I don't often peruse Facebook although I do have an account and I came across post by a relative which went like this, I quote "From what I have learned from the few kids I have spoken to, they have all done pretty well in GCSE/A level exams. As parents we try to encourage and inspire them to do the best they can. We extol the virtues of a good education and how it will benefit them. And then they get to watch Joey Essex being a celebrity with his own show based on the premise that he is as thick as a brick and can, at the age of 25 achieve a D in a GCSE exam. How are you supposed to justify hard work and endeavor when being a nugget will bring you fame and fortune." 

It got me thinking, as you maybe aware I am a lecturer at several colleges throughout Hertfordshire & Cambridgeshire, personally I blame the schools, most of my classes are made up of those that have failed A levels, and then they come to college and think that they are on holiday, the only reason they are there is that the government have set the leaving age to 18, a sign of the times, the reason being I believe is that they worked out that the kids today are not as well educated as my generation and the generation before mine.  
​I have constant battles with them in simple mathematics and english, let me give you an example, last term I asked the class to divide an image into thirds. simple enough, the whole class looked stunned? so I said ok what's the percentage of a third? I got everything from 5% to 60%, but not one said 33.3333333%, when I asked them why they did not know, the answers were almost identical in that they all said that it was too hard for them so they just ignored the teacher and did something else, when I asked what did your teachers say the reply was, 'they didn't care.'

So maybe this Joey guy had the same sort of teacher, one that only concentrates and helps those that want to learn, which means people like me have to pick up the pieces and try to help these kids.  The other reason I think that people like Joey do well on TV is because the audience is about 15 - 21 and I would wager that nearly all of them are A level failures, now, sometimes thats not all bad, I was dragged out of school screaming and kicking by my father at 15 to go and work in the film industry, as it turned out I liked the job and stayed of 11 years before moving onto electronics & computing, now at the age of 60 I am not doing too bad apart from my health, I have a good job and I enjoy what I do.
My son left school at 16 without any A levels, and got a job in retail, he is a very talented graphic design artist, when I suggested when he left school that he go to college and get his A levels and maybe move onto uni he said that I had left school early and I did alright, I couldn't say that he was wrong however I did chat with him about the advantages of good qualifications, but he said that he was happy in his job.  It took him less than a year to be promoted and at 18 he was a shop manager, he moved on to take a job as a  graphic designer based on his drawings and now is doing very well and has his own Graphic Design company, now, he got where he is today by hard bloody work and tenacity, he has also increased his management skills by studying at home, however, he is an exception, what about the rest of these kids watching Big Brother etc?

Do we need to change the way these kids are taught at school, do we need special schools to deal with these individuals? I really don't know the answer, however, I feel that we need to spend more time with these kids, the TV companies must take some responsibility by creating role models out of idiots with 15 minutes of fame, get these kids in the evenings to watch some of the great channels out there one being the National Geographic or NG as t's now known, also Discovery, both channels providing educational TV for all ages.

But back to the Facebook post, he has a valid point, but if you read some of the comments I think they have missed the point, maybe their kids are the ones with no qualifications and they watch Mr Joey Essex, god what is this world coming to?

​Rant over, back to watching an interesting YouTube video on how to use a metal lathe, love it.

Yesterday I was a busy man, I did some work in my workshop restoring an old staking set (watch tool) found a lot of my power tools from my old Hatfield address (8 years ago) and did a bit of tidying.

The workshop is now coming together, I just need to get rid of a few very large aquariums and then I can start really getting things sorted, the hope is by christmas that I can start working on projects that I have had in my head for a couple of years, it's amazing how much crap you collect over the years, I have a steel rack in the workshop thats stacked to the roof with I don't know what? I will have to get a skip at some point and have a clear out, the aquariums are the biggest pain, there are 6 of them 3'x2'x2.5', they were custom made to fit a rack system and cost about £250 each, if I can't sell them before I get the skip then I will through them in there as well, a shame really but I need the space.

