Garmin products are terrible

I have to write a bog about a terrible brand I think consumers should know about. Well considering I named it in the title I think you might guess correctly... Garmin. 

I first gave garmin a chance a long time ago to buy my first ever satellite navigation system, at the time there wasn't much to choose from on the high street, the other choice was Tomtom. I went for the garmin because it was a lot cheaper. It didn't take me long to realise how shit it was. The maps were completely outdated and it asked me numerous times to drive off a friggin bridge and though a field. Everything about it was SHIT, battery life crap, couldn't take a memory card. It also has a weird twist stick on the front that was just the worst thing in the world to use. You had to twist the stick until you got to the letter you required, bearing in mind writing an address would take you a long time, then the worst part of it was it nearly always said "unknown address, please enter correct address", it was the correct address you stupid bastard. After about 5 attempts and a half an hour later I would enter the village, when it didn't know the feckin village name I'd try the town, only sometimes it would know the town. How fucking stupid do garmin sound? And they were the good bits... Seriously the worst part of it was the update software. Because all of the maps were shit I wanted to take advantage of the first 3 months you have the option of updating your maps for free. OMG WITHA CAPITAL FUCK YOU TO GARMIN, the update process was the worst encounter with an update I've ever had to endure, except for updating the garmin 405 running watch which I'll get to in a bit. It was a case of registration which wasn't straight forward with having to add the model no and a code then sync it with the device which actually didn't happen after 2 hours of trying I gave up. I then threw the sat nav at someone for free, they have never spoke to me since and have had a nervous breakdown and lost his business and family... All because of garmin.

I then went sat nav free for nearly 2 whole years, but duty called and I was back in the market for a good one. There was lots to choose from at this stage but like a complete idiot I bought a new Garmin sat nav, can't remember the model no but it was a touch screen and the shop assistant said they have come a long way since the crap I bought. When I set it up yes there was better features and it was slightly easier to use but it still couldn't find a lot of address and its so annoying the way if you start typing in an address if the rest of the address doesn't show up the it won't be able to find the place, it's stupid you end up being brought to the nearest area it knows but that could be a different estate up the road from where you want to go. Also the sync options were shit too on the PC, again you need to be a software engineer for the CIA to understand it all. Overall it wasn't much better than the 1st one I got and it seems Garmins products are all laden with issues and connectivity problems.

Also important to note is that when I purchased the 2 above sat navs, Tomtoms sat navs had lifetime free map updates and they were meant to be much, much better at absolutely everything.

Finally like a crazy ass idiot and a glutton for punishment I bought another Garmin, a running watch the Garmin 405. This was another piece of shit that I bought because my brother recommended it. I'll quickly write the good points and the bad points

Good: 

looks ok

Cheap enough

Accurate enough

Bad

Battery life shit

Takes ages to get GPS signal

Stupid outside of screen surround is touch screen and goes nuts in the wet, like rain etc

Touch screen is impossible to use while running, or even staying still

Setting up garmin connect is a nightmare

No Bluetooth in the watch

I will never, ever buy another Garmin product again, even if they changed their logo to have a little triangle on the top, what's that all about. 

I went and treated myself with a new running watch, a Tomtom and it's BRILLIANT, if it wasn't for all my Garmin problems I'd find some issues with the Tomtom but for the moment I'm just enjoying syncing easily, getting ultra quick GPS connection and it looks and feels like a quality product. Garmin you need to look at what Tomtom are doing and just copy them, or else just close down, yeah I prefer the latter option.

Same sex marriage referendum in Ireland very propagandist

In a few weeks Ireland will be voting whether same sex marriage should be allowed and set up in the constitution as an acceptable married couple who will have the exact same rights as heterosexual married couples.

