Everything Burns.
Sep. 21st, 2006 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keire_keIt wasn't a very good day. x___X It it start as early as it usually does when I get back to Uni (which is 4 am, since the cheap airlines insist that 6 am is the proper time for a flight to set off), but at 7 am. So a reasonably normal hour.
Only, I woke up with severe stomach pain. I don't know what caused it, since it was my stomach aching, not lower abdomen, but it was bad enough to make me want to curl up and not get up. It lasted all day long, joy of joys, including the flight and the travel from Gatwick to the other end of London. At least I didn't have that many changes; got in at the airport, changed at King's Cross, the tube, then a short bus ride and I could finally drop dead in a bed.
On the bright side, met a nice girl at the check-in desk in Krakow, so had someone to laugh with at the new procedures. For the first time ever had my hand luggage (laptop case) searched, and what a relief my favourite drawing folder was empty - I can only imagine the face of the guy who was doing the searching if I had any of my more interesting pictures in it. *grins* Though they did make the girl throw out her lipstick. Only allowed her to keep one. Of course there was a delay, since every piece of hand luggage had to be searched. About an hour, altogether. *sulks*
All of this (including the no liquids/gels/paste policy) was, of course, a direct result of the recent terrorist near-attacks. It was quite amusing, if it wasn't for my stupid tummy. All these years of reading about being searched on-flights finally paid off!
Alright, I get that someone might not like the establishment/current major religion/the government/whatever. Opinion noted. I'm not a big fan of my own government. Seriously, not only poultry, but cloned poultry is ruling my country, aligned with uber-Catholic Frankenstein who's currently the Minister for Education.
The point I'm trying to make here is: there is a reason we selected some people to represent us on the global scale. The President is there to provide a convenient target for your vengence/amusement, because I might be amusing, but as Jeremy Clarkson pointed out we need something more widely known than poor ol' me. We sure as hell didn't select them basing on their ability to govern (because we had no means of testing said ability), or their smarts (intelligent some of them might be, but smarts is what they lack), or their good looks (ducks, is all I have to say). We voted for them because we need someone up on top of the stairs, acting as the target. They have a bunch of people being paid good money to keep them safe, something the majority of people don't and will never have.
No offence to the Presidents of the world, Michael Moore be damned, I do think we need them, if only to point and laugh.
Only, I woke up with severe stomach pain. I don't know what caused it, since it was my stomach aching, not lower abdomen, but it was bad enough to make me want to curl up and not get up. It lasted all day long, joy of joys, including the flight and the travel from Gatwick to the other end of London. At least I didn't have that many changes; got in at the airport, changed at King's Cross, the tube, then a short bus ride and I could finally drop dead in a bed.
On the bright side, met a nice girl at the check-in desk in Krakow, so had someone to laugh with at the new procedures. For the first time ever had my hand luggage (laptop case) searched, and what a relief my favourite drawing folder was empty - I can only imagine the face of the guy who was doing the searching if I had any of my more interesting pictures in it. *grins* Though they did make the girl throw out her lipstick. Only allowed her to keep one. Of course there was a delay, since every piece of hand luggage had to be searched. About an hour, altogether. *sulks*
All of this (including the no liquids/gels/paste policy) was, of course, a direct result of the recent terrorist near-attacks. It was quite amusing, if it wasn't for my stupid tummy. All these years of reading about being searched on-flights finally paid off!
Alright, I get that someone might not like the establishment/current major religion/the government/whatever. Opinion noted. I'm not a big fan of my own government. Seriously, not only poultry, but cloned poultry is ruling my country, aligned with uber-Catholic Frankenstein who's currently the Minister for Education.
The point I'm trying to make here is: there is a reason we selected some people to represent us on the global scale. The President is there to provide a convenient target for your vengence/amusement, because I might be amusing, but as Jeremy Clarkson pointed out we need something more widely known than poor ol' me. We sure as hell didn't select them basing on their ability to govern (because we had no means of testing said ability), or their smarts (intelligent some of them might be, but smarts is what they lack), or their good looks (ducks, is all I have to say). We voted for them because we need someone up on top of the stairs, acting as the target. They have a bunch of people being paid good money to keep them safe, something the majority of people don't and will never have.
No offence to the Presidents of the world, Michael Moore be damned, I do think we need them, if only to point and laugh.
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