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30 - A Tiny Wee Problem |
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20/08/07
When in Rome, Do as the Vandals Do... |
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I'm a twenty-six year old man, making jokes about wee.
Do you think my parents are proud of me?
Mind you, I'm not entirely uncultured. When I'm not
being amused by bodily functions, I like to read about
ancient civilisations, and I'm especially interested in
pre-Roman Britain. The place that's been at the top of
my must-visit list for some time is Skara Brae, a
surprisingly well-preserved Neolithic settlement in the
Orkney Islands. Now, I'll grant you that many ancient
ruins are a little, shall we say, on the crappy side,
but Skara Brae is something else. The houses are built
from stone: most settlements of that era were made from
wood, but Orkney has hardly any trees. The houses have
indoor toilets and a sewage system. Yep, a sewage
system. And these things were built in something like
3000 BC. The popular perception of pre-Roman Britons is
that they were little more than cavemen, so I consider
Skara Brae to be truly awesome stuff. And so, I was more
than a little saddened when I heard about
this. As if the graffiti thing wasn't bad enough,
the chief suspect in the case is a fellow Liverpudlian.
As if we weren't seen as uncultured enough already,
here's another Scouser in the public eye, metaphorically
weeing up against the side of civilisation. And it's
only funny when cute animals wee up the side of things.
If you'd like to know more about Skara Brae, then
Wikipedia have a
fairly
mediocre article on the subject. I was actually
tempted to edit the article in order to make the part
mentioning the vandalism seem less sanctimonious, but
it's been my experience that trying to make Wikipedia
less sanctimonious is a task akin to trying to edit the
right-wing stuff out of Mein Kampf. My relationship with
Wikipedia is the same as my relationship with public
transport: I use it a lot, and it's a fantastic idea in
principle, but it's often a frustrating experience, and
the people in charge of it inspire thoughts of a brutal
assault with an iron pan.
Anyway, more sophisticated humour on Friday, when I
expect I'll have moved on from wee to the edgy topic of
poo.
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Toot toot Sonic Warrior,
deep in space and time |
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