It's obvious (so why is it happening?)

It may be obvious but V for Vendetta (out in local cinemas now) is more than a bit relevant as the National Identity Register (spun to us proles as the ID Card Scheme) is pushed into compulsion. Thank goodness for the Lords.

When cattle and sheep are branded it's not for the cattle's benefit...

Open jawed admiration

I'm slobbed out on my sofa watching the Commonwealth games - the gymnastics section.

And the commentator just said "a fairly basic routine"

What?!!!

She just did a double flippy thing, jumped off the bouncy thing onto the horsey thing, another flippy thing, landed square on her feet and did it all in 3.2 nanoseconds!

"Fairly basic"!!!!

Then there's the girls doing 100 foot leaps and twists while standing on, what seems to me, a piece of wood the width of a matchstick...

Followed by the "uneven bars" where the athelete held a handstand on one bar followed by a swing down and flies to the other bar straight into another handstand.

"Good extension on the arms"

WHAT?! "Good extension on the arms"! Is that the best you can say?

These people live on another planet :-)

What do your kids play?

[Warning: this is a number 2 rant]

I'm currently watching Question Time on BBC1 and they're still going on about the inequaltiy of pay between men and women.

Will Self just made the excellent point that perhaps instead of women trying to earn as much as men, men should work less and earn as much as women....

Then another anonymous talking politician tried to score a few points about how this is a big injustice etc. etc. blah blah blah

But they all miss the point!

Executive jobs, where the big money is, is a harsh and nasty business. Dog eat dog. Ego wins. Etc. etc.

But let's think back to when you were in school... what games did you play?

Boys played football, to cries of "get in there!", "kill!", "get the ball", "go on, score"

Girls played netball where as soon as you get the ball you have to stand very, very still and give it away.

Hmmm

Now it's all very well saying that that top jobs should be more touchy-feely and generous, but they're just not! Get used to it.

Drop netball, get girls to play football and wait 20 years. That's all you need to do to equalise pay!

Sorted.