Arcoarena

Been a while

December 1, 2006 on 7:40 pm | In Life | 1 Comment

As someone pointed out to me I’m only writing something once a month and I’ve missed quite a few things out of that so in summary.

• I did a sailing course at the outdoor centre in September, the water was surprisingly warm

• Andrea has a new job, yay, its part time but she now has a shop to manage so a bit more responsability. I’m really pleased for her. The boss seems nice and the organisation as a whole cares quite well for it’s staff (as far as I can tell), better than Rail Gourmet at any rate
• Imperium by Robert Harris is very enjoyable, more political than his previous books but still very accurate (only Roman Empire geeks need to care about that bit), I read one of the recent Terry Pratchett books (’Thud!’) and it was as good as his rest but I just didn’t really enjoy it as much as I used to. ‘The History Boys’ (the film) is quite good. Casino Royale is excellent, Daniel Craig is very good (shut up anyone who moans about him being blond) but there is still loads of product placement
• I lit ‘Cards on the Table’ by Agatha Christie at the Havant Arts Centre, hopefully it wasn’t too badly lit. It was quite an enjoyable play though

Now, the thing that actually inspired me to write this was this:

A group of British ex-pats has launched a campaign to get ‘Pom’ banned from adverts on the basis of it being a derogatory term. The actual subject isn’t that interesting but in fighting his case he compains about Australian cricket fans calling the British smelly, with bad breath. He continues

“The worst you hear from the Barmy Army is that Aussies are sheep shaggers and you all live in a penal colony.”

The article continues

“Asked by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) whether being called a sheep shagger was worse than been accused of having poor personal hygiene, Mr Thomason said that it was not. “Not really, because sheep shagging, that’s generalising. Bad personal hygiene, that’s sort of a personal attack,” he said.