Thursday, March 06, 2008
What's up with the news?
I read the news the other day and must say that it seems the people on this planet are slowly but surely becoming more or less crazy. When I was a kid the news revolved around Reagan and Gorby kissing each other Soviet style while keeping one finger on the red button, you know, just in case the kiss turned sour. Now that was a proper love/hate relationship if there ever was one.
Hey, what am I saying? People have always been more or less wacko, at least according to the news. Just as I wrote this, I remembered a newspaper from circa 1938 that a friend of mine found inside the walls of her house when she diligently renovated her crib. One of the stories, as I recall, was on a couple in Hungary where the wife had become a wee bit overfriendly with a member of the opposite sex- not her husband mind you. The hubby had done the only "rational" thing in the situation and chopped her nose off, just to let her know that he wasn't A-OK with her behaviour.
To be honest, I think that a plain: "Hey, wifey, cheating ain't cool and therefore I'm divorcing you" would have been more appropriate, but according to the newspaper the wife was thrilled with being noseless. She said something like: "Yup, cheating's been a real Achilles heel for me in the past and cheating on my nose-chopping hubby ain't right. Now, I'm seriously disfigured and can't cheat on my guy anymore, so it's all good". And they lived happily ever after...
However, I started thinking about all this stuff because I was reading the newspapers the other day and saw two stories that made the wacko alarm go off.
One, was on 600,000 people in New Zealand that signed some sort of list requesting that the government allowed them to spank their kids for "educational" purposes. Really, if you have to beat up your kids to teach them how to behave, then you shouldn't have become a parent in the first place.
The other article in the newspaper that caught my attention was on a Swedish bike lover. Yes, yet again a man was caught doing unspeakable things to a lady's bike. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know what the penalty is for dating a bike, but it's interesting nonetheless.
A friend of mine asked me the other day where she could meet single men. At the time I couldn't really answer her question. Apart from the obvious places such as bars and AA meetings (which she incidentally frowned upon: You don't meet nice blokes in bars and an alcoholic in recovery just doesn't fit her profile of the perfect man) so I was totally blank. Where the hell does one meet single men?
After reading the news I think I could give her pointers on where to meet single men...at the bike shop of course!That is, if it's not generally acknowledged that a man who's dating a Raleigh bike is "taken". But then again, wouldn't a single girl not rather stay single than date a bike enthusiast?
