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A whole year
24/04/2009 by Lee.
Dear God, it’s been over a year since I did this! So what to put? <drums keyboard in thought>
Maybe I’m all blogged out? Maybe the demise of Jade Goody really has taken it out of me? Jade Goody… now there’s a topic to ease me back in!
What a waste of space that girl was. Now some people at this point will doubtless accuse me of speaking ill of the dead, however that was my opinion of her when she was alive and well, so it would be frankly wrong of me to change it now she’s dead. For some people she was a heroine, whereas for me she was more of a normal but below average intelligence, under privileged, failure to society and victim of being dumb person. Too harsh? Then the old favourite of “She’s so brave fighting this disease” would pop up and say hello. Brave? Really? A couple of points of order here:
- How do you actually “fight” a disease from a purely internal decision making point of view?
- How is that “brave”?
You see, brave is when you have a choice to do something or not. Firemen are brave as they choose to go in to burning buildings to rescue people. Being diagnosed with a hideous disease and living out your final days in the media is not brave. But hey, at least living out those final days in the media paid well.
“She’s doing it to support her kids!” cry the apologists. Again, a point of order. I grew up in to a fairly well balanced, intelligent and hard working (all in my opinion of course) individual and it didn’t take a million or two from my parents to bring that about. Thank God the step dad is such a fine upstanding individual.
Now the story has moved on with talk of “Jade: The musical” and “Jade: The Movie” heading to a theatre near you soon. There has already been a film about a talking pig so I’m not really too sure that I see the need for another one. Of course there is also a delightful irony in this too. The auditions for the musical may well be held on a televised reality show, thereby plucking another nobody from obscurity and making them famous, except this time they will be able to sing so may actually have a talent unlike the dumb character they’ll be playing. Maybe they’ll also audition for her mothers part although finding one armed lesbian crack addicts that can also sing a bit could be a stretch too far even for this ludicrous story.
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