Wednesday - February 08, 2012

this is what the nation’s once mighty BBC (radio) has fallen to. Unbelievable idiots!!!!!

The BBC (radio) I became familiar with as a kid in CT., USA, sure isn’t the BBC of today.  Of course, nothing is the same as it was in late 40s and 50s.
But this descent into madness and pc is a mindblower.

I only have minutes to spare and being rushed as we have to go into town very early.

I HAD to boot and pass this on as soon as I brought in the paper.  The headline screamed insanity at me and I knew this must be shared.
No doubt LyndonB has seen this and may even as I type, be pulling out what hair he has left if he has any. Along with lots of others here.

You will recall a post with this vermin only yesterday.

Well take a look at this from the morning paper.

BBC tells its staff: don’t call Qatada extremist

The BBC has told its journalists not to call Abu Qatada, the al-Qaeda preacher, an “extremist”.

By Neil Midgley and James Kirkup

In order to avoid making a “value judgment”, the corporation’s managers have ruled that he can only be described as “radical”.
Journalists were also cautioned against using images suggesting the preacher is overweight.

A judge ruled this week that the Muslim preacher, once described as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”, should be released from a British jail, angering ministers and MPs.

Adding to the row, Kenneth Clarke, the Justice Secretary, yesterday insisted that Qatada “has not committed any crime” and said his release has nothing to do with the European Court of Human Rights.
A British court has called Qatada a “truly dangerous individual” and even his defence team has suggested he poses a “grave risk” to national security.

all the rest is here

My wife is pulling out her own hair and having a serious temper tantrum.

I am out of time, car in driveway and engine running. Later.

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   Friday - February 03, 2012

Two Girls, One Donkey

Last week, I went out of my way to NOT run the Fear Factor story, although I am sure you heard about it in a dozen other places:

The “reality” contest show challenges contestants to do frightening stunts and to eat really gross things. But this one really took the cake, being the lowest and most depraved act ever planned for a television show. Oh sure, the contestants “volunteered”. Riiiight. The “leaked” news of this event flashed across the internet and several TV news programs, and created a double mugful of publicity for the show. Just as intended. But when it came time to air the episode, NBC got cold feet, probably realizing 100,000 lawyers were lining up to send them the cleaning bills from all over the country from viewers vomiting just watching this, and they pulled the episode ... which I hear was the season finale, and thus would be key to awarding the grand prize? ... and showed some old rerun instead. So maybe this was all just a ratings game, a bit of smoke and mirrors.

No.

And it shows you just how incredibly stupid, skank, and beyond low class the whores and famewhores who are the contestants on that show truly are: Brynne and Claire Odioso, a pair of good looking red-haired twins (twins Basil, twins!! Oh, this hurts to even write, but they’re bottle reds anyway), not only did the stunt, they were SO MAD that it didn’t air that they went on a Florida radio show and told the world all about it.



“we guzzle jizz and piss by the pint”

To make it grosser, producers left the semen and urine sitting out in the hot sun so it was boiling hot by the time they had to drink it.

...

Claire said it was extremely bitter going down ... “with hints of hay”—and she vomited several times before successfully drinking the entire glass.
As for how the donkey stuff compares to the human variety—Claire added, ”It’s a lot thicker.”

Holy shiite. “Hey, we’re stupid and easy skanks, and don’t you forget it for a second!”

It’s impossible for journalists to avoid the puns too -

But not only did the Odioso girls gag, it seems they have now been gag-ordered by NBC to keep their lips sealed about the incident.

And the next best part? The interview leaves us no doubt exactly who they are:

“Brynne and Claire Odioso, 22-year-old graduates of the Academy of Holy Names, were contestants on the episode, which was taped in September. Their father is Rick Odioso, a former public relations director with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.”

Alternate Title: Catholic School Girls Gone Bad Make Daddy Proud

Looks like they gave at least one more interview too:

When you agree to go on ‘Fear Factor,’ anything is possible and you clearly should expect the unexpected. So while most of us would think of drinking donkey semen as disgusting, you sign up for that when you sign on the dotted line,” said image and PR expert Glenn Selig. “People have become so desensitized to the lunacy of reality shows; it’s difficult to see the public being outraged with NBC over this. Actually, I would expect that the public will take the position that the twins knew what they were signing up for, and got exactly that.”

But they didn’t get the air time they had anticipated – and have been quick to defend their actions, telling TMZ they were “proud” of such an achievement, and would “probably” do it again.

