Monday, September 06, 2004
The end of early days
Yes we have come to the end of early days. For the last 3 days I have been asleep before the chap has removed himself from the new online game (that's Friday Saturday and Sunday nights, not school nights) and I have been staying at his house. Now I think that is a clear sign that early days are over - that he would rather spend time planting virtual onions and flax than getting jiggy with it at the weekend. I somehow feel slightly reassured by this as it is slightly unnerving to be in the soppy couple zone and I have a few weeks to find out if this is a temporary "I've got a new game, it's only gone live last Friday and I'm going to be away from it for most of the week after next, I have to get lots of stuff done or else it's all going to die while I'm away" or if it is a sign of how things will always be. 5 months is reasonable for early days I think.
Also in the news - the vote on Fox hunting might finally be done and dusted soon. What a waste of my (yes me a tax payer, voter, and functioning contributor to society) resources this is. If natural progression has carried on it would have died out over the next few years by the back door but no, someone decided legislation was required, a whole worms next was disturbed and people got all chippy - How many of the people crying "foxes rights" and similar would have the same attitude if it was "rat hunting with Russell Terriers" ? Don't get me wrong - I don't like any sort of hunting but some things don't need legislation they will die out over time, and I suspect the belief that fox hunting is only the pursuit of the rich and indolent but many of the bills supporters has a lot of sway. Since my MP seems to do absolutely nothing I can't really complain that he will be wasting time he should spend on useful stuff like "Sustaining local communities" bills etc on this one but Oh if his replacement is as good as Mr Bruce says he's going to be I'll be disappointed if these sidetracks are pursued.
Further comment on the news - can someone explain to me why is the death of a child considered worse than the death of an adult? I thought we are all people - children are just smaller people who do require more looking after, but people just the same, so why is a child treated as better than an adult? Surely we are all equally important? Over 300 people have died in the siege of a school in the USSR but you'd think only the 175 children actually had any contribution to make to the world from the way it is reported. If the adults a child depend on are all killed is that not worse than the child alone dying? I know that no one should live to see the death of their own offspring - it is a grief in a league of it's own however surely everyone has equal potential to contribute or otherwise so when expressing generic distress over individuals unknown to oneself surely each human should elicit equal distress?
Also in the news - the vote on Fox hunting might finally be done and dusted soon. What a waste of my (yes me a tax payer, voter, and functioning contributor to society) resources this is. If natural progression has carried on it would have died out over the next few years by the back door but no, someone decided legislation was required, a whole worms next was disturbed and people got all chippy - How many of the people crying "foxes rights" and similar would have the same attitude if it was "rat hunting with Russell Terriers" ? Don't get me wrong - I don't like any sort of hunting but some things don't need legislation they will die out over time, and I suspect the belief that fox hunting is only the pursuit of the rich and indolent but many of the bills supporters has a lot of sway. Since my MP seems to do absolutely nothing I can't really complain that he will be wasting time he should spend on useful stuff like "Sustaining local communities" bills etc on this one but Oh if his replacement is as good as Mr Bruce says he's going to be I'll be disappointed if these sidetracks are pursued.
Further comment on the news - can someone explain to me why is the death of a child considered worse than the death of an adult? I thought we are all people - children are just smaller people who do require more looking after, but people just the same, so why is a child treated as better than an adult? Surely we are all equally important? Over 300 people have died in the siege of a school in the USSR but you'd think only the 175 children actually had any contribution to make to the world from the way it is reported. If the adults a child depend on are all killed is that not worse than the child alone dying? I know that no one should live to see the death of their own offspring - it is a grief in a league of it's own however surely everyone has equal potential to contribute or otherwise so when expressing generic distress over individuals unknown to oneself surely each human should elicit equal distress?
// posted by Bitvacuous @ 11:19 pm 
