GAP YEAR(S) AWAY FROM STUDENTHOOD
I really must write about those "gap years".
Problem?
Cannot remember that much.
But I am sure I could do it with a little help from my friends.

DECISIONS ON BIG (T)ISSUES
I came out of that weekend as a reflexive reflecting person.
Many came up to me and said that they thought this was good for me.
So I went to the toilet and sat down for awhile.

I was not quite sure if it was to be a fart or a shit.
Best be safe I thought.
You see this reflexivity and reflective awareness of the past really helps.

Have you ever had shit in your pants?

USA TARGETS MOON WITH NEW MISSILE
President George W Bush wants to mark the end of his tour of duty with a humanistic bent.
Using the latest technology in missiles the USA targets the moon and says that it will blow up this beast into tiny fragments for the benefit of Mankind.
A Bush aide said : " Too many people suffer from this moon... from headaches thru to hairy hands .... our President wants to show his humanitarian streak. "

THE HEMLOCK FACTOR
Our poor old Socrates is under, yet again, more political bytes.
Recently it was said that the Socrates take on knowledge was to blame for those Rums-Do-Melt excuses for the war against humanity.
Now, I ask you : Was our poor old Socrates saying that " wisdom lies in the institutionalisation of ignorance."???

DUE TO PUBLIC DEMAND A STATEMENT IS NECESSARY
After various tabloid-type comments that fly around and then grow as the gossip grows I must say something before I burn.
Yes : I have been to bed with a cat.
No : I have never been a member of any Trade Union.

Yes : I have shaved a pussy.
No : I have never been a member of any Trade Union.

SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND WORKING CLASS THEOLGY
What follows drips with memory. Maybe a few words here and there mistaken but the mainsail is up for the wind.
A pub and folk was all that was needed and one such song springs to mind :-

I'll sing you 12 oh red goes the noses so
12 for the 12 apostles
11 for the eleven that went to heaven, and
10 for the ten commandments.
9 for the nine bright shiners
8 for the April rainers, and
7 for the seven pints I have had, and
6 for the pack in the sack.
5 for the symbols on your door, and
4 for the brewery workers
3 three the wino's
2 two the same to you - hows yer father, alright, hows yer mother, shes tight, hows yer sister, she might
One is one too much and ever more shall be oh.

Sincere apologies to any sensitive soul that finds any poor mistake I have made to be abusive to their selves.
But considering the many musical souls that sometimes peek into this site I am sure that such mistakes can be corrected.

BREAKING WIND-E-NEWS
Conned-You-Sleezy-Nice has made a pact with Hilarious Clitoris.
Comment from from Billy-Willy-Boy was " This really sucks but it pays".

RUMBLINGS FROM EDUCATION. UK.Inc Ministry
Thousands of reports and research papers have finally been noted and a basic pattern has emerged. Since education became a Culture Industry the education has worked very very well indeed.
Critical awareness, poetry, history, philosophy and all that have finally been shelved as a Classical Relic.
Training, training and more training has been the result.
This was the target and bullseye. Success.
Management training psycho-babble has won the culture wars.

Today the Ny Labor management group, with Blair and Brown, Thatcher and the underlings, get ready to dance their dance and celebrate.
But it is hard to dance with the devil on your back.

NORWICH CITY FC BRINGS FOG ON THE TYNE
Season ticket holders from Norwich City FC are being rewarded for their trust in this historic community. A 10% value-added Christmas present is in store for all.
A certain K.Keegan is quite pissed off again and is throwing a tantrum. He was heard yelling that : " The grey haired one was not a virgin as I know it and should be sunk in the waters of the Tyne."
But help is on the way. A certain Hilarious Erectable Clitoris is frothing at the mouth in her bid to keep the UK wet-sports together. She said :-
" The UK is the mother of all democracy and we, here in the United States, are ready to re-unite you all through our progressive investments."

From Football to Darts
Just a little story.
I was only 15, only 15, I was too young to know.
But I was on the winning team and we celebrated.
But first things first.

There were two young lads on the team list. I guess today this would be cackled as an Academy. Two young lads of 15 playing football with old men that looked to be, at first sight, past it. Anyway I was one of those young lads at 15 and I was on a high. Playing for my home town ( under 16s) we had kept Frankfurt to a draw of 1-1. That was a big deal. Thought myself to be a hero. But that was the youth team. I was getting grilled into an adult team and just to look at them hurt.

Back to training. The old-fart centre-half began tackling me. He wanted me to learn how to keep my legs intact. But he spared no force. Anyway I was selected for my first big game with the adults. Shit that was the first time that i had ever followed orders and shit I was nervous. This adult team gave me hell. I just wanted to play football. No more the youth team here. ..... but I wanted the hero....
Then I began to learn a bit and a piece.

The big boys had helped me survive many months of hell and heaven and they had carried me through ( I was learning?) and our last game was a kind of crunch and punch and no holds barred type of thing. I got my nose broken but we won the game.

Celebrations. Weekend night. Visit to pub first and then posh dinner. I was already out of my depth. At the pub we played darts against some local team ( no idea of the real facts) and our football team were giving me hell again as I was nervous to even be in that pub at 15. I was the guy that needed a double to win against the locals. I thought everybody was as pissed as pissed as can be because I could hardly understand a word they were all saying. I threw the dart. Double 20. In one dart. Then I got lifted up and thrown and tossed around until I was really made to understand the significance of this double 20 throw. The beers were paid for by the local pub and there were many of us. Even the magic sponges and the administration lot were there. Now I was a hero. Luck and fate works that way sometimes. Sometimes. All gets blurred.

