Santa Is Dead!

Kudos to the the authors of a paper in the Lancet Psychiatry for winning my coveted Prats of The Week Award.

Step forward Psychologist Professor Christopher Boyle and social scientist Dr Kathy McKay, who have told parents to stop pretending Father Christmas is real in case the "lie" damages relations with their children.

Seemingly spinning stories about Santa risks undermining a child's trust and is morally suspect. Additionally, the duo go on to condemn the idea of a "terrifying" North Pole intelligence agency which judges children to be nice or naughty.

They are quoted by the Telegraph:

"If they (parents) are capable of lying about something so special and magical, can they be relied upon to continue as the guardians of wisdom and truth?"

Good grief!

Parents have been making up BS stories since the world began (eg religion, the boogeyman, fairy tales, Santa, the Easter Bunny etc), yet mankind has managed to survive.

It occurs to me that the daily dose of reality on TV, that kids are exposed to (eg Eastenders rapes/murders, body parts on the news and the behaviour of politicians etc), is a far greater threat to their sanity!

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Big Brother and His Mates Are Watching You

Which government agencies have access to the internet history of all British citizens?

Here is the answer courtesy of blogger Chris Yuo, who has compiled the list:

• Metropolitan police force
• City of London police force
• Police forces maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996
• Police Service of Scotland
• Police Service of Northern Ireland
• British Transport Police
• Ministry of Defence Police
• Royal Navy Police
• Royal Military Police
• Royal Air Force Police
• Security Service
• Secret Intelligence Service
• GCHQ
• Ministry of Defence
• Department of Health
• Home Office
• Ministry of Justice
• National Crime Agency
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Department for Transport
• Department for Work and Pensions
• NHS trusts and foundation trusts in England that provide ambulance services
• Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service
• Competition and Markets Authority
• Criminal Cases Review Commission
• Department for Communities in Northern Ireland
• Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland
• Department of Justice in Northern Ireland
• Financial Conduct Authority
• Fire and rescue authorities under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004
• Food Standards Agency
• Food Standards Scotland
• Gambling Commission
• Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
• Health and Safety Executive
• Independent Police Complaints Commissioner
• Information Commissioner
• NHS Business Services Authority
• Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust
• Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Board
• Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Regional Business Services Organisation
• Office of Communications
• Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
• Police Investigations and Review Commissioner
• Scottish Ambulance Service Board
• Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission
• Serious Fraud Office
• Welsh Ambulance Services National Health Service Trust

In other words, everyone.

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Big Brother Is Watching You

“There is no other democracy in the world, possibly no other country in the world, doing this.” https://t.co/MA8YLJO4Us pic.twitter.com/N8TYgIllI5

— The Intercept (@theintercept) November 24, 2016

I would remind loyal readers that the USA has for a number of years operated Project Stellar Wind (as mentioned on this site on occasions), which monitors electronic communications (including the contents).

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A Pox Upon Windows 10

Sorry folks, thanks to an update on Windows 10, my PC today has been out of action for most of the morning.

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!

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Nanny Bans Baked Bean Cans

Oh dear, it seems that Nanny's health and safety nutters are on the march again.

This time they have directed their risk averse obsession towards the Heinz advert on TV, that shows people using old baked bean cans as drums. The advertisement featured young people and adults using empty or full tins to make the rhythm of a song, with the catchline "#Learn the CanSong".

It seems that there is a perceived risk that if you bang your empty tin in an incorrect manner you might cut yourself. As such a grand total of three viewers (don't these people have anything better to do with their lives?) complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) that the TV advert could encourage unsafe practice, and six believed it featured behaviour that could be dangerous for children to copy.

Needless to say ASA buckled under the weight of this popular uprising and has now banned the advert!

ASA is quoted by the BBC:

"For the reasons given and because the ad did not include information on how to ensure consumer safety when recreating the song, we concluded that the ad condoned and encouraged behaviour that prejudiced health or safety.

We told Heinz to ensure that future ads did not condone or encourage behaviour that prejudiced health and safety, including behaviour that could be dangerous for children to emulate, for example by featuring open tin cans being used to play music."

Feel safer now everyone?


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City University Students' Union Displays Complete Knobheadery

Kudos to the students’ union of City University in London for displaying knobheadery beyond belief.

It transpires that the union does not like The Sun, Daily Mail and Express newspapers.

As such the union has decreed that these titles be banned from the campus.

Disregarding the fact that we live in a "freeish" country, where we have the right to read the newspaper of our choice, the students have also made a rather fundamental error wrt their ban?

Can you guess what that is children?

Yes, that's right, there are no retail outlets for newspapers on the campus!

Knobheads!

Ironically City University has one of the biggest journalism departments in the UK with a variety of post graduate and undergraduate journalism courses available.

They might care to remember what Heinrich Heine once wrote:

"Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people."

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Nanny's Greed Costs Her £32BN

Oh dear it seems that Nanny' sin taxes (taxes on booze and fags), instead of raising revenue, have cost the Treasury £32billion.

How?

Excess taxes create illicit markets.

