According the the government's favourite climate change propagandist and professional fuckwit, Lord Stern, farming animals for food is evil and is a bigger contributor to climate change than carbon dioxide. Therefore we should all become vegetarians. Is there no end to the lunacy that these watermelons are prepared to foist upon us.

Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.

Oh I get it...even though there's no proof that global warming exists or is even caused by carbon dioxide or methane, the commie environmentalists are going to ensure that livestock farmers are going to be taxed out of existence.

He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat eating became unacceptable. “I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating,” he said. “I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”

WTF!? All life on earth is carbon-based you stupid arsewipe., it is the building block for carbohydrates and proteins. The only time I worry about the carbon content of my food is when I've burnt the toast - if it is salvageable, the black bits get scraped off into the kitchen sink.

He said that he was deeply concerned that popular opinion had so far failed to grasp the scale of the changes needed to address climate change, or of the importance of the UN meeting in Copenhagen from December 7 to December 18. “I am not sure that people fully understand what we are talking about or the kind of changes that will be necessary,” he added.

Oh but we do...we understand that what the Copenhagen Treaty is proposing is to send the western economies back to the fucking Dark Ages and is the implementation of threats and menaces to the countries that are unable or unwilling to meet arbitrary carbon emission targets - targets that will make fuck all difference to the way the climate works or changes. Don't you get it, fuckface? How arrogant do you have to be to think that a lifeform as insignificant as mankind has the ability to change the climate of the planet because we eat meat or drive to the shops to buy meat. It's quite simple. We haven't, we can't and we won't.

Up to 20,000 delegates from 192 countries are due to attend the UN conference in the Danish capital.

Twenty thousand! And how are they getting to Copenhagen? I'll bet they aren't going to fucking walk.

Its aim is to forge a deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to prevent an increase in global temperatures of more than 2 degrees centigrade. Any increase above this level is expected to trigger runaway climate change, threatening the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

Well, given that we are in a cooling period, that isn't difficult, is it? Seems to me it's a bit like confiscating everyone's money to build a gold tower to keep sabre-toothed tigers out of the UK. What's that? There are no sabre-toothed tigers in the UK? See I told you it would work.

Su Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Vegetarian Society, welcomed Lord Stern’s remarks. “What we choose to eat is one of the biggest factors in our personal impact on the environment,” she said. “Meat uses up a lot of resources and a vegetarian diet consumes a lot less land and water. One of the best things you can do about climate change is reduce the amount of meat in your diet.”

Jesus wept. Another deluded fuckwit. If we stopped eating meat, we'd eat a fuck of lot more vegetables. So the environmentl impact is going to be more or less the same, because the same land will be needed to GROW food. We are omnivores, it's they way we have evolved and we need animal protein to thrive and if you think I'm going to give up pork sausages and mash for quorn sausages and mash Su, you are very much mistaken.

Update: Lord Stern's article has been picked up in the USA - if ever there was proof that being a vegetarian rots the brain, read some of the comments on this Discover article. Like this one:

I’m not a vegetarian for the sake of my health, I’m a vegetarian for the health of the planet.

When people are as gullible as this, I have to wonder how the human race has survived on the planet as long as we have.

Over on Guido's blog is a post about a lady who sent a letter to her local council expressing her displeasure about a gay pride march. In the letter, she used the words "sodomites" and "perverted sexual practices". Oh Shock! Horror! I may have an attack of the vapours!

The council's response was to report the letter writer to the police who, not having enough paper work to do or drug dealers to arrest, went round and warned that she had committed a hate crime. Now, don't get me wrong, what two blokes get up to in the comfort of their finely decorated hacienda is entirely up to them and no business of mine. However, sticking your willy up someone else's bottom is, and the dictionary definition will bear me out, sodomy, and some people think that sodomy is a perverted sexual practice. How Norwich council find this offensive, I can't possibly say but I suspect that they have been offended on someone else's behalf.

Update: I wonder if the lady who wrote the letter had been a Muslim rather than a Christian, would the council have been so quick to ring the police and report a hate crime.

Jimmy Carr told this joke, to 2000 people at the Manchester Apollo: Say what you like about servicemen amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan, but we’re going to have a fucking good paralympic team in 2012. Two people were offended and complained. Jesus wept, it was Jimmy Carr. What did they expect? Were these people amputees, soldiers, or former soldiers? I doubt it, they have most likely been offended on someone else's behalf. No doubt, during the same show, Jimmy Carr would have told jokes that were potentially offensive to fat people, politicians, Gordon Brown, women, men, small children and paedophiles. You pays your money and you takes your chances. If you are easily offended, don't pay the thirty quid and stop at home with your spaniels.

Even the BBC has fallen victim to causing offence to people who may be offended on someone else's behalf. Lord Stansted posits that a "contestant" on BBC Four's "The Unbelievable Truth" has caused offence by suggesting that the last entry in Anne Frank's diary recorded her delight at receiveng a gift from her father - a drum kit.

I left this in his comments:

Knock Knock!

Who's there?

Guess!

Guess who?

Guesstapo Miss Frank, please move zer bookcase.

I expect him to be offended. Good!

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Many hours were spent interviewing the musicians ( apart from Robert Palmer of course) and I do know that publication was delayed when the opportunity arose to interview the band members of  Def Leppard.

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*Neither of us play anymore - dodgy knees, bad backs and can't be arsed getting up that early on a Sunday at our age.