PC Insanity

No, I am not referring to the wave of madness that grips you when your computer malfunctions but political correctness morphed from a blessed guard from the nauseating attitudes of the past to a pedantic scourge to terrify the outspoken into silence.
I am particularly referring to Diane Abbott who committed the cardinal sin of saying:-




Now this was in reply to Bim Adewunmi objecting to the lumping "the Black Community" into a homogenous whole "I do wish everyone would stop saying 'the black community' though. WHICH ONE?"

I believe Diane Abbot was only really guilty of generalization in respect of white people; ironic as that was pretty much what Bim Adewunmi was complaining about in respect of black people! To qualify as racism it should really have been pejorative - complaining about divide and rule tactics isn't really the same as calling all white people lazy, work shy or dirty. Nor is it anywhere approaching sticking on bed sheets and grabbing a rope. As a white person I am going to generalize now. White people need to cut comments like this a bit more slack because we should all still be writhing with guilt for the past for at least another 100 years.

No Fool. Like and Old Fool!

We decided to go away this New Years Eve - normally we are the NYE equivalents of Scrooge "I'm not paying THAT much to enjoy myself dagnabit!" But this year we booked up for a Murder Mystery Evening with the Killing Game, with a disco after. It was fantastic! I didn't get the murderer right (sigh and I am so good when its in a book or on TV!) but our table got on like a house on fire. I have even got to THAT age...the age where hotel discos play tunes from my youth cos I am that old. This resulted in a lot of excessive pogoing and skanking and yes, I was crippled the next day!

Needless to say it also involved a lot of drinking and eating as well so the next day we decided to be virtuous and walk some of it off. As we are National Trust members, we went to one of their properties, Baddesley Clinton. Oh the satisfaction of sailing past waving your membership cards knowing that you have already more than recouped the membership fee!

It was such an interesting house and the room guides were so friendly it took us nearly 2 hours to get round it - and it really is pretty small! Its not getting on but we don't feel we have had a "proper" walk to blow the cobwebs off so we decide to do the nature trail too as its the shorter of the two walks there - 45 min. So off we head following little green National trust signs..or so we thought. We didn't notice anything awry when the going got rather Herculean for a NT ramble...after all it had been raining...we didn't suspect anything, although the walk was not showing signs of being anything but circular..ok we did worry a bit when we were sent down a road...but it was only after an hour when we should have been back at the house that we double checked the green signs to find we had actually wandered off on the Heart of England walk and god only knows where that was going to end! We turned back the way we came, by now somewhat knackered and with the light fading and struggled back to the car. Needless to say I was stiff as a board the next day!


The end result is that I am still waddling ...sigh. No fool like an old fool eh?