Friday 15th January 2010 10:58 pm
Television sickens me. I just had an anti-drinking advert, aimed at children, inflicted on me by the badly named BBC repeat-merchants, Dave.
The premise of the advert was small children saying things like, “In five years I’ll be drinking alcohol and…” to demonstrate the horrors, imagined by adults (who have forgotten what is like to be young) that happen to children.
Every single male child read out an active situation, and every single female child read out a passive situation. It disturbs me that gender preconceptions are so hard-wired into society that this sort of things get to the stage of being broadcast entirely unquestioned.
So, this is how it is children…
If you are a boy, you will drink and you will DO something bad.
If you are a girl, you will drink and have something bad DONE to you.
It even contained that brilliant old favourite, the idea that if underage sex occurs then it is a nefarious boy pressuring an innocent girl into doing something she does not want to do. This is 2010! Surely we are at the point, as a society, that we should recognise that the female is as sexually minded as the male – possibly even more so where children are concerned because girls tend to get all those horrible puberty hormones a bit earlier.
I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, just that it happens the other way around too and that far more often underage people are having consensual sex.
But the real point is that we should really all be past this male=active/female=passive bullshit by now.
(Also I need to say something important to counteract an evening spent insulting Dappy from N-Dubz and fantasising about the death of Peppa Pig on Twitter.)
Posted by Chris Pixie under Bloggery
Tagged with: alcohol, gender, preconceptions, sex, society, television.
Friday 18th December 2009 12:19 am
Generally, at this point in time, I feel that I have outgrown alcohol and I do not need it. However, I have just returned at this moment from the work christmas happening.
It was immensely brilliant and enjoyable.
I tend to dread these sort of events as a reflex action but as with the birthday night-out gift from work the christmas work night out was extremely enjoyable.
I may have ended up making one of my standard drunken speeches but I still consider tonight a success. Moments ago in the pub I was in full flow, explaining why Britain had not fallen to political extremism in the twentieth century – which is because the English language does not allow for sustained demagoguery due to the multiplicity of interpretations of any statement made in the language.
I also made my case for us not being invaded during WW2 being solely hinged on the stupidity of Hitler. Also making the oft-needed statement these days that America did not save Britain in WW2, but that the USA, with some help from Britain, saved the rest of Europe, even Germany itself. We all won in WW2, that is the truth – everyone involved on both sides.
Essentially, I have had an evening of alcohol induced pontification. So this may explain why I consider tonight a success… because when it comes down to it, I am a pretentious, self-righteous tit and rather proud of it.
If everyone seems as convinced by what I said when sober I’ll consider it a double success…
Right now I just feel a little drunk and icky. I don’t like alcohol at the moment, this is only about the fourth day in the last couple of months I’ve drank at all. I wanted to join in for the sake of work christmas fun though.
Work again tomorrow, important things to do, better go to bed soon…
Posted by Chris Pixie under Bloggery
Tagged with: alcohol, drunkenness, history, language, work.
Friday 7th August 2009 1:12 am
I do not know the point of this blog entry yet, I have stayed up way past my the time when a sensible person who starts work at 9am would have gone to bed.
I am enjoying the last glass from a rather enjoyable 2008 Italian red wine. Ogio Primitivo 2008, Tesco had it on special offer. It is the best wine I have ever bought that cost me less than £5. Generally I spend about £7 on a bottle of wine these days but I make exceptions, especially when one is reduced.
I am also enjoying a torrential downpour of rain from inside my flat, with the windows open. I absolutely love a good, heavy bout of rain that I don’t have to go out in. The sound makes me feel relaxed and I love the cool breeze through my windows during late night summer rain.
As well as the wine and rain, I have been playing Bauhaus’ stunningly brilliant album, Go Away White, which I have been enjoying immensely. I was skeptical about a new Bauhaus album but in March 2008 they proved me wrong, mostly because they did not try to recreate the sound of 1980s Bauhaus and came up with a very bluesy, interesting album with some excellent guitar. I’d even say this is my favourite work by Bauhaus.
When I find a moment of contentment, I enjoy it. This is one of those moments. Wine, rain and Bauhaus. I should have these three words tattooed onto my hand to remind myself that being alive can be worth the hassle.
Posted by Chris Pixie under Bloggery
Tagged with: alcohol, bauhaus, bedtime, contentment, music, splendid things, wine.
Monday 25th May 2009 1:03 am
I think I need to make some radical and permanent changes to the way I am living.
I drink too much, pretty much every day I’ll either have a few pints of beer or cider (or more commonly both with a bit of blackcurrant) or several rum and cokes.
I live mostly off very rich indian and mexican food. The rest of my diet is cheese & pickle sandwiches or other bread/cheese related things. Also baked potatoes with horrendous amounts of cheese. The worst thing is my current terribly unhealthy love of fried egg and cheese english muffins.
Lack of exercise. A normal day consists of me walking from my flat to work and back twice. I only live three minutes from work.
I have terrible concentration at the moment, I always feel tired, I have depression creeping back in (which I know I can fix with getting exercise and being more healthy).
I think I might have to stop the drinking, eat more healthily and join a gym. Where I would find the time for going to the gym, I have no idea…
I just think that if I do this it will sharpen up my concentration and ability to get all of the things done that need to be done. I feel wretched and it is entirely because I am living off refried beans, fried eggs, rum and stress.
Maybe I should make alcohol something that I am allowed only when I am not at home and on my own?
Actually doing something and not just talking/typing about it might help. I am sure I’ve written/said this all a thousand times before…
[Edit: I should probably give up the vast quantities of Pepsi Max and Coke Zero too. This stuff is probably giving me cancer in organs I don't even know I have...]
Posted by Chris Pixie under Bloggery
Tagged with: alcohol, exercise, food, health.
This blog has no defined purpose other than to exist as a, mostly ignored, corner of the internet where things that I do can conjeal into a sticky mess and fester. I am twenty-eleven years old, single, I live in Nottingham, UK, I sit at a desk prodding data all day and in the evenings I study Art History, usually without any trousers on.