So these two will get their 15 minutes of fame that they are demanding ... and we don’t even know if they won the contest or not. Hey, how much would that suck, to chug a bucket of mule spooge on TV and then lose? Which would mean that there is at least one other drinker out there who probably did a better job of it, perhaps going back to the donkey for a fresh refill?

And that 15 minutes is going to open the doors for an endless variety of career opportunities. They can make degradation porn movies, they can make bondage and humiliation porn movies, they can make more degradation porn movies, they can get jobs as new product tasters at McDonald’s, or they can get jobs at MSNBC as journalists critiquing Obama.

Horry Clap. What a pair of numskull sicko chicks. And ... in any decent culture, Fear Factor would be hounded right off the airwaves by an outraged citizenry. Remember when NBC’s big hit was Little House On The Prairie? They’ve come a long way baby. Straight down.

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   Thursday - February 02, 2012

idiot equality minister takes offense at beer tap. shocking photo seen here.

If any of the men had any grit, they’d have told the stupid bitch to get a life.  But oh f***in no.  The order of the day in these politically correct times, is to give the ‘F’ in.  Always give in the offended or ones who might become so.

Dumb shits!  Sorry ppl but this kind of sorry assed stuff just makes me see red.

Top Totty beer banned from Parliamentary bar in case it offends women

A beer called Top Totty was banned from a Parliamentary bar today because its pump plate featuring a half-naked lady offended women.

One sorry phony who is an “equality” minister who makes extra money cos she is the equality minister. And here’s what has her most likely unwashed knickers in a twist.  Take a look.

Totty’s Stafford-based brewer Slater’s describes the ale as ‘a stunning blonde beer, full-bodied with a voluptuous hop aroma’

Shadow equalities minister Kate Green was left ‘’disturbed’’ after seeing the 4% ale’s advertising in a popular Westminster watering hole and demanded bar staff remove it from sale.

Within 90 minutes House authorities ordered the beer to be withdrawn after Commons’ Leader Sir George Young told MPs: ‘’Action will be taken.’’
A barman told the Press Association: ‘’I can confirm it was withdrawn from sale at 1.30pm.’’
The bitter backlash developed after Ms Green told the Commons: ‘’I was disturbed last night to learn that the guest beer in the Strangers’ Bar is called Top Totty and there is a picture of a nearly naked woman on the tap.’’

She called for a debate on ‘’dignity at work in Parliament’’ and asked Sir George to back her demands for Top Totty to be ‘’withdrawn immediately from the bar’’.
Top Totty’s Stafford-based brewer Slater’s describes the ale as ‘’a stunning blonde beer, full-bodied with a voluptuous hop aroma’’.

Its website adds: ‘’This award winning beer, brewed solely with Whitbread Goldings hops, produces an initial burst of bitterness with a citrus fruity finish.’’
Speaking as MPs discussed future Commons business, Sir George said he was ‘’not aware of this particular picture’’ but pledged to raise the issue with House authorities.

He added: ‘’I am sure appropriate action will be taken.
‘’I would very much regret it if any offensive pictures were on display in any part of the House.’’
Commons Speaker John Bercow’s wife Sally, who last year famously posed in just a bed sheet for a photo shoot, took to Twitter to vent her anger at the beer.
She wrote: ‘’Cannot *believe* that there’s a beer called Top Totty on sale in the Commons! Outrageous - does Mr B know?’’
The beer’s withdrawal will come as a blow to Tory MP Jeremy Lefroy, who organised for Top Totty to be sold in Strangers’.

Announcing its introduction as the bar’s guest ale, the Stafford MP said: ‘’This is a great opportunity to showcase a fantastic and award winning beer.
‘’Slater’s Brewery produces many popular beers which have been brewed locally for more than 15 years and it is great to be able to share some of Staffordshire’s finest produce with colleagues in Parliament.’’

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‘’Cannot *believe* that there’s a beer called Top Totty on sale in the Commons! Outrageous

Yeah right. And this from a woman, married to the Speaker of the house who bragged publicly about her numerous one night stands before marriage, and who not surprisingly supports the left, she is outraged also. Uh huh. Another phony.

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   Saturday - January 28, 2012

art and public monies

I always thought art was supposed to be about uplifting rather then destruction.  But then that’s just me.
I have to wonder about these so called ‘artists.’ I imagine whatever they’re burning isn’t really art as we know it anyway.  Except in their artsy-fartsy imaginings.  And as for “public money” well, after all. What are art councils for if not to give away public money to people who haven’t the talent to sell what they call art. So it’s in effect sold to the public in the guise of taxes. Ha!  what clever folks they are.

