As you’ll see, outside of RSS, the site has a slight change. And I didn’t mention there’s a new dogtanian.net. And a nice work site that has a few cool bits of html/css
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
Following on from my previous business idea here’s a really good one. A tricolour burqa with
Liberté
Égalité
Fraternité
written across the front.
This would be a huge seller across the channel, and no French policeman could arrest you dressed in it.
The Fifty Foot Detective
As I said last time “As I said last time “Yay, the new John Swartzwelder book is out”.
Currently only the signed copies are available from the eBay store and will be on amazon.com somewhen.
Hanging’s too good for them
No not for thieving millions from the country. No not for bringing down the entire world economy through lying, cheating & stealing, putting thousands for people out of work and their homes. No not for being lying, war criminal cunt.
These guys made some kids have a slightly rubbish christmas, and they only might face prison. What a disgrace.
Nothing’s Wrong
When a woman says nothing’s wrong, that means everything’s wrong. And when a woman says everything’s wrong, that means everything’s wrong. And when a woman says something’s not funny, you’d better not laugh your ass off.
Homer J. Simpson, 2004
For the tight fisted cynics
My Amazon shopping history is probably the least feminine1 around, accurately suggesting a single male household. Still that didn’t stop this bit of cynicism:
I did like that the best seller is £11.54, some lucky ladies are going to feel very loved on valentines day.
1 at least how feminine is generally considered, I get that some women do like SF, Cricket and can understand the offside rule
A new plan for domestic finances
My social and intellectual betters are convinced the only way forward for the country is to cut the deficit so I’ve decided to do the same for my home finances.
As we have debts of ~£1 trillion with a GDP of ~£1.5 trillion we obviously need cuts, thats 66% of our GDP in debt! So obviously we need to:
- Stop building things at government expense, putting thousands out of work
- Get rid of government non-jobs staffed by eco-feminazi-PC-health&safety-gone-mad bureaucrats, putting thousands out of work
- Raise VAT and fuel duty making everything more expensive , putting thousands out of work
This lack of employment and increase in costs will increase the tax income and cut the debt. (Dave did economics at uni so this must make sense1).
My plan
My mortgage debt is ~300% of my GIP (Gross Individual Product) which compared to the economy is really dangerous. So I plan to eliminate the following from my budget and pay off the debt in 3 years.
- Savings – having cash for emergencies is overrated
- Phone & Broadband – after hitting ‘Send to Blog’ anyway
- Cricket – how can I be entertained with that debt on my shoulders
- Council tax – they’re sacking everyone so what am I paying for?
- Home insurance – I don’t own it yet so why insure it?
- Food – a luxury I can’t afford
- Gas, water & electric – another luxury
- Everything else
You might be thinking that’s stupid, without investing in the things like food, clothes, warmth and water that keep you alive you’ll die stop getting paid.
You probably also think that spending money on things, like infrastructure, schools and the NHS, cutting regressive taxes, increasing employment and making the rich pay their way when they’ve reaped all the benefits of society might be a good idea.
And you’d be right, unlike the Tory cunts running the country.
1 Fun fact, Gideon, who’s supposed to be running the economy, didn’t. He did modern history.
Dots in class names, a useful css note
I’ve never put a . in a class name before, but need to for a current job, just found out that this works
html
<span class="class.name">span</span>
css
span.class\.name { /* styling */ }
Slippers
If the Advertising Standards Authority are supposed to set the standards for advertising why are the webuyanycar.com adverts allowed to exist
when they banned this advert for “because it mocks the virgin birth of Jesus”? (Although the advert is trying to do that immaculate conception is something different and even stupider)
The thing is they didn’t ban the Marie Stopes ad )which was the right choice) but it’s just as offensive to Catholics. And didn’t ban the Paddy Power blind football advert which is offensive to anyone who isn’t a cunt.
The ASA say:
Marketing communications must not contain anything that is likely to cause serious or widespread offence. Particular care must be taken to avoid causing offence on the grounds of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. Compliance will be judged on the context, medium, audience, product and prevailing standards.
One of those things is not like the others, you get to choose it and your choice can mean other people’s choices offend you. Will the ASA be banning advert for Arsenal games because they offend Spurs fans?
On the plus side there’s this tweet:
