We have had snow here for all of half a day and really wish this is the end of it. Not a big fan of the cold and such be glad when the warmer weather arrives. In other news we have a tibbet visitor from next door ghost writing this so if the words are a little wonky then blame him.
Urban Outfitters.
Don't know if you have them around here but these are the most hipsterish things imaginable. A full on Nathan Barley warehouse, that of course sells LP's and posh notes and stuff. We went to Bluewater out in Kent today and our nearest store is there. I always look in, largely at people buying records and the hipster clothes. Today had something new a cactus stall. I've been aware that they are up and coming even chic for a while, the current journal has a spread from a trendy pop up in Dalston so its not surprising that UO would start selling them.
The good news is that although overpriced for what they are, what they have is nicely labeled and potted up in terracotta. There are a few aloes and a huge Euphorbia on the ground in pots with an eyewatering price to match and an Astrophytum in a large pot for £15. The cheapest are basically some seedlings in individual thimble sized pots for £3, at that size I can't make out what species it is, just that its a cactus. What you would normally pay around £2-3 from growers and a bit more from a garden center, they are selling for £6.
Nice stuff as well such as some Gymnos, a donkey dick ( AKA Myrtillocactus and yes my one did look like that before succumbing one winter) and some mesembs including a Titanopsis Calcarea. The downside is the price but hey its a hipster store and its Nathan Barley's wearing them as a ring or some such nonsense that are the main market here, not long time growers such as me.
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Sunday, 5 April 2015
Election special.
Happy Easter everyone, if you haven't guessed its election time here in the UK, which means its time for broken promises and grandstanding on a huge scale. It also means the current coalition is going to be a new coalition. On Thursday there was a massive 7 way orgy debate on TV, where it was supposed to show who you would vote for and who definitely it wouldn't be getting in.
Needless to say I didn't watch it but read a bit through the forums, news and the press. What I can say is that if they were going out of their way to make them seem unelectable they succeeded.
I give you my own run down in my own inimitable (I.E tiresome and surreal) style on the winners and losers.
David Insincere. Conservative.
To be honest I really don't like him either as a PM or as a speaker. Every word he says comes across as fake and insincere. I normally vote Conservative due to where I live being a perma labour borough since way back. You could put a shaved ape in a red rosette where I live and people would still vote for it as their Labour candidate. Currently whenever I think of a Tory its a privileged buffoon like Mayor Boris or sinister baldie's like William Hague or Ian and Duncan Smith. There are a few good eggs like Michael Gove who wanted to kick the lefites out of school teaching, but in the end was shunted off to another post. No currently the reason why they will not get my vote at this election is due to not understanding what makes the internet great.
They have been waging a one dork war on smut and filth, one of the main reasons that the internet is such a great place to be. I've never shied away from the fact that I love the "pron" and the Tories don't get it that smut made the Internet what it is. Most of what they are proposing has already come to pass, most adult star sites are age restricted and setting up another layer of bureaucracy to police sites that are mostly hosted outside the UK is going to be a waste of tax payers money.
Ed Mr Bean. Labour.
I've nailed my colours to the mast as noted above but its a dark day when this actually comes to pass when he is considered an electable , representative of parliament. Labour are typical left leaning which means they range from tiresome cunts such as the socialist wanker party to the smug Islington champagne socialists, I.E everyone you ever saw on the BBC. Typical weak on the economy, strong on equality, expect them to be the saviour of the NHS, but don't, crucially, expect them to come up with any decent figures of how to pay off our debts and deal with austerity. They probably won't close the food banks either.
Nick 'Middle Manager' Clegg. Liberal Democrats
Face it there is a certain person who is destined to be middle management, in looks and deeds then its Nick. The Libs are your typical 3rd place party, typically doing well at a local level but never actually succeeding much beyond a few token seats. The press have painted him as largely Tyrion Bannister in a sharp suit (i.e a cold, duplicitous weasel, thwarting the brave Prime Minister at every turn). I don't see it as such but he did shed most of his policies for a shot at power. The effect is that they have slipped down massively and currently enjoy the popularity normally reserved for swivel eyed racists and Monster Raving Loonies.
Wee Nicola Fish Scots Nazis.
The Scots National Party are a sort of proper socialist party, kinda like what Labour was, if it thought that those policies would get them elected anymore. I did have a soft spot for them in the Scottish elections last year but, they seem to be run by a woman who looked like my old form teacher (and held the same views politically). Will probably do well north of the border where anyone right wing is strangled at birth.
Nigel Farrago. mUdKIP.
Have a soft spot for Nige, but not really his policies. He comes across as the archetypal pub bore, holding court with pint in hand from either bar or from the saloon. UKIP, I'm never really sure where they stand, for one they want to do away with the NHS and institue some hideous American private system. I wouldn't mind some Australian style system for controlling immigration, and as a population we get no say on immigration thanks to anyone putting up a reasonable debate is immediately branded a racist and all dissent is shut down. Personally I have some reservations thanks to open borders (you need housing and infrastructure, to deal with an influx, all of which is at a premium, which is why we want controls, there that wasn't so racist was it) that regardless of my own people are we set up to deal with all these people.
They will probably do quite well at the polls maybe even take a few councils and gain a few seats, but I don't see them lasting, come a by election, they'll be first up against the wall.
Welsh bird Plaid Album. / Leftie Airhead Green Party
I'm lumping these final two together as they didn't really do much, the greens are your typical protest vote full of wacky policies and environmental nonsense over a thin veneer of Left Wing rubbish. Plaid are strictly a Wales only party and generally supplant the Tories and Lib Dems for second place. Like the SNP they do not run in England so will not impact much on English stuff.
