Posted by Ben @ September 1st, 2010 1:34 am. Filed under: Rejected Petitions —
It’s not particularly insightful – a petition that cannot be shown by someone who’s name has been redacted – but it appears that there’s life on the old site yet. We were anticipating a relaunch at some point before the end of the year – is this the first sign of a resurgence? I bloody hope so.
Posted by Ben @ August 31st, 2010 8:48 pm. Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants,Commas,Exclamation marks!!!!,I Am A Brain!,I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say,I'm Keeping The Whole Class Back,Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good.,It Says So In The Daily Mail,Not actual freedom -- just what I wanted. Which is basically the same thing.,Racism,Sorry, What Was I Talking About?,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!,We Don't Take Kindly To Your Type Rahnd These Pahts,We're British, Dammit!,Work Around My Delusions Dammit!,Xenophobia,spelin an grammer — Tags: JANET —
cancel human rights law, and get out of this e.u monstrous mistake!!!!!!!Why the contribution is important
To give this country the freedom, and rewards, that the true British deserve. The “so called human rights, seem only to work for illegal immigrants, who are known terrorists, thieves, and gang members. You have only to watch documentaries, or read the national press to see what I mean. All the time, you can see “illegals” given housing, some of them, mansions, that cost thousands of pounds ,in the name of human rights. Benefits should only be paid to people who have paid into this country, i.e. tax, and national insurance . We are a laughing stock. The last government, (and I use the word government, loosly) cut funding to universities, so that HOME students only have very few places, the rest of the places, of which there is many, go to foreign students. Only if you are financially independent, can you get a place in university. Some-one I know of, gained the marks at college, which he was told, that last year, with those very same marks, he would have been able to gain access to university, but now, like the funding,every thing has been changed! The worst thing was, he was told ” It’s a pity you cant go to Africa, for three yearsbecause then, you could have come back to this(his own country of birth) as an overseas university student.
You can’t argue with that. You really can’t. Not because it’s accurate in any way, but because doing so is like volunteering to have your frontal lobe slowly sawn off with a piece of rusty barbed wire.
Posted by Ben @ August 31st, 2010 3:05 am. Filed under: FREEDOM!!,Hadrian's Firewall,I AM TALKING!,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me! — Tags: govt_helper —
Many site users here including myself have had posts removed by the moderators for in our view inadequate reasons, based on other protests I’ve seen here.Moderated forums in general present a problem, because the moderator is constantly asked to take sides – i.e. decide between somebody’s right to post, and the rights of somebody complaining about a post.
The best solution would be SELF-MODERATED forums, such as exist on the BBC 606 site, so that whoever starts a thread can delete abusive comments on it if they please, as the BBC put it “are in control of their space.”
Because otherwise we just have the constant DENIAL OF FREE SPEECH.
To put it simply, I want the right to say what I want on MY idea page without being abused, and I give in return the right to everybody else to do the same, say what they like on THEIR PAGE, and delete any comments they find abusive.
The tag system on this site is for example a major source of ANONYMOUS ABUSE, and once again, should be under the control of whoever starts the page, unless the site administrators are quite happy about the poster being abused, as appears to be the case on this site to date.
Why the contribution is important
Moderation is preventing proper free speech, not only here, but throughout many or most forums and message boards on the Internet.Unless somebody posts defamatory material or abusive language (i.e. 4 letter words, etc) the public should be entitled to express themselves as freely as they please online.
Everybody is offended by SOMETHING, so there is no way that moderators can protect all posters from abuse, so naturally they are going to discriminate against some people in an unfair manner, based on their own personal prejudices.
Thus the only solution is either unmoderated or self-moderated forums.
Because if we don’t get true free speech, we’ll never solve these problems we face, by pretending things are other than they really are, just because somebody’s “feelings” are going to be hurt, because they have a problem facing up to the truth.
Moderation on an internet forum = GOVERNMENT TRAMPLING OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH. See? It’s maths. You can’t argue with that.
Posted by Ben @ August 31st, 2010 3:01 am. Filed under: Charity Begins At Home,Clearly You've Thought This Through,I Must Be Of Something,There Their In They're House — Tags: jiina —
HI Their,I just wanted to draw the attention on 22% of the charity money that the charities deduct saying as administration fees. I think this is utterly wrong and it put me off from doing charity. Charity has to be volunteer and should not be looked upon as a business or carrier.
