The Grumpy Guardian

At the recent Australian Film Awards Russsell Crowe played host. He walked on, carrying a telephone and warned people that if they stayed too long on the stage then they'd be saying, 'hello', to his little friend. He was sending himself up in regards to the incident in a New York hotel, earlier in the year, when he threw a telephone at a hotel employee. Amusing...well, yes actually.
I am not about to condone his behaviour - I think the word 'wrong' puts it in simple contents. In my opinion though his behaviour takes a back seat to the media coverage and attitudes towards what he did. Okay, so he got into a strop and threw a phone at someone, no-one wants to be on the end of that but if it has been anyone else it would have barely made the news.
The guy has paid his dues, said his apologises and is the first to criticise himself for his behaviour that day. Okay, so he's a BIG movie star, okay so his track record isn't exactly perfect, but nevermind all that...he's interesting. He's a 100% mascaline guy who's talented, intelligent and hard working. So, he has a temper, Hell you get on the wrong side of me and it won't be a phone slicing through the air towards you! The fact that he is able to, 'take the mick', out of himself makes it clear that he can laugh at himself and that's healthy if you ask me. If you behave like a jerk then at least have the decency to admit to it.
I'm sorry that the hotel employee got hurt, (I believe it wasn't anything serious), but I'm sure he has been compensated for it.
In future, I guess, Mr Crowe will be nothing but politness itself to hotel staff...maybe.

Amazing, it snowed. Where you ask, well, in various bits of the UK, (how the heck did that...), yes, a few inches of snow and little old Blighty has a fit. You would find it hard to believe that it has ever snowed here before. It's not that we weren't warned. Those nice BBC weather people have been threathening it for a few days, (don't you just love those BBC weather guys and gals almost as nice as the news presenters), but then, I guess, most of us didn't believe them. 'Snow, you say, no, not here, never get us here, not since the year blahblahblah has it snowed!' Yeah well, you tell that to the people who found themselves stuck at Bodmin yesterday.
The thing I found amusing, (there were a few things), was the police reaction. They knew it was going to snow but they didn't expect it to be that bad or something along those lines. Ahh, in other words you were caught slacking mate, just say so...just say that yes, you saw that nice weather person mention snow but you didn't believe them, then forgot about it and then whoosh you find yourself freezing your arse off trying to save an old-dear who's stuck in her car with all that white stuff around her.
Even the Army got caught up in it, which must have been a preference to having their rear-ends blown to the back of beyond in Iraq I suppose. 'Soldier, you have a choice. Either go and save a bunch of people snowed in their cars in some pretty part of England or be shipped out to Iraq where you may get to be blown to kingdom come.' Tough choice huh?!
Anyway, my sense of humour, on this subject, may not be tasteful but that's the mood I'm in today...grumpy with a shade of pissy.