So onto gardening, I can't do gardens for a couple of legitimate reasons, 1, I have an allergic reaction to most plants especially grass, if I get it on my skin, large welts appear and it itches like hell, so I have to wear a decorators overall, you know the white paper things with a hood, so I look like some sort of weirdo when mowing the lawn, 2, I have this neurological issue with my arms and hands that only allow me to do about 15 minutes work without a break, so a simple job can often take me 4 times longer than anyone else, however, that's nothing compared to the state of the garden as it is, I have not done any gardening since last September, it has weeds 5 feet high and sycamore trees growing that are now about an inch thick and the same height as the weeds ( the sycamore trees are from the seeds from the tree lined path next to my garden, so in autumn the helicopter seeds as we called them as kids are continually falling into the garden, so I loose ever year to those bloody trees, anyway, I managed to get about a 10 x 20 patch of lawn cut back, only 4 times that amount to go, then I can mow it, the boarders will be next, and thats a 2 weekend job at least.  SO I will be busy over the next month or so trying to get on top of the garden work, then I need to spray the worksop with it protective coating (workshop is a double garage log cabin) so spraying is easier than a paint brush.  Just so much to do in so little time as I now only have the weekends off, I am no longer free lance, but that's another story.

It's just started pissing down with rain so no gardening today, Fuck, so I will have to work inside today on either more workshop stuff or fix a nice little watch I have in bits waiting to be put back together.

​If you have a subject you would like me to talk about let me know in the comments or email me.

Until next time.

One thing that really pisses me off big time is vandalism, what is in these peoples heads because it sure isn't a brain.
I went to my car yesterday to go for an eye test and noticed a scratch from headlight to tail light on the drivers side, not just a scratch that you could polish out, were talking down to the metal in some places, so not an accident, the way the car was parked meant that whoever did it went out of their way not to be seen as it was parked against a wall with plenty of passing space on the passenger side.

So what makes these imbeciles do it, I think it may have 3 reasons, one is I have pissed someone else off?  No, I don't engage much with the neighbours and get on with all of them, two, look at me I am a cool person and I can run my key down the side of this car, three, the old green eyed monster, in this case I believe it to be number two, I have ruled out the others, so it has to be a juvenile, young person, probably young teens, showing off in front of his mates, well you little shit, it's big to scratch a car that can't fight back, but if I ever find out who it was or catch anyone vandalising anything in future I will KICK YOUR ARSE.  

So today I am starting a vigilante group, with a gang of superheroes starting with me Captain Grumpy, I am reminded of a famous line from a film of my youth that I have forgotten the title of, however the line remains in my head and is "Don't fuck with the baldies" so my costume will have that line running across the front of my latex underpants.  But on a more serious note, why do they do it, it can only be to show off in front of their mates, there is no other gain from such an act, no money, nothing, I can only think of boredom, it's the summer holidays, so it can only be mindless vandalism, and I am serious about kicking arses, in fact maybe I will run a scratch across their faces that will leave a permanent mark, who knows, depends on how grumpy I am that day.

​Anyway the second moan of the day is about glasses, spectacles, eye furniture as Dame edna calls them, why so much money?  It's about 2 consumables, plastic and glass, now, I usually go to Spec Savers, but I decided for a change 2 years ago to try someone else, so I went to Boots, read reasonable feedback about the glasses and service.  Fuck up number one, the glasses they made for me fell apart in less than a week, and I could never wear them as the prescription was obviously wrong, so I went back. had another eye test, same prescription so I dumped them, £180 out of pocket.  Next onto Tesco, eye test not the same prescription as Boots, 2 pairs of glasses £100, waste of time, frames OK, but lenses just didn't seem right, so next, ASDA, really good frames, a different prescription from all the others, same problem, not wearable because I just couldn't see right. another £100 down the toilet, so onto Vision Express, eye test, same prescription as ASDA, so I told him that I was finding it difficult to use the gasses from ASDA with the same Prescription, Yes he said but all the supermarkets and 'should have gone to' use cheaper less optically perfect glass, OK I say, how much are yours? £205 just for the lenses, 1 pair and we will fit them into your current frames, so twice the price of all the others, I should mention at this point that all the glasses are veri-focals, so I have taken him on his word, as he has offered me a full refund if I can't use them, so I wait in excited anticipation.

