The Thoughts of Chairman Anyhow : July 2022

Tuesday 26 July 2022

My Child

In Today's edition.

My Kid

Kids

That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing

Random Joke

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My Kid

The levy broke

and waters ran

A portent of a new

lifespan

To a place lit

with sterile lights

of stainless steel

Chemical flights

Mop a brow

hold a hand

A soothing word

a useless man

A final quake

One cry is two

Orchestra of girls

One old one new

I hold the life

like mad parents did

and say hello

To my new kid.

KIDS

1. ‘Children’ is one of only three words in modern English which are plurals formed by adding the old suffix -en. The others are brethren and oxen.

2. Worldwide, the average woman gives birth to an estimated 6.89 children.

3. The highest fertility rate is in Niger, where women give birth to an average of 7.58 children. The lowest is Singapore at 0.8 per woman.

4. The average girl child reaches half her adult height at 18 months. For a boy it is 24 months.

5. According to research at Sheffield University in 2008: “Clowns are universally disliked by children”.

6. “Childhood: the period of life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth.” (Ambrose Bierce, A Devil’s Dictionary)

7. Twelfth Night is the only Shakespeare play that does not contain the words ‘child’ or ‘children’.

8. According to research for National Teething Week 68 per cent of parents have left a public place because of a crying child.

9. According to a recent survey, ten per cent of UK children learn to use a touch screen by age two.

10. “Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.” (UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child)

That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing

Valentina Vassilyev and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births.

Random Joke of the Day

es, taking your children to the park can be exhausting. But when they have a great time, also very rewarding. It’s swings and roundabouts.

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Saturday 2 July 2022

"I'll make you an offer you can't refuse"

In Today's "I'll make you an offer you can't refuse" edition.

Taser Trevor

Today's Gangsters

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Random Joke

The "Offer"

Trevor the taser

Carriers a razor

He's an old-school badun

Who carries a gun

It's loaded and locked

Primed and it's cocked

With Caps from the shop

It’ll only go pop

If only he birthed

When the Krays were on earth

Instead, he's stuck

In the time of the schmuck

Now villains fake crime

Scamming people online

While gangsters so dapper

Are now only rappers

Fedoras all gone

So has Capone

The cost of organised crime to the economy is £40bn. The illegal drugs market constitutes almost half of that (£17.6 bn). Fraud is now worth £7.8bn to criminals. Spirits, tobacco and diesel smuggling has cost £4.1bn, people smuggling £1.4bn and fake DVD production £300m.

Tanning shops and nail parlours are sometimes fronts for crime. The most popular "legitimate" businesses which are typically fronts for criminal activity and money laundering are: licensed premises, car dealerships, solariums, nail bars (often Vietnamese-run stores which are run by cannabis gangs) and massage parlours.

Criminals like computers. Cyber crime is on the rise. There was a 250 per cent increase in 2008 alone in the number of computer bugs used by organised criminals to attack the IT systems of individuals, small businesses, governments and commercial organisations.

Guns are still the gangster's weapon of choice. Almost one in five known organised criminal gangs - around 800 - are involved in the importing, modification or supply of guns. There has been a recent rise in revenge shootings over drugs turf wars.

Fraud is at its highest level since 1995. Criminals have taken advantage of the confusion caused by the economic crisis and bank mergers, especially by using "phishing" techniques. This involves sending emails to random victims asking to confirm their bank details. They use the answers to hack into the victims' accounts. There has been a 75 per cent increase in such activity in first quarter of 2009.

Mobile phones are rife within British prisons. Jailed gang leaders continue to run their networks from within their cells. The Home Office is now rolling out a the use of mobile phone blocking technology in prisons after a pilot scheme was successful.

Gangsters move around to exploit the fragmented structure of British policing. Research has found that 73 per cent of gangs operate across the 43 different police force boundaries in England and Wales.

Gangsters start young. Children are exploited as drug runners or dealers, and sometimes used as gun "minders" because if they are caught they will not face a minimum of five years in jail.

People are not just trafficked into the UK. In 2008 officials found that vulnerable British males were being trafficked to Scandinavia by an organised crime gang. They were offered work, free travel, food and accommodation. However once they arrived they were exploited and paid just £20-a-week.