Tag: Stupid people

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...I’d just love to see the numbers behind that assertion — especially when compared to likely “tremendous numbers” of job losses to this new magical fad.


…only actual humans can qualify?  Buzz Lightyear and Woody sue for anthropocentric bias.


...can’t wait to see the MTBF* numbers on this little trend.  If we’re ever allowed to see them, that is.


...from bad to terrible, or from terrible to really horrible?  I report, you decide.


...let me know when the orange jumpsuits are issued.  Otherwise… [yawn]


...see above.

And in Show Biz (I think) News:


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*MTBF: Mean Time Between Failures

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Eco-Crap, Sports

Every time I read something that begins “Environmentalists Warn”, I get an almost uncontrollable urge to either fall asleep or head to the range.  This one’s no exception:

Environmentalists Warn World Cup “Most Polluting Ever”…

Yeah, that’s really going to grab your attention, innit?  Because just about every mass spectator event could be similarly brushed.  But wait!

…as FIFA Boss Uses Private Jet to Hit Two Matches a Day

Ummm well, given that FIFA is the organizing body for the whole damn extravaganza, it kinda goes with the territory that they would be flitting from one venue to another, and we are not Qatar, where all the matches took place basically within walking distance of each other.  No;  this latest Big Sport Thing is happening in the United by gawd States, which is a yooge ginormous country and is the only country which, when tasked with providing the proper match facilities for some massive number of matches and hundreds of thousands of visiting spectators, looked at the list, spat some baccy into a cup and said, “Is that all you got?”  We didn’t have to build one single extra stadium, road, hotel or parking lot to handle the huge numbers of spectators.  Sure, the venues were somewhat far apart (by Rest Of The World standards, that is), but them’s the breaks.

If the enviros want to end that little bit of logistical city-hopping, they should hold all future World Cup competitions somewhere else, like Britishland.  Good luck with that.

Ain’t gonna happen, Watermelons, so go and suck it.

Screaming Down Abuse From Valhalla

Pussification Parade, Wokism

So the Norwegian World Cup football team did a little publicity thing, posing as Vikings as a nod to their fierce, manly heritage:

Personally, I thought it was excellent stuff, well worth hearkening back to their storied heritage and national pride.

But you know what happened next, don’t you?  Predictably, this:

The response to their creative send-off has split opinion in Norway, with woke critics arguing against the aesthetic due to the Vikings’ large-scale raiding, colonizing, pillaging and raping throughout their dominant era. 

The images were ‘chauvinistic and exclusionary’, according to journalist Markus Slettholm of the newspaper Morgenbladet. 

And he went even further in an interview with NRK, saying it is ‘reminiscent of what neo-Nazis were concerned about ten years ago’.

Jane Haug Skjoldli, a researcher and Norwegian academic recently argued that the Norway kits for the World Cup could be seen as ‘hyper-masculine and right-wing extremist’.

The shirts have rune-like writing on the back and Skjoldli said elements of it are ‘unfortunate and typical of neo-Nazi and fascist symbolic language’.

Of course, how triggering for the fainting goats on the Left.  The fact that all these Bad Things happened, sheesh, over a thousand years ago has no effect on the tender sensibilities of today’s hyper-weenies.

Here’s one for the Norwegian team:  guys, when you’re done with the World Cup, sail a longboat or two back into Oslo, do a little Viking pillaging and fire at the Morgenblatt  building, and feel free to assuage yer base Viking instincts on Wossname Scolding or whatever her name is.  (I don’t know what the Viking term is for “pulling the train”, but whatever.)

And if she’s ugly — I’m taking no bets, here — just do it for spite.

That noise you hear will be cheering and laughter from your ancestors in Valhalla.

Vox Populi

Riotous Assemblies

I see that the Micks have the temerity to be angry about yet the latest crime committed by an “immigrant” — one of the many thousands dumped in Northern Oirland by the various British governments of recent times.

Of course, being Irish, they are expressing their displeasure in the traditional manner:

Violent scenes were witnessed in Northern Ireland again on Wednesday as tensions remain high in the wake of an apparent attempted beheading on the streets of Belfast, allegedly at the hands of a Sudanese asylum seeker.

Hordes of black balaclava masked men clashed with riot officers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on Wednesday in areas such as the Belfast suburb of Newtownabbey, where a lorry truck was set on fire by agitators. The truck is believed to have been a municipal “gully emptier” used to clean street drainage systems.

A car was also set on fire on Antrim Road in the area, while fires were also lit at the Sandyknowes roundabout, the Belfast Telegraph reported.

Nearby, police were forced to deploy a water cannon to push back a large crowd attempting to break into a Newtownabbey hotel, likely over at least rumours of migrants being housed inside.

Next will be the bombs, I’m guessing.  I’m pretty sure that the IRA Provos still have a few hidden somewhere since The Troubles subsided.

