Filed under: Clearly You've Thought This Through, I Am A Brain!, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, Invading The Animal Kingdom, Please State The Nature of the Medical Emergency, spelin an grammer — Tags: Rebecca Stephen — Ben @ 11:44 pm
by Rebecca StephenWe believe animal testing should be banned as animals are comletely different from humans therefore making it pointless to test on animals if they have different reactions.
Yeah! I mean, it’s not like animal testing has ever resulted in serious medical breakthroughs or advancement in medical technologies! People aren’t rats. People are people. Duh.
Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, I'm serious!, Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good., There's No Time For Thinking! — Tags: Nicholas Fox — Ben @ 6:56 am
by Nicholas FoxThe world is not facing a threat from global warming, but global cooling.
In Europe, most of the USA and even in Asia, including China, many of us in the early days of 2010 are currently experiencing extreme cold weather.
I call on the government to increase taxes – and to spend the revenue on sun farms. A sun farm would use electricity to power huge lamps that might heat an area the size of a small town.
I have studied temperatures globally over the last few months and if the world continues to cool at the current trend the whole of humanity is threatened.
Of course! It’s all so simple!
Filed under: Abolish This!, Can't someone else pay the tax?, Clearly You've Thought This Through, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good., It Says So In The Daily Mail, Stop Spending My Money On Things I Don't Understand., Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful, That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!, The Nasty Television Upset Me!, There's Already A Solution But Don't Let That Stop You From Bothering The PM, This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!, Unreasonable Demands, spelin an grammer — Tags: Mr Richard Moore — Ben @ 7:08 pm
Oh dear, we have another “scrap the TV license” moron in our midsts. And this one is armed with misinformation! Let’s get this over with…
by Mr Richard MooreWhy should the BBC be given free money, whilst other TV channels gain no funding from the BBC TV License?
Why also is it satisfactory for the BBC to outsourse it’s published programs to e.g. BBC Americas for viewing abroad.
Why also is it satisfactory for the BBC to use UK License holders money to spurn products for their own profit from the UK public, i.e. childrens toy product etc…?
With the current economic state the country has been placed into, would it not enable families with a lower income to utilise the monies used for a TV License on more benificial items, i.e. feeding their family?
Is it not fair to the other broadcast network’s such as ITV, Channel 4 etc… to not recieve monies from the TV License.
Support the scrappage of the BBC TV License, sign the petition!
Okay, let’s dissect this one, shall we?
Why should the BBC be given free money, whilst other TV channels gain no funding from the BBC TV License?
Because the BBC is a public broadcasting service, and ITV, Channel 4, Channel Five, Sky etc. are businesses supported by advertising.
Why also is it satisfactory for the BBC to outsourse it’s published programs to e.g. BBC Americas for viewing abroad.
Actually, haha, they don’t. What happens is this: BBC Worldwide, the business arm of the BBC, is given the rights to distribute the shows to other territories. What happens then is that BBC America has to bid for those rights, and if they succeed then they get the show. You probably don’t know this but until recently BBC America didn’t have the first-to-air rights to Doctor Who – the American SciFi Channel (now called SyFy) outbid them for the rights to series one through four, and they let those rights lapse this year for the one-off specials.
Additionally, BBC America (which, I need to reiterate, is a business much like ITV and British Sky Broadcasting) actually co-funds some BBC productions such as Robin Hood.
So, y’know. Research.
Why also is it satisfactory for the BBC to use UK License holders money to spurn products for their own profit from the UK public, i.e. childrens toy product etc…?
Again, this is stuff that is all handled by the BBC’s business arms and is not funded by the money they get from the TV license, you frog’s gusset.
With the current economic state the country has been placed into, would it not enable families with a lower income to utilise the monies used for a TV License on more benificial items, i.e. feeding their family?
Considering that television is a luxury item and not a utility, they could always put the TV in the loft if they can’t afford their license.
Is it not fair to the other broadcast network’s such as ITV, Channel 4 etc… to not recieve monies from the TV License.
There is some debate about this, but once again it’s worth noting that ITV, Channel 4 etc. are supported by advertising. The BBC is not.
Thanks for playing.
Filed under: FREEDOM!!, I Am A Brain!, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, Really REALLY Bad Ideas — Tags: Adrian White — Ben @ 8:22 pm
by Adrian WhiteIt appears that a ransom of £100,000 was agreed by both hostage negotiators and the Somalian pirates holding Paul and Rachel Chandler, around about the 20/21 November. However, the payment was blocked by the British foreign office, who reiterated their stance that The Government does not allow the payment of ransoms.This I believe is a dangerous and somewhat naive game to play with the lives of British citizens and will only add to the anguish felt by the the family of Rachel and Paul Chandler at a time of the year when Families should be together!