Pub was closed and the restaurant open. It was one of those places that would accept drunken football players at that time. It was Greek.
All of a sudden I was asked to order.
Deliver de liver I demanded as the adults laughed and the waiter glared.
Then I was told to behave myself by the big centre-half of the team.

All this is just sentimental sentencing of the experience, anchored and recorded. All this is cods! But true.
What can be said and done?

Darts is a game that is played on the margins. The end is always on the margins.
The centre is sometimes ok too but the margins is really where it is at.
The margins.
That is why I remain happy with the outside.
That is why I remain enthused with the borders.
That is why I have still so very much to learn.

I really do miss that old centre-half yelling at me to keep a line.
I miss the whole team as a fifteen year old would. But I am not 15.
I remember that it was the Centre-half that guided me into another level of football, the same man that yelled and knocked me about. The same man that, with a much balding head later said "Hello, remember me?".
I did.
How can a centre help the margins? Do you really need to ask?

IT IS LENT FOR THE PENITENT
Just as I getting ready to refuse all the joys and the toys and the dreams of Springtime - just as Lent empowered me to cut to pieces my credit card - I thought again. ( such is what Lent is for and better than pratting around in the wilderness).
I learnt of an "Ex-Policeman buggering an MP" and a smile came to my lips as my Lent and penitent future collapsed.
This is not for the first time.

FINDING A CENTRE : WHAT IS MONDAY FOR ?
What a day. Did the washing of the clothes and a bra strap got caught in the total machine. Round and round went the bloody great wheel caught and caught the over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder seals.
What is a Monday for we ask.
If it is not for this kind of fiasco?

Sori for the lack of Swans today but now i understand what Homer tried to say to me. Oh how he suffered for his sanity.
Blame it on the bra straps I do.

SUNDAY MORNING SWAN

DEMOCRATIC CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
As it is February, a new month, a new moon a'coming and the Water Melon Man coming out of the cupboard -- thought i would try to be nice and kind to the younger bloggers.
There is something about The Swans that makes us all just want to blog.

BREAKING WIND-E-NEWS
Damn all that honesty let us get cracking with some real news.

1) Brechin City ( somewhere in Scotland which is somewhere in England) has been banned. Thank God for decent decision-makers.
2) Paul Macca Artyfarty has bought the rights to the Joe Brown archives and then refuses to give them air. He said " It is an investment for my family".
3) England manager El Cappicino Supremo refused an evening dinner engagement with Posh Spice saying that : " I like to be on top".
4) Comment from Kevin Keegan : Northern Rock is in safe hands".

Soon to be updated ( but please send in your latest news so I may moderate it and change it to serve my own tastes).
Stop Press...... President hopeful Billireum Clinton is not amused as his puppet-performer Hilarious Frillyhairyarse denies giving a blow job ( to calm him down?) to other President hopeful Obiwhamer. Comments from Republician orifices say that " This tastes of bad politics".

Ed ( no ball games here) promises 30 million to add advertising campaigns to the London Olympic Games. These advertisements will, he says, " help the war on fat cats and cash cows and cheap tin trays". Toni Blair approves saying that " this is real value capital at work".... fat folk are a threat to our social networks..... ".

Oh shit I'm being gagged and........ the Blairy-eyed-Brownies are tagging my arse. ......... Must go..... Bentham had nothing on this... scary stuff.
.................
................................
On advice from my lawyer I can only say this : " The wickedness that I have witnessed was before my knowledge of "testing" techniques. It is only now that I know that a UK government can inject a substance abuse into UK subjects in the public domain. ...... //// ................/// .... ...... Off for a run I am.
Fayed and Fulham ( which is on the worst side of London) are taking over Finland. Finnish football players are using Fulham as their training ground to take over the world ( without doping). Fulham manager Mr Roy Hodgkiniski denies any take-over, a "merger is what we see it as" he said. Watch this space.

THE FINAL STRAW
Since those fateful 1980s I have been sooooo very pished off about the trend towards narcissyisms, vanity and the distasteful verbal "stomach problems" of a broken society.
I put this question ( what to do about this all) to the still active and Right Honourable Mr Thorpey-Porky.
He said :-
" Suck on this ".

Oh yes once upon a time there were public toilets to think upon.
But you have 10 questions to ask to find this place and person.
A frustrated Zola can only tell you if you are right or wrong or give honest, really really honest, answers to your questions.
If you professional-educated lot manage to get it in 10 I will post a really really really honest pic on this site and that will turn a few eyebrows.

THIS, MY BLOG AND I, IS :-
100 % Honest !!!

GLOBAL SWARMING
The trend since the 1800s, or before, has been global.
Today the moral panic is "looting".
Even the Bruscaa-Bruiser-land, Aussi risings, complain about looters.
I might find more affinity with the social bandits than I do with the "City" or with those that prefer to link "individual problems" with market losses and glosses.
How is it that James Bond is still so popular?

Anyway : who are the looters? May we ask?

WHAT CAN BE SAID AND DONE ?
In a disgusting 21st Century it is sometimes necessary to eternally return to some of those little bits and pieces that are reflexive and demand reflection.
One such ditty, for me, is this :-
Any thin gloss, upon a medium-soft surface, when scratched will display the essence of the matter at hand.

US FEDERAL RESERVE GOES TO WAR AGAIN
Advice from the working class.
Tighten up yer arses!!!

THE CULTURE INDUSTRY LIKES HIGH FLYERS
Seb Coe, who used to run around in circles to get famous, was talking recently to sound byte Blair and bind-bond Brown. The full text of this conversation has been put into wraps by a court judgement. However a few remaining bits and pieces remain to be published for peons to read.

