Thursday, 28 April 2011
Friday, 21 January 2011
The Cynical Sage says "Didja ever think of these?"
One want's to remember that the people who advertise a product are not those that make it, they've just been contracted to sell it so little exaggerations and distortions of fact creep in, not enough to flag the bunco squad just enough to ensure they get the ad contract.. Therefore it is not prudent to fully believe any advert, anywhere! I mean, if somethings good enough it'll sell itself by its quality and/or price
Secondly ask yourself this question, be provably truthful in your answer, too. When and what have you ever bought as a DIRECT result of a TV ad. I can honestly say that not only I but no one else I know has ever bought anything as a result of an advertisement on the television!
Ads sucker you in and they're very clever at it too. Ask yourself do you really need an HD 3d TV when they have already succeeded in an experiment with holographic viewing!!
To all and any who read this, don't be ad suckers.
Now, a little rhyme I wrote: "I do not know, I cannot say, why I am here today. I really have no idea why the Good Lord put me here"!
Secondly ask yourself this question, be provably truthful in your answer, too. When and what have you ever bought as a DIRECT result of a TV ad. I can honestly say that not only I but no one else I know has ever bought anything as a result of an advertisement on the television!
Ads sucker you in and they're very clever at it too. Ask yourself do you really need an HD 3d TV when they have already succeeded in an experiment with holographic viewing!!
To all and any who read this, don't be ad suckers.
Now, a little rhyme I wrote: "I do not know, I cannot say, why I am here today. I really have no idea why the Good Lord put me here"!
Friday, 24 December 2010
Don't blame me, I voted UKIP!
I've always voted every General Election as well as a good many local ones. I vote because I think it's the height of foolishness not to, if you've got a chance in the say of how the country's run, however small, use it.
We elect politicians from whateverr faction we adhere to in the belief that they will, as the collective noun implies, govern, "to rule with authority". All get elected because we, rightly, believe they are better for the job in hand. One who is better educated,better dressed and who enjoys the occupation, very important that last one!
"Fool me once, shame on you. Shame me twice, shame on me" Dear oh dear. They all make the same mistake acting first, thinking later. I'm not politcian materiel at all but I take an interest in current affairs. I think one should know what's happening to one's survival element, Earth, both lacally and globally and when all the song and dance was going on at the creation of the Euro it didn't need a rocket scientist to see that further down the road it would all go to Hell in a hand-basket; that it simply could not endure for very long.
and yet in they all marched, flags waving "now we'll give the Almighty Dollar a good seeing to". I mean, come on , be serious, and with the Asian economies beginning to get it together. too. To quote one of my heroes, Bob Dylan, "It doesn't take a weather-man to tell which way the wind blows". Nodody foresaw what exactly were likely to be the long term effects of Internet trading, of the massive impact the whole of thre cyber thing would have on society in general.
A few more equally well thought out mistakes and things begin to go wrong, if we, in whatever our particular profession happens to be, made as many mistakes in work as the "Don't look for troubl;es, you'll find them" brigade, politicians we'd be down the road with our tools on our back as they say.
I haven't ever had a credit card, I viewed them right at the start as little ticking time-bombs. I've a debit card and that's it. I might not have a 40" HDTV or a BMW suv but then I don't owe for any of those things. Again ,look at the personalities of those engaged in high finance. That which draws them into the money trade and gives them a chance to manipulate currency well is the same thing as the one that puts on the"Greed is good", team. Amongst other things they have to learn is a course in, "How not to look beyond next Sunrise". The whole Global economy thing attracts the "Me first, last and always" genre like s..t does flies.
Now we know (or do know!) these things to be true, they are as predictable as rain at Whitsun when are we going to stand up and say "Enough is enough", we are no longer going to pay for YOUR mistakes, YOUR breathtaking lack of any ability to see past the end of your nose.
One day start watching some of those finance oriented TVnews channels like "Bloomsberg" & etc it doesn't matter that you don't understand fifteen sixteenths of it just check out the anchors and money Monarchs, the talking heads. After a while you will see that no single two people agree. OK, that's to show all the different sides of the situation. No, it's the sheer volume of them that worries me, there's bound to be at least one bad apple in every barrel and the trouble starts when the future blindness one in the most powerful position gets his sums wrong. The deleterious effects multiply exponentially and once the milk's in the tea you can't get it back out again!
