I’m with you on the religious debate, as you know. DId you read the prat (Vicar of St Martin’s) in the Advertiser, this week? He’s debunking Richard Dawkins as delusional because what happened to that footballer and his recovery. He says it is nothing short of a miracle. Hmmm … If his recovery is divine intervention, who stopped his heart in the first place? Can’t have it both ways. I am going to do one of my letters. We’ll see if that one gets in. If not, I shall blog it.

I’ve not seen Grease (well, half of it) or Mamma Mia, either.

Nick

Have we all missed the observation that Greggs et al have been pumping the prices up anyway? All they’ll do is raise prices between now and October, then claim they’re generous by ‘absorbing the VAT increase.’

Asda amuse me with their ‘roll back’ BS. They inflate a price by some humungous percentage for a couple of weeks, drop it to just 50% more than it used to be and call it a roll back.

Sometimes I really enjoy being a miser because you get to notice the way these institutions (government and religiots included) spread BS over everything and then claim to clear it up: like oil companies taking the credit for cleaning 5,000 cormorants.

While I’m in that frame of mind: a follow-up to your earlier comments about the gay marriage ‘debate’ – The Tametsi Decree of 1563 (time of Elizabeth I, an era I’m quite interested in) was the Roman Catholic’s assertion that no marriage was valid without appropriate representation by a priest, bishop or authorised deputised person. Marriage is older than any of the religions claiming authority over it by the same degree that I have more bodymass than Kate (bless her cotton socks) Moss. Like you, I have no vested interest in the issue but am livid that gays are being denied the consequences of marriage that the rest of us (Jan and I married in an excellent Registry Office, many of which now have long waiting lists so couples are resorting to churches in order to marry sooner – something interesting there, methinks??) enjoy.

I am enormously self-gratified to say that ‘Titanic’ is one of the ‘classic’ movies that I have never seen. Also in the list are: ‘Grease’ and ‘Mamma Mia’ plus many more whose titles I can’t be bothered to recall.

Excellent post, once more. Sorry about the hijacking rant, but thanks a million for bringing more chuckles to my protracted hours at the computer screen.

And, from a tweet I saw earlier: ‘which Spice Girl can be used to store petrol? Geri can.’

Cheers

Nick

This is more of a crisis than I thought!