I'm A Loser
Barcelona
So there I am watching Chelski v Abromovich's other team when I over hear Dearest on the phone to either Eldest or Youngest or one of their Darlin's:"Yeah he was trying to replace the bulb in it and broke the bloody thing. You can have it if you want."
Dearest was referring to the cheapo, crap uplighters she bought about two years ago from some upmarket emporium like Argos. For some God-forsaken reason (and probably the reason they were so 'competitively priced') they had halogen bulbs in them. Recently one of the bulbs went and Dearest started 'hinting' that I get it replaced.
Now the corner shop doesn't sell halogen light bulbs - I mean why should it? So I said I'd pick one up at the weekend and sort it.
Come the weekend I start to take the old bulb out in order to purchase the correct replacement and it soon becomes evident just what a pile of risible crap I am dealing with. The ceramic bed in which the bulb sits crumbles to dust at my touch.
"It's a worthless piece of crap that should be binned right now" I expertly concluded. "That's why it had halogen bulbs in it - it had a lifetime of one bulb".
So we bought new (and that was a traumatic shopping-fest in its own right believe me). They were expensive but well made and we had to order the buggers - but at least they use normal bulbs that they sell in the corner shop.
So tonight they arrive and I assembled and installed them, thus triggering the aforementioned telephone call.
I was pissed off - to say the least - that the shoddiness of the bloody thing should suddenly become my fault. I was also mightily peeved that Dearest has listened to me telling her (and offering to show her) just how crap the thing was, whilst all the while thinking I had broken it and was just making excuses!
I can't help but think though that my reaction to this 'slur' is a little over-the-top. But it is really annoying me.
Reality doesn't matter y'know. It's perception that counts.
I see Arsenal nearly threw it all away again in the Chump's League. It seems to me that there is a massive mental block about Europe for the Gunners that Arsene is going to have some trouble overcoming. It's hard to believe that a team with so much talent and such strength in depth can become such shadows of their normal selves. For long periods tonight Panathinaikos looked like the home team. Arsenal sat deep and, as time went by, the Greeks looked more and more like nicking it. The very idea of Arsenal at Highbury should be making teams quake in their boots.
Perception doesn't matter y'know. It's reality that counts.
As for the election: well apparently it has now become too close to call. Occupiedcountry's not afraid of predictions though, and here it is:
There will be legal challenges before the sun sets on Wednesday.
God bless America.
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