BAN THE MAIL!

I meant to blog last night but I fell asleep. Ok, a good nights kip for once, or so you would think. It was one of those ones where I kept waking up. 2am, 4am, 6am and so on, so it didn't feel quite as refreshing as it should have. Anyway, didn't have much to say to be honest but I did want to say one important thing. ***THANKYOU CLAIRWIL*** .............Ok, a bit over the score there, but I have been a bit glum of late so thanks for hi-lighting my plight and sending me the links for PopBitch, Holymoly and The Friday Project . Also a big shout to Fat Sparrow who came up with one of the funniest things i've seen in a long time. Flying Rodent came bearing YouTube goodness and Keiran provided a link to a bunch of old Bob Dye-lan press conferences Thanks all of you. Did I miss anyone? No? Good! Now, onto matters at hand. It has been noted that I don't take much notice of whats going on in the world anymore and who am I to argue? The weekends two principal news stories are just two of the many reasons I can give for running away like a frightened rabbit from any form of newsmedia. First of all Jack Straw, whose unsolicited and slightly miscalculated comments (or were they?) about the veil went down about as well as an appearance by Trevor Kavanagh at a Solidarity meeting. Of course the floodgates opened. The Mail had their 'BAN THE VEIL' front page, complete with a ludicrously one sided poll of it's terrified readers. By midweek every tuppenny ha'penny attention seeker was fucking at it. Some twat in the further education biz came out today to tell us that he had banned the veil in his college. (I only saw that one on Sky, so the story has to be fading) All very sad but all very predictable. Yeah, let's tell people of other faiths how to dress. That'll fly................ The 'debate' has been marked on both sides by a sort of 'fingers in the ears I CAN'T HEAR YOU NYAH NYAH NYAH!!!!' approach. There was talk of some rational discussion amongst the Asian community as a whole early on, but it all got blown away by the right wing press and the opportunists. The Muslim rent-a-mob crew got in on the act by doing a bit of protesting and shouting the odds but really, can you blame them? Take the chances while you can and all that........Anyway, whilst I doubt it's turned many Muslim women on to the veil, I also doubt it's managed to get any of those who chose to wear it to remove it, even for brief social interaction. Sadly the 'debate' this was probably meant to provoke had it's head kicked in within 24 hrs of the story breaking. Nice. The other thing that got my goat over the weekend was the comedy story concerning North Korea. Are these arseholes serious? Let me see, North Korea has just built a bomb. It has no way of deploying it but hell theres the 'Primate in Chief' to tell us all that this is a grave new threat and showing us that yes, he's yet to master the proper pronunciation of the word 'nuclear'. I have no doubt it's entirely possible that the end of the world may come sometime soon. What I do doubt is that North Korea will be responsible. Look, a drunk with a James Bond obsession is no more of a danger than the incumbent retard in The White House(or his successor). What's more, can anyone tell me why it's perfectly safe for a hemmed in and paranoid nation like Israel or such uneasy neighbours as India and Pakistan to have big bad boombooms but our Korean chum with the tinted glasses and the deeply unfashionable leather jackets can't have them? Jolly unfair if you ask me. Yes, I know he's unhinged, but so was Boris Fucken Yeltsin. Anyway, every Tom Dick and Harry seems to have a nuke or is at least 'working on a project'. Why all the outrage and disgust over North Korea? I'm sure it was all pretty much done to show off anyway, like a teenager lighting his farts simply because he can. As I said, the end of the world may be nigh, but I think North Korea are a wee bit too late to be doing much about it.