23 Mar 2021

And Then, Another Old Favourite...

   Well, there you go then; get the vaccine and book your holiday. However, if you try to take the holiday, be prepared to face a five grand fine. How cool is that then? So, again, you got the chemi cocktail addition to your internal workings because?
    It may become a legal requirement that those working in old folks homes get the cocktail. But, but, but we’ve prodded all the residents, right? So according to the propaganda, these old folk are virtually bulletproof. So the carers need jabbing because?   
   Regards unessential shops being closed. My question to the folk wot are so smart they could tell you the cubic capacity of a jar of pickles at a glance but, it would seem, have no idea how to get the lid off, is this; how did you ‘discover’ that it’d be perfectly safe to cram customers into a superstore or supermarket, but it’d be deadly to allow the small shops to open to something like thirty or so customers a day as this flue germ thingy knew that, if open, it could enter a small shop and kill ‘em all, but would never even consider entering a big drum that sees many hundreds, nay, thousands of customers a day? Well? Hello?
   I’m sorry to be repeating myself again below, but it needs repeating does it not? Daily some may say. As a by-the-by, seems the original was penned by George Carlin:

   Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
   He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm, life isn't always fair, and maybe it was my fault. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned, but overbearing, regulations were set in place.
   Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate, teenagers suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition. Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job they had themselves failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer paracetamol, sun lotion or a plaster to a pupil, but could not inform the parents when a pupil became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
   Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, churches became businesses and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home, but the burglar could sue you for assault because you protected yourself and your own.
   Common Sense finally gave up the will to live after a woman failed to realise that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
   Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, his wife, Discretion, his daughter, Responsibility and his son, Reason. He is survived by three stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, Someone Else Is To Blame, and I'm A Victim. Not many attended his funeral because so few realised that he was gone.

Quote;  Robert Green Ingersoll.

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”

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