Welcome to Gog

Gog is the community for grumpy old geezers. But you don’t have to be male, old, or a geezer. You just have to be grumpy.
What can I get grumpy about?
Almost anything. The usual rules of "legal, decent and honest" apply. No personal attacks, no obscenities or gross swearing and nothing that could land you (or us) with a libel suit.
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How I’m being screwed by greedy people obsessed with bums and teats

How I’m being screwed by greedy people obsessed with bums and teats There’s much current debate about punishing people perceived to be well off by the pathologically envious, but I have a gripe about the potential attacks on rental property owners, given that not all of us own a string of houses entirely funded by mortgages and ...
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Going from Iraq to ruin: The oft-repeated history of lying politicians

Going from Iraq to ruin: The oft-repeated history of lying politicians There are few sights uglier than that of a Scottish lawyer on the make, as Tony Blair showed during his six-hour defence of the indefensible before the Chilcott-led Iraq Inquiry. According to Wikipedia, Edinburgh-born Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is descended from the illegitimate son of ...
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When they steal or destroy your land, what’s left to stand on, or for?

When they steal or destroy your land, what’s left to stand on, or for? Let us briefly leave the fraught and disputed foreshore and seabed of Aotearoa and visit the Moscow, the river that flows through Russia’s capital city. Back in the 1950s, when Russia was under a Communist dictatorship and private property was outlawed, an area on the ...
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