November 18, 2025 • 31 mins
This week a whole plethora of subjects, from immigration, A.I., Tax and Porridge.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
La la la la, Hello Allo and Allo to you
and you and you and you and you. Welcome to
another rant alonger ed where I get things off my
chest because frankly, I have nobody else to talk to,
and it's just me and THEE, so we can express
ourselves in such a way as to be oh open
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with each other. And I've been looking at this thing
today about I don't I don't even want to say
the guy's name. I really don't. I just refer to
him as Nigel. Okay, we'll just use the name Nigel,
and that impenetrable code will give you an idea of
who I'm talking about. He's going on saying, oh, all
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the government ter the government plan meets with my approval. Well,
I'm very pleased to hear that something meets with your approval, Nige,
because normally you're whining your ass off about everything. This
is the man who said, oh, we get rid of
people with silly accents, you know, the ones who the
ones who just sound like they come from Alo. We'll
get rid of all them and everything will be fine.
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And people said, oh right, we get where we're one.
All the prices went up, everything went through the roof.
You can't get a tradesman for love nor money. And
when you do their three tides of price. They used
to be simply because we sent the people with the
skills back. Oh well it's going great. Well it's going
great for you. I don't know how it's going for
everyone else. I mean, he applied for a German passport.
(01:27):
He's never denied having one. He's a guy who's registered
in Brussels telling British people that they want to get
rid of foreigners. What's going on there. But they're always
on about things that reform, are always sort of boasting
about how comptent they are. You know, they took over
a local council and I can't remember where it was,
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and people have been waiting six years. You know, there
was a six year wait for them to paint repaint
a school signage outside this you know where it has
school and little lines meaning you can't park, And before
went ahead and did it and everyone went that's fantastic,
set for the fact that the school closed down two
years ago. This is how their fingers are not so
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much on their pulse. If they could drag their fingers
away from the till every so often then perhaps, just
perhaps they might have some relevance. But everyone's got al
immigration al chair, and it's all in the papers. It's not.
I swear to you, probably about seventy three percent of
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people in this country are not at all concerned with immigration.
They're concerned with stuff putting food on their table. They're
not going to eat a load of old We'll eat
some rumors tonight and followed by some some slights, and
then we've got a few acerbic descriptions and fictional accounts
to it. You know, there was somebody on the radio
(02:54):
the other day and he was saying, oh, there's Britain.
Scenes are soft touches, seen as sciety. They will look
after you if you learn it you set foot in England.
And I'm listening to this and I'm thinking, is this
a parody call? Is this a genuine caller? I can't
see how anyone would think that, because if they do
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think that, then they're woefully misled. But there again, they're
misled to think that there are hotels because the right
wingers always on about these four star hotels. But if
you've been one of these things, you'll know that it's
infested with roaches and insects. It's been left to ruin.
There's no cleaners. Well there are cleaners, but they're kind
of reluctant to go in there, if you know what
I mean, because it's just a health hazard, and it's
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been led to get that way because the companies are
just taking the money. In twenty twenty, all the hotel
companies will saying, oh, we've got no money, but nobody's
going out. Nobody's staying in our hotel. I can't understand it.
I mean, you're only risking dyeing have a terrible illness.
We got Cocktail was smat with them and they were complaining.
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All the hotel companies were complaining for ages about how
they were on the edge and how nobody was staying
in their hotel, and all of a sudden they shut
up as soon as this ridiculous hotel plan came along.
So they ripped out all the equipment. That gym's came out,
the kitchens came out, and all these places were made
in the bedrooms. Right. They have the food delivers, Yeah,
and it's one meal a day. Normally you might get something,
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you might get something you had about breakfast time, and
there's probably unlikely, and you get a five or a
day to live on forty quit a week, and somehow
this is seen by a lot of people in Britain
as some sort of life of absolute luxury. There was
a thing that the Home Secretary mentioned in Parliament the
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other day and she was talking about this this guy
who came over and he was having eight hundred quid
a month of his family and he somehow managed to
obtain an ald but he was living in one of
these hostel that asylum seekers they're shoved into. And I'm
thinking to myself, that's quite interesting actually, because how did
he ensure that car? Because unless the car is insured
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to your actual address, your home address, and that's not
a home address, that's not an address that you're going
to necessarily ensure a vehicle from. And then there's a
tax and the other bits and pieces which go with
owning a motor vehicle. But what interested me is how
he got that car and how it was insured because
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he couldn't have been insured because he's got no nationality.
It's not a British national so how would he ensure
it in this country? So the whole thing is probably
a confection. Where would he park it, can't park it
on the roads around the place because they're all w
yellow lines or residents only. So where would he park
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this vehicle again? I mean, he might park it in
the hotel car park, but that's kind of like a
bit of a so I call bullshit on that. You
might be getting eight hundred quid a month, I was,
I say undred a month. Most people are taken over
fifteen hundred two grand a month if they're in a
minimum wage job. Well, they're not taking that home, but
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I mean they're probably taking about fourteen hundred if they're
only two grand. But you know what I mean, these
facts are sort of twisted around all the time, and
nobody asks any questions.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
In the week.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
All got to accept it as fact. And it's just
I don't know what. I don't know what's what's wrong
with people that they can't actually critically think of things
and think, well, how did that happen? Because otherwise people
are just people like Farage and Robinson and all these
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other clowns are just gonna take you for a mug
and just tell you any old crap. I think you're
gonna swallow it, hook line and sinker. It's the same
thing as the mega think a lot of people in
Maga swallow stuff, hook line and sinc with that actually
looking of the bonnet of the facts and what they
were being told. Consequently, a lot of them now are like, oh,
hang on a minute, maybe we're back to roungan here now.
