Grist to the Mill

07 January, 2007

SEPTUAGENARIAN

Check out Septuagenarian's blog over on the 'links' column, even if it is a bit gloomy this week with the death of one of his mates. He's taken a fantastic digial photo of a Christmas decoration. Septuagenarian is something like cult reading. He's a parody even of himself, with his incessant grumbling about 'lax Brittanicans', 'terminal economic and social decline', etc. etc. He's a man who takes earplugs to his social club on New Year's Eve. He has such a problem with women he can't even bring himself to spell the word correctly (unless, which seems unlikely, he's a right-on PC exponent attempting to rid the word of its androcentric component by masking the word 'men'). He's so full of contradictions - not least, continually berating all and sundry for their lazy work ethic while himself taking early retirement back in his 50s and steadfastly resisting any work since - not even voluntary work which he thinks is for 'do gooders' and hypocrite busybodies. It amazes me that he will criticise everyone, indiscriminately, for laziness in spite of avoiding work for, what, a good twenty years? At least he's honest, I suppose.

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