Surely sending the message that actually, yeah, we might be willing to negotiate with pirates and terrorists is an even more dangerous message to send, because they’ll encourage more kidnappings and the like.
Filed under: George Orwell Had The Right Idea, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good., Join the Fight Against Nebulous Bad-Sounding Things!, Xenophobia — Tags: Ian Dobison — Ben @ 5:37 pm
by Ian DobisonThe current position at UK border points is that visitors who are allowed to enter the UK who have had to apply for a Visa are not then actively counted back out again when they are required to leave. For example if they were to overstay their visit nobody would actively go to seek them, or even be aware they hadn’t left the country.This effectively means that once they are admitted they could stay indefinitely. The USA has a proper system in place for all visitors who enter their borders with visa’s and they have, as a result, much better control of their Borders and Immigration Issues.
You’ve never actually been to America, have you?
Filed under: Duplicate Petitions, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good., My Other Car Is Another Car — Tags: Mr Christopher Bristow — Ben @ 12:12 am
Christopher Bristow really likes his hydrogen-powered cars.
by Mr Christopher Bristowto combat climate change by the introduction and eventual change over of an alternative and non polluting feul of hydrogen gas.
by Christopher Bristowmore than 20% of uk CO2 emissions are produced from the nations car exhausts. The thought behind this petition is to advise the government to create a bigger incentive to car manufacteurers in producing hydrogen feul cell cars and to feul stations in providing hydrogen fill up points, to the eventual event of a switch over to hydrogen cars when a growing trade produces as if not more efficent hydrogen car than the standard petrol and deisel cars.
As pointed by Robert Llewellyn, who is famous for playing a square-headed robot in a sitcom and is therefore an expert on such things, hydrogen power actually expends more energy than is collected. You have to use a ridiculous amount of electricity on rather a lot of water to get a halfway decent amount of hydrogen and that, to me, seems rather wasteful.
Filed under: Duplicate Petitions, I Am A Brain!, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, Maybe... but not for THAT reason, Stand Back! I'm Going To Try SCIENCE! — Tags: Tristan Wibberley — Ben @ 8:34 pm
by Tristan WibberleyThe late light on summer evenings is extremely welcome, and later light during the winter would also be welcome.
In addition, changing the clocks twice a year is a nuisance, costly, and error prone.
You seem to have forgotten a fundamental piece of information when considering your otherwise sterling idea, Tristan. I’ll leave you to figure out what it is.
Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants, I Am A Brain!, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, Thinking Things Through Is Just Not British, spelin an grammer — Tags: christina aston — Ben @ 3:45 am
by christina astonNo one in Government should be able to sell off Englands – land – gold – property – Royal Mail or other assetts. These belong to England to be looked after for future generations they are not for use by whichever political party that is in power at the time. The government is in power to look after this country not sell parts of it off whenever they feel like it. Just because they have got us into a financial mess does not mean they can sell off the countries gold etc to get themselves off the hook. If past generations had not built up this country there would not have been the gold – property etc that we have now – we must not allow it to be sold.
Well I’m glad you’ve taken the time to think this through properly.
Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, Sorry, What Was I Talking About?, What A Load Of Bankers — Tags: Rev Dr Richard Rodgers FRCS — Ben @ 3:37 am
This is a perfect example of a petition posted by someone who has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about. Behold!
by Rev Dr Richard Rodgers FRCSAt present we allow commercial banks the huge privilege of creating money out of nothing as their own property for their own benefit. You and I can’t do it. Why let the banks do it? They do it by issuing loans of money which didn’t exist until the borrower signs a promise to pay it back. Then the bank sells that agreement to a dealer for real money up front. We don’t need to depend on banks for our nation’s money supply. Let’s make the Bank of England, acting as a public servant, the sole creator of new money in our land. Then our money would be an asset of the nation as a whole not the property of commercial banks. This practice caused the credit crunch. Banks lent to people who couldn’t repay because it wasn’t costing them much in the first place. It’s why bankers get bonuses. The problem isn’t bonuses. It’s the activity that the bonuses encourage ie getting people to borrow. Don’t nationalise the banks. Let them compete but don’t let them create money out of nothing as they do now.
Filed under: Don't Worry About What THEY Want, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, I Sure Hope There's No Way This Can Be Misinterpreted., It's Just A Little Request..., Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children? — Tags: Denise Donaldson — Ben @ 3:43 am
by Denise DonaldsonOur world is in crisis. The planet is overpopulated. We do not have enough resources to sustain ourselves as we exist at present. Working to reduce world population would go a long way in helping to reduce the strain, and create change. Contraception is available. Education is needed globally, not only to control the population boom, but also to help to stop the spread of disease and the overall health costs.
