Who’d want to be born an Islamic woman eh.

BBC news link

Seems like they have about as much right to a fair and equal life as a barnyard animal.

Whenever crazy religious ideals actually impinge on normal human behaviour in order to suppress perfectly natural desires and so on… which is pretty much all the time, you know it’s just another sad day.

The idea that a woman isn’t allowed to merely show her face, or dare to acknowledge the curves and figure that they were born with is barbaric and intolerable. A 2nd class citizen, a sub human, because they dared be born without a dick.

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The move is part of a crackdown on Western influences and enforcement of dress codes in recent years.

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It’s strange how “The West” is always sighted as the power that will eventually corrupt their society and ruin their ideals. When all that has really happened is most people in the west (read: aside from the south of the USA) have dared to question and abandon ridiculous and archaic religious ideals that simply have no place in this day and age. Lose your grip on the follower’s reigns and the men sat at the top of the religious tower gradually start to shit themselves as their control diminishes.

I seriously fail to see how anyone in the UK that holds any level of authority or responsibility sets laws and recommendations that require the complete tolerance and acceptance of this bullshit. Surely our ideals of equality and fairness across gender barriers completely and utterly conflict with the oppression and unfairness that the Islamic religion imposes? And we’re being told it’s an offence not to tolerate it?

Since when did a lot of people believing in something entirely without proof / evidence make it any more valid and justified? 5,000,000 people acting thick as pigshit allowing ancient texts to rule their behaviour and life has got to be far worse than 10 odd nutjobs doing the same thing.

Being against the barbaric practises towards women that Islam encourages is not racist, being part of a religion does not qualify you as part of a race. It is not something you “cannot help” and that you’re “born with” such as skin colour, it’s a fucking choice. You could wake up one day and simply stop believing and the world would keep on turning normally.

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Iranians who violate dress codes for the first time are generally cautioned, but repeat offenders can face court action and “guidance classes”.

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How this brainwashing and “you will think our way or else” bullshit still exists in the world is quite frankly shocking. What a nasty bunch of assholes.

It’s strange how the simple matter of getting on with a person, be it face to face or over the phone, or whatever, influences your choices of purchasing an item from a company.

Marketing people must know this all too well as everyone who appears in adverts or has a job in a sales role benefits the organisation massively if they have a pretty face. When you’re on the telephone however this really becomes a non issue, what is important is personality and the willingness to satisfy and be helpful.

I wanted to buy a new guitar amp recently, the model I had my heart set on it a lot of money. Before spending said huge amount of wonga on new gear, I wanted the chance to play the thing first to make sure it suited my needs and I liked the sound. Made sense to me.

I called the place in question that stocked the amp and the first person I spoke to was really useful to me, sounded kind on the telephone and was generally good to talk to. Then I got put forward to “Mike” who works on the shop floor. Mike didn’t exactly sound like he was pleased to hear from me, he instantly sounded like I was putting him out just by having to talk to someone over the phone. Not a good start.

The guy simply didn’t give a fuck that I wanted to spend a lot of money with them.

The can do attitude of the first guy instantly meant nothing as this dude was rambling away in a sad-sack, strained manner. Long story short they didn’t have the style of amp that I wanted in the shop. I wanted a specific version of an amplifier with specific valves, to give me the tone I wanted. They didn’t have this model in stock and he outright refused to get it in stock unless I put a non-refundable deposit on the item.

I can see how they don’t want to be ordering things in that cost a huge amount of money on the off chance that someone might want to buy it, I’m not that unreasonable. After we confirmed that I couldn’t, in fact, even play the amp I wanted to try the convo started to go wrong. He started telling me that no matter what I wanted, he could find me something in stock that I did want and would suit my needs. Bad idea. I already have perfectly decent kit, I just wanted something a bit better. I know what sound I’m after as I’ve been playing for quite a few years now and I don’t feel that I should have to justify it to someone I’ve never met over the phone. Sounding a bit desperate now Mike.

