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A lesson in misanthropy This blog is not for all of you. I've been a journalist for 10 years and you may assume that arrogance and or vanity is the dynamo that drives this little foray into cyberspace. Well, you'd be right and wrong. Here's Point Zero , as Camus would have described my starting position. What you need to know is that in this life 80 per cent of everything is shit, that's everything; people, food, drink, the clothes you wear, the stuff you read or watch on TV, everything, but mostly people. Those of you who know what I'm talking about stand up and be counted among the 20somethings, per cent that is. The rest of you will be upset, but then, as I said, this blog ain't for you so as you are part of life's vast reserve of flotsam, tough shit, go fuck yourselves.Think about it, most people out there, about 80 per cent, are basically useless. They can't spell, they don't read, they can't talk properly, have no social graces. They're the ones mostly employed by the Government in makeweight jobs, subsidised by the taxpayer to keep them off the street and off the jobless statistics. You ring up to find out about tax you've overpaid and need refunded, a simple query, and the girl on the other end of the line asks you a number of personal questions totally unrelated to your request, date of birth, NI number, then in an attempt to transfer your call to the person you should really be dealing with loses you in the digital morass of extensions that constitute the workings of their makeweight world. Eventually, too stressed to continue, you opt to write a letter instead, hoping there are a few 20 percenters still running the show on behalf of their mentally challenged colleagues. Ironically the ones who can do their jobs are mostly near pensionable age and are on their way out of the world of work. I haven't, as yet, mentioned the defectives who don't or cannot hold down a job in the first place, but more on them another time. Think about this, the next ten people you talk to, how many of them do you really think were worth the trouble their mothers went to give birth to them? I bet not more than two.
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by Gerry Cooke
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