Sometimes it’s good to read about stupid and pointless things so that we can assure ourselves that at least we’re still on the right track.
I think I may have to post this under humor as well as stupid people.
No wait. Public money spent on these no talent pin heads? Forget the humor part above. Nothin’ funny here.

Arts Council paid £3,000 for bonfire of artists’ work

The Arts Council gave £3,000 of National Lottery money to a “research project” in which artists destroyed their work on a bonfire, it has emerged.

By Victoria Ward

It said the event offered an opportunity to support emerging talent and explore new ideas.
Organisers described The Artists’ Bonfire as “a research project into art and activism” that offered local artists the opportunity to collaborate and to discuss art in a direct way.

The project saw around 30 artists from the north west incinerate a piece of their own work last week.
Each participant spoke about the reasons for burning their art before setting it alight.

Arts Council England, which distributes public money from the government and the National Lottery, said in a statement: “This event provides an opportunity to celebrate and support some of the north west’s emerging artistic talent.

“This project will provide the artists with a free gallery space, enabling them to test and explore new ideas. The event will provide an opportunity for audiences to have a stimulating debate about current affairs and their impact on art and artists.”

Arts Council England received a 29.6 per cent cut in its grant-in-aid from the government last year and passed on cuts of 15 per cent to the arts as a whole.
More than 200 organisations lost funding as a result.

Rosanne Robertson, organiser of the bonfire event at Islington Mill in Salford, said it was “beneficial to supporting artists and discussing art in a new way - in a more direct way with an audience”.

The event’s website said: “The Artists’ Bonfire is unapologetic about the more obvious connotations such as strike, destruction and renewal, but it is also open to new interpretations, be they political or personal or both.

“All viewpoints are encouraged as part of the discussion, including those opposed to burning art.
“We join in a festival of flux and celebrate it on our own terms.”

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Arts Council England received a 29.6 per cent cut in its grant-in-aid from the government. More than 200 organisations lost funding as a result.

Well heck. It is very good to know that these tough economic times have resulted in something positive. Now if ALL funding could be done away with, that’d be nice too.  Then the taxpayers could join in a festival of flux and celebrate their release from these vultures. On their terms too. And they could darn well be unapologetic as well cos after all, it’s their money.  Or it used tabe.  Anyway, another interpretation could be this.  Don’t rely on the taxpayer if your work isn’t accepted in the marketplace.  Maybe you just don’t have what the public wants.  But then, what does the public know? Right?

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   Sunday - January 22, 2012

the dumbest thing you’ll read? well, it gets loopier. UPDATE to yesterday’s gender story.

Here’s a brief update to yesterday’s article about the little boy growing up being brainwashed about gender.

Ya gotta wonder why the parents are allowed to keep this kid.  He is gonna grow up one confused boy. Er ... girl?
Wanna bet that soon the loon conditioning him now, is gonna teach him how to walk in high heels. Jeesh.
Isn’t this a form of child abuse?  Or am I over reacting?

Hate to say this but .... the kid already looks, well, erm. Kind of odd already?

‘What’s the difference between boys and girls? That’s silly!’ ‘Gender neutral’ child’s reaction to mother’s questions on sex
By JILL REILLY

A mother who kept her five-year-old son’s gender a secret since he was born has posted a video of him on the internet discussing ‘silly’ gender differences.
In the 90 second clip, Sasha Laxton, who has been brought up as ‘gender neutral’ can be seen laughing with Beck Laxton and saying it is ‘silly’ to have girls’ and boys’ colours

Sasha’s gender has only been revealed recently because he started school in September, and when Miss Laxton, a web designer, asks if he thinks girls and boys are different, a grinning Sasha simply replies ‘No.’

His mother,46, continues her questions and says: ‘What do people sometimes say to you about colours?’

‘Pink and yellow are girls’ colours and blue and green are boys’ colours. I think that is really silly!’ Sasha replies.

‘What about dressing up in a tutu and being a fairy? Do you remember when you did that for Christmas and I sent it on the Christmas cards because you looked so beautiful?’ asks Miss Laxton.

A smiling Sasha replies ‘Yeah.’

