The art of knowing little

I am flattered at the amount of indignation my blog seems to have stirred up. I don't recall having ever been taken so seriously before. But there is one thing you must understand about me: I actually know very little about anything useful, and not a great deal that is useless either. (I did discover the other day that I could name the entire 1999-2000 Bradford City squad. But I think that just goes to prove my point.) I assumed such was evident from the fact that I gained a high mark in an English degree, which proves that what I am good at is making things up. If you have two much knowledge, there's a danger it might enter into your essays, and that would be a mistake. The essay I achieved the highest mark in was an essay that discussed the possibility that "The Waste Land" was a play. My tutor remarked that nobody had ever thought of this before. I suggest this may be due to the fact that it was in a book entitled "Poems by T.S. Eliot". If you weren't sure of the genre there was a clue in the name.

A bit like Anusol. I apologise for stooping to such levels, I am in a bit of a stream-of-consciousness mood and it just crossed my mind: why do the makers of Anusol feel the need to state "NOT to be taken by mouth"? You'd think the title made it pretty self evident what one was supposed to do with it.

Bizarre.

Anyway, I have been overly criticised on this and another blog for stating that more deaths have occurred in the name of religion than any other single cause. Apparently I am talking bollocks (I will happily admit I have a tendancy to talk bollocks, but just bear with me a sec). Dunno how many died in the Crusades, but it was a fair few. Dunno how many people were burned as witches and heretics, but again, it was a fair few. Currently people of various faiths are being persecuted in China and elsewhere in the name of religion (or more specifically the fact that they have one.) Similarly, Muslims and Jews are in various places persecuting others, whereas Christians seem to be content with just slagging off people who aren't as absolutely sanctimoniously perfect as they are. With the exception of outright despotism, and perhaps paranoia twinned with it (Stalin et al) I can't think of any other single cause that has resulted in so much bloodshed. Pop music, for example. Or even football. That would be interesting.

Have a good one.