The Week in Nonsense

I know it has been a while since I posted one of these threads, but it has been an excellent week for utter tosh. First up a couple of items concerning the credit crunch. After bailing out the banks with untold BILLIONS of POUNDS of YOUR money, supposedly to help the banks start lending again, comes the news that one of the rescued companies, HBOS, is using a cool one billion pounds worth of your hard earned to pay out huge bonuses to the people who got themselves into the mess in the first place. It seems the incompetents who put together the rescue packages, forgot to stipulate that there would be no money unless the banks gave up their ludicrously high bonus packages. Well Mr Bank of Scotland, whoever you may be, please enjoy the fruits of my toil, your reward for doing such a piss poor job in the first place. If that wasn't enough to take the breath away was the next little nugget to come up concerning the financial turmoil we are living through at the moment. The main financial reporter of the BBC, Robert Peston, was called before a Parliamentary council to give evidence about his conduct during the early days of the Crunch. It seemed they were trying to attach some blame to him, for reporting that it was happening. Amazing.

On to some quality grade A, uncut Colombian pure nonsense now. Some geezer called Lord Turner, the chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, has put forward an idea that we should all be limited too 2 "social" flights a year. We would no doubt be given rationing books, put on a government data base, costing something like a gazillion pounds, to make sure the great unwashed couldn't get away from this country more than once a year. I believe they are piloting a similar scheme in North Korea.

Lastly this week a story picked up from Australia, that ties in with the Carrol Thatcher gaffe from earlier in the week, concerning everybody's favourite rabble rouser Jeremy Clarkson. There have been calls for him to be sacked from the BBC for stating that Gordon Brown was a "One eyed, Scottish Idiot." This of course offended the partially sighted, people north of the border and just about every Labour politician you could shake a stake at. There is only one problem. Mr Brown is indeed one eyed. He does in fact hail from North of the English border, and is without a question of a doubt a bona fida buffoon. To be offended by Mr Claksons comment is akin to being offended by calling Jezza a balding, English blow hard. To all those who disagree, grow up.

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