of their own nationality. In Left-wing circles it is always felt that there is
something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a
duty to snigger at every English institution" - George Orwell
When government doesn't agree with the people,
it's time to change the people - Bertolt Brecht
The best way to take control over a people and control them
utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode
rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible
reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights
and freedoms being removed until past the point at which
these changes cannot be reversed - Adolf Hitler
STOP PRESS! There's been some publicity lately about Google's ambition to take over the world by collecting all our personal details, keeping records of our internet activity, emails etc. Grumpy Old Sod can now reveal that this megalomaniac campaign has already started, and that this website is one of its first targets!
In a bid to stifle dissent and free speech, Google have unilaterally and without explanation withdrawn their Adsense facility from this website, so the adverts you see down the right hand side of each page (and from which GOS earns a tiny bit of revenue - enough to pay its web hosting bill each year) will not in future be supplied by Google but by someone else.
And in another pointless little piece of petty spite, they have also disabled the Google search boxes at the foot of each page, so The GOS has replaced them.
Needless to say The GOS has removed Google from his computer and in future will be using another search engine which does not operate political censorship or aspire to world domination. He suggests you all do the same. All The Web looks good ...
Come on, then, what is it that makes you REALLY cross (apart from Google, that is)? Politicians? Soppy little twerps in local government who think they know better than you do? Young people today? The nanny state?
Grumpy Old Sod.com is your opportunity to make your views heard. If something really gets your goat, tell us about it. If it's cogent, pungent, relevant and anything else ending in -nt, we'll put it on the website for the world to read.
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Our new Wanker of the Week is an American blogger called Debbie Schlussel. Click here to find out why.
As the number of pages on this website grows, we are taking some away and putting them in our Grumpy Archives. You can see them by clicking the button at bottom left.
And finally, here's a little something that might help keep the grandchildren quiet at Christmas.
either on this site or on the World Wide Web.
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