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The Grumpy Old Man Rants

I have moved the blog

I am moving the blog to a wordpress driven site. This will make things easier for me to produce a good flow of rants for your enjoyment.

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I really am getting tired of this

Over the weekend a good friend of mine who lives in Belize was attacked in his home, for 45 minutes he was kicked tied up and stabbed the attackers wanted money, but he only had $6.00 in his wallet. His wife arrived home and he managed to get to a window and warn her, he was then bashed on his head and left out cold. The attackers escaped leaving him for dead but luckily he has a thick head and survived. This story is all to common people today have no sense of responsibility, they just get drunk and run riot the problem started over 30 years ago with the removal of authority from teachers and police children today are not taught the ideas of getting on with other people and as they courts seem to be unable to give the appropriate punishment for those caught it isnt going to get any better.
I say bring back the teacher who can dicipline kids with a cane or slipper let the courts issue death sentences or the very least bring back the cat of nine tails for some public lashings, the stocks could be brought back I  think that a month out in all elements with people laughing and pelting them with rotten fruit and worse will stop these arsholes once and for all. What say you comments please.

AAArrgh

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Our Grasping Politicians

Well here is my two penerth. We do need an election but let’s WAIT until all the dodgy MP's are found out coz it would seem that most are being less than moral with the expenses. I feel that once they have all been found out and prosecuted or sacked then we should get an election.

Just a thought if an MP buys a second home, serves for five years and then doesn’t get re elected what happens to it? does he re sell it and trouser the profit or does he pay back the profit to us? I don’t know the answer. I really think that the country should buy a hotel to house the MP's when they are in London to attend parliament. This would make more sense and probably save us a fortune; it would also give MP’s a place to entertain visiting people without them having to claim massive expenses for eating out at the posh restaurants in the city.

 

On a sadder note my friend Dave’s Dad has just died see the last rant. He was a great bloke and I can remember many happy times round Dave’s,helping him with his various bike building projects. The Social Care service in this country sucks I am afraid, it would seem that once you get over the age of 75 you are treated like a baby and just ignored.

 

AAAARRRRGGGHHH



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Social Diservice

This is an extract from my friend Dave Tooleys Facebook it deserves a read.



As part of an ageing population, at some point in our lives we are all
going to become old and frail. Unless you are one of the lucky few who
have a huge pot of money stashed away, you are going to be at the mercy
of the state.
Naively I thought that the Social Services were there as a safety net
to catch those weaker souls in our society who cannot look after
themselves through either illness, frailty or mental health issues such
as senile dementia or Alzheimer’s.
In my recent experience I’ve discovered that nothing could be further
from the truth.
The only ‘Service’ provided by Social Services is to dole out a list of
telephone numbers to employment agencies which those poor souls then
have to pay for.
The idea of a ‘Wendy Craig’ like District Nurse individual cycling
around your village doling out help to anyone that needs it is pure
fantasy nowadays, although at some point in our recent history I’m sure
those characters existed.
My Father is now dying in a Hospice, caused indirectly by the lack of
care provided after he had an emergency operation for Renal Failure.
Within a very short period of time he was evicted from hospital wearing
Nephropathy tubes hanging out of both kidneys draining into bags tied
to his legs.
Over each kidney there was a loose dressing sticky taped to his back.
A breeding ground for infection. I begged the hospital not to send him
home in this condition because my Mother has Alzheimer’s disease and
cannot even cope with her self let alone an invalid, but they were
unmoved.
He had to go home because they needed the bed. So I then implored them
to provide a nurse to visit him at least daily to check and change his
dressings as necessary. No joy, once a week, take it or leave it. No
matter who I contacted within the system I could get nothing further.
Sure enough, less than a day after he had come home one dressing had
become dislodged. The district nurse eventually turned up and tried to
put on a fresh dressing but bodged it. Later on that evening an
emergency service was called out to take a look. By now my Dad was
getting into trouble. The tube was leaking, and the area around it’s
entrance had started to become infected. To cut a long story short,
after a series of several further call outs to a variety of doctors and
nurses on a late Sunday evening my Father was rushed back into hospital
in an ambulance almost delirious with pain.
>From that point on he was in a steady downhill spiral, resulting in
much further surgery removing part of his large bowel resulting in a
colostomy.
A further few weeks on and he has now had all treatment removed since
they have decided nothing further can be done for him. He has been
left to die.
Easy isn’t it when you can bury your mistakes?
This has now left me with another huge problem. My Father was my
Mothers primary carer. Since he is now out of the loop, I’ve been
desperately trying to get some support to look after her during this
trying time, and into the future.
Once again, NO CHANCE. They will provide someone to put on her
stockings, and maybe give her a wash, but that is the end of the
service they will provide. Anything more requires work which has to be
paid for, and I’ve been given a list of numbers to phone to provide
care at a price.
My Mum lives on her own now in a biggish house. She cannot even get
out because of her illness, so how the hell is she going to clean,
cook, go shopping, or carry out even the most basic functions required
in a home?
Appeals to the Social Services have fallen on deaf ears, they don’t
care, not their problem.

