I swear four years between Olympics just isn’t enough.

For the last month or so every time you turned on the television there was something about them on, first the torch run, then the athletes being flown over, then the event themselves.  It’s been finished three days, yet still they’re bleating on about them like something stupendous has just happened.

Maybe I’m just getting old, crabby and cynical, but I truly don’t get it.

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Why is it so hard to get good quality stuff any more?

We’ve been told for years that we’re now living in a throw-away society, yet at the same time we’re told to cut down on packaging, cut down on purchases, recycle more…

How?

You buy an expensive piece of equipment, it breaks 2 days after the warranty runs out, but you can’t get it replaced because (according to the manufacturer) it isn’t cost effective, it would cost more to repair than it does to buy a new one.

Although you have to love how they don’t give you the option of repair to judge the cost for yourself.

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Go together like peas and cabbage…

Ok so I never could remember the lyrics to that tune. *shrugs* So sue me…

Anyway, not the entry I was planning for today, but I was reading Cia’s blog this morning and got inspired. And after all, inspiration isn’t something to be ignored! (Not to mention for a change it’s not about the local wildlife!)

So… Love and marriage…

The thing I’ve always found so odd about the whole thing, people say that children grow up so fast these days.

Well, really, you have to ask yourself what can you expect?

I’ve heard people ask children as young as 8 if they have a boyfriend, or girlfriend.

I’m sorry, but they’re eight! They’re not even supposed to know what the heck to do with the opposite sex, let alone already be dating one!

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Did you do your part?

I did. I reduced my carbon footprint by turning it off!

The problem is, these concerts are great to raise money for charities, but they aren’t really much cop for awareness of global issues. People go, they have a great time, and then they go back about their lives like it never happened.

And having a concert for global warming and carbon emissions? Umm… Am I the only one to notice the number of lights, the number of trucks required to move all the equipment and the number of air flights that will have been used to transport all the acts to tech various locations. It’s a safe bet that lot probably tripled the carbon emissions for the month, if not more.

Seems a bit counter productive to me…

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Well I seem to be particularly crabby this week.

My current gripe… Smokers.

Admittedly my usual feelings about this group of people are that they should be locked in a small, airtight room and allowed to smoke themselves into an early grave without wasting valuable oxygen that could be better used on the rest of society.

But currently I’m of the mind that this is too kind. They should be taken out and stabbed repeatedly in the reproductive organs, stuck on a spit and slow roasted…

At the very least, they should be banned from eBay until they quit the vile and filthy habit!
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Apparently various places around the country have had to put on extra police to cope with the trick or treating tonight.

The latest craze it appears is to go trick or treating in very large groups with a couple of steel bars. So when they say “trick” they actually mean “obscene violence”.

And I wonder why I like to spend the winter months in hibernation. It has nothing to do with the cold. You start with the arrogant little scrotes running from house to house with their hands out for free sweets or they threaten to smash your face in.

Next it’s penny for the guy…
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Well I’m feeling rather sluttish, sordid and a tad grubby this morning.

I knew myspace wasn’t a good idea (although it has made for several good rants of late :-D)

Some random somebody (or should that be nobody?) invited me to join their community there and be their friend.

Seems nice enough right?

Yeah.. not likely!
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I really hate having to wait around for trades people.

Someone was due to take a look at the aerial and cabling today to try and fix my TV signal (which, naturally, has been perfect since I ran to book the appointment)

Still, it’s been doing this for the two years I’ve had the TV in this room, so I want it sorted once and for all.

He was due between 10 and 11am.
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I knew there was a reason I never watch the news on TV.

Not only is it usually depressing, it’s also bleedin’ boring!

Twenty minutes, twenty minutes it took them today covering the apparent nuclear bomb test in Korea. How can it possibly take that long to say there was a test explosion that registered on the Richter scale, but nobody really knows anything more than that.

Oh but wait, then they have to interview everyone and their grandmother to find out what they think, ask every government official available for their thoughts on the matter, along with several hours of supposition about what it will mean for each possible eventuality should they ever discover what the device tested was.
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Unbelievable.

I’ve just seen the TV advertising the release of a new movie called “World Trade Center”.

Maybe it’s just me, but I think it’s disgusting that they turned such a tragedy into a film.

I don’t care how sensitively they handled the material, the fact still remains, they’re turning a horrific tragedy into entertainment.
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