Seb Coe : " Too many people are after me. They do not trust me anymore".
Bind-Bond-Brown : "Keep your head me laddie. Solidarity is the key here and nobody votes anyway so you are safe with us."
Seb Coe : " But people are saying that my work is hurting people and taking away the financial support for community sports and arts."
Sound Byte Blair : " Let them sow and reap and sell their harvests themselves. Give them freedom of choice. We need more high fliers unzipped. Government money must never be wasted on the public or the society. As my mother used to say : the public society does not exist.

Seb Coe begins jogging around and around the track.
Then he is inspired.
He will take his next job as the International Coordinator for the Afghan zones of influence. His head spins with an almost spiritual glee.
He tells this all to Brown.
Brown replies : " Sorry I already have that myself and booked up for 2009. Ask Toni.
So Seb asked Toni...............................................

WHAT WAS YOUR MOST COURAGEOUS ACT ?
a) Buying a kebab in Pekham at night
b) Eating a kebab in Pekham
or
c) ........... ( answers before Tuesday please )

Appropriate winners and losers will be noted on this site.

REVEALED : EXAM QUESTION FROM CHINA
Here it is :-
What do you think this comment really means? :-
"London's Heathrow Bids For Normality After Crash "

choose your seats

WORLD GRATEFUL TO GORDI-BROON FOR "GIFT"
We hear that Brown, the UK premier gift to liberal society.dotty.con, has told the world that the UK will give, as a "gift", the English Language. The UK will also help spread this gift to all that need it so much even if they are in deep poverty caused by colonial greed.
How nice.

BREAKING WIND-E-NEWS
A woman rescued after two days stuck between Edale and Buxton. The Mountain Rescue, police and other emergency services found her, in a car half way down a hillside but she has survived.
On arrival at the hospital the woman, Helen 46 years of age, said that a very special person had helped her to survive but he left just before the Mountain Rescue came along. She said "He was dressed like the best kind of Spiderman, he was kind and he served me hot rum totties... But there was something different about him. He wore only one sock."
Police are asking for the public to help identify this local hero with only one sock.
The police said that " this one-socked hero is not under suspicion of any wrongdoing yet."

The Street warming up before the flood.
Like it I do.

CLINTON GETS PHILOSOPHICAL
Heard two days ago : " The empirical whole is the untrue ".

The Sexual Life Of The Workers
We hear that even a senior policeman, an inspector plod no more no less, is up to that very unBritish act of human meat injections. The poor Plod has been fucked and out.
Remember, I do, as a student working in a factory on the 12 hour night shift. Then the conveyor belt broke down. The "ladies" became bored.
They decided, on mass, to plonk one of me mates onto the belt. About six ladies held him down as a few others bonked him and did the most terrible things to him.
God damnit it should have been me!!!!

WHAT IS GOING ON?
What time is it? Four Thirty or what? Just sitting around here. I guess it is ten thirty as we go down to the river.
All with my Brown Eyed Girl in a bad world.
In the back room n ot green.
That is allRIGHT as the old rat sniffs around.
Plan a new game
Skipping and jumping.
Whatever happened
With you
You my brown eyed girl?

Making love in the green grass.
Travel ?
Homer where are you when I need you?
Off to get pissed.

THANKS SIR ED
As you would have said yourself : we all have to go sometime, someway. But thanks Ed for a life that has inspired without rant and cant. Thanks.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN
I will be on walk-a-bout for one week. Duty calls. No it is not a holiday although your Zola deserves just that. I am on duty. Back on the 12th January I hope. I will be away from Finland.
So, to stop the fray getting withdrawal symptoms, I leave you with this little musical piece to be sung with hand on heart :-

Dumb-da-da-dumb-dum-dumb
Bom-ba-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb
Blar,Blar blar blar blar
Hmm, Hmm, Hmm hmm hmm hym
Da daa da daa dar ...................

See you all on the 12th - take care out there.

OLD THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD
As the New Year rumbles on and as part-timers ( who just cannot hold their drink) mix and mingle with the real drinking classes ; and as the New Philosophy takes political spins from ear to ear, then a piece of a poem for all those that sense metaphysical guilt.

" And new Philosophy calls all into doubt,
The Element of fire is quite put out ;
The Sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's wit
Can well direct him where to looke for it.
...................
For every man alone thinkes he hath got
To be a Phoenix, and that then can bee
None of that kinde of which he is, but hee.
..................
Feele this consuming wound, and ages darts,
For the worlds beauty is decai'd or gone,
Beauty, that's colour, and proportion. "

After a sick and first decade to this pathetic 21st century and when even the likes of careerist politicians spin us their new compass bearings as a new philosophy I do hope you, my fellow readers, will find sympathy for olde Zola in the next 48 hours.
Anything can happen !!!

Wish you a better 2008 I do.

PSYCHOLOGISTS SAY
Males must make a behaviouristic type of New Year Resolution.
Women must make a social type of New Year Resolution.
This all sounds like more bullshit to me.
I'm off to check on the Saturday football.

A SECOND XMAS COMES TO ZOLA
In the post today there was a wonderful package. My brother-in-law sent out a few items that he well knows are missing in Lapland. Inside were:-

A Christmas Pudding ( large)
Marmite
Jars of Shippam's chicken spread
Branston rich and fruity sauce
Horlicks
Grow your own Jalapeno peppers
and more........

Due to this day of excitement and gratitude your Zola will not be throwing any under-the-belt punches at those blue-meanies. Not today anyway.

