The Damaged

It’s happened to me too many times to count. I’ll be sitting there on the bus one minute, off in a dream-world where the UK is hot all year-round and pigeons poop out fresh fifty pound notes, and the next I’ll hear a “Will you please shut-up you little es haych eye tee? If you don’t you’ll get it!”

Then the dream-world vanishes. I look up and see a very angry mother. From the way she’s staring at all us bus-sitter-oners it’s seriously feels like we might all crack and break.

And nobody stands up and speaks, that’s the really messed-up part. The woman will continue to scream at the child and the child will either a) cry or b) scream back. After a while we all become numb to this and it becomes a joke to the passengers. You start to hear “Oh dear, someone’s upset” and “Well, she obviously got out of the wrong side of bed!”

It’s a Comedy show, basically.

Only nothing about this ef you see kay ed up situation is funny. In fact, it’s downright disturbing. And you can literally hear the thoughts move and form and see them materialize right there in front of you. They say things like she should have that child taken away and she’s not fit to be a mother.

They are my thoughts, of course. Don’t be daft, I can’t read anyone else’s.

And it’s a serious problem in society. When do you stand up and say “this is not right!”?

We all have our favourite home pages. For some of us it’s the BBC News. For others it’s Google. But how many of us can say, hand on our heart, that our favourite home-page is an energy-saving one? Indeed, how many of us, when looking through our browsing history, can find any trace of energy-saving web-sites?

Hmm, I think you catch my drift. You can stop going red now, don’t worry, you’re not alone on that (even I have been Read more…

Walking is so under-rated. People are too busy thinking about skin care treatments to marvel at the thing they need to do to get to stores who sell these treatments. Never has there been such a fantastic thing. I mean, it’s ingenious. I imagine the first time anyone (a human being type Neanderthal man, that is) walked it went something like this: (grunts translated for easy reading.)

Man 1: “Ugh, we need to get to that boulder. Over there.”

Man Read more…

I am not a parent or obse but I can understand why a parent would smack a child, just the same as I can understand why some people use weight loss treatments. Children can, after all, be very, very annoying. I can even remember being smacked as an annoying child myself, a memory which by rights shouldn’t be accessible (I can barely remember what I had for dinner yesterday, let alone what happened all those years ago) but is Read more…

I think I must be. I fear that is the only explantion for the horror-story you are about to read. Something worrying happened to me the other day which almost makes me laugh–if I didn’t laugh then I’d cry–

I had been watching a TV show about Newport property, then I was watching a popular TV soap concerning not the West End of London, but another. Unusual for me, but I was getting in to it. Then, the next Read more…

An incredible finale to the 2010 Vancouver games saw Canada deliver the holy grail to the home of hockey: the Winter Olympics gold medal, and after the most thrilling of climaxes I would suggest that the fans deserve the medal nearly as much as the heroes out on the ice.

Team Canada came into the competition more in hope than expectation. Yes, they had the historical triumphs to inspire them and home advantage but many pundits had them down as Read more…

These digital photo frames may no longer be the newest of ideas, but they are still an absolute must-have. Using one of these is a thousand times easier than keeping all your pictures in gimungous albums. And when you have a digital frame on your shelf there is always something interesting to look at in your front room!

They are so easy to use as well. When it comes to transferring your photographs onto the frame, you simply need to Read more…

The Addams family is a classic film. It’s got everything you want, if you’re into that kind of thing: comedy, horror, and enough make-up to sink a regular sized-battle ship.

And then we have The Munsters–A similar kind of thing; and maybe that’d also make a great movie, but is there really room for both? The following post discusses just that, and the debate is set to continue for some time to come, what with the 00s being the Read more…

The word Remake never used to make me tense up and frown and shout about. I don’t recall exactly when it started to happen, but in the last few years it’s been happening a lot more. And it just happened again when I read this.

For me, The Wicker Man—featuring Nicholas Cage, carved out of wood, in an acting-style cringe-worthy kind of a way, that is—tops the list as far as films which should have been left well and Read more…

Why it is that some people are bullies? Maybe they were picked-on themselves or is it simply because they are not very nice people?

Bullying has always gone on to a certain degree and it probably always will. The most popular territory for it is at school or in the workplace, but it can basically take place anywhere.

When I walked into town last night I saw a kid being picked-on in the market place. He wasn’t very tall and Read more…