Death is a very sad and singular concept; no matter how necessary and inevitable it is, when it takes somebody close to us it's devastating. With memory, photos, videos and genetic inheritance however, it could be argued that our loved ones are never truly gone from our lives, the same can be said for the effect said person has on you and your personality/values. Still, death has a finality to it that is undeniably affecting.
That being said, what kind of idiot mourns someone they've never met? This started to annoy me around the time Jade Goody popped her clogs, the Internet and media filling up with morons saying things like
"WE LOVE YOU jADE BBE RIP U WIL B MIZD"
"Hope you're sleeping well angel and that your kids grow to make you proud, RIP"
So many things are wrong with this. Don't invent qualities someone didn't have just because they're dead, don't attempt to talk directly to someone who is dead and wouldn't have read it while they were alive, you can't love someone you've never met (especially not her she was a fuck horrible human being) and don't type like a fucking retard (irrelevant to the subject matter but i mean come ON!)
Even just something as simple as putting 'RIP so and so' as your facebook status, what's the bloody point? Nobody who cares about so and so cares that you care, and why the fuck do you care, you don't know so and so. These people leave behind enduring legacies of films, books, music and stuff of the like, that future generations will still get to enjoy. To the greatest degree possible by today's science, they are immortal.
This all brings me logically to my biggest personal gripe of the week, this insane facebook group created to mourn the passing of a fictional, mythical creature. Are you shitting me? Firstly, yes I've read the Harry Potter books so I'm not whinging at the subject matter, but it should be noted that, as far as I know house elves do not mourn death the way humans do, and they certainly wouldn't hold a funeral. So even in the diegesis where it would be most relevant, this funeral is a nuts idea. In the real world it's just fucking loopy, what kind of mind thinks it's acceptable and sane to mourn the passing of a fictional character? They never existed in our world, so the fact that anyone knows about them in the first place is an interesting discussion for a different day, but if they never existed they can't die, and if they can't die you can't have a fucking funeral for them. Simple as. People pass off the event saying 'oh it's just a laugh man lighten up' but the sad fact is the people who took time to make the event probably do believe it was a sad affair for the poor elf to have died, and that fact is representative of a more frightening and unspoken truth that is far from a laugh; Today's public conscience cares more about fictional characters, rich people they've never met and animals (see youtube 'cat in a wheelie bin' if you live under a rock) than they do about people who actually need help and consideration ie. homeless, orphans and poverty stricken in the third world.
Does that not make anybody else sick?
Conspiracy theorists that say we never landed on the moon... fuck off. This utter absurdity has got to stop, every little piece of 'evidence'to support this theory is either subjective or misinterpreted, and it has since been PROVED by pretty much every nation on earth with a decent science programme by sending a signal up to be bounced back from the dishes that were placed up there when last man walked on the moon. If we hadn't been, someone would know by now and seriously, how much of a moneymaker would a second spacerace be? get your heads out of your arses, man landed on the moon.
Finally a thought on jaffa cakes. For the very last time, although they are marketed as a cake (to take advantage of the cheaper tax) and have ONE characteristic of a cake (going hard is left in air) they are a bloody biscuit! What kind of cake is flat and round, topped with actual chocolate, small enough to eat in one bite, comes in a pack of 12 (minimum) and acceptable to eat more than one at a time? Excluding those ridiculous Mr Kippling bars and anything of the same idea. Nothing! And in the linguistic sense of the word, biscuit (from french and meaning 'twice cooked') is more of a bicuit than mcvitties digestives (cooked once). You cook the sponge, stick the jelly on (this is not cooking) then cook the chocolate (from scratch as they do) and pour it on. Voila, twice cooked! Let this be an end to the ridiculous arguement all you cake lovers.
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