Bradford Degeneration Correct but not Politically Correct

Anyone who follows this site will know that I am a banned individual on the T&A forum because I refuse to toe their line of allowing racists lunatics to post unchallenged. You will also know that the T&A are too tightfisted to properly monitor their forums to control the sort of racist bigot they attract and that to draw attention to the lack of proper controls I regularly sign on at weekends when there is absolutely NO control and taunt the usual suspects all of which gets deleted on Monday morning when the office junior in charge gets to her desk. Alas this week was a bank holiday and they didn't delete the weekend mayhem until tuesday and I presume AFTER they had made the selections for the items from the forum to reprint in Friday's paper (yes they do seem to prepare part of Friday's paper on tuesday - unless that is there is so little co-ordination between paper and website they don't realise they are reprinting items from someone who is "ban on sight")

No prizes for guessing which contributor I was!

BTW the answer to the question is no.

As everyone knows Bradford's telephones, unlike the rest of the country, run on gas (a decision of the Tramways and Fine Arts Committee). This can lead to the occasional problem as seen in this photo. You may need to click on original to read the notices.

of the GateHaus NewSlum™. A quick wander round suggests about half the properties are unoccupied and the usual slew of NewSlum™ litter was visible (a bin bag, disgarded T-shirt, broken Jack Daniels bottle and of course various bits of unfinished brickworks and cabling. (These other photos are somewhere in the latest unsorted images, or will be very shortly)

Yep the methadone and coke tipple that is favoured by Bradford's more upmarket citizens.

A comment on skyscrapercity by some arse too idle to do his own research got me looking round t'internet and I found these marvelous collections of pastcards from Birstall and Batley and then the Kirklees Image archive alas Bradford seems a little less organised in getting its collections of historic images on the steam internet than Kirklees. This did however rather surprise me - I can't think of anything further from nature than Bradford's abysmal (and smelly) concrete monstrosity of a library, I also was somewhat surprised to see Aunty Beeb has swallowed another website (they also gobbled up h2g2, the collection of Beeb discussion and do-gooder websites can be found at the DNA hub .... now that looks like the sort of thing that should be done by government and I suppose these days the BBC is the nearest thing the UK has to a government (at least it's a darn sight more honest than the Queen's current collection of ministers).

The Francis Frith collection is also worth a mention

Update the arsehole has posted back on skyscrapercity ... fortunately before I upped the images he was after - he can whistle for them now. The location of the Bradford Library image collection has also been found by someone who thinks all I do is criticise, judge and hate! Bah humbug!

A story appears that brings tears to my extremely cynical and jaundiced eye and this is one of them. Can anyone tell me why the drug addled and ageing Kate Moss is a professional model and this girl isn't (other than age perhaps - but the modeling industry isn't above exploiting children)

Probably because as a heart transplant patient she can't be active in the drugs scene that seems obligatory for models.

I'll be buggered if I understand why the toothless and gutless doesn't allow comments on that story so we can all say "good on you girl" - ah I've just realised they don't want anyone to point out the T&A's propensity to feature child models (see this and speculate exactly how many pedos* are on their staff - it could be none and the excessive features in relation to child models have an entirely innocent explanation)

*Note for Sun readers - this does NOT refer to paediatricians so don't get up a vigilante mob to beat up your local doctor specialising in children

Across at Beaman's World one of the unthinking sheep following the bankrupt neocon way is trying to present the usual view that 2 out of 3 abrahamic nutjob lifestyle guides and ways of life are more rational and peaceful than the third. As usual this view can only be presented by downright lying as in this response to my objection to his article:

Baht At: The Judeo-Christian scriptures have shaped the very cultures and values we must hold dear.

The Golden Rules - the ethic of reciprocity - (which is not found in Islam) has been vital to our social evolution..

Now I'm not a beardie in a dress but even I know that Islam says much the same as the other style guides when it comes to not pissing out of the tent in the direction of your neighbours and sure enough we have from the Last Sermon:

"Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you"

I suspect that the only version of the golden rule that Numpty Neocon follows are those listed for the Church of Satan or the Creativity Movement. I've nothing against neocons except for the fact they resort to lying to support their pisspoor philisophy.

I also like "we must hold dear" that would be the genocial nuclear weapons using US culture would it? I do so love it when people following a morally degenerate philosophy tell me what I must hold dear

"Dear Aunty,

I was shocked when at the conclusion of the Today programme item on women's cravings during pregnancy John Humphrys made the comment "what about eating carpet" I know that is fashionable to make reference to alternate sexuality but this is going much too far!"

While browsing I came across a little tool that tests the level of education needed to understand a particular blog (needless to say mine comes up genius).

However it also works on other websites thus we have

Elementary school (infant in english) - The Daily Telegraph Website
Junior High (junior in english) - The Sun, The Daily Mail
High (secondary modern in english) - The Guardian, T&A
College (comprehensive in english) - The Economist
Genius (grammar in english) - The Times, BBC News

I always thought Daily Telegraph readers were particularly dim!

It seems that Bradford is now so tolerant you can roll your spliffs in the open in broad daylight. One up on the poncey cafe culture of Leeds!

I do not read the majority of the emails I receive. If you want to use them to prevent an act of terrorism I expect you to read them yourselves.

This posting is prompted by this story regarding some poor sod convicted of possessing information which could have prevented an action of terrorism. In an email from his brother that he only read AFTER the attack had taken place. This country is getting worse than East Germany.

Oh and there's the new logo for the Office of Government Commerce (aka the wankers)

I have received the following response:

FOI Reference No: FOI-2008127/26

Police forces providing information do not use generic systems, nor are the procedures used for capturing the data the same. It should be noted that for these reasons this forces response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.

So they don't keep records of what the time-wasters at head office are up to - hardly surprising that, if they did the taxpayer might ask for them to be sacked. Fortunately wikipedia has an edit record that shows how many times they were altering the facts they seem to have used the handle webteam3 and later changed things unregistered using the IP 194.152.91.186, particularly amusing is the denial evident in the reason for the edit on 31/3/08.

Needless to say I'm not happy with the response and have sent back

The response is wholly unacceptable.

1. the server logs kept by your IT services department will clearly identify who accessed the site and when,
2. it contains a statement of opinion (in relation to the comment regarding press reports),
3. that statement of opinion contains a false statement (no paper alleged a single person was allocated to the the task, the reports were an entire team was given this responsibility.

Inspired by reports from Aunty that it is a crime to overfill your wheelie bin I think I'll be reporting all the residents of our local NewSlum™ in the hope they are all shot for crimes against cleanliness.

Business as usual? Didn't Northern Rock say that too?