OK. I am a grumpy git.

I haven’t written much lately. I have been calm, I have a new job, I don’t have to do my old job, life has been good, I can’t believe I’m being paid to do what I’m doing, Short fat beardy bloke has been behaving and not bothering sheep as per his court order.

Life is good .....but buggeration....I can’t take it no more....no....someone has to feel the sharp end of my blogging tongue....even if no one is reading this shite. And no, it’s not the Adver, I can say shite. There, shite, I’ve said it three times now. And I can start a sentence with and. Twice now and also finished one with and. Well there are no rules here.

’Why am I feeling so enraged? Guess what, I’ll tell you. Be warned, on these pages...swearing is allowed, even thought the intelligent parts of me say I lower the tone by doing so. Ra Ra, the lower tone I say.

No, what has got me to the blowing of steam stage again is today’s news...and I am not going to give it any credence to the ‘story’ by making a link to the story or anything clever like that....no, this is a rant....without proper pronunciation, grammar or reason. No, no fooking links or intelligent reason. My blog, my rules. Oh, yes...dem is da rules

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What has got this man into this lather I hear you cry, albeit faintly. Well it’s the News tonight ...what else and an advert on around the same time.

So what has got you into this lather you mention Grumpy, I hear you shout (or is that the voices in my head). Its dementia on the news and alcohol adverts.

Now dementia is a terrible thing. The news showed some dedicated old fella tending to his affected wife, whom he must love without question, has loved, and will continue to love. But she was just some poor shadow of a human being or the woman he once thought perfect...and still must.. who he poured tea into and shovelled the odd bit of scoff that missed her chin, into her.

Very touching in every way, i.e., dedication, love, companionship and working to the letter of ‘in sickness and in health’. I would not take the piss out of that man, he is a saint and I admire his capabilities and dedication.

What I find repulsive, abhorrent, disstastfull and unacceptable, is how this dreadful demise in a old lady is the latest tool in the Temperance Society we live in, to try to influence our behaviour.

Here’s my view in a nutshell.

No.....

Drinking booze won’t give you dementia

Smoking fags won’t make you drool

Eating cakes won’t make you forget your wife’s name

Not going to the gym won’t make you think it its 1947

Shopping at Primark won’t make you unable to get to the toilet by your own means.

And not believing everything you see on the news won’t make you a twat. (I told you this is not the Adver)

But the above, pretty much, is what the BBC and ITV think will make you lose your marbles.

The other thing that annoyed me, not as much as the above, was a new government warning ad on drinking, where a woman appears see thru in the ad and all the woes available in a medical dictionary are demonstrated in very clever graphics’ while she and a friend polish off a bottle of plonk ( 2 glasses each).

I don’t know why the same type of brew we, as a species have drunk for the last 2 or 3 thousand years now turns the youth of today indo dickheads.

I don’t know why 10% of society thinks they know what’s best for the 80% of us who like getting shit faced or just like a tipple and think they can get away with it.

I don’t know why the powers that be, the BBC and HM Gov, think it’s ok to preach morals based on god only knows what, to the masses when the powers that be are so obviously morally bankrupt themselves.

So why, oh why (angry of Tonbridge Wells kicking in there) do the government, or the BBC/ITV..Same thing really, think it is ok, or think we are going to swallow it whole, to show two old people dealing with a dire medical condition, in order to encourage us to be the prodigy of Husain fucking Bolt. You tell me.

Well I do know actually...we let them and we soak it all in like sponges.

I told you it wasn’t the Adver. Sorry.