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Bloody watch me. Anything the state involves itself in goes wrong. The opposite of what’s intended usually happens. If they’re trying to feed people, more will starve. The cobra effect. Just watch. A year from now, scum parents will have worked out how to use the school meals money for scratchcards and scum catering contractors will have worked out how to use the school meals money for company Bentleys.

None is due. Les is a twat.

A week and a day in and Sailor is proving to be pretty bloody easy. Quickly acquired general dog manners, settled into my shit-tip of a house like it was one large silk pillow, went from six months of towing someone round on a harness to a mix of polite leadwork and free-range frolics and is as good as bloody gold with people and dogs that, on viewing, he was barking bloody murder at. I've been unbelievably lucky. Could have been a nightmare. Isn't. In the name of balance and accountability, the bad: My alarm clock goes off at 08:00. He howls like a dickhead anywhere from 06:15. I buckled once. Since resolved not to unless it's the neighbours actually breaking the door down. He can hold his piss like a champ so I think it's garden variety separation anxiety. He'll have to learn. Recall isn't great. I can get him back to a shout or a whistle when he's just generally trotting round but if he's onto anything interesting, I quickly slip down the list of priorities. Had a fairly embarrassing episode this morning where a spaniel sneaked up on us and got chased all the way home. Luckily mine has a pretty good sense of direction and returned to the scene of the crime like he'd only stepped out for a fag. Hoping time and bonding fixes the obvious problems. Bear in mind it's still very early days and he's passed the crash course with flying colours.

Paired with a box Shiraz, for my spiritual health.

Creamy pasta thing with probably too much parsley.

I sent NGK a picture of a strikingly green plug I found recently in case they wanted it for that page. Rudey poos didn’t even reply.

They’ll still be readable after only a few minutes of running won’t they?

Spud’s answer now seems better than mine and stubby’s. Try it straight piped and see if you get the same thing.

Have you watched the television series, Detectorists?

Superb.

Exhaust valves were my first thought. Did they do them as part of the service?

One thing about jokes/references is that not everybody gets them.

In the morning you’ll be sober and emus will still be babecunts.

Oh that’s fabulous.

Careful with sword thinking. I bet they have some tough bone in the neck. Axe on a chopping block probably surer. Now you’re into strapping an emu down though. I’d probably distract with feed and head shoot it.

It’d be a pain if you did a nice clean beheading, only to discover they’re like chickens and can keep going for a bit. The difference being the beheaded chicken just wanders round whereas the beheaded emu still stands a chance of mugging someone. Unfriendly big bastards.

Steel biner. Strong dog.

Been dithering for years. Finally got a shepherd of my own. Sailor. Nearly two. Settled in unbelievably well.

To each according to his needs.

Can't read the article without paying and I don't fancy that. I think I know the thing though. Describe it.

I know the ones you're talking about. Christiania, Užupis, the Berlin one I've forgotten the name of, Sealand arguably, Liberland obviously, the other one that's like that whose name I also forget. There have been loads of attempts at micronation genesis. Their problem in my opinion is they try to fit in to the paradigm of statehood. Individual liberty is a ground up, not top down thing. It works anywhere. You don't need a flag etc. The other problem is that these places might as well be Waco, Texas for all the even-handed publicity they get. This is all getting needlessly ideological. Someone tell me how more government and not less is going to improve the shit state of the housing market.

On democracy:

As long as they choose it for themselves only, that's fine. The problem is that democracy is 51 people telling 49 people what to do (far worse with the various voting systems we actually have). Plus there's always mission creep. You think you need a state to do something you perceive as lofty/complicated. The next minute, they're banging people up for an expired dog license. Where are these countries and why don't I know about them already?

I don't care what you call what flavour of authoritarianism.It's authoritarianism, centralisation of power.