Why Parcelforce is Parcelforever, and the UK needs to be preceded by a Y.

So I'm still waiting for my parcel to be delivered. Apparently it spent 6 days in an airplane flying from SF to London. That's parcelforce for you. Parcelforever, I mean.

They're the worst company for.... they're just the worst mkay? Don't use them, ever.

Also don't come to the UK. it stinks here, as everything is tied up with miles of red tape and we're all under nanny's rule. Just don't bother. The weather stinks too. If you're going to go to the UK go to Scotland, stay somewhere rural... avoid all towns, and avoid all known commercial / government services like telephone lines, car rentals, shopping centers, and just anything where you need someone to actually get off their lumpy British butts and work for you. The work ethic (if even existent) is infused with lethargy in Britain.

Heard of the VCR Bill? It proposes that crime might just be reduced by taking legitimate sporting airguns and paintball markers away from honest citizens, so they can't have fun on weekends by playing a game at their local airsoft / pb center. Also it proposes that dangerous crime would be further reduced by taking the said equipment away from anyone under 18, who might be too young to operate them (safely). I'm entirely sure that this will also reduce crimes involving retarded 20 year old dudes holding up their local grocers with fake walther ppks and bow ties, who would subsequently, develop a hole in their heads, originating from the barrel of a very real gun held by an itchy law enforcement officer.

Such enlightened individuals would simply be deterred by the VCR act, presuming that because the fake firearm they were carrying was deemed illegal for their 17 year old younger brothers, they'd better use a real one instead (and still wind up dead).

There's no real reason behind the VCR bill other than to satisfy Nanny's babbling safety conscious, parasite ridden brain.

I love the US gun laws. They're great. They give you the right to send an almighty burst of lead the way of a intruder attempting to enter your property with malicious intent, against your wishes. In the UK, we only just established the right of self defense in our homes. Now if a dangerous criminal breaks down your front door in order to get access to your prized action figure collections, you can fend him and his gun off with a cricket bat, your fists, or possibly even a knife, as long as you promise not to run with it and hold it carefully with both hands. Before that, we were supposed to let Nanny beat off the intruder with her handbag. Or call the police and hide in some shadow like a timid vole while the said intruder violated our sacred shrine to chewbacca.

Although I can't really complain too much about the UK, Australia is the same... if not sometimes worse. However, the workplace lethargy that is so widespread over here is simply not an issue in Australia. Nanny's overbearing force however, has turned the nation into a closely guarded police state, where even the idea of allowing children to climb trees is debated fiercely on radio stations.

I say, guns in the hands of the population is comforting in a democracy. That way when congress or parliament do something to really anger a country (like ban rugby), there would be serious weight to the phrase: "Up in arms". Guns in the hands of general citizenry is also a comforting prospect, giving them the means to defend their property, their lives and their families.

But this debate isn't even about guns. It's about replica guns. Guns that don't fire, and just give the police (and shopkeepers) a scare. The sooner the general population accept the fact that whoever just got shot for wielding a fake sidearm in a grocery store pretty much deserved dieing in the first place, the better. In a criminal situation, treat a fake firearm with the same weight as a real one. British law already covered this aptly, the VCR is an outdated, desperate attempt at looking pro-active. It also reminds me of video tapes, and I hated them with a vengeance.

Give us the right to use airsoft and paintball markers at the appropriate centers, and return the age limit to 10 (for hire, 17 for possession). By all means ban public carrying of the markers, ban using them outside of a center or when used without permission on trespassed property.

If parliament does carry through this bill on october the 1st, there will be a petition to also ban fishing, cricket, baseball and any such sport where the instruments used could potentially be used as dangerous weapons. I'm not kidding, that petition is already out there somewhere. It's time to break free from Nanny, get off our lumpy butts and see if democracy really works.