{"id":548,"date":"2006-09-16T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/09\/nothing-much-to-complain-about\/"},"modified":"2006-09-16T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T12:30:00","slug":"nothing-much-to-complain-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/09\/nothing-much-to-complain-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Much To Complain About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/moan_crowd.jpg\" align=left \/>I really do feel like complaining. I remember once when asked how I was by <i>R<\/i> my dear old friend and pal, I said, well, I&#8217;m ok, but I just feel like moaning all the time, he said, &#8220;Well, fucking well moan then! You probably need to&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Thing is, you start a blog precisely because of the freedom it affords you in terms of expression and two and bit years down the line, you&#8217;re worrying about your readership and of stooping to the lowest common blog denominator and moaning and ranting &#8211; hang on, that&#8217;s like saying, here&#8217;s my car, I&#8217;ll go shopping with it, I&#8217;ll pick the kids up with it (not that I have any &#8211; shit! that sounds a bit pervy now) I&#8217;ll even fucking go on holiday with it &#8211; but simply drive the thing for the pleasure of it? Never! Not me! Not that I have a car anyway &#8211; they are loathsome machines and part of Satan&#8217;s plan to destroy the world. So what is wrong with simply reverting to blog-writer type, ingoring all one&#8217;s best intentions, and writing unskillfully, unedited, ungrammatically, and using words like Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>You know the <i>Bible<\/i> &#8211; that book that bangs on about God and Jesus? At the end, the scary bit, it mentions <b>Hollywood Juice<\/b> such as prophecies and shit. I think that the NUMBER OF THE BEAST is YOUR MOBILE PHONE number. Or maybe it&#8217;s BAR CODES. I have no rationale for this assertion &#8211; but this is a blog, right? And I can just WRITE that and <i>who gives a flying fuck?<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>You know podcasts, right? They are taking over from TV, aren&#8217;t they? Now you&#8217;ve maybe worked that out what with YouTube and everything. But did you know that TV companies are trying to take over the internet? Now, I wish this was as much bullshit moaning as the previous three paragraphs&#8230; but it isn&#8217;t! It&#8217;s true! <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/IP\/WIPO\/broadcasting_treaty\/podcasting.php\">Read this if you don&#8217;t believe me.<\/a> Write to your representative. I wish I was joking, but instead, I am moaning. Also I am committing a classic blog folly &#8211; combining a mixture of personal nonsense with quite serious issues and without bothering to separate. Neither am I bothered to lift, so you&#8217;ll just have to click the link to find out. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from archly referencing an ancient British brassiere advert, that last paragraph even managed to TALK ABOUT a LINK. Why do people do commit that internet crime? They should just <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.link.co.yu\/cms\/mestoZaUploadFajlove\/TOP5.jpg\">fucking well link!!!!<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Now my blog blood is really boiling&#8230; by now, I&#8217;m actually ranting, having worked myself up to it &#8211; something it takes courage not to do and which can only serve to alienate my cherished readers. Do you feel personally alienated now? Well do you? If you do &#8211; not as much as me!! I&#8217;m veering into defensive posturing, aggressive audience interrogation with lashings of hot self-pity. If I was a stand up comedian by now I&#8217;d be being heckled. If I was a band everybody would be at the bar. But because this is blog, and you know the post will only run to a few more words, you&#8217;ve come this far. Could it get any worse than this? WELL COULD IT?? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/whatever\" rel=\"tag\">Whatever<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really do feel like complaining. I remember once when asked how I was by R my dear old friend and pal, I said, well, I&#8217;m ok, but I just feel like moaning all the time, he said, &#8220;Well, fucking well moan then! You probably need to&#8230;&#8221; Thing is, you start a blog precisely because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}