Ever noticed how people who kill out of the blue are all lovely folk who would never hurt a fly and are always good with kids/animals/mechanical things?
Yesterday in Spain, a woman who gave birth to a baby boy in a hotel room allegedly strangling him to death minutes after he came into the world. In a press interview a few hours later, she was described by friends as a "good mother"...
When Ian Huntley was arrested after the murder of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, neighbours said he was a lovely quiet bloke and they didn't believe he did it.
However, oddly, no-one ever said that about Stalin or Hitler. At the end of World War II, no-one ever said: "That Herman Goering, what a lovely man! I can't believe he was complicit in the murder of more than six million people - he used to weed my garden of a Saturday morning".
It's always struck me as wierd, people need to be told someone is inherently evil before they'll believe it. Look at the facts - woman in room, covered in blood, dead child hidden in a towel that was by her feet, the post mortem reveals the baby was strangled to death and still people say "she was a good mother!" as if there's a broad chance that a passing child murderer broke in and killed th baby when she wasn't looking - unlikely isn't it?
So, is it blind faith in humankind that makes people act this way, the inability to comprehend that someone can do something truly awful or we just a bunch of bleating sheep who need to be told that it's time to be appalled by a particular action?
So, Glastonbury Festival has been and gone, the tent thieves have dispersed across the country and the Pikeys have stopped selling drugs to da kids and gone back to the business of buggering up people's driveways with cheap tarmac.
This year saw a departure for Glasto with "top" rapper Jay-Z headlining the main stage - a controversial decision for many.
However, I do believe the following quotes from "top" UK Hip-Hop DJ Tim Westwood clears up the situation:
"Before Jay-Z headlined Glastonbury on Friday night, I spoke to him for
Radio 1 and 1Xtra. Jay was like a boxer with that glint in his eye. He
was focused and relaxed, he was confident and his swagger juice was dripping.
"But it's all good. Jay would have hit that stage a little softer if he
wasn't energised by the fightdown [pre-gig name-calling with Britain's greatest monobrow owner Noel Gallagher]. Us guys in this game, we thrive on
that, it gives us a new energy. When you've come from the bottom up,
that sort of fightdown just gets you focused and in the right place."
So there you go, the world has been put to rights by a 51-year old, middle class, well-off Church of England Bishop's son who's as white as an albino but thinks he's black, which begs the question, when he refers to "us guys" coming from the "bottom up" is he really talking about himself - after all, how many Bishop's sons live on council estates and have to get by on the social - not many that's for sure, especially if they're spilling swagger juice all over the place (what the hell is swagger juice???).
To sum in words he's sure to understand: Tim Westwood, you is a twat, innit?
So it came to pass that the BBC reported on their website that strict new rules were being considered to make it MORE difficult to get IVF treatment on the NHS, and verily did Crussell post a slightly snotty response to the relevant forum on their site.
