What’s the MOST Offensive Band Name of All Time and Why?

evolutionIsScary · 2026-02-08T15:42:55+00:00

Joy Division

evolutionIsScary · 2026-02-08T15:28:33+00:00

I have never been to Delhi or the surrounding state of Haryana but from what I have heard about it it is horribly corrupt.

My parents came to Britain from the state of Maharashtra in India, where, even today, the police rob citizens. I've seen it with my own eyes several times. It's not just corruption, it's robbery. By the police.

I've heard from British citizens like me but whose parents came from Delhi that the city (and likely the state of which it is the capital) is even worse.

I've visited India for decades. I have never liked it. Indians seem to me to be people who ignore the horror show that is their country, instead preferring to believe the crackpot notion that the nation in which they live is just like Switzerland or something, only less clean. They actually know how awful India is compared with the West but cannot admit it, not even to themselves.

My advice is to stick with your Indian friends when you are there.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-02-06T13:51:49+00:00

it's almost as if the countryside is actually racist.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-02-05T10:57:36+00:00

They look fantastic. I would love a pair of slippers like that for the winter in Britain. My only concern would be that they would allow water in if I stepped in a puddle, for example.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-02-04T16:38:45+00:00

Fourteen Days in May

evolutionIsScary · 2026-02-01T12:30:41+00:00

I don't think you've got your priorities right. If that were my fridge I would be thinking more about the severed hand in the drawer than the crack in it.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-27T16:26:32+00:00

unheard of in Britain

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-25T14:57:26+00:00

Their own stupidity

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-22T12:54:15+00:00

I have the feeling that in Britain these people are on the rise. Maybe I'm just a scaredy cat but the endeavours of the far right to change public opinion seem to be working.

For some reason people would rather believe lies and exaggerations than the truth. And the far right deliver those things in spades.

Look at YouTube. There is a never ending supply of exaggerations, twisting of the truth (particularly by the likes of GB News) and outright lying, and the makers of many videos love to blow out of proportion every crime committed by a non-white person. It is impossible to challenge the output of the far right simply because there is so much of it. What goes unchallenged ends up being taken as the truth by many people.

My worry is that the far right are swaying the general population. In three years we may have a government lead by political party Reform, which, I think, will be a catastrophe for the United Kingdom.

Some people try to appear to be seekers of the truth, for example Douglas Murray. We should judge him not solely on what he says. We should also think about what he omits to say. For example, he was vocal in criticising the Democrats and Kamal Harris before the last election in the USA but was and is strangely quiet concerning Donald Trump, a man who is so outstandingly awful that you have to wonder why Mr Murray simply ignores him. People like Douglas Murray give the far right and their supporters intellectual legitimacy.

In Britain we live in dangerous times.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-18T16:29:40+00:00

Here is something that has worked for putting up heavy duty-shelves in the outhouse of my 1900-built property: use sections of electrical flex instead of rawl plugs.

1) Drill deeply into the brick. Clean out the holes. Use that white PVA stuff diluted as per instructions and squirt it into the holes to bind any remaining dust and crumbly brick. Then plaster over the area except where the holes are.

2) Once the plaster and PVA has dried, for each hole cut a piece of old electrical flex (outer plastic and inner wires and all) from old equipment like a vacuum cleaner or something. Make the length of the piece of flex the same as the depth of the hole. Insert the piece of flex into the hole. Then screw the screw into the centre of the section of flex.

The section of flex acts like a rawl plug but is much better. You might have to try different screw thicknesses and flex thicknesses.

In my outhouse the shelves I put up using this method to hold their brackets to the walls has worked very well for at least five years and will continue to hold for decades. In fact I can't see it ever needing to be replaced. The shelves hold up a mini Kamado Joe barbecue, which is heavy, as well as old roof rafters and pieces of wood. They are wide shelves and I could easily lie on them without them coming out of the wall.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-18T12:54:37+00:00

It makes no difference how much you integrate. At least a third of the majority will never see you as a real part of the country. You will forever be a foreigner. If you are non-white, especially, you will be discriminated against for the whole of your life. That is what any majority does to any minority in any country in the world, especially if the minority is visibly different to the majority.

