Nixta Sinks

Don't let 'em become rich

The Doc points to this article in his favourite rag (they do have fine crosswords) which suggests that over the past 35 years over 142 people a year have died because we switch from BST to GMT once a year.

I am not sure why this is. Do they die of internal burns trying to wolf down a cup of too-hot-to-drink PG tips? Are they unable to negotiate the streets on the way to the tube whilst that one hour sleepier. Maybe they surprise the Bogeymen (who change clocks a week later). The Grauniad should tell us, rather than just throwing worthless information at us as if we just didn't care (GQ would have done their research and given us the low-down, and if not them, FHM). Although the other reasons seem fairly sensible, if the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is advocating making life safe for dumbasses, I say move the clocks back more.

I would posit then that we ought to be doing more to allow dumbasses to expire at an early age. They're taking jobs from our qualified members of society (and not doing them well). They're filling up our favourite holiday destinations using their ill-gotten gains to get there in quantities that allow shit airlines to survive (providing levels of service that only utter dumbasses would enjoy). They're giving humanity a bad name and the Chinese something to really laugh at. They're making going out for dinner a positively repulsive experience (even though in London all restaurants try to make it really really too expensive to eat) and they go a very long way towards cluttering our lives with media infotainment we just don't want: Big Brother (how much do their txt message centers rake in?), Wife Swap, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Little Britain, Oprah, almost anything on Fox TV, USB powered doohickies, The Daily Mirror.

If you can't get up an hour earlier without killing someone or dying, you probably don't deserve that paycheck, or that valuable clear crisp early-morning air.