Needless to say, the BritGov is responding in its traditional way, by labeling the protesters as “extreme Rightwing”, suppressing all online mention of the protests as well as going with the water cannons (in stark contrast to their treatment of the BLM-inspired riots a couple years back).

The response from the British government has seemingly attempted to shift the blame for the violence to those commenting on social media, rather than the horrific stabbing attack, footage of which was widely seen and reports indicating that the UK government had granted the suspect asylum after entering into the country illegally.

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer vowed to “crack down on anyone who is fuelling this division,” adding that “there is no justification for the violence and disorder that we saw threatening our communities, nor for those who encouraged it, online or elsewhere.”

Tell that to the Beheaders, old cock, and maybe then we can believe you.

When all the smoke has cleared, I’ll just be curious to see what’s left.  Of everything.  Over There.  In the meantime…

Proportionate Response

Foreign Affairs, Law and Order

See, here’s the kind of statement that makes me want to reach for the old nail-studded cluebat.  (I know I know, it’s a Brit ergo a fucking dumbass / ideologue, but I’ve heard the same drivel being spouted by our Lefty assholes Over Here.)

British Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has said that not all ethnic groups should be treated the same by police in the wake of the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who died in police handcuffs after officers refused to believe he had been stabbed by a Sikh man.

Wait, it gets better:

Lammy, who also serves as the left-wing Labour Party government’s Justice Secretary, said that while the “starting point” should be equality before the law, it is not always appropriate to be treated “the same”, noting the disproportionate arrest rates of certain ethnic minority groups, such as Roma travellers [Gypsies] and black Britons.

…and as we all know, the reason that gypsies and Black Britons get disproportionately arrested is — wait for it — because they commit a disproportionate number of the crimes.

It stands to reason (except to people like this twerp) that if you go fishing in a pond where 80% of the fish are yellow-colored, you’re going to catch a disproportionate number of yellow fish.

I’d like to give tits like this Lammy the benefit of the doubt — i.e. that they’re just statistically ignorant — but the truth of the matter is that for them, everything is viewed through the RAAAYYYYYCISM! lens.

Which is what led to the horrible outcome for the Nowak kid, above.  (For those who don’t know what that story was all about, go here.)

Forced Participation

Retailing

Of late, there’s been a lot of what I’ve come to call “forced participation” in that after almost every retail transaction, it seems, one has to respond to a follow-up questionnaire on said transaction.

Ordinarily I wouldn’t mind, but the problem is that this is becoming increasingly tiresome.  FFS, the transaction took at most a minute, which is what one would expect from a routine transaction, and now I have to take three minutes to say the thing was worth 5 stars?  Frankly, given that the transaction was unexceptional — I paid my money, got the item, all pretty normal — in the normal scheme of things I’d just give it three stars and away we go.

Except that’s not how it works these days, is it? because now Management uses these “service metrics” as a performance indicator for the staff member in question, and (I’m told) anything less than 5 stars has (bad) consequences for the employee come salary review time, or bonus time for that matter.

So now one is more or less compelled to give 5 stars regardless (unless the service was crap, in which case the reduced star count is or should be unexpected).

And here’s the problem.  If five stars is de rigeur, then how do we describe or reward outstanding service?  Like so much grading nowadays, if everyone gets an A, then what is the worth of an A?

I remember once awarding a single star (because I couldn’t give 0 or a negative) for a truly horrendous experience.  The problem was, as I explained to the drone who actually called me to see what had happened (!), that the problem was not with the customer service rep — who had been truly excellent, by the way — but with the corporation’s stupid policy, something over which the poor girl had no control.  But what was I supposed to do?  Give five stars for a monumental clusterfuck?  How does that help?

The situation didn’t improve when I asked the supervisor if I was going to get a survey on his service call, because he hadn’t helped the situation either.  At the end of it, I simply told the supervisor that the outcome was that I was never going to do business with his company ever again, given their shitty policy and terrible backup.  (And I never have.)

As with so many of he little technologies that have injected themselves into our lives of late, this one is being misused (even abused) by people who don’t know what the hell they’re doing and don’t know how to set up or manage information streams.

A plague on all their houses.

Oh, and there will be a followup post on a related matter, all about how I stopped doing business with a longtime service provider precisely because they’ve started abusing the data that I’ve been exchanging with them.  I have to allow a little time to pass before I do because if I rant about what I really think at the moment, there could be lawyers (theirs, of course).

Watch this space.

Update:  Got another one just this morning.

“You recently made contact with Tina at our Customer Service Center. As one of Tina’s customers, we believe you are the most relevant and credible expert to offer advice to help Tina continue to improve. Tina would love your help and it should only take two minutes. Click on the button below to take the survey.”

Yeah, “Tina would love your help” — like she’ll ever see my input other than if I call her service (which was outstanding, by the way) terrible.

Assholes.