Enough for today, I'm off out, now where did I put those latex under pants?

UPDATE
My new glasses are fantastic, I can see very clearly, well done Vision Express.

A quick one today, I have so much to do, anyway, I have a friend who has a terrible habit of not letting you finish a sentence when you speak to him/her, no giveaways here so I shall call the person Bob, also, Bob will ask advice and then immediately say, 'I don't agree' and ignore everything you have just suggested, so why ask for advice and just completely ignore it, I don't get it.

So, I am having a one sided conversation with Bob, who just talks non stop and when Bob pauses for breath and I try to reply Bob just talks over me and continues with the conversation, talking, talking, talking and talking, if I don't respond I get moaned at for not saying anything, anyway, it came to a head the other night when I, Bob and a couple of other friends were out having a quite drink, one of the group started a conversation about  20 seconds into it Bob started expressing his/her opinion talking over what the other guy was saying, and every time he tried to continue Bob would say, well I think your wrong, you should do this, you should do that, now the other guy never asked for advice or help he was just telling us what had been going on that day, just general chit chat, but Bob as usual just talked over everyone that night, I got so fed up I said 'For fucks sake ket him finish' Bob got real agitated and told me to shut up, now, people who know me well, know that telling me to shut up is a sure way to get yourself a bitch slap at least, however, I resisted the temptation as we are all friends and just kept quiet, and Bob continued to interrupt, over talk and generally be rude when others were talking.

At the end of the evening I pulled Bob up on his rudeness and arrogance as I see it, but Bob saw no wrong in what he was doing, at this point I realised that Bob thinks this is perfectly normal behaviour, so I explained that He/She had up set most of us that night by interjecting and talking over what we were saying, 'Well you shouldn't be talking rubbish' Bob said, WTF?

Anyway the next day I saw Bob again only this time he/she asked for my advice on a particular problem that I have known about for some time, so Bob asks the question, I give my answer, Bob replies 'you don't know what your talking about', so I say 'Why the fuck ask me then'? Bob says 'Because you think you know everything', I have never professed to know everything, however, I do like to have some knowledge about a particular subject if I am meeting someone that I know has a hobby or a profession that they may like to talk about, this just keeps me from asking, 'What' etc.

So, if you are a Bob take some advice from some who "knows it all" think about the way you conduct yourself while in conversation with someone, it's extremely rude to talk over someone, let them finish then say your piece.  Don't ask for advice or someones view on something if your just going to completely ignore what they are saying, and accuse them of not giving the answer you want.  And finally, as a sort of retaliation to Bob's rudeness, I now ignore everything he/she says to me, I don't give an answer apart from my new favourite response, 'I don't know'.

I now need to go do some work, and send Bob a message every hour with 'I don't know'.

​End of moan.
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Why do people have to make things personal when there is no reason for it?

To give you an example, the names will be changed for obvious reasons, I am a member of a FaceBook group of people who collect watches and there are a few YoTube channels dedicated to the subject, what has come to light recently is that there is a lot of rivalry and back stabbing behind closed doors, however, every now and then word gets out and the name calling begins.

What amazes me is that they get really personal at times when there is obviously no need for it, I was on my usual FaceBook group, when someone up loaded a part of a live feed of one of the guys who has a YouTube channel being verbally attacked by another ex-member over something that was 'allegedly' said on one of the videos.  Now I am not perfect, when upset and I do use bad language to often, but there is the "C" word that I never use because I find it really offensive and I have on more than one occasion thumped someone who called me that, anyway, the guy shouting and ranting frequently used the "C" word and others, at times in an uncontrollable rage, what's interesting is the guy on the end of it remained extremely calm and tried several times to address the accusations made against him, but the other guys just shouted over him and just kept calling the other guy a "C", now, the strange thing is the 2 guys in dispute were on someone else's channel, so man number 3 should have just disconnected them both and told them to sort it out off line, the 2 guys are in 2 different continents so meeting up and sorting it is never going to happen, however a civil conversation via private messaging would I think been an answer, I should at this point tell you that only part of the live feed was shown so there maybe more to this than we have seen, but I will go back to the reason for this post is, why has a general conversation viewed by so many got so personal?  It just doesn't make sense.

