When Will It End?

So the elections are over, now we have the follow on crap, a hung parliament? wrong way round for me, now parliament hung...that appeals!

The dreadful thing is, I ignored the elections, didn't watch or read the news, went out and voted and then forgot about it all....

The reason I still know what's going on is because two people in work seems to care very passionately about politics, one is a Labour man, the other a Conservative....they argue and bicker like a pair of old maids about the merits of their chosen party, completely failing to see that Labour abandoned socialism a long time ago under Tony Blair and are now so far right of centre that they make the Tories look almost left wing, and they both seem to have missed the fact that it doesn't matter what the party is called, nothing changes, they promise the earth and deliver dust.

But that isn't the worst thing happening in my life at work right now. We have this chap in work, let's call him Bob, and Bob whistles, mostly tunelessly, along with whatever is playing on the radio, out of tune....off key....wayyyyy off tempo, and after the song finishes, he reprises it, striving for the right key and never getting close, varying the speed, trying to provide his own counterpoint harmony.....and failing...dismally! (By which time we've also missed the next song too) If we are REALLY in for a bad day, he goes into his repertoire of medlies, and totally ignores the radio...then we're treated to such gems as (all whistled out of tune and off key) "To Be a Pilgrim", "Two Little Boys", "Brown Girl In The Ring" and a whole host of others, including excerpts from the Seven Dwarves.........and when he runs out of inspiration, he stands in front of his machine, and makes noises very simular to a worried budgie that knows it's cage door is open and the cat is around.

He hasn't driven me all the way insane yet, you'll know when that happens.....it'll be an Old Bailey job.

PS I was asked why the blog was named "Dizzy Days", very simple, I suffer from a condition called Menier's Disease, which is a disorder of the inner ear, affecting balance and hearing, "characterised by episodes of vertigo and tinnitus and progressive hearing loss, usually in one ear. It is caused by lymphatic channel dilation, affecting the drainage of endolymph"

For more information look here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9ni%C3%A8re%27s_disease

And it's been pretty bad lately, I take tablets called Betahistine to try and control it, and they do to a degree, but never the less, I do get very, very "Dizzy Days"

Same old, Same old!

So here we are, election's looming, economy up the spout, and the threat of reduncies again in work....ironic when you consider how busy we've been in the toolroom since Christmas, I don't have time to fart in there any day of the week, it's flat out the whole time, but when you analyse the way the company is run...let's see, four in the toolroom, plus one manager - four in the press shop, one in waterjet, plus.....two managers, two co-owners, two office staff...that's eight productive workers, and seven doing office work (one of whom spends most of the year in Florida)......wonder who will be made redundant?

Talking of elections...we are being subjected to more American-style political debates on TV, luckily there are far more interesting things to do at the moment...the grass is growing again - spring is well and truly here after all! - so I can always go watch that it's doing it's job properly. That's if there's no cricket on of course.

I listened to a bit of BNP stuff on Jeremy Vine while I was driving down to Poole today, now there is a seriously worrying chap, that Nick Griffin, he seems to change his mind and attitudes to suit the times and who he's talking to, he comes across as quite rational, but not very big on equality, for anyone...anywhere...anytime...sooner poke myself in the eye with a hot needle than vote for anyone like that. But then....who DO you vote for? Almost all of my adult life I've voted for Liberals/LibDems, I honestly don't know how any thinking, rational human being can go out and vote for Tories (unless they're in the top earners and rich lists, as opposed to working class and decent) and the Labour party have lost touch with their socialist roots, they're so far right of centre now they should be called the new Tory party, not the New Labour. The Libs are playing it close to their chest, hoping to get in, at least as part of a coalition.

So, among the best suggestions I've seen are for everyone to spoil their paper at the booth, send a clear message to HMG that we are not happy, and we ain't taking any more of their bullshit, if EVERYONE did it, we wouldn't have a government, do you know what that means? a lot of people would say anarchy....the politicians don't run the country, civil servants do that, along with councils.....it would mean that all of the politicians would be out of a lucrative job, we could welcome them to the ranks of the great people who really keep this country on it's feet and working....take a bow people!!!

Ashes

We're seeing something that doesn't happen very often, skies clear of con trails, due to the ash cloud drifting over Europe from an Icelandic volcano, I don't know how much longer this will go on, there are people stranded all over the place...the authorities say don't fly your planes...too dangerous - but I see today that Dutch and German airlines are playing around with putting them up to see what happens.

Now, I understand that they're losing money, it'll be be tax payers will have to bail them out...again! They're looking to prove that it's safe, and it might be, for a percentage of the aircraft that don't hit trouble, but what if one does? How many lives will it cost? Is it worth it?

Someone very dear to me, and her hubby, are going to fly off to the States to visit the Grand Canyon this year at some point, I wouldn't want them going off into the skies in something like that, and I'm pretty sure that most people would feel the same about their loved ones lives being put at risk in order to maintain a healthy profit margin. But that's all we are to big corporations isn't it? Margin, the difference between big bucks and our safety, and guess which one has priority?

And if the worst happens, the only ones besides us crying and losing sleep will be the insurance companies that underwrite the risks taken by these pieces of crap in suits.

I hope good sense prevails!

Election time again!

Well, here we are again, elections looming, politicians promising us the earth on a stick if we vote for 'em....and the TV and papers sticking their pennyworth in with their particular slant, to try and convince us which way we should vote and why.

The worst part about it for me this time, is the Americanisation of the process that's sneaking in, with TV debates between rival politicians, it's bad enough that we have the traditional party political broadcasts to contend with, but they only last a couple of minutes, do we really need peak viewing time, long winded debates thrust at us? Good reason to switch over, or better still, switch off and get the scrabble out.

The worrying thing is that it's just another example of our embracing of American culture, we already have MacDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Starbucks and all the rest, as well as the bad eating habits and obesity that goes with them. Companies have adopted the silly, almost childish, recruitment methods and interview techniques and the awful techno-speak terms used by Americans.

I have nothing against Americans per se, and have many American friends, I don't even have too much problem with their culture - in America, I just don't think it so admirable that we need to adopt so much of it, and looking at the way things are going in the USA right now in politics, I honestly think we need to distance ourselves from the influence.