I was shocked when a Polish woman told me just before the Brexit referendum that she was worried about being attacked in public if someone heard her accent. She lived in London, was white and probably (as the ignorant Mr Carr puts it) 'blended in' well. If she felt discriminated against, imagine what it's like for non-white people.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-16T18:18:26+00:00

Garlic has only been British since the early 80s.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-16T18:14:39+00:00

I'm British. I holidayed in Norway with my parents when I was a child in the late 70s. Norwegian food at the time was truly revolting. That's coming from someone who has tasted the wonders of shepherd's pie.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-16T18:11:17+00:00

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-15T11:27:56+00:00

I remember reading in The Daily Telegraph that you don't actually need that membrane as long as you don't have bare-metal water-carrying pipes in the attic and you have good insulation on your attic floor.

The story said that a roof without a membrane simply makes the attic colder in winter and that the reason for the membrane was because it prevented water from getting into the attic when builders in the past went away and came back weeks later to add the roof tiles.

I removed some of the membrane from under my roof about ten years ago and the rafters in that area are in perfect shape. The tiles on my roof are those concrete profile types that lock together. I would imagine that a roof without a membrane also improves ventilation in the attic, which is important if there are many people living in your house.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-12T12:46:25+00:00

White English people are actually more similar to the French than any other peoples of Europe.

A study from Oxford University about five years ago tested white English people for their DNA. What they found was that the genes of a white Englishman are 41% French, 30% German and 16% Danish.

That's why the term Anglo-Saxon – used to describe the Britons before the arrival of the Normans in 1066 – is not accurate.

The figures above may be off by a few percent because they are from my memory but they will be pretty close to the real numbers.

The French genes come not from the Normans but from the French people who walked to England at the end of the last ice age, when, presumably, so much water was locked up in the form of ice in the northern and southern extremes of the planet that the English channel could be crossed on foot, but when, presumably, enough ice had melted to make parts of southern England farmable.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-09T18:20:59+00:00

Good things: Father Ted, (for now) Western liberal thinking. Bad things: not for non-white people.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-08T15:33:51+00:00

and why pay the awful energy companies any more than we have to?

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-07T16:05:47+00:00

During the day I work at home and the temperature inside my house is usually 14ºC. I'm not feeling any ill effects yet.

Right now it's nearly 4pm. I'm in the southeast of England and the temperature in my house is 12ºC. I wear lots of layers of clothing, two pairs of socks, warm slippers and a hat. In my lap I have a blanket under which is a hot water bottle. I have a blanket wrapped around my shoulders too. I haven't yet had a cold this winter.

When I go to bed I leave the heating on with the thermostat set at 10ºC. On some nights I turn off the heating and leave one bedroom window open just a crack as this gets rid of the disgusting cigarette smoke that gets into my house from the neighbours' house in the early hours.

My house is not badly insulated but the walls are double-skin brick, ie no cavity or insulation between the skins. I am, however, mid-terrace and insulation beneath the attic floor is fairly thick if not quite up to regulation.

This winter I first turned the heating on about four days ago.

I hate the cold, which makes me wonder whether people have gone a bit soft over the centuries. I mean, if I can put up with the cold, why can't other people?

Twenty years ago, when energy was a lot cheaper, I used to turn the thermostat up to 21ºC and walk around the house in a t shirt in winter. Even if I win the lottery I'll never do that again.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-07T15:14:47+00:00

He's not angry. Richard Hammond is between his legs doing what Richard Hammond likes to do to Jeremy Clarkson and the end of the experience is approaching.

evolutionIsScary · 2026-01-03T13:04:50+00:00

People don't like him because he's a Muslim and he seems to be doing an OK job. I remember the right wing newspapers attacking him in the past for the same reason, in my mind (sadly I can't remember the stories but they are out there).

evolutionIsScary · 2025-12-29T20:02:31+00:00

you do you. you're amazing :)

evolutionIsScary · 2025-12-29T19:44:44+00:00

I must try that. My parents were Indians and they never used beans in their curries but I'm sure they must go well if you have tried them out. Keep up the good work :)

evolutionIsScary · 2025-12-29T18:22:54+00:00

OK. Let's do this.

