Why do we have to dumb language down for people with a short....

.....attention span?

Sorry!

It could be you!

The inability to read a whole sentence do we need to shorten things so that we keep people interested?

We merge words so that we can work with the Twitter limited symbol generation.

My daughter said that she wanted time to "chillax" this summer.

Even as I type, my autocorrect tells me that to "chillax" is only SO wrong.

To chill and ro relax! Is it just me or are they not actually the same thing?

Can I chill when I am working flat out?

Can I relax when I am not chilling....what is the opposite of chilling...please don't make up another merged word to describe it.....

The resulting chillax sounds like the murder weapon in a Scandinavian murder novel.

Which brings me sadly to Brexit.

Why for Britain to make a decision to leave the EEC do we have to abbreviate words?

Is it because the leave campaign is targeting young voters who gave no idea about financial security and history and base their opinions on what the Kardashians think.......apparently Kim wants to stay in but Khloe wants to leave, Caitlin Jenner can't decide.........

For those who want to remain....I think I did hear someone mention the Bremain campaign......but it was probably someone from the leave campaign looking for balance or a journalist who should have their credentials removed and not returned till they complete a proper novel.

I worry for the for the beauty that is the English language and wait to hear that words like jurisprudence becomes jupru........the end is night people.

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ISIS F.C, violence and Euro 2016

When it comes to terrorism, the best thing about it is the things that we, the public never get to hear about. The work of the police and other agencies stops loads of possible terrorist attacks everyday but they never make the news. People do work that we never know about so that we can go about our lives with a little less fear.

ISIS or IS as we now seem to call them....(.are they trying to be fashionable and hip with the kids by shortening their names....does it make them more popular on Twitter ...soz ...lol IS ...) like making statements so staging a football event for 24 countries to travel to France and move about on a daily basis for a month in a country where they managed to commit the Paris atrocities must be a policing nightmare, a fact that would take up all of Europes policing to keep the fans safe.....

......"what was that you say....some fans don't want to be safe?"

Riots in the street, pubs set on fire, fighting in sections of the ground, people fighting people from other countries...or sometimes their own country, flares thrown onto the pitch....that one gets me....... I can't see the point in that....how do you manage to smuggle those in?

 

So rather than worry about where the next idiotic act of organised terrorism comes from, the police and authorities are spending their resources stopping the people they are trying to protect from beating merry hell out of eachother.

What does this prove?

Is football violence a European problem....the World Cups in South Africa and Brazil weren't like this?

Does having 24 teams invited to one country bring a lot of old nationalistic hatred and old rivalries that the 8 country competition never did?

Is the qualification for the knockout stages going to be based on fan arrests rather than points and goal difference...looking forward to seeing the addition to league tables next season.

Does Interpol have their own version of the Panini sticker book where they swop pictures, I'll swop you 5 Muslim extremists for thirty Russian ultras....

I don't envy the authorities in France and across Europe their jobs this month.

Remember we don't talk about air safety everyday......only when mechanical or electrical failure causes a plane crash that could have been picked up by a mechanic or electrician who missed some small detail.

Let's have a football tournament where we are NOT talking about terrorism ....or events around the pitch.... In case you have been arrested, hospitalised, extradited from France or are currently hidden away planning other disruptions....there is actually some impressive football going on....but you were probably never interested in the first place.

 

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Country to Country

What does a middle aged bloke do to keep himself happy? Why turn up at the O2 Arena for three days of country music, that's what.

I decided to drive in and park the car...meet the wife who was in London anyway working. Thomas Rhett, Dwight Yoakam and Miranda Lambert opened Friday night plus Chalie Esten from Nashville doing a couple of songs on the mini stage.

Little bBig Town were sensational.

Thomas Rhett opened up proceedings.

I went last year got the two days of concerts and have been looking forward so much to this year. So much so that I bought a second ticket so that I could bring m girls on different nights?

Carrie Underwood played all her hits.

Saturday night was me and the Bear......Maddie and Tae, Sam Hunt, Little Big Town and Carrie Underwood kept us entertained. I was feeling so good, I even bought a pair of cowboy boots....... Need to get some extra cushioning ask my poor tootsies are straight into very hard leather.

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Sunday was Gabi's turn, we enter in early to make a bit of a day of it. Saw some good new acts on the smaller free stages and Old Dominion on the Radio 2 stage...like them, heard a lot of their stuff.

Chris Stapleton, Casey Musgraves and Eric Church closed the weekend to remember.

Ilona, Bulgarias finest country star....

Gabi found the beer tent part of the day....

Old Dominion who gave us a lesson in American English. ....you don't get Band aids over here....

