Old Folk Na' Days

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 As well as being a burden into my rapidly shrinking free time – Old Folk manage to strain the back of the UK’s wonderful NHS. Complain as much as you desire, describe the systems vast inefficiencies, it’s corruption and in some cases poor care of the elderly. At the end of the day, it’s free healthcare, something that costs an absolute fortune everywhere else. Regardless they put a huge suction on the British economy, and don’t point fingers at smokers and fatties as they still have the capacity to work either crunching numbers or entering data. Tell your Grandma to enter data. Go on, the closest you’ll get is a questioning reply about Star Trek saying she’d prefer to enter William Shatner. And that’s if you’re lucky? In essence most of the spluttering, wheezing elderly have served their time and are now very, very patiently waiting to die alongside David Dickinson’s antique mahogany face.
What?! Your Gran does Tai Chi and sells pot? Alright, she’s one of the other stereotypes.

Congrats, you’re Gran is the sweet old lady, occasionally she’s warped into a drug dealer/sex enthusiast for hilarious effect. For a double points bonus she’ll be married to the most cantankerous man ever conceived, a man so old and curmudgeon he makes Mr. Creosote look spritely and enthusiastic about the world.

The next category would be the Bucket List ”kids”. Those whom crave a second childhood in other words. A phrase popularised by Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson (We’ll leave the stereotypes shown within the film for another time, eh?). Don’t worry if you’ve not seen the film. Just ask your Grandad who he’d be if he could choose an icon from his age. He’ll say someone stupid like Billy Joel or Bruce Forsythe, because it’s you; the sweet grandchild. Just know that he’s as randy as you were at 14 when you made that “discovery” and that his real answer is Hugh Heftner. Viola. Ever wondered who actually buys the Ferrari Aftershave? Wonder no more.

With so many broad spectrum stereotypes, you begin to fill in every gap of individuality, and so stereotypes sort of lose their focus. The types are even so large that they encompass one another. Burdens are basically nut-cases and the useless. The Sweet old lady and her sourpuss husband counts as another. And the third?  The new breed of inheritance-pissers devoted to their Bucket-Lists and romping younger, money-orientated women through the extensive use of Viagra.
Now, I’m quite certain that’s covered every person above say 65 you’ve ever met.  All these stereotypes have their feet in something real. Which casts them as perfect for News Anchor positions, alongside uselessly pretty accomplices or as senile Village Chiefs. Or for funky or “different” characters a la The Oracle from The Matrix. Woo, isn’t she gritty, 80-something and smokes pot.
Never thought I have to say this, but the elderly need to grow up.

A Re-blog from Josh Morgan


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Where did it all go wrong: The selfishness of a person jumping on the tracks

Where did it all go wrong: The selfishness of a person jumping on the tracks: Kings Cross at 19:33, All these people will be late home tonight.

Courtesy of my photography Liam was able to publish before me...

Well this is quite funny...

Just posting because this is incredibly funny...

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Where did it all go wrong: For no other reason than it is funny- GEEKS

Where did it all go wrong: For no other reason than it is funny- GEEKS: The name's Bond, Ionic Bond. Taken, not shared. Not sure where it originated but this is where I saw it. http://www.facebook.com/pages/...

Copenhagen just got a lot closer to legalizing the sale of pot

 http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/111201/win-win-drugs-fighting-gangs-legalizing-pot

