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Thursday 28 March 2024

The present use of English is as shocking as Orwell said -


Have you noticed recently? It seems like everything has an 's' at the end of it. That's right, everything is plural now. 


When I was young, certain words weren't plural. As I currently train people to use different forms of language, it's evident to me that the fact is accommodation is merely an uncountable noun; not a plural noun. There is absolutely no need to put an 's' on the end of it, yet people do this again and again these days.

I've noticed different new plural forms emerging just in the past year or six months. It makes me want to throw up because they're not words. They never were words, they aren't words, and they never will be words, but it almost seems like if you are an intelligent left-wing writer — that's an oxymoron — you automatically put an 's' on the end of the word. 


Some of these are simply shocking!  Another one that I've heard recently is insurances

It's not a fucking word!

This is exactly like accommodations.

What is even worse, is the use of the word behaviours!  No such fucking word!  Behaviour is all that you need!


I was actually in China recently, and they use the word harms, as in harms and benefits; although it's forgivable as it's not the native language, but still, another horrible use of a non-plural word becoming plural!

But the above, from the well-heeled people of Singapore, is the prize winner.  So far, I've been unable to find the original article, though this link:

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3253923/us-envoy-singapore-threatened-staff-wasted-money-and-created-culture-fear-watchdog-finds

gives more information, about some mini-Tyrant from the USA.

Staffs?

Surely this is personnel, or the very simple, non-S word - Staff!


I've seen other examples of appalling English, which I've detailed with links, etc.

But I would really like to get into the psychology of this. Is it snobbery? Is it downright ignorance? Or is it, once again, doing everything possible to influence somebody as if to say, Look how intelligent I am?

In this, we once again footnote the great George Orwell.


Some of you people here keep going on in articles about Orwell, and literally the only thing you say is, besides '1984,' is that people who erase history and use the standard quote 

Please do some reading. This was the least of his worries. He was very shocked at the time in the 1930s and '40s, about the state of the English language, and it should be mandatory reading to actually read his Politics and the English Language. In that, he gives several rules for writing (above). 

It seems like nothing has changed.

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PS - As of earlier today, for some reason Twitter has blocked my for the next week.  No idea why?

Thursday 29 February 2024

More on how crap Glasgow, Scotland is; The Disastrous Willy Wonka Experience:


Following up on my previous article about Glasgow's ongoing struggles, including the failure to remove Christmas trees from two months ago, there's a recent debacle that deserves attention—the Willy Wonka Experience.


Promoted as a whimsical adventure for children, it turned out to be yet another disappointing rip-off, epitomizing some of Glasgow's less-than-stellar attributes. And what's even more interesting, is that it appears to have garnered world-wide attention; thus tarring Glasgow's reputation even more (deservedly)! A simple search (above) resulted in oodles of different, world press photos.

Let's delve into the details. The event was delightfully skewered by GB News Headliners program of 27 February, with headlines exposing the organizer, one Billy Coull, as a repeat offender in the realm of a previous terrible Christmas experience, several years ago, that resulted in him having to cancel a Christmas event. This time, the venue was a large warehouse just south of the river Clyde, but the outcome was no different—it was a complete disaster. Apparently, after the angry parents confronted Coull, he did a runner before having the shite kicked out of him!

Attendees were met with shoddy decorations, inadequate refreshments, and laughable attempts at entertainment. The actors struggled with poorly written scripts generated by AI, while children were left disappointed with minimal sweets and lackluster graphics. Despite the outcry from disgruntled patrons, Coull seems to have evaded consequences once again, with promises of refunds being the only silver lining.


What's truly baffling is Coull's track record of failed events, yet no meaningful action has been taken against him. It's high time for authorities to step in and hold him accountable for his fraudulent practices. This pattern of repeat offenders going unpunished is indicative of a larger issue plaguing both Scotland and our country, where those who exploit others seem to operate with impunity.

The Willy Wonka Experience may have been a flop, but its aftermath sheds light on systemic failures that need urgent attention. Please go into the above links or search yourself - it is really THAT bad!. It's not just a stain on Glasgow's reputation; it's emblematic of a broader problem that demands swift action.

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Tuesday 20 February 2024

Glasgow, Scotland - An incompetent, leftist, hellhole! We still have Christmas trees in the street.



Glasgow, Scotland, we love you, and we hate you also.  

The city government has always tried to portray the city as above.  Old buildings, greens spaces, clean air, environment, friendly people, ad nauseum.

But only a few hundred yards from the above, was this:



That's right; those are Christmas trees, and they are STILL lying on the ground in our beloved Kelvingrove Park.



Making it look like a cesspit!

I've just been travelling to and fro the USA, and I couldn't recall seeing ANY Christmas trees lying in the streets over there?  And why the effing hell would I?  It's been close to 2 months since the Christmas holidays and we're now closer to March, and have already started the Lent period!

You can't make this up!

This seems to always happen here.  The last few years, apparently due to COVID(!), they can barely empty our fucking bins!

It seems that they, the Left, are incapable of doing ANYTHING right.

And this is in Glasgow, with one of the highest council taxes (UK local government tax) in the UK.

Sick of it!

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Saturday 17 February 2024

The Superbowl - More Popular than Ever? No! More expensive than ever.


