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It’s like having the controls for a gas cooker behind the burners, for fuck’s sake.

I honestly don’t give a fuck what you do / don’t do with / without a penis; your choice of real / imaginary friend means precious little about your behaviour; and your skin colour is as arbitrary as your hair colour.

What are you attitudes to conformity, benevolence, poverty, tradition, security, power, hedonism, independence, and success?

There ARE organisations in which prejudice is so endemic we want for them to make baby-steps, so let’s keep these facile versions of diversity rolling for their benefit.

But for the rest of us, let’s think a little deeper, because we desperately need social innovation.

Is it important to find the DIVERSITY OF IDEAS which will shatter institutional corruption, or to have someone around the table who’s got breasts AND a penis?

To build peace and prevent wars, do you want ideas from people who can line up to make a pleasing spectrum of skin colours, or people who’ve been lined up to be shot or to shoot?

Is it useful to be working on a solution with someone who uses their sexy bits in ways you would NEVER use yours, or to have someone who knows what it’s like to be so desperate that they make you seriously reconsider your definition of ‘never’?

Cultures are NOT synonymous with attitudes.

What do you think about conformity, benevolence, tradition, security, power, hedonism, independence, and success?

Does it matter where you come from or who you cum with, or where the fuck we’re all going and how we’re going to get there?

Not: more houses, a nuclear submarine, a shuffle of the NHS, privatisation of universities, another war, a train, a tunnel, or pretty much anything else.

I know it’s easy to hate Murdoch and the tabloid press, and perhaps I stoop too low in continuing to do so; but the simple truth is that they’re a bunch of fucking bastards who have undermined British civilisation, spread discord and hatred, demeaned women, misrepresented news, ridden rough-shod over democracy, and selfishly, wantonly, and reprehensibly fucked with our society for too long.

Yet they’ve been encouraged by the fact that 2,600,000 people lap up this shit every day.

Now it’s one thing to lap up shit when you’ve been hynotised into thinking it’s not shit, or when all those around you say “mmm my this shit is good!”. But when the shit stinks so badly that even the people shitting it out decide to stop in disgust at themselves.. well then maybe it’s time to have a little think.

Now that the smell of shit has subsided a little, here’s comes.. what’s this?! How exciting! Oh my god the Murdoch’s have LAUNCHED CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM!!! The Sun has come out, it’s warm, and like a fucking GENIUS, they’ve launched CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM! This is going to be AMAZING! It’s nothing at all like the old shit! Hmm YUM!!

News International insiders say that the launch of The Sun on Sunday was brought forward because to launch a new paper in the wake of fresh revelations would be virtually impossible.

The Leveson inquiry will [..] reopen old wounds and make a series of startling new allegations relating to widespread bribery of officials for stories. “It is jaw-dropping stuff,” said one legal source familiar with the evidence. “We will see the most sensational developments yet.” A second source claimed the allegations and counterallegations would result in a “bloodbath”.

Revelations will include allegations that a web existed of corrupt public officials who received money from national newspapers, along with details of journalists who, over a period, have paid officials – in one case well into six figures – for stories.

Via The Indepenent

The Sun is undergoing the biggest police operation in British criminal history.

BAAAAA HAHAHAAAAAA HAAAAAAA!

I’d write more but I’m laughing so fucking hard, I swear I can’t.

Ah, happy, happy days!

Now we’ve been bumping along for about a decade, how about we all stop looking at the counter labelled “Growth” on the dashboard of economy and maybe try to work out where the fuck we’re going?

We’re about to run out of fuel, we’ve crashed through a number of places which could have helped us, and we’re getting more and more lost.

Unfortunately the skill-base is rapidly ensuring that local made stuff will have less quality and higher price than the “cheap and nasty” Chinese counterparts.

It’s a race to the bottom, and in most sectors, the bottom has been hit.

Now that manufacturing is all but dead, and the internet has made retail all but dead, what will everybody do now they’ve been obsoleted? they can’t work a factory, they can’t work retail, they can’t afford to live without a job.

Well done, western world. We’ve all fucked ourselves.

The bulk of this is via Mug Funky who posted it as a comment on this story about retails chains striking back at online vendors. I tried to ask permission to put it here but I couldn’t find a way so gave up. Life’s pretty fucking short, right?

So you’re the Captain, your ships sailed a bit close to the rocks and you’ve run aground (it is also possible you’ve been drinking and flirting, but hey, haven’t we all). Whilst there is still a single person left alive on that vessel you stay onboard and fight. Yes this is an allegory. Go figure.

If a country lives beyond its means, S&P gives it a bad credit rating.

There are two observations I’d like to make here.

1) Fund managers behave like a dorm full of teenage girls told a ghost story by a prefect. It’s fucking pathetic. The idea that markets are all wise and should guide our lives is made so much harder to believe when they are skittish and hysterical. Grow up and get a grip.

2) WE ALL LIVE BEYOND OUR FUCKING MEANS, S&P. If you’re going to piss on people’s bonfires, piss on the ones which are burning the house down.

Why rank by credit rating? Have you noticed how quickly that shit changes? Five year boom and bust cycles!

You’re clearly not thinking about long term investments, which means you’re clearly not capable of discerning where I should place my pension fund. Your authority on these matters is of no longer of any account. I hope you had fun whilst it lasted.

Now these guys.. these guys are interesting:  Sustainable Society Index  is what we should be using instead of S&P and their corrupt cohorts. Let’s use a range of sustainability measures, clearly presented, and ranking 151 countries. This is good, this is real. This can tell me where to invest my pension fund.

We’ve come a long way and worked hard. Don’t lose AAA status, humanity.