Claudia back on Strictly - fast forward her bits

Usually we record Strictly to be sure we don't miss it. this has the advantage that I can fast-forward thought the Claudia bits.

That woman makes me cringe.

Why does Amanda Platell think she's good? I want to Vote Claudia Off. Zoe and Tess for me. 

Claudia embarrasses herself with her inane antics. Does she thinks she's a Bobby Ball to Tess' Canon?

Either its the BBC humiliating her or if not then I'm right and we can do with out her - its spoiling the show.

But why is it only me that sees this?

Only thing about Tess is that she seems to be talking over the Judges lately. Oh, and I don't really like the additional dancers either, we want to see the Celebrities dance!

Also AP says about Obese people paying for their treatment. Similar to smoking it IS self induced.

EAT LESS! Simple.

I don't understand how these FAT people that are that fat that they can't move about continue to overeat? Surely someone is Feeding them? If you can't move much/at all  how do you shop/cook etc.

Ship them off to Sierra Leone or somewhere  where food is a Luxury. They would be seen as freaks and embarrassed to explain why they are so fat when these folk struggle on a starvation diet.

Its just not right is it?

Why should people get £25k disposable income for nothing? I'd love to have take home pay of £25k to support my wife and I. I'd have to earn over 35k to get that though. Its simple to me - why have Politicians not thought of it - TAX benefits as INCOME just like the rest of us?

That is a level playing field. Why get something for nothing. No argument that "its not worth working I'd be worse off".

 

BBC wastes Taxpayers money

How dare they waste our money, my money on such rubbish.

I don't know how in 21st Century Britain it is allowed that an organisation that answers to no one collects over £3.7billion in taxpayers money and spends it on "ENTERTAINMENT"?

If it was your local Council they would have to answer to the voters. Councils are being squeezed dry yet the BBC can spend all this money on the Likes of Jeremy Clarkson upsetting the Argentinians. Nothing happens.
I don't have any feelings for the Argentinians but i do object to the BBC sending Clarkson over there to upset them. Perhaps second thoughts it was a good idea but only if he STAYED there.

Any way if you agree write to your MP and demand that the Government sells off the BBC.

£3billion pounds is 3% of what the NHS spends and they could do with more money, what would you Rather have, you r cancer treatment or Eastenders? I know I might not get the answer I want but then some folk don't agree with me,

So be it.

Privatise the BBC. Stop this waste. Look at all those screens on behind the news readers no one there, if you Council did that they'd soon get sorted out.

More evidence today to support my stance. THey say that  they are "saving money". I know a way to save over £3billion....... Privatise the BBC!

Anyone noticed these SuperSize BT Cabinets appearing?

I walked down Sutton on Sea High Street today and nearly collided with a blockage on the pavement! It was half taken up with one of these new BT Cabinets - designed to give you FTTC. Fibre to the Cabinet. Yes a vast improvement on old wired Broadband speeds but blocking the Pavement! Well actually took up a good half a pavement.

Bad for the visually impaired or buggy/wheelchair users. How do they get away with it? Obstructing the pavements? If shopkeepers put signs out they get told off by Councils for blocking the pavements - one rule for one.........

The old cabinets were slim and discreet not these ones on STEROIDS.

Can't they find "off road" places to put them there's enough street furniture to negotiate.

Oh, and if BT get O2 does that mean they'll soon be biting at TalkTalk?

Edge of Tomorrow

Edge of Tomorrow, 2014, Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt. Groundhog  day meets Alien and Terminator.
Bit of a confusing start but gets better. I rate it not one of Toms
best films. As a sci-fi action is Ok. Rate It 3/5. If you've nothing better to watch - entertaining .

Strictly - Claudia Back

So Claudia is back on Strictly. All I can say is I'd have voted her OFF week 1.
Zoe you were lovely.

Joke?New Sign Unsuitable for HGV

Joke! New sign "Unsuitable for HGV" yet this is the proposed route for the oversized Asserby Wind Turbine deliveries. Thanks Lincs CC.

Fuss over too English school

I agree that Ofsted seem OTT over this school report but I can also understand the circumstances. Realistically it is very difficult for a school in deepest Lincolnshire to "arrange" to get their children more ethnic diversity.

Taking a trip say to Bradford school for a day would be a shock to their systems poor mites and actually probably;y do more harm than good. A school of black children in funny clothes with strange language and smells would be more like visiting a zoo for the children and not let them experience these people properly as equals.

Here in deepest Lincolnshire its like stepping back 50 years. It was a shock to my system when I first came here. They are very insular. Any "outsiders" are treated with caution. Its taken 10 years but I think they accept me as an incomer - I'll never be a yellow belly but they make jokes with me not at me now about "yorkies" (the tourists from Sheffield etc).

The problem here is the culture. They have this "slagging off" banter, but its not offensive, at least not meant to be offensive to the people concerned. Every body gets taunted and picked on but its a form of affection though if you're an outsider you'd be appalled and some things could get people locked up. So if you ARE an outsider say "black" or "gay" then you'd feel offended at the homophobia or racism but its not "meant" that way, but that's how they are.

Only when the minorities actually start appearing in larger Numbers will this change. I wonder when that will be? I often say Lincolnshire is the Land time forgot.

Good chance of Aurora tomorrow

Check out @TamithaSkov's Tweet: https://twitter.com/TamithaSkov/status/534631451984027649?s=09

Anyone else been snared by Amazon?

