right, time for a catch up

No spleen venting for a while so I need to catch up.

Metrosexual line crossed

Right, I accept that some blokes will use "product" on their hair. In my younger and more hirsute days I used some gel and mousse. It's a bit poncy, but there you have it. But there is a line that must not be crossed and that line is hair-curling tongs. This week I witnessed at lunchtime, in my office's changing rooms, a bloke using said tongs to tweak his hair. You have crossed the line sunshine. A quick straw poll in the office found appalled blokes and women who did not find that level of personal grooming especially attractive in a man.

Much-up Day

What moron decided "muck-up day" is a good idea? A school sanctioned (yet officially unofficial) day when students are allowed to act like fuck-wits. It's just a bit of fun before they enter higher education, the job market or Daddy's law firm (typically the later as it is most prevalent at fee-paying schools.) It's fun until there is property damage and kids armed with knives and balaclavas. Did the berks behind the idea believe kids would stop at playing bum notes in clarinet class and calling the principal a poo-pants? Of course it would escalate. Victorian days are over and with it any sort of discipline. Especially amongst the upper classes who know that money means impunity. So we caused $5000 damage to someone car? We don't give a fuck, daddy takes home a mill a year.

And while I'm at it, Schoolies

Once you've finished trashing private property and acting a twat you can then go to Queensland's Gold Coast (or various other places) for Schoolies. Yep, another pretty-much-official teen happening which, as far as I can tell, involves kids getting pissed blind, fucking each other and getting stalked by predatory adults who know how easy it is to screw a just-out-of-school-kid who is utterly off of their face. Another brilliant idea from the land downunder. Even the Queensland government has a website with advice about schoolies.

Before I get hammered for being a killjoy...I have no desire to stop young adults or old kids having fun and acting like fuck-wits. Hell, I did it and I had a great time. But for fucks sake, making it all official? This country is just fucking weird.

The Credit Crunch

So the global economy is all fucked because of a ton of shit-house credit. People without money buying stuff they couldn't afford with credit they should not have been granted. When that comes to light and they stop making payments on the credit they should never have been granted the world grinds to a halt. The way to fix it? We need to encourage people to keep spending. Er, wasn't that the problem in the first place?