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Dec. 7th, 2003 09:40 pmFeeling chuffed today because I am now officially thin! Yes! Mike (tall thin leggy son) has thrown out a pair of jeans because they are 'too short in the leg' (I reckon it's really because they are no longer the complete and stygian black that they were when they were new) and they fit me!! Yay, go me. So I am a size 10 (think that's an eight in the US) at the waist and below. Sadly still a 14 to 16 in the top hamper but heck - if you've got it why not flaunt it. Now, of course, I need to tone it. Sit ups anyone?
I've just been watching Bowling for Columbine. Was that a scary movie or what? And it poses utterly unanswerable questions. I can't see thatthe US has any more violent a history than we do here. Good grief I don't think there's a country in the world that the British Empire hasn't turned over, invaded, pillaged, insulted or otherwise interfered with. For a moment I almost said 'with the exception of Iceland' but we went to war with them over bloody codfish back in the 70s (nothing formal, you understand. Just Royal Naval ships ramming their coast guards and stuff. Don't think anyone was killed - or if they were we weren't told.) No, we Brits have the sort of track record that means wherever we go we have to apologise, so that can't be it.Gun rules are strict - so the only people who have guns now are the ones who shouldn't be let out with a pea shooter. Gun crime is becoming more common - sure fire way of getting resect I suppose, people may still despise you but there's no way they'll say so. Oh dear, what the US does now Europe will be doing sometime next decade but I hope the gun culture doesn't spread. Our country is just too small for guns that can shoot right through house walls. It's very hard to make a case that you're hunting vermin when you're carrying a semi-automtic weapon of some kind. I mean, wood pigeons might crap on you but they don't shoot back. Fingers crossed that we stay quaint rather than becoming exciting.
I've just been watching Bowling for Columbine. Was that a scary movie or what? And it poses utterly unanswerable questions. I can't see thatthe US has any more violent a history than we do here. Good grief I don't think there's a country in the world that the British Empire hasn't turned over, invaded, pillaged, insulted or otherwise interfered with. For a moment I almost said 'with the exception of Iceland' but we went to war with them over bloody codfish back in the 70s (nothing formal, you understand. Just Royal Naval ships ramming their coast guards and stuff. Don't think anyone was killed - or if they were we weren't told.) No, we Brits have the sort of track record that means wherever we go we have to apologise, so that can't be it.Gun rules are strict - so the only people who have guns now are the ones who shouldn't be let out with a pea shooter. Gun crime is becoming more common - sure fire way of getting resect I suppose, people may still despise you but there's no way they'll say so. Oh dear, what the US does now Europe will be doing sometime next decade but I hope the gun culture doesn't spread. Our country is just too small for guns that can shoot right through house walls. It's very hard to make a case that you're hunting vermin when you're carrying a semi-automtic weapon of some kind. I mean, wood pigeons might crap on you but they don't shoot back. Fingers crossed that we stay quaint rather than becoming exciting.