IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF IT 'AINT GOT THAT SWING

Did you vote in the last election? Did you think your vote made a difference? Did you think you were exercising your right to choose? Duh, you wasted your time, you had no choice. You might have well stayed at home on polling day, not unless you were a “Marginal swinger”
Research from the Electoral Reform Society has revealed just how few votes were required by the Labour Party to win the last election.
A combination of new parliamentary boundaries and our winner takes all system meant that a mere 8000 votes could have delivered a new government in Britain (pop.60M).
Don’t believe me? OK, here’s how. Those 8000 people are all “Marginal swingers,” that is, people who live in marginal constituencies who consider themselves independent and who are prepared to change their vote.
Don’t think that even if you live in a marginal your vote will count. Why? Because if you are a loyal supporter of either party “I’ll always vote for labour or Conservatives no matter what,” then yours is a dead vote.
Suppose you have 10 voters who voted last time in a marginal, splitting their votes 5 to labour, 5 to the conservatives.
If one “Swinger” changes their mind this time around the vote becomes 60/40. If one new voter gets added to the pool, thanks, to one of the parties turning out the base, the vote is still 55/45 against.
If a second voter, who didn’t vote last time, is chauffeured to the polls, you are now back to 50/50, as you have 6 out of 12. In other words, it takes three new voters to overcome one voter who has changed .their mind, and three new voters to overcome his defection. In almost all cases, therefore, it is more strategic for the parties to get one voter on the edge to switch opinions, than it is to bring in two or three new voters.
It is theoretically possible for additional base turnout to be a factor, but in 95% of all elections throughout the world, it is the “Marginal swinger” who is decisive.
My suggestion is this: Find out who these people are and have all the political crap on TV fed directly into their homes so the rest of us can watch reality shows and football in peace.

I’m on a learning curve with video. Until I get it sussed, check out why George Carlin didn’t vote:

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FILMS WE LIKE TO WATCH ON BANK HOLIDAYS:#2. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3rd KIND..

Have you ever wondered how come, in the film Close Encounters, the central character played by François Truffaut, a Frenchman, is in charge of the US government forces? The answer is that he is based on a real character, Jacques Vallee.
Vallee is so clever he makes Stephen Hawkins look stupid. He has worked in astronomy, artificial intelligence, written best selling fiction and non-fiction books, co-produced the first computerized map of Mars for NASA and for a party trick co-developed ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. As a venture capitalist he has funded companies developing, amongst other things, nanotechnology, surgical robots and organ transplants.
He became interested in UFO’s after seeing one when he was a child and is considered one of the worlds leading experts in UFO phenomena.
Vallee is not popular amongst most UFO enthusiasts because he doesn’t believe in ET, that is, he doesn’t subscribe to the theory of UFO’s being vehicles controlled by alien space invaders because of his “Multi-dimensional visitation hypothesis” (they’re real, but not from other planets) He describes himself as a heretic amongst heretics.
His most famous quote is: “I’m certain that UFOs are reality, but I’ll be disappointed if they turn out to be only spacecraft from outer space”
In a nutshell, here’s the theory:
Aliens could be potentially from anywhere. They could be multidimensional beyond space-time, and thus could coexist or live with humans, yet remain undetected.
Science generally shares public opinion in the belief that UFO’s either a), Do not exist or, b), If they do, must be an advanced race of space travellers (ET) The specific arguments that contradict ET are:
1), Close encounters are far more common than is needed for a survey of earth.
2). The ability of UFOs to manipulate space and time suggests radically different and richer alternatives than just a “Star Trek”.
3).The humanoid body structure of "Grey, Reptilian and Nordic aliens" is not likely to have originated on another planet and are not biologically suitable for space travel.
4).The reported behaviour in thousands of abduction reports contradicts the hypothesis of genetic or scientific experimentation on humans by an advanced race;
5). The phenomenon has existed throughout recorded human history in the forms of visits from: Fairies, elves, angels, gods, ghosts, and all kinds of religious, supernatural and spiritual visions, dreams and visitations. So, they are not new thing.







Vallee’s theory has had some impressive believers like, Carl Jung, some unimpressive ones like David Icke and some unfortunate ones like the “Heavens Gate” sect, who’s 39 members committed mass suicide in 1997.
Vallée tried to interest Spielberg in his theory. Vallée said, "I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials, if it was real, physical, but not ET. The reply was something like “Maybe you're right, but this is Hollywood. The public want to see aliens from another planet and that’s what they are going to get.”
He’s pictured below with his Mentor, another clever clogs, astrophysicist, Allen Hyneck, who is widely considered to be the father of scientific analysis of reports and trace evidence left by UFOs.



