Or the Alex Jones is a downright liar post

I have been asked by a friend to post my own little “Alex Jones’ story on the web, just for the record. It’s not a very long story, so I’ll get right down to it.

Quite some time ago I used to listen to the Alex Jones show as a PodCast whilst driving around. What can I say, I didn’t listen for more than six months and found most of it to be incredulous nonsense, the sort of ranting diatribe you might expect from a show that only makes money from sensationalism. Much like all of the news these days.

Alex Jones is the sort of person who says he loves Latino people and then goes on to stereotype them as anti-American, murdering psychotics. I don’t like that.

However, my real problem with Mr Jones was a piece he did about a ‘talking police camera’ in Manchester, England. He read out the original article along with his usual Anglophobic comments that we are all too scared to fight oppression blah blah blah.

Well, I live near that talking camera and after less than a month of operation and the local Government had to admit it was useless. In an article published, again in the Manchester Evening News, over half those reprimanded simply ignored the voice in the box. And... frankly, what do you expect. It’s a piggin’ box! What’s it going to do, talk LOUDER TO YOU.

So, one up for freedom! I contacted Alex Jones’ show to spread the good news. Nada. I tried again, making sure it get a receipt of delivery and reading. This seemed to prompt Alex to read the original article again, only this time with a full 10 minute monologue on how everybody in England was a coward, to “yella” to stand up for their rights or those of our fellow man. Mainly because we lack a constitution.

Small point here;
a) We do HAVE a constitution. It’s just not a single document called the “constitution of the United Kingdom”.
b) The blue print for the US Constitution has been widely accepted as being Magna Carter. Signed in 1215 by King John of England at Runnymede.


My next tactic was to call the show. But despite “Foreign callers and decenters” being put to the front of the queue I was put on hold then dropped. Called again the next day, different name. This time I got to speak to somebody who worked at the show. Told him what I knew. Mild interest but would pass on the message. Needless to say, he never read out the latest peace on the downfall of the camera. Or the subsequent covering on the local news program which stated it was going to come down and be replaced by a voluntary police officer known as a Special Constable.

It should be noted that Alex also suggests that the recent creation and rise of the “Special Constable” was as a result of New World Order forces, with the “Special’ being akin to a member of the Stazi. Of course (as I emailed to him) the fact that Special Constables have been around since 1673 might put a little dampener on them being recently created.

But that’s the thing with facts, that get in the way of a good story.

The Alex Jones show is purely based upon the idea that the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Giving you the idea it’s likely to happen in the two to three hours it’s on.

Tags: Alex Jones, radio, show

It’s no surprise that we offset the cost of hosting with advertising. Feel free to click anything that catches your eye by the way

We run another site, Everything You Know Is A Lie and I figured it was about time we freshened up the advertisers. We use Trade Doubler as our advertising broker and things have been great. We did have a brief go at using Google Ads on our site. But the 3 month delay in payment, crap rates of return and frequent claims of ‘gaming the system’ were too much for us. So we dropped them like a stone.

I could go into the details, but the claimed ‘bogus’ IP’s traced back to Microsoft’s NAT in Reading. I digress.

What I wanted to talk about was one of the advertisers on Trade Doubler. A short term loan company called Wonga. Apart from the catchy name, something else stands out for me.



Have you noticed it yet. In the bottom right corner. The APR for a £200 loan for 5 days is.... 2,689% APR. I’ll spell that out for your TWO THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-NINE PERCENT!!

That is total daylight robbery. What is more, the APR is fixed at that rate, so a loan of £200 for 30 days will set you back £266.11. For those without calculators that’s £2.20 interest per day until the loan is paid off.

And I thought the worst rate I’d ever seen for a loan (on moneysupermarket.com) was 50% APR. How wrong can you be? Well, 2,639% wrong.... obviously.

Tags: loans, APR, Wonga

Just browsing the BBC news website and this story grabbed my attention.

Robert Jones of Doncaster followed the directions of the Satellite Navigation system down a narrow, steep footpath until he nearly fell off a cliff onto Gauxholme railway bridge.

I mean, really!

Frankly he was lucky to get away with just being charged with driving without due care or attention. My favourite line in the story is about how Mr Jones relies on his Satellite Navigation system. What? Instead of looking out of the windscreen.

Tags: sat nav, cliff

I should be running some kind of website of bizarre things that get said in television programs.

Tonight I had the great misfortune to catch the near end of “Ten Years Younger”; a show that attempts to remodel otherwise coffin dodging individuals with the virtue of youthful appearance.

Tonight’s nightmarish parade of the macabre centred around common Sybil and her bad skin, teeth, hair, whatever.

However, following a gazillion pounds worth of dental work she had the smile of Shergar. Nice. All of which prompted Myleene Klass to say;

“You can go out there and open your mouth and smile and a beautiful butterfly will fly out.”

Which makes me wonder that if she’d spent less time eating caterpillars , she might have had nicer teeth.

According to the Channel 4 website “Sporty Sybil, 61, has the body of a woman half her age; but her face looks double it”. Firstly, I’m not sure she looked 122 years old and the other point requires investigation by the police. So long as they can figure out where she’s hidden that 30 year old’s body.

Tags: Ten years younger

Caught MSNBC’s Countdown today and it’s left me with a sincere question. Just how many drugs does Ari Fleischer take in a single sitting?

Quote “.. but after September 11th, having being hit once, how could we take the chance that Saddam wouldn’t strike again”

Despite the CIA’s best efforts, there has been no evidence provided to prove that Saddam assisted Al Queda. In fact, the opposite is true.

This kind of rewrite of history bs just drives me insane.

Tags: Ari Fleischer, bush, saddam

I see on the BBC website that Fellini’s La Dolce Vita is 50 years old this month.

The BBC has dedicated a lovely page of eulogy regarding what is for me a personal favourite.

But what’s probably not clear for anybody who’s not seen La Dolce Vita is just how utterly bleak and quite frankly bizarre it is, at least in part. Some scenes of which have led to speculation since it was made.

What is the significance of... Actually, go and watch it and we’ll chat later

Tags: La Dolce Vita