OK, I had to go and pick up Nick and Kirsty so I didn't get to finish this last night.

It's a beautiful day today and I was possibly supposed to be meeting up with someone but they didn't get back to me so I'm now just playing the waiting game before the store tonight.

Last time I got booed, so I'm hoping it won't be repeated.

Anyway I was talking about my facebook account. I'm fed up of getting asked to join groups and add applications. It's annoying. And whilst I was looking through which groups I'd been asked to join I saw two from a friend.

Two facebook groups with morals at the other end of the spectrum from each other, asked by the same person.

I don't believe in moral absolutes, but I just believe in having some level of consistency in your personal beliefs.

the first group was a petition against an artist, though all through the description the term artist was imprisoned in inverted commas, as if it is the nature of the audience to decide what is and what isn't art. Marcel Duchamp's description is the best description of art I've heard "If I call it art, it's art."

Anyway, the group was a petition against the artist Guillermo Vargas, who had a dog tied up in a gallery with phrases written in dog food across the walls, the press suggested that he starved the dog to death. this didn't happen, the dog was there for 3 hours before being released and fed.

This isn't enough for facebook the place where you still get petitions to stop the killers of James Bulger from being released, even though they were released years ago. Essentially it's people who don't check out the full facts and believe what they read on facebook.

I'd have let this go, but for the fact that the same person who sent me that sent me an invitation to join a group to "bring back Nestle secret bars" A chocolate bar from nestle.

Would that be the same Nestle who were one of the top offenders on a world health organisation list of unethical companies, and whose policy on baby milk in africa contributes to the death of 1.2 million children every year?

Yes, yes it would.

So one dog being hungry for a bit is enough to get her ire, but not the death of 1.2 million per year in the name of capitalism where a price can be put on a life.

Even if the dog had starved to death, it's one dog, 1.2 million children every year.

I'm going to send them a message just saying "you're a fucking idiot" and then delete them from my friends list.

I love you all

xXx

(except the fucking idiots)

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