Thugs and bitches make the world happy
The Independent on Sunday has published its antidote to the rich list, which it calls the Happy List of 100 people who make Britain a better and a happier place to live.
These include Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the worldwide web, cricketer and fundraiser Ian Botham, and author and philanthropist JK Rowling.
Who the hell makes these lists up?
Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t deserve a place. While he can’t be blamed for Russia and China ruining the web by flooding it with billions of spam messages, slowing it down, closing down mail servers, and providing smutty, pornographic, insulting, adverts to the mailboxes of the world, we wouldn’t have them if he hadn’t invented the web.
Ian Botham – who are they kidding?
Botham is nothing more than an upper-class English boor and thug, who escaped the punishment he deserved for assaulting a police officer simply by virtue of his celebrity status. Any of the rest of us would have been carted off, thrown in a cell, prosecuted, locked up and forgotten. Mt Thuggy makes a sympathy plea, and walks away with a pat on the head.
JK Rowling – the corporate bitch from hell.
I’ve never read so much (or so little since I had to bin the book after a only a few line – what a pile of crap). However, the important thing about Rowling is to beware of threatening the witch’s billion (she was recently announced as a dollar billionaire – shouldn’t that have excluded her from the Happy List if it’s supposed to be an antidote to the Rich List?), god help you if you happen to produce anything that spins off from anything she might have her claws in. She can afford to take you to court and claim it’s hers by right – AND SHE WILL!
The real Happy List
What would make a real Happy List?
For the Auld Git, this would probably be a list of something like 100 high places, steep mountains, deep valleys, seaside cliffs and the like, preferably with the opportunity to see people like Botham and Rowling being thrown off them for good measure, and Winehouse on a bungee that was just a fraction longer than the drop.
