Cry Babies

As people continue to moan about the referendum, some have said that the old have stolen the young's future.

I have even read suggestions that people over 65 should not be allowed to vote.

Yet when the votes are analysed, it transpires that 66% of 18-24 young people didn't bother voting!

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Stop Whinging

Courtesy of Virgin media my broadband has been down since Friday and won't be fixed before Wednesday, hence I am posting from a mobile.

Regarding the post referendum whinging and clamour for referendum 2 the sequel, irrespective of how you voted, stop whinging and finger pointing.

We are where we are, and need to work from that.

A house divided inevitably falls !
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Nanny To Monitor Kids' Internet

As per Jen Persson on Schools Week:

"While the compulsory retention of every website visit for every person in the UK was recently debated and passed in the House of Commons in the Investigatory Powers Bill, the plans for statutory surveillance of every child’s Internet use, in schools and at home, has gone unnoticed.

Without Parliamentary or public discussion, children’s internet use will be monitored by third parties from September. This is despite widespread associated concerns – including choking off free speech, religious freedom, and staff feeling vulnerable – presented to the Joint Select Committee for Human Rights by experts in education and security legislation.

The brief paragraph 75 in The Department for Education (DfE) “New measures to keep children safe online at school and at home” statutory guidance Safeguarding in Schools, will impose a change from a duty ‘to consider’ web monitoring to one that ‘should ensure’ it for educational establishments, excluding 16-19 academies and free schools.

The supporting advice to which the Government response points, suggests actively monitoring all screen activity during a lesson from a central console using appropriate technology as a solution, even in circumstances that suggest low risk. And that logfile information should be able to identify an individual user, and be reviewed regularly. Pro-active monitoring is suggested where alerts are managed by a third-party provider.

The Department for Education’s summary response and advice however offers little practical support to school leaders how to concretely take these things into account, while still meeting human rights legislation.

Without explicit clarity on the practice of monitoring personal electronic devices not owned by the school, we risk a slippery descent into schools made complicit in a privacy invasion of family life."

Thus the stage is set for kids to become tools of the state, from childhood onwards until they die of old age.

"Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever."

— Vladimir Lenin

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British Spunk Before Nanny Took Over

Here is a fine example of British spunk, in the era before Nanny took over our lives.

These are the temporary rules introduced by Richmond Golf Club in 1940, after German bombs hit the golf course.

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Hot Drinks Cause Cancer - Probably!

The World Health Organisation (WHO), the organisation that spread aids in Africa via infected needles and that has mismanaged the Ebola and Zika outbreaks, has decreed that hot drinks "probably" cause cancer.

In other words they don't know!

Not withstanding the fact that WHO hasn't a clue, it has decreed that hot drinks should always be left for a few minutes to lower the temperature, or cooled down with milk to avoid disease.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an agency of the WHO, said very hot drinks of 65C and over double the risk of developing cancer of the oesophagus.

However, the panel found there was no evidence that coffee or tea causes cancer and said any link was because of the hot temperature of the drink. Ironically, a few years ago, IARC claimed that coffee did cause cancer!

Dr Christopher Wild, director of IARC, is quoted by the Telegraph:

"These results suggest that drinking very hot beverages is one probable cause of oesophageal cancer and that it is the temperature, rather than the drinks themselves, that appears to be responsible."

Aside from the word "probable" destroying any facet of credibility of this so called "research", who the fark drinks liquids at 65 degrees plus?

That's too bloody hot, you would burn yourself!

The WHO should focus on sorting out the mess it has created wrt Zika and Ebola, instead of sticking its nose into peoples hot beverages!

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Eat More Fat

As loyal readers know, Nanny's health advice wrt many things is being disproved on a daily basis.

Hot on the heels of the debacle over her advice about eating less fat, Lord McColl (emeritus professor of surgery at Guys Hospital in London) has weighed in (see the pun there?) and said that low fat diets and exercise are pointless for those wanting to lose weight and obese people should simply eat less.

Lord McColl warned that current health advice to avoid fat was ‘false and misleading’ and was fuelling the obesity epidemic. He noted that exercising was useless against the huge levels of calories from carbohydrates and sugars that people are now consuming.

Quoted by the Telegraph he laid into our chums from Nice:

“In the UK the Department of Health and Nice (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) maintains for many years that the obesity epidemic was due to lack of exercise.

It’s a pity that the 500 people employed by Nice didn’t think to go into the gymnasium get on a machine and exercise to see how few calories you actually burn off.

One can pedal away on one of those machines for half an hour and only two or three hundred calories are burned up. One has to run miles to take a pound of fat off.

The whole subject has been bedevilled by all sorts of theories about the course of the obesity; genetics, epigenetic, psychological disturbances. None of them is the cause of the obesity epidemic.

One fact remains. It is impossible to be obese unless one is eating too many calories.”

He noted that eating fat was important because it kept people feeling fuller for longer, and advised overweight people to start adding fat into their diet.

“Fat enters the small intestine and greatly delays the emptying of the stomach.

As the stomach emptying is delayed it gives the feeling that one has had enough to eat. Later when the fat has been absorbed the stomach then starts to empty again, It’s a beautifully balance mechanism which tends to prevent us from eating too much and prevents us from getting obese.”

There you go, what have I been telling you for years on this site?

It is also worth noting that low fat foods are not low calorie.

For why?