Then came the facts and figures angle. “I’ve got 16 grands worth of Engl stock sat in my warehouse at the moment, I can’t be ordering in any more”. How is this relevant to me exactly? I couldn’t quite grasp his angle on this one, do I really need to know how much stock of brand X you have sat in your warehouse? 16 grands worth of stock, not exactly a massively impressive number anyway; I’m fairly sure ASDA have 16 grands worth of alcohol in any particular large store you’d care to mention.

From my point of view you’ve got 16k worth of stock in the warehouse and one less sale on your books?

What a twat

“Usage should have a value. Someone who just checks email uses minimal bandwidth, but someone who downloads 1GB per day uses way more, but at the moment they pay the same. It is clear which user is hitting the creative industries and it is clear which user is not, so for this reason, usage should also be priced accordingly. The end result will be a taxed, monitored ISP based on usage which will ensure both the freedom of the consumer and the rights of the artists.”

Yes that’s completely right.
Well done for making yourself look like a prize cunt Bellamy, got any other pearls of wisdom whilst you’re at it?

So according to twatface:

Anyone who uses their internet connection to “check email” clearly isn’t a criminal as they use minimal bandwidth.
Anyone who uses their internet connection for anything more, or whoever uses it to download content totalling 1GB or more a day, even if it’s completely legal, are serious crimz. Ruining his welfares!

It’s pretty much a given that if you don’t understand what you’re talking about SHUT YOUR FUCKING FACE. Perhaps he should stick to making completely shit music instead of trying to wax lyrical (auhuhuhhuh) about the state of broadband and piracy in the UK.

This argument, or lack of, holds utterly no water at all.

With the huge explosion of DSL lines and cable connections in this country over the last 10 years we still find ourselves lagging behind 3rd world countries in terms of connection speeds. Connections getting faster allow for better more reliable infrastructure, more feature rich content and more services provided across those connections. The argument of bandwidth consumption is pure bullshit in this day and age, just because someone uses the capacity of their connection to download content does not automatically make them a criminal.

So for gods sake, whatever you do don’t visit Youtube or any other well known site and watch high def video, don’t use any websites with feature rich multimedia content, don’t download any legal operating system distributions such as a flavour of Linux. Don’t run Windows update, or if you do, only update one critical patch at a time to save BW. No more watching of porn on the internets, no more opening large attachments in your email, no more backing up your files to remote locations. No more downloading firmware updates and bios updates for your computer, as well as 100MB drivers for your graphics hardware. No more grabbing any driver files of any sort, or any digital copies of legal programs/games you may have happened to pay for. No more anime releases and videos from fansub groups that provide content in languages that you can’t actually buy. No more sending multimedia content to your mates or making video calls. Especially no more peer 2 peer traffic across your connection plz, because as we all know ALL peer 2 peer traffic or torrents contain material you should have legally bought.

The list can go on and on.

For christ sake anyone with half a brain realises that there is a massively huge userbase out there on the internet, the amount of people you can touch with your music to generate interest is mind blowing. Smart artists that have realised this put their music out for free then make shitloads on touring and merch because the interest they’ve generated is huge.

The biggest problem is fucking obvious, the music industry as a whole haven’t moved with the times and actually harnessed the infrastructure in place to ensure the survival of their business. I can’t condone piracy, it is still effectively stealing which everyone knows, but it’s a bit hard to swallow when the people you’re stealing from are multi billionaires that can’t seem to be smart enough or just plain fucked to embrace the new well connected digital world that we live in.

I’m not sure I could name another style/area of business that could whine and winge for 15 years about piracy over the net without a) doing something about it in a useful fashion to actually create an avenue of selling their products or b) not going completely fucking bust over it.

Adapt and survive, stagnate and die.
They’ve had it their own way now for fucking years, so get smart or just fuck off.
Especially you Bellamy, you awful, awful cunt.

