 


I dare you!

Is it true? Well probably, unfortunately. What to do about it?  I can't say.

Author unknown - new science!

An Awful Lot of Morons Revealed

Scientists have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.

The new element is Governmentium (Gv). It has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 asistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantitites of lefton-like particles called peons.

Since Governmentium has no electrons or protons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction normally taking less than a second to take from four days to four years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of two to six years. It does not decay but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quality is referred to as critical morass.

When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons. All of the money is consumed in the exchange, and no other by products are produced.

Solastalgia Grumble Club - Our rights

Freedom of speech seems to have gone for a burton  - can't feel relaxed voicing my thoughts any more.  I used to be very outspoken. And those I know seem equally timid. We have legislated thought control and speech control in the UK. Everyone has to be PC. This means that non-PC seems to not exist, but in truth it's just hidden.

We have our "rights". I'm not sure where that came from in this Science age. We only have the rights given us by the societies we live in. We weren't born with rights. Nature does not dish out "rights".

We have insane Libel Laws in the UK. I can be sued for just upsetting someone - just upsetting them. And all they have to prove is that they are upset! It is their "right" not to feel upset. Wow.

Litigation, no win, no pay, is ADVERTISED on the TV so everyone can sue everyone else if they really feel upset enough.

 How alien is that?

The solastalgia club

I am thinking of organising an all ages Grumble Club – for people like me who are feeling 'out of place' in their world. An alien world.

Older folk might be nostalgic for times past – every generation must feel that. But I think it's MORE than nostalgia that we are feeling. I feel nostalgia and a sense of loss for 'how it was' when I was young. But that is not what I am feeling.

Nostalgia is what I MAKE MYSELF FEEL via a memory. My feeling is a hopeless, frustrated nostalgia – and I can tell that others feel it too.

So I think Solastalgia is a more powerful word that encompasses the deep emotion we might be feeling even though it usually describes the suffering of a nation, people or displaced group. I think we are feeling it now, in our own country.

Landmarks of solace that are used to comfort are no longer in my land


Freedom of speech
Now there is now legislated thought control and speech control

Freedom of movement
Now we are now surveilled

Personal Anonymity of ordinary people
Now we are a statistic from birth to death, in sickness and in health

Friendly Police
Now Police now enforce state regulations and submit statistics

Freedom of community behaviour
Now Health and Safety regulations control us

A friendly protective state
Now an intimidating state whose legislations are so numerous as to be unknown

Church/Religion was valued
Now scorn for Religion/Church, new atheism, disdain

Communities knew their own + trusted
Now CRB checks, paedophile neurosis

Frontiers and borders
Now Free immigration

England/Great Britain
Now Small Britain - only a tiny EU island

Garbage Removal Council Responsibility
Now Re-cycling our responsibility

Teachers allowed to discipline classes
Now Dis-empowered Teachers

Parental autonomy
Now Dis-empowered parents

Real famous people
Now manufactured 'celebrities'

Sex as 'mysterious', discoverable
Now Sex as a 'flouted' commodity

Innocent children
Now 'Adultised' children

Society - naturally
Now Scientifically 'sculpted' society

A meaningful vote implementing change
Now a worthless vote – no change

The Family Doctor – an intimate 'friend'
Now impersonal doctors filling their Govt. statistics only offering options according to their Govt 'list' and not advising anything

Home remedies, old wives and grandma
Now Big Pharmaceutical companies are driving medicine and influencing doctors

Hips failing, fatness, diabetes, high blood pressure were once unlucky 'conditions'
Now most Illnesses are now OUR fault – we are to feel shame, take the blame

Old, wise-men politicians
Now commercialised 'Pretty boy' Politicians

Free Press
Now manipulated Press

Marriage as a base for a family
Now Marriage unrequired

Mysteries, paranormal, spirit
Now Scientism/skepticism denies/refutes all

Science as a method
Now Science as a priesthood

An accident used to occur, accidently!
Now there is no place for an accident – someone is to 'blame'

People with money sued others, most folk felt safe
Now everyone now can sue anyone – everyone feels nervous

When you were old, you looked old
Now it's your fault if you look old

People smoked
Now smoking demonised, children mustn't see it! False scientific 'statistics'

Science was used to prove something unarguably and re-testably
Now science is used to prove something for political purposes (like SH Smoke, Man-made climate change, vitamins are bad etc)

Winter, spring, summer, autumn were reliable – forever. Earth was our stable home.

