My mornings usually have some sort of a routine to them,
but today started differently as I spent ten minutes clearing a pile of dog
sick from the upstairs landing.
I made toast, and watched the last ever episode of “Schitts
Creek”… the series started well, but like many shows it went on perhaps two
or three seasons too many. Three of the four members of the main family were
rather self-obsessed narcissistic shallow people who you instantly disliked; in
this final season they got very much worse.
As Fudge snored I sparked up my lap-top to see what was
going on in the world of cyber-space. There had been some “turn your
Facebook profile black” thingy yesterday which I’d totally missed, but from
what I could see, anyone of Caucasian decent who had done so had merely upset
those who felt that they alone had the right to be upset by racial intolerance.
It strikes me that this “Black Lives Matter” campaign is just stirring
up problems where previously there were none. However I am reliably informed
that the new racism is to deny that racism exists… Am I racist? I really don’t
think so.
I sent out some birthday messages and checked my emails.
There was one from neighbourhood watch. Neighbourhood watch has turned out to
be something of a disappointment. I thought I got to be a vigilante going round
squealing up all sorts of imagined infractions of the law to a disinterested
police force. But instead I just get emails about burglaries in distant parts
of the town where friends who are very rude about my street live.
I set off capturing flat friends as I
walked down the road to my car (it's a Munzee thing). As I drove to work
the pundits on the radio were interviewing the head honcho of some university
or other who has made preparations for a socially distanced autumn term with
distance-learning and video lectures so that the students can resume their
studies safely. There was then a couple
of interviews with students who weren't interested in distance-learning and
video lectures as they were irrelevant. Apparently the whole point of going to
university is the student lifestyle, and as far as they were concerned if there
were no bars open which were selling cheap alcohol then they might as well go
and get a job. As they said, why else would anyone want to be a full-time
student...
Which is exactly the reason why I was
never a full-time student (and I quite like a drink!).
There was then talk of that idiot Sir
Kier Starmner. Within days of becoming leader of the Labour party he
effectively ended lock-down single-handedly by demanding details of the
government's plans to end lock-down, and in starting the conversation about ending
lock-down, so people started ending lock-down. Everyone had been quite content
staying put until he opened his mouth.
Now he is having a go at the government
for ending lock-down too soon, even though this is what he was advocating only
a few short weeks ago.
Yet again the Labour party chose a twit to lead them to
ensure that they can freely criticise the way the country is being run whilst
never having the responsibility of taking the big decisions themselves.
I got to work, I did my bit. I came home via Aldi which was
swarming with normal people and I completely forgot to look at the tat aisle.
And that was the highlight of today – going to Aldi… rather
dull, really…
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