tagged by terminal_beach

OK - I have to write six random things about me, then tag six of you back to do the same, ad infinitum.

1. I have no fillings, despite being a slack-ass on tooth cleaning
   
2. I've got a 15 year no claim discount on my car insurance - I just don't hit stuff
   
3. I was once arrested for possession of illicit substances, then got a police apology in about 3 minutes
   
4. I can write my name with my toes
   
5. I can't play chess
   
6. I have a huge repository of unexplained Bond trivia
   

So I tag 0ct0pus, eiraniel, lengths, dandelion_wings, toxicpixie and jo_kat. Just because I can.

Anti-consumerism by default

I saw a car sticker today exhorting me to boycott Canada (mainly to save seals, so it seems). Now I actually quite like Canada. And America, too, excepting a few nutcase politicians and their seemingly sizeable swathe of followers.

So if I boycott Canada for seals, Brazil for deforestation, Columbia for drugs, the USA for being generally wonky... that's pretty much a whole continent, right?

Now exclude all the dodgy political regimes. Plus the known sweatshops. Plus anywhere across the ocean because of air miles. That's actually a lot of places, if you live in England...

So I can buy things from Britain.

Except we shafted the Celts out of economic existence hundreds of years ago. And butt-munched our own manufacturing base out of existence during the glorious reign of Mommy Mags.

I'm pretty much confined to buying the earth in my own garden. Which is fine - I don't really like buying many things anyway. I just want to be clear that it's because I'm stingy, I think, rather than being politically correct :P

Bloody Christmas

Seeing as I'm on a roll...

Did I see an LJ-friend in Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre yesterday? I think I might have...

Christmas sucks already. Yate town centre is heaving, even at 11 0'clock on a Thursday morning. Stop buying stuff, you morons. I may have been tainted by the ghosts of CHristmas-recently-past, but buying loads of drink and overpriced tat will not patch up your tattered lives and relationships.

Grumble.

Nicked off apel

( cuddling meme )