This is the part of the site where members of the kru can have their say. Basically each month one member of the Kru takes over this page, putting whatever they want on here. If you want to appear here e-mail me. This month Beano himself writes |
This is the part of the site where members of the kru can have their say. Basically each month one member of the Kru takes over this page, putting whatever they want on here. If you want to appear here e-mail me. This month Beano himself writes |
Believe me, this seemed a good idea when we first came up with it. However now it doesn't seem so good. But luckily I am the first, so there is nothing to compare my efforts against. So what do you write about, you are given a page to play with and you don't know how to fill it. Well here's a start - things that get on my nerves; the first thing I would like to say is pages like this on the internet. They give great lists of things that annoy the fool who has written it, with everyone trying desperately trying to be more 'hilarious' than the last. Of couse you then have some idiot, who feels it is his duty to print the bloody thing out and then show everyone, or worse still, read out the whole list, leaving a pause after every one waiting for you to burst in to hysterics. Being polite I usually manage a smile and maybe a snigger, but really you wish they would do just about anything else, as long as it isn't print of another frigging list. I searrched purely for the purpose of research, for the phrase "things that annoy me". The search engine returned over 15,000 sites. That's the problem with the internet, there's so much crap, there is useful stuff, it's just finding it that's difficult and this is not made easier by the adverts. Which leads me onto my next point. If you have noticed recently on TV, that there seems to be more adverts, you are correct. Due to changes in the law, terrestrial commercial channels can now show more adverts per hour. This in itself is bad enough , but most of this extra time is taken up by no win, no fee solictors, trying to get you to sue people. Apparently if you have had an accident which wasn't your fault they will help you get compensation. If you don't know what I am talking about I have kindly throwm up a mock advert below. |
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Now obviously this is a joke, but in all honesty it is not that far from the truth. This is not to say there are not genuine cases, whereby through dodgy machinary or whatever people have been seriously injured, but this is the exception and people are simply taking advantage. This is a very bad thing, because where will it end. Some jobs are simply more dangerous and minor injuries are inevitable and will do no long term harm. However what really annoys me, is when people sue when it is their fault. Many people have been careless, clumsy or simply stupid and got them selves hurt, but of course it can't possibly be their own fault; no instead they place the blame and sue someone else. Here are two such cases. First up, is the burgular who whilst robbing someone's house tripped on their stairs. But hey, let's forget he was in the wrong, in the first place. Oh no, the real villain in this story is the homeowner. I mean think about it, this man who was merely going about his daily business, was misfortunate enough to pick the wrong house and ended up, tripping on some loose carpet. So surely he has every reason to seek compensation. Well maybe not, but it didn't stop him. The second story is equally unbelievable and also happened whilst working, so to speak. In this case the job being done, was legal, however I would like to make it illegal. It happened when a lady was delivering JUNK MAIL, however before reaching the letter box, she tripped on a paving stone on the owners drive. As a result she hurt her elbow and decided to sue. Anyway to cut a long story short, she now stands to win £43,000. It wouldn't be so bad if the claims companies weren't cowboys, but every week you see or hear something about someone receiving 25p or whatever, after legal fees. These companies are raking in money, except Claims Direct (the main culprit), who I recently took most pleasure in seeing had lost £20m. Leading on from this rant, I noticed in the paper that threat of being sued, has led a school to ban games such as conkers, bulldogs and hide and seek. Apparently they are scared a kid could get injured and an angry parent would sue. This is not the only reason though; according to the teachers, these sorts of games lead to low morale and losers in the game get upset. What a load of bull. I'll tell you what will lower morale, not letting kids do or play anything. Speaking of silly stories, I've noticed Robertson's Jam are getting rid of their mascot the 'Golliwog'. Now fair enough if this is now outdated and no longer a good marketing tool. But the report claimed the image had been branded racist. Now I realise the word 'wog' can be a racist term, but this has been dropped from the name, leaving it simply as 'Golly'. How the actual image can be seen as racist baffles me. It is simply a little man, who is smiling and happens to be black coloured. Is Ronald McDonald racist because he is white, because lets face, he looks about as real as the Golly. The offending charachter If you ask me people who make such a big deal of this, could actually making racism worse. They've blown it up to such proportions, that people will get idea's like this. We are supposed to be living together in harmony, surely a black character has just the same right as a white one to be on any product. If we are going to have better race relations we have got to have a mixture of images, in all colours. If the character was white, I doubt there would have been this outcry. Anyway, now I've got that out of my system, what shall I write about............ Next time I do this, I will try to make it more light hearted. |
Now obviously this is a joke, but in all honesty it is not that far from the truth. This is not to say there are not genuine cases, whereby through dodgy machinary or whatever people have been seriously injured, but this is the exception and people are simply taking advantage. This is a very bad thing, because where will it end. Some jobs are simply more dangerous and minor injuries are inevitable and will do no long term harm. However what really annoys me, is when people sue when it is their fault. Many people have been careless, clumsy or simply stupid and got them selves hurt, but of course it can't possibly be their own fault; no instead they place the blame and sue someone else. Here are two such cases. First up, is the burgular who whilst robbing someone's house tripped on their stairs. But hey, let's forget he was in the wrong, in the first place. Oh no, the real villain in this story is the homeowner. I mean think about it, this man who was merely going about his daily business, was misfortunate enough to pick the wrong house and ended up, tripping on some loose carpet. So surely he has every reason to seek compensation. Well maybe not, but it didn't stop him. The second story is equally unbelievable and also happened whilst working, so to speak. In this case the job being done, was legal, however I would like to make it illegal. It happened when a lady was delivering JUNK MAIL, however before reaching the letter box, she tripped on a paving stone on the owners drive. As a result she hurt her elbow and decided to sue. Anyway to cut a long story short, she now stands to win £43,000. It wouldn't be so bad if the claims companies weren't cowboys, but every week you see or hear something about someone receiving 25p or whatever, after legal fees. These companies are raking in money, except Claims Direct (the main culprit), who I recently took most pleasure in seeing had lost £20m. Leading on from this rant, I noticed in the paper that threat of being sued, has led a school to ban games such as conkers, bulldogs and hide and seek. Apparently they are scared a kid could get injured and an angry parent would sue. This is not the only reason though; according to the teachers, these sorts of games lead to low morale and losers in the game get upset. What a load of bull. I'll tell you what will lower morale, not letting kids do or play anything. Speaking of silly stories, I've noticed Robertson's Jam are getting rid of their mascot the 'Golliwog'. Now fair enough if this is now outdated and no longer a good marketing tool. But the report claimed the image had been branded racist. Now I realise the word 'wog' can be a racist term, but this has been dropped from the name, leaving it simply as 'Golly'. How the actual image can be seen as racist baffles me. It is simply a little man, who is smiling and happens to be black coloured. Is Ronald McDonald racist because he is white, because lets face, he looks about as real as the Golly. The offending charachter If you ask me people who make such a big deal of this, could actually making racism worse. They've blown it up to such proportions, that people will get idea's like this. We are supposed to be living together in harmony, surely a black character has just the same right as a white one to be on any product. If we are going to have better race relations we have got to have a mixture of images, in all colours. If the character was white, I doubt there would have been this outcry. Anyway, now I've got that out of my system, what shall I write about............ Next time I do this, I will try to make it more light hearted. |
September 2001 |