It says it all when the country chosen for the headquarters, for the Eurocrats to pontificate in can't even put a Government for themselves! Each of the main ruling options, politics or money is peopled with too many with rosey hued schemes, sureshot solutions etc. and we are just beginning to see the cracks their failure to get it right is causing.
Wake up! As Sherlock Holmes was fond of saying to Watson, "You look Watson but you don't see!"
It's not my fault that all the countries are going broke and I doubt it's yours, either so why the H..l should we have to pay for those that should know but don't bollicking it up?
,
We elect politicians from whateverr faction we adhere to in the belief that they will, as the collective noun implies, govern, "to rule with authority". All get elected because we, rightly, believe they are better for the job in hand. One who is better educated,better dressed and who enjoys the occupation, very important that last one!
"Fool me once, shame on you. Shame me twice, shame on me" Dear oh dear. They all make the same mistake acting first, thinking later. I'm not politcian materiel at all but I take an interest in current affairs. I think one should know what's happening to one's survival element, Earth, both lacally and globally and when all the song and dance was going on at the creation of the Euro it didn't need a rocket scientist to see that further down the road it would all go to Hell in a hand-basket; that it simply could not endure for very long.
and yet in they all marched, flags waving "now we'll give the Almighty Dollar a good seeing to". I mean, come on , be serious, and with the Asian economies beginning to get it together. too. To quote one of my heroes, Bob Dylan, "It doesn't take a weather-man to tell which way the wind blows". Nodody foresaw what exactly were likely to be the long term effects of Internet trading, of the massive impact the whole of thre cyber thing would have on society in general.
A few more equally well thought out mistakes and things begin to go wrong, if we, in whatever our particular profession happens to be, made as many mistakes in work as the "Don't look for troubl;es, you'll find them" brigade, politicians we'd be down the road with our tools on our back as they say.
I haven't ever had a credit card, I viewed them right at the start as little ticking time-bombs. I've a debit card and that's it. I might not have a 40" HDTV or a BMW suv but then I don't owe for any of those things. Again ,look at the personalities of those engaged in high finance. That which draws them into the money trade and gives them a chance to manipulate currency well is the same thing as the one that puts on the"Greed is good", team. Amongst other things they have to learn is a course in, "How not to look beyond next Sunrise". The whole Global economy thing attracts the "Me first, last and always" genre like s..t does flies.
Now we know (or do know!) these things to be true, they are as predictable as rain at Whitsun when are we going to stand up and say "Enough is enough", we are no longer going to pay for YOUR mistakes, YOUR breathtaking lack of any ability to see past the end of your nose.
One day start watching some of those finance oriented TVnews channels like "Bloomsberg" & etc it doesn't matter that you don't understand fifteen sixteenths of it just check out the anchors and money Monarchs, the talking heads. After a while you will see that no single two people agree. OK, that's to show all the different sides of the situation. No, it's the sheer volume of them that worries me, there's bound to be at least one bad apple in every barrel and the trouble starts when the future blindness one in the most powerful position gets his sums wrong. The deleterious effects multiply exponentially and once the milk's in the tea you can't get it back out again!
It says it all when the country chosen for the headquarters, for the Eurocrats to pontificate in can't even put a Government for themselves! Each of the main ruling options, politics or money is peopled with too many with rosey hued schemes, sureshot solutions etc. and we are just beginning to see the cracks their failure to get it right is causing.
Wake up! As Sherlock Holmes was fond of saying to Watson, "You look Watson but you don't see!"
It's not my fault that all the countries are going broke and I doubt it's yours, either so why the H..l should we have to pay for those that should know but don't bollicking it up?
,
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Gullibles Travels
Ye Gods! How long is it going to take the average person to realize that the reason we're being swamped with advertising concerning insurance, insurance of every kind imaginable, you can even insure your insurance in some cases!