Why would we want to mimic one of the more abhorrent elements of China’s questionable Human Rights violations?
Filed under: Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, You Know - We Haven't Banned Anything Lately. — Tags: sam newbould — Ben @ 10:32 pm
Sam doesn’t quite understand why people go on strike.
by sam newbouldThere are perfectly good legal recourse for industrial disputes through the Industrial Tribunal. This needs to be extended so that people can take more action in front of a well informed panel to resolve disputes instead of inconveniencing everyone else. Such tribunals will make better judgments about what is appropriate that any union ever could
Filed under: A Rose By Any Other Name Would Be Less Funny, Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me, FREEDOM!!, George Orwell Had The Right Idea, Hadrian's Firewall, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, I'm serious!, Technology. Tamed., Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful, There's No Time For Thinking!, These Kids Today With Their Modern Haircuts And Hippetty-Hop Music, Work Around My Delusions Dammit!, You Know - We Haven't Banned Anything Lately. — Tags: James McGlynn — Ben @ 3:16 am
by James McGlynnThe ban of this piece of equipment will stop infringement of peoples privacy and stop the use of them to record violence for uploading to social networking sites, and sites of the type of youtube. There is no requirement for them and their ban will help stop bullying and other violent acts deemed fun to post on the internet.
But buying regular cameras? Oh, that’s still okay. Like this Kodak Zi8 HD Pocket Video Camera with support for SD cards of up to 32MB and fully integrated YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo uploading, a snip at £140.93.
Filed under: I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful, Thinking Things Through Is Just Not British, Unreasonable Demands, We're British, Dammit! — Tags: Alan Fennelly — Ben @ 3:04 am
by Alan FennellyWe believe Royal Mail worked better for the centuries in which it was the only postal service in this country than it has in the recent years in which is has had competition forced upon it. Competition has only harmed Royal Mail and has caused it’s current problems. Before the most recent decades the Royal Mail was the envy of the world, the best post service the existed; now, due to the competition forced upon it, it has sunk to what it now is, which poor service and forced to cut back on jobs. Its also unfair that Royal Mail is forced to let all the other postal companies use Royal Mail postmen to deliver it’s mail and parcels, this isn’t simply competition but forcing Royal Mail to help it’s competition.
We believe it would be far better to let Royal Mail once have a monopoly and let it get on with what it’s been doing for 350 years.
I love the implication that the only reason the Royal Mail is bad now is because there is competition out there doing the job better and making them look bad. The solution? Clearly, get rid of the competition. Then the Royal Mail will seem glowingly sufficient.
Filed under: Can't someone else pay the VAT?, Can't someone else pay the tax?, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, There's Already A Solution But Don't Let That Stop You From Bothering The PM — Tags: Mr Gavin Jones — Ben @ 8:41 pm
by Mr Gavin JonesDear PM
Are you aware of how many businesses like mine are getting massive, outrageous VAT surcharges when paying late (even by just a few days)?
I have just received a surcharge of 5% of the VAT due, a massive £900 odd for just being a few days late, which is basically money that I now do not have to pay suppliers, employees and other stakeholders in my business.
In times like these, when many companies are struggling, I think a review is well overdue. After all, we are in effect unpaid tax collectors.
In fact the effort and expense all businesses have to go to to collect and report VAT for the government is unbelievable. Much more flexibility should be allowed, and it should be considered that businesses should even receive a percentage of the total VAT due to cover the extra administration that collecting VAT entails.
So…please can you take a look at this urgently!
Thank you
Pay on time then. One could argue, Gav, that the “massive, outrageous” nature of these surcharges is to prevent people from paying their VAT late.
And actually, y’know, just sort of a general “Fuck you” for having the balls to call yourself an “unpaid tax collector” and suggesting you should get a cut. You knew what you were getting into when you started a business. If you didn’t want the headache you shouldn’t have bloody bothered. Maybe you’d be better suited to flipping burgers or something, although even then I bet you’d complain about how greasy everything is. Pillock.
Filed under: I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, I Have A Sense Of Perspective: Problems That Are Far Away Appear Small To Me., I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, Lies Damn Lies And Nonsense Statistics, Stop Spending My Money On Things I Don't Understand. — Tags: Cary Thornton — Ben @ 6:55 pm
by Cary ThorntonI have paid taxes for 42 years and have never been to the South Pacific. I find it incredible that I can sit in North Yorkshire and see the effects of so called “global warming” without going to the far side of the planet.
