The Importance of Being Idle

Outside The Asylum

Oh joy another morning of application forms! One of them this morning asked me what my greatest achievement was, which I thought a really nasty question. I mean, for a start, I've never achieved anything at all, but even if I had what sort of thing would you actually be proud enough of to mention it on a job application? I mean, sure if I'd cured cancer, or discovered a new country or discovered a grand unified theory of everything then I'd be proud of those things, but everyday achievements? Yeah I did a really good job cleaning the bathroom last week...
I can't let the whole Michael Jackson thing go without some comment. Firstly, I honestly didn't think he was going to be found not guilty on all counts, I expected him to be convicted of SOMETHING, most obviously supplying alcohol to minors. Clearly the jury knows more about the actual evidence in the case than we the public do, and their opinion that they had little choice but to clear him after the testimony of Janet Arvizo who was obviously trying to play the situation for the money seems to have been what swung the case. However, she wouldn't have been the first, he'd settled with what, four other families? I don't know, I mean maybe in this instance he wasn't guilty, I honestly don't know, and I know the old adage "where there's smoke there's fire" doesn't always follow (after all I was fired for stealing things and I didn't steal stuff, so clearly its not fool-proof), but I do believe he that he has done these things before, and he will again if given the opportunity (and listening to what rabid fans are saying this morning, he will have the opportunity again and again and again...). What surprises me is the number of people who are willing to apparently forgive his obvious prediliction for small boys because "he had a strange childhood". Well, ALL paedophiles have strange childhoods, thats what makes them the way they are, and yet nobody in the media feels sorry for them, or even makes much of an effort to understand them when it's easier to demonise them. I'd also like to point out at this point, that being found "not guilty" doesn't mean you're innocent, all it means is that they couldn't prove you did it.
In other crazy news, people with 4x4s who never leave the comfort of the town centre need no longer fear ridicule as they can buy spray on mud to make it look like they were off-roading this weekend. The wankers.
I'm sure there were other things that had exercised my ire this morning, but they seem to have (mercifully) slipped my mind, cos it will prevent more extensive and incoherent ranting.
I'm supposed to be having a flat inspection this morning, and I hate those. I mean, its not like its a big deal, I just kinda feel like I'm hanging around waiting for something, even though I can just be somewhere else. In fact I think I'll do that, be somewhere else. Wonder if I should wear a coat...?

posted by BadMonkey @ 10:51 AM