But
anyway, here's the comments of one of the parents who lost a child in
the Sandy Hook shootings. His
view is that “A sane
man's contempt for the United States Senate must now be certain and
complete.” Which is a bit silly, as it implies there are no sane
men in the NRA. And it doesn't put me in a good light either. But,
hey, I'll let you judge for yourselves. I'll just finish with this
statistic of the number of people killed by guns in the USA in the
four months since the Sandy Hook tragedy:- 3,500. Makes you think.
None of these would have happened, I venture to say, if all the
victims had been encased in protective armour
They
say that nothing much has come out of Liverpool since the Beatles.
But this is obviously calumnious nonsense as, even recently, we had
the famous “Scouse brow”. Fast in its footsteps we have
“titooing”, which, as you may have guessed, is the tattoing of
one's nipples. I say 'one's' but at this point the technique appears
to be confined to the fair sex. It's “a process which originated as
a medical procedure for breast reconstruction but now serves as a
cosmetic procedure for women to darken, enlarge and define their
nipples and the surrounding areola. The semi-permanent treatment
gives them their 'perfect nipples' and can last a life-time with
regular top-ups.” Which can only be good news. And more evidence of
(wo)man's essential insanity. For this we poor men lived through four
phases of feminism?
I
don't look Spanish, I'm told. Nor Galician. I mention this because,
when buying my ticket from Vigo to Pontevedra yesterday, the guy at
the counter volunteered the time of the next train as “Dez e oito
con dez e oito”. When I said I didn't understand, he said it again.
When I said I still didn't understand, he changed it to “Diez y
ocho con diez y ocho”. Or 18.18. In retrospect, I then recognised
the Galician version but I've not figured out why the guy used it not
just once but twice. Perhaps he's a Galician Nationalist. They do
exist and one or two of them are a tad violent. But, if so, it'd be
odd he was prepared to switch to Castellano. Perhaps only for
a guiri.
By
rather a great coincidence, there's a letter in today's El
Pais which touches on several of
this week's themes. The writer says that he accepted being fined 100
euros for crossing a line on a roundabout and he understood that the
police didn't want to stop him and and so interrupt the traffic flow.
But what was hard to take was the letter arriving three months later
which informed him he'd been fined 600 euros for not giving his name.
To be followed by another letter some time later telling him this had
risen 754 euros to cover police costs. An expensive roundabout. The
writer asked whether this was anything other than theft. Well, it
could be, I suppose. But I prefer to see it, as I've said, as a
variable road tax. I mean, to think otherwise would be to suggest the
Guardia Civil would stoop to state-institutionalised robbery. Surely
not.
Meanwhile,
I must now wait to see whether I get a further 600 euro fine for not
giving my name as I drove along the motorway to Málaga with a police
car next to me. Presumably by shouting it through the window.
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