Respect for Orlando

The news of the deaths in Orlando was shocking, both in the number of dead and the stupidity of the shooter..

We all have our views on the "lifestyles" of others but a community that only enjoys life should not be treated like one that seeks to control or harm...

A recent Facebook quote, shared by a friend, got me thinking on this subject...

Also hate the word Homophobia... not because of the word; or its meaning, but because of the, apparent, need for it...

Don't, totally, agree about the "you're an asshole", but it is well used in it's context...,  as disagreeing with someone's point of view is the reasoning behind many of mankind's advancements...

But if your disagreeing to degrade someone... Then you're an asshole...

Your not scared... Weeeellllll... yes, some, people are... often because of what is in the next paragraph...

I have always felt that Homophobia is a phobia... But it is a personnel one... Back in the 60/70's it was known as *****bashing... But the more I heard people bragging about it the more certain I was that they were not scared of Gay people... But the fact that they might be Gay themselves... And therefore beat up or degrade them at every opportunity was "necessary"to prove themselves not...

It was so surreal listening to idiots boasting how "manly" they were, watching how their eyes changed while talking... Going from an ego boosted glow at the start to a dim scared "I am not gay... I am not gay" look as they walked away...

You could say I lost a few friends back then... Gained a few to...

Being Gay holds no appeal for me but I respect those who genuinely are...

While individualism is allowed in the world... Groups, of all types, will both survive and have to survive tragedy... And I wish we could all have space and the freedom to, simply, BE

People from the top to the bottom of society still think.... "Why can't you live by my rules - There good rules" when, in fact, they are saying "If I cannot/will not do this then you cannot/will not either"..

Sure they live,love and carry on enjoying their own life... but any chance to boost their ego's by reducing it in others seems, to some people, as necessary as the two things you can do without concious thought... eating and reproducing...

Whether it's in the monetary sense of "socialise costs and privatise profit" to control and enjoy the riches while ensuring others don't

Or just in the good old fashioned "You WILL do as I say"... Because the fact that an individual CAN think for themselves really scares the elite... a fact taken to the extreme in some countries....

Control is what some people seem to think life is really all about... 

I feel ashamed for all who died or were injured...

I feel angry that someone felt they had to do this...

But I also feel pride that the whole community came together in support... And that all LGBT communities WILL live,  laugh, love and remember...

Time I posted something lighter..

A child doth scream in the isles…..

Its Parent just stand there and smiles…..

A watcher pulls a face of disdain…..

So the child screams even more, as in pain…

The parent just shakes their head…….

Any more of that and I'm buying Marmite instead…..

The child shuts up, walks over and says…

What sort of game machine is that….

Why is life like Star Wars

The Referendum, and the thought of living in a superstate, drives me nuts... VOTING IN OR OUT MEANS CHANGE... Everybody vying for their own point with little thought to how we got to this point in the first place...

Why does the Human race try so hard to either destroy or control itself...

Its like Star Wars offers the only life choices you can make...

You can either be with the Republic or with the Rebellion... There is no other choice..

You may think there is... But if you hide away in an Republic area you support the Republic by not opposing it... And if  you hide away in a Rebellion area you support that by not opposing it...

The mantra of "it's nothing to do with me" is the biggest blind truth you can ever tell yourself...

You could say... "well... at least the Rebellion listen to you and wants to help"

You could say... " well... the Republic has our best interests at heart"

Both end up being the same, in our self destructive nature...

The Rebellion, if they win, carry on down a path that leads to self destruction through corruption...

The Republic , if they win, carry on down a path that leads to self destruction through corruption...

(Corruption does not always mean monitory... Corruption through Ideology also destroys... Sacrifices to the God's only has an effect on population control, as any rain, increase in harvest or the sun rising is purely coincidental...)

And then the idiotic merry go round starts all over again...

How many great civilisations have there been in the millennia of mankind...

How many have survived past "the next latest and greatest of all time" regime...

Were the Incas the Republic until the Spanish came along to make them the Resistance...
 
Are you the Rebellion if you live in the jungle with a hard, but free, idyllic lifestyle and are hunted down, converted by the Republic ... even if means wiping out thousand by introducing viruses...  

The need to "own" and "have" seems to supersedes all... Why value people when you can value money and possessions

Why can "civilised" mankind just not "get "a life...

You want to know a fact...Things only cost more because you put the price up

I rue the day that some accountant worked out that if your product costs £1, you have to sell it for £2.50 to make 60% profit... and love the fact that if you use the 100% profit rule you buy an item for £1 and sell it for £2...

The UK EU Referendum

This is my view on things...

If you agree, after reading, that's great...

If you disagree, after reading, that's great to....

For the important thing is to vote the way your head tells you to, as the heart can get a little fuzzy on the details sometimes...

