So, back to TED, as most of you reading this blog will know I am a Teacher/Lecturer, Photographer, film maker, I also have a few hobbies, Astronomy, Horology, Marine Biology and I have a small work/metal workshop, I have watched so many educational and inspiring talks that have taught me so much about my hobbies, work and life, yes life, most of these talks are inspirational, they make you want to do things, watching some of the artists talks I find myself wanting to go to the Antarctic and photograph some of the icebergs floating and melting into the sea, no, your not going to get a lecture from me about global warming etc, I just think that the icebergs are beautiful and would make great images.

Back to Hot Babes, yes I am the wrong side of 60, but I am not dead below or mentally, yet, so I still have an eye for the ladies, but not just personally, but as a photographer shooting model for magazines and portfolios we sometimes miss the real beauties right in front of us.
When I was a kid my wall was plastered with pictures of Sophia Loren, Ursula Andress, Diana Rigg and later a film I watched made me fall in love with the actress Cassandra Peterson better known as Elvira, I still have a thing for her and would run off with her tomorrow if I had the chance.
​However, the real beauties are those with a beautiful face, a red hot body and finally and more importantly a beautiful person inside, these ladies are hard to find, one of my more recent partners was a plain looking girl  but to me a real beauty, with a good figure but she had an incredible mind, intelligent and just a really nice person and thats what sold me on her, I found myself for the first time talking to someone who actually understood what I was talking about, the sex was also great so a perfect babe, in my eyes, but like I said before, sometimes beauty can be just skin deep, so all you guys marrying hot babes, what do you talk about? the price of her next handbag and pair of shoes? The girl next door who is a plain Jane may well be the hottest babe in more ways than one, so guys, set your sights higher and give the girl with the brains, glasses and flat shoes a chance. 

Random searches, some times when I am bored I will type a word into google and see what it returns?  As an example I typed in the word Bollocks and got the following.

WTF were they thinking, worth the search though as it made me laugh. But most were dictionary explanations.
Give it a go guys.

Enough for now, off to search for wife number four, so my google search will be Hot Babes with Brains, god I hope it retunes more than 10 links.

As most of you know I was involved with BUFORA in the 70's investigating cases local to me or covering for others when they were unavailable, so I have an interest in UFO cases and I suppose I always will have.  
​I was rummaging through the crap and fake videos on YouTube when I came across the case below, when I first looked into it, it appeared to be genuine, but something kept nagging away at me saying it was fake so I set about ripping the video to pieces to look for signs of skulduggery, and I found it.  But before you read on have a look at the original footage below, It's in 3 parts, but well worth a look.

SUMMARY 
This case developed in the location of Kumburgaz between the years 2007, 2008, and 2009. Its main witness was a night guard named Yalcin Yalman, who while on duty registered on video strange objects that appeared at sunrise like floating or changing while in flight over the sea on the coast of Marmara. Yalman was able to film many video segments, some during the day accompanied by witnesses with whom he spoke to while he was filming.

So I watched each video several times and noticed that the time codes and been manipulated or played with by masking the original date and replacing it with another, I then looked more closely at the ufo itself, it remained the same throughout each video, not turning, spinning or tumbling, so I came to the conclusion that this is a model of some type and is definitely a FAKE.

I then started to look for others who had checked out the video and came to a similar conclusion and I found quite a few, what amazed me about this case was the fact the so many people and newspapers and UFO investigators had been duped?  With all their hi-tech stuff no one noticed that there was something wrong with the tape?

Here are some stills from the videos and newspaper reports.

I came across loads of sites debunking the video, and a really good video by a YouTuber called M Wing, his video is below, Case Closed.

Footnote:
I will at some point be making a fake video and posting it on youTube to see if anyone can dismiss it as fake.  Should be fun.

​Checkout my UFO website HERE

Over the last few days I have had the misfortune to have run-ins with teenagers with face makeup so they look like clowns, not smiley clowns but evil looking clowns, now, I don't have an issue with kids having bad taste in the way they dress or use makeup, however these kids are using the makeup so they can hide their identity while intimidating and scaring people.
So the first incident this week was while I was at work and the kids in the music department were putting on a concert for the parents, however, when most of the students and staff had left for the night the clowns came out and started causing havoc in the corridors of the college, chair racing, throwing bins down the halls and generally being a pain in the arse, I confronted them and explained politely that they need to return to the classroom they were meant to be waiting in and be quiet, only for one of them to call me a not particularly nice name, so after a serious roasting from me they went back to the classroom and all was well.

