Vital Questions?

How expensive are tissues? 

No really, this is a vital question. And the answer is:  well expensive. It's only something you notice when you desperately need them.  For instance, A has had a cold for a couple of weeks and I finally caught it and I have to keep buying loads of boxes of tissues.

I don't want five ply, super soft, containing actually fairies who will massage your nose and make sure it doesn't go all red and crappy; I just want a tissue; a cheap and cheerful and highly disposable tissue. A snot rag. A mouchoir. A fazzoletto.

Unless you can get the Tesco Value or Sainsburys Basics, you're looking at the best part of £2.00 for maybe 80 tissues; if you're lucky. And those little individual packets which are great to take out with you used to have ten in a packet and now you're lucky if they've got 9, some have only 7 or 8, because they want to make them super thick and it's hard to fit the fairies in otherwise.

As my waste paper bin - or should I say snot rag central - is once again filled with used fazzoletti, carefully folded so as not to see any of said nose deposits, almost like strange and completely inedible tortolloni, I ponder the price of facial tissues.

Maybe the time for hankies has returned, even though it never left my dad. Yes, it's gross but at least you are just washing them and reusing. Hmmm. Still not convinced but let's face it, we all look at our snot once we've blown our noses. It's human nature. Let's see what just came out of me. Who knows what it might contain? Goblins, the key to the universe, blood - for the hypochondriac in us - or of course what colour is it?. If it's neon then you are ill or at least have a cold or something. If it's clear then you're fine, just drippy and if it's red then you'll probably freak out and go to the Doctors or just lean over a sink and wait till it stops. But if we look at it every time, then is there a problem with putting a snotty hanky in the wash? Definitely something to ponder.

Were we right to?

I just saw this advert for a programme on BBC 2 which is basically looking at whether Britain were right to enter World War 1. Now I realise it is the Centenary this year and it's a big deal and a huge part of not only British history but the whole world.
But.
Isn't researching the reasons why we shouldn't have joined the fight or stating that we were wrong to and talking about what life would be like if we hadn't won; isn't that sort of shitting all over the people who fought on all sides. Doesn't that make all the sacrifice and lives lost, just a waste. Isn't that like saying, oh yeah, we made a mistake, sorry for all the people who died but we should never have taken it on in the first place.

It's just one of those what if situations. And it seems pointless to go back a hundred years and say, oh, yeah, we probably shouldn't have done that. Even if that is the case, you can't change the outcome, you can't change the decisions made and the brave soldiers and the lives affected.

I don't know, maybe it's just me but it seemed like a bit of a waste of time and a slap in the face. It happened. It can't be changed and maybe the money used to make this programme could have been used to make season three of The Hour, rather than telling everyone that Britain should not have entered World War 1.

Now history is definitely not my best subject and we were taught shit all in free school, so I know, I know nothing. But it just sounded like a bizarre concept. 

BBC. Make The Hour and make us happy!

Well I'll let you ponder those equally vital questions of the day whilst you think about my full bin. Ha ha.

Snotty, snotty, snot, snot, snot.

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