I saw a feature on the news this morning detailing statistics about the crime of rape.

Pretty depressing feature, mostly talking about the stats of how many rape occurrences get written off and ignored, how many get put through as actual crimes and a short bit about how women are also capable of using the allegation falsely.

They’re telling me a few facts and figures when one woman pops up on the screen and starts jabbering away, more or less stating the obvious about how rape is bad etc.

The one part that really left me a bit bemused was the group she was part of.

“Women against rape”.

Er… what?
What sort of name is that?
Aren’t we as a nation “against rape” due to nature of the crime and the fact it’s clearly against the law to force sexual activities on the unwilling? I didn’t realise I’d have to become part of a group to actually show I felt that way.

Surely just by definition of the subject matter in hand anyone would be “against rape” wouldn’t they? Is this group against rape because a competing group out there is legitimately “pro rape” or “for rape” ? I can’t say I’ve ever met anyone in my life that was an outspoken sympathiser of rapists or the practise of raping innocent victims.

And why just “women” against rape too? Men can’t be against rape? At least not in her group anyway. It doesn’t directly suggest that men are pro rape by any means, but just from the name there is a mild suggestion that only women are victims and women need to group together to stamp this sort of problem out. Kinda completely neglects the fact that men can just as easily be a victim… so much for equality.

I’m fairly sure as statistics will go, men will feature a lot more heavily for crimes of rape than women will, man on women or man on man, I’m not disputing that. However its not as if men raping women is a widely accepted practise that only women are hoping to stamp out with a campaign group. All us naughty men out there with rapey (is that a word?) intentions evidently needed a stark reminder that it’s quite simply, not on.

I’ve got no issue at all with groups setup to support PEOPLE (note: not just women) who have been the victim of rape, who would have? The thing is the name of this group doesn’t put it across as a support group, it’s more as if the group exists with that name purely to remind all of us that people don’t actually like to be raped. To “raise awareness” that an awful lot of women out there don’t like being raped.

It’s akin to a group called “Men against having their faces cut off” or “People against death by murderous consequences”. What a stupid fucking name, and whilst they may well do a great job of supporting victims of rape (who knows? she didn’t mention anything like that at all) I can’t help coming away from the news article wondering why such a group with that name exists at all.

The other mind blowing part is the fact the media actually values such a group’s opinion. You could ask anyone on the street at all if they thought rape was a good thing, 100% of people would of course agree that rape was terrible. However just because this spacker woman has decided to create a group with a purpose so fucking obvious it’s painful, her opinion is valued over anyone elses?

Why not just appoint her as the “Rape correspondant” for the BBC so she gets to explain just how naughty the whole business is any time someone mentions rape.

“Over to our reporter Carol who knows rape better than anyone else and can speak on behalf of every woman in the country about just how much women hate being raped, for more details”.

Get a job, idiot.

I’m currently quite raged.

When I use a company online and require help with an issue that their own site has created, I start to get just a little bit fucked off and frustrated when I’m simply unable to contact them for help.

You see recently some spacker on ebay listed a load of goods in his shop with a buy it now feature. Long story short, I bought the items and paid for them using paypal. A week later nothing turned up but I got an email saying “the items are currently out of stock, you can wait or have a refund”. Annoying that he’s already got my money for something listed that wasn’t even in stock, but whatever.

I opted to wait but I said in the email “Plz Mr, give me an idea of when the items will turn up”. A week later down the line no contact at all, I’m sat there 2 weeks on with no goods. So I write back again, “Due to you ignoring my last email and providing me with no information about when I can realistically expect the items, I am chosing to cancel”.

No issues there either, the guy acts on the request and on the ebay system I get sent through a “Cancel transaction” alert for both items. Result tbh, simple, easy and I’m happy enough that I got my money back. I checked on paypal and the gent had even refunded me the total amount. Nice.