I understand that conversations and heated discussions get personal, but you should stop and think, why continue in public, discuss it in private, now the guy doing the swearing had a right to be angry if the other guy had indeed called him something that even I find offensive, and I would be very angry about, but not in public, his argument was based on a video, great you have proof, take it to a court and make a claim for deformation of character, arguing on line gets you nowhere other than a hospital after you have a heart attack.

This is not a unique incident, I have seen several YouTube videos where people call and accuse others of stuff, this where I think the YouTube police should step in, now I know all about freedom of speech and all that but when you are possibly breaking the law, as above in that feed, YouTube should remove the video/Feed and ban those doing it from their site.  I know it seems harsh, but, If a 10 year old girl stumbles upon that video and watches it, she is likely to learn a whole new vocabulary, so come on YouTube, get your act together, the same goes for Facebook.

As a responsible adult, I feel that I should contact Facebook and report it,have it removed and those involved banned from the site, yeah I know, Grumpy Old Man again rearing his ugly head to say his piece.

Nuff said.

This mornings moan is about shops not having the clothes I want in my size.
I am 5'8" tall, 46" chest, 36" waist, yes I am the short fat bloke, however it would appear that this country is full of short fat blokes.  For years British Home Stores was my place to go, they always had stuff in 'SHORT' sizes, so I pretty much got everything I needed, suits and stuff I have are bespoke or off the shelf but adjusted to fit, my favourite shop for these is Moss Bros, always managed to find a quality suit or jacket.

So I have for the past 3 weeks been trying to find a Tweed Jacket in Brown with a blue line or check, every shop I have visited have them, but not in my size, when I ask do you have this in 46s the reply is always the same, 'I'm sorry sir, we are sold out', so I decided I would go online, same thing no one has this particular jacket in my size, so I started to do some research.Today, the average man is 5ft 9in, weighs 12st 6lbs and has a chest of 42in and a waist of 37in.  He wears size nine shoes, has a collar size of 16.
So why can't I find the size I want, it would appear that my size isn't that unusual, but, they make fewer than the other sizes, now if I was a women I would have a large choice from the 'Petite' range of clothing, but for me NOTHING.

So my only option it seems is to go to someone like Moss Bros and get a larger size altered to fit, so I contact the london shop and guess what, They have none, I mean NONE in stock, so I phone head office, they tell me that they have none in any of there shops at the moment, but, come October, November, they should have some in, so I say can you order a 46s, the shops will have all sizes, I ask can I place an order for on in 46s?  You can go to the shop and ask them to put one aside for you when they come in, I Thank the young lady and call the london shop, they say, that cannot put one aside neither can they contact me when they arrive.  So it looks like it going to be a lot of jacket hunting for me over the next month or so.

​And while I am on the subject of clothing for the short fat bloke, my shirt size is 17" so not that big, however it doesn't matter where I buy them from the sleeves are always far to long, so I have to wear a sleeve garters, OK so that's not much of an issue but remember the average size of a man in the UK is not that different from me so why not make shirts in 17L, 17M and 17S?  I know I can have them made, and I already have some bespoke shirts, but for everyday wear, 'I like nice crispy white shirt' I don't want to spend £50 - £100.  So come manufacturers, it's up to you to get your act together, the national average man needs your help.

Moan over for today, I am going shopping later to see if I can find a jacket, then off for a nice meal with my son this evening, what could go wrong? I'm sure I can find something to blog about tomorrow.

No moaning or groaning today, I am in a good mood so her ya go, a post with a more positive feel.

​As some of you will be aware I am a watch collector and watch repair hobbyist, Repairing watches helps with my neurological problem, having repaired them I should really sell them, but I decided that I would keep them and start a small collection of the best ones, however the small collection now has over 40 New and old watches, and it getting bigger day by day, I am waiting delivery of another 10 mechanical watches in need of repair this week, I am also saving for a couple of new watches I really want for the collection.

