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| The hot water in my flat appears to be fucked, I had a very unsatisfying shower this morning. I had another evening in last night, noticed the BBC was showing the Wales Brazil friendly so had a quick look. One thing that instantly put me off was that presenter fella, think he is called maniche. You know, he has the plastic face and absolutely no personality whatsoever. Normally on Football Focus and is just scarily like some sort of presenting robot from the future. He's just so bland that it actually offends me, there's plenty of presenters/pundits that I can't stand but at least there is something there to not like, 'Maniche' is just .... nothing. Even when they are rubbish they can be entertaining, I remember watching John Barnes doing his first presenting effort on 5 a few years ago and it was ace, he was so car-crash TV bad that it just made him engrossing to watch. I still tune in when he's on to see that blank eyed look staring out of the TV. The kick-off was delayed so they had obviously just told them to keep talking about any old shit, 'let's state the obvious for 45 minutes'. Neville Southall must have begun every other sentence with 'To be fair to him....'. And Lee Dixon has to be one of the most boringly voiced men ever created. Popped it on mute and decided to read for a bit Decided I will read one science/philosophy type book alongside a history/current affaris book from now on, gives a good balance. I'd bought a book about the Rwanda genocide written by the commander of the peacekeeping force that was in the middle of it. Even the introduction was harrowing and hearing him talk about how many breakdowns and counselling he's had to have. I'm not afraid to say I cried my eyes out reading just the introduction. I find it hard reading books like this but I certainly appreciate the perspective it can give me on life. 800,000 people killed in a few months as the western world did absolutely nothing. Sickening. It was actually the most efficient genocide ever, the amount killed in the timescale is unmatched even by the Nazis with all their vile apparatus and camps, but this was carried out almost toally with machetes. I dread to think what this peacekeeping fella saw in his time there and just to read how broken he is now is so terribly sad. Just had a look at the reviews on Amazon for it and this one stuck out:- "In our lifetime we only read a few books that truly redefine how we see the world and our fellow human beings – the very worst behaviours imaginable on one side and the highest levels of courage on the other. This must be one such book. Read it and be appalled how we can sit in our cosy homes and, in ignorance maybe, allow such barbarity to go on. What is worse, we let our governments dither and debate the legal niceties of what is meant by “genocide”. We in the so-called civilised West should hang our heads in shame that we allowed this to happen, while each country insisting it was someone’s else responsibility to sort it out. The book is unsentimental yet so very painful. Nearly every page punches you emotionally. Romeo Dallaire, having put his life on the line in Rwanda, now puts his story to print as a testimony to man’s inhumanity but shows us in that in these extreme circumstances, there are some few individuals who are worthy of our greatest respect and gratitude. These few reclaim some semblance of pride we might hope to see in ourselves. No book has ever made me cry – this one did." | ||
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