The Knitting Revolutionary

The case of the confused call centre

Phone: Ring ring

Me: Hello?

Phone: ...

Me: He-LOOOO?

Phone: ... *hiss*

Me: Hellohellohelloooooooo!

Phone: *call centre noise kicks in* Hello, is that Miss (partner's surname, which is different to mine)?

Me: Miss who?

Phone: Miss (partner's surname)

Me, cheerfully and truthfully: No darling, there's no Miss (partner's surname) here, sorry! *hangs up*

*cackle*

Yeah, I know it's a crappy job, I used to do it. Hanging up quickly is a mercy, and saves them time trying to suck up to someone they'd rather not talk to either. Hehehe...

Stoopidest thing I heard all week

Stoopidest thing I heard anyone say this week (it was on the radio):

"Yeah, being on stage was like losing my virginity for the first time."

...zomg! You can lose it more than once?

Young Christians will be so pleased. *snort*

Angry angry angry

Grr.

I was talking to a woman today who stated firmly that she thought feminists were all wrong, had it all wrong, and that men and women are just not meant to be equal. Uhhh... right.

"Look at our origins", she said. "Men were hunter-gatherers, women stayed at home, men brought the food home. That was it. That's why we are like we are now".

"Soooo", I replied slyly, "you mean as in 10,000 years ago? Evolution's natural course?"

"Yes", she replied.

"Aren't you Christian?" I asked.

She... didn't like me pointing this out a whole lot. The conversation degenerated into her telling me her opinion, and me masking my rising and completely unexpected rage. I didn't really reply to anything after that, and extracted myself as quickly as I could. I see no point in continuing conversations with people who haven't properly thought through their opinions, and who claim enough of evolution to support their half-baked theories, and enough of religion to claim some sort of superiority.

I didn't expect to feel so angry about this. But... willing female submission makes me so utterly furious. And people who attack feminism make me equally furious. The definition of feminism is so innocuous it's just ridiculous, what's so scary about it? Feminism does NOT mean "I hate men". Feminism does NOT mean "Men should be stomped on and they can see what it's like". It means equality. I think the social equality bit of the definition is the hardest one.

But, I digress. The conversation had been about why men often act as though they can't do stuff like remember their appointments, or put vacuum cleaners together, or cook, or whatever. Her point was that they weren't designed for this and shouldn't be expected to. Because their job was to be the hunter, and get the dead animal, and that's it. Uh huh. Totally logical. It doesn't surprise me so much to hear this utter fucking bullshit coming out of the occasional male mouth. But it just HURTS to hear it coming from a woman. How utterly revolting.

So, yah. Whaddya do? Me, I bite my tongue, and feel angry, and blog it, and get over it.

*sigh*

NOOOOO!!!

Oh fer gawd's sake.

I know how to spell. And I know how to use grammar. Most of the time I choose to bend these rules somewhat, so that I can introduce some form of life to my blog. You know. Like starting a sentence with and. Or the overuse of that little collection of full stops which means "flippy hand movements and gestures".

But... (hand gestures indicating exasperation) ...they really couldn't be serious, could they?

Actually they were serious. It really was free. And it could be YOUR'S FREE TOO!

*snicker*

Oh... just as an aside, I know the word is "snigger". These days I don't write it like that though, because it seems that profanity filters screen it out, because it happens to be a rather offensive word with an s tacked on to the front of it. So now I write "snicker". It's close enough.

Where was I? Your's. Wow. Whoever proof reads this stuff needs their arse kicked. Other than that, the little free promotional mag for an Australian craft store wasn't too bad (should I name them and help promote them? Or remain silent, and help them cover their shame?).

It's got a couple of free patterns in it, nothing you can't find on Knitty anyhow, you know, chunky jumpers, plain shawls, beanies and stuff. A really cool idea of backing your knitted cushions with felt or polar fleece. Sweet. And the rest of the mag seemed to be grammatically correct enough to satisfy my inner grammar avenger.

Ah, what the hell. I'll dob em in, since overall I rather liked the mag, including their cute little discount vouchers on the back page. Mostly I liked the fact that I could have a stickbeak through it and see what they've got for sale at the moment, as I don't often get into the store to look in person, and when I do I always buy silly cute things that I don't actually need. Hehe. You can sign up for it on their website, www.lincraft.com.au

Get your's today! Free! Really!!!