This has kept me amused for an entire week. Welcome to the Fens.

I’m a member of clubs online, where discussion between members is lively and encouraged. However if someone attacks the speaker and not the principle, they are halted in their tracks and reminded of the correct way to conduct an argument. This is in a club full of children – why is it that a country full of adults can’t seem to grasp this same concept?

Despite feeling particularly disillusioned with the Tories I will probably always vote for them as I can’t possibly vote Labour as I disagree with too many of their policies, not to mention their entire ideological basis, and a vote for the Lib Dems is a wasted vote imo.

However as much as I dislike Labour, the flack Tony Blair is getting is more reminiscient of teenage girls hurling insults before a moderator locks the topic, than of an election in a country that claims to be one of the most prominant of the Western democracies. It’s farcical – he is not one man making decisions on his own. He has teams of people providing him with information which may or may not be accurate, he has other teams making sub-decisions that may affect his main decisions, and he has to reach a decision with the support of the cabinet. To hold him soley responsible for the mistakes made by his party is akin to a sacrifice – he’s the scape goat. When things go well, the entire party is hailed as a smooth running, modern thinking machine. When things go badly, the party prevails and the leader is slaughtered. He’s someone who went into politics presumably because he wanted to do some good, and to think that after 8 years of trying to do some good and even suceeding in some aspects, he’s facing having to step down with his reputation ruined and his life probably shortened by the stress. I won’t vote for him, but no-one should have his credibility shreded in such a way over something so pedantic. And beyond the fact that it is an unnecessary and almost embarassing character assassination, it’s distracting people from the real policies.

Although the Iraq war was a political disaster (any decision would have been the wrong one) and seems to be featuring highly in the election campaign it is fundamentally not that important. The day to day running of the country is important, and local government is even more important. Those are the things that make a real difference to our lives. Although what happens in other countries may be important for our national sense of wellbeing and self-rightousness, it does not actually affect us personally. Yes, I know, that’s a typical national anti-social tory view, but it is I believe based on a solid argument.

Saddam could have amassed a huge nuclear consignment, and we wouldn’t be at risk. Even if we don’t re-establish our own nuclear deterrent we still wouldn’t be at risk. Saddam had made himself sufficiently unpopular with the superpower and it’s “allies” that had he tried anything on with any WMDs he might have had, he would have been happily annihilated and the victors squabbling over the oil reserves before a day was out. The US’s huge nuclear supremacy makes country-to-country WMD use suicidal. Whether we like it or not, the US is huge, rich, powerful and potentially lethal – we may not agree with its agenda or how it sees itself as a world policer, but since we’re more or less on the same side they are handy to have as a deterrant should anyone wish to attack us large-scale. WMDs like nuclear and biological weapons have only 2 ways of affecting our lives; 1) they will be set on us by individual terrorist groups who cannot be pre-emptively struck, nor who can be retaliated against since they have no country and 2) large scale destruction of the human race.

*steps off soap box* and there endeth my political ranting for the day. More to follow no doubt.

And on to topics more relevant to the sane continuation of the world as we know it – the Rocket has been knocked out of the Championships?! And I missed it. Ronnie was supposed to win, darn it. I have a fairly selective interest in sports – when the person I’m rooting for loses, I lose interest. I don’t particularly care who wins, I only watch it for Ronnie O’Sullivan’s incredible performances. Bla.

Ok, so despite knowing it was coming I managed to miss my blogbirthday. It was the 22nd April – I managed a solid year of bloggery!

Ha! Bloggery… X-D

I’ve had one of those occasions today where you know something other people don’t and you watch them briefly carry on, unaware of the big change coming. Kinda like being a lab scientist in a biological disaster movie – you know the deadly virus has escaped the lab and is just about to infect the entire population of the world, and yet everyone around you is more preoccupied on getting to M&S before it shuts…

Ok, so maybe my situation isn’t quite like that – or rather, it’s the diet coke of biological disaster movies.

I think we may have beaten the old spammers by changing to a new blog machine. Your comments may be moderated now, I’m not yet sure how it all works.

I haven’t been sleeping enough *yawns*

Ok, I shall give you the test here, should you have a pathological urge to complete it. My findings are in the More bit. And they are rather laughable….