Problem is, even though I’ve clicked 2 objects within the “My Ebay” console that said “CANCEL TRANSACTION” the items are still listed as being won and payment is apparently outstanding on them. Wow great. So the fucking system I used to cancel the items isn’t smart enough to realise that cancel actually means CANCEL and I don’t want them any more. Why in fucks name are they still listed as being won and waiting for me to pay the seller again?

I’ve left them sat there for a while but I should imagine after a while something negative might happen towards me, for not paying. This is an assumption but left long enough a non paying strike might happen against me, whatever happens I can not remove the items from my page.

So at this point I clearly need help.

I click on the help icon at the top of the members centre and I get prompted with a box that asks me to type my question. An automated piece of shit with a finite amount of items listed within it. You just know that there is no fucking chance on earth there is going to be a item listed in there that goes along the lines of “The ebay site has fucked up, let me talk to a human to sort it out”. I couldn’t even fit the fucking question into the box and when I clicked search nothing relevant came up at all.

So I look around the page for other options, there is nothing. At all. I HAVE to click on an option presented to me in the stupid automated box, all of which bare nothing at all to my situation. I can see “related topics” to the box in the top which is fucking useless or… well nothing else?

I decided to ask a more appropriate question to my situation which can be seen here:

Twats

If anyone out there knows how I can actually ask them a question via email, literally saying “your site has fucked up please get these items off my member centre” then please leave a comment on this article.

I’m so far gone with this one I’m just going to leave it and take any punishment / hit they decide to deal out. Cunts.

Small article on the BBC here, posted by Spud earlier in IRC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8243684.stm

The article basically details how teachers, by looking at a register can potentially spot troublesome kids just by the names.

Now, I’m likely to take a bit of a kicking from this and I’m sure that this won’t possibly be true 100% of the time… but seriously, don’t you have to be a bit of a new-wave celebrity worshiping chav to call you kids half those names?

I’m not so convinced by Daniel and Charlie but I can certainly see how any parent who names their kid “Chardonnay”, “Crystal”, “Aleisha” or “Callum” may just have a mild penchant for the Celebrity lifestyle and place things like looks, riches and material possessions over such decent qualities such as self respect, politeness and consideration for others.

With people so self obsessed in this day and age and the fact that most people with below average intelligence look at these talentless, fake ass pricks of celebrities - relate totally - and then seem to think they automatically deserve the same riches and happyness of said “celebrities”, purely for existing. I mean hey, if that no talented wanker on the TV with a fake tan and a pretty smile can be somebody, why can’t I!

The attitude and general selfishness of the cross section of society that think it’s somehow their god given right to be treated like royalty for no particular reason, that simply by existing they deserve the respect and admiration of others merely by treating everyone else like complete cunts seem to display a massive leaning for putting a celebrity lifestyle and fake fame/wealth on the top of their list.

It could be fairly safe to assume that such people usually bring up rowdy, disrepective kids as most of the time it seems they have neither the time or the respect for them in the first place, treating them like the little tokens they are, to a larger council house.

Obviously giving kids affluent/outrageous names as some celebs tend to do will garauntee their kids to grow up with just as much talent as people like Kerry Katona, Callum Best, Paris Hilton or anyone on Big Brother, ever.

So I go along with the theory.

So yeah, I’m stereotyping, fucking sue me.

Go on prove me wrong, all I know is there is no fucking way I’m going to be calling my kids after some talentless, self obsessed “celebrity” who is famous for nothing other than their own shocking ego and Daddy’s wealth.

This is a subject that really is starting to piss me off.
Last night I was watching a show and it broke for adverts, I think it was on SCI-FI or something on sky.

I had to turn my TV from volume 29, down to 13 to level out the noise.
It was literally blasting in my face… well my ears, and it wasn’t even a subtle jump, it must have gone up by at least 50%.

With this in mind I decided I was going to write a petition, seeing as the ASA doesn’t really care about that sort of thing, more the content of adverts.