What's the reason for this unseemly rush of Insurers toward us? Well, the "Loans" scam didn't work out too well in the long run, did it!? Then some bright, greedy business type man (or woman) found the motherlode, the eternal Yage*, "Insurance" Nobody takes too much scaring into worrying about loosing all their, as yet unpaid for in full, bits and bats and dogs and cats. Contents, the thought of either financially or sentimentaly (or both) valuable possessions being damaged or worse still, stolen is unthinkable.
The beauty of being an "Insurer" is that you get an endless supply of free money you do not have to lift one finger for. Sure, you got to pay out now and again but the likelihood of everybody putting in a maximum claim all at the same time is about the same as you winning the Euro Millions! Result, as I said, money for old rope. I wonder what will be the death knell of this latest "some of the people all of the time" money spinner?
What's the reason for this unseemly rush of Insurers toward us? Well, the "Loans" scam didn't work out too well in the long run, did it!? Then some bright, greedy business type man (or woman) found the motherlode, the eternal Yage*, "Insurance" Nobody takes too much scaring into worrying about loosing all their, as yet unpaid for in full, bits and bats and dogs and cats. Contents, the thought of either financially or sentimentaly (or both) valuable possessions being damaged or worse still, stolen is unthinkable.
The beauty of being an "Insurer" is that you get an endless supply of free money you do not have to lift one finger for. Sure, you got to pay out now and again but the likelihood of everybody putting in a maximum claim all at the same time is about the same as you winning the Euro Millions! Result, as I said, money for old rope. I wonder what will be the death knell of this latest "some of the people all of the time" money spinner?
Monday, 29 November 2010
Don't blame me, I voted UKIP!
You vote a government into power, any government, doesn't matter which party, and the reason you vote is that people who're smarter than you (or I) run things so that they work properly. Well. as far as I can make out ever since the hideous Thatcher years every political regieme seems to've been populated by the sort of greedy, gullible idiots that fall for the "Nigerian Princess" scam. I mean we'd have been better off putting Bernie Madof in charge of treasury.
My point is, when the !*%^@~?** are we going to strart taking these fly-by-nights to task for their profligacy with our money. I don't remember being asked if it was allright for them to put my pension fund in some tin-pot bank in Iceland!
The Euro is a joke, any fool can see that when the weakest ones of a collective fail-and their are always some who'll just not make the grade-everybody else gets dragged down with them sooner or later. Each country should have its own coinage and have control over it's exchange rates, I mean, it's down in dolly's class. I thought that was what a free market was.
The other crippling and equally asinine mistake to make was to completely eradicate our manufacturing base. Things are going to get worse before they start getting better and to leave ourselves as a whole country in the position of being unable to even mine the coal to smelt the ore let alone have a place where "things" are actually "made" is complete insanity. We bloody started the industrial revolution and now we're just the managers office.
Wake up, we've got to start readying ourselves for being able to create things again, we've got to shut the doors on this influx of every Tom, Dick and Harry who feels hard done by where they come from. WE CANNOT GO ON AS WE ARE. Why should we suffer for the avarice and incompetance of those we vote for. I've never had a credit card in my life, nor will I, if I haven't got the money then I've got to find a way to earn it or do without, it doesn't hurt, honest.
If you were as poor at your respective job (assuming you have one!) as those you vote in to run the country you'd be down the road with your tools on your back, as they say. Give me one good reason why we should suffer from the political mismanagement that is rapidly turning this country into some South Seas Banana Republic!?
My point is, when the !*%^@~?** are we going to strart taking these fly-by-nights to task for their profligacy with our money. I don't remember being asked if it was allright for them to put my pension fund in some tin-pot bank in Iceland!
The Euro is a joke, any fool can see that when the weakest ones of a collective fail-and their are always some who'll just not make the grade-everybody else gets dragged down with them sooner or later. Each country should have its own coinage and have control over it's exchange rates, I mean, it's down in dolly's class. I thought that was what a free market was.
The other crippling and equally asinine mistake to make was to completely eradicate our manufacturing base. Things are going to get worse before they start getting better and to leave ourselves as a whole country in the position of being unable to even mine the coal to smelt the ore let alone have a place where "things" are actually "made" is complete insanity. We bloody started the industrial revolution and now we're just the managers office.