My petition is to STOP so called “explanatory visits” to anywhere outside the U.K. by members of both houses in relation to this wicked and unproven diagnosis – the prognosis of which is entirely unfounded and unproven.
But if you offer to take Cary with you next time, he wouldn’t mind.
Filed under: Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, I Deserve Free Money!, Lies Damn Lies And Nonsense Statistics, That'd Be Nice, Unreasonable Demands — Tags: Mr Toby Ratcliffe — Ben @ 6:56 pm
by Mr Toby RatcliffeStatistics say that women are better drivers as they are more careful and more considerate drivers than men. In the not so distant past men and women have fought for equality between the sexes and races, and now car insurance companies are hiding behind their statistics that are seen to be sexist in the eyes of equality protesters. All everybody wants is to be equal between each other and no company or corporation should be able to hide behind any statistics that judge you on your gender or what colour your skin is, and so this is why I believe that insurance companies should create equal costs for car insurance for men and women.
I’m a 23 year-old male. You know how expensive car insurance is for me? It’s not cheap, I’ll tell you that much. That’s the nature of car insurance – the young pay more than the old, the men pay more than the women. If you’re in a demographic which is statistically more likely to get in an accident then, well, you’re going to pay more for your insurance. Stop your whining, and stop trying to force sexism in a place where it doesn’t belong.
Filed under: "Making Britain Great Again", FREEDOM!!, I Am A Brain!, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say, It Says So In The Daily Mail, Thinking Things Through Is Just Not British, Unreasonable Demands, Unworkable Ideas — Tags: fiona mizzi — Ben @ 6:40 pm
by fiona mizzisince may 1997 we the british public have been subject to a barrage of bad laws. many a knee-jerk reaction to the plight of an individual citizen, single incident or pressure from minority groups who don’t care who they affect as long as they get their way. mostly ill thought out restricting our freedoms further. lets turn the clock back and get rid of them and be free again.
So basically, you don’t like some of the legislation brought in over the last year, so you think it should all be repealed. Right. Just checking.
Filed under: I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, Lies Damn Lies And Nonsense Statistics, Racism, There Their In They're House, Work Around My Delusions Dammit!, Xenophobia — Tags: D Prince — Ben @ 9:01 pm
Stop this notion that there is a British population explosion and we need to built on the Nations precious Green Belts, we all know that the increase in births is almost entirely due to the Governments blatantly uncontrolled immigration policy that lets all types of people in to our country from nations to whom we have on allegiance or duty (unlike the Gurkha who has every right to settle here) If we are to be forced without a vote into the EU then at least adopt there immigration policy, there are not hoards of people storming the doors of Germany or France. Listen to the people just for once
Yet another petitioner who believes the root of all the nation’s problems is immigration. Why don’t you people just start posting honest petitions? If you don’t like foreigners, just say “I don’t like foreigners, and I want them removed from My Country, God Bless The United Kingdom”? Stop tip-toeing around your racist, xenophobic fuckwaddery and actually say what you mean. No one will think any differently of you – they already think you’re a toe-gnawing hobgoblin with the social grace of a testicular polyp.
My favourite part of this petition? The URL. It’s delicious, like a juicy orange.
Filed under: Duplicate Petitions, Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me, I AM TALKING!, I Am A Brain!, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, Stop Spending My Money On Things I Don't Understand. — Tags: Robert Kyle — Ben @ 4:12 pm
Seems the governments new ‘taxes’ are centred around ‘climate change’. This subject is a farce and does not exist. We petition the government to dismiss all climate change groups and dismantle all departments that have anything to do with climate change. We also ask that the government stop wasting public money on this subject. In fact STOP wasting any money on it.
Oh, well that’s that then. C’mon lads, let’s dismantle all of those climate research groups. Some guy on the internet says it’s a load of nonsense!
Filed under: Anything I Want Should Be Free, I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown, I'm Keeping The Whole Class Back, That'd Be Nice, This was Yesterday's News Ages Ago — Tags: Bernie Green — Ben @ 12:01 am
Dental treatment is Primary Health Care not a luxury. When I was a child, free dental care was available to all irrespective of financial status. Nowadays, for reasons that escape me, it is often private with NHS treatment difficult to obtain. This means that millions of UK citizens are not receiving any form of dental care. This is totally unacceptable.
A little research reveals that most NHS dental practices defected and became private because the financial return on working for the state was either ridiculously low or non-existent. Dental care is private because it’s the only way dentists are able to make a living wage and keep their practices open. I’d rather pay to have good teeth than have no teeth at all.