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The other ones are busy standing in plant pots in
offices and often being watered. But the ones who are
actually questioning what's going on are the people who are like,
and that's the same sort of situation over here, because
the racists aren't listening to anything. Oh oh, it's the
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same thing as years ago. Remember there was that big
thing about pedophiles, right, a big thing, and everyone was
going to go after a local pedophiles, so find out
who they are if even if they'm done anything, find
out who they are and get them. And there was
this whole register where you had to let people know
that you had a little bit of a dodgy past,
well pretty big bit of a dodgy pass of modest
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You had to go around and tell people so they
knew who's in your area. It was either that or
it was some sort of thing where you know everyone
within the like five houses of where you live would
know exactly what they let move into the area. And
then people are looking up pediatricians and because they had
that peed at the bit.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Oh right, why would they list it in yellow pages?
What is going on in your life that you make
such a fundamental error about the way things work? We
told all this crap each and every day we're told, oh,
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the figures will get better.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, there's just just down the road, Just down the road,
there's a little little leafy glade of happiness for us.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
All.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well, we're not told that that roads are conveyable, and
we're walking down it and it's going the other way.
You know, she's going on about income tax. She's talking
about income tactor. Oh, I'm not going to raise income
tax because I found ten billion quid. Hang on a second, right,
if i'd lost ten billion quid, right, if I found too,
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I'd like to know where that to. It's this show
it is, Oh, everything's right now, I found ten billion quid.
I won't have to make those savage cuts to everyone's lives.
Nobody will have to lose a finger in order to
fund a sausage factory. So where's this ten billion quid
come from? And doesn't this show that they actually don't
know what the fuck they're doing. If they if they
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suddenly find ten billion quid that they didn't know was there,
I mean, what did they done? They left it with
the money for the milkman. What's going on? Nobody's asking questions.
The media is not asking the correct questions. If you
have somebody from Reform or the Conservatives or Labor or
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Greens or liberal Democracs or who whoever the party is,
you ask the questions, you make them uncomfortable. You don't
make the most difficult question, would you like one or
two sugars in that? And they're going on about defunding
the BBC now, right, every single media organization in this country,
I believe I am right in saying is owned or
(10:00):
either largely shareholder controlled by foreign interests, Sky, a whole network, Murdoch,
and then you've got Rothermere, and you got what were
the Barkley brothers, and then it was the Sudis and
I don't know who the hell owns a telegraph group
now because it's all shrouded in a sort of maze
of shell companies and all these But the BBC is
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the one thing now I don't like the BBC personally.
I don't watch a lot of their programming, but the
programming I do watch of the documentaries and occasionally a
bit of the comedy, because they do have some good
comedy on despite the fact that fact about eighty five
percent of it is trite, mainstream, very broad and not
very good. They do have some good stuff on the
radio as well. Oh, they got some good stuff, plays,
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beautiful music, the proms, all these other things that they do.
But because they made this this error of not broadcasting
a speech by Donald Trump, a speech which wouldn't have
got the many viewers, because let's face it, he's a
fucking boring man to listen to. He loves the sound
of his own voice, and why should we in this
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country be subjected to that dickhead going on and on
and on and on and on with So they cut
up his speech, and they should have put a little
thing in there saying this has been edited down to
save you if you're using heavy equipment later on in
the day. But they didn't, and that's where all this
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fraura comes from. And so people are going defund the BABYC.
Let's get rid of the review, say it's the one thing. Now,
I'll admit I'll be the first person in the queue
to say that they don't do the job that they're
supposed to do. That they're reporting isn't as in depth,
and their probing isn't as thorough as it should be.
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But when you've got people on the left and people
on the right saying, oh, it's biased in the other direction,
perhaps that's because it's impartial, and people on the right
always say oh it's biased. It's when they haven't actually
won anything, when they can't get their point across, they're
always throwing their toys out of the way. It's entirely biased. Yes,
I slept with a camel, but they wouldn't let me
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have my right of way. That camel was asking for it.
But it's hump and it's pouting expression, ah, I don't
know what I don't know, and this mantlesome thing about
him pissing up against the wall after even George Respond's house.
Nothing more has been said about that. There's been no
fine issue. Otherwise you would have seen it in the news.
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Now that was you or me, we'd be hauled down
the station with a big bag saying I want to start, well, please, sir,
while the officer collects up You're you're in off the
We're living in a very very strange time when people
won't actually ask questions, when they just spoon fed the information.
And when I'm looking at things and there's some potentially
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very serious things going on in the world and I
see celebrity Big Brother or or I'm a celebrity, get
me out of here, or Strictly or whatever the other
fuck other programs are trending. I think, now we're really fucked,
aren't we. We're really fucked. There's nothing wrong with watching
those programs, nothing intrinsically wrong with a little bit of
relaxation and mindless television or just numb the pain of
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everyday life. But there's a difference between me and number
being dead. I spoke to a friend of mine the
other day and I said, you know, I think they're
planning to do this, and we need to do something
about it. So why they're going to do anyway? So
appoint what? Well? The germs are invading tomorrow. Hitler's coming
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over and he's going to massacre us all and take
all the women and enslave the children into work camps.
We better do something about it. Wow, he's dead with you.
We have this really really meeting. Stupid. But I just
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met somebody down the road now right, And she's a
young Vietnamese girl about nineteen, can't talk any English, wandering
around with a bag of her possessions. And I'm like,
you know, because it's not a wise thing to do.
You can't speak any English, you're wondering why at a
bag of your possessions and you don't know what's going on.
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And she didn't appear to know what's going on. And
I said, well, do you want me to get the
police officer? Please? No? Please? No? What can I do
to help you? Ah? She can't. I think actually she
was pretending not to speak a lot of English and
speak very much English, but I think she was pretending,
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and it just seemed very very odd to me, and
it worried me a great deal. And I went to
the police knocked on the door because obviously you can't
go into a police station anymore, because that will make
it work properly, Thanks George Josbourne. Away knocks on the door,
and eventually this woman asked to the door, and I said, well,
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woman over there, Vietnamese about nineteen years old, show me
immigration papers, and she doesn't know where the hell she is,
what she's doing do once beginning, it just appears to
be lost, a bit confused. What are you going to
do about it? Oh, public servant of mine? And he said, oh.
She looked over and said, oh, we know her. Yeah,
she's fine. I shut the door. I don't know what
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else I can really do to assist somebody. I can't.
