Joe Buckingham

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Getting revenge. You’re doing it right

I cannot be the only person who looks at these photos and sees hundreds of pounds of criminal damage, rather than some well-deserved “revenge”.

Yeah, the billboard, the poster and the plane, fair enough. That’s pretty original, so while I think it’s a little petty, they don’t launch me into a fiery rage like the others.

But the others, they’re just illegal. It’s not commendable, or anything even remotely worth idolising, for fuck’s sake.

Just to be clear: I am in no way defending adultery. Obviously it’s bloody stupid and morally wrong - however I would argue that the “revenge” enacted in several of these cases is far more morally wrong.

What these pictures represent most of all to me is the spectacularly fucked up idea of gender “equality” we have today. Imagine if you saw some of these images (particularly the last with the pickaxes) and were told that they had been done by an angry husband after his wife had been unfaithful. You’d feel sorry for the woman… you’d imagine her fear and panic at discovering such an act of brutality performed on something she owned, and worry for her safety.

And so just why the FUCK is it any different when it’s done to a man? It’s this same attitude which means that hundreds of thousands of men who are abused by their wives aren’t taken seriously, and are forced to live in fear. It’s demeaning both to men and women alike: men because they are made to feel pathetic and have no way of dealing with the situation, and women because the very reason that females get away with this sort of thing is because people automatically assume they’re weaker than men. 

I know it’s ludicrous to hope that this situation is going to change any time soon… but god fucking DAMN does it get me angry.

(Source: liquid0xy, via t3ganandsara)

Posts like this really irritate the crap out of me. Like, seriously, do you really think there’s someone somewhere who’s like “OMG no I’m not reblogging that, I fuckin’ love cancer, me.”?

It’s just a shockingly transparent attempt to get notes, which makes you just as bad a person for whoring out a fatal disease just for the sake of a small amount of internet fame.

(Source: kany3shrugs, via trialsandtribulationsofafangirl)

Hooray for the Scout Association.

From the document detailing how to become a Scout Leader:

No person volunteering their services should receive less favourable treatment on the basis of, nor suffer disadvantage by reason of:

• age;
• class;
• ethnic origin, nationality (or statelessness) or race;
• gender;
• marital or sexual status;
• mental or physical ability; or
• political or religious belief.

From the same document:

…a person would not be suitable to hold some appointments in Scouting if they:

• had an avowed absence of religious belief;
• believed that religious belief and spiritual development did not matter, although were willing to make the Promise;
• were a humanist and did not believe in a spiritual aspect to human beings; or
• had religious beliefs which conflicted with other fundamental principals of Scouting, such as being part of the worldwide family of Scouting.

So, no discriminating by religious beliefs… as long as you have the right religious beliefs.

This kind of shit makes me sick. I’ve been helping as a Young Leader for the past four years, and I don’t think I’d be over-egging myself too much to say I’m one of the most useful leaders our group has. Not once during that time have I even mentioned my religious beliefs (or lack of) to a child. For fuck’s sake, I’ve even sat through about ten church ceremonies with the Scouts, going along with everything, while inside I found nearly every word they were saying thoroughly sickening. 

If I’m willing to shut the fuck up about my religious beliefs, and behave exactly as any good Christian Scout Leader would, what the hell does it matter that I don’t particularly see why there would be a god?

FAJKLJFKFHKAHK.

“Spreading awareness”

It’s like prayer for the 21st Century. 

An ingenious technique used by the naturally privileged to feel like they’re useful, like they can make, and have made a difference. You reblog an image, or tweet a hashtag, and that’s it. Your job’s done, you’ve done your good deed for the day. That warm, self-satisfied feeling inside you lets you know that you’re a Good Person.

Except what have you actually achieved? The only difference you’ve made is that there are now a few more people who, just like you, will care passionately about whichever issue is fashionable this week, and then forget about it two days later.

Just to be clear, this isn’t a direct response to #stopKony, so much as a response to the growing trend of suddenly deciding to care passionately about an issue you’ve known about for years and not given two shits about, just because it’s suddenly become cool to do so.

Awareness isn’t going to feed the starving, depose dictators or create world peace. There’s nothing in your power that will. But, I suppose, if you want to pretend that you can change the world then you’re welcome to continue. Just don’t get your hopes up.

No, you ignorant fuck, your phone isn’t “being gay”, it’s broken. In fact, I highly doubt your phone actually has a sexuality, since it has no gender, no conscious thought, and is not a living thing. And if it did, and it did happen to be gay, that would definitely not make it broken. Liking other phones of the same model does is not a symptom of malfunction.
Believing that “gay” is synonymous with “broken”, however, probably is.

Sir Hugh Orde (Head of the Association of Chief Police Officers):

I do not think it would be sensible in any way shape or form to deploy water canon or baton rounds in London. Baton rounds are very serious bits of equipment. I would only deploy them in life threatening situations where my officers were under live fire, bombs or massive petrol bombs.

What is happening in London is not an insurgency that is going to topple the country. There are 8 million people in London and it is a tiny proportion doing this. They are gangs of looters and criminals and although it is concerning it has to be kept in proportion.

Yeah, that sounds fine. After all, there have only been 111 injured police officers, numerous civilian casualties, one civilian fatality, £100M worth of damages, and a complete destruction of any international reputation that England had previously managed to retain. Nothing to get worried about, people. No need to actually do anything about it.

(Source: telegraph.co.uk)

An email I’ll never send

Warning: naughty language.

You’ve known me for five fucking years. This whole not-remembering-my-name thing was funny at first, now it’s just fucking disrespectful. Screw you and your stupid bloody interview. If you can’t be arsed to remember who the fuck I am, I’m not sure I want to work with you for a whole bloody year anyway. 

Yours,

Joe (wait, who?)

I kind of feel sorry for Anthony Weiner.

And not just because of his name. 

I mean, the guy’s being forced to resign/step-down/whatever, for putting a couple of photos of his junk on the internet.

Compare this to other American politicians, who’ve been responsible for the deaths of more than a million in Iraq and Afghanistan, and weren’t forced to resign.

So, what’s the message here, America? Taking photos of your dong is a worse offence than the murder of thousands of innocents? With due respect (if, indeed, any respect is due), sort your fucking priorities out.

Whatever happened to

living our lives to actually enjoy ourselves, instead of working for an ‘education’, which in practice is barely worth the paper it’s bloody written on, so that we can grow up and work some more. 

Wow, that’s something to fucking aspire to.

It seems as soon as we’re old enough to actually go out properly, we’ve got so much damn work that we never get the chance to. 

Leaving already, Exciting Teenage Years? It seems like you only just arrived.

Incidentally, it’s funny (and by funny I mean depressing) how every time I write the word ‘education’ I feel the need to put it in air quotes. Ah, the British school system, you fucked-up waste of space.

Tomorrow

has the potential to be a good day, once I’ve extricated myself from the happy-clappy BS-fest that my local church puts on every time the Scouts visit for church parade.

I know, as an atheist, it’s odd for me to complain about this, but the services don’t even have anything to do with God. It’s all this watered-down “believe in yourself” “protect the environment” paff, and Jesus barely even gets a namecheck. If you’re going to waste two hours of my life trying to indoctrinate me, I want Bible readings and hymns which don’t involve an electric guitar and a drumkit. I want to be impressed or at least mildly awestruck by the service, not embarrassed to be in the same room as a balding Reverend who can’t decide whether he’s a US-style ‘televangelist’ or a wannabe rock-star in a midlife crisis.

Yeah, sure, people are free to worship in whatever way pleases them (or God, whatever) but this feels worryingly like selling out.

If this offends you: read this.