Andy Gray sacking

Hi again, yeah it's been a while blah blah.......I saw this in the 'news' (well on Sky, so doesn't say much. I think the BBC isn't covering it, probably because they aren't allowed to plus they probably don't care), where Andy Gray has been sacked for 'inappropriate' comments, well sexist comments about a female linesmen ('linesperson?') who he jokingly mocked for 'not understanding the offside rule'.

Now despite being actually quite funny (yes all funny jokes are always at someones/somethings expense), the poor guy first got cautioned (or something like that) then for another 'incident' (bascially just some banter with a female colleague) was sacked.

Two things struck me by this. Firstly, he was off-air when the comments were made. Meaning imagine if someone recorded everything you said at home/away from work and used it against you. Everyone of us would say something controversial, worthy of sacking. So where is the scumbag who ratted the poor guy out?

Secondly, it was a comment so taken out of context, as a joke. Since when can you not have any banter or laughs anymore? Oh no wait, the World has gone so friggin PC, you cant say your own name without offending someone.

It's like this other Christian couple who have been shafted (well not literally......whoops, has that offended someone?!) by two gay guys that were refused to lodge at their B & B. While they are appealing against the verdict, it's a weird situation. On the one hand the law states that as they are listed as a public service (I suppose is the reason), they cannot legally turn away anybody (well I'd be pretty pissed if I had to let a known murderer stay at my B & B). Instead, which I am more sympathetic to, that it is their private business and you can 'almost' set your own rules (or apparently not), so if you don't want to let someone stay, you can choose right?!

Well the law is the law (despite how totally cocked some of the rules are) so I doubt their appeal will come to much. The funny thing is its a double standard, the fact that these are Christian, apparently doesn't mean anything, but what if they were Muslim? Would it make a difference? Well I guess we all know the answer to that........

Almost Xmas

This weekend was a first again for me- I managed to drive into a ditch. No, sorry there arent any hilarious photos (honest I promise), but basically the snow depth in Uppsala at the mo, is very deep. We went off down the beaten-track to find a shop and the road got tight. I moved over, the other car didnt bother, I moved a bit more, then suddenly I got sucked down into the abyss.

Luckily, the next driver who actually stopped (yeah thanks for driving off nob) knew the local farmer, who literally 5 mins after, came with his tractor, winched us out and job done.

It could have been worse- take my trip back from squash in Stockholm today. The snow storm today has been crazy, you cant really see anything on the roads and obviously a fellow driver found out the hard way. Just on the Arlanda sliproad, there were 2 ambulances, 1 police car and 3 firetrucks, next to a car facing the wrong way, on its roof! Hopefully they came out of it alive, was not good to see.

I just wanted to write a quick one to say me and Johanna are expanding our family.....It's a boy.

No not quite what you think, it's a male alright, named Oskar. I haven't got any pics myself but the person who I bought him off (no really, he's not from Thailand, it's not like that!) kindly provided me with a few samples, one of which is shown below:

He's 7 months old and the technical full name is a Baldy super hypo tangerine carrottail (thats his polymorphism) leopard gecko, otherwise known as Oskar.

Charlie stared at him for a good few minutes when he got home, so now we are officially a zoo. We have a dog, a lizard, and a monkey, well and me.

So Xmas round the corner, I've been a good boy this year so Santa Johanna better get me something good.....

Says it all about England

Hope this link works, a true summary of why I will never go back to the hole!

Busy bee

Moving flat, concert in Stockholm and a trip to New York. Normally this wouldn't be an issue I hear you say, but they happened on three consecutive days......

The fallout from this was in a word, tough. The day after our little big apple break, I had a presentation then two days later, a four hour lecture on T-cells.......

Big deal right? Stop whinging I hear you say.....well minus a mini-disaster on our return flight (in summary- our seats were released because we were late, well that's the airlines story, but we were in fact very much on time.....can tell you more if you're interested), jet-lag and a slightly dented/mishaped car (also a story in itself, absolutely not the person in questions fault (poor girl) but friggin buses....), all our things are in boxes, magically disappearing when trying to find lets say, underwear.....you know, things you kind of need unless you want to smell like a tramp (which I don't by the way).

Ok, I really shouldn't moan at all, we have a very large (in comparison to our last) flat, been on a great holiday and I really think I have the best lady in the world, so nothing bad whatsoever actually.

I might put some pics up soon, of NY I mean, pretty awesome place. My reason for posting something was to just clarify I have not left this planet (well may be not physically, may be mentally) and I'm still here. We've had the first snow of the winter, although it's quickly melting, our little bear thinks it's quite fun- my arm at the end of the leash thinks otherwise........

Sod it

Here are a couple of Biffy Clyro songs from their newest album. Can you tell they're Scottish?!

Bubbles:

Many of Horror:

Don't listen to it all, but see if you can understand the normal chat:

Trapt, Alter Bridge and Biffy Clyro

Well well, it's that amazing time of year where for some reason, lots of bands release new albums and tour quite a bit. That time has arrived for a few of the groups I like, so I have acquired some new albums, completely legit.

I have the luxury of having tickets for Alter Bridge and Biffy Clyro, so can't wait to see them. I found a very crappy video (well it has misspelt lyrics) of Trapt's new album titled song, No Apologies. I think it's a pretty good song so have a listen:

Mini update as I can't really be arsed to write much:

We move to our new flat on 1st November. Charlie weighs over 31 kg now (7.5 months old). England squash players won a clean sweep of medals in Commmonwealth games- guess what? No-one cares! If the British press realized they wouldn't know how to report such success as we are truelly useless as a nation normally. My knee is getting better, I have a squash tournament this weekend, so will see if it falls off.

That'll do donkey, that'll do....

The bear

Just realized I haven't really put any pictures of our dog up. Here's a nice one we took a month ago (6 months old).