Wednesday, August 7

Tone it down !

Every morning I watch BBC BREAKFAST .  I have done this for about 20 years . Mostly because my parents watch it and I work on our farm and come up for my breakfast every morning . Whats annoying me is , and this applies to other presenters on tv shows too ; shouting ! Presenters now talk in a tone that has gone up to an alarming level . Gone is the relaxed quietly spoken presenter . Now they are speaking as though they are scared stiff you aint listening to them . Their voices are strained . You cant concentrate or read with the tv on in the back ground anymore . The vocal tones are designed to allow you no respite as long they talk . I guess its a natural progression and looking back to tv presenters in black and white days you just laugh at how odd they sound now . Anyway Im finding it increasingly irritating , even stressful . Another sign of the times....

Tuesday, August 6

A view for the few

I have never got worked up about race . That looks awful in print . This is because I believe people are quite capable of making their own minds up based on their perceptions and experiences . To tell someone that their judgement based on their experiences is wrong to me is even more offencive !!! No one has THAT right however much another persons view point offends some .People are not stupid but....
  Races look after their own fact . Its not nice but its a natural survival mechanism . Political correctness has gagged any discussion of this fact in the U.K .   When battle lines are drawn everyone resorts to type . It happens over here as it does in America . As for one race been worse than another I have NO experience at all due to where I live  on this subject !!!!  . Though I now remember a year ago the body of a Pakistani girl was found in the river of our nearest town , the victim of a  " honour killing " . Her father suffocated her with a plastic bag because of her refusal of an arranged marriage ! This is not uncommon in that race unfortunately so people not surprisingly get a little annoyed  after a while . If a race is a repeat offender for atrocities like this is it no wonder peoples views are " racist "  . Is this wrong ?
 And what about statistics ? In London i think it was 90% of recorded muggers were black . Is that racist ? If a race has a particular undesirable element prevalent then they are gonna be judge as a whole . . People are all human . Being human can be ugly .....