All we want is wild abandon, don’t want life down in the ordinary

Why do some people think it alright to mock my accent, and then when I dare to retort get all huffy? This mocking was along the lines of you don’t speak English rather than the I can’t understand a word you are saying route. Of course, those two statements are different. I know that. You know I know that. I am just being mischievous and socio-linguistically disruptive. But you knew that, too. I get back to the point.

Why assume people are thick because they don’t talk like someone from deepest Essex? (Oh, hang on, I am.) What presume people have no clue because their sentence construction is just that bit more contorted than someone from the Estuary end of English? (Oh, hang on, I don’t.) So people start talking to me in a slightly aggressive tone, to which I (only mildly, it must be said) respond in kind, then I get the evil eye? Come on. And no, I wasn’t nasty. I have only been mild, rising to irritated, German Bight, North Utsire, cyclonic, 9.

I got to thinking. Sure, people always know I can take it, but there is a line, people, when the invective gets to be a discrimination case. And I never forget anything that is said to me. Just be aware. Oh, right, some of you are aware of that. It felt like Friday (in the a-week-of-work-done-already, not the wahey!-weekend way) yesterday. And today it felt the same. I have no idea why. I blame the drawing in of the nights. Svalbard, you say? Scams, you say? I say perhaps, yes, maybe, sure. I am glad the ability to write nothing here hasn’t diminished in my stuttering weblawg life. I have nothing to say.

There is live code, ack alright then, almost live, that has a SOAP API, and I give you two of the calls:

sub kitteh {
  'i is in ur codez, returnin valyooz'
}

sub halp {
  'hai, i made u an ecksepshyun,
    but i throo it :('
}

Too much time on their hands, those developers. Or not enough. It amounts to the same thing.

Pad on the other knee