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 The Catholic Church has been in the press recently, in regard to the way it’s been ‘caring’ for, and ‘teaching’, orphans and vulnerable children in its residential facilities in Ireland. How proud (if it isn't a sin) and comforted Catholics must be of their priests and nuns for keeping alive the best traditions of their church. How pleased they must be that the medieval inquisition is still alive and kicking in Ireland. How proud the Pope must be to preside over such an ‘open, honest and wholesome’ church.
The Catholic Church can be assured that they have given these innocent little children a start in life that will stay with them for all of their days.
Americanisms
Why do people say "Can I get..." instead of "Can I have..."?
As in, upon entering a café, "Can I get a cappuccino?"
"No, you can't. I'll get it for you."
It's "Can I HAVE, not can I GET", you idiots.
Rat Run/Permit Parking
To avoid the 9:00am traffic queue in London Road, I, like many other
drivers, use Moulsham Street/Finchley Avenue/Vicarage Road/Mildmay Road
to reach Parkway, a perfectly sensible and logical route. ‘Rat Run’, I
hear you cry? Rat Run? I pay my road tax, which entitles me to drive on
any road in this country; including the road on which you live.
You may think you own ‘your street’, but you don't. I can park outside your house, if I like; unless its permit parking.
Permit parking - now there's a nice little earner for the local authority; charging us to park on the roads we already pay for.
Electric Carts
I have no problem with people with mobility difficulties using electric
carts to enable them to get about. However, they should learn to drive
the bloody things properly. I have, on numerous occasions, had to leap
off the footpath due to a ‘speeding’ old lady (or gentleman) whilst
they race along as though it were a bloody go-kart circuit.
And don’t these carts, in the main, seem to be used by the bewildered and the overweight?
There is a particular man I often see in the town using one of these
carts. He weighs around 20 stone; the cart looks in danger of
disappearing up his fat arse. The only electrical appliance he needs to
assist his mobility is someone walking behind him with a cattle prod.
Walk, fatty. Lose some weight.
Driving
We are obsessed with speed. Speed kills! Does it?
We expend an enormous amount of effort and energy prosecuting people
for exceeding the speed limit, yet we totally ignore the major factor
in road deaths and injuries, which is POOR DRIVING. All of us witness
poor driving on a regular daily basis. Drivers cutting in in front of
us, pulling out of junctions without looking, driving too close etc. We
are all guilty; even me. All accidents, without exception, are caused
by poor driving. Speed may be a factor; but poor driving is the cause.
Whether it's an 80 year old lady pulling out of Hylands Park into the
path of a (non speeding) motorcyclist, causing his death, or a teenager
texting whilst driving, or, a middle aged drink driver. POOR DRIVING,
not speeding, is the problem; and it's a BIG problem at that.
We have an MOT on our cars when they reach 3 years old to make sure
they are roadworthy; shouldn't we test drivers every 3 years to make
sure they are roadworthy too? How many of us would pass? Not many.
After the age of 50, a driving test should be obligatory every year,
and include a medical.
The current driving test is woefully inadequate. It should be expanded
to include ‘what to do when confronted by an emergency vehicle.
Currently, it seems to be: ‘freeze like a baby rabbit caught in
headlights’, or ‘stop in the middle of the road and thus stop the
emergency vehicle in its tracks’.
Motorway driving should also form part of the test, instead of treating
them like: "Oohhh, motorways. You don't want to go near one of them if
you can help it". We instill fear of them before people have even
passed their driving test. Motorways are no different to dual
carriageways, but we treat them as something sinister. Teach learner
drivers how to use them, instead of expecting them to find out for
themselves after they have passed their test.
Mind you, maybe we should avoid British motorways altogether? Those of
us who have driven in France know how a motorway should be built and
run. Excellent road surfaces, light traffic, excellent facilities every
10 kilometres, and, best of all, no road works; because they build them
properly in the first place.
They also have higher driving standards in France; not once have I seen
a motorway lane-hogger. French drivers drive on the inside lane, then
pull out to overtake, before moving back inside. Yes, moving back to
the inside lane. Maybe we should all take our driving tests in France.
Exclusion
There has been a lot in the press recently about people who have been
refused admission into this country due to their
extreme/controversial/offensive views.
Are our beliefs and opinions so fragile, so vulnerable, that they are
threatened by the words that these people may speak? WORDS! Why do we
wish to not only NOT listen to, but suppress the views of those who
question our behaviour, or have different opinions to our own?
Are we saying that no words of dissent may be uttered in the UK?
I hope not. There's a name for that. Fascism.
You remember a man called Hitler made it really rather popular in 1939.
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