First of all I want to ask how and why this has even made it as far as a vote. At this present moment Ireland is in the worst economic recession ever in the history of the state, far worse than the 80s with huge issues on our doorstep. Our health service is gone to shambles with more people on hospital waiting beds needing emergency operations than ever before. We have corrupt bankers and Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael politicians who should have been sent to jail over the whole bailing out the banks fiasco. We have more homeless people on the street and people getting evicted from their family home by the same banks the people have bailed out. These hard working people are being thrown out of their houses and still have to pay the entire loan to the banks with no intervening from our corrupt government. We have mass emigration of our best and most educated students leaving the country to go find jobs. Unemployment rate, despite what our corrupt government say is at an all time high. We have political policing of the politicians fighting against austerity and jailing of any anti-government protestors while the banks and politicians have destroyed the country.

Now I'll ask the question again, how and why the same sex referendum has gotten any momentum with what's currently going on in our country. Also note the wording of the title of the referendum: the "Equality referendum", how patronising and propagandist is that? Making it sound like if you vote against it you are voting against equality, wow that's like having a vote on genetically modified food to be legally sold on our shop shelves and calling the referendum "The Health Referendum", it's so wrong.

About 2 years ago we had a referendum called "The Children Referendum", another completely propagandist title. What sort of democracy do we live in when we have titles like these? The children's referendum just gave the state more power when it comes to taking people's children, even homeschooling could allow the state to take your children because the referendum was passes with a unanimous yes vote.

Anyway back to the same sex marriage referendum. It should not have gotten any leeway on political scale such as this. It's wrong because a man and a woman should only get married. It's call true family values, for people to think there is no difference between a man and a woman and a man and man getting married once they love each other is gravely mistaken. It's a mistake this government has made to launch this so quickly with no regard for people who wish to vote no. It's an insult to the true families of this country. It just proves how much of a backward country Ireland has become. We have lost our sovereignty and now we have lost our true family values.

Summary
Vote yes to allow same sex married couples to adopt children
Vote yes to allow the government to block the legislation which currently allows children know the real names of their biological parents if they were adopted.

Vote no for a better Ireland.

8 reasons not to sell on Amazon

I have some experience in selling on Amazon and I have to say from the start it was absolutely terrible. Everything about it is geared towards the buyer, the seller has hardly any rights whatsoever. I have the following prod and cons to being a seller below and there are more cons.

Pros

1. Immediate market to sell to

Cons

1. Amazon take a massive commission, up to 15% which is a lot of people's margin gone straight off the bat.

2. They have a thing called AZ Claim. This is a claim the buyer can make for just about anything and the seller has only days to respond to the claim and then the buyer gets all their money back unless you, the seller actually puts in a counter claim which is then up to the person receiving in Amazon. They basically favor the customer every time, even if the customers claim is rubbish. So the customer can pick anything wrong with a product, like a tiny scrape ( which they could probably do themselves) and then put in a claim. The worst part is then they have a great chance of winning and getting a free product. People are really taking advantage of this and it hurts sellers badly.

3. Automatic price lowering. Just as competition couldn't get any worse they introduced automatic price decreasing, meaning if you select this then your products will be the cheapest on Amazon, even if someone puts a product in at a ridiculously low cost ( possibly just to screw you) and then you have to go out of business, ouch.

4. Most of your time is on Amazon losing valuable time to focus on your real business or selling on your own platforms. If your starting off and don't have the resources to pay for a full time Amazon staff member then it's very hard to keep up. Amazon themselves send a ridiculous amount of emails and customers add to this so too much time is needed.

5. So many rules and easy to lose your selling privileges. Same as above, if you do not put 100% into Amazon then you start to lose points. When your points go too low then your gone. And whe your gone and have been relying on selling on Amazon they literally throw you out like you were nothing to them. The way to lose points seems endless. One example is if you delay a shipment, that's marking an order shipped. If an order comes in on Friday night and you don't mark it shipped until Monday then it's a delayed shipment and it effects your selling rights. Also sometimes Amazon will email you ona Saturday morning and only give you 24 hours to answer. If you don't answer then you can lose a claim or some selling privileges etc.

