Is it Gay to Moisturise?

A young man sat next to me on the flight from Dubai to Doha yesterday. We didn’t speak and there is nothing wrong with that. So my question is, is it gay to moisturise?

 

This man sat down and applied moisturiser to his face. Then he went to sleep. I was rather offended that he turned his back on me as he got himself comfy. He slept almost all of the 40 minutes it took to get from Dubai to Doha. On arrival the man then got out another potion and sprayed his face with it. I don’t suppose it was fly spray!

 

Just a thought.

 

DW

Is it really THAT bad?

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alastair Darling is reported to have said that the British Economy is in its worst state for more than 60 years: according to BBC World that is.

 

If that is true then we really are in the mire. Remember the devaluation of 1967? How about Denis Healy having to go cap in hand to the IMF month after month and anyone going abroad was limited to taking £50 with them. Then there were the Thatcher years: with that disastrous Chancellor Nigel Lawson followed eventually by the equally questionable Normal Lamont.

 

I have lived through bad times in the UK then so if it’s the worst for 60 years then it must be bad.

 

Then again, this is some sort of payback for the country living on credit for the last 15 years or so. The boom of the Blair years have now come to a head: all of those people wearing Armani clothes, driving a new BMW and carrying Louis Vuitton bags are having to shop at Aldi and Lidl now as their credit has run out. This is REALLY what Darling is talking about, not the credit crunch from the USA. The credit crunch is merely a symptom of gross mismanagement by governments all over the Western world.

 

Who will suffer, though? Hmm, let me think about that.

 

DW

 

 

US Presidential Circus

Living in hotels for week after week as I often do, it is very difficult for me to avoid the American Presidential Election Pantomime (you can quote me and call it the APE Pantomime, but don’t forget to ascribe it to me!). Since I am not American I do not get a full grasp of what they are doing. However, as an outsider I do know that Obama has inflicted himself on the world’s public for almost two years. Obama and Ms Clinton started their campaigns a year early because they knew it would be tough for them. In addition, they are both so hungry (many say greedy) for power that they needed a massive start on the competition.

 

Well, it worked and in the end the only two Democratic candidates in the ring were those two people. Now they are down to one!

 

Well, apart from being sick to death of the process and telling an American colleague that they could take a leaf out of the British Political book and spend just THREE WEEKS on their general election campaigns, I was distressed yesterday.

 

What happened yesterday? McCain, the oven fried Republican candidate (already 72 years old, extremely boring and an appalling public speaker in my opinion), announced his Vice Presidential nominee candidate: a woman, Sarah Palin. Nothing wrong with a woman. What got me was her strident and grating voice: eeugh! She looks presentable and I might even say pretty. But that voice. I have heard her speak for a total of about 30 seconds and it made me wonder how she managed to have five children with a voice like that!! No offence, ma’am ... in case you get the job!!

 

These are the political insights you don’t get everywhere!

 

 

DW

 

 

 

The UN: plus ca change ...

I am seething!

 

I am in a nice hotel in Khartoum. Outside there are many spotlessly clean but very large 4x4 cars with UN in big letters on them.

 

At the airport it looked to me as if there was an entire area comprising only UN planes and helicopters.

 

Having seen these people  in operation in Malawi, I dread to think what they are up to here.

 

They come for years these UN people and sound the death knell for the country they inflict on themselves on.

 

If I get to talk to any of them I will tell them that I would be able to get them all sent home within around a your providing they gave me a staff of no more than 100 men to work them out with their jobs.  As I did that I am very confident that I would have resolved most if not all of the problems facing the Sudan at the moment.  Brave words but give me a chance and I would get rid of the misery.

 

DW

Mick Channon

Sorry to hear that Mick Channon has been hurt in a car crash. A good footy player from years ago.

Gulf Today introduced this story by saying that former football ace and racing horse trainer is in a STABLE condition.

I kid you not!

DW
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The Burj Dubai

I think it's a magical looking building and here is a snap wot I took in June, just a few weeks ago. I went down to the Burj that day to take photos of it in daylight, at twilight and at night. I think it is a highly photogenic bit of architecture and am looking forward to the day I can go inside it and to the top of it ... DW

Walking in Dubai

I went for a walk this afternoon in Dubai. Wow, that was a hot, hot, hot thing to do. It took me about an hour and a half to stop sweating.

 

Near the clock tower there is an advert for a watch with that duff actor George Clowney as the USP. As if!

 

DW

Olympics 14

I thought I had finished chatting about the Beijing Olympic games and then some utter clown thought it would awfully outre to include an image of Myra Hindley in a promotional video of London.

Hindley was jailed for her part in luring five children and young people into the arms of her lover Ian Brady. Brady then abused, tortured amd murdered these unfortunate people.

Hindley and Brady dumped the bodies of their victims on moorland. Tragically there is one young lad whom these monstrous people killed who is still on the moors somewhere: unfound and alone. The poor lad's mother has spent her life since his death desperately looking for him.

So do you think London should have shown an image of that awful woman celebrating the city?

The good news is that Hindley died in prison.

DW

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Olympics 12a

In spite of any impression I might have created to the contrary, I have enjoyed the Beijing Olympics.

Team GB has done pretty well but I have been keen to point out the errors of some of our delusional athletes. The athletes who were only hopeful and not driven. The athletes draped in bling and tattoos and dyed hair showed how they were diverting their energies away from a superior performance.

The final moan concerns the high five. Who has taught these people to hug each other and dish out high fives at the least opportunity? Just ridiculous in my opinion.

End of the Olympics.

Now for the Paraympics where things will be so much better.

DW
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Short of Nothing

These things pop into one's head don't they?

My mother, RIP, used to say she was short of nothing she hadn't got. I suddenly just thought about that and for the first time ever, I decided to try to understand what it meant. I concluded by thinking what a clever little saying it is.

I don't know if mother created the saying or not but I like it.

DW
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eGate Card

My eGate card let me down as I arrived at DXB on Saturday morning. However, you can rejoice now because I went to the eGate office and had it set up again.

Praise be!!

DW
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