Counter-rant

[f4f3]

Now that I've had enough coffee...

I'm getting fed up listening to faux-cynical gen-x'ers tell us how over charities, and religion, and state-sponsored capitalism they are. Do you know what? Nobody cares. If you're offended by someone wearing a poppy, deal with it. It's not as if their act of rememberance is impinging on one of your increasing number of "human rights", unless it's "my inalienable right to not give a toss about the people who died to shut down the death camps."

And come to think of it, being all cynical and ironical about "fighting for freedom" - catch a grip, here, the pronouncements of an industry of spin-doctors shouldn't make you doubt for a second that there are some things that are worth fighting for, that not all of those things stopped existing in 1945, and that you would be first up against the wall if any one of a number of Glorious Days actually did Come.

And, as Everclear sing, "I hate those people who love to tell you that money is the root of all that kills, they have never been poor they have never known the joy of a Welfare Christmas". If you don't like Children in Need, turn it off, and don't put anything in the cans. Don't moan about it when others do contribute. And don't come around with your vague, No-Logo, list of things that bum me out, man, like saving the whales from nuclear powerstations by driving solar powered cars and drinking wine out of cardboard bottles.

What people need these days is a lot less passion and a lot more good manners.

Comments

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Well the lava lamp is an obvious candidate...

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

You have a lava lamp? How old are you? ;)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Older than Jesus.

although I feel duty bound to point out that I saw some great minature lava lamps in Fenwicks on Saturday...

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

You mean you're ... 34??? *shudders*

*dodges out of F's way*

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

I got K a lava lamp for Christmas. He adores it.

I am a very, very good girlfriend.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

You are, actually, and what's more I think he knows it.

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

*marvels*

There are facets of K of which I am entirely ignorant.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

That's nothing, you should ask to see his teeth sometime...

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

*fears*

[liadnan]

K's teeth have facets?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

No, but you can use them to weigh down a stack of paper...

Anymore details will have to be revealed by Frankie as I am sworn to hysteria.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Didn't I say somewhere? I'm in my fifth decade, not my fourth. Next year I will be the answer to life, the universe and everything.

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Well, you're wearing it very well :) Isn't the internet brilliant?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Yes, in my days we didn't have the internet of course, we made our own entertainment then.

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Was everything black and white?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

It was all more sort of shades of grey...

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

... until along came the Marvellous Technicolor^TM Internet!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

So you say. I actually have my monitor set to grey-scale. If it were good enough for my father, it's good enough for me...

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

*Doesn't know how to tell you that Battle Of The Planets actually has red, blue and yellow in it*

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

I'll remind you of this in two years' time. That's what friends are for. :)

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

;P

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Ah, all this sticking tongues out - it's so symptomatic of you youngsters...

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Hush, grandpa ;P

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Sorry, what was that? Speak up!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

To be perfectly honest, I haven't noticed any signs of decline yet. Of course, this could be a symptom of my mental decline which masks the physical one...