I like it when they listen

I just happened to pass comment to Gizmo this afternoon that if he brought me one more mouse, that'd be ten for the year which would be far more tidy, stats wise. Then I sat down with a glass of wine and watched the motorcycle road racing from Northern Island and promptly fell asleep. Woke up to a fresh kill on the carpet, and of the right kind too. Sometimes I think we underestimate our pets !!!! Oh, speaking of such things, followers of the Pirates of the Caribbean films can breath easy, upon closer examination the corpse on the floor earlier in the week was less Jack Sparrow than Tit, either a Blue one or a Great one – it’s hard to tell. Thinking about it though, either option is bad news for those who like to preserve the memory of the late Anna Nichole Smith.

Took a stroll down to the seafront an evening or so back; had reason to spend some time in the arcades. Not my sort of place at all really, and not where you go to see the best of humanity. Apart from being one of the most blatant examples of "here's where you go to get completely ripped off, spend loads of money on no-chance gambling to win dick all and kid yourself it's a quality entertainment experience", here's a couple of things I really don’t like about people at the seaside:

I didn't much like the sight of the big eyed toddler girl stumbling about on her own watching other kids on the dancing game, while her drone like mum was on remote control, shoving money into the fruit machines oblivious to all.

And I didn't much like the eight year old playing with the point and shoot gun games, especially when the game in question was House of the Dead 4, which I know for a fact is an 18 in cartridge form. I'm as pro gun as the next Charlton Heston; I know damn well the pistol ban was nothing to do with public safety but all to do the lowest form of domestic British politics. However I don't like the military-industrial complex, and what suspiciously looks like the militarisation of society since the second world war. And I'm wondering what the agenda actually IS behind having gun games like this to influence children to believe that armed response is an acceptable response to a problem. Is it just entertainment? Or is it conditioning? ANYHOOOO! An eight year old standing there on his own, looking lost and slightly bored in a world of strangers with a plastic MiniUzi in his hand while his drone like parents shove money into the fruit.... ah there's a theme building here isn't there.... hypocritical as it seems for a self confessed Gun Bunny, bothers the hell out of me!!!

On the subject of other stuff, those Honda engines are tough little bastards, aren't they. The Hellbound Christine wsa still staggering along earlier, although I think she may finally have coughed her last. The radiator's let go, but it still won't drop. I may even have found in my heart a little admiration at the end of the game!