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I have a wee bit of a theory knocking about my head at the moment.

I’m not old (I’m fucking not, right) — but I can still remember a time when children (youth) respected (and dare I say, feared) their elders.

I also trained (albeit briefly) as a Primary School teacher, so I know what you are (and more importantly what you’re not) allowed to do or say to children to keep them in line. (Is this perhaps the post with the most parenthesis in the world ever? </digression>)

So, anyway, back to my theory. We hear all the time about how there is no longer any respect shown to the elder generation; there’s little respect for authority from the youth of today, be it towards parents, teachers, or even the law.

Yet, get onto any bus and if there is a youth element travelling on it, chances are they are all sitting right at the back of the bus. As far away from the driver (and by extension the authoritarian presence) of the bus. Having travelled frequently by bus, I know that the basis of this distance between driver and youth is so that they are as free as they can be to be an annoyance to other passengers.

My theory is that somewhere in the youth of today there is still an acknowledgement of authority, otherwise why don’t you find the kids sitting all over the bus causing their annoyances? Whether they realise it or not, they are actually showing some respect to the driver of the bus by making sure they are as far away from him as possible to allow for misbehaviour.

All we need to do is find a way to bring that respect back up to the surface and make them apply it to all aspects of their lives.

Bring back National Service I say.

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I went to see Lee Evans in the SECC on Friday night. It was a brilliant show. I like comedy, as my About Me page says, I like to laugh. And for pretty much all of the three hours that Lee Evans was on stage, I laughed.

Good night out.

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Why can’t anybody say the word ‘definitely’ correctly anymore? It’s always ‘def-in-ett-lay’, or ‘def-in-ate-lay’ on the TV or radio these days. If you absolutely must pronounce every single syllable with enormous emphasis, then at least say it as ‘def-in-it-lay’ - there’s no ‘a’  or ‘e’ sound in the third syllable.

Does my fucking head in.

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I’m on holiday from work for a week. This is my first break for 14 weeks, so I’m finding it a bit weird getting into the swing of doing nothing.

I got up this morning about 8am (which is a pretty decent lie-in for me, as I’m normally up before 6am), and I’ve done nothing at all since then (apart from shower and make some lunch). And I am BORED.

I have things to do this week, but can’t motivate myself to do them. I’m meeting a friend for lunch tomorrow, so that’s pretty much that afternoon used up, I’ll visit my parents tomorrow evening (get a free dinner cooked for me), and I have a website to design, code, and build for another friend.

I also have a house that badly needs tidied (both inside and outside), and a ton of bills/letters to file away. This task will definitely be done this week, as the state of my living room with papers and books and letters and all manner of other bits and pieces is really doing my head in, and if I don’t do something about it sanely, I’ll end up just piling it all into a big heap and setting it on fire (it is almost Bonfire Night after all). And I kinda need some of it, so setting it alight isn’t really the best idea.

I also want a new table and a new lamp for the living room. This (not the lamp, the table part) would also allow me to finally set up the hi-fi that my brother gave me about three months ago, which has been sitting in the box in my spare room.

So, not sure how much of a ‘holiday’ this week will be, if I do actually manage to motivate myself to get off my arse and do any of the stuff that I should be, and frankly, need to be, doing.

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