Anyhoo....

I hear, see and read all these things that our "glorious" leaders tell us will happen if we leave... But some of the stuff Mr Osborne has been coming out with are just so far out of the ball park. You just gotta wonder how dumb he thinks people are...

He cannot hit his own targets, or keep his promises, so how does he suddenly know, with such certainty, what will happen...

Mind you... Dodgy Dave has been an apple short of a fruitcake with his comments too...

And then there is Boris... Now there's a man who is proud to be and apple short of a fruitcake and is damn clever while doing it...

I do like Boris... A politician who does not answer a question with a question but gives you an answer...

But the truth is....Nobody knows the truth.... and that's the truth....

Staying IN or OUT...  WILL mean change and that is the truth...

The money men, and those with money, want to stay in because they see it as beneficial for making money...

The government want to stay in because all they can see is ways to exploit it... and make money...

Neither seem to be able to grasp the fact that the EU, i.e. Germany, wants to control everything.... including money...

The unelected autocratic bureaucracy have been churning out laws and legislation by the van load to achieve this end...

Some say.... (imagine a Mr Clarkson impression here)

House prices will go up... well my thoughts on this is that house prices go up through greed, so that's not going to change while people praise money and "ownership" above all else... The mantra of consumerism... "I Want... therefore you cannot have"

A house in the 80's that was worth, say, £100,000 and now costs £250,000.... it only costs more because people pay more... there has been no increase in the number of bricks its made from... It did not ask to be worth more... It does appreciate all the new paint, paper and windows...

The NHS will be saved if we leave.... Nope... It's doomed....

Our own government has been actively making it fail to its present point and is now selling it off to the highest bidder, or is that contributor to the cause.... Can't make a profit if its a free service...

Don't need to be IN or OUT of the EU for that to continue...

Thousand of jobs will be lost....  Quite possibly... but if less product does come in from the EU then we need to start making stuff again... we were very good at that once... so not so much jobs lost... just different ones...

We are safer IN.... Err... NO... open borders between stable, similar minded/lifestyle countries is one thing but to open borders to bring in a, so called, cheap labour force that hold vastly different, even ignoring our, values, is not safe...

The EU answer... an EU army... forget we already have NATO... An all new EU army will solve all the problems... Err... NO... Just another tool for the unelected autocratic bureaucracy to use to create its superstate...

I Say...

I like being British... I like being English... I do not want to live in the EU state of...

I like miles per hour and driving on the left...

I like our postcode system... 

I like the Monarchy, but am not a royalist...  The Royal family do far more for this country than most people will ever understand...

I would like being able to choose what power of appliance I prefer...

I would like to keep eating fish caught by a British trawler..

I like freedom of choice... not limitation of product or packaging so it packs, stacks and ships more cost effectively...
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Our system is far from perfect and accountants have made it way to profit orientated...

Also I have no idea of what will become of the UK once it is owned by everybody else...

But to have an unelected autocratic bureaucracy that's heading towards a, lets call it an, Orwellian state by Marxist means (feel free to use your own terms here), with a bit of self destruction along the way, is not for me..

So my vote is NO...  No to staying in the EU unelected autocratic bureaucracy...

I wish that staying in or out of the EU was the biggest problem at the moment... But standing up for your country, your rules, your heritage is a start...

Wars are great for population control, technology advancement, and restructuring the landscape... But suck for those who don't survive it...

Worth less.... Worth More...

Wrote a line in a Facebook post that got me thinking...

I know... I know... but my one brain cell does actually work on occasion...

Why do some people think others are "Worth Less"...

No one is "worth less" and no one is "worth more"...

Nearly everybody I have said this to has disagreed with me... with, very few, asking if I meant financially or humanitarianly...  Pretty much, everyone just went into a monetary based reply....

Get a life... Greed is not good... Its was the reason behind the original wall street crash... it is behind the apathy which is causing the current blindness to mass migration... A labour force is not cheap if it depletes finances and overwhelms resources...

We are all the same... We eat, sleep, defecate and die...

So, on to what this post is about,  promoting the incorrect fact that the "Big Cheese" is worth more than the workforce...

The workforce is in two parts...

The producing part of a process, which may or may not contain "the boss"... it produces the items to be sold to have the money to pay itself....

The management, which may or may not include "the boss" is the consuming part of the process that requires the producing part of the process to pay for itself...

 A, hands on,  small company boss often just has enough to have a slightly better home and lifestyle than the workforce...

The effect of the small company boss can be very small on the items produced price, with, often, the cost of the workforce having a bigger, percentage, effect on the unit price...

Then there is the "top dog" variable...

The senior person of the company who requires both the management and the production processes to pay for themselves...

A "top dog" system requires a massive increase in the produced item price... and, often, an increase in non productive, high level management, staff...