6. Amazon will destroy you with requests.

Out of the blue we got asked for certification that our products had certain standards. So they wanted Sophie's of the test certificates, WTF!! If we are selling a product that we bought of someone and they bought off another then where do we start with getting this sort of stuff. We were selling them without an issue and all of a sudden Amazon decide to destroy us even though we were selling a perfect product. Trying to tell them they should get the certificates from the manufacturer they don't want to know and pass you from Adam to Paul with no resolution, ever.

7. Too much competition so no money can be made. There's way too many people competing on Amazon it's geared towards the massive sellers that can get products for cheaper and make more money because they are selling in quantity and can afford all of the returns and queries Amazon have to offer.

8. Prepare to give products away for free. Because of amazons rules that even if someone raises an AZ claim which you win, they still go against you!! WTF, even if you win an AZ IT Goes against you, that's friggin insane.

In summary there's too many cons to selling on Amazon. Put your efforts into your own shop or website where you have more control and don't have to pay Amazon for a lot of hassle with zero returns.

RTE news. Complete propaganda

Am I the only one completely sick of the RTE spin machine. I don't believe half of the tripe they talk about. Especially the way they spun the Gaza situation. They made it seem like there was a fair and equal war going on in Gaza but was started by the Palestinians from firing rockets towards Israel. Now if that was true that Palestinians were indeed firing rockets wouldn't you think more than 50 Israelis would have died, instead over 3000 Palestinians were killed and about 50 Israelis, now if that's a fair and equal war I'm not sure what RTE would call an onslaught or a colonisation. I'm sure when the British were taking control of ireland RTE would have used different words. Even the guest speakers they had on were either Jewish or Americans, I think one was a Canadian with a surname like spiegeleisen or something completely Jewish. The only people speaking on the Palestinian side was either a hippy or someone planted saying things like "we will open up the gates of hell for Israel" and death to Israel, etc. 

Shame on RTE for the way they presented this story but it's good in a sense because most people could see through their propaganda opening their eyes for any future stories they may present. 

The latest propaganda spin is the protests which have being happening all over ireland. One protest had about 100,000 people out on the streets in Dublin City and they said up to 30000 people, complete lies to belittle the campaign. They also said the protest was single handed lay about ireland refusing to pay a water charge, brought in by our current corrupt government under instructions from the troika after we lost our sovereignty by bailing out the banks who previously bankrupted the country by pumping money and loans to ireland and calling them up. With an influx of money in the country property prices went up and lots of speculating happened in the markets in turn making the property prices go exceptionally higher than they should have been. RTE and the other media outlets helped this boom to happen by repeatedly telling people they should by a house now before the prices to mega levels, they even had a chart showing what house prices would be like in 10 years if people don't buy as quick as possible. This in turn led to thousands of mortgage applications being rushed through. To make this happen quicker they introduced 100% mortgages without the need of a deposit. This then made the markets go crazy and every dick and Harry went straight to the banks to see how much they would get. All this while RTE were still scaremongering people to get onto the property ladder. All this was the start of things going wrong for ireland, well actually the start was joining the EU but because of corrupt parties like fine fail and Fine Gael it put ireland into the worst position it has ever been in financially. And RTE have been instrumental in making other parties look like they wouldn't be able to organise a piss up never mind run a country. 

The point being RTE are paid by us to present fair and equal not biased news and all they do is manipulate things to suit the EU agenda, and to keep the usual idiot corrupt parties in power time and time again. They think if another party get into power then that might just jeopardise those ridiculously overpaid jobs they have. Maybe their right, but we the people don't have to sit back and listen to their bull because we can get alternative media on the Internet and we also have remotes so we can turn over as we please. I look at it when it's on but keep an open mind as to what the real truth might be. Just watch them with a pinch of salt. 

