Hello again dear reader. An email bingleboop has just informed me that I have my very first comment. Avid readers will have noticed it under my first post, but I reprint it for your convenience:
Anonymous:
you have dog s*** tastes.
It's flattering that this person feels so comfortable with me that they are able to be this honest. It reminds me a little of my favourite YouTube comment of all time, left on a cleverly staged spoof video of a paddling pool accident. A few people are incredulous, a few people are taken in by the cgi, but one genius comes up with: 'If you think this is real I hope a dog licks your b***s'
Amazing: people are happy to publish these opinions to the world, even under the cloak of anonymity. Okay, we don't know who you are, but you do - doesn't it make you a little less happy to be you? It would almost make sense if my tastes were controversial, but photography? Stand up? Okay, classical music is asking for it and a cappella isn't 'hip hop' or whatever you kids are listening to these days, but why does it bother you? I suppose the serious point here is that anonymity and lightening fast communication mean it is easier than ever to say whatever you want to whoever you want, and its both a boon and a curse. The advice used to be to sleep on a letter, but there's no button for that on MSN. The facelessness of it makes it easy to say things which would be regrettable in a letter, embarrassing over the phone and dangerous face to face.
In other news, I discovered that shopping isn't always ghastly and that glass is not a liquid - just an 'amorphous solid'. Old window panes are thicker at the bottom because they were bad at making glass, and putting them the other way up would've been silly.
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