So why does the smallest cog in the chain...  the single "top dog"...  "deserve" reward  because they are "worth more"?

Never quite got that point...

A worker can work for decades and get nothing when they retire.... not even a handshake, sometimes...

But a "top dog" can work for less than a year and retire with a "golden" handshake... and repeat that process over and over again...

The "top dog" is not worth millions... its just the greed system of generating fear and feeding apathy that allows them to... With many a "top dog" getting their "due" bonus even when failing...

Worked alongside a person who solved a problem the company was having with one of it's newly developed products... He could see the problem because he actually machined the part... not looked at in on some computer CAD system... 

He talked to the designer many times, only to be repeatedly treated like he could not have any idea of what he was talking about... and then some "Brown-nose" overheard him one day... The part was changed... it now worked flawlessly... The worker getting nothing... and the "sycophant" getting promoted...

Who was worth more or less for finding the solution?

I have had several jobs in my life and have been both worker and management... Did not make me feel different... I did upset many people, at one company, though... As while working as an industrial engineer the company had a problem with staffing in it's Bronze foundry... which is where I started...  I was an air press moulder... good one to...

So when asked if I could help out by covering people on holiday I said yes... Unheard of in those days... office was office... shop floor was shop floor...

But after years of service I received a glowing tribute with my 15 years long service award and my redundancy, pittance, notice on the same day... from the same manager... who then moved all production to China and made everybody redundant...

Name against clock card... if you have to clock in then, to some, you are "worth less"

But I can honestly say that I have only worked for one good boss... He rewarded those who put forward ideas... he rewarded as you trained... he asked our opinions on working hours and shift rotas, rather than just forcing change...

Loved that job... I felt part of something... Not an employee... Not a name next to a clock number... My worth appreciated...

It was intensive, challenging and you always had to be at the top of your game... But it was in the Fibre optic communication industry and when Marconi when south in the early noughties this company went south with it...

Yes my outlook on top management, in general, is biased... openly accept that...

But generating paperwork to justify jobs is self defeating in the end... And spending millions on consultants that end up torpedoing the company is mind-numbingly bad management...

But the elitists still keep employing each other with no thought to worth... just greed...

My first boss, after leaving school, was a tyrant... I earned  £6 a week (it was 1970 folks) and the apprentice (I was promised a printing apprenticeship but it never happened) was on £9... The person training me up in Lithographic printing left after six months... and the boss did not replace him... So for a year I taught myself to run the presses we had... Then he sacked me, sighting colourblindness... so I could not get another job in that industry...

But, my outlook, is not as biased as the preconception that you are worth more if you control someone

I keep re-reading this and it's hard to separate wealth and worth... so I hope it makes sense... 

9.3 Millions worth of.... Well nothing really

Just received my "why we should stay in" leaflet from the Government.... And I must say... TOTALLY UNIMPRESSED... For all that money I though it would be thicker... and not contain photographs it had no, real, legal right to publish.... Nice shot of Felixstowe Docks though...

Anyhoo... Here is my simple, maybe naive, view of it...


The cover..
Black and white statement about how the Government think its best to stay in... So no subliminal message there then.... being in black and white.....

Ignoring pages one and the picture on two as with the present turmoil only the date of the referendum stated there can be looked on as accurate as all the "Special Status" bullet points might not hold true in the future 

Page 3...
A Stronger Economy...

The EU is by far the UK's biggest trading partner... EU countries buy 44% of everything we sell abroad....   So, firstly, no one will buy any British product if we leave???.... Secondly.... 44% means that our biggest oversea sales, 56%, are to NON EU countries....

The EU's single market has over 500 million customers and an economy over five times bigger than the UK...  So our own economy is not that small then.... Given how many countries are in the EU...  And those customers will no longer need, or want, what we make if we leave?

The Single market makes it easier and cheaper for UK companies to sell their products outside the UK, creating jobs....

First off... Do they meant "to the EU/Single Market" ie the 44% market we will lose if we left?.... As this just reads that it is easy and cheap to sell, red tape aside, outside the UK.... like... Anywhere... but if we leave we will never sell to anyone ever again as it will be "not easy and to expensive"...

Create jobs.... A one of the thousands who used to work for Crane Fluid Systems.... who now work elsewhere, if they can, and all the other heavy industry companies that are no longer here... Because all the "CHEAP" products are now made in China, or elsewhere......

Being inside the EU also makes it more attractive to companies to invest in the UK...
In the early days this was true as many companies built plant here, or registered companies, as it was a gateway into the EU for those outside it... Think of car manufacturing companies, amongst others, who used the UK to avoid import duties...

