Have They Lost The Nelson Touch?

This advert at the top of the AoL homepage appears a smidge tactless in view of recent events.

Update 13/4/2010. A frigate has replaced the submarine:



Daily Telegraph Dispenses With Sub-Editors

Do they even read what they write? As a rule of thumb, ancestors come before descendants. Mind you, if the descendants of posh people living today were able to defeat King Harold and put William the Bastard on the throne of England nearly a thousand years ago (1066-Ed) that is evidence of progress. For time travel, not social mobility.

On reflection, descendent is preferable to descendant because the root verb is third conjugation and its infinitive ends in -ere. Hence -ent.  But how many Telegraph writers have even an O Level in Latin nowadays?

Why Does Pakistan Get An Apology But I Don't, Dave?

You broke your promise to me to have a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and replaced it with a referendum to help the Limpdims.

Yet you visit Pakistan with an aid bribe of £600 million (how many Pakistani nuclear warheads will that buy, Dave?) to soothe the hurt feelings of the pyjamaed bomb-makers there and the postal vote scammers here in England. And you have the ignorant cheek (which took some doing after your "junior partner in 1940" gaffe ) to say  "I don’t want to try to insert Britain in some leading role where, as with so many of the world’s problems, we are responsible for the issue in the first place." in answer to a question about how the Kashmir problem could be solved.  The lad is too thick to say "By stopping killing each other and instead talk to each other sensibly". India and Pakistan were granted independence at their request in 1947. They have had 63 years to solve the problem that was caused by the Hindu Maharajah wanting his majority muslim state to belong to secular India instead of overtly muslim Pakistan.

If England was so awful to Pakistanis, why did so many people leave Pakistan after independence for a better life in England. Indeed, England remains so resolutely anti-Pakistan that arranged marriages are organised to import a shallow gene pool of Pakistani cousins into England to marry into the million plus Pakistani-heritage community. 

An apology for the 7 July 2005 bombings and disproportionate involvement of members of the community in grooming of underage girls and fraud of all sorts (and don't explain it away as jizya from dhimmis) plus ain institutional refusal to integrate into British society ought to have been given by the Pakistani Prime Minister instead. Prime Minister? Oh yes a vestige of the parliamentary, civil service, legal system and armed forces that Britain gifted Pakistan at Independence. Just imagine how things could be now if Pakistan's ruling elite hadn't been even more corrupt and incompetent than its Indian counterpart.

Paypal And The EU

I received an email this morning from Paypal headed "We Noticed An Issue With Your Account".

 The email continued (with wider spacing than below):

"We need your help resolving an issue with your PayPal account.

What's the problem?

Please provide the necessary information by 18/05/2011. If we don't receive

the information in time, we are required by law to limit access to your
account. When PayPal limits an account, your funds may be held until we've

confirmed your identification as per the User Agreement".

Yeah, right spoof. So I forwarded it to spoof@paypal.co.uk . But I also opened my Paypal account. Jings! as Subrosa is wont to exclaim.  Text in a red-lined box repeated the request. Apparently, the catch-all "EU Regulations" (EU Regulations cause global warming) required me to provide additional information about my business status (individual, mind your own Barroso!) to combat money laundering, fraud and confirm my identity. No matter that I have had a Paypal account since 2002.

No matter that the EU's accounts are riddled with more holes than very high throughflow sieve or that they have not been signed off by auditors for the past sixteen consecutive years. I shall write to Muddy Barroso
and inform him that unless he supplies financial detail sufficient to convince the Court of Auditors that the EU isn't a money-laundering gang by 18/05/2011, I will limit access by his EU cult to my affairs. Isn't it time to ignore such time-wasters who wish to create their own version of Angria, Gondal, Gaaldine and Oceania with its equally childish flag?

Teaching Arabs The Wisdom Of Beaufoy's Verses

Libyan Rebels hosed off some Arab confetti at an A-10 Warthog and were surprised when 13 of them were killed and 7 injured by return fire. Why should they fire at an aircraft when NATO has established a No-Fly Zone for their protection?

The Beaufoy Verses, learned by heart by every responsible person handling a firearm, have never been translated into Arabic. The first verse, below, is the most important:

Never, never let you gun pointed be at anyone; that it may unloaded be matters not the least to me.

Young Johnny Simpson of the BBC said Arabs shooting off in an undisciplined fashion was a cultural thing that NATO has to learn. Er, no, it's the other way round you dhimmi moron. Arabs obviously use firearms to compensate for their inherent small penis anxiety.

Negligent discharge of a weapon is a cross-cultural offence and deserves severe punishment.

Religion

Two religions, ten deaths. Both parties ignore the peaceful messages in their holy books. Innocent people pay the price of the primitive hatred of idiots who rely on the collected wisdom of camel herders instead of thinking for themselves.

Lessons Have Been Learned

Don't send thugs on a seaside jolly at public expense.