Trinity Dejavu

Harry Hill’s TV Burp (Broadcast on ITV, 6:40pm on 13th December 2008) just went to town on the story of Thomas Beatie, the American transsexual man who has chosen to carry his child as his partner cannot.

Repeated references were made to this not being a man, rather a woman with a beard. This escalated to Harry wearing a fake beard and pretending to be pregnant. I switched off at this point.

This is a simply disgusting treatment of a transsexual and would be clearly illegal under the UK gender discrimination act. Especially from an ex medical professional who should have known better.

You can complain to OFCOM here.

I love Conservapedia, dead-pan humor at its best. Take this essay about Women wearing pants.

The woman who pioneered women wearing pants was the actress Katharine Hepburn. She became rich and famous but never experienced a happy marriage and never knew the joy of having children. Her philosophy of life of being unfeminine resulted in her not fulfilling her purpose of life. We reap what we sow. There are consequences for actions. Women wearing pants is cross-dressing. It should be looked down on as much as men wearing dresses. The social experiment of feminism to destroy any sense of difference between male and female in the twentieth century has resulted in women wearing military camouflage fatigue pants and boots. The Bible says cross-dressing is an “abomination of God.”

I’m so relieved I don’t own a single pair of pants, but I can’t help thinking about all the women who do. Please, donate your pants so they might be used to feed the homeless, save a whale or perhaps choke a passing conservative who actually believes this shit.

Just been to see Indiana Jones and was quite surprised, I was expecting to be blogging today about how George Lucas had finally killed my inner child (which he did batter to within an inch of its life with star wars *shudder) but I really enjoyed this latest incarnation of Dr Jones. Yes, Harrison Ford is getting old, but it didn’t show. The plot stretches things just a little, but no more than any previous movie. Wouldn’t mind watching it again to be honest.

In other news, we’re about a week away from going up to Washington, really looking forward to getting out of the desert. I just don’t understand why anyone would live in Phoenix by choice, suppose some people just like being trapped indoors / roasted alive on a daily basis.

The letting agency (VS Webb) I rented my old house from are refusing to return the deposit claiming the house was left in an appalling state because we left a couple of bits of furniture. The house wasn’t clean when we moved in, the kitchen fell apart as soon as we looked at it (and we were even told we needed a new one several times!!) and on and on and on. Have to wonder what they expect from a damp vintage Victorian terrace. The deposit is only £350 so it’s not worth the effort fight and get it back, I would spend more than that just getting a few legal letters sent.

Missing everyone back in the UK loads, hope you’re all ok. We’re in a terrible routine here at the moment, tend to sleep most of the day away and get up mid to late afternoon as it starts to cool down. Going to try and stay up and make some phone calls in the morning. Love to everyone :x

Oh, and if you ever wondered why teaspoons vanish from communal kitchens, there has been a study…

DON’T BUY TAKE OUT PIZZA IN THE UK – YOU’RE BEING ROBBED BLIND.

When we were in the UK we would occasionally get a take out pizza from Domino’s or Perfect Pizza and very nice they were too. Its only now I’m in the US that it’s become painfully apparent that I was being ripped off, and not bit a little either.

Take Domino’s for example. In the UK we would get the 555 deal (not available anymore) as that got you the most pizza for your money, three 9″ pizza’s for £5.55 each. In the US they had the same deal at the same price IN DOLLARS. So with the exchange rate (just shy of $2 = £1) we were buying three pizza’s for about $33 US, the same deal in the US would get you the same amount of pizza for just less than $17. So in UK money, that’s ~£17 in he UK, and ~£8 in the US for an IDENTICAL meal.

Before we left the UK we had a couple of pizza’s from Domino’s and spent £32 (About $60 US). The other day we bought two almost identical pizza’s here for $10 US (about £5 UK).

Why is take out pizza so expensive in the UK? Who knows, but one thing is for certain. Whenever you buy one, someone is laughing their ass off at you.