Blog: The Things I've Seen

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Yesterday, as i walked into work, i saw a HELICOPTER. Not a boring ordinary Police Helicopter, pretending to chase someone but actually just out for a lark, oh no - this was a REAL helicopter, and it was trying to LAND! In the middle of LONDON!

It was very exciting anyway, until everybody, individually, as they walked down the street, thought "Ooh, hang on - what if it's a TERRORIST?" I mean, i'm not sure exactly what a terrorist would hope to achieve from twatting about in the morning air, but then who knows what goes on in the minds of these fiends eh? It was just a demonstration of the Mood Of The Times, i guess, that everything we see at the minute that we don't quite understand is LOADED with CONNOTATIONS.

That said, i continue to REMARK upon the difference between The London On Telly and The London I Now Live In. For instance, in the pub last night with my Dad, i kept seeing news footage over his shoulder on the big screen (and by the way, what on earth is the point of that? Does anybody specifically GO to the pub for the Big Screen Silent News? Are there enough short-sighted lip reading alcoholics to make this a money spinner?) of TANKS and SOLDIERS, and headlines saying "London Under Siege!" but it doesn't feel like that at all. It feels a bit DOOM LADEN but that's only because i know that it's going to take me HOURS to get home - 2 hours last night!! OK, i was tiddly, but still.

Meanwhile, re. Perceptions Of That London, i read an interview with Norman Tebbit where, HILARIOUSLY, the vile old Nazi thought he was being "clever" by saying he played "spot the Brit" when he was on the underground. Twat. What annoys me about these evil old bastards is not so much the utter inner NASTINESS of them, but the fact that they can get away with being SO stupid without being challenged. If i was interviewing the ghastly old shite I might have gently pointed out that MAYBE the reason it seemed to him there were a lot of heinous non-Brits around on the underground was because he MAYBE spent most of his time going to Westminster and the like, where the economy his ilk did so much to destroy gets a bit of help from the millions of TOURISTS who go there every year. And Tourists are usually from ABROAD, for goodness sakes.

It right annoyed me, it did. Grr!

posted 12/2/2003 by MJ Hibbett

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