Someone has made a petition like this before and it failed hideously, so lets try again:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/TVAdvertVolume/

If you agree that this really is an unacceptable practise, sign my petition and lets stop the cunts from inflicting this crap on us every time they wanna advertise something.

Put the link in an email and pass it around.
I might even start a facebook group.

Whilst I have to say I’m impressed as a whole with Win 7’s ability to run more efficiently than Vista (not hard in most cases, disk thrashing, indexing and bloat anyone?) Microsoft continually ruin my Windows experience by adding new strange defaults and breaking the simplicity that used to be in previous versions.

For a start I’m now completely forced to use the new style start menu layout with no option at all to change it back to the ultra efficient old style bar that I’ve been used to using for about 14 years or more. The question has to be, why? You had something that worked, something people were used to using and it’s now been butchered into some massively bloated menu that has 100 things I won’t use. Change is inevitable, however, the most unforgivable part is the lack of choice - especially (and I think this is key) in the ultimate edition.

Now that said, there is one major gripe I’ve got that has seriously fucked me off over the past couple of weeks, which is how Win 7 seems to handle file sharing.

Firstly it creates a “homeshare”… er… thing, some sort of group that computers running win 7 automatically get enrolled into. The first machine on the network will show no trace of this, however add another machine to the network and add identify it as a “Home” network (something introduced in Vista) and you will be prompted to “enter the password” to join the homegroup. Having not ever been prompted to set this up I duly skipped this step thinking “wtf is going on here”.

Mostly because one of the first steps I take, and anyone else with a bit of experience of this nature takes, is turn off “Simple file sharing” after installation. Now in the past I didn’t think simple file sharing was terrible, public style folders appear on the networking section of the OS and you can share folders and files which appear in the public section. Great for people who don’t understand how normal user/password based file sharing operates.

It’s really not for someone like me though, I used to turn it off automatically and setup a user account with a password on my machine. Then on another machine on the network, i’d create my normal user account with the same name and lock it down with the same password. The operating systems would then pass through my username / password credentials, which would score a match on the opposing system and i’d be granted the privs relevant to that account.

However, this has now been changed in Win 7 and I can only assume it’s been broken intentionally. It seems that even if you have matching user accounts with the same name and password authentication will still work but authorisation breaks.

The connection to the remote host via IPC$ still gets passed through with the username and credentials, you don’t need to log on separately when accessing a remote share. However because that username now authenticates from a different “Domain” (Another machine in the form hostname\username) access is denied to the actual resource in question.

So we have a situation where an initial IPC$ connection is made to the machine, granted and then the user gets completely denied when trying to access shares they have rights to. Even if you use the net use command to lookup the connection in question, delete the credentials and try to establish the link via mapping a network drive with the proper credentials, you get access denied.

Accessing an admin share with a valid, authenticated admin account, access is denied.
Adding the “administrators” group to the share with read/write credentials and then logging in and authenticating with a user who is an administrator, access is denied.
Accessing a share with an administrator user where the rights are explicitly defined on the ACL, access is denied.
Clearing out all connections to the remote host, mapping a new network drive, using the credentials in the form hostname\username + password for that host, with administrative credential, explicitly granted access on the share ACL on the remote machine. Access is denied.

Utterly, dumbfounding.

The only way I’ve managed to get around the issue is by granted everyone read permissions to the share, which I clearly did not want. I suppose I could get around the issue by creating a unique user with a password on each different machine and authenticate with that, just to test how the system would handle it, but 1) can I be fucked and 2) should I actually need to?

It’s an utter shambles and basically the entire simple system of “input a username and password” to access a share has been completely and utterly broken. These sort of events usually leave me severely frustrated, dejected, annoyed, raged and feeling anything else you’d care to dream up describing a form of anger.

