Historias de la Gran Patranha

Aaaah... the world rolls slowly while I churn extra hours in the little world of my office. It seems as if reality is escaping me while I trawl through the undergrounds of London, appearing like an insubstantial, epyphanicky and quite stressed vision in radically different areas of the big city. Perhaps there is a trawl of little men following the "apparitions" of "Miss Gonzalez" and documenting them in Z class sci-fi magazines... Or perhaps the delusive the delusive half of your humble self is taking over.

Just to return to real life, Kleine Hexe, my cybercolleague from some other neck of the woods has returned online (hullo hinny!), a high military command has given quite sensible advice about the war in Irak, and someone has started a row that will take place in the emporium of those unsolvable queries of humanity (next to the egg and the hen). So, if a teacher wears the full veil (i.e. face covered too), it is bad for the kiddies because they cannot see her face. Teacher wisely replies; "what about blind chilren? they do not need to see the teacher's face to learn" (a simple point well made). But then GranPatranha churns out; "what about deaf children who lipread, or foreign children, like myself (yeah, I'm still a child), who, without seeing somebody's face find it quite difficult to understand completely what they say" (not such a simple point so well made, but a point is a point). Then "what about the right of expression of each individual - and to express their beliefs in this case". Then "what about our right when we go to an arab country to dress without covering our faces and sunbathe in bikinis if we want?". Then "what about.... (add argument at ease)"...

In the end, I am not sure whether I am for or against anything of this sort. In any case, I find it ridiculous that people have to create such a fuss about it (lady with cross necklace working for well known air company included) or try to regulate our daily behaviour or the way we dress. Mind you, I find it ridiculous when the saying "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" is just thrown to the dogs and everyone expects to find a piece of their homeland abroad (this includes tourists also, not just inmigrants / emigrants).

I am quite bad at playing the devil's advocate or at creating a definitive opinion on a topic, but hey, this can go on and on and on and on.... while the only truth that lies behind all this is that we will always feel threatened by difference ... "us", and "them", of course.