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This is Not America
Feb. 3rd, 2003 05:57 pmWell, this has been one of those days...
When I got into work this morning, I found this whole massive stack of verified reports waiting for me. I spent a good three hours going through them and clearing the reports stacked up on the shelves allocated to my completed work. Unfortunately, while I was doing that, the uncompleted work piled up and up and up... God, and I'm going on holiday soon. I hate to think what the backlog will be like when I come back.
In other news, I'm feeling particularly anti-American today. Front page of the Metro, and several pages inside, go into detail about the Columbia break-up. Whereas there's this teensy bit on page 2 about how the UK will use nuclear armaments against Iraq if it feels justified. Also in there were little blurbs about such diverse elements as the firemen's pay dispute still going on, which means that if the strike action continues, at least 22 Underground stations around London will be shut down on and off for Christ only knows how long. And the rail people are taking a cue from the firemen -- if they don't get some obscene and unreasonable pay increase, they will also go on strike, finishing the job of fucking with the commuters -- as if the firemen's strikes and the Central and Waterloo & City Lines being shut down for another two weeks at least hadn't done that job well enough already. And of course, the requisite fuckload of news about Hollywood stars that most people shouldn't give a shit about anyway.
I'm not sure what's worse -- living in a world where Michael Jackson's fucked-up past takes precedent over Operation Desert Vietnam, or living in a world where most of the people are actually sheep. Or maybe it's that no one gives a good goddamn about anyplace but America. Safety experts in NASA get sacked and everyone goes nuts. The LU hires incompetent bozos and no one cares. And the death toll that could result when incompetence happens on the Tube is one fuck of a lot higher. But no one bloody cares. I swear, England could just blow up and no one'd give much of a damn. So it's amazing that anyone gives a shit what goes on in Iraq... Oh. Wait. It's got oil. Of course they care. If Kuwait hadn't had oil, Operation Desert Storm would never have happened.
Bah. Fucking. Humbug.
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When I got into work this morning, I found this whole massive stack of verified reports waiting for me. I spent a good three hours going through them and clearing the reports stacked up on the shelves allocated to my completed work. Unfortunately, while I was doing that, the uncompleted work piled up and up and up... God, and I'm going on holiday soon. I hate to think what the backlog will be like when I come back.
In other news, I'm feeling particularly anti-American today. Front page of the Metro, and several pages inside, go into detail about the Columbia break-up. Whereas there's this teensy bit on page 2 about how the UK will use nuclear armaments against Iraq if it feels justified. Also in there were little blurbs about such diverse elements as the firemen's pay dispute still going on, which means that if the strike action continues, at least 22 Underground stations around London will be shut down on and off for Christ only knows how long. And the rail people are taking a cue from the firemen -- if they don't get some obscene and unreasonable pay increase, they will also go on strike, finishing the job of fucking with the commuters -- as if the firemen's strikes and the Central and Waterloo & City Lines being shut down for another two weeks at least hadn't done that job well enough already. And of course, the requisite fuckload of news about Hollywood stars that most people shouldn't give a shit about anyway.
I'm not sure what's worse -- living in a world where Michael Jackson's fucked-up past takes precedent over Operation Desert Vietnam, or living in a world where most of the people are actually sheep. Or maybe it's that no one gives a good goddamn about anyplace but America. Safety experts in NASA get sacked and everyone goes nuts. The LU hires incompetent bozos and no one cares. And the death toll that could result when incompetence happens on the Tube is one fuck of a lot higher. But no one bloody cares. I swear, England could just blow up and no one'd give much of a damn. So it's amazing that anyone gives a shit what goes on in Iraq... Oh. Wait. It's got oil. Of course they care. If Kuwait hadn't had oil, Operation Desert Storm would never have happened.
Bah. Fucking. Humbug.
Thess
