I’m back, I’m English and I’m a little concerned over the state of my Country. I’ve been writing this column in various formats for a while now and it seemed a good time to drag it out like the old chestnut it is and give it a bit of Robot Panic polish for you all. So for those who don’t know me, haven’t got a clue what this is all about and stuff… well my name is Phil, I’m an egotistical and opinionated bastard at the best of times and this little blog is my way of venting about a) my life and b) living in this beautiful yet somehow screwed up Country.

So I guess even though it’s the middle of summer and still raining and cold in the UK I feel the time is right to talk about air conditioning, or should I say the lack-of. It’s one of those strange things I’ve come across whilst travelling to various countries over the years – every other country has it and for some reason we don’t seem to care. It strikes me as odd that a number of countries with far worse economies and cooler weather than we have seem to place an importance on this important convenience in life when we don’t. Maybe we’re just too tight. Maybe we’re just too English.

The timing of this thought may seem a little odd given the current weather situation mentioned above but I happened on this line of thought a few weeks back having acquired the first form of aircon in my own house. Now here’s the thing, this isn’t aircon per se, I’m simply talking about a vertical tower fan which is – to be honest – not much more than a glorified desk-fan. That said, I’ve been blown away by the difference it has made to my own living conditions during some of the more humid and hot times (a few weeks back now). Naturally, I now have no idea how I lived without this shit and it’s not even real aircon.

My place of work is another offender when it comes to aircon, which to be fair exists in some form, it simply never works. Now this is an office of around 3,000 people and a matching amount of PC’s and equipment to heat up. Funnily enough, the heating works in the summer and the aircon in the winter – I kid you not, never the other way around. (Also amusing is that the air is always ‘just right’ in Directorate). Another reason for me thinking about this is a conversation I had with my guitar tutor who lives in Pennsylvania over Skype and he was frankly shocked at the lack of aircon when I told him. In fact, I think his reaction was more disbelief than anything. I mean how can one of the most developed countries in the world not care about aircon? Yes we are too English and too tight.
In other news, Fox-Hunting may be rearing its ugly head once more in these beautiful lands after the next election. You see, our current Prime Minister (Gordon Brown) is hated, seriously hated. Not only for his lack of facial expressions and insanely boring voice, but he is also only in power due to the technicality that Tony Blair left and he has never been voted into office. He’s merely there by default at this point and should have called for an election last year but backed out once the opinion polls pretty much guaranteed that he wouldn’t make it back into office.

Now this is important because the only alternative (David Cameron of the Conservative Party) has said that when he gets into power he’ll abolish the law that banned Fox Hunting a couple of years back. This is a law that got an overwhelming majority of votes in favour of not once but twice so that it could get past the un-elected House of Lords who all wanted to keep the law as they are – well murderous bastards (when it comes to Foxes). Now Fox Hunting is about as barbaric a sport as you could ever come across and the idea that it would still go on and that there are people out there who think it is not only a good idea but also fun disturb me. How in the hell is it possible to be proud and accepting of a country with such moronic and barbaric people living in it?

The worst thing though is the unsavoury choice I’d have when they call for the next election… vote for:

a) The most boring guy on the planet who effectively stole out of our pensions then screwed up the economy
b) A Tony Blair clone who wants to reintroduce Fox Hunting.
Either way isn’t good and I don’t believe in not voting so that option is out also.
Oh what a lovely country I’m living in. Now you can see why I refer to it as the Minus World.

Philthy

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