Well it has been a busy couple of weeks. With this heat kicking in as well it has made it rather warm and uncomfortable on our little rebinning exercise for the new stuff coming into work.! So what has been going on then…
There was a few celebrity deaths… Molly Sugden, her with the pussy from Are You Being Served, still a classic comedy (much better than the awful “That’s My Boy” she followed it with)… Farah Fawcett-Majors, not someone on the main part of my radar but a well known and well loved actress nonetheless and then of course…
…Jackson of Michael. The loss of such an important man in musical history is something to be mourned at length but perhaps more privately than splashed across the media every sodding morning a la Princess Di or to a slightly lesser extent Jade “Irritating Trash” Goody.
Mr Jackson first appeared in my life when a certain classmate of mine named Richard kept playing “Bad” at junior school in the hall as we got ready for P.E on a Monday (I think) afternoon and used to play “Man In The Mirror” a lot too. I have never been his biggest fan (RE my love of Jarvis Cocker etc, etc) but I have always enjoyed his music. He has almost created a genre for himself without seemingly trying. He will be sorely missed and the music world has lost someone as unique and important as Freddie Mercury, John Lennon or George Harrison.
What else has been going on… oh yes, two guys drown whilst swimming in Weston Bay… sliiiiightly contraversial subject this but something I want to comment on without people taking offence. Two guys, both old enough to know better who have lived here (and worked nearby) to know that Weston is a dangerous place to swim ESPECIALLY when you have been drinking. I know not to go in the water because of the mud and the currents and I also am aware that swimming when you are a bit tanked up is going to put you at risk. Sadly two people are now dead due to their utter lack of common sense but the thing that really got to me was this morning’s Mercury…
There ARE enough signs on the beach warning of mud and bad sea conditions but I don’t believe all the signs in the world could have stopped this tragedy happening (see the guy who was dragged out of the water Sunday early hours whilst shit faced and drowning as well). There needs to be some responsibilty for action… the girl who got knocked over whilst not looking and listening to her iPod the other day faced up to the fact that she acted like an idiot and almost died, well done. She didn’t say that there should be warnings (which sadly there are) all over iPod instructions stating your should not wear one whilst crossing the road BECAUSE YOU MIGHT NOT HEAR A CAR.
See what I mean.? Whether you have ploughed your Saxo/MX-5 off the toll road through utter stupidity and too much speed or if you have let your five year old daughter wander off on her own to die on a beach whilst you fail to keep an eye on her… it is YOUR responsibility… you have control of these situations people. There is no Superted/Batman/Superman to come and save you. If you do something that has a risk in it then so be it, your choice, but it is YOUR choice and no one else is to blame.
On another note, the East Coast Main Line is being reNationalised. Hurrah. but only for a year. Boo. The Government has decided that they aren’t going to be able to squeeze enough cash out of National Express (which is lunacy when you think about it, as GNER were doing a great job and some fat cunt in the Treasury decided that the £1.4 BILLION that NatEx were supposed to pay them was a nice little earner. Now Firstgroup want to get hold of it which is beginning to make the country into a Firstgroup owned railway (apart from the freight sector, oh now THAT is owned by the Germans, well at least they know how to run a railway, usually all trains going east of course).
I know, keep it nationalised and stop it making any irritating shareholders any money and ALL the profits can be ploughed back into the company rather than the back pocket of some wankshaft from Suffolk that drives a 5 series BMW and has a girlfriend who has had so much plastic surgery that her tits and teeth are touching.! And if that is not an option then for goodness sake don’t let Firstgroup anywhere near it. They will fuck it quicker than Russell Brand after a double Viagra dose (and he is an annoying little tosspot too isn’t he).
Well I must away, the pizza is almost here. Bon Voyage.!