Yes folks, the world's worst blogger is back again. I really don't know what I do with my time. Note to self - must stop lying on the sofa, painting toe nails and drinking gin of an afternoon. Anyone would think I was working, running a household and attempting to discipline three (slightly out of control), children. Oh yes and run a network.
Talking of the network, yet again we've had someone purporting to 'hate' Survive France. This I find slightly bizarre. I can understand those who haven't yet visited the site, being initially bemused by the name, but hatred?
The SF network is a community of over 3000 people. How can you hate an entire sector of society? That's like saying "I hate Buddhists" or I hate black people" - weird.
We called the network 'Survive France' for numerous reasons, most of which, most of, our members get. Above all it is, wait for it, tongue in cheek. Yes we might bang on about crap customer service, