Todays Gripe

So at work I have this calendar, one of those desk top, day to day ones with a quote and little snippet of pointless information regarding the day.

 

Now the quotes can range from the mundane to the profound to the nonsensically insane, there was one a while back that had something to do with not swatting a bluebottle off your friend’s nose with a rock. I think it’s about trying to help and being heavy handed about it and making things worse or maybe the writer actually did break one of his mate’s nose trying to startle a fly. And it will be a man who has written that hitting a mate in the face with a rock in an effort to make things better just isn’t a female train of thought.

 

So anyway today’s quote, is “Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do” now just think about that for a minute

 

“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do”

 

Isn’t that neat? It strikes you at first with the moral good deed for the day crap and sort of tries to poke you into being a better person, you know helping old ladies across the road, waving at dogs that type of thing.

 

But look closer and you’ll see what it really says is we are all guilty; we’ll never be good enough so why bother. No matter what you do there will be something you didn’t.

 

And that’s how you measure a man, by his failures not his success take Bill Gates, he is a modest man who has brought computing to the masses, gives millions upon millions to charity but he is responsible for Vista so, you know he may as well have invented the Iron Maiden or been Hitler’s best buddy.

Same with Michael Jackson, written and performed so of the greatest music ever brought the moonwalk to the masses but nobody can praise the dude for any of that now, he’s just a creepy looking, possibly child molesting freak.

 

Same way you can bet there will never be a Gary Glitter best of album released.

 

But Pete Townsend is still cool in peoples eyes, that one has been swept right under the carpet, of course he was just doing research  so that’s ok.

 

I mean that is a totally plausible explanation, doing research for a book that still has never seen the light of day.

 

But he was in the Who, still is, half the band are dead of course, why do bands die in totally the wrong order? John not Paul, Kurt not Pat and yes Pat Smear was a member of Nirvana; he played on In Utero and toured with them.  No matter who tells you otherwise they were more than just a three piece and have a closer listen to Nevermind while we are at it, its an average at best album. Not the masterpiece we are told at all, Ten is a better album, Superfuzz Bigmuff even more so. But it had Smells Like Teen Spirit a rebellious anthem on heavy rotation on the most corporate of corporate soulless machines ever Mtv.

 

Because you know the best type of rebellion is the commercial type, the type that everybody follows. You can try and rebel as much as you like just keep spending that cash.

 

Money is a scary thing people will do almost anything for it, a wiseman once said that as soon as you hawk any product you are off the cool list forever. Johnny Rotten has always been a grade A free range top of the range tit, going on I’m a celebrity did him no favours at all, no matter how much he swore on live telly but those butter adverts render him and anything that falls out of his mouth from now until the end of time null and void.