Wake up, we've got to start readying ourselves for being able to create things again, we've got to shut the doors on this influx of every Tom, Dick and Harry who feels hard done by where they come from. WE CANNOT GO ON AS WE ARE. Why should we suffer for the avarice and incompetance of those we vote for. I've never had a credit card in my life, nor will I, if I haven't got the money then I've got to find a way to earn it or do without, it doesn't hurt, honest.
If you were as poor at your respective job (assuming you have one!) as those you vote in to run the country you'd be down the road with your tools on your back, as they say. Give me one good reason why we should suffer from the political mismanagement that is rapidly turning this country into some South Seas Banana Republic!?
Thursday, 25 February 2010
disenchantment with a dream
I find myself using the www less and less reverting to the time honored and , would you believe, less time consuming method of going to local library! Why? Because I'm sick, sore and tired of the endless stream of advertising, completely irrelevant information, technical gobbledegook and downright deceit that accompanies even the simplest of search requests
The Internet is strangling itself with the blatant, unremitting GREED of the majority of its users plus the unbelievably poor ergonomic layout of most of the download sites. You get directed time after time to pages with stuff stuck haphazardly across the spread as though the creators-I use the term lightly!-have simply thrown the various ads and information at it much as a chimp throws feces at a wall and with about the same result!
Things have got worse and worse and the trend as far as I can see is more of the same. I would be most interested to know if other ordinary non "Geek" users agree with my observations herein described?
The Internet by its very nature presupposes that self discipline has to be applied in its usage if this wonderful invention is to survive as a meaningful tool of the masses but alas one only has to see the "speed bumps" on minor roads to ascertain how well self discipline is understood by the great unwashed! The other thing, the layouts of the pages force me to believe that they are purposely rubbish, I can't believe that the majority of contributors are so inept at creating user friendly graphic layouts! I reinforce this statement by suggesting that the reader go to our site http:www.wudrecords.co.uk/dark-company and check the ease of navigation. I would add this site is the work of my musical other half's 20 year old son and not some so called professional web designer!
I'm afraid my attitude is fast becoming that of "odi profanum vulgus et arceo" (would you believe that when the wrongly spelt red line came up under this quote for 'arceo' it came up with Archie. I rest my case!)
The Internet is strangling itself with the blatant, unremitting GREED of the majority of its users plus the unbelievably poor ergonomic layout of most of the download sites. You get directed time after time to pages with stuff stuck haphazardly across the spread as though the creators-I use the term lightly!-have simply thrown the various ads and information at it much as a chimp throws feces at a wall and with about the same result!
Things have got worse and worse and the trend as far as I can see is more of the same. I would be most interested to know if other ordinary non "Geek" users agree with my observations herein described?
The Internet by its very nature presupposes that self discipline has to be applied in its usage if this wonderful invention is to survive as a meaningful tool of the masses but alas one only has to see the "speed bumps" on minor roads to ascertain how well self discipline is understood by the great unwashed! The other thing, the layouts of the pages force me to believe that they are purposely rubbish, I can't believe that the majority of contributors are so inept at creating user friendly graphic layouts! I reinforce this statement by suggesting that the reader go to our site http:www.wudrecords.co.uk/dark-company and check the ease of navigation. I would add this site is the work of my musical other half's 20 year old son and not some so called professional web designer!
I'm afraid my attitude is fast becoming that of "odi profanum vulgus et arceo" (would you believe that when the wrongly spelt red line came up under this quote for 'arceo' it came up with Archie. I rest my case!)
Friday, 27 November 2009
On the unerring accuracy of things travelling in a downward direction to find things they shouldn't fall on
Last night I finally finished refurbishing Simon's aging slide (lap) guitar which has been sitting in my, kitchen which doubles for a workshop (!), gathering unsuitable humors on its partially primed finish. At last, equipped with necessary paint and lacquer, I took the plunge and fixing the body horizontally a few inches above the surface of my B & D portable work bench decided that I would completely finish one side plus edges (including lacquer) let it go off over night and do other side today
Aha! I thought, gentle heat will aid the process of getting it handle dry. I know the very thing, in my lounge I have in an inaccessible corner one of those convector gas wall heaters. I could move the right hand stereo speaker, modified small Calor gas Super Ser that has a 13Kg bottle on a little trolley at rear (all my own invention said the White Knight). With considerable effort and much muttering of naughty words plus a look that would fry eggs from my downstairs cat that I had woken up managed to fold in the lower splay legs of the bench (to get it through the kitchen door) and drag it slowly and painfully the whole length of the room.
