Mosley a disgrace?

OK, so he’s a dirty old perv, but is Max Mosley really “brought the sport into disrepute” as far as F1 goes? Come on, it’s one guy getting his rocks off with a bunch of hookers. If he did something wrong, it was letting someone sell a copy of the video (very ill-advised for anyone in the public eye) to the papers.

No doubt he’s embarrassed as all hell. After all, half the world has now seen his arse being thrashed by a cheap whore. OK, let’s be honest – he’s rich. She’ll have been an expensive whore. Anyone who’s dug for the video will likely know what Mosley’s todger looks like.

Basically, like him or loathe him, his private life has become public. And that’s a shame. Has he done anything illegal? Well, no. Has he done anything immoral?
Perhaps – I believe he’s married. But why do actions performed behind closed doors bring a whole sport into disrepute?

Frankly, I feel sorry for the guy. Son of a pair of fascists who made Hitler look like the local vicar, he was always in for a rough ride but he’s done well for himself. He chairs over one of the most corrupt sports going, manages to keep it ticking over and then gets busted for being spanked.

Of course, the papers are all full of the significance of the Nazi imagery in the video. Oh, come on. If you and your partner have a little slap and tickle while she’s dressed as a nurse and you’ve got your tarzan pants on, does that mean she really has leanings to join the medical profession while you bugger off to Africa and learn to speak monkey? Given his parentage, perhaps the fears are slightly more grounded that he could be a racist ******… but fact is, if he was then don’t you think he’d have been saluting the Swastika, not bending over in front of it while being flagellated
until he bled?

I could almost feel sorry for him if he wasn’t stinking rich and in charge of such a dull sport.

People having sex in private? It shouldn’t be allowed!

CornwallImage via WikipediaThe great British public are at it again, making a meal of precisely **** all that’s any of their business. A farmer in Cornwall is trying to make some cash by opening a barn as a swinger’s club. Whoop-de-do. Frankly, good for him. And for the local council who say “it’s legal, so we don’t care and good luck to him in his enterprise”.

On the other hand, a large “**** off” to the idiots nearby who are complaining that it’s “disgusting”, “sleazy” or “wrong for the area”. Five out of ten to the guy who said “I’m not a prude, but if this affects the way I live, then I will be doing something about it.”. Can he explain how it possibly could affect the way he lived? Unless he actually went, or found out that his wife was nipping up their for some anal play instead of going to the bingo?

It’s on a farm. It’s miles from anywhere. People will not be running naked through the village streets. Mrs Miggins will not have to clean cum off her rosebushes in the morning. There will be no watersports performed outside the Dog & Duck. Double penetration and bukkake will not be happened across accidentally should one wander into the corner shop for a packet of Hobnobs.

We have one farmer making the most out of the decline in the industry he began his working life in. Everyone else making a fuss can just **** off. They’ll be demanding that the local B&B is closed down next. After all, I bet someone has had sex in each of the rooms at some point since it opened.

I actually used to know a couple who opened such a place in the North East some years ago. The purchased what used to be a damn rough biker’s bar. One where people left via the windows as often as via the door. Bikes going up and down the main road at all hours. Music blaring. Great fun for those that attended, not so for the locals.

Then along come this couple with a lump of cash and great plans. Redecorate all the rooms, theme it, use a “bring your own” policy to reduce alcohol-related problems. The clientèle, by their very nature, would be quiet and discrete. Surely a huge boost for the area, and much more pleasant all round?

Nope. The locals got a petition up and the local council forbid them permission to open as a swinger’s club. Instead, they opened as a bed and breakfast. And had a private party every few weeks. The property was their own to do with as they pleased. A friend of theirs “booked it” and took some cash per head to pay for the booking so it was all above board. They rented the rooms out as usual for anyone staying overnight.