I don’t know where I’m going with this yet, but I feel at a time of
Local Elections when smarmy councillors stick their heads above the
parapet and are begging for your votes this would be an excellent
question to put to those fawning individuals. “What do you propose to
do to provide care to those individuals in our society that desperately
require help, but are to frail and weak to fight for it?” Anyone who
doesn’t come back to you with a strong package of policies to do
something about our failing system should have your front door clearly
slammed in their faces, and make sure that YOU and EVERYONE you know
does not vote for them.
Please make an effort to spread the word on this. The power of
communication now is a colossal tool. We have recently seen how
Politicians can be broken overnight. A huge slice of them have their
snouts firmly embedded in the trough of public money, and I’m damned
sure that local councillors are little different.
As Billy Connolly once famously stated “The very desire to become a
Politician should automatically preclude someone from becoming one”

Dave Tooley


Come on my readers start kicking some social service butt. lets start a movement.

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Election ?

Do we really want to have a General Election just yet? I really think it would be wise to wait until all the dirty deeds our dodgey MP's have done have come to light, do we really want to re-elect MP's who have had their snouts in the trough. So may I say to the  Papers, please get all your revelations out sooner rather than later, lets kick out all the dodgy ones and get a Parliment of decent honest people if thats possible.
 On a lighter note it would seem that summer has arrived at last! so make the most of the nice bank holiday weekend and dust off the barbie. remember to let the coals go grey before you incinerate your meat, if you are cooking chicken pre cook in the microwave before you cook it on the coals, I don't want my readers taking ill with the Rangoon Rush.
AArghh


  

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our robbing MP's

I expect that you are totally pissed orf with the robbing MP's running the UK. I really think that they need a big shake up lock up the one's who have robbed us even if they have paid the money back. Coz if you ro I robbed a Bank got caught but said sorry and paid the cash back would we be set free. I don't think so we would be in jail so fast our feet would not touch the ground. Since when do MP's think that they are above the law Oh but they wrote it what a surprise.
AAAArgh

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It's Just Theft

If like me you think that these grasping MP's have gone to far I am not surprised. For years I have held the opinion that MP's and Union Leaders are all a bunch of rouges, this current bout of theft has only confirmed what I already knew I am right. I really think that the police should be arresting them and putting them away for a long time. If you or I did this our feet would not touch the ground until we were behind bars.

Aaaaargh.

by the way if you want to have some fun try www.wurbling.com this is a new Twitter like micro blogging site it's fun.

 

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Whinge About Women

I have started a new site www.whingeaboutwomen.com to combat the new site www.moanaboutmen.com its a fun site for us chaps to have a good old moan about the ladies. They had a nice plug on GMTV last week so come on guys get on it and have a good old whinge.


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bored of it

Jade
She's got cancer. did you know?

Thousands of people in this world die of cancer every day, so why don't the media give them the attention that this girl gets. Lets face it she is a stupid, brash, loud mouthed chav.
I wouldn't wish cancer on her and I am sorry that she has it but she has had the symptoms for a few years by all accounts so really she only has her self to blame.
Look the health service is struggling and it really is a victim of it's success our life span has increased from three score years and ten to a ton plus. Hospitals are just over run.
I know that she has not got a long time to live and I am sorry for her so lets hope that all the media coverage brings some changes to screening. Come on Gordon bring the smear testing down to 14 years for our girls after all they are at it from an early age these days.
Aaaargh.


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Down the Tubes again

The hooray Henry's of the banking world are still at it, they are determined to take our money and give them self big bonuses for being incompetent. I know I have banged on about it on numerous occasions but it is just getting to much to bear. I really get so pissed off with the arrogance of these morons they are carrying on as if they haven't virtually brought the world economy to its knees.
This morning the breakfast telly had a government spokesman on talking about the situation (what a load of waffle) are they governing the country? it seems not, we live in a virtual police state with CCTV recording our every move (except when someone commits a crime against me and mine) but the Government cannot enforce a cap on these bonuses what are they scared of just put me in power I will do it.
After all the Banks have been rescued by the Taxpayer by the government without asking us what we wanted to do with our Tax revenues. And when we want to ask the bank for a loan to save our business we are told to go away we are keeping all your Tax money for us, then sharing it amongst our failing execs, so ya boo sucks to you little man.

AAAAArrrrrrGGGHHHHH.

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