I can't bring her back here, can I? Because that's
going to look really odd? Do you know what I mean?
I mean, there's a different case when you go out
and you come back and you bought a hamstore a
rabbit or something like that, and you said, I bought
this rabbit. It looked really lonely in the shop. I
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bought this Vietnamese woman. I found her on the pavement.
Not that I've got anyone to say that too, but
you know what I mean. The neighbors would be like, oh,
he's collecting women now off the street?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Is he?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
There's a name for people to do stuff like that.
I don't know what it is because I've never been
called it, but there is a name for people to
do something anyway. So I took a long way home.
Just in case you follow me. I'm walking up the lane.
That's all a litter in the lane, all the crap.
And I'm thinking back to the nineteen seventies when I
was growing up and all the the streets were just
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bathed in rubbish. I mean, I was quite lucky where
I lived because it was kind of like a middle
class area and people picked up after themselves. There wasn't
too much junk around. Oh my god, they let say
dogs shit in some awkward places. The cycling proficiency thing
was a wash with it. They didn't need cones. They
just were a cycle around the dog turns. And it's
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getting that way in this country now because nothing works properly.
If I book a train now today and it says
two and three quarter hours to get to where I
want to go, I've got a book seven hours because
I know that one of those trains is going to
miss a connection and I'm going to be sat on
the station with somebody who's religious doctrine is that they're
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not allowed to go anywhere near soap. The other thing
that I noticed is they stop buffet cars on trains. Now.
I had a problem with buffet cars myself, because to me,
handing out a cheese roll or putting a piece of
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bacon between two slices of a stale bap is not
what you could term as being a chef, as an
old chef's busy chef. I went to premiere once in
Peckham in London, you know, and breakfast and they've got
all a toast and everything, and I don't eat any
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of that because it's it's just lah. You don't know
who's been prodding it and feeling it. I was gonna
tasted what I said, fling it back on a shelf.
And I don't eat meat and I don't eat dairy,
so that's all out. So I thought, oh, I have
a bowl of porridge. I said, oh, oh, a bowl
of porridge please, and he says, he says, oh, no,
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eat this bit off. And about fifteen minutes went by
and I said, where's my porridge? So a chef's trying
to find a recipe now porridge. It's oats and water,
that's porridge. I mean, there's some other things in the
news are really annoyed me. UK will not tolerate Chinese spying.
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I mean, what's so we're not gonna why just Chinese?
Why not any spying? Well, why just Chinese spye, we
won't tolerate these Chinese spies. Apparently the Chinese have been
trying to approach people through LinkedIn and offering them money
or inducements for information or background or or classified documents
or whatever. And two people have come forward and said, well,
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I was offered this, and I really think it's at
Lana and probably wasn't enough hm. And and it makes
you want it makes you think how many have actually
accepted that, how many have actually gone through gone through? Well,
free money, take some of that, and it was going
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to be paid apparently by a visit and all expenses
paid visit to China, which will probably be down to
a trade envoy or diplomatic mission, which we would pay
for the transport to get there and get back and
for the order bodyguards and et cetera, et cetera. So
it's a win win for anyone who accept that, or
it'd be paid in bitcoin. They have their choice, the
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third choice being no. So m I five have alerted
MP's and peers to this fact, which most of us
would think, well, they're probably there's a certain percentage there
for people who are going to view that as a
business opportunity. I mean, it's I don't know what they
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may call the technology they make wind farms and computers,
and there's chips and semiconductors and phones and all these
other bits and pieces. Did you really think they weren't
going to take advantage of that. Did you really think
they were going to say, Hey, we make this really
good product that we're making for another country. You know,
get all those children in that factory to make all
this crap. We can put a couple of extra things
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in there, and we can find out what the juice
they're up to stop their black auds before they because
that's probably what they're saying over there now when they
find out. They probably sat there now making the entertainment
show out of it, because let's raise it. It's a
comedy shot that won't British politics. It's it's like an
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addition of EastEnders and a really big house net. Migration
lower than first thought as more British nationals leave the
UK again, not a story that's actually publicized that more
people are leaving the UK than they previously thought. People
just say, oh, I've had enough of this up in
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sticks off they go Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, America, wherever
they want to go, just to get away from the
ship storm which is created in this country. I mean,
who's going to really want to live in the country
where you can't afford the cannabeans, where you can walk
down the You know, the crime in this country isn't
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really any more than it was. In fact, real crime,
violent crime has gone down. The crime that's gone up
is fraud. You know, people getting scammed out of money
all the time, and nothing's done about that. No, I
concentrate on knfe crime. Knife crime is bad enough because
it costs people their lives, But what also cost people
their lives, and it's cost a fair people. It's a
shame of getting scammed out of all their money, but
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nobody ever says anything about that. Oh, we're making plans
to you know, educate people about scamming. There's two ways
you fall into a scam. Either you were stupid or
you were greedy, or you let somebody else take agency
over your life and you felt pressurized get in on this,
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get in on the Oh, if we buy sixty eight
thousand rubber bananas, right, we can melt them down and
make tires, and that's why we're going to make the money.
We just need an initial investment of fifteen thousand pound.
But the window is closing because all the backers already in.
So there's essentially sales techniques. And the reason that it's
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so big is because there's so much much money in it.
If you did the same thing in car phone Warehouse
or Carpet World or being Q or something like that,
and you were star salesman, you get maybe a fifteen
quid by If you're making thirty five thousand pounds a
day fifteen quid a month and you're not paying tax
on it, it's understandable why people actually do that, Why
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there are so many people driving around in Ferraris, which
theoretically they don't appear to be able to afford. How
serious are labor plans over a silent backlash? How serious
is the labor backlash of this island plans? I don't
know what's going on there. It doesn't I don't think
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they actually needed all these things. I don't think they
need to take stuff off people at the border. I
don't think they need to. I'm gonna saying this earlier.