The Taxpayers' Alliance are quoted by the Telegraph:

HMRC has clearly been unsuccessful at claiming these duties for some time and... it needs to take decisive action.

The “tax gap” would be enough to fund a 1.5p cut in the basic rate of Income Tax, according to the TA report.

“HMRC has clearly been unsuccessful at claiming these duties for some time and therefore it needs to take decisive action, not introduce policies that make it worse. It is unfair that higher taxes for ordinary families are often used to make up the shortfall.

The loss of £31.8 billion in revenue over a five year period could have funded a 1.5p cut in the basic rate of Income Tax. Not only would this have helped millions of ordinary families, but it would also have had a big impact on the jobs market, which is particularly important at this time.”

John O'Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said:

"Our ludicrously complicated, punitive tax system not only hits hard-pressed families with crippling bills but also affects frontline services by depriving Treasury of revenue lost to the black market, all the while lining the pockets of those peddling dodgy tobacco, alcohol and diesel.

The revenue lost to the illicit trade could fund a modest but much needed tax cut for millions of families while preventing smugglers from profiting because of deeply regressive 'sin taxes' which hit the poorest hardest.

It is high time the Government offered struggling taxpayers a better deal instead of kowtowing to the self-appointed lifestyle police who remain oblivious to the cost of ever-rising duties on ordinary taxpayers."

Well said sir!

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Eat More Semen To Live Longer

As per an article published in Nature Medicine oral supplementation of the natural polyamine spermidine extends the lifespan of mice and exerts cardioprotective effects, reducing cardiac hypertrophy and preserving diastolic function in old mice.

In humans, high levels of dietary spermidine, as assessed from food questionnaires, correlated with reduced blood pressure and a lower incidence of cardiovascular disease. Our results suggest a new and feasible strategy for protection against cardiovascular disease.

In other words spermidine helps you live longer.

Where does one find natural sources of spermidine?

In semen and aged cheese.

Eat more semen and aged cheese!

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Never Be Offended Again On Twitter!

Now you can customise your own Twitter echo chamber. Never be bothered again by other people's pesky views and opinions. pic.twitter.com/EMrRkPuACU

— Mark Sparrow (@MarkGSparrow) November 15, 2016

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A Very Merry 1950's Christmas

In view of the desire of some to take Britain back to the "jolly" days of the 1950's, via the petition to ban Boxing Day shopping, here are a few additional "non essential" services that should also be shut:

- Pubs and bars
- Hotels, restaurants, cafes and takeaways
- Theatres and cinemas
- Concerts
- Boxing Day hunts
- Financial advisers 
- TV and radio (or should I say wireless?)
- The internet (non essential parts of it)
- Mobile phone services (landlines work perfectly well for emergencies)
- Taxi/bus services (trains never seem to run then anyway!)
- Flights etc

If you want to shut shops, because they are non essential, then you should also shut the above!

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Close All Shops On Boxing Day!

A Change.org petition demanding that all shops be closed on Boxing Day, set up by Ian Lapworth, claims "we managed 30 or 40 years ago" and should "forget making money for one day" and "concentrate on making more memories with the ones we love".

"Whilst not everyone may see Christmas as a religious holiday, it should be respected as such, and retail workers given some decent family time to relax and enjoy the festivities like everyone else."

Whilst I appreciate that some people in the UK wish to live in the 1950's, I have a number of observations wrt this petition:

1 We are not living in the 1950's.

2 Shopping on Boxing Day is not compulsory.

3 Many people (eg doctors, nurses, firemen, TV bods, etc etc) work over the seasonal period.

4 Not everyone is a Christian or, for that matter, believes in god.

5 If you want to spend Christmas with your family and not shop, then good luck to you. However, it's not for you to dictate to others what they can/cannot do over this period.


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Lest We Forget

The Snowflakes Are Melting

I don't want to dwell excessively on the result of the US election, as this site is meant to be focused primarily on British Nanny nonsense. However, I would like to make a few small observations:

1 Like it or not, Trump will be President.

2 The election was held in what we are told to believe is one of the world's most democratic countries.

3 In an election one side wins, the others lose and go on to fight another day. That's how democracy works.

4 If you don't like the result, then suck it up and work to change the result at the next election.

Now it seems to me that certain freedom loving people, judging by their posts on social media and their actions in the USA, can't seem to get their heads around the idea that in elections things don't always go your way.

Refusing to accept Trump as the President sends the signal (to my weary eyes) that the refuseniks only support democracy when people vote the way that the refuseniks want. Call me old fashioned, but that sounds like a dictatorship to me.

I close my mini lecture with an extract of the views of Professor Howard Schwartz, that I originally posted mid October:

""No matter where you go in life, someone will be there to offend you. Maybe it’s a joke you overheard on vacation, a spat at the office, or a difference of opinion with someone in line at the grocery store. Inevitably, someone will offend you and your values. If you cannot handle that without losing control of your emotions and reverting back to your “safe space” away from the harmful words of others, then you’re best to just stay put at home....

..the oversensitivity of individuals today, including political correctness and microaggressions, all stem from this idea that people operating under the notion of the pristine self view you as evil because you are showing them something other than love..