Now climate change is OUR fault. We are killing our home – even by breathing!

God was God
Now Darwin is God

The Government was a Democracy
Now it wages wars in the name of its disagreeing citizens, and signs the Lisbon Treaty and passes laws illegally.


The debilitating effects of Nostalgia can occur when you are physically displaced from somewhere you call home. Solastalgia occurs when the environment you call home changes unrecognisably for reasons beyond your immediate control. Solastalgia can lead to distress and the psychological defense against solastalgia is apathy and hopelessness.

My personal view is that there is some kind of 'sickness' abroad in Great Britain, millions are suffering solastalgia and the symptom is an impotent apathy.

A solastalgia club would be a place to discuss the pain of living in a 'foreign' country that used to be 'home'. We would achieve solace by discovering another person who feels the same as we do. We could grumble, complain in my club – or even DO something about our world and in getting together, we would affirm that we are NOT helplessly APATHETIC!

Planet 1960 faces 2012

I miss feeling free. I miss feeling 'at home'.

I do not want to be blackmailed by medical science about my own health, blackmailed by climate science about global warming, or feel threatened by 'science' as the new priestly class that has the final say on absolutely everything! 'Does anybody know the secret of love?' by Ella Fitzgerald loses it's magic in our new 'scientific age' where love is confused with sex, and sex  is confused with copulation.

I do not want to be politically correct, recycle, give up smoking, strap myself into a vehicle, follow sell by dates on foods, see 'wet floor' signs on every public floor, watch Japanese made children's programs with my grandchildren, get permission just to photograph Parliament buildings or my grand daughter's school play or my grandchildren AT play.

I do not want to be restricted by airport checks or wait for hours to board a plane. I do not want to fear going to hospital – they used to be 'safe' places once. Once I'm there, I do not want to join the smokers outside in the rain, while I vape my electronic cigarette, clutching my drip and catheter too.

I do not want to watch my children try to set up their fish tank in the new 'scientific' way – when I know simply dumping everything in and then adding fish worked perfectly well in the past. I am appalled at how they 'believe' all the rubbish they watch on TV, how brainwashed they are by the legislation that CONTROLS them, and how little they know. They are astonished that the illegal drug trade is a modern invention, that politicians used to be elders, or that my generation just 'got on' with life without psychological counseling.

The thing I like about the new world I live in, is the technology – I have to thank science for that! Yet something is very wrong.

The new freedom we practise in this UK "democracy" that is run by lobby groups and sock puppets, and not by its citizens, is a new, vile and mutated animal to me.

Solastalgia on this "alien" planet

In a 2004 essay, A Canadian professor called Albrecht coined a term to describe a hitherto unrecognised psychological condition.: “solastalgia,” a combination of the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek root –algia (pain), which he defined as “the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediate assault . . . a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at ‘home.’

I prefer Solastalgia to Nostalgia because I feel I have been 'forced off my old land' even though I am still here. Solastalgia is something I suffer whilst observing changes against which I am powerless to take action.  I think loads of people are suffering from Solastalgia - immigrants know all about it - they have really moved off their land.

The term Future Shock as a possible name for our 'condition' – Toffler describes Future Shock as "too much change in too short a period of time". But I don't think we are suffering from future shock – we are homesick whilst still at home in a now foreign place. We are Solastalgic!

It's a daft world, you gotto laugh.

If you think we live on an alien planet, you could say no more than this really....

Steve Hughes

and Steve Hughes

Cancer as a Weapon

There have been reports in the papers of Obesity causing cancer, - DEADLIER THAN SMOKING! Well, with all the hoo-ha about smoking one would think there was NOTHING deadlier than smoking.

And again, two reports - one that HPV causes mouth cancer and that Alcohol causes mouth cancer.

I've got to the stage of believing all these scientific twististics to guarantee your funding, is about as good as saying masturbation causes insanity. This is just using cancer as a weapon to scare people. And the media spreads it. It worked well with second hand smoke - very iffy science proving that. Why not try the same tactic on some other social 'evil'  like obesity, drinking and sex?