TIBETAN PERSONALITY TEST ~
Be honest and do not cheat by looking up the answers. The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it is opened. This is fun to do, but you have to follow the instructions very closely. Do not cheat.

MAKE A WISH BEFORE BEGINNING THE TEST!

Get pencil and paper (or Notepad) to write your answers as you go along.

1) Put the following 5 animals in the order of your preference:

Cow, Tiger, Sheep, Horse, Pig

2) Write one word that describes each one of the following:

Dog, Cat, Rat, Coffee, Sea.

3) Think of someone, who also knows you and is important to you, which you can relate them to the following colors. Do not repeat your answer twice. Name just one person for each color:

Yellow, Orange, Red, White, Green.

4) Finally, write down your favorite number, and your favorite day of the week.

FINISHED? Please be sure that your answers are what you REALLY WANT. Look at the interpretations below: But first before continuing, REPEAT your wish.

ANSWERS:

1) This will define your priorities in your life.

Cow Signifies CAREER
Tiger Signifies PRIDE
Sheep Signifies LOVE
Horse Signifies FAMILY
Pig Signifies MONEY

2)
Your description of dog implies your own personality.
Your description of cat implies the personality of your partner.
Your description of rat implies the personality of your enemies.
Your description of coffee is how you interpret sex.
Your description of the sea implies your own life.

3)
Yellow: Someone you will never forget
Orange: Someone you consider your true friend
Red: Someone that you really love
White: Your twin soul
Green: Someone that you will remember for the rest of your life

4) You have to send this message to as many persons as your favorite number and your wish will come true on the day that you recorded.

*removes silly chain letter stuff*
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The idea of a two tier government system is attractive… I am your classic Tory, but I don’t think the Tories deserve to win the election as they are totally out of touch, lack the ability to hire proper PR people and are headed by the slimiest man ever. They are a total turn-off. Labour on the other hand have sublime marketing – they win me over with the simpliest of adverts. They’ve put the effort in to appeal to the public. However, when it comes to local government I want a Tory MP. I can’t chose Labour for the country and Tory for the county.

Comments have been disabled as I got bored of removing casino adverts. Greymatter can’t seem to develop a simple antispam mechanism, so I’ll be making my own blog system or finding something more capable.

Hehehe, Sonata just pointed out the storage benefits of the TARDIS. I’d quite like the being-able-to-travel-in-time benefits. I could go back and bet all my savings on Hedgehunter. However I did win £20 off that horse today – can’t complain!

So yay for Grand National and yay for Royal Wedding – about time! I do enjoy the tradition, the pomp and ceremony.

I need a DVD player. Vanilla Sky is on and shorty shorty McShorty Tom Cruise is on, and I have a yearning to watch Interview With a Vampire, when he was tall. And good looking. I have it on DVD, but my computer and the DVD player are in different rooms. Conclusion – I need a DVD player for my room.

*tests out anti-spam mod* Time shall tell…

It’s gone 10pm, I wanted an early night, I haven’t even had dinner yet. I’ve spent the evening doing the bills. I am not a happy bunny. Plus someone keeps phoning the college from the landline, and since the house is made up of 4 college students, it’s impossible to prove who it is and we’ll have to split it – even though common sense tells us precisely who it is.

However on a slightly odd note I sent off for a TA info pack. I don’t know why – I feel drawn to it and want to investigate it while I still can. When I reached 17 and was too old to re-join the ATC I kicked myself for not having looked into it more. I have 9 years before I’m too old for the TA…

I’ll work on the comments problem soon.

I spent the evening trying to do bills whilst likewise trying to help non-musical tone-and-rhythm deaf housemate to write a parody song. Not easy. Impossible in fact.

A conversation being had over postit notes on my Dad’s desk at home. To set the scene – he has a watch he needs to sell:

Mum-postit – “Sell watch – give money to wife”
Sister-postit – “Sell wife – give money to daughter”
Mum-postit – “No good – wife past sell-by-date”
Sister-postit – “No problem – sell wife in reduced section”

It was a good week. I haven’t done anything stupid, I have kept up, I’ve achieved what I need to. All’s good!

Comments on this blog are apparently not working. Good side? No stupid casino ads. Bad side? Friends can’t post either!