It's interesting that the first Super Bowl took place on January 15, 1967. It was legendary coach Vincent Lombardi's last playoff game, and he was victorious. It's also the only Super Bowl to have been covered by more than one network—NBC and CBS, with CBS covering the NFL and NBC covering the AFL during the season. One notable fact is that a player participated in both Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II, the great, Hall-of-Famer Forrest Gregg, who would later coach the Cincinnati Bengals during the 1981/82 season, and lead them to the Superbowl that year.  This Superbowl, SBXVI, remains the most popular Super Bowl to this day, commanding a market share of 49.1% in the USA, with about 37% of the US population watching it.


It's worth noting, however, that while the recent Super Bowl was watched by an estimated 120 million people, making it heralded as the most popular ever, this claim is questionable. Back when Super Bowl I took place, the United States had a population of only about 195 million, and around 50 million people watched the game; and considering this was the very first Super Bowl, it is understandable that ONLY 50 million watched it on TV.  Additionally, Super Bowl I wasn't necessarily watched by many people as it was a novelty and not expected to be a close game, which it wasn't, thus people weren't as interested, with empty seats in the LA Colosseum.      



Now, with nearly 335 million people in the US, about 121.5 million supposedly watched the recent Super Bowl. Therefore, the increase in viewership isn't as significant as it may seem, and what is very interesting is that just a few years ago, less than 100 million were watching the game, which was only about 28% of the US population. 


Contrarily, the Super Bowl of the 1981-1982 season, Super Bowl 16 (with the great Joe Montana [above]) was far more popular. Despite what people may claim, the games prior to the mid-1990s were almost always more popular than they are today; with Household Share almost always in the 40s (Unlike just recently where this share number had fallen into the 30s!). 

It's intriguing to note that despite their decreased popularity, there's more money involved now than ever!  This can ONLY be attributed to the lack of competition, leading to oligopoly and monopoly in the market.

By money, I refer not to player's salaries, etc, but to the cost of a half-minute commercial.  I watched some of these this year for the first time in ages - as I watched the US broadcast networks screening.  And I can only say that some were simply dreadful!  $7 million for these?!  Let THAT sit in for a moment.

This is a significant statistic.  Initially, an advert for Super Bowl I only cost about $37,000 to $42,000 (per 1/2 minute). However, for the recent Super Bowl, it was between $6.5 and $7 million. Adjusted for inflation, this would have been equivalent to about $325,000 for a half-minute spot for the original Super Bowl. 

This indicates that while the Super Bowl may not be 20 times more popular now than it was in 1967, it's significantly more expensive. This trend reflects the broader state of the US economy; where it seems that the rich get richer, and the poor, . . . you know how that ends.

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Wednesday 20 December 2023

The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP)and their (future) immigration policy on refugees are a complete and total disaster.



Take a look at this thing named Kirsty Blackman. She's absolutely shocking once again, a career politician, never a real job in her fucking life, and then straight into politics after she had got out of university - she also happens to be a complete, and UTTER, third-rate whack job.

I say she is shocking again, as a few years ago, this Nazi actually wanted to forbid Donald Trump from entering the UK!


Honestly!  Look at her, LOOK AT HER!  She is a complete, fucking idiot!

She was actually on a show recently,  where she's openly said that she favoured unlimited, uncontrolled, immigration to Scotland!

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/no-immigration-limit-with-an-independent-scotland-snp-mp-silences-host-as-she-blasts-rwanda-plan

This is a fact!  She's an idiot; a complete fucking nutjob! 

There's so many reasons to disagree with her, you almost cannot make this up. But she at least shows you what a complete fucking moron she is. 

I always have wanted to know, just how that would in reality work; this type of immigration "plan"?  Would everyone, presumably, just hop on the next Ryanair or Third World Airline, equipped with as many bags as possible, and literally just "show up" in the waiting arms of the SNP?  Because it seems to me after what this lunatic said this last week, that is EXACTLY what they mean, and would inevitably happen!

Honestly, would it be a hundred or a thousand a day, pouring into both Glasgow and Edinburgh airports, presumably applying to stay, as in they wouldn't even need to fill-out their bogus asylum applications, or even pretend to be a "refugee"? 

This leads us to this person below; my Lord(!), there seems to be a never-ending amount of these parasites, just itching to get in where the white man is the majority, aren't there?


She's a filthy Third World mooch. She's not a refugee in any way, shape or form, is she? 

Well, she can fuck herself and go back to the first port of call. She came from Africa, went through Italy, where she's meant to claim that she is refugee. But even then, she should actually have done this in the nearest country in Africa!

Sorry, you cannot say where you want to be a refugee at. She then came over the Mediterranean, and went all the way through Europe, then came over on another boat to the UK.  And now, she wants to bring the rest of her family over here. The fucking pig.

Ah, but according to this rag of an article, by the filth in the MSM, she's "desperate".  They can fuck themselves as well!

She's apparently a devout church goer in the south of Glasgow, in the Gorbals.  Take a look at these utter nutjobs!, and in particular, their leaders!  Is it any wonder that no one goes to the Christian, liberal churches anymore!


What is deeply offensive, is the one idiot who actually has the audacity to be wearing a head covering!  Yeah, she's down there with it; down for the struggle!

No doubt Christ is actually rolling in his grave looking at these pieces of shit. Do they have any idea about the world and that their beliefs run contrary to normal people, at the same time, not knowing just how damaging, fundamentalist Islam IS?

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