Guns, condoms and Kile

20 July 2012

It looks like the days of the working men's clubs is slowly coming to an end.  The decline has been on-going now for years.  Dorktown has lost so many clubs that I can't actually remember them all.  Today's News has a photo of yet another going.  Locally know as the Cabbage, the Stockingford Allotments Association closed its doors some time ago.  Today's photo is of it being demolished.  So many of top entertainers years again learned their trade at the clubs, especially up north.  Now we have crap shows on telly X Factor and so on trying to do the same job but not really succeeding in my view.

It's not just the clubs though, pubs too are closing all over the place.  Yet another one here in Dorktown looks set to be converted into flats.  The King William IV on Coton Road has been closed for some time now.  Several people have taken it on yet couldn't make it a going concern.  It was my local at one time.  I used to live about 500 yards from there and I've had many a good night in there.  I was saddened when I found out that it had closed when I was living in Bed'th. 

Another 10 folks are killed in a shooting spree in the States according to BBC News 24 I've just been watching.  The numbers of injured is unclear.  At least it wasn't in a school this time!  Americans will wring their hands and cry "Why?" yet again but won't be willing to admit that a good part of the problem is in the very lax gun laws and the Constitutional right to carry arms.  In the early years of the Republic when the Constitution was written, there was a clear need for all men to carry firearms.  In the 21st Century there is no clear need as I see it.  Amending the Constitution to remove that right won't really work, there are far too many guns in circulation now anyway.  And in any case, Britain has had its mass shootings too, Dunblain being perhaps the most notorious of them.

Anyway, it's easy for me to sit here at my 'puter saying what they should and shouldn't do; I live over 3000 miles away and I don't have to live with it.  I also don't have vote in it either.  I do have opinions though and they are firmly against individual people outside the military and police forces holding firearms.  Guns have one use and one use only!  Their use is plain and simple, they are designed to kill!  I know that many people use them for sports like clay pigeon and target shooting, but there are a lot more who use them for killing game birds as well as foxes.  The problem comes when someone who shouldn't be able to, get's hold of a gun and uses it for its original purpose.  They might be mentally ill at the time, but they are not ill enough that they don't see that 'prime usage' and put it to that use.

We are due to have Kile for a few days later today.  Jan will go and pick him up as he comes out of school.  He will then go home and get changed and then we will have for as long as we want.  Hmmm ... maybe he won't stay all that long ... it means less nosh for me ;-)))  Like today, I can only have half a pizza, he'll have the other half ;-)))

And here he is, the little monster ... 

at his very best!!!

And I suppose you want a funny too ...

A dentist was getting ready to clean an elderly lady's teeth. He noticed that she was a little nervous, so he began to tell her a story as he was putting on his surgical gloves.  "Do you know how they make these rubber gloves?"
"No," she said.
"Well," spoofed the dentist, "down in Mexico they have this big building set up with a large tank of latex, and the workers are all picked according to hand size. Each individual walks up to the tank, dips their hands in, and then walk around for a bit while the latex sets up and dries right onto their hands! Then they peel off the gloves and throw them into the big Finished Goods Crate and start the process all over again."
The old woman just sat there and didn't laugh a bit!
Five minutes later, during the procedure, the dentist had to stop cleaning her teeth because she burst out laughing.
The old woman blushed and exclaimed, "I just suddenly thought about how they must make condoms!"