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Bletchley Park Faces Financial Rescue
biscuitfever11 writes "Just two months ago it seemed that Bletchley Park, the home of Station X, Britain's secret code-breaking base during the War, was doomed as the codebreakers' huts rotted and the site fell into disrepair. But today Britain's Lottery Fund is set to step in with a grant to rescue the ailing heritage site. (There was an earlier story on ZDNet.)"
Personally I'm tired of infotainment. And I'm absolutely sick and tired of pandering to retarded parents.
Not everything in this World should be an opportunity for sheeple to dump their sticky, spoiled offspring in the way of others. If you and your kids are too stupid to understand the importance of something, to treat it with the appropriate respect it deserves, then do us all a favor and fuck right off.
As a young child growing up reading Jules Verne and Darwin and war comic books I'd have been delighted to visit Bletchley Park. I didn't need touch screens, a play area, things to make noises, or a giant enigma machine that plays musical notes when I jump on it.
I recently had the occasion to visit the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Galleries in Glasgow -- I've not been there since the 1970s. My memory of it was of reverential stillness as I browsed the collections all arranged in logical scientific manner. However, now it's a brash braindead creche. The exhibits are hard to see because there's sticky child's fingers all over them, there's vandalism everywhere. It's loud, it's dumb, it's cheap, and it's tacky.
Now, obviously it's being sold as a success because there's more visitors. However, in my opinion it's a failure because it's clear that few visitors are understanding anything they are seeing, and those that do can only gleam a small amount of their potential because of the selfish sheeple majority.
Incidentally if you do find yourself in Glasgow (do try not to) and want to see a museum, then the Hunterian in the University is still a pleasant experience.