A Simple Example how i was put of from donating even one pound a month is one day a guy walked into my work place and asked me to help a boy in africa get clean water. He said it can be done by giving just £1 a month. I just asked him out of this pound how much money goes to africa he told me 78p goes to africa an 22p is deducted as administration costs.
It was about this£1 very small amount but imagine this Charity would be Raising 1 Million Pounds in charity and Simply keeping £220,000 with them as adminstartion cost.
I think charities have to work voluntarly and they should not deduct any money from the charity money given by any induvidual.
Everyone involved in the charity business should just work as a volunteer and not take any money. Even the companies invoved like the money exchange comapny, The Banks, The business providing the materials should be free and should not incurr any costs.
I am sorry if anyone is offened but i think if we make it more clearer it will encourage more pleople like me to do some charity.
Regards to everyone.
Why the contribution is important
This idea put off lot of people from doing charity s i feel that UK might be raising nearly a Billion pounds in charity ever year but 220 million pounds are lost out. It can be used for better causes as it is a lot of money and can be nearly 80 times more in poor countries.
Every charity everywhere, shut down in an instant. Nice. Well done, jiina.
Posted by Ben @ August 29th, 2010 6:54 pm. Filed under: Racism,Thinking Things Through Is Just Not British,We Don't Take Kindly To Your Type Rahnd These Pahts,We're British, Dammit!,Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children? — Tags: dlee —
After spending a weekend in the Capital London, I was dissmayed to find no UK citizens working at any of the hotel, theatre, resturant, train and taxis we used. As so many of our own children are now leaving school, college and university and cannot get work at all. I would like to suggest that all uk companies be required to employ at least 70% British and 30% others. All companies with jobs in the UK should be supporting our economy this would get our young people into employment and reduce the numbers on benifits from families that have worked and paid into the system, Foreign students/ exchange yrs students should not be taking all the UK service industry jobs.Why the contribution is important
If all companies employing staff in the UK where to have to employ 70% british and maximum 30% others. This would eleviate the number of unemployed in the UK and give British students a start into industry. It would give british kids some self esteem back and hope for the future.
Translation: “I went into London and all the jobs were being done by dark-skinned people! This is a travesty!”
Posted by Ben @ August 24th, 2010 7:22 pm. Filed under: FREEDOM!!,Hadrian's Firewall,Unintentional Irony — Tags: letsberesonable —
Freedom of speechWhy the contribution is important
I thought we had the right to freedom of speech
Yes, having inappropriate comments on a privately-run website removed is exactly the same as the government silencing dissenting voices.
Posted by Ben @ August 24th, 2010 7:19 pm. Filed under: Are You Kidding? We Can't Afford That!,Please State The Nature of the Medical Emergency,These Kids Today With Their Modern Haircuts And Hippetty-Hop Music,What A Dick — Tags: elliott —
Sometimes, people hate. Sometimes, people hate other people. And sometimes, people hate other people they’ve never met on rather nebulous ground for reasons that, in the grand scheme of things, don’t actually make any bloody sense.
Let’s look at such a person:
Isn’t it about time that those among us who wish to perpetuate the species, pay for their upkeep.In a modern society it is unthinkable that those tax payers who do not have children, (for whatever reason), should be asked to pay towards their maintenance.
If you can’t afford to support them – don’t have them!
One would not ask a neighbour to help pay towards ones mortgage or the car service, or even towards maintenance of ones wife – so why their children?
The idea of paying people to replicate is outdated – unless of course the government are anticipating another world war.
Why the contribution is important
The amount of tax payers money expended children, whether as benefit or free milk etc should be shouldered by those who want them.
If you’re poor and you can’t afford kids, don’t have them! And if you can’t afford birth control, simply stop giving in to that primal, carnal instinct! Those urges, those deep urges, the temptation of the flesh, the curve of the breast, soft skin of the inner thigh… Mmmm. No. Stop it. Great, now I have twins.
Posted by Ben @ August 16th, 2010 6:10 pm. Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants,Clearly You've Thought This Through,I Am A Brain!,I Sure Hope There's No Way This Can Be Misinterpreted.,I'm serious!,Lord Knows I Ask Not For Myself,Really REALLY Bad Ideas,Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children? — Tags: SAFARI —
We’ve lost our way with the issue of child pornography and too many costly resources are being used in trying to convict those who download these pictures instead of those who actually produce them in the first place.In many cases, innocent people are also being convicted of downloading child pornography when they may not have been responsible for doing so.