The manufacturers add sugar, in order to make up for the lack of flavour caused by removing the fat.

In other words those people who buy low fat foods, in the belief that they will help them lose weight, are being conned by both Nanny and the manufacturers!

Time for a class action!

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Scottish Nanny To Ration Booze

Scottish Nanny appears to have taken leave of her senses, as indicated by a plan put forward by her chums from an alcohol charity.

The plan would require businesses, from global supermarket chains to corner shops and restaurants, to declare the volume of alcohol they sold, with such data crucial in quantifying how much was being bought, where and from whom.

The data would then be used to ration alcohol sales. Alison Douglas, chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland, said restrictions on how much drink can be sold could form part of the conditions of a licence when they are granted by local authorities.

All very well and jolly, if you are part of the new wave temperance movement, maybe. Except that this plan is bollocks:

1 Using alcohol sales figures and projections is not a gauge for how much people consumed booze.

2 Scots would simply pop over the border to Carlisle and stock up there.

A totally idiotic plan, put forward by idiotic people. It wouldn't make the slightest difference to alcohol consumption, and would add another layer of bureaucracy to hard pressed shopkeepers.

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Something For The Weekend - Buckfast

A little bit of nostalgia from the seventies!

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Hue and Cry

Last Saturday morning I watched a rip roaring Ealing comedy from 1947, "Hue and Cry", wherein a gang of street kids (who were expected to make their own entertainment) foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer.

It was a splendidly non health and safety affair, the kids were playing unsupervised in bombed out buildings (without any safety equipment), there were many punch ups, clips round the ears, knives and catapults galore.

Plus they were expected to go out and get jobs, whilst still having time to be kids.

No hi vis jackets were worn by anyone!

All in all a very jolly jape, where today's health and safety rules were completely absent.

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Nanny Bans Middle Aged Speedos

As per the Evening Standard:

"A middle-aged man wearing nothing but Speedos was arrested after setting up a deckchair in the middle of Brick Lane market. 

Stunned bystanders filmed the moment the sun-worshipper was confronted by police as he soaked up the rays on Sunday afternoon.

Police officers were seen telling the outraged man they had received complaints about his behaviour from members of the public. 

After several minutes of discussion, they then told the man he was being arrested on suspicion of outraging public decency."

Interestingly enough the man was later charged with being drunk and disorderly in Brick Lane, as opposed to outraging public decency.

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Warm For The Time of Year!

I am hugely gemused to see that Nanny is so concerned about the fact that Britain will become a "warm" country, that she is formally advising homeowners to paint their property white to protect themselves from heatwaves.

Seemingly Nanny is of the view that we will start to drop dead when the temperature hits 24.5C.

FFS!

How the hell have people who live in warmer parts of the world managed to survive then?

Not content with telling us to paint our houses white, Nanny also wants us to remove dark curtains and to install external shielding.

Individuals can stay safe by putting a damp cloth on the back of their necks during hot weather, eating cold foods such as salads and fruit, and avoiding alcohol and caffeine.

All of this bollocks, and more besides, comes in a 46 page document Heatwave Plan for England published the other week by the NHS and the idiots in Public Health England.

Chief medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davies is quoted by the Telegraph:

"As a result of climate change we are increasingly likely to experience extreme summer temperatures that may be harmful to health.”

Dr Angie Bone, head of extreme events at PHE’s Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, said:

“While hot weather is enjoyable for most people and uncomfortable for some, sadly experience tells us that exposure to excessive heat can kill, with most cases of illness and death caused by heart and lung disease.

Because we are not used to these very hot temperatures in England, it is important that local plans are in place to reduce the impact of harm from very hot weather."

I will only believe it when I see a British summer where the temperature exceeds 35 degrees for 30 consecutive days!

In fact I am old enough to remember the drought of 1976, people didn't go around panicking then and as far as I recall thousands were not dropping dead in the street on a daily basis.

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Facebook Is Listening To You

It appears that, only in the USA for the moment, Facebook could be listening in on people’s conversations all of the time.

Kelli Burns, mass communication professor at the University of South Florida, has warned that the Facebook app might be using people’s phones to gather data on what they are talking about.

Indeed Facebook has admitted that its USA app app does listen to what’s happening around it, but "only" as a way of seeing what people are listening to or watching and suggesting that they post about it. 

Professor Burns has said that the tool appears to be using the audio it gathers not simply to help out users, but might be doing so to listen in to discussions and serve them with relevant advertising. She says that to test the feature, she discussed certain topics around the phone and then found that the site appeared to show relevant ads.

Mobile phones, TVs and other electronic gadgets (eg dolls) are being fitted with systems that monitor what people say. Are we really so naive to think that this is a harmless "gizmo" and that corporations (and others) won't misuse the data that they collect?



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Nanny's Sugar Tax Farce

The Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA) has done a wee bit of research into the sugar content of certain popular drinks, and exposed how farcical Nanny's sugar tax will be.

The TPA found that Coca-Cola, with 10.6 grams of sugar per 100 millilitres, will be subject to the tax, but a Starbucks signature hot chocolate with whipped cream with coconut milk, which has 11 grams of sugar per 100 millilitres, will not.

Energy drinks such as Monster Origin, 11g/100ml, will be taxed, but Tesco chocolate flavoured milk, 12.4g/100ml, will not be taxed.

In fact the 10 most sugary drinks analysed by the TPA will not be subject to the levy.

Farcical or what?

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