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   Saturday - January 21, 2012

THE DUMBEST THING YOU MAY READ ALL YEAR … MAYBE

As anyone who reads this site often knows, I have a habit of declaring many items as the most stupid.  I need to make a belated New Year’s resolution, that I will no longer declare at the start of a new year or half way through a year, that I have already discovered theee one moonbat award for the whole year.  Because as readers also know, after making such grand pronouncements, it often turns out that there’s yet a dumber item then the previous one I nominated as the absolute pig ignorant dumb thing. I should wait till the end of the year and then pick out one that really does take the prize. Right?  Well .. I would like to do that.  However ..... of all the dumb things I’ve written about, of all the loony tune items I have found over the last few years, and I have found a few, for example.
Remember a few years ago the story about the then Labour govt. deciding that a public park was being used by “Too many middle aged, middle class white people.” Remember that?  Now that was pretty stupid. I believe the plans were to also dismiss the park attendants and close the park.  It was kept open for another year because a private party donated the money to keep it open and the jobs intact.  I have no idea what happened after that year. So that was dumb.
Then there was suggestion by one politician who wanted to form an agency to encourage muslim women to learn the skill of fishing in England’s famous rivers.
The charge was made again that it appeared to be only men, and then men of a certain pale skin color and of a certain income level, were using England’s fishing grounds. Or should that be waters?  It went nowhere of course.  How many muslim women are interested anyway?  And would their masters allow them out like that?  Pretty dumb, yeah?  Well, here it comes BMEWS.

My nomination for the absolute dumbest, the most weird, the stupidest and most loony tune decision I have ever heard of or imagined.  This might just make it.
This might just be the dumbest thing for the rest of the year. 

Boy or girl? The parents who refused to say for FIVE years finally reveal sex of their ‘gender-neutral’ child

By DAVID WILKES

His fairy wings, pink tutu and ballet pumps suggest this little boy has raided the dressing up box.

But if five-year-old Sasha wanted to wear this every day, his parents would have no problem at all.

In fact, as they are bringing him up to be ‘gender neutral’, they would see it simply as their son expressing himself.

Gender neutral: Sasha dressed as a fairy on the picture that was used on the family Christmas card in 2010

Not that they usually refer to him as ‘him’. From the moment Sasha was born, Beck Laxton and Kieran Cooper have been at pains not to lumber their son with the stereotyping they fear that gender brings.

So they simply called him ‘the infant’ and kept his gender a secret from all but a few close friends and relatives. As he grew older, he was encouraged to play with dolls as much as Lego, slept in a neutral yellow room and was allowed to wear both boys’ and girls’ clothes.

But now that he is five and at school Miss Laxton, 46, and Mr Cooper, 44, believe it will be almost impossible to keep it up.

Last year parents in Canada who refused to say whether their child was a boy or girl stirred up outrage and accusations they were turning their child into a freak.

Sasha’s parents, who have faced their own share of raised eyebrows, are thought to be among the first British parents to speak about this far-from-traditional method of raising a child. They are keen to highlight the issue publicly and get other parents talking about it.

‘I wanted to avoid all that stereotyping,’ Miss Laxton explained yesterday. ‘Stereotypes seem fundamentally stupid. Why would you want to slot people into boxes? 

‘Gender affects what children wear and what they can play with, and that shapes the kind of person they become. I start to get cross with it if it skews their potential.’

The process began even before Sasha was born, with his parents choosing not to be told their baby’s sex after scans during the pregnancy. It wasn’t because they wanted a surprise, they just wanted to avoid the inevitable expectations of what having a boy or girl meant.

After he was born, they waited 30 minutes before asking midwives his sex because they ‘did not want to prejudice his life with gender’. They gave him a name that suited both boys and girls and referred to him as ‘the infant’ rather than a son or daughter.

It is only now that Sasha has started primary school that the secret has become impossible to keep and they have started telling the wider world that Sasha is a boy.

Miss Laxton, a web designer from Sawston, Cambridgeshire, admitted that keeping her child’s gender under wraps for so long had not been easy. At her mother and baby group, she said she was regarded as ‘that loony woman who doesn’t know whether her baby is a boy or a girl’. ‘I could never persuade anyone in the group to come round for coffee,’ she said. ‘They just thought I was mental.’

At school, Sasha sometimes wears a ruched-sleeved and scalloped-collared shirt from the girl’s uniform list.  But he has yet to encounter any teasing or bullying. ‘Nobody’s ever mentioned it and I would hope that if they actually said something to Sasha, he’d be confident enough to make a good response,’ his mother said.

His father, a computer software designer, said Sasha is aware he is a boy and has been allowed to grow up taking an interest in whatever he wants. ‘If Sasha wants to dress up in girls’ clothes then so be it,’ Mr Cooper said. ‘But we’re not forcing it.

‘The girl’s clothes and fancy dress are for fun at home. We don’t make Sasha go out in girl’s clothes.’

