The Ranting Room

New rant:

Is anyone else as sickened as I am about the the Fiona Pilkington case in the UK?

The single mother of a disabled girl suffered years of abuse and harassment at the hands of a local youth gang. She had reported the abuse to the police no less than 33 times, and no action was ever taken. The council also did nothing, despite her attempts to rouse them from their ignorant slumber. Miss Pilkingtons mental state went down hill rapidly, until she finally could take no more, and took her own life and that of her daughter, by setting light to her car, with both of them in it.

Yes, she shouldn't have done that, but hey you know what, some people have severe mental problems, which are exacerbated by the circumstances they find themselves in. If the appropriate authorities had done their f***ing jobs properly this could have been avoided.

Here's the problem. They are not allowed to do their jobs properly because current legislation effectively decriminises anti social behavior in the UK. The authorities can do little more than issue ASBO's (anti social behvaiour orders) which, for many youths are worn as a badge of honour. The government and the police wish to avoid criminilising kids, and have admitted as much. They dont think it helps them in the long run..blah blah whatever.. In the case of this unfortunate women, the gang, sometimes 16 strong, would assemble outside her house throwing stones and eggs, and taunting her, saying that they could do whatever they liked, and no one could touch them. They were right.

This country is absolutely f***ed! When the liberal lobby tell you just how important it is to respect the rights and needs of those who sh*t on the rest of us, just remember, that none of those policy makers live in areas affected by any of these problems. They are disasterously and hopelessly out of touch with reality. Exactly what qualifies them to have their cretinous opinions, I've no idea. F**k em!

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Looking at my message now, after a couple of months it looks like I was really angry when writing it. Perhaps rightfully.

I have never smoked myself (and I never will), but I really hate to see other people destroy their health like that.

Call me a grumpy old Hector if you like but shouldn't serial abusers of those two promiscuous adjectives re 'gothic' and 'surreal' be frogmarched into a field and beaten until they beg for forgiveness ? That's the sort of reality TV I'm in the market for
ANYTHING that is tenuously unusual or not bleedin obvious gets dubbed surreal - humour, art, music, movies, literature, cartoons, cornflakes ads, Garfield gardening gloves, fetish haberdashery etc (might need a raincheck on the last one ?)
ANYTHING that does not directly involve puppy dogs, pink bunnies, fart jokes, the Bay City Rollers, Romantic Comedies or crying your grasping little heart out on daytime TV is designated as 'gothic/dark by the terminally cheerful in our midst.

As the NME's Ian Penman once remarked - TV is the glass teat in the corner of the room

I think I should lie down now....

Chipper People, do we need them?

St.Cleve Chronicle wrote: OK, this is supposed to be a fun thread, but I just have to say something very serious CIGARETTES SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN INVENTED I have several friends at school who smoke, and for what I know they all wish they would never have started. And so do I. I am very, very sad that so clever and so nice people have started to do something so stupid and so destructive. From many of them you could never guess. The previous revelation was today, when I found out that a really nice guy with a great taste of music is doing the previously mentioned thing. (well, he really likes the recordings I have made consisting of prog covers and a bit of my own material. Don't want this kind of habits to any of my few fans). I suppose we are all aware of the... ehm... nasty effects of smoking. So, nothing about them, but here's a quickly written anti-smoking anthem. Sing to the heavy melody of Gentle Giant's Peel the paint with Peter Hammil-in-Man-Erg-middle-section-like voice: (Don't know) How often you go to the house with the cross but too soon you will - in a wooden box You still have time To save yourself Keep your senses sharp, breathing clean air Cyanide and tar inside your lungs is nothing I would call healthy (etc.)

Edited by el dingo - May 27 2009 at 14:44

The-Bullet wrote:

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Here's your coat Chris

It's like, you know, when people use the word like for no apparent reason like. That really gets by back up.  

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