​I started looking on YouTube for reviews on watches and found this great channel called The Urban Gentry the presenter TGV, Tristano Geoffry Michele Veneto, born in the UK, lives in USA, he is a really likeable guy, giving detailed reviews on watches, I believe his channel started as a guide for Gentlemen, but has been dominated by watches recently.  So watching TGV and his friend Federico talking watches was informative and for me interesting as I love watch movements and as I said earlier repairing them, I can now officially announce that TGV is responsible for my last 4 new watch purchases, now, I bought them not because they were on his channel, but it made me look deeper in those watches, were they worth adding to my collection? Could I wear them everyday? And, would they be of any value when I finally pop me blogs and they become my sons inheritance?  So my research began and my decision was made based on TGV's reviews and other website information.

The answer to all the above is yes, I now have in the collection some amazing new watches, Seiko, Orient, Tissot etc, and some really nice repaired and restored Junghans, Timex and some really nice Swiss made mechanicals as well.  I have really enjoyed repairing the broken ones and returning them to their former glory, I am particularly pleased with the Junghans, this 1960's German made watch is elegant and a perfect dress watch or an everyday wearer. I have no doubt that over the next year or so the collection will get bigger and I hope to add some of the luxury watches, Rolex, Omega etc.

So, with all of this taken into consideration I have decided that I will try and start a watch review on YouTube myself, however, I will make these videos looking at the lower end of the market, less than £100, now you may say 'You can't get a good watch for that sort of money', I say you can, and the point of the videos will be don't overlook some great watches because they are at the lower end of the market, one of my favourite watches in my collection is my Orient Bambino, a great dress watch, mechanical, automatic, and below £100.  I will also be talking about the watches I have repaired, the quality of the movements and the general build.  Keep an eye on this space, I will let you all know when I upload the first review.  Also, check out The Urban Watch channel, worth a look if watches are you thing, link below.

The Urban Gentry

Until next time.

I was talking to someone the other day as they worked on their computer, he laughed a few times and I asked him whet he was doing, he replied 'Go look at YouTube and type in Drunk Girl Fails', so I did,having watched a couple of these videos I wondered how the hell do these girls/women get into such a state of drunkenness? Ladettes I believe is the term used for these sad people, with so many camera phones about you must know that if you fall over pissed and show your underwear it's almost guaranteed to appear on YouTube, so why do it?  It's not even funny watching these young women unable to stand or coordinate any type of movement, often falling and injuring themselves, come on ladies, show some self respect, go out and enjoy your evenings but be aware that someone somewhere will be recording your drunken stupidity. 

Having watched these women make complete arses of themselves the Up Next box read Instant Karma?  So I had to have a look, basically these are about people starting fights then getting their arses kicked, these video's are in some cases extremely violent, and the videos carry warnings, again its all down to camera phones, see some trouble about to start, YouTube it.  Again most of these are pointless violence and filmed and uploaded to shock.

Use your cameras for something useful, the guy/girl committing a crime, documenting interesting events, now I know that's not going to get you a million hits, but some of us in viewing land see enough violence on TV, I know we don't have to watch it but think about the kids, who now think that beating the shit out of someone or getting so pissed is perfectly OK because the see you videos.

YouTube is a great tool and educator if used properly, I use it every day for information or instruction videos,  I have even used some of them in my classes, thank you YouTube.

Another moan over, back to my coffee and rich tea's now, have a great Sunday.

Like I said in my previous post I would talk about God, Ghosts etc.  At this point I think I should mention that I don't believe in any of the above, now, don't get me wrong, I not saying that you should drop your beliefs because I think there is something wrong with your head, No, all I am suggesting is that you go see someone about it, a shrink or some other professional, I know that this post is probably going to be offensive to some and up you, I apologise now but, this is just my opinion, remember I am a grumpy old bastard.