MALMO, Sweden — Copenhagen just got a lot closer to legalizing the sale of pot.
If approved by the Danish parliament, next year the city could grant licenses to individual marijuana growers. City-owned shops would then sell their crop to the public.
That prospect was deeply amusing to Israel, a burly dreadlocked Cuban in Christiania, the city’s self-declared “free town.”
"I will grow it!" he said with excessive zeal. "I’ve got this big bag of seeds."
Israel was sitting outside a cafe near Pusher Street, the area’s open-air cannabis market, rolling a succession of monster joints for the locals and tourists who drop by for a smoke.
Copenhagen’s city municipality voted in recent weeks, 39 votes to 9, to empower its social affairs committee to draw up a detailed plan to legalize cannabis.
If that plan is approved by Denmark’s new left-of-centre parliament next year, the city could become the first to legalize marijuana, rather than simply tolerate it, as police do in the Netherlands.
“We are thinking of perhaps 30 to 40 public sales houses, where the people aren’t interested in selling you more, they’re interested in you,” Mikkel Warming, the mayor in charge of social affairs at Copenhagen City Council told GlobalPost. “Who is it better for youngsters to buy marijuana from? A drug pusher, who wants them to use more, who wants them to buy hard drugs, or a civil servant?”
Judging by the good-natured way Israel joshed with one of the day’s customers — a teenager whom he appeared to have reduced to an incoherent, pale-faced stupor — he’s not exactly threatening.
But the same cannot be said for the gangsters on Pusher Street, whose crew cuts and bulky jackets make them look more like nightclub bouncers. They are a far cry from the hippie idealists who founded Christiania in a disused army barracks 40 years ago.
It is these people, the biker and immigrant gangs who manage the city’s drug supplies, that Warming wants to cut out.
"People who use marijuana are paying money to criminals, mostly to gang members, and it’s a market that every year, is worth up to two billion Danish kroner ($350 million). That’s enough to fight for, which is why we’ve had a war between the gangs in Copenhagen," he said.
That’s why he doesn’t want to institute a system where smoking marijuana is tolerated in cannabis cafes, but officially illegal, and therefore profitable for criminals to grow and import.
Copenhagen effectively operated such a system in Christiania until 2004, when the police moved in and shut the district’s thriving cannabis cafes, forcing the trade into street stalls.
And it still exists in the Netherlands today, although Dutch authorities are tightening up.
“We don’t want an Amsterdam model," Warming said. "We want a way to make it legal to import or grow marijuana."
The details still must be ironed out. But Warming imagines a system similar to the state-owned alcohol monopoly that operates in neighboring Sweden.
The government would either grow marijuana itself or license growers, as already happens in countries that allow the drug to be used for medical purposes.
The Danish parliament voted down a similar proposal submitted by Copenhagen City Council three years ago, but since then a new left-of-centre government has come in, giving it a better chance of getting through.
In a sign of the changing times, some in the ruling Social Democratic party are beginning to support the idea.
Lars Aslan Rasmussen, the party’s official spokesman on cannabis, believes it is only a matter of time.
"If you look at Copenhagen city, at first it was only the Socialists, then it became the Red-Green Alliance, then it became the Social Democrats, and now we’ve got some of the Liberals," he said. "I think we are slowly getting there. Around the world, people are changing their opinions on this. The war on drugs, it didn’t really work."
Many in his party disagree, not least Ole Haekkerup, the legal spokesman.
"If we make it easier to get marijuana, we expect that more people would end up on hard drugs," he told Ekstra Bladet, a Danish newspaper, after the vote.
The Danish Socialist People’s Party quietly dropped their support for legalization when they joined the Social Democrats’ coalition in June in the run up to September’s election.
But support is nonetheless building. Lars Kragh Andersen, who was sacked as an assistant policeman earlier this year after refusing to arrest cannabis users, has become a prominent campaigner.
The law student this week sent a statement to the Copenhagen police announcing that he had begun dealing small amounts of a cannabis from his home. To prove his point, he included a marijuana joint in the letter.
Israel, seemingly oblivious to the possible loss of earnings, agrees that Warming's plan is the only sensible way to go.
"The government created the gangs," he said. "They have to open up, because every drug in this town is legal, even if it’s not legal. You can find hash and cocaine on every street corner. Eighty percent of the population here in Copenhagen are smoking. But if I smoke some stuff, I’m a criminal."

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Most incredible marriage proposal/marriage

SO AWESOME

This is one of the coolest Video's I have ever seen! - Brought a tear to my eye! Such an amazing proposal

This would be the biggest thrill ever...

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Woman accused of racist tram rant denies charge

From the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16051120

A woman accused of racially abusing fellow passengers on a busy tram watched a film of her alleged rant when she appeared in the dock.Emma West, 34, appeared at Croydon Magistrates' Court charged with a racially aggravated public order offence.She cried as the three magistrates watched the footage, which has now been seen more than 11 million times online.Ms West pleaded not guilty and was remanded in custody.The hearing was adjourned until later to give time for the defendant to prepare reasons for her not guilty plea.Ms West was arrested after the footage, filmed on a Croydon to Wimbledon tram, was posted on YouTube.

After watching the video on - http://liamobrien-wherediditallgowrong.blogspot.com/2011/12/racist-remarks-on-tram.html - I would love to know how this woman can plead not guilty. It is quite plain and simple - she has committed the crime of a racially aggravated public order offence. I think the 11 million people that have also seen this video would also agree with me - On this issue i would also like to say how appalling this woman's behaviour is. I would like to think that we are beyond this kind of behaviour in modern society but this is clearly a dream, honestly, i think this behaviour is disgusting.

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The Brit in America: The British Accent

The Brit in America: The British Accent: So why? That is my question put oh so simply. What is it about the English (or any other kind of British for that matter) accent that driv...