Aspartame

Why the heck is aspartame an ingredient in nearly every soft or diluted drink available in large shopping centres like tescos and dunnes stores etc, even lidl and aldi drinks are riddled with the stuff. It's actually really hard to find a concentrated drink without it, you know the ones where you just add water? Well I think out of about 10 different types in lidl only one type didn't have aspartame, it had the other one Sacharin. And don't get me started on tescos, I don't think they have any concentrated drinks in the whole place without it, even their own brand... Actually scrap that.. Especially their own brand. The thing is aspartame is supposed to be incredibly harmful if consumed, especially for children. So that has me thinking why, for something so harmful do they add it to children's drinks. Let's face it the only real people to drink those types of drinks are children. 

History

Apparently aspartame was a drug invented in a lab to chemically lobotomise patients who were severely mentally ill. Just do some research and you will see streams of information on it. And before you think I should have a tin hat on just look at other drugs which were releases to make the world a better place and make you healthier, thalidomide comes to mind. That's an example of not enough research being done before taking the substance. Now money and capitalism can be partly to blame for drugs being rushed through without proper studies. When a company has a eureka moment and feels they can make a few million in the process along comes with trail of destruction in the wake to get them what they want, which is money and success at any costs. This is also part of the whole capitalism system we live in today. If it makes the big guys money then get it out there quick and pay off enough people to make it happen as fast as possible. If the right people are handed the right brown envelope anything can happen, even speedily pushing through new drugs.

Before you think I'm losing my own point aspartame was originally a drug as outlined for lobotomising patients until a really clever scientist decided to taste it and eureka it tasted sweet, like sugar. So with that the guys above decided to roll it out as a sugar substitute, something today that's requested by so many 'clinically obese' people the media keep telling us about.

In the last 10 years sugar has been enemy no 1 for anyone going on a diet at any point in their lives, if only there was a sugar substitute which you can consume without any of the ill effects of sugar, none, absolutely no ill effects... Could this be correct? Absolutely no ill effects? Well considering it was originally invented to lobotomise people by melting away a piece of their brain then maybe that's just HOGWASH! Of course it damages your health but unfortunately for us some corrupt gits in America are after rolling it out all over the world with very little obstacles except having to pay out more money. 

Alternative

Well the good news is that we as a people have a choice about what we consume but just make sure you read the label to ensure it hasn't got the dreaded aspartame included. Actually you should keep sweeteners down to a minimum until you do research on it. 

Again for all the people saying I should have a tin hat on I say this: Anything with even then slightest amount of controversy shouldn't be an ingredient in any of the foods we eat until proper independent research is carried out. 

I tend to go for the real sugar products but just try and keep it to a small daily dose. 

After I wrote this I looked for an image on aspartame and found one on a very good link that I'll post now: http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-foods/aspartame-saccharine/

There's tonnes more all you have to do is write aspartame on a search engine and you'll find it. Also I found a really good search engine that won't spy on you www.duckduckgo.com and by the way I'm not affiliated with any of the above, if you know of a way to make money posting links please let me know because it just doesn't work as far as I'm concerned, I'm just a left minded idealist that feels like posting blogs that might make the world wake up a little bit and start asking questions. 

King crisps have msg

King Crisps Ireland have MSGs, beware.

I was about to open a bag of king crisps today when I decided to have a look at the ingredients. Low and behold I notice the ingredient E621. Now I know Pringles and the likes state MSG and I know from research that another name for MSG is E621 and also other numbers that I can't remember. All I know is that MSG or E621 is monosodium glutamate. This food additive is very controversial. Supposedly any tests done in labs seen to have astounding evidence showing MSG is harmful when consumed by humans. So why is it in so much of our food? Because of complete corruption. Yes the powers to be aren't here to make sure we all eat safe and stay clear of terrible diseases. Just look up some individual tests done on rats with MSGs. Cancer, IBS, gastric problems are just the tip of the iceberg. Why, when all these independent tests have proved that MSG is bad is it still allowed on our shelves. Also MSGs are creeping into more and more foods on our shelves. All it takes is for you to pick it up and read it before you make your decision whether you should buy or not. Here's what I took from reading into MSGs and it's effect on the body. MSG as a chemical pretends to your brain that it's actually a protein. When your brain thinks it's good wholesome, healthy protein it gets excited and sends dopamine from your brain into the rest of your body. The kind of feeling you get if your starving and you chomp into a chicken drumstick straight out of the oven. When your brain realises that there's actually no protein in the food your consuming it treats the food as an actual toxin. Bodies act differently with toxins, some react badly and some don't.  In my experience, when I eat fast food like Chinese food which is renowned for MSG usage I get this burning feeling in my jaws and a kind of buzzing feeling in my ears. It actually feels a bit like I'm after taking some sort of drug. I don't know whether I enjoyed the food as I'm practically out if it. I went through this for a long time most weekends, wondering why I get that feeling after a Chinese. Then I came across the term MSG so looked into it. 

