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Size 0 – The Politically Incorrect Truth
Alexandra Shulman, editor of Vogue, has accused leading fashion designers of ignoring concerns about size zero models.
Poor, Pitiful Girl!
See here.
The uncomfortable truth is that all these designers are either homosexual or entirely submerged in the “gay” culture that infects their industry. They aren’t interested in designing for beautiful women. They want pretty boys.
The vast majority of us have a healthy interest in beautiful women in beautiful clothes. These trivial but talented individuals are out of step, out of time and out of any more excuses. They are responsible for too much misery and suffering. The modern prevalence of anorexia and bulimia is almost entirely down to these brightly coloured, beautifully tailored, perverted fools.
It is time that wiser minds with far better taste prevailed. Do what you want to do in the privacy of your own homes but leave our young women’s minds alone and turn your talent in a positive direction.
A Real Woman
2nd January 2012
Recently I have been subject to a vicious hate campaign in which this post has been circulated around the internet to support the false allegation that I am homophobic.
Therefore, and as I wrote it two and half years ago, I have carefully reviewed every word.
I stand by it 100%. It says very clearly “Do what you want to do in the privacy of your own homes” and that is precisely my position. I would defend the rights of all consenting adults to whatever sexual activity they want to indulge in with other consenting adults.
I can understand that the phrases “culture that infects” and “perverted fools” may upset some but this article was not written to be politically correct. It was written to be provocative and to highlight the abuse that some gay men in positions of power are inflicting on vulnerable young women. Homosexuality is a perversion from the norm and gay culture has been allowed virtually to extinguish heterosexual influence in the fashion industry.
That anyone should choose to twist and distort my words in support of their vile allegations must say a lot about their motives and integrity. I believe that their conduct is in fact far worse than that which they falsely accuse me of. They are liars and dishonest, scheming perpetrators of a hate crime. They seek to pervert the cause of gay rights for their own selfish ends.
Nursing Council Needs Treatment
Yesterday, Margaret Haywood, a nurse at the Royal Sussex Hospital, who helped expose appalling standards of care of elderly people was struck off the nursing register by the Nursing & Midwifery Council. For the full story go here.
Margaret Haywood
This is an example of the very worst of Britain. What prehistoric, myopic, downright stupid bunch of idiots managed to come up with a decision like this? Amidst this country’s many wonderful attributes one of our worst is this inability to move forward, to catch up with the times. I’m afraid that the members of the panel responsible for this ruling have made real fools of themselves.
It is 100% clear that Ms Haywood’s actions were in the interests of patients and this must override any other consideration. Any set of rules or procedures that doesn’t allow for this fundamental priority needs to be changed. Surely a High Court action (the Royal College of Nursing should fund it) will sweep away this ruling and reinstate Ms Haywood with compensation and an unreserved public apology.
BBC Gives Tiscali The Kicking It Deserves
It was wonderful to see Tiscali exposed on Watchdog this evening. For years it has demonstrated itself to be a company to avoid. It is so clearly focused on profit rather than on customers that its death wish is about to be fulfilled.
When will the dumb suits that run businesses like this wake up to real life? This is a tale of greed and disrespect for consumers – just like the banks. The company has consumed itself with avarice and aspiration rather than delivering a service
Iomega – How To Lose Your Data
I’ve had two Iomega Storcenters now. The first was 1 TB and after about 18 months it failed for no reason I can understand and took nearly a terabyte of movies and backups with it. The second was 3 TB – yes, you may well ask, why did I do it again? That has failed now after about 12 months with about 2.5 terabytes of my data on it.
Iomega support is as useless now as it was the first time. I’d already tried everything they could suggest before I rang them. Being told in a thick French accent that the Iomega warranty does not cover any data loss and that I may want to contact a local data recovery expert just doesn’t do it for me. It leaves me extremely fed up.
The problem is these NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices are a RAID array of disks interrupted by a Linux subsystem so if anything goes wrong you’ve got no chance of using a Windows PC to do anything about it.
Having failed to learn my lesson the first time, now I know that I will never, ever even consider Iomega or NAS as a solution again. These are inevitable disasters in big shiny boxes just waiting to happen. I have seven SATA hard disks in my system that I can monitor and maintain under Windows. If the worst happens I know I can at least try to recover some of the data and will almost certainly succeed to some degree.
Stay well away from NAS.