NEW YEAR A'COMING ME LASSI
Dogs are IN next year. Bet on them and pump your money on them.
Dogs are IN.
Cats are out.

Tag Those Demontia and Sir Parkinson and .....
The goodwill Christmas brings forth a host of foolish angels.
Now we should "tag" those deviants even more. Dementia must be hunted down and set under the screens of control.
This, at the same time, as ( it is reported by our reliable press) 55% of the UK population believes that the debt-economy is going to do well for them in the year 2008.
Happy bloody Christmas.
Question? : Who needs to be tagged?

HAPPY XMAS TO ALL
A very merry xmas in fact is the wish for all.
Thanks to to those old lefties that have already wished your homely Zola a sober and sane Yuletide.
Well off to put on a few extra kilos.
See y'all soon.

AN INVITATION AND THEN I GOT HIT UPON
Back somewhere in the 60s I was given an invitation to attend a "new kind" of TV show and this invitation was for my family all. We attended. Then .......
After about 5 minutes of this so called live performance two men began to jump up and down every now and then and show us signs like "Clap" or "make a noise". I was new to this kind of game. But after 15 minutes I simply stood up and walked out in a state of disgust and total loss.
I did not know then just how much this kind of live real TV would progress.
I see it now.
Now I know I should have thrown eggs on the stage or worse.

THOUGHTS ON GIVING A LECTURE IN PUBLIC
I am in the middle or sorting out a few historical things concerning past work and a forthcoming public lecture.
One of the things I have now remembered, from the 1990s, is the rather cold hearted and even nasty responses that came my way after I wrote a firm critique of the following piece of writing from one Doctor in the USA and I quote it below and here :-
" Ninety to ninety-five percent of all people who lose their jobs do so because of a lack of interpersonal skills. Out of the top five qualities employers value most highly, three of them are directly related to interpersonal effectiveness. Skills of such importance should not be left to only genetics or chance. "
OK I critiqued this piece of Phd level writing rather firmly. I did not even try to suffer fools gladly.
But why, for being critical, did I get called a radical troublemaker by so many professionals?
I still think that Doctor is a raving idiot.

JACK STRAW HAS BEEN TAKING LIBERTY
He has been caught red-handed cooking the books and budgets again.
But never mind Condi-Sleezy-Nice is planning an Outdoor Adventure Centre in Panama for him.

BREAKING WIND-E-NEWS
The well known and respected BAE Systems group has promised to provide for each new stake-holder :-
a) ear plugs
b) sunglasses
c) discount funeral arrangements for any family member at risk

The Clean and Clear The Skies organisation said that this was a major breakthrough with value-for-money entertainment.
Hear nothing, see nothing and say nothing.
But there are critical voices suspicious of the senses in all this. One country person said : " what about the smell"?
WE wait for the latest updated news on this sensuous issue.

LONG SERVING EMPLOYEES OF THE UK REMEMBERED
This week marks Queen Lizzi overtaking Queen Victoria as the the longest serving and duty bound employee of the British Empire and England.
Only George 3rd ( if my HIS-story is correct) has served the public longer but he does not count as he is considered a bit too mad to have a vote.
Maggi Thatcher is not amused.

TONI BLAIR BUYS A BARRETI-HOOSE
Best Eco-Deal around he said.

COPPELO FELLOW AND GAWDI BROWN SHOW SPUNK
Trouble is it will all slither and wither in their yellow underpants.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF OCTOPIE ILLUSIONS
Today, after hammering out the wicked 13th with philosophy, I needed to wash the dishes, make lots of food and make the fire in the house. What is this world all about? Godamit.
Shit I will need to shit soon.
But then a thought came to me.
Nu-Labor and psychologists and management trainees. What is common with these remarkable beasts of illusion?
Then the telephone and I felt hungry.
Can you imagine what it is like to slither and slobber, bubble and babble when the telephone rings?
The USA was trying to contact me as my number was given as the dog that slithers and bibbles, babbles and bobbles along.

DEAR MR JACK STRAW
After 350 responses to your Guardian article you must feel today that you have finally been sussed.
You have not changed since your lefty-career days of the 1960s. You are still the same old career politician.
But let me not serve mere opinion here.
You said that the sun rises in the East.
I checked that out today from my European Union position.
Just before midday the sun rises in the south part and just after midday the sun sets in a similar south part that is closer to the west.
Therefore even your obvious objective remarks are way off line.

THE MARKS OF CIVILISATION MEASURED.
How many justifications can be made for absurdity?
No wonder some people prefer animals.
Was in the sauna last night and then looked at myself in the mirror and asked myself if I measured up.
GordiLordi Brown Arse will be putin pen to paper soon.
God I miss Yorkshire spades.
I need a Hairy Gate.

THE VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE REMAINS SOMEWHERE
After rape what can a person do? When that rape is also cutting off the tongue how can we speak?
We send our young ones to war all the time but fuck them up before that anyway.
But has that voice of the shuttle become a commodity?
Can we weave a tapestry to tell the truth in a culture industry?
Can we?

I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF
I never think it necessary to find reasons for those dreams ( Don said that methinks ) but for some reason or another I woke up today with Dusty Springfield on my mind. Her music will not leave me alone. After 5 hours of morning white-black blues I just don't know what to do with myself.

Maybe I have been reading too many blogs from Trousers all mixed up like a bruised dream ( blame the Merkgrin for that). Maybe Szwagibaggyeyes keeps thrusting musical Adorno's to me that I yearn for the good old times when a Saxon-Onion really made yer eyes water. I just don't know. But maybe Lavender has gone blonde all over ( I must check that ).
Perhaps this is a vision...............