The second incident was a little more menacing and for my class of adults, some who are of a nervous disposition very disturbing and scary, during the evening class there was a loud bang on the window followed by 3 idiots with clown makeup on peering through the window.
Because the learners with me were really frightened by them I went outside to explain that this was not the place for them to mess about, however, when I got outside there was about 15 of them some on bikes others just running around banging on windows and generally causing havoc, unfortunately for one of these idiots he ran up to me and started acting like a complete idiot dancing around me then followed by one of his clown friends, at this point I had had enough so I introduced him to my now famous Bitch Slap, let me explain.
I have practiced martial arts for over 40 years everything form Judo to Boxing to kung Fu and others, over the years I have gained 3 Dans, or Black belts in different styles, the last one being a continuing developing system, I use the Bitch Slap where I don't won't really hurt people but more shock them and make them understand that it's just a slap and to imagine what would happen if I really took a swing at them, over the years I have developed it into a really powerful part of my arsenal often resulting in the receiver laying on the ground dazed, confused and in a little pain, it, I found is a good deterrent and stop escalation of violence.
So, back to the story, I introduced the idiot clown to the Bitch Slap, who immediately fell to the floor screaming, his accomplice was unsure what to do, as he make a couple of movements forward towards his idiot mate but kept backing off eventually leaving his friend by running off, his friend however was still obviously in some pain, I bent over him and told him to go back to his friends and tell them that the same fate awaited them if I saw any of them around my classroom, So i left him lying there crying like a 3 year old and went back to my class, when I got there one of the female teachers and her class were in my classroom seeking refuge from the clowns as they had terrorised her too,  she had phoned the police and was waiting for them to arrive.

Open arrival the police produced a sorrow looking clown with a blood splattered face, his nose and mouth bleeding, apparently someone had punched him in the face, nobody in the room said anything, the clown however pointed at me and said 'I think it was that guy', to which the officer replied, 'surely not', he looked at me and I said, 'really, come on, I am a medical wreck and couldn't do anything like that'.  The policeman smiled and dragged the clown out of the room, he returned a couple of minutes later to say they had rounded up about 10 kids with clown faces and they would be taken to the police station for questioning and phone calls to parents etc, he also asked me to give a statement later when my class had finished, this I was happy to do.

The whole evening and been ruined, not for me but my learners who felt intimidated and scared by this incident, I have now to fill own loads of forms regarding safe guarding of my leaners, a pain in the arse, however, I was told by the police that the bloody clown had decided with his parents that the slap he received, although a little strong, had made a point and they were happy to leave it at that.

SO I am now thinking of going clown hunting over the weekend with a couple of my friends in the black van, should be fun, so after dealing with the Van Rental TWAT, I will don my black military kit, balaclava and hunt a few clowns, I can't wait.

A cautionary tale for those thinking of hiring a vehicle from Enterprise Vehicle Hire in Stevenage Hertfordshire.  My son hired a van from them 3 weeks ago at the time he pointed out to the lady at the depot that the offside headlight was broken, he asked her to put the details in the inspection sheet and she said, its ok, don't worry it will be OK.  My son should have taken a photograph of both the headlight and the person he picked the van up from but he didn't so I will move on, upon returning the van back to the depot the next day, the guy he handed it back to said that he had broken the head light and that his £500 deposit would not be returned as that was needed to to replace the headlight, my son explained that the lady who gave him the van knew about the headlight and said it was OK, the guy replied, well she don't work here anymore so he was keeping the money. At this moment in time my son is writing to this fucking stealing little shit trying to get his money back, I find it very convenient that the lady no longer works there, the guy said he spoke to her and she knows nothing about it, I ask myself how many other people has he pulled this stunt on?

So if anyone is thinking of hiring from this company, I would seriously think about it before doing so, or at least photograph everything and the person handing over the vehicle, also take their name.

For the record I will be going to see a solicitor this week on my sons behalf, and I will be suing him for the return of the deposit plus costs, and I will also be pursuing the lady in court for Slander, I will pursue them publicly also, I will be contacting the local papers and the national press, they have fucked with the wrong person.  And if that don't work, I will track them down and deal with them my way, I will get the money back, and leave a few bruises on those that have tried to take advantage of my son.

Enterprise Vehicle Hire Stevenage, YOUR FUCKED one way or the other.

Off to chat to a couple of old ex special services friends who I served with about a weekend of teaching someone a lesson.

WTF are we teaching our kids in schools today? I am shocked by lack of English and maths from our 16 to 18 year olds, today I set several simple tasks only to be met by glazed stares and moans of what does that mean?
So I had to teach them about ratios, dead simple a 4x3 ratio, but they had no idea, so I explained some ting 12" wide by 9" wide had a 4x3 ratio, no, no idea, so I drew a square on the board, nothing, they were totally unaware of what I was talking about, this is a bunch of Level 2 media students, so I went over it again, still nothing?
I asked what they had done at school mathematically, not a lot was the common reply, to my horror later I found out that these kids had all failed GCSE maths and were retaking their exams here at the college.  So where does that leave me a lecturer/teacher, putting it simply, up the creek without the proverbial paddle, I'm screwed because until they have a basic understanding of maths I can't teach them photography and you need an element of maths for exposure calculations etc. etc.

