26.06.03 - Elephants
I was in the middle of explaining to my sister how I thought that a miniature giant would probably look very much like a normal person when I was called to go out and help bring the shopping in. Once outside I noticed what can only be described as a a couple of humans. They were staring at me. Now I'm used to humans staring at me, heck I stare at other humans all the time too (usually these humans are female and Nipponese). But the way these humans were staring at me wasn't very pleasant (okay neither is the way I stare at Nipponese girls). Being an idiot, I stared back. They stared back. I stared back some more. They stared back some more more. My arms got tired from holding the shopping so I went in. And that was that.A couple of days ago I found out that those people were our neighbours from a few doors down. The skip man told us that he had been informed by Mr. Stary that he should not have lent his skip to us since we were pakis. The skip man corrected Mr. Stary with the fact that we were in-fact from Persia and so could not be considered pakis (presumably if we had been from India we were indeed pakis?). Apparently Mr. Frowny got a little agitated at this point and started to raise his voice. The skip man offered to "re-arrange [his] racist face". I don't think Mr. Frowny took him up on this excellent offer. Hilarity ensued. Probably.
Anywho when the skip man was telling us all this we couldn't help but laugh. This got me to thinking about how much things have changed in the last 10 years. It appears that it is in-fact now so ridicules that it's funny (or sad) when some one is racist. Ali-G for example - and no I'm not going to get into that whole "Oh but is he really being racist?" crap, I couldn't care less. So instead of feeling anger or any other negative emotions towards Mr. Frowny, we actually find him rather amusing in a melancholy way. It's like how we look at Neanderthals today, rubbing two babies together quickly to make fire and carrying in woman by the hair for making more babies (presumably babies were an important resource since they were vital for making fires). So we find them funny, and at the same time sort of feel sorry for them since they were too stupid to survive the arrival of modern man (but probably not too stupid to call tech-support desks). Our racist neighbour seems to be doomed to the same end.
In a 100 years time we'll be looking back thinking, "Wow. Monkeys in uniforms.", but more importantly we'll be thinking "Bloody hell! I'm 125 years old! Wohoo! I told you smoking is cool!"
I'd just like to point out for clarity's sake that I'm not talking about our next door neighbours, I'm talking about neighbours a few doors down. Our next door neighbours are wonderful people who lent me a shovel which I never intend to return. I'm planning on borrowing other things for keeps too, like their daughter (that's not related to my borrowing the shovel).
By the by, my GP32 came yesterday. The box had been opened and the unit was dirty. I put this down to UPS staff having dirty prying hands. I was more excited than a chicken having recently been relieved of the burdon of having a head. Until I realised that they don't give you a complimentary Smart Media Card. This means that I have to wait until Saturday to play around with this thing, but that's when I have to play around with the WI-FI station I'm buying that day. Also I'm going to attempt to go and see some humans that day (it's Roxanne's decleration party - I think I met her once or saw her on the street at some point in my life or I watched a film with that name in the title staring Steve Martin when he was funny - anyway I don't really care who she is, she's giving out free subways).
splinter "paki" khan