This reminds me of situations such as the poor netcode in many new valve/steam games. iD seemed to have no problem getting netcode correct and practical back in the early 90’s with Quake and again in Quake 2 and 3, but Valve can’t manage it now in 2009 with TF2 and L4D. In the same ilk Microsoft made a perfectly good file sharing system that worked just fine in 2000, XP and even Vista and yet have completely killed it for me in Windows 7, to the point where it literally is “BROKEN” if you don’t play the game their way.

Playing the game their way for me is literally not an option, I’m using the ultimate version of the product here, not a fucking lame home basic / home premium i need my hand held style OS. I’ve used MS products for nearly 2 decades so why all of a sudden so I need mollycoddling and my hand held?

Using the homeshare functionality is a joke, I finally managed to work out HOW to set the damn thing up through the fairly new “Network and Sharing Centre” (which is a complete useless piece of shit) and it gave me the option to share about 5 categories of files “Documents, Videos, Music” and so on. Nothing at all more granular than that, nothing to say what it classes as Documents, Videos, Music, etc, no filtering on file types, no granularity to it at all.

This to me = inflexible and dangerous, I dont want people who connect to my network to be able to access all my fucking documents. I want to setup a share with a user and move files around from 1 pc to another, connected to a very high speed, private network. In 2009 that doesn’t sound like too much to ask, but with Windows 7 it’s a fucking nightmare.

And don’t get me started on Windows Backup.

The content keeps rolling today, various things to catch up on, having the time to actually get some of this down is good.

One thing that has come to my attention recently is the way various losers, fuckups and general lazy people are rewarded. Mostly in a way that just encourages them to be more of a lazy useless fuckup.

Cast your mind back to when you were in school, think back to the people that were good performers, the top of the class, people so obviously a little bit better than anyone else intelliegence wise, or simply people that were well behaved and worked hard. Now ask yourself if those people actually were rewarded for doing so as much as they should have been? Was it seen that their hardwork and good grades etc were their reward for being well behaved and putting the effort in, so they didn’t require recognition for this?

In my experience you see what would generally happen is the absolute top of the class would actually get rewarded for their efforts, or at least the children most popular with the teachers etc. The absolute pain in the ass cunts who clearly didn’t want to be at school may, once in a while, have a good day and actually do a piece of work. I remember those kids getting merit awards or whatever they were, simply for actually doing what they were told for once.

At that time I was very much a “in the middle” sort of kid I should imagine. It was basically no mans land. Your work wasn’t good enough to compete with the select few at the top or the popular and they were rewarded. Your work was consistently better than that of the cunts that had special needs or simply did not want to work or be there, but they ended up getting awards on the odd occasion that they seemed to bother. Great. So what about all the kids in the middle that didn’t play up, consistently worked on what they were told to, tried their hardest but still got fuck all for it.

This little analogy takes me on to how benefits seem to be handed out today.
Lets focus on single mothers for a bit.

It goes without saying that everyone’s situation is a little different, circumstances differ from person to person like they would in any walk of life.

The major thing that is bugging me is basically the way the reward / benefit culture is setup around this system seems to favour the person who opens their legs the most and offers no inscentive at all to anyone to go out to work. From what I can tell, the more kids YOU DECIDE TO HAVE (notice it’s a choice) the higher priority you get on the ladder of being housed. As the number of kids hits 3, you get a vastly bigger house with a bigger income.

The people I feel sorry for the most is the single mum’s that go out to work because they have the fucking pride not to be a waster and contribute to society. From what I can tell they are usually worse off for going out and getting a fucking job in the first place than someone who sits on their ass watching TV all day claiming benefits. Where is the fucking sense in this? I mean really?

It surely is as simple as saying, right this lady wants to sit on her ass and do nothing, she gets what she needs to survive and no more, this other lady bothers to get her child into care somehow and is going out to make a living week in, week out, so we’re going to award her with a topup pay bonus because at least she’s trying hard.