Following the reporting of the Roswell incident in 1947, and in response to the many "flying saucer" sightings that followed it, the United States Air Force, became uneasy at the thought of US airspace being easily invaded. It was the “Cold War”. It made sense to make sure it wasn’t the Russians. So they established Project “Sign”, which became “Grudge”, then “Blue Book” to investigate the phenomenon. Hyneck was the scientific consultant to all of them. If any American had thought that they had seen a flying saucer, and reported it, between the 1940’s to the early 60’s, then that report would have landed on the desk of Allen Hynek. It was he who coined the term UFO and invented the scale of “Close Encounters” of the 1-4th kind. Hynek was consultant to the movie and he even had a small part near the end of the film.



When Hynek was working for the air force he could safely be described as a “debunker” Hynek enjoyed his job, saying, “Debunking was what the Air Force expected of me”. “They wouldn't give UFOs the chance of existing, even if they were flying up and down the street in broad daylight”



Hynek's opinions about UFOs began to change. The calibre of the witnesses began to trouble him, including astronomers, pilots, police and military personnel. He concluded that some reports represented genuine observations.
Hyneck, who is now dead, was also an advocate of Vallee’s theory. He said "I have come to support less and less the idea that UFOs are “nuts and bolts” spacecrafts from other worlds. There are just too many things going against this theory. To me, it seems ridiculous that super intelligences would travel great distances to do relatively stupid things like stop cars, collect soil samples, and frighten people. I think we must begin to re-examine the evidence. We must begin to look closer to home."
After the film came out Hynek, on behalf of himself and Vallée addressed the United Nations General Assembly to initiate a centralized United Nations UFO authority.
So it’s up to you dear reader. Answer this question. Are you more worried about an “Independence Day” scenario where we get invaded by aliens from outer space or the fact that some of the smartest people on the planet believe in fairies?

FILMS WE LIKE TO WATCH ON BANK HOLIDAYS: #1. ESCAPE TO VICTORY.

The two fingered V sign popular in British culture (not to be confused with the wussy American peace sign) comes from the English and Welsh archers fighting at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
The French, who heavily outnumbered the small British team, announced that when they had won the battle they would cut off the arrow-shooting fingers of all the surviving British long bowmen.
It is recorded that King Henry V made reference to it in his team talk. Shakespeare in his play featured the “St. Crispin's day” speech where Henry inspires his outnumbered men to fight saying "....the fewer men, the greater share of honour."



Despite being outnumbered the long bowmen were “defiant”, they said “fuck you” they shot, they scored. Victory



As what was left of the French army was limping home the archers gave them the first V sign in history. “Fuck you”.
It has now become ingrained in the culture. Be defiant, say “fuck you” and give them the V sign. V is for victory.

At the beginning of WW2 Churchill was pictured with his hand facing outwards as a sign of defiance



After 1943 when the war was being won he turned his hand round, “Fuck you”.



We love Escape to Victory, it’s the celebration of the V sign. The Great Escape meets ‘allo ‘allo, with footballers as the heroes. Allied prisoners in a WW2 POW camp are playing football, coached by Michael Caine, a former pro. They are challenged to play a match against the guards, the Allied team accepts. The Gestapo, who are too stupid to realise that the allies have three World Cup winners and Sylvester “Rambo” Stallone in their team, want to use the game as a propaganda stunt and the POW’s find themselves playing the German national team at the Park de Prince stadium in Paris.


Some players plan to escape at halftime led by Stallone. The rest of the team, not being American, understand that football is not a matter of life and death, but something far more important than that and want to win the game.
Led by Russell Osman, who says the immortal words "….but we can win this" They carry on with the game, despite being behind at halftime, despite the ref being fixed and despite the Germans deliberately kicking the Allied players, a draw is achieved after great performances from Pelé, Osvaldo Ardiles and Scotsman John Wark. Sylvester “Rambo” Stallone (who was coached by World Cup winner Gordon Banks) plays the goalie, and has a great game including saving a last minute penalty to deny the Germans the win, drawing the game 4-4. They manage to escape at the end of the game, amidst the confusion caused by the crowd storming the field after Stallone preserves the draw.



V is used throughout the film, particularly in the final match. Just after the allied team get their new tracksuits. They run on to the pitch and a prisoner shouts a saucy comment at them. Michael Caine, still running, turns towards him and gives him the V sign and shouts, “Up yours.”



