The girl does comments

As an experiment in freeform creativity I thought I would look at all the comments I posted yesterday, and during the day today to see if there was any coherence.

1. That I wouldn't agree with. People are just more complex than that. Some people go into the military to learn a trade (or get a job). Others are attracted by the uniforms and marching bands. Others because it's a family tadition or a childhood ambition. Many many more believe it is worthier to defend their country, or participate in peace-keeping missions, or help out in civil emergencies than to screw people out of their money in some city job.

   Some of the reasons are rational, some are not. But Big Badger has analysed her/his susceptibility to propaganda, with which I can identify. How much more susceptible are 16 or 18 yr-olds, or whatever? I don't suppose many of the serving troops ever thought they would be fighting this sort of war, with this poor level of national support, at the bidding and mercy of this sort of so-called allies for these sorts of spurious excuses.



2. I'm sure I was reading a conversation about coats and Vitamin E on another blog.

   But I couldn't have been, could I. Because it's on this blog. I must be going mad.

   I'll take some Vitamin E and get me coat.



3. I'm reading this at work on IE4 (we get 5.5 in May. I can hardly wait.). So Stylesheets are not us.

   I can't really go round the blogosphere demanding sites designed to look beautiful in IE 4 seeing as though my employer is the only place in the entire known universe still using IE 4. And I'm nt supposed to surf personal websites at work!



4. I think both sound like stress, and are highly reversible.

   I had a strange one on holiday. I hardly had a chance for any caffeine during the day, and at five o'clock, having been up for thirteen hours, I had two espressos, fast (as one should). for the next two hours the left side of my face felt paralysed and I lost some peripheral vision.



5. Agreeance isn't in my (rubbish) Chambers dictionary, but in looking for it I foundanapaest, a foot consisting of two short syllables before a long, the reverse of dactyl.

   A bit waaaaay off topic!



6. Aaaaagh gap between 'found' and 'anapaest'


7. The only one I remember was Wendy James. It used to cause rows in my student house becaus eit clashed with Home and Away. When Home and Away was new and innovative.


8. Oh, yes, the political figures one was shown during the 1992 Election. I stil have a videotape at home. (I thought that the result would be other than it was so I taped loads of programmes as an archive; then I couldn't face getting rid of the tape because it concluded various nonentities that I vaguely know).

   If I remember I might dig it out at some time.



9. Non-London readers Good grief, Meg! Are you sure that they actually have the Worldwide web outside London?


10. I'm in a Dr Marten sandal mood today, which would go nicely with a cup of Assam tea.

    Thank you.



11. You're now advertising IT, financial and management training. Intriguing
12. Brown = Bottom Right; Blue = Bottom Left

    (how to annoy a man...!)



13. More erudite analysis from the Great British Tabloid Reading public.

    Completely off message but you know you're now advertising dating services?



14. I meant off topic, didn't I?


15. I saw an advert on the station saying "Put your Fiances in their place".

    Strange, I thought. He knows his place. I then realised it said "Finances."

    But it had a feather-logo-thing above it, like an accent. So I thought it said Fiance. Easy mistake to make when the letters are only, you know, about twenty foot tall.



16. I'll have a blue left shoe and a brown right shoe, please as an homage to how I once went to work.


17. Five bloody weekends in the month.


18. My suggestion is that if you publish your photos you will become a lot more self-critical, and as you'll be looking at them conscious of the perhaps-critical public, and that will make you improve.


19. Barbies on top of computer?

    Note to self: acquire



20. That was me.

    No cookies are left in this computer overnight.



21. I read this entry, understanding the difference between cool and uncool; understanding the middle ground between not-to-cool and not-cool, but interesting. I even knew where to place myself.

    So I was shocked (and awed) to read the word hierarchy. I was visulaising a spectrum. Definitely a spectrum.

    I went to an all-girls RC convent grammar school.



22. I had to go for a scan and despite my best efforts I wasn't full enough. So I had to empty my bladder and then have an internal scan, which showed some truly gorgeous (no sarcasm) pictures of m yovaries.

No coherence then, then.