Here are a grumpy old man's thoughts about the 21st century which he then contrasts to Ushaw Moor in the 'old days'. The sun always shone in days gone by but it always rains now. Yes well...
21st CENTURY
We have over choice, complicated appliances, Rap masquerading as art, greedy football and bad manners. And there is a lot more to moan about [I have noticed that it is fashionable to start sentences with And - so I thought I would write one].
Weekly shopping brings me near to paralysis because of the over choice and it is reminds me of the immense poverty in many countries, which is an absolute and largely unnecessary scandal.
Rap - I cannot get my head around this - I do not find it very entertaining although many people gather and pay to witness it so maybe they think it is. Some people find it creative,cultural, a useful tool of communication, and a release of feeling but I would not pay a pound to go and listen to it; the lack of diction that often accompanies it would render it incomprehensible to me anyway.
I would not go to watch Arsenal or Derby County [yes I know that is going from the sublime to the currently ridiculous] if the charge was thirty pounds or more - even if they were playing half a mile away from me. I could buy two excellent history books for that amount. Supply and demand, as well as wealth backers, have distorted the 'people's game' to the point where it begins to look like a pig's trough.
Now and again, when I am walking down a pathway, I meet several people who expect me to move aside and on to the main road - even though I am clearly about forty years older them, have a bit of a hearing problem and there is unseen traffic from behind.
So many of a washing machine's options are, at times, baffling and almost as hard to understand as mathematics. My wife has no such problem but ofcourse women are generally cleverer then men. Women can do three things at once whereas men can only do one and even then they sometimes do that one task badly.
