Grumpy Old Women And The Happy Mission To Outer Space

I watched Grumpy Old Women last night. For those of you who don’t know it’s a show where cantankerous people complain about things. It’s a guilty pleasure and it contains the opinions of some people I admire such as Arabella Weir, Sheila Hancock and Jenny Eclair, and others I’ll watch if only for their articulate nature, like India Knight and Germaine Greer.

I like Grumpy Old Men too because it’s about life and little things that annoy you. Like Rick Stein railing against society because he’s forbidden from giving a diner in his restaurant an aspirin if they request it because that puts too much liability on him. Or Charlie Higson or Will Self talk about the ridiculous amount of road signs around these days.

The trouble with the show is that while Grumpy Old Men talks about the trials of modern life which are sent to wear us down, Grumpy Old Women spends a lot of time focusing on how shit men are and what’s annoying about being a women.

The narrator is even worse, she was talking about supermarkets last night and it wasn’t even about men, but there was a bit about how hard it id to find anything and the line was something like “and don’t bother sending a man, because he’ll only get it hopelessly wrong.”

I think I speak for all men when I say that we know how shit we are. And we know it’s fair for us to be prosecuted. That’s why we call each other “Man”. We use it as a term of endearment. It has become our N word.

Next week I’ll be looking back at The Mission. It’s three months on since I started and I said I’d report back here and say how that went in a quest for productivity and happiness.

Speaking of looking up, this weekend you’ve got the Geminids meteor shower. It’s expected to be a good one, so look towards Gemini on the moonless Sunday night. The shower, caused by an extinct comet, have been getting bigger and bigger every year and in the right conditions observers have seen around 120 meteors and hour. There was a full moon in 2005 and last year, but conditions are looking better this year with the new moon combined with potentially clear skies.

For more information, go here and follow on the night you can follow these guys http://twitter.com/Newburyas

Sorry this has been such a UK-focused post. With any luck you will find my apology British and endearing.

No? How about “bollocks”?

Have a great weekend.