NU-DEMOCRACY TARGETS THE TARGET-MAKERS
In a sweeping move yesterday the EU select group set up a nu plan for the support of the target-makers.
Special and extra funding will go to the UK and Estonia.
The basic plan is to provide each and every politico with a "behaviour mentor" so that the bad behaviour of politicos can be addressed as an ongoing "process".
Our source in the EU said that " we are not implying that our politicians are at risk but we do want to improve our behaviour patterns and we can do this through personal mentors for each behavioural thing involved."
An American consultant is said to be given the task of implementation.

FUCK OFF ?
Heard it, seen it and spent it I guess but "fuck off" remains a kind of myth that "we" live by. The power of "fuck" I cannot give or receive.
I guess that you do not get the message you are not a member of the team, Or, at least, you do not get fucked very often or at all. I get fucked many times but only a few times with haqqppinessis.
But let us wait a minute here. Could these mean safe sex in anyplace that is a port in a storm?
Could this mean just go away quickly ( same thing really).
Or could this mean a fuck off and away from this mess of the tests of morality.
Could this mean "Fuck when you will Sgt Major?"

LAVENDERBLUE KNICKERS OK GIRL : A ROLE MODEL FOR UK TEENS
In the latest political storms in the UK today the role models for youth are being branded about. So far the Spice Girls and Margaret Thatcher have been nominated for official recognition.
However one publication, a rather high-brow publication too, has nominated the lone-blogger LavenderBlue. As an ex St Trinians girl made good she does, it was said, provide the youth of today with some of the essential ingredients to make that cake and eat it in everyday life.
But our reporter called her this morning to ask for comments on her nomination. The reply was "Fuck Off".
When asked to spell this she spelt it out loud and clearly and did not even add a yer nor wat i mean. Because of this the editorial board decided to continue publishing the LavenderBlue promotion.

JOHN LENNON
A Day In The Life and then the damned death as December 8th is remembered like a Walrus gone wrong and a bad trip on a magical Mystery Tour.
Those were the days with fish and finger pie.

ZOLA GIVES AN INDEPENDENT VERDICT
Cardiff City football club are clearly unfit for purpose. They should be forced into administration as quickly as possible. They are what is wrong with the good sport. Also 10 points, at least, must be deducted from them this season. This is only fair. This is only as it should be.
We must take the high moral ground here.

REINDEERS IN THE UK OR WAS THAT SCOTLAND?
Foreigners, reindeer folk, are now welcome in the UK.
Before it was not so easy for reindeers or reindeer folk.

Reindeers were taken to the Scottish mountains many years ago and with them a Laplander guy. After a short time the UK sent him away. Then the reindeers began to die. The UK asked the Laplander back and, of course, said sorry. The Laplander returned and the reindeer community began to thrive again. There is a "bildung" somewhere with this story based on fact.
If you need to check, check, the stuff from Cairngorms and reindeer.
Compare the facts with the typical UK tourist version of reality today as is written in newspapers and all that.
Yes I did live then and know a few folk that were involved.
But that is history.
What is the Bildung for us and today?

UK SUPERMARKETS ARE SLAPPED ON THE WRIST
For cooperation and solidarity thay are fined tea money.
Interest rates are 5.5 now - cooperation and solidarity?
How am I to make sense of all this?

DECEMBER 7th and the RAIN FALLS
After Independence Day Finns wake up to rain and the green grass showing itself as the ice melts. Snow has gone. Lapland?
Bugger me soon we will have a health spa here for folk from North Wales.

INDEPENDENCE DAY FOR FINLAND IS THE NEWS
December 6th is Independence day for Finland. It was in 1917 that the the emerging Nation State of Finland declared independence from Russia. It was a well timed event as the situation in Russia was a little hot and messy at the time. Lenin recognised this Finnish act officially on January 4th 1918. ( The Brits were not so quick!!!)
By the way Swedes gave Finland away to Russia a hundred years before and Finland became a kind of pass the parcel in all the war games.

But today Finns begin to forget work and begin to cool down for the big celebrations over the next 36 hours.

NEW UK PLAN : PENSIONS FOR ALL
Question in parliament today :-
Q : " What happened to Graduated Pensions?"

CHIMPS HAVE BETTER MEMORIES THAN NULABOR VOTERS
Latest research claims that chimps know after learning just what a real banana republic is and where it is to be found.

FROM THE GUARDIANS OF TRUTH TODAY we read :-

1) Sex education in schools works and Polly Toytown shows us all just how to limit sexual acts. It seems that all we need to do is place a picture of her inside our heads and that will be enough.
2) There should, it was claimed, be more courses for older folk. That is a kind of liberal arts educational type thing course. I shudder at the implications when we see :-
Antiquescant doing courses in kick-boxing and metaphysical poetry.
LavenderBlue with her Domestic Science with the life and times of Marlene Dietrich.
Merkyperky doing an analysis of Page 3 babes with Freudian Fantasy Teams.
Trousers doing daisy-chain design with American Studies.
Szwazzifuzzyman with his Aztec rap with Catholic Radicalism in Poland.

Ah dunno maybe the world would be a better place then.

UK FOLK ARE IGNORING THOSE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
The National Health Service of the UK ignores those that are "at risk" through no fault of their own.
UK voters have not helped National Health.
Blair-Brown and all that, from 1066, show well that the UK folk ignore those with learning disabilities.
Voted in Thatcher they did too.
Oh dear me what a very "Poor Law" system.

A SUNDAY THOUGHT FOR MASS CULTURE
Lenny Bruce is gone
But his spirit lives on and on.

