....most people go to work, not because they have an altruistic desire for big business to make vast rewards, nor I suspect, do they go to work because they are simply bored witless at watching Jeremy Kyle and Crap in the Attic.....no I think most people go to work because they have to.....
They go to earn money, for a pint of beer, to put a roof over the heads of their family, and to allow them to occasionally enjoy the rewards that they are permitted to do so.....
So imagine, there you are at work, your office is nice and warm, you have a cup of coffee to tender to your anxiety needs, you have a pretty good idea of what you need to get done that day, you contemplate what you will have for tea tonight, as you look out of the window you see the snow falling, the snow on the ground, and you worry about all of tomorrows worries.......but and this is the big but.....the one thing you do not have to think about nor expect, are a bunch of fucking raving lunatics bursting in to your offices, screaming passages from the Quran as you dive under the desk........
So instead of seeing snow as you look out the window, transplant the snow with sand, transplant the woolly hats with caps and there you are sat at your desk.....but this time, a bunch of fucking raving lunatics do burst into your offices, screaming passages from the Quran as you dive under the desk.....
But this story, this story has no happy ending, it is amazing that anyone survived....but I have been following this story as it unfolds, but when you listen to the news and hear that up to 48** workers are gunned down.....
What did these people do that was sooooooo wrong that their lives was abruptly ended so violently....imagine any work place in the UK, or England, or London, or worse still YOUR work place.......the out cry would be one of how can we impose legislation to stop this ever happening again...... the loss of the children of Sandy was terrible, but this is no less terrible..... all these people were doing, was going to work to earn money, for a pint of beer, to put a roof over the heads of their family, and to allow them to occasionally enjoy the rewards that they are permitted to do so.....
Just over 30 years ago I went to Algeria on a BP Oil Tanker, and we were not allowed ashore as it was considered too dangerous.....roll forwards 30 years, to the BP Oil Facility at the Amenas Gas Plant....has anything changed in those 30 years ?!?
As a news tart, I saw over the weekend that Scientits* are at it again, some bloke needs a woman to volunteer for an experiment to regrow a nethanderal man !! Honestly, it is so insane I can't even be arsed to paste the link..... this idiot, says he can extract DNA, and now wants to transplant this into a woman to clone nethanderal man from extinction..... When you look at the state of happenings in the world today, and yet this pillock is wasting time, money and putting a womans body at risk for what exactly.......?
Seeing this story against the back drop of the Algerian massacre, makes you wonder, if a bunch of fucking raving lunatics do burst into his offices, screaming passages from the Quran, would he dive under his desk ?.....or would he say.....perfecto I don't need a testwomantube, my nethanderal man has re-awoken already..........
Interestingly as I lay in bed this morning supping my tea in between bouts of wondering whether I should choose work or sleep....work or sleep ?......work or sleep ? I was listening to the radio 4 news....allied to the story in Algeria, was a story from the same stable of news....the unfolding crisis in Mali and turns out that the weapons being used by the Rebels to terrorise ordinary innocent people of Mali, are the same weapons that western governments supplied to the rebels in Libya who over threw the Gadaffi Regime [yes that's right......the same Gadaffi Regime that Tony Blair courted so seductively]......
What a mess..... The then British Government told Gadaffi, he was awful but we like you, the next British Government said you are awful, then it gave loads of weapons to rebels, and then with jingoistic roar we cheered on the rebels as part of the Arab spring, and now look....those self same weapons that we supplied [that's right, WE the taxpayers], move to Mali.....remember the news reports showing the "rebels" of Libya, pleading into the cameras for the west to help them and supply weapons..........so now do we still rouse so triumphantly at the use of those weapons [to be fair I didn't the first time].......but looking at Algeria today.....don't count me in....
I won't post a song today, today is not a day for music, instead from my safe warm office, I shall spend a short time looking out of my window, reflecting as the snow flakes fall to the ground......
Keats said..... a thing of beauty is a joy for ever....maybe today...as the snow flakes fall through the sky.......beauty is ephemeral....
*[I hope when my youngest graduates and falls under the title of scientist, that she uses her self fulfilled talent to do something good for the human race, and not just do something because technology allows us to]
**Postscript: Since first posting this note the death toll has now been downgraded and put at 37 deaths.....37 too many fucking deaths in my book !! ..... I googled - Define Jihadists.... the definition came out as brainless fuckwits........to be fair didn't need google for that one
*[I hope when my youngest graduates and falls under the title of scientist, that she uses her self fulfilled talent to do something good for the human race, and not just do something because technology allows us to]
**Postscript: Since first posting this note the death toll has now been downgraded and put at 37 deaths.....37 too many fucking deaths in my book !! ..... I googled - Define Jihadists.... the definition came out as brainless fuckwits........to be fair didn't need google for that one