Miss Laxton said her own background had influenced her view about gender stereotypes.

‘My mother’s very sporty and my dad was very emotional. We’d watch The Wizard of Oz and always start crying, whereas my mum would think we were really soppy,’ she said. ‘So it’s always seemed obvious to me that stereotypes didn’t fit the people I knew.’

Dr Daragh McDermott, a psychology lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, said it was difficult to predict any long-term effects of Sasha’s unconventional upbringing.

‘It’s hard to say whether being raised gender-neutral will have any immediate or long-term psychological consequences for a child, purely because to date there is little research examining this topic,’ he said.

‘That being said, the family setting is only one source of gender-specific information and as children grow, their self-identity as male, female or gender-neutral will be influenced by school, socialisation with other children and adults, as well as mass media.

‘As a child grows they develop their own independent sense of self that will include their own individual gender identification.’

Last year, Canadians Kathy Witterick and David Stocker insisted that they would raise their baby Storm as a gender-neutral child.

Of that case, Dr Harold Koplewicz, a U.S. child psychiatrist, said he was ‘disturbed’ that well-meaning parents could be so misguided.

‘When children are born, they’re not a blank slate,’ he said. ‘We do have male brains and female brains. There’s a reason why boys do more rough and tumble play; there’s a reason why girls have better language development skills.’

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   Tuesday - January 17, 2012

liberal retards on the march to further pc

A bit of a brouhaha over a remark about blacks having a built in suntan.

Are white folks getting dumber and dumber?

Appears so.  And many black folks must be having an honest laugh at the silly white people who seem hell bent on feeling offended on their behalf. Even if they aren’t.

The Telegraph earlier this week reported on a youth worker who was thrown off a council course for describing black folks as having a “built in suntan.”
Nobody so far has managed to explain exactly how or why that’s racist or offensive.

The lady made the remark was also called to account for her use of the term, “coloured boy.”

During the first day of an Essex county council youth offending service training session, the woman commented, “I have a stepfather who has a built in suntan.”

Oh woo-freekin-hoo. Quick. Rope and tree for the awful offence against humanity.

The woman of course has been apologizing left and right for any perceived offence which she says wasn’t intended.  She’s 59 and said that growing up she was always told to use the word colored rather then black.  Perhaps that was the choice of her stepfather. Who knows. But the two things taken together were seen by the council as unacceptable and racist, in spite of her coming from a mixed race home and background.

I can’t even guess when, where or how this stupidity will end. Or indeed if it ever will. 

The politically correct idiot spokesman for the Essex county council says,
“People need to display open, friendly, non-judgemental communication skills and also show an appreciation of diversity and respect for all people at all times.”

So I guess that woman violated all of that but I still can’t figure out how.

And in other politically incorrect happenings.

A Conservative councillor has been suspended for comments he made on Twitter, labelling some disabled people who were protesting over cuts in their programs, as
retards.

John Fareham, a Hull city council leader, made the remark after a budget cuts debate last year.

He Tweeted:  “15 hours in council today, very hard-hitting day and the usual collection of retards in the public gallery spoiling it for real people.”

He had the unmitigated nerve to write what people say all the time and write in truth more likely.  But that isn’t accepted anymore.  People now must be cautious about speaking their minds as heaven forbid, someone will be offended.

The committee that dumped him says his remark “breached equality enactments and brought his office and the council into disrepute.”

Never mind he was speaking for himself alone.

Now I wasn’t there of course and so I can not say with absolute surety that it went this way.  But anyone wanna bet that the retards in the gallery were probably shouting over speakers because only their voices had any right to be heard.

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   Monday - January 16, 2012

SPOTTED WHAT?

I think this decision was wrong.  You do not alter or change your country’s language to accommodate foreign visitors.  How many other cultures are out there that this guy is gonna worry about offending?  They could have explained in pamphlet form that Spotted Dick, for all that it’s funny to an American ear and still is odd to mine, is a suet pudding with currents and served with liquid custard.  Custard is a sauce here.

I’m sure that even without explaining beforehand, it would have all been explained after the show.  But no.  As always it seems to be the host country that MUST give up something so as not to ‘offend’ those not native to these shores.

btw, back in 2009 one council renamed it Spotted Richard so as to not offend. They were forced to do a u-turn when restaurants and customers refused.