I mean for fucks sake, reward the people who DO TRY AND CONTRIBUTE?
If you create a system that rewards people more for sitting around doing fuck all, all day, what is anyone likely to chose? The single mum that goes out and works a 38 hour week *SHOULD* be made better off than the slacker who sits at home doing fuck all, it’s common sense! Even if you pay out enough money so that that total outgoings are still equal, at least your distributing the wealth to someone worthwhile who is putting into the system and surely it would only encourage other people to get a fucking job?

A similar situation can be seen with these complete fucking tools who have decided to pay 5 quid a week so truant kids might go to school . As well as the wasters that are now encouraged to stay on into “further education” in the form of college getting paid 30 quid a week just to show. Mostly from what I can tell in the vast majority, they show up, sign on to the register and then sit there discussing what they’ve spent their 30 quid on. A parent and a friend have been college tutors and remarked independently almost in exactly the same manner about how it just attracted wasters back into education who couldnt be fucked to learn but wanted the 30 quid, and the parents wanted them out of their hair.

Again it seems quite simple, how about rewarding the kids that DO GO TO FUCKING SCHOOL REGULARLY a bonus for showing up, say a month of perfect attendance, and fuck the kids who bunk off and can’t be bothered? Take them on a trip or something, do something nice for the people that bother to play by the rules once in a while and encourage the wasters to do something meaningful?

Also just as a small side note here, I’m sure there are a few reasons kids go truant, far too many to mention in one paragraph as most people’s situation will differ slightly from anyone elses. Thing is though, surely if if kids grow up quicker and see school as a waste of time, school obviously needs to change to cater for the vast majority of kids that dont bother turning up. Why not realise that some p people are academic, others are not and run special schools within catchment areas that cater specifically for trades and other various job styles? At least that way the truant kids might want to turn up and it will seperate their bad influence from the people who are actually bothered about learning academically and doing exams. Too radical? I reckon it’d work.

I mean really how the hell has this country turned into a place where we reward the wrong style of behaviour and actively encourage it by doing so and completely fail to reward the people who cause no trouble and perform what is asked of them on a daily basis?

Forgive me if this article and it’s content seem a bit generic; I’m not intending to pick on a class of person or anyone in a certain situation but I’m fairly sure my overall point will get through on this one. The liberal left have gone fucking nuts. I’m all for being liberal in some situations and I’m also highly conservative in other situations, I call it common fucking sense, something the majority of the people who make the rules in this country seem to have thrown down the pan a while ago.

Bunch of useless twats.

Grats to Winamp for overcoming their fear of the PC audience by actually reverting their demo file back to what it has been for the last 10 odd years.

As anyone who has used Winamp for a while will know, back in “the day” (we’re talking late 90’s here) the Winamp demo was of course, DJ Mike Llama who proudly prounounces:

“Winamp, it really whips the llama’s ass”.
Which was changed to “Winamp, it really whips the llama’s <insert goat/llama style noise here as censorship>.”

In a bold move that I can only applaud the producers/owners/makers whatever have taken the intiative to re-insert the well loved word “ass” back into the 5 second demo file, drastically going out on a major limb.

Indeed widespread panic has infested China this evening as the Government has put out multiple television warnings to boycott the site, liberal extremists in Yemen have banned the entire Winamp domain as has the entire of europe. Seriously, bad weather / dark days ahead. The sheer amount of child/puppy related deaths over the usage of this word is set to rise exponentially and how the powers that be could possibly live with their concience over the coming week will be a staggering feat.

In a dramtic, unheard of chain of events the ISP community has been drawn in and reacted to this situation.

A Noldrim representative Wendy Harmer came out with this pearl of wisdom:

“Winamp were clearly making a statement about their position within the market back in the late 90’s when things were more flexible and the era of free thinking was rife. As we moved into the naughties though could we handle such marketing tactics anymore? Could the general population seriously put up with this sort of filth and sleep soundly in our beds at night? Could we fuck, we just weeped like teased vaginas.”

