Party Vibe

Plus whilst I can just about type the lyrics from “ik zag een muis” whilst its is playing the Nederlandse Kustwacht wouldn’t be so impressed if that came up on all their big screens.

It would probably get a reply such as:

Please Note:

1. Modern ships and coast stations of the Netherlands are not overrun with mousen.
2. Any unauthorised mousen found on board, shall quickly be caught by the ships kat.
3. Such mousen as are authorised to be on board, shall be kept in a suitable cage, that is bemarked overal with “PAS OP VOOR HET MUISJE / BEWARE OF THE MOUSE” and transported in accordance with all applicable EU and international regulations for safe transport of these animals.

I would probably not just be drug tested and told “those drugs are crap. no wonder you are seeing rodents everywhere. Now take these better ones” but also set adrift on one of those RIBs in the North Sea with only a box of Tiësto CDs until it washed up at Belgium, as a payback for BE letting the lights intermittently cut out along the coastline

“The second message below (from BA65) says “the warning light line at Ostend is perhaps not visible and unreliable. For radar assistance contact Wandelaar VTS on VHF Channel 65”.

Not only are the coastguards not supposed to send messages like this (its OK to use the local language, but words like “might be” or “perhaps” are frowned on, either these lights are working or they are not and this kind of strobe display is not what any mariners want if they are trying not to run aground or crash into rocks. I found a film of inside Wandelaar VTS, a young chap who works there made it, it looks much more like a UK Coastguard station (they’ve still got better kit than us!) wouldn’t surprise me if we sold them the flaky lights via and they were waiting for the sparky to finish his tea and sail over…

as someone what came close (during a point in my life where I was totally disillusioned with the so-called “alternative” movement) to joining UK Border Agency, I can’t help but feel some of the “lefties” doing this are secretly wanting to work in that sort of service but on their terms. In fact I’ve met a fair few types, usually older men what tend to become self appointed “bouncers/policemen” at places like squats.

Its fine for a bit until they get a buzz off using physical force, I lost a good friend this way – he did admit to his faults and it was to the point where I told him face to face (and he is about 3 times my size) – “FFS hand yourself in to the NHS mental health before the cops do it for you, as that way you are more likely to be only a outpatient”. He didn’t react with anger nor attack me (ironically the rumours were that we had had a fight, though I think in fact I might have been more angry than him and at one point picked up a medium size easy chair (of some considerable weight) and pitched it down a stairwell of the squat (but there was no one in it at the time) and accepted what I had to say but not sure if he took my advice (could understand though as its still a gamnble, he is in a ethnic group where its easier to get sectioned).

I might not agree with all that uniformed services do but I understand why we have them especially in a country surrounded by water what often appears where it isn’t wanted (Fire, Ambulance and Coastguard have a better rep but still have their own internal issues with machismo and dissent against multiculturalism).

I didn’t join up because first I thought “sheffield? where the fuck is that? I didn’t realise you had to go to foreign places on your first job!”. But then I learned that Sheffield is just like Reading but North of here, and has a vibrant party/drugs scene. And that was what was the deal breaker, I would be living away from home and it would be near impossible for me to avoid corruption in office.