Its a Stupid World

Forward: Why stupid ideas seem to take over…

A few days ago I noticed a sticker in the back window of an old VW Polo stating that it had survived the scrappage scheme, obviously the owner was proud of this fact otherwise why go to the bother of putting a sticker in the car! To be quite honest I felt like stopping him ‘road rage’ style, just so I could shake his hand and possibly even offer him a man hug, although this would depend on the many variables  associated with the technique employed to stop him the first place (he did look quite a bit bigger than me…). But this smart (and large) guy obviously understood the utter stupidness portrayed by our countries ex-faithful leader, and remained impervious to the subliminal advertising techniques, to which so many others fell prey to, and is quite proud of the fact that he managed to actually think outside the black and white lines laid down for us by the powers that be. He is not a dumbass, unless he bought the car with the sticker already in the window?

Now I’m not digging at Gordon for trying (well, I probably am) but his lack of comment sense and guidance was comical. My issues with the old government funded scheme stemmed from the contradiction created by trying to lure a nation of skint people into more debt with car payments whilst encouraging the car giants to import a multitude of cheap little French shit boxes. If their main aim was to kick start a failing industry and remove the (apparently) heavily polluting cars, then it could be chalked off as a massive success. Loads of peeps went forth and spent money that they didn’t have on a car that they didn’t really need. And in the current climate of winging and griping about emissions and carbons and science stuff, why the hell would anyone encourage the heavily polluting industries to consume more energy producing more cars than normal?

Even to a politically incorrect, selfish, single-minded gob shite like me, it doesn’t make sense, so what kind of herbal remedy must Gordon have been smoking to have approved such a mindless and frankly pointless increase in industrial pollution. Surely to god it’s better to keep our bangers running sweetly than make shit loads of new cars that aren’t needed. He’d have been better off toughening up the MOT and giving us a few bob to spend on bring our old bangers up to date. It nigh on impossible to raise the cash needed to legally run our rust buckets these days, the running costs are so high that its hardly surprising that 1 in 2 of us (not strictly true but probably not far off!!) drive with insurance and MOT’s. Given the choice of eating or paying the next monthly installment on the insurance, some families have no choice but to risk it (…for a biscuit).

I could drive that....

Too many people can’t see the forest for the tree’s, they don’t ask questions or read the small print, and end up making life that little bit worse for those of us with an I.Q. higher than my ex-wife’s (which is really, really low… she didn’t know the difference between a native Indian and an Indian!). It’s a worrying thought that we seem to live in a world run by stupid people, for stupid people, and I’m the minority, an outcast within my own society simply cos I see things differently to the current set of bum burglars in charge of our country (one of whom wasn’t even voted in!)