Let’s remember it’s child abuse we need to stop; downloading indecent images does not directly create victims, but producing the images in the first place does, so we need to get rid of the current pictures and stop the creation of new ones.
So here’s the solution:
- Repeal the law which criminalises the downloading of indecent images of children to allow such downloads on the strict conditions that:
- Any images downloaded are reported on an official Government web site (the person would report details like the web address, file sharing site, FTP location, etc. as well as details of what the photos were.)
- Such reports must be made within 24 hours of downloading (to prevent paedophiles just downloading and retaining pictures and claiming months later that it was their intention to report them)
- The pictures must not be distributed to anyone else.
- All images must be deleted either as soon as they’ve been reported, or (depending on MP’s preferences when changing the law) kept only until they are officially informed that they can be removed (this may be necessary as technically the pictures would be evidence and deleting them could be classed as destruction of evidence).
- Set up the necessary Government Web site to enable people to report pictures found. It would be important that it could handle the demand because many people are quite rightly strongly against child pornography and will probably inundate the web site with reports.
- Allow all adults to take part. It’s important to include those already convicted of sexual crimes because it means those who currently break the law by downloading such pictures and, therefore, who know where they are, could actually use their knowledge to help bring about the elimination of child pornography on the Internet.
Once evidence has been obtained by the Government web site, it could be passed to the police and Internet experts who will be able to use the information to track down the pictures on the web and either have the sites closed (and owners prosecuted) or, where the UK authorities have no legal right to do so (on foreign web sites, for example) to have them blocked to UK Internet users.
The idea could be suggested to other EU Member States and, indeed, outside the EU, and if rolled out around the world, it could eliminate child pornography on the internet for good as anyone even considering making such photographs available would not do so as anyone requesting copies from them may well be doing so for the sole purpose of reporting them using the new system.
The UK Government could even make the reporting web site available to the rest of the world, charging a small fee to each Government to mean the entire system would be self-funding. (Foreign reports would simply be forwarded to the appropriate Government by the UK site.)
If producing indecent images is no longer profitable then far fewer children will be abused to create such pictures.
Finally, one has to accept that unfortunately there are (and will probably always be) paedophiles in the world. It’s a sexual preference, which is not illegal in itself but can LEAD to the law being broken if a child is abused as a result. We therefore suggest that the Government also repeals the law criminalising PSEUDO (i.e. those created by computer or drawn where no child is actually abused) indecent images of children. This would mean paedophiles who might otherwise feel the need to actually abuse a child, could turn to pseudo images instead, thus protecting more children.
Why the contribution is important
This idea will massively reduce, and probably eliminate child pornography on the Internet. It would likely only take a few months as thousands of (unpaid!) members of the public will want to assist and the sheer volume of evidence provided as a result will mean the police’s job will be easy. (It could then remain in place to reduce the changes that new photos will be produced.)Child abuse will be dramatically reduced as the market for indecent images will be shattered.
People will finally feel they are actually able to contribute to the reduction in crime against children.
The idea that the Government should ALLOW people to download illegal images might sound odd at first but it’s important to remember the goal: to stop children being abused.
Just think: By the end of 2010, The UK Government, with help from the people they represent, could have virtually wiped out a massive amount of child abuse.
It’s batshit insane, it’s based on logical fallacies, and it isn’t particularly grounded in reality. In short, the perfect petition.
Posted by Ben @ August 16th, 2010 5:56 pm. Filed under: Anything I Want Is A Human Right,Clearly You've Thought This Through,FREEDOM!!,I'm serious!,Lord Knows I Ask Not For Myself,Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU! — Tags: rgriffin —
Sometimes, laws are confusing. People get confused! The best way to alleviate the confusion? Why, get rid of the confusing laws, of course! Like this one:
Hi Goverment,
I love this guy already.
Hi Government,I would like a change or a full repeal of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act of 2005. Part of this act involved designating sites by order of Secretary of State, such as nuclear power stations, which, if trespassed, incurred servere penalties.
In a one-man protest against the way the government was handling the economy prior to the G8 meetings of May 2009, I climbed over the railings into the front lawn of the Houses of Parliament following a peaceful march through the city. I sat peacefully on the lawn and when approached, stated “This is the people’s parliament, and I am one of the people”.