Pepix representative Charles Wog, clearly infuriated, put out this statement summing up the sheer nerve of Winamp by using the word “ass” in their product:

“We couldn’t give a fuck. I mean what sort of sad twat would really take offense and give a shit about something so trivial”.

Indeed.

Vigrin Mongoloids are yet to comment.

Seriously though, grats to Winamp for at least taking the time to think “fuck what anyone else thinks” and putting things back the way they were. Or perhaps I’ve just got a super rare fuckup download that missed proper testing and hadn’t been properly censored.

I moved house a few months ago to a new flat, at the time I had BE There ADSL2+ and was actually very happy with it. No capping, no throttling of any sort, just a great ISP that provided me with a service and I was happy to pay them the 20 quid or whatever it was a month.

I thought about moving over to Virgin Media as they were doing a 50 Mbit service and I knew it was available in the area where I currently was, and where I was moving to. So I went into their portal and jabbed in my address into their checker.

What I got back was a complete and utter mess, I moved into a block of new flats, 9 flats in the entire building. Now some flats in the building were listed three times, number 6 for instance, other numbers within the same block of flats simply did not exist. Great start.

I called up Virgin and asked them what was going on, supplied my postcode and address, then had to convince them that the number I was moving to actually existed. Sigh. I explained that number 6, the flat directly below mine existed just fine and without it being there, mine might have trouble remaining floating in mid-fucking-air, which seemed to get through to them. I asked why 6 was listed 3 times and 9 wasn’t listed at all, they had no idea. Smart stuff so far for a telecoms company.

So I gave them the details and was told that I would get a call back in 24 hours detailing wether or not I could actually get their service.

…

Yeah right.

If anyone who has ever dealt with these companies before knows, when you hear that it’s usually a complete fob off and nothing happens.

Sure enough, 2 WEEKS later and nothing at all from them.

So I ring back again. I talk to the woman on the line who is actually quite helpful and she apologises for me not being contacted and I get assured someone will call back the next day. That was after having to explain what had happened before, my flat apparently not existing etc all over again. Nice. Now, someone did try and call the next day, from what I could tell but unfortunately being at work I wasn’t able to take the call and I missed it.

They tried to call once. That was it, no othet attempt at all.

Briliant, so 48 hours later I ring back again, get another apology and the next day finally manage to take the call from some guy who said “no, sorry, you can’t get our service at your current address”. I was a bit fucken dumbfounded that flat 6 could get the service, but my flat which sits directly on top of it, in the same building, couldnt not.

By this point I literally could not be bothered and just arranged to move my DSL to the new address (which was a complete ballache in itself for reasons I wont bother going into, but it was not the ISPs fault).

So just to give you a bit of understanding as to what has happened here, i’ll sum up my feelings and show a few pictures of exactly what has gone on.

I personally think, and I’m fairly sure this is fact, Virgin may well outsource their installations to external companies, must like Sky do. I think someone took a look at the building and couldn’t be fucked to install anything on the 2nd floor so just said “sorry not available!”.

The following picture may well embarress Virgin Media completely.

The above link shows my flat in proximity to the VM “Green cab” at the end of my road.
Note the VM van parked on the corner which turned up to install services for flat 6.
Note the VM cabs at the end of the road and take special note as to where my building / flat is in comparison to this.

The above link shows the side on view of the building where my flat actually is.
The previous picture shows the piece of land just off to the left of my flat where the VM van is currently parked.

The final link above shows an alternate angle of the original picture.
You can see the VM van / cab in the distance.
You can see flat 6 which was currently undergoing installation of VM services.
You can also see my flat sat on top of flat 6 which currently does not exist on the VM systems, so clearly I return to imagination land every time I go home from work in the evening.

Either cables have not been made long enough to supply my flat, or ladder’s have not been created that are tall enough for installation to my property.

Perhaps I’ll apply again when this major engineering feat has been achieved.
Or not eh?

Fuck VM, twats.