Ridiculous World

The eagle eyed film buff will no doubt recognise this scene from 'Apocalypse Now'.

I use it by way of illustration that the entire world is madder than Johnny Depp now.

A simple scroll down any news site should be enough to trigger a frenzied wave of island buying.

1. Girl 12, stabbed to death.

2. Mild mannered Eugene Terreblanche hacked to death over money row.

3. Teen Stabbed to death in Dublin.

4. U.S. girl sues for $1m after writing I love my friends on school desk, and trailed out in handcuffs

5. Four horsemen laid off in apocalypse redundancies.

6. Cowardly lion regrets comments condemning church over child abuse.

7. Couple arrested for kissing in public in Dubai.

8. Compulsory sex tests to be taken in all B&B's to avoid sneaky same sex rumpy.

There are literally thousands of other ridiculous things happening in the world.

As George sang,

'It's all too much'.

Christmas Shopping

I woke around 1.30am and went downstairs to check if my virtual wages had been deposited in my symbolic interactionism bank.

They had.

Off we drove, bleary eyed and arrived at the mother and father of all capitalism.

One slight kerfuffle was the licensing laws, which prevented us from getting any booze.

That aside and a large amount of money later, we could now bask in the knowledge that should the four horsemen of the apocalypse arrive on Christmas, we could at least give them a mince pie.