Well, so, a couple of things that have been driving me nuts now for a while. The obvious one is the ramming down our throats of the need to get a jab. Relentless, which as and of itself, tells me there’s something not quite right going on. The other stuff filling the airwaves is closed schools and kids education. You had enough of hearing how it’s causing the poor little darlings mental anguish and depression?
I cast my mind back to my school days and imagine my folks receiving a letter stating the school won’t be opening after the Christmas holiday and relaying this shocking news to me. The only mental problems this would prompt in me, and all the other kids, would’ve been a severe case of euphoria and utter joy. Can’t see your friends? You jest; every house had doors and windows in those days and well known meeting places out in the ‘wild’. Laptop not required by-the-by...
So I ask myself, other than the kids who’ve been pumped-up and primed as to wot to say for the cameras, how many kids are there wot really, really, want to get back to school? Unless there’s been some spooky change in kids heads, no great number I’m guessing.
The other ‘humanitarian crisis’ I spotted was this so, so sad bit about seamen... sorry, sea-people having to spend extra time away because of co-co. How I laughed as, once again, I cast my mind back – and I have to be careful doing that as there’s always the chance it won’t come back – to the days, as I’m sure I’ve typed about before, when you signed on a ship for two years and could only request to be paid-off if the ship docked in a UK or European port after six months. Us apprentices were there a whole lot longer. My longest trip, I seem to remember was fourteen months and I had one friend who completed his four year apprenticeship on one ship, one trip tramping round the Far East and Asia. Left home at age 16, got home at age 20 Guess wot, no complaints, no ‘how unfair’ news coverage and none of us went nuts...
And right up to date, I got a Christmas greeting from an old oilfield buddy, saying how he went to work, offshore Africa, in January 2020 for his twenty eight days on, and owing to co-co, finally got home September 2020. Did he get a shedload of time off? Hell no, twenty eight days off and back to Africa...
You’ll understand why I’m not wracked with heart wrenching sadness and pity regards the junk the ‘news outlets’ are relentlessly pumping in our direction.
School quotes?
Quote; Bill Watterson.
“You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.”
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