A bit of a venting post here, but i was listening to the radio on the way in, and it was incredibly annoying.
Today, the results of this annual national survey were announced, it’s been going on since 1983, and it’s all about the nation’s views. views on things like divorce, legalising weed, racism, and the main annoying one, homophobia. these are the statistics that the bbc quoted on radio 4, and this is a direct quote off their website:

Some 36% of people thought homosexual acts were “always” or “mostly” wrong, down from 62% when the survey was first carried out, in 1983.

Now is it just me that thinks that’s still awful? that’s over a third of the country that thinks gay people are wrong. yet the bbc seemed to be painting it as if people now have incredibly liberal views on it. just because it was awful in the 80s, doesn’t make it being bad now good.

To make matters worse, they then got on this prick ex-editor of the sun, as well as a politician and ex-eastenders actor. obviously to be the editor of the sun, you have to be a fucking dickhead, but this guy was just a joke. i can’t even remember what he was saying exactly, other than one of his closing comments, which was something along the lines of this: “i think it’s great that homophobia is down by 50% in 27 years, and hope that in another 27 years it’ll be down another 50%, and it will just be a hardcore minority of homophobic people left”. it seems like a nice thing to say, but the first thing i thought was, well, half of 36%, is 18%, which is basically 1 in 5 people. fair enough, that’s a minority, but it’s not exactly a small minority is it? especially as that will be 2037, we’re meant to be living in space then, not hating people because of the way they live their lives.

They get dickheads in like that quite a lot on radio 4, which is great that they give both sides of the argument a lot of the time, but it’s not good for my head first thing in the morning. i just get really annoyed at everything. i even swore at some dickhead driver that pulled out in front of me.

In other news, this is my last week of work. i plan on buying a few crates of beer on friday and just drinking all weekend/week until it’s gone. i’ve still never had beer for breakfast, so i’d like to try that.

Sorry if that blog didn’t make sense, i had one of those nights where i don’t think i actually got any real sleep. staying up until 8am on sunday night/monday morning was a mistake, because i then didn’t get up until 3.30pm on monday, and trying to go to sleep at a reasonable time that night was impossible.

And yet another addendum. Sons of anarchy series two is bad ass, apart from the shitty northern irish accents, which are just bad. i’d love to be in a biker gang, it’d be great. driving round, shooting people, beating them up with baseball bats. what’s not to like?

Another tv programme that is great is Supernatural. it’s got a really shit name, but it’s fun. it’s two brothers that drive around america solving supernatural crimes, it’s fictional (obviously), so it’s not shit like most haunted or anything. and the brothers are cool, they shoot shit up and beat people up all the time.

And another thing (can you tell my mind is wondering), at the end of last week i got a massive craving to watch all the great 80s comedy films, thanks to the constant references in freaks and geeks. so i decided to order a load. i’m hoping they’ll start getting here today. a lot of them i’ve seen loads and should definitely own already, but i don’t. i really can’t wait to watch things like uncle buck and ghostbusters and naked gun again, it’s been way too long.