Snow Doesn't Lie!

Those wonderful snowy vista pictures I was going to photograph for you this morning? Well, there was snow lying last night, but the rain melted it all before I got up, and I was up at 7:30 to put the rubbish out. Then I went back to bed again. May as well get the long lies while I still can. However, the weather seems to be on the downhill, so anything is still possible. Perhaps tomorrow there will be several inches of snow. As for tonight, my father is meant to be coming home from offshore, having worked through Christmas and New Year, but he's practically in the Arctic Circle, so he might not get off after all. I ususally go and pick him up from the train station if he's late, as the buses from the station stop after about 7 pm.

That's why every one around here is so eager to ditch their cars and use public transport (implied sarcasm). Are you listening politicians? The trains and buses are not only ridiculously expensive, but they are always late, the trains in particular. When you want to be somewhere by a certain time, spending an extra hour on the train as it crawls along at about 5mph, is absolutely infuriating. But that's how it is here. Think yourself lucky to be somewhere else. Or, perhaps not. Clearly there are worse places to be. But they probably still have better public transport.

The latest hobby that the wife and I have fell into, is surfing through Bebo to see if people we know have accounts and then laughing at their photos of themselves posing ridiculously. Have they no shame? Clearly there are a lot of people around here with a very high opinion of themselves.

Let's All Join Hands!

Hah, yesterday I discovered the joys of Bebo, sort of. I don't have any intention of making a page for myself on Bebo, but I'd heard that there were some pics from the mother-in-law's 60th birthday party, on a relative's Bebo page. So, obviously when my wife found out that her picture was on there too, she insisted that I look it up so she could see how horrible the photo was (typical women eh?).

So, it was easy enough to find the page we were looking for, we had a look at the photos, then of course we recognised some of the friends listed, so we went to their pages too. Before you knew it we were howling with laughter at hilarious pictures of relatives, friends and even our next-door neighbours. It's a very odd thing though, looking at someone's photos like that, it feels as though you've broken into their house and are rummaging through their belongings.

The one thing we did notice though, is that the sort of person who has a listing on Bebo, and uploads loads of photos of themselves, are clearly vanity personified. Every single one of them was posing and pouting and clearly of the opinion that they looked fantastic. However, my experience tells me that only ugly people are convinced of their own beauty, just as idiots consider themselves to be the most intelligent people they know. How they come about this conviction I do not know, but I've seen it manifest itself innumerable times. It's a social distortion, just like someone very intelligent is unlikely to make a fortune. But, someone a bit dim is far more likely to earn themselves a fortune, because taking stupid risks is the key. In that respect perhaps intelligence and beauty are double-edged swords!