I’m not very good at being ill. I’m rubbish at it. I’m a woman, I should be great at it but I’m not, I’m pathetic. You always hear the common myth of men milking a cold for all it’s worth, well what about me? I’m letting my fellow women down. I can’t stand having a [...]
Modern Day Dilemmas – No.26. Proof that fruit and veg is bad for you
Would you go into a supermarket, take a plum from the shelf, eat it then spit the stone back out into the cucumbers. No? I should bloody well hope not. But this is what my other half witnessed a few weeks ago and out of the goodness of his heart he came home and told [...]
Modern Day Dilemmas – No. 25. Belly-flopping with Britney
How much mileage is there in the whole ‘Britney cut her hair off thing’? We’ve seen it replayed in the whole whatever went wrong with Britney/Britney’s worst year ever/Britney gone wild/Britney’s fall from Grace. The whole Britney Shears thing is getting a bit old now. She’s not the only woman to have done it you [...]
Modern Day Dilemmas – No.24. Friends and their nipples
I saw an episode of Friends last night and Rachel’s nipples were showing through a T-shirt, a woolen jumper and presumably a bra because no woman’s chest stands as erect as that without some form of support. I often watch the re-runs because really Friends was the only US sitcom that I ever liked. Now [...]
Modern Day Dilemmas – No.23. No No No, New Kids on The Block
A few days ago I saw something really wrong. I switched on the music channel and saw some middle aged looking men cavorting with bikini clad jail-bait. I vaguely remember a show last year where random members of oldskool boy bands were plucked from the brink of celebrity death, shoved in a nouveau [...]
Modern Day Dilemmas – No.22. The mid-week roast chicken
Why is it that when we go to the supermarket and find ourselves at the checkout with a basket full of stuff we didn’t know we needed we always say something stupid like, “I only came in for some milk,” ? The cashier can smile and act like she cares but really they care [...]
Modern Day Dilemmas – No.20. Grand Theft Auto does not drive me to murder but Championship Manager does
Oh the irony; violence at the opening of the new Grand Theft Auto game. Over dinner I quickly found myself in a debate with my other half about the subject. I found myself arguing over the spirit of the game the main aim of which appears to be to tactically find ways of [...]
Modern Day Dilemmas – No.18. Spam and boxing and the joys of David Haye
I’m glad that cuffing people in the head is fashionable again. I don’t like to see Sky buying up all the rights to show all major sporting events. Ordinary viewers have a right to watch people cuffing one another without having to pay extra for it. Boxing was part of my world [...]