Why are you doing this? Who are you trying to
appeal to? Because it doesn't appeal It doesn't appeal to me,
doesn't appeal to the majority of people, and it comes
through as indecently, It comes through as sort of like
punitive with picking on people who have you know, the
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vast percentage of people who come to this country, and
it is less than other European country, The vast percentage
of people are fleeing here because they have nowhere to go,
and they have family over here, or they have connections
over here, or they have somebody off with you. Doctors, lawyers, scientists,
all sorts of people, and we're just saying, oh, they're
like a lot of bums. They're just shoving them into
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these dilapidated accommodation, giving them meager money to live on,
and then we're surprised, you know, and if there's if
one of them commits a crime, instantly, the whole lot
of them have painted the same way. But British people
are committing crimes all the time, and nobody says anything
about that. Oh we've got to get rid of the British.
Imagine that they'll be the next thing. Oh got get
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rid of British. The problem in this country is not immigration,
it's the actual British people. If we get rid of
the British people, everything will be all right because they're
the ones creating all the crimes. Look at government, they're
all British. Get rid of them as well. Oh, put
them all in a big sack and take them up
the Arctic. And that is not a euphemism. Now you've
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got the boss Google now saying the trillion dollar AI
investment boom has elements of irrationality? Do you think? And
people are relying on AI, but it's giving you the
wrong answers. AI is only as good as the information
it can gather. It's not going to interpret it the information.
It just collates it and presents it in a digestible form.
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But if that information is actually incorrect, then you're gonna
look like a big spanner in a cake. How much
will fans save under you proposed ticketing? I've never been
to I haven't been to a consult since the nineteen eighties,
and I think if you pay more than thirty quid
to see a band, and it doesn't matter who that
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band is, if you pay more more than that to
see a band. You need your head testing. There's people
paying like twelve hundred and three thousand pounds to see
something or whatever. It's like a little little dot out there.
You've got a better of you of Saturn than you
have of Taylor Swift and the pain it the willingly
(26:01):
paying it. Now. I came up with a theory the
other day that maybe it's the band's buying that back
and selling it onto the fans because I think about
it and make the money twice then, And no musician
has coming out, as far as I know, no musicians
come out and said, well, this is absolute appalling. It
must stop immediately. No, they've been remarkably silent about it.
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I mean a few of them. I said, well, it's
not really It's not really fair, is it. But they
still make the money. There's something going on there. There's
something going on. I tell you something. Dustarly Catherine's first
speech in two years calls the dignity for carers. Right
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ho then cloud fair outage. Oh my ex was down
this morning. I had no place to put all my anger,
angst and resentment against other people. It was terrible. I
ended up scratching at a post. Uh one sixty to
wildcats to make a comeback in England. Oh that these
are these slightly larger cats. You think your cat's large,
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wait till you see these the size of a puma.
But they're still pretty big. You wouldn't like to meet
one at a dark night, which is when they tend
to go out. Well cats, and they've got those eyes
that sort of glow on you at the behind a hedge.
Well maybe that's just a reflection of me in binoculars.
I don't know anyway, that's my rant for today. We've
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got to do something in this country because we're heading
down down the tubes and I'm just hearing everything seems
to be they seem to get somebody from Reforming to
comment on everything, you know, immigration, or get reform in
the budget, or get somebody from reform. John Inman's estate
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is selling his collection of shoes. Let's get reform in.
It's crazy. The world has gone completely. I am convinced
that the world hasn't actually gone nuts. It is nuts,
and it's just getting worse and worse. We're getting into
the stage of psychosis. We're at the point whereas a species,
we all need to be strapped down to a bed,
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and I don't mean in a pleasurable way anyway. If
you got this far, thanks, I've got it all off
my chest now, and my chest is something to behold. Ah.
We'll do this again if you want. Would you like
to do this again, same time? Yeah, spoil yourself. I
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know I have so best go and get changed. Hello.
I thought I came back. I just remembered something, and
I thought I wanted to incorporate it in here. And
I was so busy ranting about various other things I
forgot all about it. And we go back to AI
and Starmar's got this big thing at the moment about
creating these new data centers. We're got a great day
(28:59):
to look huge amount of data. I can't work out
what we need these data centers for. I really can't.
HMSC has its own data center, DVLA has its own
passport control, birth control. Everything's got a data data points.
So why do we need these huge data centers. There's
billions of pounds that we haven't got on data centers.
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The store data doesn't exist yet. So my entire thing
about this is what happened in the United States because
Biden said, oh, we need new data centers, and so
did Obama. Actually in Trump to some extent as well,
I said, I need new data centers, build big data centers,
have a huge data centers. And I built all these
data centers at Google and cloud Claw and all these
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other companies. And they're very, very energy intensive, as you
can imagine because all the data goes there. So they
need a lot of water and a lot of electricity.
But Google and those other companies don't really like in
a bill for the electricity or the water. So what
they've done is in those locales where the data centers
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are built, they've actually got well customers not vaying a bill.
What are we going to do here, Well, I don't know.
Let's spread it out amongst everyone else in the area,
you know, all the individual households and everything. We don't
want to cause them any Yeah, that's a good idea.
So you're just getting free electricity, and they will do
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it in this country, they will do it in this
and we'll end up with I mean, the places will
stink because of the way the water companies have treated
the actual water, but I would assume it's seeing it
they're not paying for it. They'll have somebody with like
an endless supply of perier pouring it into the system.
But you just you just watched this. You you mark
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my words, your water bill and your electricity bill will
go up and they'll say uh, and they won't put
it down as data centers miscellaneous and it will be
the miss miscellaneus will be some rich bastard doesn't want
to pay us. That's what that'll become. The Oxford Definition,
Dictionary definition of miscellaneous in these terms. Anyway, that was
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the bit that I wanted to add, and now I've edited,
I'm sated. I shall lay back, have a cigarette and
think of England.