Molded by Fear

Society is obese with fear. It's time to change our diet.

Quote :- Studies show that levels of fear and paranoia are a marker of the health of a society. In an American study - in which 8,000 individuals across 40 states were surveyed - it was found that mistrust of people was associated with areas of lower social cohesion and higher death rates. Remarkably, the study claimed that as levels of trust increased by 10 per cent, death rates declined by 8 per cent.

An archived article still excellent and pertinent from the Daily Mail 'Scared to Death'

It's strange that in a time of improved health-care, a soft, safe life in the West, we have become obsessed with being 'safe'. We've never had it so good. Yet all we are fed is fear.

Regulatory nooses - how it could be now....

In the year 2012, the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in the west of England and said:

"Once again, the earth has become wicked and over-populated, and I see the end of all flesh before me."

"Build another Ark and save two of every living thing along with a few good humans."

He gave Noah the blueprints, saying:"You have six months to build the Ark before I will start the unending rain for forty days and forty nights."




Six months later, the Lord looked down and saw Noah weeping in his yard - but no Ark.

"Noah!," He roared, "I'm about to start the rain! Where is the Ark ?"

"Forgive me, Lord," begged Noah, "but things have changed."

"I needed a Building Permit."

"I've been arguing with the Boat Inspector about the need for a sprinkler system."

"My neighbours claim that I've violated the Neighbourhood Bye-Laws by building the Ark in my
back garden and exceeding the height limitations. We had to go to the Local Planning Committee for a decision."

"Then the Local Council and the Electricity Company demanded a shed load of money for the future costs of moving power lines and other overhead obstructions, to clear the passage for the Ark's move to the sea. I told them that the sea would be coming to us, but they would hear nothing of it."

"Getting the wood was another problem. There's a ban on cutting local trees in order to save the Greater Spotted Barn Owl."

"I tried to convince the environmentalists that I needed the wood to save the owls - but no go!"

"When I started gathering the animals the RSPCA took me to court. They insisted that I was confining wild animals against their will. They argued the accommodations were too restrictive, and it was cruel and inhumane to put so many animals in a confined space."

"Then the Environmental Agency ruled that I couldn't build the Ark until they'd conducted an environmental impact study on your proposed flood."

"I'm still trying to resolve a complaint with the Human Rights Commission on how many minorities I'm supposed to hire for my building crew."

"Immigration are checking the Visa status of most of the people who want to work."

"The trades unions say I can't use my sons. They insist I have to hire only Union workers with Ark-building experience."

"To make matters worse, the Inland Revenue seized all my assets, claiming I'm trying to leave the country illegally with endangered species."

"So, forgive me, Lord, but it would take at least 10 years for me to finish this Ark. "

"Suddenly the skies cleared, the sun began to shine, and a rainbow stretched across the sky."

Noah looked up in wonder and asked,"You mean you're not going to destroy the world?"

"No," said the Lord. "David Cameron and the Coalition Government beat me to it."

Bollocks to Consultations

Have you noticed that "UK Government Consultations" about this or that, usually turn out to find that everyone consulted concurs with THEM - i.e the UK Government's Tax funded Government lobby groups? I've been following several consultations lately. They mostly give me the creeps. Many of them are a sham patronising sheeple appeasing fake problems that the Government pays for with OUR taxes, and that supports thousands of workers in the consultation industry.

The one currently in the news that will make smoking even more alluring to the young and profitable to the criminal is the plain packaging "consultation" involving officials with "open minds"! Oh yes - open minds. And twisted statistics from badly worded Government "Polls" like those reported in this article.

Bollocks to all such contrived manipulations.

Consultations you can watch whilst your taxes dribble away......

UK Government consultation websites

For details of current consultations going on across government, follow the links below.

