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Primeval Speculation

April 8th, 2010

Love it of hate it, time-travelling dino series Primeval is a show with legs. Losing its leading man before his action figure was even delivered to the supermarket…http://www.sfx.co.uk/2010/04/08/blog-primeval-speculation/

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Road Works Rage

March 30th, 2010

Today I recieved my speeding ticket from the Welsh Police, for going 61mph in 50mph roadworks.

Is it me or are there sixty millions lots of unnecessary road works going on at the moment? Last week I couldn’t get home 4 times without being re-routed, diverted, scenic’ed or ground to a halt then sent the full length of Stafford on a B road with a motorways worth of traffic. On the M6 last friday, getting home a full 3 hours later than is healthy for someone whos been on the road for 4 hours already. Having siphoned me through the devils own bottom that is single lane traffic they have the hi-visibility audacity to put up a sickly orange lit sign saying “Tiredness Kills, take a break”, don’t bet on it. Stuck in the car for what seemed like the duration of a mid-life crisis I had lucid imagingings of happily swerving through the line of cones that fenced off a seductive stretch of vacant motorway and flooring it, taking out whatever got in the way. Staring at the road, guess what - NO WORK GOING ON. Nothing, no men in hats or steam rollers, big trucks with an arrow on the back or 5 men standing around watch another pour new tarmac onto a patch of perfectly serviceable tarmac that they’d removed earlier that night. ITS TARMAC! It’s not about fixing the roads is it?! Really?! is it? It’s about nearing the end of the financial year and local councils needing to spend all of the budget so it’ll get renewed next year, because if they dont spend it all, they won’t get as much next time - so every middle management manatee working for the local council looks for ways to spend it, and their miniscule imaginations all arrive at the same idea, pour it into the road. Why mess about? Just take the extra couple of million and bury the actual money in the actual road, it’s less work and easier on drivers. Or god forbid do something worthwhile, like fund some local volunteers to go out and help with earthquake victims, or pump some money into the Welsh venue I played last week so they can better publicise the events they are putting on, which will get more people out of the house and spending, which will stimulate your local economy for the better. It’s not rocket Science is it?! BUT NO. Just do what you’re doing council men, spend the excess budget you’ve poorly managed on thick black tarmac, as hard and dark and bland as the dreams you had as a child. When I finally got free of my sixth traffic diversion, I floored it. Fast and carefree for less than two minutes before being flashed for speeding. You ****s. You ***** ****** ****s. You want my money? Now, after all you’ve done? Tell you what, From now on when ever I see cones obstructing a stretch of road with NO WORK GOING ON I’m going to get a van, come back, take them all and sell them on ebay. Call it my ‘council cünts fund’. Happy Motoring.

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