Pantomime’s ‘risky’ jokes axed for American audience

Lines have been removed from Dick Whittington and his Cat in case they offend an American audience
A production of Dick Whittington being staged in Bury St Edmunds has had lines removed due to fears they could offend American visitors.
Colin Blumenau, the Theatre Royal’s artistic director, said a joke about spotted dick had been axed and they could not refer to the cat as “pussy”.
He said the changes had been made ahead of a visit of American students.
“It’s about two cultures having the same language but having different meanings for words,” said Mr Blumenau.
“It’s a family show and we try very hard to make sure everybody enjoys it, so there’s no point in trying to offend people.
“If people say it means something else in our culture, you think about it and if it’s not to the detriment of the show, which it isn’t, you change it.”
Mr Blumenau said the changes were only being made to two specific performances of Dick Whittington and his Cat, which runs until 15 January.

BBC NEWS

From the web:

Ingredients
· 50 g butter
· 350 g plain flour
· 3 tsp baking powder
· 140 g shredded suet
· 85 g caster sugar
· 115 g currants
· finely grated zest and juice of 2 lemons
· 75 ml milk
· 75 ml whipping cream
· custard or clotted cream, to serve

Method
1. Soften half the butter and use to grease a 1.4 litre pudding basin.

2. Combine the flour, baking powder, suet, sugar and currants in a large bowl, mixing well.

3. Melt the remaining butter and stir into the flour mixture.

4. Stir in the lemon juice and zest.

5. Combine the milk and cream in a small jug. Slowly stir enough into the mixture to bring it to a dropping consistency.

6. Pour the mixture into the pudding basin. Cover with a double layer of greaseproof paper (make a pleat in the middle to allow for expansion), tied in place with string.

7. Place the basin in a steamer basket set over boiling water. Cover and steam for about 1 - 1 1/2 hours until cooked. Check the water level now and again to make sure it doesn’t burn dry.

8. Serve with custard or, if you’re feeling wicked, a big dollop of clotted cream.

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   Thursday - January 12, 2012

hey no problem, we’ll just wait

Faux Pas Of The Season!
Ringtone halts NY Philharmonic performance

The final movement of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is a slow rumination on mortality, with quiet sections played by strings alone.

During the New York Philharmonic’s performance Tuesday night, it was interrupted by an iPhone.

The jarring ringtone—the device’s “Marimba” sound, which simulates the mallet instrument—intruded in the middle of the movement, emanating from the first row at Avery Fisher Hall.

When the phone wasn’t immediately hushed, audience members shook their heads. It continued to chime, and music director Alan Gilbert turned his head sharply to the left, signaling his displeasure.

Minutes passed. Each time the orchestra reached a quiet section, the phone could be heard above the hushed, reverent notes.

Finally, Mr. Gilbert could take no more: He stopped the orchestra.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal Wednesday, Mr. Gilbert said the ring tone yanked him out of a trance-like state during the symphony’s “most intense, most sublime, most emotional place.”

“It was kind of shocking because you get to a very faraway place emotionally and spiritually,” he said.

And even more surprising, he said, the man who owned the phone, recognized by orchestra members as a regular subscriber, didn’t immediately own up to it—or act to silence the device.

“I had to ask him many times,” Mr. Gilbert said. “It was bizarre. Maybe he was just so mortified that he just shut down and was paralyzed.”

After Mr. Gilbert took matters into his own hands, the man reached into his pocket and silenced the device. Mr. Gilbert asked him: “Is it off? It won’t come on again?”

The man nodded. Satisfied, the conductor addressed the audience. Usually, Mr. Gilbert said, it is best to ignore disruptions, because the reaction itself can be even more disruptive. “This was so egregious that I couldn’t let it go by,” Mr. Gilbert told the audience, apologizing.

The audience applauded vigorously.

“We’ll try again,” he said on a more upbeat note.

Matron:
Everybody you watch

Velma and Matron:
Nobody’s got no class!




I predict this fellow will get far fewer invitations to The Vinyard this year, and may even be ousted from his summer rental in the Hamptons. So. Common. [shudders]




PS - I hate cellphones ringing in just about all public venues. I might have an even stronger hatred for people who wear their phones in their ears all the time, and think that they can talk to you while holding another conversation on the phone. There are times when multi-tasking is just plain rude.

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   Friday - January 06, 2012

TooDaze Stoopid News, Part 3

A Charlton (MA) mom says her local library crossed the line when they sent police to collect her daughter’s overdue library books.

Her mom says the 5-year-old girl was so afraid that she burst into tears.

Charlton Police Sergeant Dan Dowd stopped by the home of Shannon Benoit to let her know that her daughter had two books several months overdue which needed to be returned or paid for.

They found and returned the books, but Hailey’s mom argues that sending a cop to their house was like pounding a ten penny nail with a sledge hammer.

