Drunk middle-aged people.

My passionate dislike for pissed middle-aged people is probably going to vanish about the time I turn 40. But for now, I'm seriously pissed off by the sheer stupidity that controls their actions and verbal outbursts. Well, actually it's not so much the behaviour in itself (although admittedly being propositioned by fat balding, sweating men isn't my idea of fun), it's more the hypocrisy of it. When these people aren't out getting hammered they'll spend their time complaining about kids drinking and being generally rowdy in public places. Well duh. Way to set an example, nitwits. As I was walking home last night, I walked past a garden party, music playing way loud and people shouting and whatnot. Someone shouted something at me, and I was just thinking that if those people would've been 17 instead of 47, the police would've been called ages ago.

Uhm, this is not my way of encouraging under-aged drinking, by the way. I'm just saying that moderation might not be such a bad thing, no matter how old you are. Hypocrite? Moi?

So talk me through the offside rule...

I'm a completely involuntary football fan, it's a bit weird really. I knew all those hours in English pubs would come back to haunt me at some point. I guess I just figured it would be in the shape of alcoholism rather than the appreciation of the immensly stupid game that is football. When I realised I actually understand the offside rule, that's when I got a bit scared. And my "so talk me through the offside rule"-t-shirt? I can't wear that anymore. I will have to pass it on to someone who have yet to learn this stigmatised rule. As well as being an involuntary football fan, I'm also an extremely involuntary feminist, and as such I'm equally outraged and amused at how men don't seem to hear what a woman says during a game. I was watching Sweden v. Trinidad&Tobago with my husband and my father. The conversation was completely one-sided in my universe.

(me:) "Aw, come one, he's totally offside." (I like using the offside rule as an example)

(father & husband:) [silence]

(father:) "Offside!"

(husband:) "Yeah, I know. Bastard!"

Weird.

NVD

I'm a serious fan of Holland the nation and Amsterdam the city, but the latest political uhm... outburst... is a bit weird. It was with growing disgust and anger I was reading about NVD, the pro-peadophelia party. The further I read in the article, the more I lost faith in humankind. Lower the age of consent to 12, legalise child pornography, legalise drugs, let 16-year-olds make porn and prostitute themselves, legalise sex with animals, allow public nudity, and... free trainjourneys? I mean, am I missing something pervy with trainjourneys that would possibly make that claim seem remotly logical? In all its absurdity it's actually kind of funny. I mean, this long list of the worst stupidities you could imagine and then suddenly a demand that probably every senior citizen in the universe would agree with. Weird.