Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Love and Marriage

Couples who are living together should have more legal rights, according to a report from the Law Commission. It says the current law is "unjust" and the 2.2m co-habiting couples in England and Wales should have more protection if they split up.


Hang on a minute here. If couples who live together want more legal rights why don't they get married? There's nothing special about marriage; strip out all the religious fluff, white flouncy dresses and embarrassing speeches by half-cut fathers of the bride and what it is is simply a contract between two individuals conferring financial rights and obligations on both parties. You want to take advantage of those rights, nip down to the registry office with sixty quid and two witnesses, job done. You don't want those rights, you don't.

Me and Mrs Dracunculus didn't want those rights, don't need them. We own the house 50/50, have enduring power of attorney agreements in place and lodged with our solicitors and the death in service benefits are crossed signed to each other. Why are we now going to be forced into a set of legally binding financial arrangements based simply on the fact that we've lived under the same roof for a set period of time?

And just who are the Law Commission? Turns out that they are a bunch of lawyers and solicitors who will, of course, clean up when they get to represent cohabiting couples in the courts when their relationships go down the toilet. Anyone spot a conflict of interest here?

Monday, July 30, 2007

Shambo. One Tasty Moo

Harry Ramsden, Harry Ramsden, Ramsden Ramsden, Harry Harry.

You've met Shambo the bull...


Now meet Shambo the evening meal for two...


I ate him with fava beans and a nice chianti.

I'm really pleased that he's dead. Not that I wished Shambo any ill will, I'm sure he was a very nice bull as far as bulls go. No why I'm pleased is that all the folks being white wannabe Hindus up a hill in Wales were going for the "We want an exception on religious grounds. You must respect our religion. If you come and take him away you'll be interrupting a religious act of worship. Waaaah! We're SPECIAL".

Nope, you're not special because you believe some chap sat in a cloud said a bunch of stuff that you have to follow. Here's the law, bit of a stupid one based on what I know about TB but the law nonetheless and you cannot, must not, be exempt from it just because you believe in a bunch of fairy stories. If the secular world had backed down here then it would have opened the floodgates to every nutjob with a holy book to do whatever the hell they wanted. It starts with allowing diseased animals to live and goes through muslim "leaders" insisting we have to allow Sharia law in their communities and you must not interrupt them stoning some poor fucker to death as it's "our religion which must be respected".

I could have fixed the problem a while back though; quick phone call to one of my red , fire breathing Welsh cousins and there would have been a flapping of wings, a short roar, a very short surprised "moo!" and lots of lovely roast beef.

There's lovely.

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Told you I would



See... look what happens when you make dragons angry. Planets get destroyed.

Me and Mrs Dracunculus call it the "Death Star" and we hum the Imperial March every time we light it.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Mad as a box of frogs



Meet the fourth in line to the Norwegian throne, this one "says she has psychic powers and can teach people to communicate with angels". Mad as a box of frogs; I blame it all on the inbreeding myself.

She says she realised as a child that she could read people's inner feelings, while her experiences with horses had helped her make contact with angels. "It was while I was taking care of the horses that I got in contact with the angels," she says.


You need to stop sniffing the hoof oil my dear.

Mind you madness does have its rewards...

Students at her centre, she says, will learn how to "create miracles" in their lives and harness the powers of their angels, which she describes as "forces that surround us and who are a resource and help in all aspects of our lives". A three-year programme at her centre costs 24,000 Norwegian crowns ($4,150; 3,000 euros; £2,000) per year.


One born every minute.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Civilization = how far away are you from your shit

Ohhh now I'm mad. The stench that these wankers bring to the human collective is almost too much to bear...

Campaigners say patio heaters emit too much CO2 People are being told to wear jumpers instead of relying on patio heaters, in an attempt to cut carbon emissions.
The Energy Saving Trust has urged retailers to stop selling the heaters after a report suggesting their use will almost double over the next year.

And I have the urge to contribute to global warming by burning down your offices and everyone in them you bunch of mendacious, fascist killjoys. But especially this man.

Chief executive Philip Sellwood said: "Why don't people just wear a jumper?"


Why don't you just crawl into a hole and die you twat. Look you slimy excuse for a life form, let me explain this to you. Human civilization has been one long process of increasing the common weal, making life easier, more comfortable and generally better. We have a word for this, it's called "progress". We don't hunt for food any more because we have supermarkets; as I explained to Nanook of the North when he was grumbling about his igloo turning into a puddle supermarkets are an improvement on crawling through the woods with a spear on the trail of Bambi. Someone once said the mark of how advanced a civilization was was the distance it had put between people and their shit. Thus it is that we now have patio heaters which make life just that little bit better that sticking on a cable knit woolly pully (or at least less of a style crime). If cunts like you had had their way we'd all still be huddled up in mastodon furs trying to make stone tools in the dark.

Half of owners switched theirs on during the hottest months of the year, July and August.


Of course they do; it's a way of extending a nice summer evening outside into twilight when it starts to get chilly. People aren't probably using these much in December when it's pissing down and freezing cold as they don't spend time in the garden then.

Mr Sellwood said: "We are calling for responsible retailers to reconsider the sale of patio heaters in light of the substantial amount of carbon emissions they produce."


And I'm sure the responsible retailers will all have been saying "Fuck you". Look they are there to make a profit for their shareholders (like me) and if they are not latching onto and servicing a growing market and thus generating revenue then there are going to be some awkward questions being asked at the AGM, and they're probably going to be being asked by a small green dragon.

It is thought that the recently imposed smoking ban in enclosed public places in England will lead to more outdoor smoking and an increase in commercial patio heaters.