La la la la, Hello Allo and Allo to you
and you and you and you and you. Welcome to
another rant alonger ed where I get things off my
chest because frankly, I have nobody else to talk to,
and it's just me and THEE, so we can express
ourselves in such a way as to be oh open
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with each other. And I've been looking at this thing
today about I don't I don't even want to say
the guy's name. I really don't. I just refer to
him as Nigel. Okay, we'll just use the name Nigel,
and that impenetrable code will give you an idea of
who I'm talking about. He's going on saying, oh, all
(00:45):
the government ter the government plan meets with my approval. Well,
I'm very pleased to hear that something meets with your approval, Nige,
because normally you're whining your ass off about everything. This
is the man who said, oh, we get rid of
people with silly accents, you know, the ones who the
ones who just sound like they come from Alo. We'll
get rid of all them and everything will be fine.
(01:06):
And people said, oh right, we get where we're one.
All the prices went up, everything went through the roof.
You can't get a tradesman for love nor money. And
when you do their three tides of price. They used
to be simply because we sent the people with the
skills back. Oh well it's going great. Well it's going
great for you. I don't know how it's going for
everyone else. I mean, he applied for a German passport.
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He's never denied having one. He's a guy who's registered
in Brussels telling British people that they want to get
rid of foreigners. What's going on there. But they're always
on about things that reform, are always sort of boasting
about how comptent they are. You know, they took over
a local council and I can't remember where it was,
(01:49):
and people have been waiting six years. You know, there
was a six year wait for them to paint repaint
a school signage outside this you know where it has
school and little lines meaning you can't park, And before
went ahead and did it and everyone went that's fantastic,
set for the fact that the school closed down two
years ago. This is how their fingers are not so
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much on their pulse. If they could drag their fingers
away from the till every so often then perhaps, just
perhaps they might have some relevance. But everyone's got al
immigration al chair, and it's all in the papers. It's not.
I swear to you, probably about seventy three percent of
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people in this country are not at all concerned with immigration.
They're concerned with stuff putting food on their table. They're
not going to eat a load of old We'll eat
some rumors tonight and followed by some some slights, and
then we've got a few acerbic descriptions and fictional accounts
to it. You know, there was somebody on the radio
(02:54):
the other day and he was saying, oh, there's Britain.
Scenes are soft touches, seen as sciety. They will look
after you if you learn it you set foot in England.
And I'm listening to this and I'm thinking, is this
a parody call? Is this a genuine caller? I can't
see how anyone would think that, because if they do
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think that, then they're woefully misled. But there again, they're
misled to think that there are hotels because the right
wingers always on about these four star hotels. But if
you've been one of these things, you'll know that it's
infested with roaches and insects. It's been left to ruin.
There's no cleaners. Well there are cleaners, but they're kind
of reluctant to go in there, if you know what
I mean, because it's just a health hazard, and it's
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been led to get that way because the companies are
just taking the money. In twenty twenty, all the hotel
companies will saying, oh, we've got no money, but nobody's
going out. Nobody's staying in our hotel. I can't understand it.
I mean, you're only risking dyeing have a terrible illness.
We got Cocktail was smat with them and they were complaining.
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All the hotel companies were complaining for ages about how
they were on the edge and how nobody was staying
in their hotel, and all of a sudden they shut
up as soon as this ridiculous hotel plan came along.
So they ripped out all the equipment. That gym's came out,
the kitchens came out, and all these places were made
in the bedrooms. Right. They have the food delivers, Yeah,
and it's one meal a day. Normally you might get something,
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you might get something you had about breakfast time, and
there's probably unlikely, and you get a five or a
day to live on forty quit a week, and somehow
this is seen by a lot of people in Britain
as some sort of life of absolute luxury. There was
a thing that the Home Secretary mentioned in Parliament the
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other day and she was talking about this this guy
who came over and he was having eight hundred quid
a month of his family and he somehow managed to
obtain an ald but he was living in one of
these hostel that asylum seekers they're shoved into. And I'm
thinking to myself, that's quite interesting actually, because how did
he ensure that car? Because unless the car is insured
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to your actual address, your home address, and that's not
a home address, that's not an address that you're going
to necessarily ensure a vehicle from. And then there's a
tax and the other bits and pieces which go with
owning a motor vehicle. But what interested me is how
he got that car and how it was insured because
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he couldn't have been insured because he's got no nationality.
It's not a British national so how would he ensure
it in this country? So the whole thing is probably
a confection. Where would he park it, can't park it
on the roads around the place because they're all w
yellow lines or residents only. So where would he park
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this vehicle again? I mean, he might park it in
the hotel car park, but that's kind of like a
bit of a so I call bullshit on that. You
might be getting eight hundred quid a month, I was,
I say undred a month. Most people are taken over
fifteen hundred two grand a month if they're in a
minimum wage job. Well, they're not taking that home, but
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I mean they're probably taking about fourteen hundred if they're
only two grand. But you know what I mean, these
facts are sort of twisted around all the time, and
nobody asks any questions.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
In the week.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
All got to accept it as fact. And it's just
I don't know what. I don't know what's what's wrong
with people that they can't actually critically think of things
and think, well, how did that happen? Because otherwise people
are just people like Farage and Robinson and all these
(06:48):
other clowns are just gonna take you for a mug
and just tell you any old crap. I think you're
gonna swallow it, hook line and sinker. It's the same
thing as the mega think a lot of people in
Maga swallow stuff, hook line and sinc with that actually
looking of the bonnet of the facts and what they
were being told. Consequently, a lot of them now are like, oh,
hang on a minute, maybe we're back to roungan here now.
(07:09):
The other ones are busy standing in plant pots in
offices and often being watered. But the ones who are
actually questioning what's going on are the people who are like,
and that's the same sort of situation over here, because
the racists aren't listening to anything. Oh oh, it's the
(07:29):
same thing as years ago. Remember there was that big
thing about pedophiles, right, a big thing, and everyone was
going to go after a local pedophiles, so find out
who they are if even if they'm done anything, find
out who they are and get them. And there was
this whole register where you had to let people know
that you had a little bit of a dodgy past,
well pretty big bit of a dodgy pass of modest
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You had to go around and tell people so they
knew who's in your area. It was either that or
it was some sort of thing where you know everyone
within the like five houses of where you live would
know exactly what they let move into the area. And
then people are looking up pediatricians and because they had
that peed at the bit.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Oh right, why would they list it in yellow pages?