SO, lets get to it, where to start, the Bible I suppose, what is it, well I like to think of it as an adult form of Grimm fairy tales, you know, tell a story about morals and warnings, the Bros Grimm used monsters, the Bible uses God and Jesus, and just to put the record straight now, I have read the Bible from front to back when I was really into the UFO thing, lots of stories in there could be linked to UFO's and Aliens, not my idea but I had to find out for myself, anyway, back to the Bible.  as I see it the Bible is a collection of stories from different peoples "experiences", and then a group of people decided to start a religion of sorts and made a anthology from them, it's a great read with everything in it, sex, power, murder, scheming, love to name just a few, but as a book of actual happenings I am not so sure.

First off God, this omnipotent being who decides to create a world in 7 days? really? come on, we all now know about the 'Big Bang', we also know now that the earth took a little longer the 7 days to create, so where does this leave God now, I am now hearing that God created the Big Bang, yeah right.  The believers have to have something to hang onto, otherwise there is no point in preying, going to church etc, so they will always find something to try and prove the existence of God. My thinking is why create a world that is so cruel and unforgiving?  God must have had an evil side to him.

Onto Jesus, where do we start with an ancient Paul Daniels, born to a virgin mother, lets look at this, Ufologists would have you believe that Mary was artificially inseminated by an alien, lets face it waking up one morning to find out your carrying a child, come on, if the aliens didn't do it Mary must have got so drunk one night that Joseph jumped her while she was asleep, I know, your all getting angry, but come on, show me the proof, you can't, neither can I but my version makes more sense.

SO Jesus doe's all these miracles, no he's a very talented magician, doing his one man show around the country getting followers and groupies on the way, remember there was no Twitter or FaceBook to get followers, they had to literally follow you around like a bunch of stalkers, anyway, the Bible goes on and on about what Jesus said and what we should do, if you want to believe in all that then fine, remember one thing, the church is the biggest business in the world with more land/real estate than any other, when you by a bible where does the money go, the authors don't get the royalties, the church does, who pays for the church roof when some little bugger has stripped of the lead, the followers do, so God, big money, someone knew how to exploit a book of bedtime stories and make millions from it.  Is religion dangerous, YES is bloody well is, every war is based on a region of some type, and what about the new religions?  I quote from the inform.ac website:

• In 1969, a group calling themselves 'The Family' under the leadership of Charles Manson (who referred to himself as Jesus Christ) committed a series of high profile murders in southern California. Upon their conviction for seven brutal murders, Manson and four of his followers received the death penalty, which was later commuted to life imprisonment.

• In 1978 about 914 members of The Peoples Temple, a movement combining elements of Pentecostalism, socialism and communism, died in a mass suicide-murder at Jonestown, Guyana.

• Between 1994 and 1997, seventy-four members of the Order of the Solar Temple, a movement based on a variety of esoteric teachings including Templarism and Rosicrucianism, died in a number of incidents involving suicide and murder in Canada, Switzerland and France.

• In 1995, twelve people died and thousands were injured in a sarin gas attack in Tokyo's underground system by members of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhist-based group, founded by Shoko Asahara in 1986.

• In 1997, thirty-nine members of Heaven's Gate, a UFO group, who believed that a spacecraft positioned behind the Comet Hale-Bopp would take them to a higher level of existence, committed suicide in San Diego, California.

•  In 2000, around 300 followers of the Ugandan Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, a movement which broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the late 1980s, were burned to death. Mass graves were later discovered, raising the death toll to more than 1,000 victims.

I know the above are extremes but!  However if you feel the need to follow and talk to God or whoever you follow that's fine with me, however, it's telling me that something is missing in your life and need to have something/someone to help you through life.
Talk to a counsellor or someone, they will be of more help than God.

Ghost & other spooky things.

What are they and why do some people see things that others don't? The answer is Pareidolia.

Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists.
Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the man in the moon, the moon rabbit, and hidden messages within recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds.

'What has that got to do with ghosts' you ask?  Well, I believe that all ghost sightings are normal shadows the we think are shapes of bodies etc, Pareidolia, 'So what about the the whole person I saw with features and form?' same thing Pareidolia, we really want to see certain things, dead relatives and pets etc, so we do when we see shadows or light creating shapes that we then interpret as what ever.

