Schmelection
Hi honeys, I'm home!
Due to stupidly completing the task given to me at my previous assignment, I found myself out of work and therefore out of range of a computer for the entire election campaign. I thought this would bother me, I thought I'd be given a huge shiny pile of things to rant at and have no outlet for them, but the further along we got, the less rage it inspired in me.
The Tories talked themselves nicely out of any chance they may have had in the first place, Labour tried to scare us into thinking the Tories still had a chance and spoke supposedly soothing words of how everything would stay nice and comfy and familiar if we kept them, and the Liberal Democrats got about 30 seconds at the end of each ten minute news item to tell us how Sarah and little Donald are doing, then quickly switched off if they mentioned any policies rather than criticizing Labour or the Tories. And it's Graham fucking Norton on a Saturday night.
Then to the ballot boxes ahoy, with a feeling of blessed relief that soon there would be no more election coverage and the news could go back to trying to scare us with international news rather than trying to bore any of us still intending to vote out of doing so.
And then......?
Everything carries on exactly the way it did before.
And that's how it is. New pope? Won't change anything. Slightly reduced Labour majority? Won't change anything. New Tory leader? Won't change anything. Gordon Brown as PM? Won't change anything. New Dr. Who? Still not watching it if Billie Piper's still in it. About the only change that's happened recently that makes the damnedest bit of difference to me is Brad and Angelina, a couple I can believe in, rather than Brad and 'Jen' who was never exactly in his league credibility and class wise.
And it's Graham fucking Norton on a Sunday as well. Friends, Romans, Country Fans, if you're happy and you know it you can clap your hands.....
posted by I'm Over The Moon @ 12:06 pm
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6 Comments:
The new Pope is a BIG deal. The Roman Catholic Church has gone a decidedly conservative route...good news for my side.
For catholics and some other christians it is, but i don't see it changing much here for non catholics. Tony's Catholic theoretically, but he loves his popularity more than he loves his god, so he won't be banning abortion or sex education or anything.
oh, except there'll be new "I like the pope..." t-shirts. that'll change. I like the headline from one of the papers the day after his election: Papa Ratzi! nice! a good nickname can take a man a long way with us heathens. we'll just have to judge him on his actions eh? only fair.
Well, the election of a new Pope in this media age at least serves to remind the world that Catholicism is still going strong in the 21st century. Did it not make you at least curious as to what the fuss was all about?
Not really. Some lingering folk memory about not playing with fire lead me to leave it at the RE A-level and the reading i've already done! As it goes I know a fair amount about Catholicsm, the formation of the church, the early church etc, cos when i watch something like Stigmata or read The Da Vinci Code i like to check if i'm being talked bollocks to! I even looked at the Opus Dei website. Apparantly they don't even have monks!
Yes, monks are pretty important I think. It was meeting some on a pilgrimage route in Spain last summer that made me rethink the whole Christianity thing, particularly Catholicism. Before then I'd left it at the RS degree level and the reading I'd already done too! I'm not a convert yet but definitely leaning that way!
Make sure you don't lean on your lighter and accidentally set fire to me if you do lean further that way! So far I'm doing well at Stake Avoidance...
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