SO what the fucks going on in the schools, it would appear that most schools try hard to get them through the GCSE's, and they all had a certain amount that fall through the net, but this year it has been particularly bad.  Also I have noticed an increase in special needs students at this college, 1/3 of my students need personal assistants to help them through their courses, so it just gets worse, I have tried various ways to get what I need them to understand in every possible way available to me, but I fear I am fighting a losing battle. Nearly all these kids want to spend more time on their phones than working, I have a no phone in the classroom policy which really aggravates them but it's bad enough that they don't understand what I am talking about without me competing with their mates on SnapChat or some other site where they text all day and night.  So tomorrow I start again having sent them away yesterday with a task to study what ratios are, I am not holding my breath.

The other thing I want to moan about is English.  Most of the kids cannot write a single sentance without spelling mistakes or grammatical errors, now I am not known for my English skills, but I can at least write a paragraph with out too many errors creeping in.
But to have a whole paragraph where every word is misspelt, and completely wrong grammatically is a little challenging when trying to read their papers, I struggled with my English at school, but tried hard after leaving school to try and a least be able to write a letter.

It's not just English & Maths, it's just about everything, kids seem to be a lot less academic and more bad attitude than kids from my day, they cant string a sentence together without swearing and cussing, using words that are slang and completely strange, the one that I hate is when they call me Dude, I am not a Dude, I am Sir or ***, but not dude.
The word DUDE means:

Dude is an American English slang term for an individual. It typically applies to men, although the word can encompass either sex.
Dude is an old term, recognized by multiple generations although potentially with slightly different meanings. From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a person who dressed in an extremely fashionable manner (a dandy) or a citified person who was visiting a rural location but stuck out (a city slicker). In the 1960s, dude evolved to mean any male person, a meaning that slipped into mainstream American slang in the 1970s. Current slang retains at least some use of all three of these common meanings.

So I am not no dude partner.
God, I love my job............................................................................................................  Not.

I could have been many things in my life, a mechanic, engineer, carpenter/joiner, anything really but I chose teaching, fucked up there then didn't I, LOL.

I was having a conversation with a work colleague yesterday about the film industry and how hollywood are continually making remakes of great Japanese and Korean horror movies, however they are so bad that they should have left them to our asian friends.  We talked about films like, The Ring, The Grudge, Audition and several others when he said that he was looking for a good gore film to show his friends on Halloween evening at midnight, I then remembered I had a film that was rejected from every hour film festival in the world, it was described as grotesque, shocking, revolting and even obscene, all of which are good descriptions and I can't argue against any of them.  The film is Slaughtered Vomit Dolls, I got a copy from someone as at the time it was causing great interest by the gore movie fans and they could not see it at cinemas so DVD's were changing hands at ridiculous prices, as much as £5000, so I had to have a copy, like I said I got mine from a friend who was given it by the director of the film as he knew him, at the time the rumours set around this film were incredibly sick, someone who had seen it said it was a Rape, Snuff, Bloodbath movie and that the women in the film were all killed or died during the making of it.  

So, I did some investigating, I talked to a couple of people online who allegedly worked on the film, they both said the same thing, yes the main character in the film was actually murdered but it was made to look like an accident on set and no questions were asked, that immediately rang my bullshit bell, there is noway someone dies on a set and an inquiry as to why they died was not put in motion.  Did in fact the actress actually die?  I very much doubt it, it all hype to sell the film surely?  I dug deeper, and the truth came out, there was induced vomiting but swallowing salt water after eating large amounts of pizza, pizza gives a good puke with lots of red in it so it looks like blood, the stabbing scene scene and the guy removing eyes with a knife were fake, the eye removal however I told was a Jane Doe Cadaver, taken from a morgue, by one of the crew who had medical connections, but what about the rape scenes, the actress was told that there would be blood scenes and a rape scene, what she was not told was that she would actually be raped during that scene, the fear in the actresses face is real, again I was told that they had locked the actresses up in a house, were not aloud to leave during the making of the film and were raped repeatedly, all the time being film by a couple of guys with cameras?

Again my Bullshit bells is ringing very loudly, surely all the above can't be true? Can it? It has to be a sales pitch, so, I sat down and watched it, 15 minutes into the film I was bored stupid, nothing new that I had not seen before, the whole film was crap, boring, narrative free bollocks, the rape scene was obviously faked, but well executed with some half decent shots, but not a turn on, more of a turn off, as was the gore, the removal of eyes, however the puking, did look real, but again nothing that you can't fake on set and with clever editing, so whats all the fuss about?
Yeah, it's gorey, bloody, pornographic and at times quite revolting, but most of the time it's just a load of shit, I can imaging young kids getting very disturbed by this film, even leaving them with nightmares for a long time, but it's just basically a shit film shot badly, hyped up by the rumours of real deaths and rape scene.

Another colleague has just watched the first ten minutes and stopped it, why, because he said it was fucking with his head and he found it really disturbing and it can't get the scenes out of his head?  He's 20, well educated and I told him it was all fake, but he still finds it a real head fuck, his words, not mine.

So if you have a friend that you want to mentally torture, or pervert for the rest of their life, get yourself a copy, and make them watch it, my colleague has now decided to watch the film before he screens it with his friends on Halloween night at the witching hour.  Good luck mate, just make sure you have a couple of buckets handy for your audience reaction.
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