Never a problem. No more smashed windows. The local shops started doing a boost in trade (off-license, convenience stores, cafés) to boot. Never a complaint, because the idiot locals didn’t know what was going on. Which is as it would have been in the first place, only they were too narrow-minded to see this.

[UPDATE: found the story about it on the BBC]

When will we, as a nation, stop giving a **** about people’s private lives? Celebrities… even then I think they deserve their privacy but let the shitty glossy magazines have their fun. But the folk next door… leave them alone. If nobody’s getting hurt (without consent, anyway), where’s the ******* problem?

For once, some common sense

The Virginia welcome sign on State Route 32 employs the state bird, the cardinal, and the state tree and flower, the dogwood.Image from WikipediaAn interesting story on Mashable! regarding internet safety being taught – by law – in Virginia schools. A couple of other States are set to follow in their footsteps and I think this is a great idea and hopefully not a case of too little too late. It’s certainly more useful than the ridiculous proposals put forward by our government to monitor all the perv’s email addresses.

I do agree with the original author about this being one of those things that children should be taught at home, though it seems that they aren’t. If it ends up treading on a small number of parents’ toes to make up for a handful who aren’t monitoring what their 12 year-old is up to when they’re not fragging soldiers then it’s a small price to pay.

I don’t see how they can complain, though. I assume the US is the same as the UK – and I also assume that things haven’t changed since I was in primary school – where we had a visit from the police for a special assembly or class once a year. A uniformed officer would stand there and warn us about taking sweets from strangers and the like. I certainly doubt that anyone would kick up a fuss about the police and schools interfering in parental rights and so forth as regards that. These internet safety classes are very much along the same lines and I hope the UK considers doing something similar.

Sad state of affairs, but you just can’t trust some parents to teach things like this to children. It’s hardly as if it’s not in the news often enough to warrant teaching kids about the dangers, so there’s no excuse. But, hey, I’m not a parent (yet)!

And they think this will work?

A wonderful story on several news sites highlighting how oblivious the powers that be are to technology. Apparently, paedophiles are using Bebo, Myspace, Facebook and so on as areas for “grooming” kiddies for evil sexual use. And *gasp* some of them are pretending to be ickle kiddies themselves to make themselves seem friendlier to the little tykes.

Erm. Isn’t this kind of old hat? The bit they’ve added is that convicted paedos will have their email addresses registered and passed on to all the social networking sites so they can be refused entry.

Wow, what a stunning idea. Because everyone only has a single email address and you can never get another. You know, like Social Security numbers, passport numbers, DNA and so on.

No. Wait. Sorry. I’m thinking like a government minister. In the real world, you can **** off to GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail or one of a hundred other places and get a completely new, untraceable email address.

Sky’s version of the story includes a statement from a chap at Sophos which does raise some interesting points, such as misidentification of paedos if the email addresses leak out. After all, we’re talking about trusting the government with personal data. Something that they don’t have a great track record of. Then there’s the cost in cash and man-hours (sorry… person-hours) of checking through internet logs to make sure these filthy ******* are sticking to the rules.

Simple solution. If you’re caught with child porn, you have your eyes burned out with a hot poker and your fingers amputated with a mallet. That way you can’t access the internet without third-party help and even if you could, you’d not be able to see the kiddie-porn anyway. Quicker, much more of as long-term solution and substantially cheaper for the taxpayer.

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Mugabe on the way out?

Robert Mugabe in 1991. Taken by myself.Image from WikipediaA lot of the newspapers this morning are reporting that Robert Mugabe could finally be on his way out of power as the elections turn against him. Of course, just losing an election wouldn’t normally bother a dictatorial, violent piece of filth like Mugabe. However, this time it seems the world’s looking on just a little too closely for the dodgy bastard to get away with anything.

**** off, Mugabe. You pathetic, evil son of a bitch. I only hope that Zimbabwe can somehow pick itself up and recover from the mess you’ve put it into for your own gain. You sick sack of ****. If there is indeed a hell, I hope you rot in it for all eternity.