A short update on Being Grumpy (reasons for)

[athena25]

• There is football on, this means I am bored and annoyed. Bored because no-one else is in the office, or answering emails or phonecalls. Annoyed because I am and because I find football generally annoying.
• Doing Hair took an entire 15 minutes of my life this morning. Thoughts of shaving it all off have been back-burnered because Summer = burnt head

Comments

football

[renniek]

I think my friend Helen put it best: "The tyranny of normality"
It is normal and therefore right to like football. If you do not like it you are abnormal and therefore wrong.
Personally, I don't mind the game itself (although I'm not really into watching televised sport in general) but I'm bored rigid by the hours of (seemingly pointless and repetitive) commentary and I'm put off by some elements of the culture around the game - the violence, the mysogynism - I despise the whole celebrity "WAG" thing. Celebrate a woman for her own qualities and achievements - not just because some footballer's nobbing her. But now I'm tangenting into a rant about the entire appalling culture of celebrity, famous for being famous, so I'll make myself stop...

Re: football

[athena25]

True - I hate the fact that when I say I just don't see the point of all the fuss I'm either being a girl or being churlish.

Re: football

[mr_h_r_hughes]

Hey when I say that it gets suggested (by women) that I don't get into football because I'm an 'honorary woman' or because I'm not a 'man's man' (which is said in a patronising tone that suggests I'm a pitiable creature).

Or I'm being churlish.

Re: football

[athena25]

When they say "man's man" they don't mean gay do they? In a kind of "ladies' man" sort of way? Unless a "man's man" is a "ladies' man"

I think I need a lie down.

[ephrael]

Summer = burnt head = bad

Sun avoidance is how I started hat wearing.
Now its an all year round thing, the short hair and hats being mutually supportive and reinforcing.

[kangeiko]

I would still love you if you were a nun. Especially if you were an evil nun. But I draw the line at the Nixon mask.