The Importance of Being Idle

Nostalgia Meal

So I went shopping twice today, once for what I wanted to get today, and then the second time because I totally failed to get the one thing I actually wanted the first time. Armed with a shopping list bearing the simple legend "Buy loo roll you fucking retard", I returned to the supermarket and accidentally found the sweetie section, and promptly helped myself to a small selection of things from when I was a kid: tooty frooties, chewits, jelly tots... basically stuff that's gonna make me sit down and go "Oh boy this takes me back!". I did finally remember to get the loo roll too, so that was good.
My eating habits have got so bad though, Duck'd kill me if she knew what crap I was eating, or more probably she'd just sit and wait a few weeks for my diet to kill me, I mean why should she put herself out if it's inevitable anyway? After my birdy I am seriously gonna have to rethink my dietary habits, cos the way I'm carrying on now, just goin' out and buying whatever junk I happen to fancy that day, that's no way to carry on, especially at my advanced (or at least advancing) age.
Mmmmmm Chewits. Hands up everyone who remembers the old Chewits ads on TV, when the monster would chew the bus? Ah, just me then? Bugger. They ARE chewier than a bus though, honest.
In other news, wtf is happening to this country? Yesterday at the New Labour conference, an 82 year old concentration camp survivor was physically ejected (on live national TV too! Seeing a group of large burly men man-handle this old man, and anyone who had the temerity to suggest that they might be over-reacting a little was something beyond even the Labour party's ability to spin, although god knows they tried) from the conference hall for shouting "nonsense" during Jack Straw's speech. Then he was charged and held under the governments new terrorismn act. Now, aside from the facts that;
i) Jack Straw was talking nonsense &
ii) he's an experienced politician and isn't likely to be reduced to tears by a single heckler
I have to say: the terrorism act? For telling a government minister he's talking bollocks? He WAS talking bollocks, and you could prove it in a court of law! And Charles Clark said "No, we won't abuse these powers, you can trust us..." HA! Two things spring to mind here:
First, eternal smart arse Benjamin Franklin said "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security", and
Second, this gentle erosion of our freedoms has been happening so slowly and stealthily, has been presented in such a careful fashion that few have realised what its meant. All along though, I have maintained that one day we will NEED the right to protest against our own government, and that right will be gone. I just didn't expect that day to be yesterday...

posted by BadMonkey @ 3:30 PM