Your reaction to this week’s topic depends on whether, like atheists and agnostics, we’re singing from the same hymn sheet.
Otherwise, my words will either annoy you or have no impact whatsoever. I’m not sure which reaction would be most disappointing after I’ve spent half a day setting my thoughts down in a coherent manner. Well, as near as I can.
There are some things in life that there can be no justification for.
The news is full of the worst examples every day, so I don’t need to paint you a picture.
But, as I may have said before, I could knock up a landscape for any readers willing to part with a vast amount of money – preferably in cash.
Well, it avoids troubling those overworked staff in my local bank who are programmed to answer every question they’re asked with, “Have you tried banking online?”.
Anti-social behaviour is something most of us have experienced in one of its many forms.
Some of the worst offenders are selfish people who listen to music on their phone on public transport without using earbuds or head-phones, so everyone else has to suffer.
There is absolutely no excuse for it.
And yet! On a recent TV discussion about this subject, some plonker actually said it didn’t worry them and people should be ‘free’ to listen to their favourite music on trains and buses.
I was staggered by their idiotic, badly thought-out comment. They were virtually saying it was okay for 30 individuals in a railway carriage to play music on their phones without earbuds!
Imagine the cacophony and how hellish that journey would be for everyone else? That this fool thought there was nothing wrong with annoying fellow passengers was very worrying.
I’ve always thought the “I can listen to whatever I want on my phone” brigade should be clapped in irons, placed in a rusty longboat and sent out to sea where they can listen to their music to their heart’s content.
And now I know who should man the tiller – the dimwit from that TV show!