Apologies if I’m waaaay behind the curve on this one, but thanks to David Hepworth on this week’s Word Magazine podcast for drawing my attention to the fantastic blog Stuff White People Like.
Basically taking the right royal piss out of white middle class Americans (but very, very relevant to us Brits, as well), it alights on subjects such as: White Problems: their children drink wine?, having black friends and (very pertinent this one) marathons.
Very, very funny and very, very accurate!
In case you’ve missed it, and you wouldn’t be alone in dozing off, Gordon Brown is currently in America glad-handing Dubya and all three of the potential next Presidents of the United States, ie Obama, Hillary and the one who’s part of the chip company.
Now, I think we’re all agreed on the fact Gordy isn’t Tony Blair. He’s cut from a different cloth and, let’s fact it, is in politics to do good for people, rather than get his face in the newspapers and on TV.
The thing is, for all the carping that goes on, you’d think that Gordon Brown should actually be pretending to host Strictly Come Dancing, rather than run the country.
Labour peer Lord Desai (who?) has attacked the current Prime Minister thus:
“Blair was like champagne and caviar. Brown is more like porridge or haggis. He is solid, very nourishing but not exciting.”
Apart from the fact that he’s stretched that metaphor to its very limits, it also begs the question why should Gordon Brown be “exciting”?
He’s looking after the country, not a flipping theme park.
It simply proves that most people think we need a leader who acts in the style of Richard Branson, rather than one who actually knows what he’s doing.
I’m sure you’re not bothered, Gordon, but you’re doing fine from where I’m sitting!
We got take-out pizza this evening from none other than Domino’s Pizza and I was mildly disturbed by their new ‘pledge’.
They proudly proclaim the provenance of their ingredients, as if it were a selling point. Apparently, their mozzarella comes from Wales, their hot peppers from Peru, their tomatoes from Portugal and their pineapple from Thailand.
Now, I don’t know about you, but that kinda weirds me out a little. I know that Domino’s are hardly a smalltime concern, but it would be lovely to think that they were thinking about food miles just a little bit.
I can’t believe that Peru is the closest place in the world that grows hot peppers and pineapples all the way from Thailand.
Possibly most laughable is the fact they make a traditionally Italian cheese in the principality.
Anyway, whatever the provenance, the taste was actually pretty good, so I guess I shouldn’t complain too much.