In photography (film) it is normally a double exposure or (digital) a sensor error that is not erasing a previous exposure, 'But that looks like my dead granny in the back ground', probably not, we just see who we want to see, Photo-Pareidolia, yes I have an answer for everything, Photo-Pareidolia is a new thing I just made up to cover the photographic angle.

A good example of where people take this to the next level are Ghost Hunters, these people would have you believe they are nonbelievers, but in reality they do, lets have a quick look at Most Haunted, a UK TV programme where a crew go to famous haunted places and try to capture a ghost on film/digitally or EVP.

Led by Yvette Fielding, the programme investigates purported paranormal activity in many locations in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and other countries. It is produced by Antix Productions airing on Really starting from 21 August 2014, with Yvette Fielding, Karl Beattie and Stuart Torevell. Most Haunted was first aired on Living TV from 2002 until 2010 when the network decided to axe the programme.

They also for a very long time had the so called Psychic Derek Acorah telling the audience that he could feel a presence and would tel stories that had happened in these old buildings, however he was dropped after Antix Productions found out that he would research the buildings they went to and would then lie that he had contact with these entities, WHAT A LOT OF BOLLOCKS. he was also proved later not be a Psychic, there's a surprise, not.
Here a couple of youtube links that just crack me up.
youtu.be/fOPVNMXKFv8 
​youtu.be/4GZED9yn3kI
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​So I think if you see a ghost, just remember they are not real, it's all in your head.

That's enough for today, I want to do some research in the the YouTube phenomena that is 'Drunk girl fails', I am assured that i will piss myself laughing, so wish me luck.  

I like to think of myself as a good driver, with over 40 years driving and no accidents, hang on I lie, 1 very minor collision and I was stationary at the time, not my fault, I am surprised at the extremely poor driving of the so called professionals, and yes I mean Lorry Drivers. I was a bus driver in London for a couple of years so I like to think that I can talk about this matter with some confidence, the first thing is why the fuck do you try to overtake the lorry in front of you when you are both traveling at the same speed now blocking 2 lanes? I had on occasion where I was behind one of these idiots and it took nearly 10 miles for him to get passed, the other faster moving vehicles forming a massive cue behind, every car that passed him sounded their horn letting him know he was a twat.  So why do it, you get to you location no quicker.

Now the other thing is pulling out in front of vehicles leaving no time or room to break safely, this happens everyday on the A14, yesterday was a good example, I was travelling in the overtaking lane (A14 is a 2 lane   dual carriage way) when the lorry to the left and front of me indicated to come out of his lane, I was no more than 4 feet behind him, as soon as he indicated he made the manoeuvre and pulled out in front of me making me hit the breaks and slow from 65 - 50, the women behind me nearly hit me because she was driving to close in her VW, I hate tailgaters, after he had returned to the inner lane I politely hooted as I went passed to let him know that I was not very happy, which brings me to the law of the roads, I have spoken to 2 traffic police about this sort of thing and they have both said that if someone manoeuvres a vehicle in front of you causing you to take evasive action i.e. hard breaking or have to swerve to avoid a collision that is an offence and carries 3 points on your licence and a £100 fine, you are guilty of Driving with undue care and attention, even dangerous driving if a collision takes place, great if you have witnesses, however, the last traffic cop I spoke to said if you have a car camera and record the incident you can take the recording to the police station or to a traffic/motorway cop, show the the footage and if 1, they deem it to be dangerous and 2, you have captured the number plate of the vehicle, they will prosecute and even if they don't YOU CAN.  SO to all you arsehole driver and I include car and motorcycle drivers/riders in this I will now make sure that my car-cam is on every journey and I will at the end of each week upload the bad driving on a YouTube channel I will be creating later today, and I will pop into the local police station with the footage and report you all, I am fed up of taking risk to my life everyday because of arsehole bad driver.  Watch this Space.

A short moan today but I am probably going to talk about ghosts and ghouls tomorrow, whats wrong with peoples heads?  Just read a previous post where I said I would discuss God, so maybe both.

​Off now to creat the A14 youtube channel.