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Category: MAKING ASSES.... News and Politics

for pubs...


For years, pubs have been packed to the gills with the core customers - most of whom smoke, or who don't really mind smoke, if it's inclusion on the night, means a right royal atmosphere and a night to remember...!!

And then the government decides to ban smoking in public places because it wants to make us all well???? and the pubs concede the defeat with characteristic English gutlessness (UNLESS TOLD TO BY AUTHORITY!!!) - and immediately alienate their core customers...

Then the chips go down, the economy grinds to a halt and hundreds of pub are gonna go down with the chips and the over priced poorly battered FISH AND THE FUCKING SACHETS OF TOMATO KETCHUP!!!! because the core smoking customers are rightly thinking:

'WELL FUCK YOU THEN, NOW I'M SKINT, I'LL SMOKE AT HOME!!!!'...


Yes boss, this country is going down the financial plug hole for many reasons more important than the smoking ban - but every little thing counts, and for pubs that ban couldn't have come at a worse time...


But nevermind that...

The bigger issue with all this beautiful daily financial chaos, is that the dream is perhaps over and that no-one currently knows where the new lines will be drawn...

I reckon a 3-4 year recession is in order, in which time several other misfortunes might well come by the 'Great Western Democracies' (continual grind of stupid wars, strengthening of traditional and new enemies, economic power returning to those who have ACTUAL resources) leaving the world a very different place by the end of it...


With regards to US politics...

As much as I love his aura, I don't believe the great Kennedy phenomena will work for Obama other than by illuminating his myth...

In fact, I don't think the great Kennedy myth has ever been anything other than good PR...

It's the Apple Mac of politics...

Yes boss, as cute, right on (really???) and handsome as he is, Obama is another smoke and mirrors Blair, and I can't help but think the combined weight of his inheriting 2 shitty wars and a shot to shit economy will mean there'll be very little room for any kind of significant change people are hoping he can produce...


Socially speaking, the trend is in the direction of people staying in and doing their socialising virtually alá the spazz, messenger, skype, forums, chatrooms and facefuck etc - and this is where and how things are going for good or ill in the serious long term...

The real world of difficult physical human interactions (including sex) is in many senses being fazed out - but can it be fazed out???

Can everyone live in virtual dream worlds as do poets and artists, or will some fuckers still have to grow food, clean toilets and kill rats???

I guess time will tell...

But my money's on YES!!