UK GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT HUMAN BODY AS COMMODITY
The NuLabor latest. The UK human body must not be for sale.
Incredible this considering that this NuLabor is prostitution par excellence.

MOUNTAINEERING A SPACE FOR HOMOSEXUAL PROTEST?
When I was active in the climbing scene there was one thing that really caught my imagination. It was that so very many of the best climbers and mountaineers were homosexual.
Of course it would be obvious that homosexuals would climb just as any other would climb.
But so many of the very best and world famous mountaineers were homosexual.
I have yet to make good sense of this fact.
Was mountaineering a space for homosexual protest vis-a-vis the dominent culture of male and female chains?

WHERE IS OUR NEW LEFT NY-LABOR
After a week or two, after the first wave of PR, where are these new left and all so liberal Ny-Labour workers?
Where are they?
Perhaps they need time to present us with their vision before they provide us with the(ir) programmes.
But I smell a stale kipper on the plate.

SYSTEMATIC KILLING FIELDS and INDIFFERENCE
It seems to me that the invisible hand of civilisation and mechanical expertise, attached to an equally abstract and anything goes so long as it pays, is at the heart(sic) of mistaken identies and flawed information. In other words our expert-systems murder innocent-others in the name of efficiency and risk.

Scratch, just a little, this skin and system and what might we see?
Maybe Karl Marx was just close enough to the big story with his alienation theme.
By the way Norwich City won AGAIN last night.

United Nations Wisdom and Groanagin
According to the UN it will be the "poor" that will suffer because of the "failures" of developed countries Big Boys.
Jesus Wept !
It is the successes of the big boys that create the suffering under this nasty and short and brutal reign of terrorist capitalism.
....there is a better life for me and you."

ROYAL COURT THEATRE TONIGHT
HOW I WON THE WAR AS AN ALCOHOLIC GOON

Special performances by Spike Milligramned and Winston Burchill
Directed by Basil Blackbladder
Sponsorship comes from the Prudence Union

UK EXPERTS COME UP WITH PLAN FOR HEALTHY YOUNGSTERS
Due to the binge drinking culture and the destruction of the national health Service, including dentists, a group of experts from the UK have come up with a NULabor plan.
It is this : feed babies with booze when they cut their teeth and ensure that they learn the stages of euphoria.

BREAKING WIND-E-NEWS
Iceberg shatters the trusty boat.
What is below really matters.
As I once said to the Duke of Westminster : take a grip on this !

THE DAILY CHRISTIAN MAIL SENDS XMAS MESSAGE
It seems that a convict is sick. The story goes that a liver transplant would be needed. This convict is a very bad person.
The Daily Mail today runs a comments page on this.
I checked it out ( got banned agin).

The hate and the tragic playing God scene is too clear.
Comments are from pure and clean readers who can do no "sin".
Goethe come back all is forgiven.
Gide come back all is forgiven.
For fucks sake can humanitas come back.........?

BREAKING WIND-E-NEWS
The CommonWealth(sic) are planning to make a new World Cup for the football.
British companies are all behind on this one.

A DISGRACE
The England football game last night was a disgrace. From the beginning when Brits went booooooooooooooooo to Croatia as their national music played. The spin from players and manager, on and on lies and deceit in management talk-ways to control the damage.
The game reflected, for me, the new UK that I have finally begun to see and understand.
I am not alone in ex-pat circles to say a disgrace and to apologise to any left out there that thought the Brits could behave in better ways.
To be an ex-pat is often to live and feel Britishness more than a Brit. Maybe I take the shock too seriously.
But I am disgusted.
Even the so called manager did not wait for his own players to leave the pitch - he almost ran down the exit tunnel.
This is Blairite Britain for me clear as clear to be.

I think I am glad that Croatia and many others have and will take this new uk to the cleaners and down a few pegs.
During my summer visit there I senses something awful. Now I see an example of that awfulness through football at all levels.

This is a deep culture of spin and powder-puff-kid arrogance. It will not go away soon.
How can a person apologise for this disgusting display of Nu-UK?

I HAVE BEEN WONDERING
Of all the governments in this (our) world today - which are the governments that show a bias towards the well being of the majority?

OK, a silly question.
It does not, however, close the doors for a damned good reply that is quite different from the original philosophy that inspired such a silliness.

Yes, yes, yes, I am asking something about democracy. Boring.
I have just been wondering which government, even in a democracy, can claim to be in bias towards the well being of the majority.
Damn it is, is it, so difficult?

FINNISH NURSES GET SOME SATISFACTION BUT NO RESPECT
Nurses in Finland have, at long last, gained financial satisfaction. The solidarity was too much for the government ( pretending that local government was not national government).
Nurses in Finland have, should have had it long time ago, satisfaction of knowing that their work was important work. ( yet those nurses that did not join in the mass protest and especially those "private trainer-nurses" are today struggling to "look good".)

In fact government is quite pissed off right now.
There is still no respect for really essential workers.
This "win" by the nurses is just a battle.
To get that respect ( away from instrumental victories) "costs".
The government lost that kind of respect about a week after it was voted-in.

Yet I dance and sing with those good nurses that get a decent salary now.
Good luck to you all I say.

BREAKING WIND-E-NEWS
UK Monday morning.
A mass exodus of small children. Kids run away from UK schools like never before.
Interviews with some of the kids showed the cause of this mass burst of activity.
" We are showing the Brown man that we can read ok thank you. In fact we read even between the lines of our big leader. That's why we run. "

I blame the parents and the teachers and the preachers and the creepers that creep and creep and creep.
The Kids are Alright.

