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Nothing of interest; just mindless links to bikes Birmingham City Football Club and useless junk  
  
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05 June 2004
Top of the morning to ya Went out last night with some mates from the first law firm I worked at, Wragge and Co. When I worked there a group of peeps used to have a "girls night out" and I was an honourary girl. I never knew how to take the title, but spending a night with a bunch of drunken women and being the only male was an offer I never refused. Anyway, I'm older, shacked up and with loud and demanding child, as are the people I meet last night, so these reunions tend to be tamer as folk have big 4x4 5 litre child carriers to drive home before the Jonathan Ross Show. Well, that's not entirely true, but you catch my drift. The tide carries us in a particular direction, off to shores new. We went for Thai and talked about how simple life used to be when we worked our fingers to the bone for a lot less than we earned now, only to piss it up the wall. That always leads to the same question "how could we earn much less but afford to go out all the time?" No mortgage? No nursery fees? Not having a petrol guzzling metal house on 4 wheels? Pubs selling beer for 50% of today's prices? Little Georgie is finding her own feet. She's now at the stage where she refuses to be fed, she'll feed herself thank you very much. I wouldn't mind but she's not developed the cognitive skills to operate the vacuum cleaner. She's selfish that one, I tell thee. Here are the classics in five words or fewer. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Jane Austen) Feisty heroine: "Won't marry!" Marries. GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Charles Dickens) Virgin. Discovers humility. Still virgin. THE ILIAD (Homer) Fight. Games. Fight. Games. Fight. FINNEGANS WAKE (James Joyce) Riverrun. Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk! Irish incomprehensibility. The THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE (Thomas Hardy) Wife sold. Guilt. Regained. Misery. ROMEO AND JULIET (William Shakespeare) Hormones conquer Verona. Cast expire. MACBETH (William Shakespeare) Macbeth king. Witches: "die!" Does. THE BIBLE (God with co-writers) Creation! begat begat begat Saved! PARADISE LOST (John Milton) Devil pontificates. God somewhat irrelevant. THE PRINCE (Niccolò Machiavelli) Teach yourself bastard. Be thanked. ON THE ROAD (Jack Kerouac) Bored. Travels. Bored. Travels. Bored. Link time Name your penis Sing a Song For Fox sake Bush. When I was a lad that meant two things: "sweet mary jane" or a "fluff covered mons". Now it means "piss hole eyed dangerous moron in power" The media remind us that this excrescence in a suit is "on the campaign trail". Why? We all know he cheated his way into power before murdering thousands of people to show them just how great democracy is. He's now attempting to defended the US-led war on terror, casting it as a struggle between freedom and tyranny similar to World War II. Is he for real? He went on to say that the only way to ensure that good decent American folk remain "free" is "to go on the offensive". Remind you of anyone? Hitler said "I have summoned you to this meeting in the midst of our tremendous struggle for the freedom and the future of this nation. I have done so, firstly, because I considered it imperative to give our people an insight into the events, unique in history, that lie behind us, secondly, because I wished to express my gratitude to our magnificent soldiers, and thirdly, with the intention of appealing, once more and for the last time, to common sense in general." Hmmm. It's starting to sound all too familiar. Maybe they have the same script writers? Did I mention that the Bush family made their money in 1930's Germany? Bush will " accept nothing less than victory over the enemy," . In attempting to sway the people of the USA, Bush is trying to play on the current re-visit to Normandy. "Like the US involvement in World War II",Bush said "the war on terror began with a surprise attack on the US". Where have you been? It's been shown that on both occasions the US was aware of impending attack but did nothing about it in order to go to war, a war used as an excuse to impose American imperialism. The Far East has never recovered from America's involvement. Back in the 1930's a social misfit with a criminal record cheat his way into power then went on to take his country to war to ensure it's freedom and way of life. This power mad despot removed many civil liberties from his own people for "national security" The very same person identified a particular race as the cause of all of the ills of a nation (despite having the "enemy" as family friends). 
Nationalism was whipped up and everyone had to wave the flag. On to glorious war with God on your side. "We will accept nothing less than victory over the enemy" The last bloke to say that topped himself. Please promise you'll follow. 
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