What is going on in your life that you make
such a fundamental error about the way things work? We
told all this crap each and every day we're told, oh,
(08:29):
the figures will get better.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, there's just just down the road, Just down the road,
there's a little little leafy glade of happiness for us.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
All.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well, we're not told that that roads are conveyable, and
we're walking down it and it's going the other way.
You know, she's going on about income tax. She's talking
about income tactor. Oh, I'm not going to raise income
tax because I found ten billion quid. Hang on a second, right,
if i'd lost ten billion quid, right, if I found too,
(08:58):
I'd like to know where that to. It's this show
it is, Oh, everything's right now, I found ten billion quid.
I won't have to make those savage cuts to everyone's lives.
Nobody will have to lose a finger in order to
fund a sausage factory. So where's this ten billion quid
come from? And doesn't this show that they actually don't
know what the fuck they're doing. If they if they
(09:19):
suddenly find ten billion quid that they didn't know was there,
I mean, what did they done? They left it with
the money for the milkman. What's going on? Nobody's asking questions.
The media is not asking the correct questions. If you
have somebody from Reform or the Conservatives or Labor or
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Greens or liberal Democracs or who whoever the party is,
you ask the questions, you make them uncomfortable. You don't
make the most difficult question, would you like one or
two sugars in that? And they're going on about defunding
the BBC now, right, every single media organization in this country,
I believe I am right in saying is owned or
(10:00):
either largely shareholder controlled by foreign interests, Sky, a whole network, Murdoch,
and then you've got Rothermere, and you got what were
the Barkley brothers, and then it was the Sudis and
I don't know who the hell owns a telegraph group
now because it's all shrouded in a sort of maze
of shell companies and all these But the BBC is
(10:23):
the one thing now I don't like the BBC personally.
I don't watch a lot of their programming, but the
programming I do watch of the documentaries and occasionally a
bit of the comedy, because they do have some good
comedy on despite the fact that fact about eighty five
percent of it is trite, mainstream, very broad and not
very good. They do have some good stuff on the
radio as well. Oh, they got some good stuff, plays,
(10:46):
beautiful music, the proms, all these other things that they do.
But because they made this this error of not broadcasting
a speech by Donald Trump, a speech which wouldn't have
got the many viewers, because let's face it, he's a
fucking boring man to listen to. He loves the sound
of his own voice, and why should we in this
(11:07):
country be subjected to that dickhead going on and on
and on and on and on with So they cut
up his speech, and they should have put a little
thing in there saying this has been edited down to
save you if you're using heavy equipment later on in
the day. But they didn't, and that's where all this
(11:28):
fraura comes from. And so people are going defund the BABYC.
Let's get rid of the review, say it's the one thing. Now,
I'll admit I'll be the first person in the queue
to say that they don't do the job that they're
supposed to do. That they're reporting isn't as in depth,
and their probing isn't as thorough as it should be.
(11:48):
But when you've got people on the left and people
on the right saying, oh, it's biased in the other direction,
perhaps that's because it's impartial, and people on the right
always say oh it's biased. It's when they haven't actually
won anything, when they can't get their point across, they're
always throwing their toys out of the way. It's entirely biased. Yes,
I slept with a camel, but they wouldn't let me
(12:11):
have my right of way. That camel was asking for it.
But it's hump and it's pouting expression, ah, I don't
know what I don't know, and this mantlesome thing about
him pissing up against the wall after even George Respond's house.
Nothing more has been said about that. There's been no
fine issue. Otherwise you would have seen it in the news.
(12:33):
Now that was you or me, we'd be hauled down
the station with a big bag saying I want to start, well, please, sir,
while the officer collects up You're you're in off the
We're living in a very very strange time when people
won't actually ask questions, when they just spoon fed the information.
And when I'm looking at things and there's some potentially
(12:55):
very serious things going on in the world and I
see celebrity Big Brother or or I'm a celebrity, get
me out of here, or Strictly or whatever the other
fuck other programs are trending. I think, now we're really fucked,
aren't we. We're really fucked. There's nothing wrong with watching
those programs, nothing intrinsically wrong with a little bit of
relaxation and mindless television or just numb the pain of
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everyday life. But there's a difference between me and number
being dead. I spoke to a friend of mine the
other day and I said, you know, I think they're
planning to do this, and we need to do something
about it. So why they're going to do anyway? So
appoint what? Well? The germs are invading tomorrow. Hitler's coming
(13:41):
over and he's going to massacre us all and take
all the women and enslave the children into work camps.
We better do something about it. Wow, he's dead with you.
We have this really really meeting. Stupid. But I just
(14:03):
met somebody down the road now right, And she's a
young Vietnamese girl about nineteen, can't talk any English, wandering
around with a bag of her possessions. And I'm like,
you know, because it's not a wise thing to do.
You can't speak any English, you're wondering why at a
bag of your possessions and you don't know what's going on.
(14:25):
And she didn't appear to know what's going on. And
I said, well, do you want me to get the
police officer? Please? No? Please? No? What can I do
to help you? Ah? She can't. I think actually she
was pretending not to speak a lot of English and
speak very much English, but I think she was pretending,
(14:48):
and it just seemed very very odd to me, and
it worried me a great deal. And I went to
the police knocked on the door because obviously you can't
go into a police station anymore, because that will make
it work properly, Thanks George Josbourne. Away knocks on the door,
and eventually this woman asked to the door, and I said, well,
(15:09):
woman over there, Vietnamese about nineteen years old, show me
immigration papers, and she doesn't know where the hell she is,
what she's doing do once beginning, it just appears to
be lost, a bit confused. What are you going to
do about it? Oh, public servant of mine? And he said, oh.
She looked over and said, oh, we know her. Yeah,
she's fine. I shut the door. I don't know what
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else I can really do to assist somebody. I can't.
I can't bring her back here, can I? Because that's
going to look really odd? Do you know what I mean?