 

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POLICE AWARE

....don't worry...no plans to be arrested....yet....more concerned with the ability of the ladies that I live with to understand that the blue lights on the front f the dishwasher ...when accompanied by an almost eerie silence do not mean " do nothing, do not approach this device, leave it to the professionals luv, the Sweeney will deal with it....once we've 'ad our dinner...."

Whilst I respect the attempt to stack dishes "tower of Hanoi" style so that they are remarkable vertical and taking up the minimum amount of mums cherished worktop space, the blue lights do in fact mean that

A) the washing cycle of the previous set of dishes that had also Been stacked neatly in a similar manner and that had been entered into the dark cavern which the ladies seem to fear in a Mordor like manner by me.....again.....has now ended and

B) the new tower of joy can now be entered into the darkness for a more than soul cleansing experience.

....ladies...whilst I may apologise for the occasional pair of briefs that float across the room and miss the laundry basket by slipping behind it....please feel free to ask how you can be of service with the dishwasher.

 

I hate to think that, like Master Frodo Baggins, formerly of the Shire, that I alone, have the one ring to rule them all and so am the only one who knows how to opperte a kitchen appliance.

Dear Marge, any clues how I can move this forward?

 

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What a load of rubbish?

Waste.

Paper, bottles, tissues, laddered tights, wax covered cotton buds and so the list goes on. the employ Coke can, the 3/4 full bottle of water that you meant to go back and finish but you can't remember how long ago I u bought it...need I go on.

They all end up in the waste paper keys in our house.

The kitchen has it's own black bag in a big bin look and is constantly filled, emptied and refilled in the end.ess cycle of rubbish and recycling.

So dear Lord, can anyone explain why, when the bin is full, not just full but squashed down tight and then reloaded with unwanted flotsam and jetsam, that the wimmen folk in my house believe that the only thing to do is to keep piling stuff ON TOP of what is already there?

"I could empty that full and overflowing bin that is causing disaster and despair in every upstairs room on the house but I choose to wait for the mysterious work of the lesser spotted bin fairy to empty it." say they who create rubbish.

I have to come round and empty these bins which are in some cases set out like an environmentally NON friendly game of Jenga. So that the recycling circle of life can go on again.

....and whilst I am at it....don't get me on to the used cotton buds that always end up "near to " the upstairs bathroom bin but never actually in it.

Nobody is ever seen missing the bin with the waxed up cotton builds.

 

....but again I can't remember the wedding vows going......Bobby, do you promise to love, cherish, honour and pick cotton buds up from that annoying little bit to the side of the bin but behind the plinths in the bathroom.

Dear fellow waste paper bin empties around the world....I feel your pain.

 

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Storm Jonas

Linked to "can we have a snow day, we are all excited by the 30-40 inches of snow currently landing on the eastern seaboard of the USA. We don't want to appear envious but can you just keep some of the snow and head over the Atlantic. The "storm of a generation" is what storm Jonas is being referred to. Nowadays we seem to have one of those a couple of times a year.

,it would be nice....just to have one day....well a couple of days....all right then, a week at home sitting by the fire worrying if we are going to run out of food, watching the dog go mental in the snow for a couple of minutes.

But no.

Living in the flat south of Englandshire, we don't seem to get the fun (or chaos) that other parts of the U.K. have.

But take a minute just to think of someone else.

As America is covered in snow, flights are cancelled and lives are lost, and all I can think of at this time is......

 

 

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Christmas time-Mistletoe and wine

Cliff Richard...did he have Christmas right? Mistletoe and wine? Looking at yet more pictures of drunken folks in the streets of the U.K. Too much wine and not enough energy or consciousness left to worry about mistletoe. Children singing christian rhyme? Probably not, as we live in a world where we are ashamed to be Christian or at least told that we should be because by being Christian we don't want to offend anyone by your Christian existence. Adverts removed from cinemas for being too Christian and schools end of term assembly's full of Christmas songs but not a carol on sight. With logs on the fire and gifts on the tree? Well if there were logs on the fire, most of the north is underwater so them logs are going to be floatations aids. And gifts on the tree? Children are seen on YouTube filmed by their ....Er....loving parents having tantrums because Santa didn't bring the right phone or the upto date version of their favourite computer game....seriously no hope. Do these parents not realise that the tantrum is caused by their inability to guide their children well through life and that their poor behaviour and tantrums is a direct response to their poor parenting img skills now that their child's consumer desires have exceeded the parents ability to pay for them. Time to rejoice in the good that we see? Well not a lot of good around at the moment. Floods in the uk and South America, tornados killing in the USA and widfires in the US and Australia. Noddy Holder did say Merry Christmas Everyone....not sure that we are all feeling the festive love.