So when I go to open a packet of what I would have thought was a good honest crisp from a good honest Irish company I was let down badly.

King Crisps or Ireland. Please note I will never purchase a packet of your crisps again until you remove that controversial ingredient from your recipe. I'll be sticking with Tayto Crisps from now on. I'm not a huge crisp fan but when I do eat my crisps I want honest ones. 

Shame on you King.

Some Doctors in Ireland are NOT qualified...WTF!!

pic only for display, not the real doctor

I read an article a couple days ago about a Doctor in Dublin who was removed from his post after proving that he had very little knowledge of how to be a doctor. His name was Vincent Oswunko from Nigeria. He has worked in Portlaoise Hospital in the midlands of Ireland since 2009 and has a litany of allegations from nurses, doctors and surgeons stating that he "lacked even basic medical knowledge". Here is a link to the story from the Irish Times. I'm extremely disturbed to think that this man worked as a Senior House Officer. This is a very important role in the hospital, God knows how many patients this "Doctor" worked on. Whats even more disturbing is the fact that there could be more people like this working in our hospitals. Also to note this person worked in Crumlin Children's hospital before moving to Portlaoise... WTF.... This person was working with sick children. It couldn't get any worse. I wonder if any of his pals are also working here with such incompetency.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/doctor-tried-to-use-scalpel-to-put-tube-in-patient-s-hand-hears-medical-council-1.1627673

This type of thing cannot be allowed to happen. Being a doctor shouldn't be something that's taken lightly when doing the hiring. Are we that stupid in this country to hire people based on a few documents, if this so called doctor even had any documents to prove he was a practicing healthcare professional doctor? Any why when quizzed did former Retired consultant surgeon Walter Conway, who worked with Dr Osunkwo, said he was “deficient in many areas” and did not have the “basic medical knowledge even a medical student should know”. Why didn't this retired surgeon mention this earlier and call for immediate action? Are Doctors hiding this knowledge from us? Do Doctors stick with other Doctors and protect them from getting into trouble? For such an important profession this should not be true.

How many unqualified people are working as Doctors in Ireland. I'm calling for an immediate investigation into every doctor in the country. And any doctors withholding evidence about incompetency from other doctors then they should also be held accountable. In an age where the public healthcare is bad enough and doctors are paid huge salaries this cannot and should not happen again. Its time for some common sense. Hospitals should be safe havens for people who are the most vulnerable.

I would love to know if this man ever trained in a university to be a doctor. If he was i would like to see the results of any examinations taken .I would also like to know if its east to forge paperwork to make it look as if he was a doctor. Because, judging by the news article and what the witnesses are allegedly saying it doesn't look s if he was a real doctor. And if he was a real doctor then maybe his mental state should be checked out. Asking if 165 bpm was a fast heart rate...i even know the answer to that.

The following is a follow up article in December 2013. He was given a 4 week period where he had to shadow other doctors while he improves his own skills. This is actually laughable. Its like telling someone who has no professional skills as a tiler to watch a tiler lay tiles by just watching how its done by a real professional. This is a frightening way to deal with someone with such a level of incompetency. 

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1216/493194-medical-council-vincent-osunkwo/

What actually happened to this man for such negligence and possible fraud?