Knickers

I'm somewhat aeriated today. Yes, I know that aeriated isn't an actual word, it's a pretend word but one we actually use, and it means getting your knickers in a twist. It's one of those words like lehr that is used but never written down.
'Ooh, that's lehr that is,' is something kids would say all the time. Maybe it's spelt 'lair' or 'leer'.

Red herring.

The first thing I'm aeriated about is comparatively trivial, the TV prog 'Rockstar' is now starting to piss me off, because it's becoming clear that the band, Supernova, you remember, being sued by the already existing band Supernova, are merely puppets. Incidentally, Ben tells me that it actually does show in the UK, contrary to what I thought.

Now, we saw a show that had some of the finalists from Canada, out of whom just two were picked. There were some stonkingly good singers and performers among them. How then did the show end up with Zayra, an annoying person who can't actually sing in tune? Week in, week out, she gives us off-key renditions of all sorts of songs. Each week she is in the bottom three, each week she escapes relegation in spite of the fact that the band are now openly hostile to her. This week, when someone else was sent packing, someone who ultimately would never have fronted the band, but who was lightyears better than Zayra, the jaws of every one of the other contestants went 'clunk' to the floor. Someone is telling the lads not to fire her because she provides tension. She argues with the band. This week, after the most horribly screeched rendering of Blondie's 'Call me' wearing an electric blue shiny jumpsuit, they told her she needed to start a solo career, like, now. She turned to the audience and said,
'I think I was great, what did you think?'
Enough. She has to go.

On a far less trivial note, I utterly, utterly fail to see how any human being who calls themself a Christian and who lives freely in a democracy, can revile other human beings based on who they have sex with. It is just preposterous. Imagine Jesus Christ, the one we know through the Bible, not some other mangled by people's febrile imaginings and hatred version, being in Colorado Springs and being faced with this vicious bunch of self-righteous morons. That's what it comes down to. What seriously would Jesus, the person that this lot claim to follow the teachings of, say? If he were to say,
'Yep, we can't be having with this whole gays having the same rights as every other human being palaver,' then we'd have to say,
'Well, were you on crack when you were preaching that all people were equal in the eyes of the Lord or are you on crack now?'
Of course he wouldn't say that! (I point this out for the more literal minded of my friends) It would go against the whole message of his life. What these bozos are trying to do undermines everything he stood and died for. And that's the thing, they say they are doing it BECAUSE they are Christians. If they came out and said,
'Ok, we're Nazis, we follow the teachings of Hitler,' at least that would be honest and wouldn't dishonour the faith of real believers.

Perhaps all of this might be one reason why the United States doesn't feature in the list of top ten countries where people are happiest. Britain doesn't either incidentally, but six of the top ten are European countries. Canada is number ten. I think there is more work to be done on this study, because three, maybe four of those European countries (I'm not sure about Iceland) are those heavily socialised Scandinavian countries I'm always praising, thus, could be of global use to have this phenomenon looked at more carefully.

And yet, in spite of being the tenth happiest country, Canada doesn't feature at all in the Daily Mail's look at where 4.5 million Brits are spread around the globe. Their journalism is none too accurate, 4.5 million becomes 'nearly five million' in the opening sentence. However, what is not to forget is that this is the Daily Nazi, rabbid, mouth-frothing right wing. I'm surprised the article doesn't suggest that we ex-pats should rise up and stage a British Empire coup from wherever we are living, waving our Union Flags and chanting, 'God Bless the Daily Mail.' Oddly, NONE of the countries mentioned by the Nazi are on the list of top ten happiness places.
What I fear is that Britain is actually exporting Daily Mail readers to Colorado Springs where they can happily pursue their divine right to hate everyone apart from themselves.

Thanks Simmi for both the Daily Nazi and the Independent articles. The picture by the way is neither Norman nor Sherman but Fanny the Wonder Dog, sadly now deceased, but beloved of all Julian Clary fans, of which I am one.