sock it to me

i’m slightly concerned that i am the only person left on earth who is still on facebook (I feel like I am Legend with a laptop). i’ve had no new friends for ages and the old lot seem to have migrated to goodness only knows where without inviting me along. the only notifications i get these days are asking me to check out the ‘are you interested’ application, but frankly, i’m not. or not enough to try and install it. any application i’ve tried in the past has usually resulted in posting some random message or photo of myself as a fat child to everyone of my facebook friends, so i’ve given up trying.

Back in the real world, have you noticed how many pregnant women there are around at the moment? it’s like a plague. Attack of the unborn babies. there are bumps everywhere!

and, have you also noticed how many men there are around with baby bumps. Just kidding (topical, huh!). No, really, I mean with too-short trousers? it’s an epidemic. check it out. there are loads of guys, usually in the slack/suity style trouser, who are all to happy to have their trouser legs flap around their ankles (usually hovering over unattractive slip ons or cornish pastyesque footwear). now, unless there is also an outbreak of STLS (sudden telescopic leg syndrome), someone needs some lessons in pinning up trousers. whatever, it seems that recently, wherever i look there is too much sock on display.

Which reminds me (as many things seem to) of when i used to live in Spain and we would have ‘el dia del…’
one day it would be el dia del manco (‘day of the men with one arm’ - everywhere you turned would be a geezer with an empty jacket sleeve tucked into some or other pocket) or el dia del cojo (‘day of the limp’ where every second person would have an awkward gait) or, my favourite el dia del vizco (‘day of the squint’.) I’m a boss-eyed chap myself (without my contact lenses I have what is referred to in the trade as an ‘alternating squint’ which basically means that to focus on anything I have to strain my eyes so that one or other makes a mercy dash for my nose. And I actually get to choose which eye! lucky, eh.