As Pelé scores the fourth goal, equalising the match, his legs make a clear V-shape which is held in slow-motion. After the ref disallows an Allied winner the French fans in the crowd are seen giving the V sign, before chanting the rousing "Victoire!" The goal that the Allies scored that was wrongly disallowed would have been the Allies fourth, and would have given them five goals, in Roman Numerals this is a V….. just like Henry V
The movie is the fourth remake of this story. The others; "Two half-times in Hell" “Third Time” and “Match of Death” were all based on the true story of a Ukranian team, FC Start, which was made up with eight players from Dynamo Kiev and three from Locomotiv Kiev. They started playing matches against the local German garrisons during 1942. FC Start played several matches, and won them all: 6-2, 11-0, 9-1, 6-0, 5-1 and 3-2 against the Luftwaffe.
The German high command grew aware that FC Start victories were inspiring the Ukrainian population and reducing the morale of German troops.
The German Luftwaffe team asked for a re-match, which was planned on 9 August at Zenit stadium and the Nazis advertised the game,



An SS officer was appointed as referee, and FC Start were aware that he would be biased against them and warned of possible punishment if they did not lose the game. Despite this, the team decided to play their usual game. They also refused to give a Nazi salute to their opponents before the match.
Just as the FC Start players expected, the Nazi referee ignored fouls. The German team quickly targeted the goalkeeper who, after a sustained campaign of physical challenges, was kicked in the head by a German forward and left groggy. While he was recovering, the Germans went one goal up. The referee continued to ignore FC Start appeals against the violence. The German team went on with their war of intimidation using all the tactics of a dirty team, going for the man not the ball, shirt-pulling, and tackling from behind, as well as going ”over the top”. Despite this FC Start scored with a long shot from a free kick. Then one player, against the run of play, dribbled the ball around almost the entire Nazi defence and tapped it into in the German net to make the score 2-1. By half-time, FC Start went another goal up. Towards the end of the match, with FC Start in an almost unbeatable position at 5-1, a defender, got the ball, beat the entire German defence and walked around the German goalkeeper. Then, instead of letting it cross the goal line, he turned around and kicked the ball back towards the centre circle. The SS referee blew the final whistle before the ninety minutes were up.
A week later, Start defeated another German team, this time 8-0. Soon after that, a number of the FC Start players were arrested and tortured by the Gestapo. One of the arrested players died under torture. The rest were sent to a concentration camp, where three more players were killed. Some did survive and they became heroes in Soviet popular culture.
The Zenit stadium was renamed the Start stadium and a monument stands inside the ground to the team who were defiant and said “Fuck you”

25 GENERAL LAWS AND PRINCIPALS OF THE INTERNET

1.) The Devil invented the internet to distract us from more important things.



2.) Surfing the Internet will make you more stupid, faster than any other activity known to man.



3.) You can’t make any assumptions about anyone simply by examining the characters they type.



4.) You will find that you will lose the ability read more than a few lines of text and when it happens you’ll actually believe that it’s a good thing,



5.) A promise made over the Internet is the least reliable of all promises.



6.) You might get a prompt reply to your e-mail, but don’t count on it.



7.) All facebook and myspace pages are packed with trivial rubbish.



8.) The Internet is a “community” in the same sense that China is a “neighbourhood.” A neighbourhood where 9 out of 10 of your neighbours are retarded.



9.) The person that sends you the most e-mails or/and the most posts on forums, facebook, myspace etc is either: a) Infirmed b) Housebound, or, c). Sad.



10.) Perverts and psychopaths can operate computers and are able to create web pages.



11.) 99 out of 100 YouTube videos should never have come into existence.



12.) You will see spam and/or be spammed.



13.) You will see pictures of flying saucers…….none of them are real.



14.) You will see aliens too….they’re not real either.



15.) You will see conspiracies everywhere.



16.) You will be informed about many strange things. Try not to take anything too seriously..



17.) You will see a lot of cats, fairies and dragons. They mean nothing.



18.) You will be offered outstanding business opportunities in Nigeria.



19.) You will be offered Viagra.



20.) Most internet traffic is for porn



21.) It don’t matter where you go, porn will pop up from somewhere.



22.). If you look for porn and find it, you’ll get invited to play poker.



23.) The "signal-to-noise ratio" (The ratio of useful information to false or irrelevant data) on the internet is very low compared to radio telescopes. If you don’t understand the irony in that statement, it is because the Internet has already made you stupid.



24.) Computers are already “Sentient” (human or higher level artificial intelligence) and the Internet is their first covert step towards world domination.



25.) Perhaps you might be more emotionally and mentally well-adjusted if you cease surfing the internet now, or at least severely curtail your surfing time.