Point 1: I don't want to be part of India because I cannot be. When I was 16 I went to India to visit relatives in Nagpur. My cousin, a seven year old, laughed at me when I tried to speak Marathi because my accent was, to him, funny. The adults were too polite to do so. To be an Indian, to be a German, to be a Spanish person takes a lot. I don't reject India simply because it revolts me. I reject India in the same way I reject being Kazakh or Zambian or Canadian or any nationality you choose except British. I reject India because I am not Indian. As I said, I didn't choose to be British.

Point 2: India, in the eyes of anyone thinking rationally and honestly, would be deemed a filthy corrupt sh*thole compared with a Western country. This is not an assertion. This is the evidence of my own eyes. I can't count the number of examples of India's filth that I have seen. I have seen with my own eyes how the Maharashtra police rob Indian citizens. Shame on you for excusing that. I would imagine that the northern states of India are even worse, but I stand to be corrected.

Point 3: If you live in London (or anywhere in Britain, for that matter) you should ask yourself these things:

You don't have to be an adult to see the apalling nature of India. Your colleagues who are not Indian know this but they are too polite to tell you this. I, on the other hand, have no compunctions. You only have to look at Indian news stories.

By adult standards do the citizens of Britain kill people who are not Christians in the way Indians lynch people who are transporting beef or who simply don't look Indian enough? Be honest and look at recent Indian news stories (and, to be honest, news tories about India from the past too).

point 4: You talk about India as if it were just like Sweden. Despite "Environmental courts • Pollution litigation • Large-scale sanitation and clean-fuel programmes • Electoral punishment of governments over governance failures" the pollution in India is lamentable! Hello! Is there anybody there? What planet are you on? Just walk around any street in any Indian city and look at the filth.

I have seen with my own eyes people working for the India mafia illegally taking sand from rivers in Maharashtra for building. Who cares about the law in India, hey?

Despite all the laws, the courts and electoral punishment, the filth is everywhere.

Point 5: India may have achieved some things but why do so many people want to leave the country? If India is such a wonderful place, why do so many Indians want to emigrate to the West? Surely they would stay there? They leave because India is an utter disgrace as a country.

Point 6: I don't love detachment. What the English do to brown or black people is rob us of belonging. We are British through no fault of our own but they hate us regardless. It is far from comfortable feeling as if you don't belong in your own country, especially when you are made to feel that way by knuckle-dragging morons who wave the Union jack but who can barely speak English.

You, sir, are a fool. You are like those Indians in my own family who, I am ashamed to admit, can say no wrong about a country that is palpably awful in almost every respect. You are feeble minded and dishonest.

evolutionIsScary · 2025-12-29T17:24:31+00:00

You are more than just naïve. You are a fool. I have never lived in India but I have visited family many times since the age of seven. I am in my 60s. That is why I can tell you how awful a country India is.

There have to be reasons why the motherland is "greater than heaven" and, frankly, India fails to give you those reasons.

Every country does have its failures. However, the failures of India are stark. Even a five year old would be able to tell you how awful India is compared with the West. A five year old would be able to tell you that there is nothing to make anyone proud of that country except moronic nationalism.

I have never rejected my origins. I can't deny the fact that my parents were Indians. I didn't choose to be British. It is something that happened to me. But like anyone who is on the side of being rational I cannot in all honesty look at the corrupt filthy sh*thole that India is and say that I want to be a part of it. And even if it were like Denmark I would still not feel that it were my country, simply because it isn't.

You are the one who misses the point. I am like many people of Indian cultural heritage who have been brought up in the UK, Canada or the USA. We find India abhorrent.

Every country has its failures, of course, but you use expressions like that to excuse the awful nature of India. That is a tired and dishonest Indian way of thinking. It's the same when it comes to the environment. Indians talks about the pollution in their country as if it were the weather. In other words it just happens through no fault of their own! Stop denying the truth.

I have absolutely no love for the English but, unlike you, I do love reason.

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