Even Sgt. Dowd admits he wasn’t real keen on it.

“Nobody wanted to, on this end to get involved in it,” says Sgt. Dowd. “But the library contacted us, and the chief delegated, and apparently I was one of the low men on the totem pole.”

Talk about a creeping culture of cowardice. i guess the librarians were “too uncomfortable” with the situation to just pick up the darn phone and call these folks? Because, you know, prodding the public about overdue books is above the pay grade for librarians, and they don’t need that kind of workplace stress. Plus, somebody could get offended and come shoot them or something. Better to play it safe and send the police. No, better to send the SWAT team. A good tazering would teach that nascent little criminal what’s what, what what?

Ok, the cop got stuck with the tsk, and he’s gonna get a month of grief from his buds at the donut shop. But the library? If they had half a lick of sense, there would be a bright and shiny Help Wanted ad in the paper today.

Posted by Drew458     on 01/06/2012 at 10:43 AM   
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   Monday - December 19, 2011

FURTHER ADVENTURES OF BRAIN DEAD COUSIN JO.

POOR BRAIN DEAD COUSIN JO

the saga continues

December 2011

Poor brain dead cousin Jo is so called because she just may be the dumbest woman in the western hemisphere.  If not the world. 
For those readers new to this site, the brain dead wonder of the western world happens to be my wife’s cousin.

She is a good person, a generally kindly older woman, but oh so stupid she almost defies description. 
Our regulars here at BMEWS have seen previous adventures of this laffable loon.
For those of you who haven’t, here’s an example of what I mean by stupid.

She once called us because she was having trouble reading in bed and wanted our advice with regard to a problem.  Her book kept falling on her.  ?? When asked how that was possible, it turned out that the silly woman wasn’t actually sitting up straight in bed, but was reclining, more prone then recline and trying to hold her book over her head. And she was falling asleep and so would drop the book which of course would fall on her head.  Yeah. She’s that stupid.  Which from my point of view is fine because I started a journal on around 2008, chronicling cousin Jo’s verbal meanderings and traumas.  Like, not knowing how to self administer an enema.
Yeah.  She’s that stupid.

So, when she calls or comes by for a visit, I listen to what passes for a conversation, in hope of getting more material to write about and add to the journal dedicated to her.
As good fortune would have it, an opportunity presented itself to us just recently.
As in last evening when she called seeking help with another one of life’s little problems that vexes her so.  This time is wasn’t quite how do you boil water dumb, but it does come pretty close to that category.

About ten days ago, she came by for a visit. She also overstayed as is her habit.  She had coffee with us and was asked if she’d like it with Bailey’s Irish Cream.  A boozy drink of great good taste.  She said yes she like to try that.  It was served and she enjoyed it and asked the wife how she made it.  Well, the wife tells her she simply put the Bailey’s into the coffee cup. That was all. No measure or anything. Just put in the same as you would cream or milk.  Simple, you might think. Ah, but this is brain dead cousin Jo we’re writing about.  Not to be confused with anyone normal and a grasp of the obvious. 

Well, Jo called one night saying she tried to make her coffee at home with Baileys but for some reason it wasn’t coming out right.  She wanted to know what we did to make the taste so different from the way hers tasted. Something wasn’t quite right she reported.  So the wife asked her what she was doing.

Turns out she was putting milk in the coffee in addition to the Baileys. So we told her no Jo. You don’t need the milk and the Baileys. Just the boozy Baileys. Add to taste. That’s it. Nothing too complicated. Right?  Wanna bet?

She called us again last night saying she just didn’t have it right and wanted further instructions.  She just didn’t seem to have it right and asked for the third time how to unlock the secret of this marvellous scientific discovery.
The phone rang, I answered and passed the phone to my wife.
This is how her side of the conversation went.

Phone: ringring,ringring.
Me:  Pick up phone and say hello.
Cousin Jo:  “OH,,, Hello” That’s how she always answers. She says OH! as tho she’s surprised anyone answered.  She needs help with the coffee thing and the Baileys.
I pass the phone to my wife and grab a pen and pad.

WIFE:
No Jo.  you are not supposed to boil the Baileys. It’s alcohol Jo. You’re boiling out the booze.
No Jo. I didn’t say to boil the Baileys.
No Jo. Don’t add the Baileys to the water.  You add it to the coffee already in the cup.
Yes Jo. If you’re making instant coffee, you do boil the water. But not the Baileys.
Yes Jo. put the coffee granules in the cup like you always do.
Right. Add the water.
No Jo. You don’t have to wait for the water to cool.
Pour in the water Jo, and then the Baileys Cream according to how strong you like it.
No Jo.  Don’t put any milk in it.  Remember?  We already covered that.
Yes.  Cup – Coffee – Baileys
Yes. That’s really all there is to it.
No, no trouble at all Jo.  Happy to help.
Good night Jo.

