Posted: Mon 1 March, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: 1BEM, Cynicism, News, Stupidity |
In yet another “Well that’s not really news, is it?” moment, the Food Standards Agency have said that – shock, horror – food in cinemas isn’t all that healthy. Who’d have thought.
The nutrition watchdog is concerned about the portion sizes of cinema snacks which are often high in fat, sugar or salt
So popcorn, being served in either salted or sweet ‘flavours’ – amazingly that might be high in fat and sugar or salt. What a revelation. Next they’ll be telling me that those hotdog things aren’t good for you either…
Posted: Fri 26 February, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Thoughts |
Another month, another episode of Crimewatch.
What I don’t get with Crimewatch is how it gets away with
- Glamourising crimes – and usually violent ones
- Making crime and violence into entertainment.
I dunno, maybe I’m just too cynical.
Posted: Tue 16 February, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, News, Politics, Thoughts |
On the local news just now, there was a story about Cambridgeshire county council workers protesting against cuts and job losses within the council. (We’ll currently gloss past the fact that a good 50% of the workforce for any local authority are useless workshy cunts – or at least that’s my experience of council work, anyway)
The chant that was being used by protestors was :
“Sack the bankers
Not the workers”
Which isn’t quite rhyming slang – but I assume that “sack the bankers, not the wankers” wasn’t quite the message they were trying to convey…
Posted: Mon 15 February, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Politics |
One of the more bizarre stories this weekend was about the BNP (British National Party) voting to change its rules on membership, and allow non-whites to be members.
They’ve had to do this as part of an equality ruling – unsurprising, for a racist organisation – but still, it’s pretty damn funny.
Mind you, I’d love to now see a non-white person or two joining the BNP, just to sit in on the meetings, sit there smiling and truly fucking with their heads.
And of course when it gets to the “Send ’em back where they came from” section of the meeting, just asking them if they know how much a ticket to [town of birth] costs.
Posted: Sun 14 February, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism |
Blah Blah, it’s the day of romance and giving money to Hallmark / Clinton Cards / Interflora.
Me, I’m sticking with the Al Capone way to celebrate…
Posted: Thu 11 February, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Business, Cynicism, Education, People, Thoughts, Work-related |
According to the BBC today, a school in Somerset has banned Valentine’s Day cards. Not because they’re an over-priced over-commercialised bit of tat that means fuck-all except bigger profits for Clinton Fuckbag Cards (to give them their full stock-exchange title) and their ilk. Oh no, it’s so the little darlings the “emotional trauma” of being rejected if they don’t get a card.
Somewhere along the way, we seem to have become so paranoid about how children deal with failure, they now have no idea at all what to do when failure does happen.
I think it started with the introduction of GCSE exams, where all the grades were a “pass”. (glossing slightly over the “X” and “U” grades – they were still a grade, even if it was one that marked you as having not completed the course) Then there was all the rubbish about not having sports day in some schools, because it was ‘harmful’ to the little bastards if they lost a race.
Where I work we’re beginning to see the results of this generation’s inability to deal with failure. We’ve recently been interviewing people for jobs, and it’s really surprising how many of them just walk in expecting to get the job – no preparation, not dressing for the interview, no experience in the area, and still expecting to just walk in and get the job simply for being able to walk in through the door.
This vogue for not letting children fail is incredibly damaging – part of life is about dealing with failure, of how to handle not being perfect. I don’t know why or how it came about that failure was a bad thing – but I do hope that it’s a trend that gets reversed before too much longer.
Posted: Wed 10 February, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: 1BEM, Cynicism, News, Norfolk, Politics, Thoughts, Work-related |
Regular readers will know that one of the reasons I left my job last year with [Council that shall not be named] was because they had called a halt to all development work while a big legal battle was fought about a reorganisation of councils in Norfolk. As a result of that decision, there was no new work being done by the council, and I was sat on my arse doing fuck all. Admittedly, while being paid for it, but still, I was a bum on a seat.
At the time I’d suggested that it was better to work on new development stuff, make it really good, and end up with a product that the other councils wanted to use. That way it meant that [Council]’s IT department would keep their job, rather than being rationalised/redundant. But no, that would’ve been ‘a waste of resources’, and I didn’t understand the politics of it all.
It’s been announced today that Norwich city council will become a unitary authority, and all the other Norfolk councils will remain as they were. So after a year’s waiting and fucking about, all the decisions have been left as “Oh well, it was worth a try”, and things are back to where they were a year ago.
What a total waste of time and money.