World’s Worst Banker
http://www.worldsworstbanker.com/
I urge you to go to this site and sign the two petitions listed there.
The first is about the reduction of his pension. Personally, I think he should lose it all. I would have no objection to the introduction of the Fred Goodwin Pension Confiscation Act 2009. As the Prime Minister endlessly repeats: “These are extraordinary times…”
The second is on the Number 10 website and calls for the removal of his knighthood “for services to banking”… cough, cough, choke, gag, choke, cough…
Pundits talk about whether the future of democracy is in online participation. There’s no doubt that it is worth making the effort and signing these two petitions.
Criminal Deception
In a cold hearted, clinical and utterly callous way, we must bring “Sir” Fred Goodwin to heel, to the gutter, to grovel and to ignominy as he richly and deeply deserves.
There are many ways that the government can do this. I suggest that the most effective is simply not to pay him and let him sue. This is a 
pragmatic and commercial approach but, irrespective of its outcome, simultaneously we must prosecute this fundamentally evil individual with all the vigour that honourable and decent society can muster.
If we force him to sue for the rewards of failure then he will have to make his case and I do not believe he wil be able to under the overriding doctrine of “reasonableness”.
However, in the interests of justice, denying him money is insufficient. Nothing less than criminal punishment will suffice. Surely, if our tradition of common law has any relevance, it must be able to sanction his behaviour.
Lawyers must consider whether there is a case for criminal negligence, for conspiracy, for perjury or for any derivative of theft. Our Judges must package his offences in a way that can produce serious and effective penalties.
Without doubt though this “man”, this “Sir” has deceived. He lied to the Select Committee saying that he had received no compensation for loss of office. He has cheated us all. Whether he retains his obscene pension or not he must be jailed. Only then will justice be done.
A Conspiracy Of Shabby, Venal Thieves
It is truly pathetic isn’t it to see these pathetic, small men grubbing around in the gutter to try and save themselves?
“Sir” James Crosby runs HBOS into the ground then bails out at the last minute to become vice-chairman of the FSA. You really couldn’t make these things up unless you were writing a Mafia or organised crime novel.
He becomes one of the Prime Minister’s cronies and overpaid advisors but then is caught out by the whistleblower who he sacked.
They are tumbling like nine pins now but who is still getting away with it? Who has been in post for longer than any of these bank robbers? Who was responsible for settiong up the regulatory system that has proved to be corrupt and incompetent? Gordon Brown, the worst, most corrupt, most incompetent, most myopic, most venal of them all.
There is no more time. This tyrant must be overthrown now. All these knighthoods must be withdrawn. Criminal investigations and personal bankruptcies must follow.
Out Of Touch With Reality
When “Sir” Fred Goodwin lost the plot this morning and started wandering off in his hallucinatory world about how he could legitimately re-package sub-prime mortgages as a AAA security, well then we saw the truth.
The man is stark, raving mad. He continues in his delusion that the world he helped to create makes some sense. He should be sectioned immediately.
Peter Reynolds 
European Culture 77, English Chavs 2
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It must be the first football match I’ve watched in 18 months. I thought it was worth investing the time. After all, it was hyped to the level where it became an event rather than just a sports occasion. But then really, football lost all that years ago. When the various mafiosi, the agents, the primadonnas and the gross, obscene salaries took hold, football lost
everything it ever had of value.
So, hilariously, ITV’s HD coverage stepped into the rhythm, just four minutes before half time and cut, bizarrely, to shots of bleach blonde, just-retired footballers in the usual badly fitting suits, adjusting their lunchboxes and utterly tasteless ties, commentators preparing for their imminent incisive anlayses, wiping away the smears of mayonnaise and more exotic “amuse bouche” from their lips.
Perfectly appropriate, I thought!
What happened to Roy Of The Rovers and football as a role model? These spoilt, vastly over paid, perversions of sporting talent, ill mannered, conceited, ignorant individuals. They are porn stars and nothing more. They don’t even deliver. Give me a third rate club rugby player, or a rower, a cyclist, a swimmer. Why is the world infected with this football virus?
The beautiful game? In the eye of the beholder without lager, violence, chav celebrity culture, we can do much. much better than this!
Truth is, 10 minutes into the second half, I turned over to watch “The Apprentice”.
Written by Peter Reynolds
May 27, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Posted in Consumerism, Politics, sport, The Media
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