I mean, there's a different case when you go out
and you come back and you bought a hamstore a
rabbit or something like that, and you said, I bought
this rabbit. It looked really lonely in the shop. I
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bought this Vietnamese woman. I found her on the pavement.
Not that I've got anyone to say that too, but
you know what I mean. The neighbors would be like, oh,
he's collecting women now off the street?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Is he?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
There's a name for people to do stuff like that.
I don't know what it is because I've never been
called it, but there is a name for people to
do something anyway. So I took a long way home.
Just in case you follow me. I'm walking up the lane.
That's all a litter in the lane, all the crap.
And I'm thinking back to the nineteen seventies when I
was growing up and all the the streets were just
(16:35):
bathed in rubbish. I mean, I was quite lucky where
I lived because it was kind of like a middle
class area and people picked up after themselves. There wasn't
too much junk around. Oh my god, they let say
dogs shit in some awkward places. The cycling proficiency thing
was a wash with it. They didn't need cones. They
just were a cycle around the dog turns. And it's
(16:55):
getting that way in this country now because nothing works properly.
If I book a train now today and it says
two and three quarter hours to get to where I
want to go, I've got a book seven hours because
I know that one of those trains is going to
miss a connection and I'm going to be sat on
the station with somebody who's religious doctrine is that they're
(17:18):
not allowed to go anywhere near soap. The other thing
that I noticed is they stop buffet cars on trains. Now.
I had a problem with buffet cars myself, because to me,
handing out a cheese roll or putting a piece of
(17:41):
bacon between two slices of a stale bap is not
what you could term as being a chef, as an
old chef's busy chef. I went to premiere once in
Peckham in London, you know, and breakfast and they've got
all a toast and everything, and I don't eat any
(18:03):
of that because it's it's just lah. You don't know
who's been prodding it and feeling it. I was gonna
tasted what I said, fling it back on a shelf.
And I don't eat meat and I don't eat dairy,
so that's all out. So I thought, oh, I have
a bowl of porridge. I said, oh, oh, a bowl
of porridge please, and he says, he says, oh, no,
(18:24):
eat this bit off. And about fifteen minutes went by
and I said, where's my porridge? So a chef's trying
to find a recipe now porridge. It's oats and water,
that's porridge. I mean, there's some other things in the
news are really annoyed me. UK will not tolerate Chinese spying.
(18:48):
I mean, what's so we're not gonna why just Chinese?
Why not any spying? Well, why just Chinese spye, we
won't tolerate these Chinese spies. Apparently the Chinese have been
trying to approach people through LinkedIn and offering them money
or inducements for information or background or or classified documents
or whatever. And two people have come forward and said, well,
(19:08):
I was offered this, and I really think it's at
Lana and probably wasn't enough hm. And and it makes
you want it makes you think how many have actually
accepted that, how many have actually gone through gone through? Well,
free money, take some of that, and it was going
(19:29):
to be paid apparently by a visit and all expenses
paid visit to China, which will probably be down to
a trade envoy or diplomatic mission, which we would pay
for the transport to get there and get back and
for the order bodyguards and et cetera, et cetera. So
it's a win win for anyone who accept that, or
it'd be paid in bitcoin. They have their choice, the
(19:51):
third choice being no. So m I five have alerted
MP's and peers to this fact, which most of us
would think, well, they're probably there's a certain percentage there
for people who are going to view that as a
business opportunity. I mean, it's I don't know what they
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may call the technology they make wind farms and computers,
and there's chips and semiconductors and phones and all these
other bits and pieces. Did you really think they weren't
going to take advantage of that. Did you really think
they were going to say, Hey, we make this really
good product that we're making for another country. You know,
get all those children in that factory to make all
this crap. We can put a couple of extra things
(20:37):
in there, and we can find out what the juice
they're up to stop their black auds before they because
that's probably what they're saying over there now when they
find out. They probably sat there now making the entertainment
show out of it, because let's raise it. It's a
comedy shot that won't British politics. It's it's like an
(20:58):
addition of EastEnders and a really big house net. Migration
lower than first thought as more British nationals leave the
UK again, not a story that's actually publicized that more
people are leaving the UK than they previously thought. People
just say, oh, I've had enough of this up in
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sticks off they go Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, America, wherever
they want to go, just to get away from the
ship storm which is created in this country. I mean,
who's going to really want to live in the country
where you can't afford the cannabeans, where you can walk
down the You know, the crime in this country isn't
(21:41):
really any more than it was. In fact, real crime,
violent crime has gone down. The crime that's gone up
is fraud. You know, people getting scammed out of money
all the time, and nothing's done about that. No, I
concentrate on knfe crime. Knife crime is bad enough because
it costs people their lives, But what also cost people
their lives, and it's cost a fair people. It's a
shame of getting scammed out of all their money, but
(22:03):
nobody ever says anything about that. Oh, we're making plans
to you know, educate people about scamming. There's two ways
you fall into a scam. Either you were stupid or
you were greedy, or you let somebody else take agency
over your life and you felt pressurized get in on this,
(22:24):
get in on the Oh, if we buy sixty eight
thousand rubber bananas, right, we can melt them down and
make tires, and that's why we're going to make the money.
We just need an initial investment of fifteen thousand pound.
But the window is closing because all the backers already in.
So there's essentially sales techniques. And the reason that it's
(22:48):
so big is because there's so much much money in it.
If you did the same thing in car phone Warehouse
or Carpet World or being Q or something like that,
and you were star salesman, you get maybe a fifteen
quid by If you're making thirty five thousand pounds a
day fifteen quid a month and you're not paying tax
on it, it's understandable why people actually do that, Why
(23:09):
there are so many people driving around in Ferraris, which
theoretically they don't appear to be able to afford. How
serious are labor plans over a silent backlash? How serious
is the labor backlash of this island plans? I don't
know what's going on there. It doesn't I don't think
(23:29):
they actually needed all these things. I don't think they
need to take stuff off people at the border. I
don't think they need to. I'm gonna saying this earlier.