But these days.... Companies will still invest in the UK if we leave because of the Governments insistence that everything must be in private hands, and are... Genesis album title... "Selling England by the Pound"... Well Euro these days... You name it... NHS... Dartford Crossing... Electricity... Roads... Royal Mail... Land Registry (don't know how many, truly, realise the effect of this one... but it really does enables those that have to ride rough shod over those who have not)... Schools and far to many more to list here...

But bottom line for our (your fave name for them here) if its public, or free... it wont be soon....

Over the last decade foreign companies have invested £540 billion in the UK, equivalent to £148 million each day...
Foreign companies..... so not just EU companies then... and how much of that is for selling out this country...

Below all this misdirection and badly worded "facts" is a list of meaningless numbers... Trust me in this... As a trained, if not qualified, Industrial Engineer this list of numbers is just that... a list of numbers...

Page 4...
Page four is a very nice, staged, picture with its almost (come on... no female in there somewhere)  PC correct workforce...

Since 2010 tourism has been the fastest growing sector in the UK in employment terms. Britain is forecast to have a tourism industry worth over £257 billion by 2025. 
(Taken from www.visitbritain.org/visitor-economy-facts)

So I guess that soon most people will be working in a tourist/entertainment based job and spend their holidays at other tourist/entertainment places....

You know I could go on right threw this waste of money but do not, in my wildest dreams, think anybody would make it to the end...

Will end with one more phrase from the "What happens if we leave?" page...

The Government judges it could result in 10 years or more of uncertainty as the UK unpicks our relationship with the EU and over 50 other countries around the world... 
 
Who worded this...  

The Government "Judges"... like they do that so well... Bail something out for 100 million and then sell it for 10 or setting share prices way below the true market value...does not give confidence in their good judgement.. (wish I could sit on a comfy bench and go Arff Arff...  And claim dodgy allowances for twice my wages or more)

Could result???  way to go with the conviction (subliminal/scare tactics???) factor there...

As for "the UK unpicks "our" relationship".... "it's" makes sense but "OUR" just screams "I'm rich and have not got a clue how to talk to these.... what do we call them... Oh yes.. common people...

Be Happy folks and vote the way your own heart tells you.... but please either vote or don't complain when stuff hits the fan...

Realisation of action is a totally different thing to freedom of speech…

Realisation of action is a totally different thing to freedom of speech…

I fully accept that everyone has a right to their viewpoint… I just want the right not to have to accept it as the only viewpoint…

Watching the Victoria Derbyshire program this morning (26/02/16) and a part of it was about the “Safe Place” in campuses for freedom of speech being “restricted” with “certain” topics being banned

The present PC madness continues… controlling what you can and cannot say/do….

It's a “Safe Place” no more no less...

The problem is not with what you can say….

The problem I watched... was of not letting people say it…

Whether that was by a “controlling body” limiting the scope of subjects or by the, watched, heckling/shouting at the speaker...

It the old days it was “The person on speakers corner”... not massed people with megaphones or aggressive placards of “Behead X… Homo X… Black X… White X” and many others..

You stopped… you listened, if you wanted to… but you accepted that that person had a right to free speech and that was their view… You thought about it or you didn’t… You got on with life as you chose...

There must be free speech or the “he who shouts loudest will prevail” theology wins out…

What seems to be happening these days is that rather than accept that a person has, for the moment, a legal right to express their opinion some would risk losing this rather than “offend” someone…

I cannot see much difference between someone saying “this offends me” or “J'accuse”… Both cause the death of something...

Free Speech… A person can express their view…. You have the free choice to listen or move on…

Free Speech… You can give out leaflets to others who then have the free choice to read it or bin it.

Realisation of Action… Knowing what you do enhances your view over all others..

Realisation of Action… The, viewed, persons persistent heckling that stopped the debate... knowing that only his view was valid... and by repeating three words, loudly, over and over again would negate the speakers viewpoint... All would remember him and not the speaker, or the speech...

Realisation of Action… By limiting free speech you must accept that phobia's, oppression, increase

Example… Chairman Mao... Free speech… His little red book… Realisation of Action… Everybody had to read it… He knew by reading it you gave up your freedom of choice...

Realisation of Action… Groups trying to change you to agree with them… not letting someone have a choice… Is oppressive, self limiting and often accompanied by violence..

Realisation of Action… Groups intimidating by action… not letting someone walk in the own town at night... Is oppressive, self limiting and often accompanied by violence..

Final thought's on freedom and actions…

If I walk into a bar… and it's, say, a gay bar… I walk out… its not because of being homophobic… its because I am not Gay…

I know many Gay people and am truly pleased for those who find happiness in being so…

But I also know that if you tell someone who is truly Gay, that you are not... They will treat you as a friend… not an object to be converted…

Freedom of speech is a fundamental part of existence… The freedom of listening to other viewpoints is paramount…

If it was not… The world would still be flat and the centre of a very small universe..