Published on 12, July, 2020
The world seems grim right now with Covid, Brexit, endless atrocities, and my cold, uncaring birth family are going to the extreme to prove they don't give two hoots about me.
Is there anything nice we can discuss? e.g. I'm so happy that All Creatures Great and Small and The Great British Bake Off are coming back in the next few weeks. Also Strictly Come Dancing. Lots of silly shows to distract us.
Maybe this is a thread for people who have had enough, to come and talk about lighter, happier subjects.
The tv show "Lucifer" is often very funny, if that helps. Lucifer retires to LA, meets a policewoman called Chloe Decker who intrigues him and ends up consulting for the LAPD. After that, you won't believe what happens next...
I always avoided Lucifer as I thought it was about the devil and would be scary.
These instinctive choices often serve us well KikiCat.
Particularly the theological ones. Most of my really bad life choices were not instinctive. But that is the nature of pernicious evil... The show itself is far less scary than you would expect, but like the majotrity of television if it isn't actually hurtful to the soul, it's a bit of a waste of your time, and the commuincation is all "one way", with YOU as the recipient.
And T.V. can be massively addictive, taking as many hours out of your real "god given" life as a well controlled heroin habit! Just say no and go and do the ironing. If you are male and have not tried Ironing, it's a secret the women have been keepiing from us for ages. I haven;t doen any for quite a while now, but it's a great thing to do. you start with a mess, and at teh end tehre is order, and YOU made it happen. The process allows one time to legitimately enjoy a piece of music, or your own thoughts, without interruption because the activity itself makes a positive contribution to everyones lives. (yeah, as a bloke you'll soon run out of your own ironing, if you want an opportunity in the context of a busy family to take a bit of time to get baked and really listen to Dark Side of the Moon... Then you'll need to do their ironing too. And guess what? They'll be glad to let you. The army taught me both how to Iron your clothes and also how to kill you quickly at a distance of 25 strides.
Guess which turned out to be the more useful skill?
Yet still feminists discard the role as "unworthy"... Amazing! To actually suceed in running a home, you have to sucessfully excercise a great deal of skill and control.
Sorry, I've just read a powerfully provoking book entitled "this perfect day" by Someone called Ira Levin, and it's shaken up my perosonal "bag of values" again. that sort of thing makes me generally overly talkative. Sadly the tasks I should be doing, do not include Ironing. BUt there vaccuming to be done, that feels like weilding power and making change, and makes a universally positive difference!
LIfe is too short indeed, and the way my life is currently, I don't have the time or need to do ironing.
I just hope the society in which I live doesn't make it a prohibited activity for some woke reason before I next get to do some!
Yes that sounds ridiculous, but it's only of a similar level of unbelievable stupidity executed by bad actors that I've experienced first hand by flying a tiny kids drone in my own back garden, and witness increasingly on a wider scale on the evening news...