DID YOU KNOW That
Cumulus is a white puffy cloud often associated with showery weather?

Willy Willy is a miniature tornado peculiar to Australia?

NURSES IN FINLAND IGNORED YET AGAIN
Today the Finnish government voted to ignore nurses and public opinion. This, yet again.
The plastic mis-economy is on the air right now.
At the same time the Prime Minister, Matti Vanityman, could not be present to vote.
He was in hospital at the RIGHT time.
Damn it this all sucks.

A FRIDAY IN THE UK
School uniforms should be more uniformed say top experts.
There is too much "social exclusion" involved today.
We need more creative and innovative youth.

Is this the NU-UK?
Or what.

A FRIDAY IN FINLAND
I have received a grant from the Finnish Association for the Advancement of the Correctional Abilities in a Mis-Political-Economy. I have been given the task of displaying Finland on a Friday. Then the money runs out.

Anyway here it is :-

1) At the biggest local hotel we have boxing. Men with Finnish sounding names fight against men with Swedish sounding names and Russian sounding names. It costs 15 Euro to get in and the drinks are not cheap.
2) The government is set to disrespect the nurses yet again as the second reading of the Anti-Nurses-Bill is happening. At the same time Finnish agents made employment fairs in Poland to encourage Poles to come and work in Finland.
3) The State run "Alko" shop has the workers on strike. This really pisses off many Finns on a Friday.
4) In Rovaniemi ( an insignificant Santa Claus place) a new Academy is brought into action. It is called "The Elf Academy" and grants diplomas to those that study to become elves to help Santa Claus.
5) The sex industry really gets going on a Friday and there is always a full display of Far-Eastern girls advertising in the newspapers for nice chats and therapy.
6) Damn it I'm off.................. sorry

AS I HOBBLED BACK FROM HOSPITAL
This morning was one of those hospital mornings.
I was due the first injection as winter time comes along.
I walked in the room with a smile ( surely she will like me after what I have been writing in support of nurses in Finland)

Were you born in England she asked me.
I said yes.
Have you been a good boy she asked.
I said no.

She then jabbed the needle in my arse and I am sure i saw her feet lift up from the ground as she did the wicked deed.
She smiled as I left the room.

GOVERNMENT SHOWS NURSES WHO THE RULES ARE FOR !
Yes it was predicted even here on this blog. This morning the Finnish government passed the first reading of the so called "Patients Safety Bill" which roughly translated means the Anti-Collectives Bill and the you will do as you are told Bill.
Nurses have seen that the political and business elite can quickly make a bill preventing any kind of collective protest.
The second reading is on Friday.

Last count was a clear majority of Finns in support of nurses but the clear majority of right wing Blairites in government show their teeth. If this really goes through a sea change situation will be upon Finland. It may soon be that 20.000 nurses will protest ( Finland is a small country of 5 million people so 20.000 is very many).
Will the more industrial trades unions show support?

Have I ever been down this road before?

MONDAY BRAINDEAD BLUES
The absurdity of Monday is no new thing as school and work systems have long been a regimentation of things that really make little or no sense. It is then on a Monday morning that the crassman comes to call.
But it all makes work for the bloggerman to do.

Considering that more than a few bloggers turn to Jung stuff and even paint images of hills and fields and stuff like that - considering that I went back to a quote that I had used many years ago - a quote from Jung. It was this that he said when he was 87 years of age :-

" Modern man has not truly looked into the great divide within himself, the great divide which separates him from wilderness and nature ..... The more uncertain I have felt about myself and life, the more has grown in me, through nature, a feeling of kinship with all things. "

As the snow surrounds our home now and as footfalls tell a story I will be off to hunt a good looking female reindeer to spread the message. I shall be at one with the world.

The Queen Speaks for Nation
Remember, remember the 11th of November.
Send more to war and then celebrate.

A good father today might say no.
My sons do not need to join the army.

A DAY FOR FATHERS AND DADS
Not sure about everywhere but in Finland today a father is thanked.
My father is dead and gone but I might still thank him.

He was non-violent.
He used to warm my clothes early in the morning before I went out to deliver newspapers at 6 in the morning in the rain.
He crafted a wooden fort for one birthday and I played with it for many years until I became too "mature" ( that fort was given to others and I hear is still used). Good craftsman he was.
Smashed my head in once. Father cleaned me up calmed me and then made sure I was not alone in the hospital.
At the end, attacked by cancer, he still tried his best to chat to me as a father would. He was brave in his sweat and bumpy body.

Thanks dad

TO BE A GOOD PARENT?
Winnicott used to ask us to do things "just good enough". Always thought that such a simple and clear statement was just good enough.

A good parent is so abstract and yet this abstraction is all we have to try and live with in bloggerlands. Such is the hassle of worded-deeds.

But, at the same time, good parents "are worth it".
Is this irony and a postmodern play?

I was an adopted child and proud of it in this way. I was given a second chance as it were. I was parented. Gifted.
Maybe that is what I might say to this question.
Second chances are good.

WHERE WOULD THE NU-LEFTIES BE?

As past preist Blair is for the turning and embraces the Catholic poverty of philosophy and as Brown inhales his own opium mixture then what will we expect from the Nu-Lefties today?

Will they be able to handle the religious debates that have so influenced left-wing politics for about 300 years in the Modern world?
Will they be able to be critical ( remember a book called "Catholics and the Left" from the 60,s where Marxian writers struggled with their faith) or will they avoid such basics?

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT AT SCHOOL TODAY DEAR LITTLE NU-LEFTIES THAT SHINE?

