Wow, The Suburbs is good. Bravo fire of the arcade!
There will be so much flesh on this post you’ll consider reporting it for indecent exposure.
Okay, I’ll stop now.
Boo! Get out of the way and stop providing a thumbnail!
Well it’s that time again kids! The time when I post something that makes no sense and nobody reads it. The time when you will read about something I have not yet thought of yet. No, I’m not stalling for time! Okay, maybe I am a little. So without further ado, the first word that pops into my head: supermarkets!
Supermarkets are great. They are, perhaps, the only place in the world which people segregate into classes voluntarily and for no good reason whatsoever. Depending on your class depends on what supermarket you go to. If you go to a low-end supermarket you will probably purchase very cheap food in roughly the same quantity as America’s daily steel demand that will actually be surprisingly good for you. If you go to a high end supermarket you will probably buy ‘organic’ food that costs around 300% more than it should do, come in stupidly small portions and – because of the lack of decontamination – probably kill you. On the face of it, it seems the bloody communist uprising is happening right now in our food stores.
But not everyone will agree with that sentiment (or condiment if you want to have fun with words). Quite a few people will argue that buying in cheap food from other countries is slowly killing the very soul of the English country side; or to phrase it slightly differently: farmers pockets. Forgive me for being a little bit pedantic, but I think I would prefer to eat some genetically-engineered super being than whatever farmer Jones decided to chop the head off and, with the current state of countryside homicide, I’d probably end up tucking-in to Mrs Jones’ brains. Quite frankly, we’re about three years away from Grand Theft Auto: Peak District.
Anyway, this argument is beyond me. I am considerably middle-class, I live in Cheshire and I regularly correct people’s grammar which adds up to my concept of slumming it is a trip down to Tesco. Tesco is a glorious place; I think it’s the only shop in the country that people from different backgrounds will go to on the off-chance. What follows is a weird mix of people awkwardly trying to talk to each other. The culmination of Britishness and social awkwardness – which are probably the same thing – usually means that any attempt at ‘cross-boundaries’ communication comes to an abrupt and horrible crash in which everybody feels a little bit violated by everybody else.
Moving on from the word, ‘violated’, we are brought nicely to the recent plights of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. I think the people at WikiLeaks need to be congratulated on managing to get completely unrelated, and quite random, stories about them in the news. Originally made famous by exposing the US army for indiscriminately killing civilians and Reuters reporters from a helicopter (although I would like to see them make a video of an MP indiscriminately filling out an expense form) they are again in the news for leaking an amazing amount of documents relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course this was greeted with Pentagon disapproval and claims that Americans will be targeted as their names would be exposed. It’s simply a matter of convenience that the US image of the indiscriminate (three times in one paragraph!) terrorist trying to kill as many people possible has morphed into a precise, well funded, individual hell-bent on domestic revenge. Well, I guess it’s nice to see them caring about people’s lives without one iota of mention that the documents are going to expose them as being criminally liable for a lot of things.
I did mention the word, ‘violated’, in correlation with WikiLeaks and I haven’t forgotten about it. Apparently, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being accused of rape. While his actions may well have certainly proverbially raped many things I find it highly unlikely that he often enjoys popping his disco-stick into screaming objects. I don’t doubt the allegations because I am a good judge of character (I’m not) I just think it’s interesting to note that if he is arrested he would be extradited back to the US. Put bluntly, there are political motives at work here.
Well, that just about wraps up what I have to say for today. Translation: I’m bored now and want food.
See you later everybody!