Has
anyone else been snared by Amazon? I mean bought something without realising it until it arrives? I have. I protest i did not knowingly order it. I have no idea how it happened. Yes we use Amazon to buy things especially this time of year. Its easy but something went wrong. It is definitely too easy. They have you logged in and track your browsing hence the popups inviting you to buy.
OneClick is my Nemesis. Seems even if you disable it on PC/LAPTOP you can't disable it on Kindle. I was browsing on my wife`s
Kindle and bought something .  Honest i didn't - fat fingers. That OneClick is too close to the AddtoBasket/buy button. DOH!
Watch your email because once they've Despatched you can't cancel. So not like me and see the "despatched " email - too late. It arrives and you've to send it back, less postage.
Be Warned.
I've now removed my credit card details so if i can't pay - no  buy.

Why Bother Having Children?

Why Bother Having Children?

Why do so many parents have children then as soon as they can shove them in a Nursery. then they go to school till their 18 then hopefully start work/leave home? Where are the family values etc of raising a family?
I despair.
To me this is the root of ALL society's problems now. We have no Family unit, we don't "care" for each other. We are isolated, just me, me, me. Parents spend all their time on iPADs or phones, I know a teacher who had to ask a parent at parent's evening to "stop using the phone" (she was texting) while he was talking about her daughter.She gave him mouth full of abuse and left.

Money isn't everything, I know its important and essential to a good healthy life but what's wrong with prioritising your Children first? We did. Sacrifice when they're young and teach them your values etc. the benefits will come later.

Look at this letter written to BBC news , highlighted by MHMT

Dear Sir/Madam, I have been married for nearly 18 years and we have 3 children aged 13, 11 and 9. When we got married we bought our house with the intention that we would be able to pay the mortgage on one salary so that I wouldn't have to work if we had children. I do work, thankfully I managed to secure a permanent part time job as a Community Paediatrician in my local hospital. I chose not to continue my training to become a consultant as the hours I would have had to work would have meant barely seeing my children!
My children did attend childcare when they were pre school age - for up to 2 days a week which they loved but those hours were more than enough and they were exhausted after those days!
As they have got older and attended school I have been very fortunate to be able to work fairly flexibly and have my mum nearby to do school pick ups if I can't.
As my children have got older they need me more rather than less and I tend to come home from work earlier than I did when they were younger. If my job had not been so flexible and I had felt that it was impacting on my children I would have given it up. Money would have been tight but we would have managed.
I certainly would not ever consider more childcare regardless of how cheap or expensive it might be. My children need me.
I spend my days at work trying to pick up the pieces for children from chaotic broken homes and also from middle class homes where children never see their parents apart from the weekends!

Obviously some people have to work to make ends meet and not all children suffer negative effects of long hours of childcare. But why as a society can we not make it easier for parents to care for their own children instead of forcing them into the workplace and taking even more parents away from their children to care for other people's children!!

Let's think about what children need, not what the economy needs or what parents need! Our children are the economy and the society of the future so their needs are what is really important!

Thank you to the author of this letter from MAHM. Let's hope someone listens somewhere!

BBC losing sight of its responsibilities?

Anyone else been upset by the BBC this week ?
Last week as laudable as it was and professionally produced, good BBC  drama,  "Passing Bells" about WW 1 was NOT suitable viewing for 7pm. Young children could be watching. Also the 6pm news has featured a lot about the Ebola crisis and Syria, showing some distressing scenes, even bodies, definitely NOT suitable for young children. The BBC should be more responsible. Why is there no protests, is it just me?

Living Wage increase good

I think they should increase the Living Wage, but will people get it?

When folk on benefits can get over £25000 it doesn't seen fair.

To me simple answer  - TAX ALL BENEFITS

This way we're all equal. Those on low wages get benefits and pay tax why not those just on benefits? Only exception should be those benefits that are for disability. then when they go back to work they can't claim that "its not worth it" - after deductions they're worse off.

I'd also ensure that unused Tax allowances can be rolled up say over three years so that when they do go back to work they can pay less tax if they're on low wages. Some Tax allowances are rolled up over several years like Capital gains tax on properties so why not personal allowances?

Only thing is David sCameron - where is the promised Married Person's allowance?

Out of Afghanistan but terror reigns

Hoorah for getting our troops out but have we defeated terrism? NO.
The Afghan peasants still grow poppies for us to get heroin. all the misery, crime and death it wreaks here everyday. What are we doing? Not much.
We should have spent that £35b on fighting drugs. Pay the Afghan peasants to grow cabbages instead, anything to stop the drugs.
How it many people die every week from drug related causes? 28. This equates to a 7/7 style attack every 2 weeks. If so think about the reaction to that. no expense spared to catch the terrorists but as they are spread out there is little action. But how can i say it Drug dealers are terrorists by proxy. Think of all the crime that is drug related not to mention lives blighted by it.Why do the Taliban let people grow poppies and make opium then send it here? They are just surely poisoning our society from within.
Why aren't we fighting this Terrorism lie we put troops in Afghanistan ?

Shame - Scott out. Hoorah for Zoe

Hoorah for Zoe. She looked a little nervous at first but then a rousing performance.

Zoe scores 10

Claudia - 1

Scott is out, why did Miss Piggy win? - she hid her feet under a flowing white dress and "smoke" so how did the Judges know she was dancing - she wasn't.

Scot DID dance - not very good but better than her.

Shame, why are they so predudiced - I was warming to Scott, he tries.

Ann Maguire killed by psycho pupil.

I hope now the (Will Cornick) idiot has been sentenced to life the school/Local authority are prosecuted by the HSE for failing their duty to protect her.

I know things can never be totally predicted but surly to bring into school a big carving knife is totally reckless - yes the school must stop this - use scanners if necessary - a teacher's life is priceless for a little inconvenience.

Looking at what was put on Facebook etc. I can't believe there were no signs of his mental state and they should have dealt with it. 

Maybe a big court case could save future lives?