Mr Sellwood said: "People are also influencing the larger, more damaging commercial sector, with a third of pub-goers choosing pubs where there is a patio heater.

"Landlords are helping to make patio heaters desirable - which they are not."

Some 31% of people who responded to the survey said they liked to sit outside pubs and would choose one with outdoor heating.


Yay... the law of unintended consequences strikes again. You make smoking inside illegal, people go to smoke outside, mine host installs a patio heater to cater for this important part of his clientèle and said clientèle say "hey, these are good, I want one".

Last month, London Mayor Ken Livingstone called for a halt in the spread of "wasteful" patio heaters and urged retailers not to promote them.

Tell you what you newt-loving freak, you stand right there next to Phil, I'll take a deep breath and you can both experience some local warming up to around 2500 Kelvin.

I don't have a patio heater but this weekend I'm off to FocusBandQBase and I'm going to buy the biggest fuck off patio heater I can just to watch your impotent little faces contort in disgust and humiliation when I fire it up because all you can do is bleat at me as to what a bad dragon I am and there is nothing, nothing your blackened little joyless souls can do to stop me.

Finden Sie eine Erklärungfür dieses

Oh this just rocks so hard my tail hasn't stopped wagging all morning. The last post I made has been translated into German.

"Mürrischer Drache". It just sounds so much better in German.

Even if your German is as appalling as my two years of Höchschule Deutsch go over to "My Automotive Information" and give Henry some traffic. And Henry, consider yourself "ein ehrend drache" (an honorary dragon) forthwith.

Oh and the whiny God-botherer picked up on the traffic spike too and did a post saying what an unhappy soul I must be and requesting prayers for my blackened, twisted soul which I suppose is better than the last Christian I upset who threatened to feed me my teeth (I think she's forgiven me but I'm not flying over Colorado any time soon just to be sure!)

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Explain this one away

He missed again. Guess he was going for the four gay guys travelling the other way in a Renault but managed to smite the bus full of pilgrims going the other way:

At least 26 people have died in a coach crash near the south-eastern city of Grenoble in the French Alps. The coach, carrying mostly elderly Roman Catholic pilgrims from Poland, fell into a ravine while descending a steep incline between Grenoble and Gap. It broke through the safety barrier, fell some 15m (50ft) onto the banks of a stream, and burst into flames. About 20 passengers were also injured. "When the bus was burning, there were injured people inside," local resident Philippe Baret was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency. "I saw at least six of them who were stuck inside the bus and burned to death before my very eyes," he said.


Oopsie! The best bit though was last night I was flipping through the French news channels on the satellite (did I mention I speak French?) and they had some priest on who was frantically trying to explain to a very cynical reporter why God would allow such a nasty death to befall what, after all, were pretty serious members of his terrestrial fan club. Predictably he fell back on that weapon of last resort in the theists armoury, namely the logical fallacy that is the argument from special pleading, which in this case went more or less along the lines of "Of course you are not a Christian so you could not possibly understand this but God obviously has a higher purpose that we are not yet aware of but God's will will become clear in time."

Yeah, and 26 Polish grannies trapped in a wrecked coach and burning to death is just collateral damage is it?

Look guys, if this beardy guy in the sky was as good and loving as you claim then shit like this, and presumably the 414 people who died during one month last year, really would not happen. Maybe, just maybe, if you could sit down and really think hard about stuff like this, that mediaeval brainwashing you have called "faith" might clear itself up. Please do try, I know most of you are actually pretty decent people and you can think, you just need to be a bit more critical in your thinking.

Here's something to start working with: These people died because they were in a vehicle with faulty brakes which was on a road deemed too dangerous for that vehicle to be on. They died because of human stupidity, mechanical failure and the practical application of Newton's laws of motion. They were doomed the moment that bus turned down that road and nothing saved them because nothing was there to do so.

Meanwhile for my atheist chums, I found this on some whiny god-botherer blog which I think will give you a giggle:


Pope John Paul II wrote about La Salette on 6th May 1996:

"At La Salette, Mary clearly spoke of the constancy of her prayer for the world: she will never abandon the people created in the image and likeness of God, those to whom it has been given to become children of God."


Shame she didn't have more to say on the subject of motor vehicle maintenance.

Monday, July 23, 2007

Drips

Blimey, bit wet isn't it. Well that's certainly what the people of places like Tewkesbury thing as they've been flooded out. You must have been marrying your livestock, engaging in rampant botty sex or spending money on flat-screen TVs or something else that upset God you naughty people.

Alternately you could have a word with our new minister for the environment Mr Hilary Benn. Now until recently Mr Benn, when not hanging about in fancy dress shops and having adventures, was minister in charge of overseas development, you know the people who spend your tax money on "helping little brown babies" (in reality, enriching third world dictators); in 2005 they did that to the tune of 0.4% of UK GDP, a sum of $5,920,000,000, around £3.7 billion at the exchange rates of the time.

You might want to ask why that money was not spent on protecting the people of this country, you know the ones who gave the money in the first place, from flooding.

You might want to address the same question to Tory leader David Cameron at the same time. You will need to wait a while because at the moment he's in Rwanda promising to increase foreign aid to 0.7% of GDP.

The cunt.

Friday, July 20, 2007

Referrers

Among the searches that have lead people to this blog in the past few days have been:

  • "Moral Errors in the Bible" - Comedy of errors more like (incidentally I'm #2 result for that, yay me!)

  • "Bodil Joensen German" - No, she was Danish.

  • "Know how to masturbate" - Son, if you need the InterWeb to tell you how you do not deserve your penis.

  • "Big butts and titties free" - No, they are not. If it has hooves, pistons or tits it's going to be expensive.



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"My you're a feisty little one..."



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