Gibbo's Gob

I am well aware that shit rolls down hill, and starts at the very top. The banks, ultimately are at the top of the mountain, and have felt the pinch. This is because although they are at the top, they rely on us slaves to earn the real money, and give it to them, either being in the form of interest from a loan, or overdraft, or even to just have them bank/look after it for us, so that they can invest it wherever they feel fit. After all, they are the money experts aren’t they? I mean, it may be an extreme rarity for a bank/money lender to go broke, surely it couldn’t happen. Most certainly couldn’t happen to several banks in quick succession could it? Well we all know that this has happened.

I got out of bed this morning at about seven o’clock, opened my back door and watched, in the garden a jackdaw trying to feed from a bird feeder designed for sparrows.

I have been thinking today. How did the human race progress so far when we are all idiots? Let’s start with the car, why make something so technical that not a single person on this planet knows how to fix it?

Could the world today survive without money? I don’t mean get rid of cash and just shuffle numbers around from one account to another. What I am talking about is absolutely no money, at all, anywhere.

The earth is rotating at just over 1000 miles an hour. (One revolution is one earth day) The earth’s orbital speed around the sun is about 18.5 miles per second. (One revolution is one earth year). The earth, as well as the solar system is rotating around the centre of our galaxy (which is a spiral type and the arm which we are situated is called the Orion arm, if you gaze toward Orion in the night sky, you are looking outwards from the centre of our galaxy), at about 132 miles per second, and takes 240 million years to do one revolution. (This period is called a cosmic year). The galaxy is moving away from the centre of our universe at 360 miles per second, and increasing.

Years ago we men had a role to play in society. We'd be out to work most of the time, knowing that we had a wife and a family to support. Not much time spent with the kids, or little time for social activities (apart from boozing that is). People didn't migrate throughout the country as much as they do now, (let alone go abroad, unless it was to fight) farmers and land owners employed many of the local residents, and probably even owned their homes too.

The fat politician strikes again! Yesterday the leaders published their list of maximums regarding their individual expenditure which you and I are paying for. I could not believe my eyes when I read it in the Times newspaper today, and have to share with you the knowledge of where the moneys from the taxes you and I pay are ending up.

What with all of the discussions going on just recently about cheap labour coming from Europe and the race and ethnic differences. It is on my mind allot. It is difficult to say what is fair and what is not, and it all depends obviously on which side of the fence you sit. If you are someone who runs your own factory, then I have no doubt that cheap labour would be very welcome, whereas in some of the areas which are more expensive to live in, cheap labour brings down the value of human worth in the work place as well as society. To bring a wage down to rock bottom around Milton Keynes doesn’t make life easy for many families, and makes it almost impossible for them to sustain any life at all, out of the workplace.

I occasionally see an old wind beaten car fume covered Union Jack flying from beneath someone’s bedroom window, still there as a reminder of the defeats of football past. It isn’t a flag of pride. No wonder that the Welsh and the Scottish people would rather fly their own individual flag, and I don’t blame

You probably think that this is going to be a crazy idea, but in theory it could be the answer to all of our global warming problems and all it would only cost is the price of a sharp haircut.

The speculation that Prince Harry may come home after the overseas media leak, became reality today. He has been fighting on the front line in Afghanistan along with the rest of our men. Good on him. Why shouldn’t he have been given the opportunity to fight for what he believes in? Even if it is an illegal war.

I have noticed that allot of people are totally and completely oblivious to their surroundings. Too much attention to gadgets and fashion is killing our natural instinct to do what is natural and healthy for us. Instead of taking the kids fishing or going for a nice family stroll through the fields we are as a nation obsessed with the “non world”, the world that doesn’t exist in real life, and although it does have good points such as the sharing of knowledge, the cyber world also has its bad. This probably makes me a hypocrite I hear you say, but the difference here is the fact that I am speaking and communicating with you. Not a virtual pet and the thought of chatting up a virtual girlfriend is totally ridiculous. I mean, how’s she going to cook my dinner or iron my shirt? Perhaps we should go out in virtual clothes and be done with it.

I’m sure that you are all aware of the smoking ban that came into play last year. I have been a smoker on and off for a few years now, and have endured the taxes that have been piled onto the price of a packet of fags, for the simple reason that in the future I may need medical attention because I smoke, and in my way of thinking, that means I have paid for the attention that is owed to me if anything unfortunate was to happen. (Although smoking has never been found to have a definite link toward cancer etc, I agree that there may be a risk). I also agree that when in a restaurant or in a confined area that this habit may be unpleasant for other people to breath in my smoke. So in those circumstances, I always left the room or asked the closest people if they minded if I had a fag. Most cases those people said that they didn’t mind.

We live in a world today where we fear for our lives. Whether it’s in your own home or out in the streets, constantly in our minds, is the thought that we may not be safe. On the radio and television and all over the press are stories that conjure up visions of fear and hatred in the public.

What is it about this area that makes people rush around like blue arsed flies? Don't have time for the family, have very little time for any leisure and when you go on holiday for that one week in the year it's a struggle to settle down into a slower pace of life and if/when you do it's usually the day before you come home.

All yesterday and all of today the largest story on radio 2 has been about the poor old donkey that might have to carry a few loaves of bread and a pint of milk up a hill. What's that all about?

Well what do I know about living around Milton Keynes?

I do know that if you can afford to put fuel in the car and eventually get there, after sitting in the traffic for god knows how long and negotiating the roundabouts that send you totally in the wrong direction just to swing you back on course at the very last minute. Just in time to get you to a stand still at a set of traffic lights only to witness the cars around you swelling and vibrating with the god awful crappy rap gangster music that the youth of M.K. have decided to adopt, (for some reason a lot of people think that they are gangsters even if they are on there way home to their mum to get their tea and a cup of coco).