WOMEN!!!!!!!!!

There was this trendy alternative French* couple going down to the train when I went to work just now, he with long bunched-up dreadlocks, she a bit older, thin as a rake, and with harem pants, carrying backpacks. The usual 'globalised anti-globaliser' type people, you know the kind I mean?

When I came down to the platform, I saw them again, having some sort of drama with the train going to the airport. He was inside, she was outside holding on to the door, pleading toward the front of the train where the driver had stuck his head out, and two big burly uniformed guards were coming.

'Uh-oh,' I thought, 'he caught the train, she didn't, and he doesn't know our trains well enough to stand in the door and block it until she'd have caught up.'

The guards had almost reached her when the door-button went green again
to indicate it would open. She finally noticed, pressed it, there was her bloke, and she---

--- leaned in and snogged him.

Then, she stepped back, the doors closed, the train left, she waved madly (the guards all the time lingering to see whether she would do more random things, for which I don't blame them at all), and then, she proudly went up the escalator again.

I stood there, cursing quietly, going 'WOMEN!!!' and 'Fuck me in chocolate, I did not just see this!!' in utter consternation.

WTF?? This woman just stopped the train to the airport for what, for one more last kiss?

There are women who think that their emotions are more important than an entire trainful of people catching their planes? And who actually act on that incredibly distorted perception of reality?

To say nothing of 'straight privilege'. Let me not even start opening that particular can of worms.

Fuck them all.-



*I had heard them talk; she had said 'extrèmement' in quite a sharp tone of voice when they passed, so I guess she was issuing instructions.

Apple crates

Stephen Fry about Apple haters and Apple lovers.

Quote:

"Otherwise funny and sane people [...] have taken up anti-Apple stances as a matter of style. ‘People who like Apple are pretentious and style conscious, so I will never ever have one,’ the argument goes, if I can call it an argument, and obviously I can’t, because it isn’t an argument it’s just a dumb and slightly mad assertion. After all, how style conscious do you have to be to refuse to be seen dead in anything so fashionable. Huh? I mean huh?"