Monday, May 16, 2005

A Rainy Day Of Little Consequence

Well the rain that made Paris so wet on Saturday finally made it's weary way to the middle of the UK today, and it did its very best to get me soggy this afternoon. Luckily I was protected my hoody, although I guess the hoody itself got wet, and my hair did get slightly flattened by the application of hood to hair. Still, it could've been worse. I could've been going to the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent, where they have banned hoodies because (apparently) the elderly and the overly timid find them terrifying. I suspect that its not the hoody itself they find frightening, but the kid inside. I wonder what they do if someone of my (slightly!) more advanced years were to turn up in a hoody. Would they refuse me admission, confiscate my apparel, what would they do? And what would they do if a timid elderly person showed up wearing one? If they only take them off people who don't seem all that threatening then there is clearly a double standard there that is just gonna make all the frightening hoody wearers bitter and resentful. Also if they can already identify the scary people, then why not just ban them and let people wear hoodies in peace? It all seems very silly to me.
Whilst I was at the shops I found a Darth Vader PEZ dispenser, which I naturally bought. Yay PEZ! I also bought some hellishly expensive smoothy which was so expensive (in comparison to my weekly food budget) that I haven't actually dared drink any of it yet. I should probably have it sealed in mylar or something...
As you've probably gathered I've been watching a lot of junk TV recently, but tonight there is a new show starting which seems to be the very nadir of the television experience: Celebrity Love Island. Just read that again: Celebrity Love Island. The premise should be pretty clear from the title; a whole group of Z-list celebs get put on a Fijian island and then we watch them to see if any of them make out! Its like one of those celebrity gossip magazines playing itself out right in front of you! There is something so irrestibly trashy about that formula that I am going to have to give it a try, although I'm sure I'll hate myself afterwards. It will probably lower my IQ, but that is a chance your intrepid reporter is prepared to take!

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