Juddian:
Winseer i have to say this…oh and another excellent post by the way.
WTF are you poncing about driving lorries for, you’re one of the most articulate written posters i’ve seen on any forum and you stand out a mile because there’s bloody heaps of common sense in your postings, your posts whilst long don’t bore, especially convincing as you’re a genuine working class working man, something the champagne socialists/libs/tories can never be nor ever convince because they haven’t been there nor got the T shirt.
Have you submitted any blog posts to somewhere like Orphans of Liberty or thought about contributing to Breitbart London.
There’s a serious journalist with patriotic conviction lurking inside if i may say so, you should seriously consider using that brain and the written word to make a living, you could write speeches, anything.
Many thanks. This “Voice crying in the wilderness” will accept any recognition it can get.
I don’t have any idea how to actually approach “People empowered to employ me” in real life you could say. Not having been to University, I was always a bit of a loner when younger, and even now - most of my communications with others has been online - a place where I’ve had a presence since 1985 with my first bulletin board “The Chopping Block”. This board was primarily concerned with the then online gaming community and the new upcoming generation of home computer buffs. The Chopping Block was running on a BBC Micro, and used to annoy my parents (since I was living at home at the time) because it ■■■■■■■ the phone line every time dialled in to leave a message on the board! All the way back then people would also swap files such as music programs written in Basic or 6502 - and there were no copyright issues because (1) I’d coded the music myself and (2) the ‘music original work’ would have been a long-dead composer, such as my favourite - Bach.
I’m intrigued to explore these names above that I had not previously heard of. You could say that the main reason I “waste myself poncing about driving” is that I don’t have any other source of income.
I’d love a “journalist” type job where I’m actually paid to go to work & write for some outlet or other - but don’t consider myself leftie enough for something like being a Guardian Columnist, and have seen the publications of the right such as Daily Mail - sink down the plughole, seemingly attempting to become a “loony right” - having lost it’s way as a “sensible” Newspaper some time since alas.
I grew up with Radio 2, Daily Mail, & an eternal Conservative presence in local politics btw.
If I could dictate policy of ANY publication however - it would be for the moderators of such forums to STOP censoring input on the basis of “not agreeing with it” and do their jobs properly as an editor taking out bad taste remarks, illegal remarks, or outright seditious remarks. It’s damned hard to submit any typed material that satisfies the “auto-censor-mod” that has consigned a lot of my “Essay” type media submissions to the cyber dustbin over the past few years.
If I only said things nearly everyone agreed with - they wouldn’t be “controversial” for sure, and would probably be totally ignored as the meaningless claptrap it would be. On the other hand, saying something that those currently silent think “Yeh!” - but goes against conventional wisdom - THAT represents ‘a ball to kick around for all’, and if everyone turning up is here wants to give my proverbial ball a good kicking - then that’s better than the alternative of giving me a good kicking.
I consider my remarks to have been “well-received” if they provoke any reaction at all - good or bad.
As Oscar Wilde wrote: “The only thing worse than being talked about - is not being talked about” 