• Attorney General's Office consultations Opens new window

• British Waterways consultations Opens new window

• Department for Business Innovation & Skills consultations Opens new window

• Cabinet Office consultations Opens new window

• Charity Commission consultations Opens new window

• Department for Communities and Local Government consultations Opens new window

• Department for Culture Media and Sport consultations Opens new window

• Department for Education consultations Opens new window

• Department for Energy and Climate Change consultations Opens new window

• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs consultations Opens new window

• Department of Health consultations Opens new window

• Department for International Development consultations Opens new window

• Department for Transport consultations Opens new window

• Department for Work and Pensions consultations Opens new window

• Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency consultations Opens new window

• Environment Agency consultations Opens new window

• Farm Animal Welfare Council consultations Opens new window

• Food Standards Agency consultations Opens new window

• Forestry Commission consultations Opens new window

• Government Equalities Office consultations Opens new window

• Health and Safety Executive consultations Opens new window

• Highways Agency consultations Opens new window

• HM Revenue and Customs consultations Opens new window

• HM Treasury consultations Opens new window

• Home Office consultations Opens new window

• Intellectual Property Office consultations Opens new window

• Maritime and Coastguard Agency consultations Opens new window

• Ministry of Defence consultations Opens new window

• Ministry of Justice consultations Opens new window

• Northern Ireland Office consultations Opens new window

• Office for National Statistics consultations Opens new window

• Office of Fair Trading consultations Opens new window

• Office of Gas and Electricity Markets consultations Opens new window

• Office for National Statistics consultations Opens new window

• Pensions Regulator consultations Opens new window

• Scotland Office consultations Opens new window

• Scottish Government consultations Opens new window

• UK Borders Agency consultations Opens new window

• Vehicle and Operator Services Agency consultations Opens new window

Welsh Assembly Government consultations

The Natural Centre of Everyday Life

The natural centre of everyday life is NOT hinged on science. Ordinary people understand little of 'science'. They are told what to believe and how to live because scientists are portrayed as 'the final word' of KNOWING. Ordinary people just get on with life. The centre of their life is family, friends, love, relationships, happiness, pain, belongings and hard work. These are the really meaningful things. Yet we are indoctrinated by fear – mostly – from the media reporting scientists' discoveries,but our ignorance of 'science' is as deep as it was when we were being impressed with guilt and fear from other kinds of priests. How can we dare not to believe what has been PROVED scientifically?

If you challenge the role of science in modern life, it will always be pointed out how wonderful life is with the technology it has brought us – and how our lives and health have been improved by it. No one ever points out the evils of plastic, pesticides, designer viruses, many other inventions which are simply crimes against humanity or the millions killed in war.

But I can report that many people live without science or education all over the world - I've seen it. Personal happiness is obtainable nevertheless even though that might cause astonishment to the educated or scientific observer. I love science! I loved studying it. I love using the technology it brings - the technology delights me and I am grateful daily. I wouldn't be so happy in outer Mongolia - or Patagonia! Not every one is so enthusiastic.

People go regularly to places where they can live with no technology - on purpose! I never understand that. But I would love to live without the 'scientism' that is becoming bolder and bolder as I get older and older. It hardly EVER has anything REALLY uplifting to say.

The trend of my blogs – What the hell has gone wrong?

What is the cause of the dissatisfaction I find in people of my age? Well, what is wrong with my generation is that we are grumpy old people!

We see such changes in society, it makes us choke. No, its not the technological age – loads of us are absolutely smashingly adept with technology. No, its not computers or the Internet or shopping online – we can do that too. No, its not the fact that Altzheimers or cancer are rising statistically. No, its not that all our grandchildren seem to have allergies, asthma, or poor appetites. No, its not that we can't smoke in Pubs any more, or use dope in the park. No, its not that the new priests are scientists and not Roman Catholics. No, its not that the doctor knows nothing about us, our families, or the medicine they prescribe – or even the side effects they cause. No – its none of those things.

It's the noose! It's the noose that tightens slowly with every new legislation that restricts us. Thinking, speaking, doing has become a hazardous activity. There is no room for spontaneity. Spontaneity is what we LIKE! Remember we are the Flower Children generation, the LSD using generation, the Women's Lib generation, the Pill generation, the fist Teenager generation – we opened the doors! What the hell has gone wrong? We see Political Correctness, Health and Safety Regulations, Game Theory Governance and the eternal quest for SAFETY AT ALL COSTS as a ghastly erosion of the freedom that should belong to us all. And we are horrified that the new generation haven't a clue what it is like to live in a normal society.