"looking sharp and looking for love"

What...what is this?

(Yes, I know exactly what it is, thank you very much. I just find those captions amusing. Yes, I read captions about leather daddies for fun, what of it?)

"Brigadier, what a nice surprise! This your first visit to the boot-serfs' drill-yard? Yes, it's all very bijou in scale -- central London property prices mean it could hardly be otherwise, I'm afraid. Do you fancy a stint here? Ha, ha, ha -- no, I mean up here in the overseers' gallery! Oh, so you've taken a shine to that hulking blond lout, number 7C...I must warn you he's a thug...but of course I can have him sent to you this evening...no problem. Oh, you've noticed the fly of my breeches...yes, sir, I confess I do find this work pretty stimulating. Erm, why don't we go and have tea? Pierre has made some of what I gather are your favourite cakes -- cream horns -- and there's a rather delightful Met policeman I'd like you to meet..."


All I did was search flickr for "chav", for Pete's sake. I didn't expect there to be an intersect between Burberry and BDSM, but there you are. And here I was;

Mounted Scoutmaster 59
"My chavs all agree that much the most decadent of the military men they service regularly is my brother, seen here leaving my house last winter after a particularly wild debauch."

Who is supposed to be writing these, anyway? What character's hand pens these immortal lines? What sort of organization is this? How are promotions earned? Is there a divide between enlisted ranks and commissioned? I'm no trendsetter, no style pioneer, but this leather stuff looks high-quality, expensi--

Mounted Scoutmaster 82
"So-called ball-stretching is a fine and manly pursuit and useful too in that low-swinging gonads command respect everywhere. It's very much on my conscience I've not been paying greater attention to the Scout's needs in this regard. Anyway, the Master Saddler of an elite British Army cavalry unit tells me he will have a selection of different sizes for my lads to try on next week. As on previous occasions, we'll make it into a competition and I will ceremonially strap the winner into his stretcher. The Troop record is a stretcher with the eye-watering height of 160 mm."

AHAHAHAHAH.

This is just fantastic.

DISCLAIMER: I am not making fun of BDSM or it's practitioners itself, nor homosexuality, I am just saying that I find this one flickr account, of the one guy, amusing and interesting in a way that was not intended by the person who wrote it. This is also my reaction to politics.

Mandatory In-Car Breathalyzers Coming?

http://blog.motorists.org/mandatory-in-car-breathalyzers-coming/

Basically, the blog speculates that cars will have mandatory breathalysers. And sure enough, the very first comment...

I grew up during the cold war when everyone was suspected of being a communist (Thank you Joe McCarthy)

I was a young man during the drug wars and the appointment of the first “Drug Czar” (Thank you George H. W. Bush”

I was a grown man when our country embraced Civil Commitment for sex offenders, Megan’s Law, and Jessica’s Law. ) Thank you radical right and U. S. Supreme Court)

I was a grown man when our country embraced making it illegal to smoke in public. (Maybe it’s not surprising that Nazi Germany was the most powerful anti-smoking movement in the world in the 1930s and early 1940s.)

Yes, that's right, he Godwin'd smoking laws.

I was a grown man when our country implemented the “Patriot Act” (Thank you George W. Bush)

Now I am almost a senior citizen and I am not surprised that the powers to be will attack drinker. They already take pictures of us in intersections and then send us traffic tickets.

I've noticed that a lot of drunk driving apologists refer to the government cracking down on drinking. That's like saying cracking down on axe murders is the same as coming down on all people who own axes. The fact that the "driving" part of DUI is taken for granted by them is rather telling.

I have had the opportunity and the privilege to travel to a country in Eastern Europe. I can tell you all that they have far more freedoms then we ever dreamed of. So when I see articles like this the following always comes to mind:

Wait for it...

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew; Then they came for the Drug Dealers, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Drug Dealer; Then they came for the Sex Offenders, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Sex Offender; Then they came for the Smokers, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Smoker; Then they came for the Terrorists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Terrorist; Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.

For those of you who are unaware, the original form of this is basically one step down from Godwin's Law, and was in fact referring to Nazis as the 'they' before it was co-opted by just about every single pretentious jackanapes on the Internet.

'Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither' - Benjamin Franklin

I'd just like to point out the founding fathers were perfectly willing to sacrifice security for freedom. Clearly, there's some kind of exchange rate there.