{"id":663,"date":"2006-11-04T18:50:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T17:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:07:11","slug":"evil-overlord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Evil Overlord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a few converstions with my dear stymistress lately along the line of &#8220;If I became leader of the known universe, a good few things would change, I can tell you&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So i&#8217;m going to add a new category: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?cat=10\">Evil Overlord<\/a>, and as and when I think of new things, they are going in there. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments. I&#8217;ve already consulted the esssential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eviloverlord.com\/lists\/overlord.html\">reference material<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No. 1: Curfew for the retired, the unemployed, the independently non-working wealthy, and anyone else who doesn&#8217;t *have* to travel to work at rush hour, shop at weekends\/evenings etc, preventing them from cluttering up the roads, supermarkets, buses etc when the rest of us are trying to get the chosen odious task <i>over and bloody done with<\/i> as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>No.2: An end to aiming the rules and laws at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.species5618.net\/?p=114\">lowest common denominator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No.3: A state benefit system that pays out to the needy and punishes the lazy.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s enough now. I&#8217;m starting to sound like a grumpy old bastard.<\/p>\n<p>Oh Hang on then:<\/p>\n<p>No.4: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=438\">Zero tolerance of scumbags<\/a>, with &#8220;scumbag&#8221; being defined by me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a few converstions with my dear stymistress lately along the line of &#8220;If I became leader of the known universe, a good few things would change, I can tell you&#8221;. So i&#8217;m going to add a new category: Evil Overlord, and as and when I think of new things, they are going in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evil Overlord<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil-overlord"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5256,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/5256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}