Green's will probably do well and already run Brighton and Hove (think of the English San Franscisco and you'll be right) maybe a protest vote for all those left wingers disillusioned with Labour kinda like what the right is with UKIP.
Needless to say I didn't watch it but read a bit through the forums, news and the press. What I can say is that if they were going out of their way to make them seem unelectable they succeeded.
I give you my own run down in my own inimitable (I.E tiresome and surreal) style on the winners and losers.
David Insincere. Conservative.
To be honest I really don't like him either as a PM or as a speaker. Every word he says comes across as fake and insincere. I normally vote Conservative due to where I live being a perma labour borough since way back. You could put a shaved ape in a red rosette where I live and people would still vote for it as their Labour candidate. Currently whenever I think of a Tory its a privileged buffoon like Mayor Boris or sinister baldie's like William Hague or Ian and Duncan Smith. There are a few good eggs like Michael Gove who wanted to kick the lefites out of school teaching, but in the end was shunted off to another post. No currently the reason why they will not get my vote at this election is due to not understanding what makes the internet great.
They have been waging a one dork war on smut and filth, one of the main reasons that the internet is such a great place to be. I've never shied away from the fact that I love the "pron" and the Tories don't get it that smut made the Internet what it is. Most of what they are proposing has already come to pass, most adult star sites are age restricted and setting up another layer of bureaucracy to police sites that are mostly hosted outside the UK is going to be a waste of tax payers money.
Ed Mr Bean. Labour.
I've nailed my colours to the mast as noted above but its a dark day when this actually comes to pass when he is considered an electable , representative of parliament. Labour are typical left leaning which means they range from tiresome cunts such as the socialist wanker party to the smug Islington champagne socialists, I.E everyone you ever saw on the BBC. Typical weak on the economy, strong on equality, expect them to be the saviour of the NHS, but don't, crucially, expect them to come up with any decent figures of how to pay off our debts and deal with austerity. They probably won't close the food banks either.
Nick 'Middle Manager' Clegg. Liberal Democrats
Face it there is a certain person who is destined to be middle management, in looks and deeds then its Nick. The Libs are your typical 3rd place party, typically doing well at a local level but never actually succeeding much beyond a few token seats. The press have painted him as largely Tyrion Bannister in a sharp suit (i.e a cold, duplicitous weasel, thwarting the brave Prime Minister at every turn). I don't see it as such but he did shed most of his policies for a shot at power. The effect is that they have slipped down massively and currently enjoy the popularity normally reserved for swivel eyed racists and Monster Raving Loonies.
Wee Nicola Fish Scots Nazis.
The Scots National Party are a sort of proper socialist party, kinda like what Labour was, if it thought that those policies would get them elected anymore. I did have a soft spot for them in the Scottish elections last year but, they seem to be run by a woman who looked like my old form teacher (and held the same views politically). Will probably do well north of the border where anyone right wing is strangled at birth.
Nigel Farrago. mUdKIP.
Have a soft spot for Nige, but not really his policies. He comes across as the archetypal pub bore, holding court with pint in hand from either bar or from the saloon. UKIP, I'm never really sure where they stand, for one they want to do away with the NHS and institue some hideous American private system. I wouldn't mind some Australian style system for controlling immigration, and as a population we get no say on immigration thanks to anyone putting up a reasonable debate is immediately branded a racist and all dissent is shut down. Personally I have some reservations thanks to open borders (you need housing and infrastructure, to deal with an influx, all of which is at a premium, which is why we want controls, there that wasn't so racist was it) that regardless of my own people are we set up to deal with all these people.
They will probably do quite well at the polls maybe even take a few councils and gain a few seats, but I don't see them lasting, come a by election, they'll be first up against the wall.
Welsh bird Plaid Album. / Leftie Airhead Green Party
I'm lumping these final two together as they didn't really do much, the greens are your typical protest vote full of wacky policies and environmental nonsense over a thin veneer of Left Wing rubbish. Plaid are strictly a Wales only party and generally supplant the Tories and Lib Dems for second place. Like the SNP they do not run in England so will not impact much on English stuff.
Green's will probably do well and already run Brighton and Hove (think of the English San Franscisco and you'll be right) maybe a protest vote for all those left wingers disillusioned with Labour kinda like what the right is with UKIP.
Thursday, 3 December 2009
F You.
I really don't get You magazine. For the uninitiated / unaware its a Sunday supplement to the Mail on Sunday, Britain's premier middle England mouthpiece and general home of immigrant scare stories and Jonathan Ross lynching petitions.
Whereas Live, its male equivalent is all expensive consumer goods, TV listings with the occasional interesting story, You is something more sinister.
Its mainly articles about women with a few bits of fashion and cookery that have that old school women's mag feel, coupled with new school women's mags (mainly homeopathic / alternative medicine,) they used to integrated health at one time, with Dr Ali and wildly surreal pictures by Martin Haake.
The articles fit into two camps, Sloane type moves to the country and finds solace in arts and crafts, middle class worry Du jour, includes economic troubles modern etiquette and bukkake (OK not bukkake).
There's further arts and crafts stuff in the homebuyers bit and the only good bit (a crossword) before it all goes to hell. I really can't stand Liz Jones and both magazines end with total cunts (Live has Britain's got Talent judge Piers Morgan). It seems to end with her bemoaning her cheating ex and slowly going mad on Exmoor with her extended menagerie of creatures. Kind of like an Equine version of the Shining, but with less Jack Nicholson.
There's also a cartoon called Demented that seems to be the fevered ravings of Viz's Millie Tant. Its normally either politician hatred or banker hatred, with a few non male bashing strips added to it. We normally doctor them in pencil to make them more surreal or draw stuff on them. See above for a rework.
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