Why are you doing this? Who are you trying to
appeal to? Because it doesn't appeal It doesn't appeal to me,
doesn't appeal to the majority of people, and it comes
through as indecently, It comes through as sort of like
punitive with picking on people who have you know, the
(23:52):
vast percentage of people who come to this country, and
it is less than other European country, The vast percentage
of people are fleeing here because they have nowhere to go,
and they have family over here, or they have connections
over here, or they have somebody off with you. Doctors, lawyers, scientists,
all sorts of people, and we're just saying, oh, they're
like a lot of bums. They're just shoving them into
(24:15):
these dilapidated accommodation, giving them meager money to live on,
and then we're surprised, you know, and if there's if
one of them commits a crime, instantly, the whole lot
of them have painted the same way. But British people
are committing crimes all the time, and nobody says anything
about that. Oh we've got to get rid of the British.
Imagine that they'll be the next thing. Oh got get
(24:36):
rid of British. The problem in this country is not immigration,
it's the actual British people. If we get rid of
the British people, everything will be all right because they're
the ones creating all the crimes. Look at government, they're
all British. Get rid of them as well. Oh, put
them all in a big sack and take them up
the Arctic. And that is not a euphemism. Now you've
(24:59):
got the boss Google now saying the trillion dollar AI
investment boom has elements of irrationality? Do you think? And
people are relying on AI, but it's giving you the
wrong answers. AI is only as good as the information
it can gather. It's not going to interpret it the information.
It just collates it and presents it in a digestible form.
(25:19):
But if that information is actually incorrect, then you're gonna
look like a big spanner in a cake. How much
will fans save under you proposed ticketing? I've never been
to I haven't been to a consult since the nineteen eighties,
and I think if you pay more than thirty quid
to see a band, and it doesn't matter who that
(25:41):
band is, if you pay more more than that to
see a band. You need your head testing. There's people
paying like twelve hundred and three thousand pounds to see
something or whatever. It's like a little little dot out there.
You've got a better of you of Saturn than you
have of Taylor Swift and the pain it the willingly
(26:01):
paying it. Now. I came up with a theory the
other day that maybe it's the band's buying that back
and selling it onto the fans because I think about
it and make the money twice then, And no musician
has coming out, as far as I know, no musicians
come out and said, well, this is absolute appalling. It
must stop immediately. No, they've been remarkably silent about it.
(26:24):
I mean a few of them. I said, well, it's
not really It's not really fair, is it. But they
still make the money. There's something going on there. There's
something going on. I tell you something. Dustarly Catherine's first
speech in two years calls the dignity for carers. Right
(26:45):
ho then cloud fair outage. Oh my ex was down
this morning. I had no place to put all my anger,
angst and resentment against other people. It was terrible. I
ended up scratching at a post. Uh one sixty to
wildcats to make a comeback in England. Oh that these
are these slightly larger cats. You think your cat's large,
(27:07):
wait till you see these the size of a puma.
But they're still pretty big. You wouldn't like to meet
one at a dark night, which is when they tend
to go out. Well cats, and they've got those eyes
that sort of glow on you at the behind a hedge.
Well maybe that's just a reflection of me in binoculars.
I don't know anyway, that's my rant for today. We've
(27:31):
got to do something in this country because we're heading
down down the tubes and I'm just hearing everything seems
to be they seem to get somebody from Reforming to
comment on everything, you know, immigration, or get reform in
the budget, or get somebody from reform. John Inman's estate
(27:51):
is selling his collection of shoes. Let's get reform in.
It's crazy. The world has gone completely. I am convinced
that the world hasn't actually gone nuts. It is nuts,
and it's just getting worse and worse. We're getting into
the stage of psychosis. We're at the point whereas a species,
we all need to be strapped down to a bed,
(28:12):
and I don't mean in a pleasurable way anyway. If
you got this far, thanks, I've got it all off
my chest now, and my chest is something to behold. Ah.
We'll do this again if you want. Would you like
to do this again, same time? Yeah, spoil yourself. I
(28:39):
know I have so best go and get changed. Hello.
I thought I came back. I just remembered something, and
I thought I wanted to incorporate it in here. And
I was so busy ranting about various other things I
forgot all about it. And we go back to AI
and Starmar's got this big thing at the moment about
creating these new data centers. We're got a great day
(28:59):
to look huge amount of data. I can't work out
what we need these data centers for. I really can't.
HMSC has its own data center, DVLA has its own
passport control, birth control. Everything's got a data data points.
So why do we need these huge data centers. There's
billions of pounds that we haven't got on data centers.
(29:19):
The store data doesn't exist yet. So my entire thing
about this is what happened in the United States because
Biden said, oh, we need new data centers, and so
did Obama. Actually in Trump to some extent as well,
I said, I need new data centers, build big data centers,
have a huge data centers. And I built all these
data centers at Google and cloud Claw and all these
(29:42):
other companies. And they're very, very energy intensive, as you
can imagine because all the data goes there. So they
need a lot of water and a lot of electricity.
But Google and those other companies don't really like in
a bill for the electricity or the water. So what
they've done is in those locales where the data centers
(30:05):
are built, they've actually got well customers not vaying a bill.
What are we going to do here, Well, I don't know.
Let's spread it out amongst everyone else in the area,
you know, all the individual households and everything. We don't
want to cause them any Yeah, that's a good idea.
So you're just getting free electricity, and they will do
(30:26):
it in this country, they will do it in this
and we'll end up with I mean, the places will
stink because of the way the water companies have treated
the actual water, but I would assume it's seeing it
they're not paying for it. They'll have somebody with like
an endless supply of perier pouring it into the system.
But you just you just watched this. You you mark
(30:48):
my words, your water bill and your electricity bill will
go up and they'll say uh, and they won't put
it down as data centers miscellaneous and it will be
the miss miscellaneus will be some rich bastard doesn't want
to pay us. That's what that'll become. The Oxford Definition,
Dictionary definition of miscellaneous in these terms. Anyway, that was
(31:13):
the bit that I wanted to add, and now I've edited,
I'm sated. I shall lay back, have a cigarette and
think of England.
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