Another good night – I like
those. I wish they happened more often. Perhaps if and when I get my nose
re-bored they might. It is now two months since my ENT appointment; you’d have
thought I might have heard back from the hospital by now. Mind you when I last
had to have surgery, nothing happened unless I chivvied things with a formal
complaint. Perhaps I need to start whinging again.
I had a look at the Internet. A
chap with whom I went to college in the 1980s was again banging on about how
good Brexit is. He was taking the line that those wanting to remain in the EU
have always used insults as arguments, because they have no actual facts as to
why we should not leave the EU, whereas Brexiteers have always given facts as
to why we should leave the EU. One thing which never fails to amaze me about life is how
everyone’s experiences are different… In my experience on social media the remoaners
seem to post endless lists of reasons why leaving is a good thing in the hope
that no one will see that many of those reasons are rather nonsensical. Whereas
the brexidiots usually seem to present the validity of Brexit as a self-evident
fact which is clearly not needing any justification. Today my old mate was
using that old argument of saying that “X
is clearly the case because I say so. And because I say so, it is correct”.
I made the mistake of telling him that our experiences are
different.
As I drove
to work the pundits on the radio were discussing the recent shutting down of
the Jeremy Kyle TV show. Some chap who
had been wheeled on to shriek and argue had failed a lie detector test during
the filming, and has since gone on to kill himself.
On the one
hand it is rather sad that this has happened. On the other, it is *exactly*
the sort of thing that large swathes on the public want and is the reason why
the show is so popular.
I'm reminded
of my classical studies when I learned about the Roman poet Juvenal who talked
of "Bread and Circuses".
Two thousand
years later and nothing has changed. Such a shame.
There was
then an interview with the leader of Plaid Cymru (the Welsh nationalists)
who are simultaneously pushing for Wales to be independent of the United
Kingdom, and to be an integral part of the European Union. However seems to be unable
to explain the obvious contradiction here.
As I drove I
was rather amazed by the amount of dead animals on the roads. A dead badger on
the A28. Several assorted flattened mammals on the A262, and a dead deer on the
A21. Surely something could be done to save these poor creatures.
I got to
work. During a break I was sitting in the rest room reading my Kindle app when
the boss remarked that absolutely everyone was staring at a mobile phone. A lot
of people comment when this happens. No one bats an eyelid when everyone is
reading a book or a newspaper though, do they? What is it about reading
something by using a phone that so many people find upsetting?
As I drove home there was
another dead badger on the A28. I came home to an empty house as "er
indoors TM"
had taken the dogs out. Once they were back we had a rather good bit of dinner
and watched more “Bake off – The Professionals”.
Today was dull…
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