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Guys, pink is the must colour for summer 2005.<br>Long sleeve, short sleeve, polo or whatever, the gals love it and my dearly beloved reckons it takes years off me.<br>Now, if she’d just show the same enthusiasm for my pink trousers I’d be laughing.<br>
There’s one aspect of all this that disturbs me. It’s not guys who dislike ketchup or blokes who have anal sex.<br>It’s the idea that somewhere along the way in politics it has become not just unfashionable but in some cases downright illegal to have a politically incorrect opinion.<br>But how are we to judge what is politically correct?<br>In the nineteenth century, the most highly regarded members of society and the intelligensia held views on women, homosexuality, race and creed which were universally standard and accepted but in today’s society would be judged as bigotted, immoral and unjust.<br>In another 100 years how will our descendents judge our views on the world? Will there be some cultural revolution or genetic revelation which will again reverse the universal standard of acceptable opinion? I suspect there may be, since cultural beliefs seem to have changed constantly since pagan times. It’s not so long ago that we burned witches at the stake simply for owning a black cat and mixing herbs to make a latter day cold remedy!<br>So how did society change its opinions?<br>It changed because it was told to change by some higher authority, whether that higher authority was actually right or wrong. If the King said that smoking tobacco from the colonies was a great wheeze then people agreed and we created a nation of lung cancer sufferers. If you were Catholic or Protestant and the man in charge was the opposite then you suffered terrible retribution, etc etc.<br>Nowadays the change-making role has been hijacked by self interested lobby groups determined to convert minority thinking into Government policy, so it’s now unacceptable to crack jokes or film your child’s sports day in case your film falls into the hands of paedophiles. What utter tosh!<br>That’s just another example of taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Comedians can’t tell jokes about the Irish, Scots, Welsh or Pakistanis, Jews or whatever because it is incitement to racial hatred. It patently is not!. Standing on a street corner handing out vile leaflets and screaming death threats is incitement to racial hatred and the two cannot be compared in the same breath.<br>Gay people (not paedophiles) have every right to expect to be left alone to enjoy the sexual pleasures of their choice. Those who find such activity unnatural should, however, also be entitled to be spared the constant delight that such people seem to have in declaring their particular preference.<br>And at the risk of being branded a gay basher, they should be entitled to express that opinion without fear of being branded a gay basher.<br>Government lawyers are creating this nanny state because they are more interested in preventing costly lawsuits than seriously improving the way we treat our fellow man/woman (sorry, almost forgot).<br>Perhaps we should concentrate on teaching our children the three Rs – Respect, respect, respect – and then perhaps we would live in a more equitable and less life threatening society. <br>
Lolly<br>I read Bill Bryson’s book A Short History of Almost Everything and learned more in one weekend than I did in 12 years at school. Suggest you do the same and save time!
Call me simple (I’m sure someone will) but don’t we already have an ID card system – it’s called a passport. <br>I recently applied to renew mine and was faced with a barrage of questions etc. and a supplementary (voluntary) form asking for all sorts of details. On calling the Passport Office I was casually informed that this was just the Government wanting all sorts of details about me and my bank accounts and to throw it in the bin. Nice man, there should be more of them working in the civil service.<br>As for the Government’s record on computer systems, can anyone tell me if the traffic control system down south ever got up and running ?
For all you cat haters out there, I hear that a little anti-freeze in a bowl of milk at the back door works wonders!
PS Howdya attach a pic to a reply?
Dave, where ya going on Hols in Turkey?<br>Meet ya for a G8 beer!<br>I live five mins from PIK and I’m off to Olu Deniz on Friday.<br>Speshul branch appeared at the BP office at the airport the other week and the cheeky buggers wouldn’t let them in until they had seen their ID and phoned Home Office to confirm.<br>What’s the three foot high razor wire all about?<br>A bandy legged pygmy could step over it!<br>
What pub in Prestwick do you drink in?<br>Flanagans, Bonne, Elliots, Cricket Club?<br>’Cos that’s the best written rant I’ve read for ages!!!!
Fair point Steve, but we Scots are entitled to the odd moment of irrational nationalistic gloat.<br>It is only natural after 40 years of Frank Haffey, World Cup 66, Grand Slams, Rugby World Cups, Steve Redgrave et al.<br>Still, England can claim a certain degree of credit for young Murray’s latest development. His mother Judy was the National coach in Scotland but resigned and moved south because of the lack of funding for Scottish tennis eminating from our wonderful new Parly in Edinburgh. I bet it takes Jack McConnell five minutes to arrange to have his photograph taken with Murray as soon as the hooha has calmed down and the lad returns to Dunblane for a break.<br>
I uesd to be like Ian Dvaies and bleivee taht sepellnig was ipmotrnat utnil I saw tihs.
I bcdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg!!
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
Yaeh and I olny reasiled how ture that was wehn I srtaetd raednig the bdaly seplled carp on tihs wbestie.
So trhre you go Mr Dvaeis!<br>Prulpe Ptach
Apples<br>Are you crazy? Do you want to start another fight?<br>Let the poor English chappies have a day or two to pack their rackets away for another summer before tearing into them like a demented Pict. Timmy tried his best.<br>On second thoughts … HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA .
Seriously, Henman looked liked he wanted to be somewhere else during his match with Tursunov. At 30 he’s past it, over the hill, gone. But hey, he didn’t ask to be built up by the media and public into the great English hope, he just did his best and just when he looked like making it he bottled it, time and again.<br>Now the Scots lad Murray, he’s skooshed through two opponents who should, on paper, have cuffed his ass. Nalbandian is a former finalist and ranked 19 in the world. Murray shouldn’t beat him. But he will. ‘Cos he’s got bottle. Mark my words. You read it here first.
Is that it? Are we finished? I was so enjoying all that holier than though banter I almost forgot to kick the cat. Now there’s a subject – animal cruelty. Anyone for tennis?<br>
Tregoning confirms return to Goodwood and says he’ll win the Dewhurst!<br>Sir Percy did it nicely after being hampered. Quickened well through the gap on the rails and then looked a shade green. Could be a good ‘un
Talking of dyslexia …..
<br>I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg!!
<br>The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the
rghit pclae.
<br>The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the
wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was
ipmorantt !
Coloset palce in Untied Kigndmo is suerly Tmontioul ..ist feerznig!
Prulpe Ptach
