Really, this is a perfectly valid point...

So, both Good Friday and Easter Monday are holidays here in the UK. At least for work it is, and I know that ASDA will be closed on Sunday, and probably Monday.... I don't care - I really just need a chance to relax a bit.

Anyway... You know what drives me nuts here in the UK? Mixer taps. Or rather, the fact that having a single faucet dispensing both hot and cold water at the same time is so rare that there has to be a special name for it... And it's poorly named because when you have a "mixer tap", as in the kitchen, you don't actually get "mixed" hot and cold water to get warm water - you get a stream of water that is hot on one side and cold on the other. The only time back home I can remember coming across someone's sink which had 2 faucets, one for hot water and one for cold, was my ex-boyfriend's Mom who lived in a really old house in Carrboro. I mean, built in like the 40's or 50's kind of old. But in the UK, this house we are living in is newer than my house back home. YET... The bathrooms have a hot water tap and a cold water tap. I don't understand how it could be THAT difficult to put in a normal type of Moen faucet that lets hot and cold water come out at the same time and be WARM water. There has to be something that I am missing... It can't be as simple as "it's always been this way, why change it".

Anyway... Going to fight my way through ASDA to stock up for this weekend.

I doubt that anyone has failed to hear by now that the G20 Summit is in London. It's one thing to peacefully protest, shout stupid slogans and regurgitated drivel, pretend to be self righteous, etc... (Because embracing expensive modern technology is anti-capitalist? Using a nylon tent – you do know that nylon is made from petroleum products? – in your fight against “big oil” is somehow ok?) But, then, people have to prove that they are nothing but idiots, spoiling for a fight, following mob rule... This poor moron can't even get the “Wunch of Bankers” joke right...

I AM a capitalist. I am not ashamed in the slightest of the fact that I enjoy my creature comforts. I miss my M5. I miss my real sized house. I miss the free cash I had when I lived in a country with a reasonable tax rate. I like stuff. I like techno-gadgets. I like being a capitalist. I will not apologize for it.

Do I have the slightest sympathy for the people who CHOSE to live the lives that they do? I am talking about those people who chose to be bike messengers or chose to be starving artists... If you have made a decision to do as little as you can, to rebel against everything and seek to destroy things that people have ACTUALLY WORKED HARD to achieve because you feel some injustice that has been done to by... who? The guy across from you on the train? Someone who worked harder than you? The government? Your parents? Some random god? Grow up. Get a fucking job. CONTRIBUTE to society! Stop whining and do something CONSTRUCTIVE!!!

Yes, I know people make bad choices. Yes, I know that bad things happen to good people. Yes, I know that life is unfair to a lot people. GET OVER IT. I've been through a lot of shit in my life. I made bad decisions, and good ones. Everyone has. Now, what you do at that point... THAT is what defines you as a person. Besides, these aren't the people I am complaining about...

Ok... End of my rant... I have nothing positive to say at this point. I don't understand the mindset. I can't understand it. And I am done trying.