I was arrested and eventually cautioned for “Trespass on sites designated by order of Secretary of State. Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 S.128.”
My point is this: how can sitting on the lawn of my own government’s meeting place be as bad as breaking into a nuclear power station? Clearly, making a stand for democracy should not be penalised in such a way. Please amend or repeal the law. Thank you.
Why the contribution is important
I believe my idea is important as it will remove an unnecessary restriction on the valid right to protest by the people of Britain.
Right. So… you don’t see a problem with trespassing on property occupied by people who run the country? Okay. Just checking.
Posted by Ben @ August 12th, 2010 4:44 pm. Filed under: Are You Kidding? We Can't Afford That!,Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me,I AM TALKING!,Please State The Nature of the Medical Emergency,These Kids Today With Their Modern Haircuts And Hippetty-Hop Music,Unreasonable Demands,What A Dick — Tags: corsalover2 —
STATUTORY MATERNITY PAY is now payable for longer than the period of pregnancy. Although employers are entitled to recover SMP, they still have the burden of paying it each week or month and then recovering it later.Eventually it is the taxpayer who is funding this ridiculous benefit. We managed with shorted periods of SMP for many years and in the light of the present economic situation, the duration this benefit should be restored to pre-1997 levels – i.e. 18 weeks.
STAUTORY PATERNITY PAY should be abolished. Employees receive 5.6 weeks paid holiday already and it does not seem unreasonable to suggest that they take 2 weeks of their holiday when their child is born. At present, the taxpayer funds £250 for a fortnight’s extra leave.
HOLIDAY PAY ENTITLEMENT should not accrue during periods of Stautory Maternity Pay. At present, a woman drawing 12 months of SMP is also racking up 5.6 weeks-worth of Holiday Entitlement which is payable by and not recoverable by the employer.
Or, “Women having babies get paid too much, and men shouldn’t get paid just because their women have babies.” Wow, corsalover. You’s a dick.
Posted by Ben @ August 7th, 2010 3:27 pm. Filed under: Anything I Want Should Be Free,Can't someone else pay the tax?,I'm Religious So You Have To Do Everything I Say,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!,What Would Idiot-Jesus Do? — Tags: frneil —
Some years ago the Inland Revenue created a vast amount of unnecessary work for itself by starting to tax Catholic priests on their “income”. Most of us have very little by way of income (usually just the stipends for the Masses we celebrate) and given our service to people/society status, it seems a little unnecesary to tax us on the little we receive.Why the contribution is important
It’s important to us priests because we have little enough income as it is without then being taxed. Also, to be honest, we may have moral objections to some of the purposes to which our taxes are applied.
Your “society status” has bugger-all to do with it, you pompous git. You’re earning an income and regardless of what it is you’re doing to earn it you should be taxed upon it. If you’re not earning enough of an income, do what rhe rest of us lot in the unwashed masses do and get a second job or something.
Also, a lot of people have “moral objections” to how taxpayers’ money is spent, but oddly enough that argument doesn’t quite stick when the Revenue send someone over to bust your kneecaps.
Oh, and one more thing:
Matthew 5:42: Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Romans 13:7: Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Seems pretty clear where your God stands on the matter, doesn’t it Neil?
Posted by Ben @ August 6th, 2010 7:05 pm. Filed under: My Other Car Is Another Car,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!,This Is What We're Outraged At This Week — Tags: masson123 —
Nearly 200,000 motorists have been fined a total of £8m in the past year after being caught on CCTV cameras, according to a new report.The report, from campaign group Big Brother Watch, says that more than 50 CCTV Smart cars are patrolling 31 council areas and raised the equivalent of £322,789 last year for each town hall that uses them.
The cars are used to film motorists who use bus lanes or who are judged to be driving without due care and attention.
The 25 councils that released data said they raised a total of £8,069,715 from 188,000 motorists between April 2009 and March 2010.
Dylan Sharpe, Campaign Director of Big Brother Watch, said, “The CCTVa very dangerous escalation in Britain’s surveillance society.
£8 million is an eye-watering amount to take in fines in just 25 councils.
It is surely only a matter of time before more councils start using these cars. The Coalition Government must act now and prevent that from happening.”
Why the contribution is important
200,000 motorists have been fined by caught on CCTV
This guy sees the total amount of fines and instead of thinking, “Wow, the British public are really bad drivers,” he thinks “These CCTV cars are an outrage, I’ve decided!”