May 25, 2010

The Queen’s Speech

Today was the day of the Queen’s speech where she outlines the bills to be put forward in the new parliament.

Amongst them was a bill to scrap biometric passports, identity cards (hooray!) and limit the data that can be held about an individual.

I have a plan to take this even further: no personal data of any kind can be held about a person, BUT everyone must wear a T-Shirt proclaiming one embarrassing aspect of their views or past. For example:

“Evolution denier”

“Second cousin of G.W. Bush”

“Believes in fairies”

“Doesn’t like black people” (see how long the person wearing that one lasts…)

“Supported the war in Iraq”

“Cannot wee in the presence of others”

In addition to giving us all a good laugh, I believe this will help to bring us together as people. At the least it’s a lot more interesting than most of the proposals in the Queen’s speech, anyway.

komakino @ 1:20 pm

March 7, 2009

Failure to grasp the bigger picture

Last night me and Mom were at home watching TV when the phone rang. It being half past midnight I said that it was probably my Brother as no one else would call so late.

I was right: he was calling to say he’d crashed his car and could we go and pick him up.

So about 45 minutes later we get there and my Brother is standing by his car. As we pull up and the headlights shine on him it’s instantly apparent that he’s broken a side light, crushed the wheel arch, broken the steering and punctured a tyre. My Brother is looking clearly shaken and a small tree is lying near by that has clearly been uprooted by his car.

First thing Mom says when we get out of the car is, “You’ve lost a hub cap at the front”.

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