These precious snowflakes are the children of political correctness, their parents and schools lead them to believe that the world is perfectly moralistic — they don’t live in the real world, it is a fantasy,”

The snowflakes will need to grow up a little, lest they melt in the heat of reality!
 
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Snowflakes Offered Optional Exams To Ease Shock of Trump Victory

Students are being triggered across the nation tonight and so one Yale Economics professor has taken a stand to protect the special snowflakes are they wrote him expressing shock over the outcome of the presidential election... by making their exams optional.



Source ZeroHedge
 
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Should Elections Be Given a Health Warning?

I ask the above question because the result of the Presidential election appears to have set many people on the path towards some form of mental breakdown, judging by some posts on Facebook and Twitter!

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How Not To Handle Fireworks

A useful demonstration, staged at The Level Brighton, as to how to handle fireworks safely!

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Toblerone Does Its Bit For Obesity

Here is Toblerone confirming the new chocolate weights: pic.twitter.com/7ogILSVEO4

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) November 8, 2016

Nanny must be dancing in the streets over this!

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Feeling Cold? Dress Warm Says Nanny!

Nanny has outdone herself this time, with her advice to those over 65 who she deems to be "vulnerable".

NHS England and Public Health England have launched a campaign to help the vulnerable stay well and out of A&E.

Tips include setting a thermostat to no lower than 18C, wrapping up warm and consuming hot meals and drinks.

Call me easily unimpressed, but surely dressing warmly etc when the temperature drops is stating the bleedin' obvious!

The issue is not that an over 65 (in reasonable mental/physical condition) would not have learned by now that turning up the heating and dressing warmly is a sensible idea, the issue is whether they can afford to turn up the heating!

Therein lies the problem, for Nanny (despite all her lectures etc) doesn't give a flying fark as to whether people can afford to heat their homes. Nanny is only concerned that the box has been ticked wrt handing out patronising advice!

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The Dangers of The Worried Well

Commiserations to the "Worried Well", according to the BBC being one of the "worried well" might actually increase heart-disease risk, a study has suggested.

Norwegian researchers looked at health anxiety levels in 7,000 people who were followed for at least a decade.

The BMJ Open paper suggests that, while general anxiety is already recognised as a risk, health anxiety might also be an issue.

Heart experts said anyone who felt they were experiencing 'health anxiety' should speak to their doctor.

Health anxiety describes when people have a "persistent preoccupation" with having or acquiring a serious illness, and seeking prompt medical advice, without any symptoms of an actual disease.

Funny that, in my day this was called hypochondria!

However, fear not I have attached an excellent relaxation video which will remove all symptoms of stress.

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#PoppyGate - FIFA Ignored

As per the BBC:

"The Football Associations of England and Scotland say they will defy a ban on players wearing poppies when the teams meet on Armistice Day.

The FAs will let players wear black armbands with poppy emblems and are willing to accept any punishment. 

Fifa general secretary Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura told BBC Sport "any kind of sanction" could follow.
World football's governing body prohibits political, religious or commercial messages on shirts."

I am sad to say that an awful lot of crap is spewed forth about poppies (whatever colour they are) these days.

The simple facts are these:

1 It is not compulsory to wear a poppy.

2 It is not compulsory to wear a red poppy.

3 People have fought and died for the concept of free speech and freedom, as such we can best honour those who fought and died by making our own decisions as to how to honour them (with or without poppies) and not be bullied into wearing them or nor wearing them.

4 FIFA can fuck off, so long as the players have the freedom of choice to wear the poppy armbands or not then FIFA should keep its nose out.

5 Poppies are not religious or political symbols, and should not be hijacked by priests or politicians for their own ends.

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The Land of The Free?

Amazing times. @WashingtonPost actually publishes a call for media to NOT REPORT NEWS because it's from @wikileaks. https://t.co/MJkDdtjQm2

— ♡ (@jaraparilla) November 2, 2016

It seems that the mainstream media in the USA is so afraid of their scripted narrative being thrown off course by extraneous data that the Washington Post has called for the media not to publish data from Wikileaks.

For why?

Wikileaks can only be the work of the "evil" Russians, because it contravenes the version of "reality" promulgated by the MSM!

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The Dangers of Grass

Oh dear, I see that the health and safety brigade have donned their jackboots again.

This time the "safety" issue relates to a grass verge, and the "risk" that postmen might slip on it.

Thus it has come to pass that the Royal Mail has stopped postmen delivering letters to a row of houses in Torfaen because walking on a grass verge has been deemed "too dangerous".

The health and safety ban came about after one postman complained about Severn View, Pontypool, on his round.

Bosses agreed a short stretch of grass between car tracks and residents' front doors was unsafe so the 10 homes need to collect mail from a Post Office.

Royal Mail said it would carry out a further "safety assessment".

Resident Richard Osborne, is quoted by the BBC:

"We still get all of our junk mail through the letterbox but anything important like the deeds to my house, are sitting in the Post Office, it's unbelievable.

They even refuse to put slips through your door for parcels that are too big and need collecting - how will you know that if they don't put the slip through the door?"

A daft safety measure by anyone's standards!


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