ROMANTIC FINLAND
Finland has been called, sometimes, more American than America. Sometimes that has seemed to me like a good sense reading. Sometimes.
Schools, killings and.......... Nokia land.
As I live in the north we call the south and Helsinki -- HELLSTINKI.
We have better ways of slaughter in the North.
This post in no way disrespects those hurt by senseless killing.
I am just sad at this absurdity that grows and grows in Finland.

The "no comment" ploy of Finnish authorities no longer works.

NOTHING NEW WITH THE QUEEN PREACH
. ( Same old crap )

Education, education,education was there, in USA style under Bliar, today we have aspiration, aspiration,aspiration.
CLASS(sic) stuff ignored yet again.
And that was just a small bit.

Is there any point in "trusting" a UK democracy anymore or before?

Parliament will have new powers!!!!!
Same old crap.

It might be OK if words remained with deeds and meaning.
But sorri.
That time has gone.

Please think up a new way to classify folk into ... into ... into ...
Fuck it stink up, stink up a new way to sell the shit up shit up cock up crap.

Blame me I am a small Hermes
Shame .......
Sori if I get personal.
But
Shit stinks.

TROUSERS GETTING THE JUMP LEAD
Old Szwagipants is up to mischief again. ( see his site).
Poor trousers is getting sent up to the cleaners.
But he is on the run.
It's odds on right now.
Place yer bets.

For those in angst remember Sparticussipussy blogs awhile back.

And who said that Szwagiknickers was only a footnote to Plato?

NOVEMBER FIFTH SEES UK PARLIAMENT NERVOUS
It has come to my notice that any blog attempts to blow up the Houses of Parliament will be dealt with harshly.
The same goes for newspapers and general media. No mention no cry.

So I just thought I would remind folk.
Got my bonfire working.... have you?

No mention of Guy Fawkes either.
But I want a bonfire, I want a bonfire....

FIRST SNOW TURNS TO SLUSH
What next? The first snows have fallen but are quickly slushifying. What ever happened to lost virginity that remained flourishing? Black ice next methinks.
Anyway have made a big wood fire things pure and simple.

However a big problem early this morning. Too much existential thinking perhaps. As I had made a very hot cup of coffee I placed a spoon in the cup. Then it came to me. Was the spoon absorbing the heat so to allow me to drink the damned thing quicker or was that spoon keeping the whole thing hot for longer? That caused a few hours of hassle for me and if I write about it I do so in hope that it will just go away.
Then began to write my words for a publication. Boredom set in. So I played around with history and things got better.
Did you know that this year is a big year. 1307 was the year when that big girls blouse Edward 11 began his reign. He was to lose Scotland.
Let that be a history lesson for the big girls blouse beginning his reign in 2007.

Bit concerned about our Trousers though. Seems that the kegsman has been full of dreams turning into reality again. But this time it is a fairly well researched disease that is evident. It is called, Addastickstoyer, and is associated with a poor diet and a unhealthy desire to avoid a middle-aged-spread. We must keep a careful eye on this situation.

THIS WEEKEND IS SACRED
It is All SOULS WEEKEND and the damned shops are closed.
We had already suffered ALL SAINTS DAY and now ALL SOULS DAY is upon us and the shops are closed.
But, as no doubt the Finns will testify, it is the weekend when candles are placed on the gravestones. It is the first time that Finns make their wonderful candle-light displays with the dead but still remembered.

Graveyards are not always this way.
The worst graveyard I saw was in Prague.
The best in Finland.
But the frigin shops are closed.

Are there no limits to this respect for the dead?

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF
a) nothing left to lose
b) nothing left to gain
c) everything to consider

What would you say?

HAPPINESS
Outside and away from the correctional happy conscientisuch ( that is where even obvious words and deeds of Capitalism are self-evident and Godly yet forbidden ) there is another happiness.

There is the happiness that really warms and flourishes for and with folk.
It is a happiness that cannot be measured.

Happiness is a subversive community of beings as Being.
Therefore the adventure.........

APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR
After our annoying but always goodly Anticant receives an award I am tempted into strange lands.
What is this "appropriate behaviour" that the UK talks?
Could somebobby help me there, could somebobby tell me where I went wrong?
( sori that should have been "somebody" help me there)
Just a song no need for an accountable Barclays Bank ( who remembers South Africa?) but is this song appropriate.
Personally I wank at the Midland ! Good blue feminists are our future.

HOME RULE? NOT ENGLISH.
The English have always had a special skill. To twist words around so much as to always find the sun shining out of the English arsehole.
The British Empire ( with slaves from Wales, Scotland and Ireland) was of course a British Empire. Oh the English. ( was that "Brutish" Empire" get a medel for that)
Forever a bit of this England laid down and dead in a WORLD WAR. Yes that is right a First World War!
Dizzy obvious stuff this.
Holy Shiite now the English accuse the slaves of Wales and Scotland of being selfish and refusing the "window of opportunity" ( for finance centres in London) of Olympic football through an agreed Great Britain team.
Think it was football anyway.
Could have been a few other things too. ( oh yes)

I am not proud ( even in a soft and good way of being proud) of being born and first bred in England.
The only language Ican use in this high-warping-field, that is forever England, is this kind of language : GOOD BYE TO ALL THAT ( sori selfish I know but right to say).

But I do begin to understand the celebi-clubbi-britti-pity ways now a little more.
They have nowt to live-for but their imagined-selves in imagined communites. It is all very English. But fucked. Not even Wales or Scotland will support the image.
In fact much of the wider world moved long times past but that is another more significant issue.