Upon reaching my destination I suddenly remembered the late 19th century striped and fluted tall colored glass vase on top of the wall heater along with two cheap ornamental ribbed glass flasks either side. Knowing well the Law of Sod I thought "better be safe than sorry knowing me I'll back into stove and knock glassware down". Feeling rather foresighted and confident I reached over to remove glassware. Expensive glass vase, fine, one of the smaller bottles, fine the other small bottle.....not fine! I lose grip on it and it tumbles over edge of stove. Well, so what, I hear you say, no biggy. WRONG! below said stove is large ornamental glass Brandy Balloon filled with cacti sitting on an earthenware pot plinth. You get the picture.
Now, I've read descriptions of glass "exploding" but they never seemed to be of vessels that contained damp cacti compost and half a quarry of gravel! You are no doubt conversant with the expression "it went everywhere", this took the description literally, I think it had been practicing! It took me until 2 45am in the --ing morning to a) clear everything up and b) to unstick the cat from the ceiling and pacify the poor animal which was obviously convinced that 2012 had come early! I was still finding shards of glass mixed with lumps of compost and bits of cacti today.
The moral of this tale is don't drag B & D workbenches with drying painted objects on them round cacti filled lounges that have resident cats in them.I do hope this cautionary tale will prevent others from undergoing the trauma of my experience.
On a happier note the guitar is now finished, looks great and now simply needs reassembly and restringing and someone sent a very encouraging comment to The Cynical Sage about our band, thank you, anonymous fan, your message cheered me up just when I needed it. More stuff is being added to our repertoire all the time so keep a look out. We nailed the vocals for the second track on our latest album, Noir, today.
Aha! I thought, gentle heat will aid the process of getting it handle dry. I know the very thing, in my lounge I have in an inaccessible corner one of those convector gas wall heaters. I could move the right hand stereo speaker, modified small Calor gas Super Ser that has a 13Kg bottle on a little trolley at rear (all my own invention said the White Knight). With considerable effort and much muttering of naughty words plus a look that would fry eggs from my downstairs cat that I had woken up managed to fold in the lower splay legs of the bench (to get it through the kitchen door) and drag it slowly and painfully the whole length of the room.
Upon reaching my destination I suddenly remembered the late 19th century striped and fluted tall colored glass vase on top of the wall heater along with two cheap ornamental ribbed glass flasks either side. Knowing well the Law of Sod I thought "better be safe than sorry knowing me I'll back into stove and knock glassware down". Feeling rather foresighted and confident I reached over to remove glassware. Expensive glass vase, fine, one of the smaller bottles, fine the other small bottle.....not fine! I lose grip on it and it tumbles over edge of stove. Well, so what, I hear you say, no biggy. WRONG! below said stove is large ornamental glass Brandy Balloon filled with cacti sitting on an earthenware pot plinth. You get the picture.
Now, I've read descriptions of glass "exploding" but they never seemed to be of vessels that contained damp cacti compost and half a quarry of gravel! You are no doubt conversant with the expression "it went everywhere", this took the description literally, I think it had been practicing! It took me until 2 45am in the --ing morning to a) clear everything up and b) to unstick the cat from the ceiling and pacify the poor animal which was obviously convinced that 2012 had come early! I was still finding shards of glass mixed with lumps of compost and bits of cacti today.
The moral of this tale is don't drag B & D workbenches with drying painted objects on them round cacti filled lounges that have resident cats in them.I do hope this cautionary tale will prevent others from undergoing the trauma of my experience.
On a happier note the guitar is now finished, looks great and now simply needs reassembly and restringing and someone sent a very encouraging comment to The Cynical Sage about our band, thank you, anonymous fan, your message cheered me up just when I needed it. More stuff is being added to our repertoire all the time so keep a look out. We nailed the vocals for the second track on our latest album, Noir, today.
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