Writer's Block: Here's looking at you

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Cyrano, finally thinking Roxane is going to declare her love for him, meets with her (after having fought 100 men the night before) only to have her exact a promise instead to protect one of his new recruits, Christian, with whom she is infatuated.

As he leaves, she declares, "100 men! How brave!"
He whispers under his breath, "Oh, I've been braver since then."

Real lump-in-the-throat time...

or:

Men In Black.

Will Smith: Ah, well. Better to have loved and lost..."
Tommy Lee Jones (interrupting): "Try it."


What does that say about me?
Maybe nothing.
Maybe lots.

Writer's Block: Instant attraction

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My experience is that it can be both instant and evolving.
I've done the second chance thing twice and been through the mill both times.

Second chance failures hurt all the more because you have the additional pain of having been an idiot. Twice.

Figures...

Found some debating figures I collected (mostly from The Office of Statistics) quite a while back and thought I'd post them just as a matter of record.

In 2001:

£36.6b was spent on alcohol, equivalent to 5.8% of all consumer expenditure.

UK consumers spend more of their disposable income on alcohol than on, for example, personal goods and services, fuel and power ...or tobacco.

In comparison, Britons spent £7.2b on activities such as going to the cinema, theatre, museum and bingo combined

Alcohol related annual cost to health services: £20.5b
Alcohol related annual cost to police/legal services: £1b
Total:21b

Smoking cost the NHS £2.7b annually.

Since these figures are 8 years out of date, and the number of smokers have since been considerably culled, I guess there's an even greater difference between the totals now.

Today, Gordon Brown refuses to go along with the recommendations of a committee HE set up when it comes to the conclusion that cannabis doesn't warrant its class B status - but should be class C. 

Yet, the measures implemented by government to curb the excesses of binge-drinking culture are, frankly, as pathetic as they are ineffective.

Funny ol' world, innit?