And so ends another chapter in the continuing adventures of
POOR BRAIN DEAD COUSIN JO.

Stay tuned. There’s always more to follow.

Posted by peiper     on 12/19/2011 at 12:26 PM   
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   Wednesday - December 14, 2011

Connect The Dots?

Polar bears eating their young, blame Glowball Worming!

BBC Caught Faking Polar Bear Climate Change Photos

Kind of makes me wonder.

Meanwhile, ClimateGate II continues, but I’m so sick of that nonsense I’m not even going to link to it. Ok, I’ll only link it generically, but the whole thing is a crap sandwich with more layers than you can stomach. Canada pulling out of Kyoto, Climate Change blamed for the continued desertification of the Sahel, instead of the goat based economy and the slash ‘n burn practices of the natives AND in direct opposition to the pile of reports over the past 20 years saying the area is getting greener, more data fakery from teh rubber thermometer squad, etc. The only real news from that whole darn genre is the two guys who quit their jobs as hurricane predictors because they realized they had been dead wrong every year for ages, and that the much vaunted models simply don’t work.

I’m sure that Climate Chaos™ will soon be blamed for lions, fish, scorpions, barn cats, sea birds, insects, and all other species who eat their young and always have too. Desperate idiots. Take their keyboards away, they’re a danger to the rest of us.

On the other hand, there may actually be some good news hiding in there somewhere regarding the cannibalism bit, and I think Global Werming should take the blame.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/14/2011 at 10:11 AM   
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The DC Garbage Nazis

WASHINGTON - It’s the law in D.C. - recycle or face a fine from the Department of Public Works. But is enforcement of the law going too far?

Dupont Circle resident Patricia White says she has been fined eight times for throwing homemade cat litter in her trash. The fines total $2,000. White says she shreds old newspaper and junk mail to use as cat litter. She believes she is helping the environment by reusing the paper and avoiding cat litter you will find in stores.

After being fined several times, White says she called the Department of Public Works inspector who issued the tickets. According to White, the inspector admitted to digging through trash looking for violations. White even appealed the violations in D.C. court. Judge Audrey Jenkins agreed with the inspector after White explained the situation. FOX 5 tried to reach Judge Jenkins, but her office has declined to comment.

D.C. Council Member Jack Evans says DPW is going too far with its recycling enforcement. He demanded a meeting with DPW Director Bill Howland to discuss White’s case.

White says she will continue to fight the citations and continue to dispose of her cat’s litter in the trash and not in the recycling bin.

We have paper recycling here in Clinton too. Newspapers, magazines, cardboard. But if you shred the paper it becomes garbage, and if the paper is soiled with either food or feces it is NOT recyclable. I think the garbage nazis in DC and Judge Stoopid ought to get a better grip on reality. Besides, newspaper is organic, so it can decompose, and it will decompose more readily once it is cut into little bits and soaked with something, especially something that happens to be an organic acid. Like cat pee.

Yet another case of A Bridge Too Far that has connected the insane asylum with the powers of government.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/14/2011 at 08:32 AM   
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Nice Work If You Can Get It

Another one for the Obviously Obvious files ...

:eyeroll:

How much alcohol a person drinks directly affects how likely they are to have unsafe sex, a new review shows.

On average, every 0.1 milligram per milliliter increase in study participants’ blood alcohol levels raised their likelihood of having unprotected sex by 5 percent, the researchers found.

Canadian researchers looked at 12 studies that examined the link between people’s blood alcohol content (BAC) and how likely they were to say they would use a condom during intercourse. In all of the experiments, researchers had split the study participants into two groups, and asked one group consume alcohol, while the other group did not drink. Participants were then reported whether they would engage in unsafe sex.

The findings help explain why people who’ve been drinking engage in unsafe sex despite knowing better, study researcher Jürgen Rehm, the director of the Social and Epidemiological Research at Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, said in a statement. “Alcohol is influencing their decision processes.”

The galling thing is that a whole group of “scientists” got paid, probably for the better part of a year, to do this study.

I’d put in a bid with the EU for funding to study how a lack of drinking water causes dehydration, but I don’t think it would go through given their recent legal decisions. Come on already people, wake the hell up. DUH.

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