Comments for http://blazingsaddle.co.uk Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:17:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Comment on Big Brother Is A Little Liar by Blazing http://blazingsaddle.co.uk/2011/07/10/big-brother-is-a-little-liar/#comment-1120 Blazing Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:17:55 +0000 http://blazingsaddle.co.uk/?p=209#comment-1120 Good to see you, Keith. I know we are all aware deep down it goes on, but it is frustrating when they downright lie about it. I'm sure they don't disclose identities to individual staff with the feedback, but what the hell ARE they keeping the data for? Like you say, who is watching Big Brother? Good to see you, Keith.

I know we are all aware deep down it goes on, but it is frustrating when they downright lie about it.

I’m sure they don’t disclose identities to individual staff with the feedback, but what the hell ARE they keeping the data for?

Like you say, who is watching Big Brother?

]]> Comment on Big Brother Is A Little Liar by Keith http://blazingsaddle.co.uk/2011/07/10/big-brother-is-a-little-liar/#comment-1119 Keith Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:20:45 +0000 http://blazingsaddle.co.uk/?p=209#comment-1119 "Big Brother is watching you!" What I want to know is, who is watching Big Brother? “Big Brother is watching you!” What I want to know is, who is watching Big Brother?

]]> Comment on Big Brother Is A Little Liar by Keith http://blazingsaddle.co.uk/2011/07/10/big-brother-is-a-little-liar/#comment-1118 Keith Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:18:48 +0000 http://blazingsaddle.co.uk/?p=209#comment-1118 Nothing is secret anymore. Even when you go to the polls in a general or local election the faceless wonders (our masters) can find out how you voted quite easily. You have a polling number on the register of voters, lets say its RFFT678. The man at the table asks for your name and address or your number, then puts a tick by your name and hands you a voting slip. He writes your number on the counterfoil which is also numbered, say j2Onerd which is the same number on your voting slip. You put you cross next to your preferred candidate, smug in the knowledge that no-one knows who you voted for. Wrong! RFFT678 + j2Onerd = you + your address. Then, "Sergeant! Take this man outside and shoot him! he voted for Tony Blair!" Nothing is secret anymore. Even when you go to the polls in a general or local election the faceless wonders (our masters) can find out how you voted quite easily.

You have a polling number on the register of voters, lets say its RFFT678. The man at the table asks for your name and address or your number, then puts a tick by your name and hands you a voting slip. He writes your number on the counterfoil which is also numbered, say j2Onerd which is the same number on your voting slip.

You put you cross next to your preferred candidate, smug in the knowledge that no-one knows who you voted for.

Wrong! RFFT678 + j2Onerd = you + your address.

Then, “Sergeant! Take this man outside and shoot him! he voted for Tony Blair!”

]]> Comment on It’s Green And Pleasant For A Reason by Keith http://blazingsaddle.co.uk/2011/06/26/its-green-and-pleasant-for-a-reason/#comment-945 Keith Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:52:09 +0000 http://blazingsaddle.co.uk/?p=202#comment-945 I am a lot older than you and I can remember that in the late 40's and 50's you could guarantee wonderful hot sunny summers every year, but the winters were much colder with lots of snow etc. In the 40's we had "spitfire summers", the sky was so clear that you could lie on your back and watch the warplanes shooting it out high above. But now, thanks to environmental pollution and global change all that has gone. Inceidently there was no such thing as "bar-b-ques I am a lot older than you and I can remember that in the late 40′s and 50′s you could guarantee wonderful hot sunny summers every year, but the winters were much colder with lots of snow etc. In the 40′s we had “spitfire summers”, the sky was so clear that you could lie on your back and watch the warplanes shooting it out high above.

But now, thanks to environmental pollution and global change all that has gone. Inceidently there was no such thing as “bar-b-ques

]]> Comment on Mother Nature Gets The Hump by Blazing http://blazingsaddle.co.uk/2011/06/11/mother-nature-gets-the-hump/#comment-787 Blazing Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:48:28 +0000 http://blazingsaddle.co.uk/?p=155#comment-787 Oops. Thanks Keith, my normal sub-editor is in trouble for that one ;-) Oops.

Thanks Keith, my normal sub-editor is in trouble for that one ;-)

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