Misappropriation of Police Time

This report on the BBC News Website made me roll my eyes in a WTF! sort of way.

Some kids (as kids do) decided it was a good idea to put a moped wheel against a playground roundabout and then sit on the roundabout as the moped drove it ever faster.

Yes, the old "make the roundabout go faster until I throw up" idea, as kids tend to request, time and time again. This time with a bit on engineuity thrown in. (Love the Pun).

But, of course some kid decided that he would sit with his head to the outside. Even at eleven I knew that centrifugal force would throw the blood to my head and it would be a bad idea. Sitting in the middle, being spun really fast and getting dizzy was always the best and safest bet.

But no, small kid willingly sits on roundabout, gets spun really fast and ends up unconcious with swollen eyes.

So now the Police get involved, smelling some sort of prosecution, for the sake of prosecuting. I mean, the kid went on the roundabout volutarily so no assault, the moped rider wasn't breaking any traffic laws...

But no, the Police get involved, using up all that precious and scarce (as they keep telling us) budget.

In the report we have a Chief Inspector commenting on the case... it's gone all the way up to Chief Inspector level.... some kids fucking about with a scooter! I'd like to know how it got up to that sort of salary level and how much time he spent on the case...

He said the kid was "recovering well under the circumstances".....yes, as kids do normally.

He also said the kids involved had been the target of trolls who had sent abusive messages online. Aha! I assume this is why plod really got involved: cyber-crime!

But really, a bunch of dickheads that pull a stupid stunt deserve to be called dickheads... to their face or online, it doesn't matter.

Millennial Feminism and the Internet Vlog Bubble.

The more I look at YouTube commentators (or Vloggers) the more I'm amused by the whole thing and really, really glad I'm not a part of it.

It seems to be entirely made up of different sides of arguments lobbing verbal bricks at each other. No debate, just "your viewpoint is shit, my viewpoint is better" school playgound type stuff.

The worst of the bunch seem to be the Feminist vloggers. It's a case of my viewpoint is correct: if you disagree you are evil and l will ignore you Nah, Nah, Nah...

Back in the Sixties and Seventies, feminism stood for something substantial. Yes, women had got the vote, but way back then there was still true inequality. Women couldn't do certain jobs, in some cases prevented by legislation from doing them.

Over the decades legislation has been brought in to even things up: Women can do any job they like backed by legislation, true wage inequality is a thing of the past.

Germaine Greer, a true feminist is the sort of woman that was an Icon of the movement. She's proud to be female and is determined that there should be full equality of the sexes. Very certainly not a victim, I'm convinced she could give as good as she got in any debate, wouldn't shy away from confrontation.

But that's where the previous generation of feminists differ from those of the millennial generation. Now all I see on YouTube are whiny feminists that bitch and winge about nothing. Literally nothing. God, they are a whiny bunch, it's hard listening to them. But you know, to be fair I've suffered and given it a crack. Germaine Greer I have lots of time for and she's a pretty eloquent speaker and has interesting and witty things to say on the subject. She doesn't whine, bitch and moan.

The millennials come across not as proud feminists, but whiny attention-seeking victims forever on the brink of tears if you don't listen to then, let alone criticise their viewpoint. They have no real platform to stand on, I would imagine because the hard work for feminism has already been done. Now aparrently all men are Satan, there's a patriarchy holding women back and they are all victims.

The recent issue about equality of wages in the BBC is a case in point: Aparrently some of the male celebrities get more money than the females. But that's only for males that are leading programmes and are bigger audience draws. That's the headline: males get paid more.

But no reporting on where two celebrities of equal status host a programme: no mention that they're on similar wages. Note I said similar: two humans with different career paths will eventually earn different salaries. It could be the woman makes more money than the man if she was the main draw to the programme. There's nothing to stop that at all.

The same goes in industry. A male and female following the same career path in separate businesses will end up with diffferent salaries. Two men or two women in different companies following similar career paths will still end up on different wages. It's not sexism, gender is not the defining issue but instead it's the different wage structures in the businesses that affect the end result.

It's a viewpoint that everything should be equal across the board, without understanding that differences in life are the things that motivate humans (of either sex). Want a higher wage? Move to XYZ across the road because they pay more.

The whiny feminists are already starting to insist that businesses pay identical salaries across the board, without understanding that what they are proposing is effectivelly Communism, or Marxism.

Marxist millennial feminists want identical wages regardless of any extenuating factors.

They also want equality without doing the work.

They also think victimhood is the way to achieve their aims.

They forget, no-one (with a spine and a sense of pride) loves a victim. Victimhood also not a valid political platform.

Neither is "You are male and therefore you are automatically opressing me by being male  in my presence". It's the sort of whiny, submissive, non-feminist, lazy sort of argument that someone who wants all the benefits without earning them would come up with.

Sargon of Akkad

I've been blogging for nearly 10 years now. Way back when Labour were fucking things up in a major way and I was forced to put hand to keyboard as a sort of therapy to vent my angst and frustration. Things went a bit wayward on here and I unconciously decided bollocks to it, I'll concentrate more on sailing than politics. But this years especially things have been bugging me again.

I've been happy to use this medium and I get bugger all followers these days since I removed the rants about social workers that started to attract some very ugly comment wars.

Lately I've been looking at YouTube, fascinated by how some of the political commentators on there can actually make a living commentating on politics.

YouTube, Patreon, they're all a bit out there to me. I mean, why would someone pay me to comment on politics? What is their agenda? 

Also, it seems a bit tenuous: voices can to easily be shut down if you depend on a certain revenue stream to do what you do. Far better in my opinion to earn the pittance I do and continue semi-independantly.

Anyway, one of the best moderate, truly liberal voices out there is a chap that goes under the moniker of Sargon of Akkad.  The other thing is he's just joined UKIP just like I have, so well done that man. Fair play to him, he's been to America for Christ's sake, so he must be making good coin out of the "business" of political VLoggiing.

I've just had a tidy up of my links over there---->>> and added him to them. There are other YouTubers out there but most of them seem to be American-biased rather than looking at UK politics. (Lots of Trumping and mentions of MAG hats).

I shall search out some more video sites. It appears to be the way forward. Probably not for a bloke like me with a face for radio and a voice like fingernails down a blackboard, but hey I can still carry on writing....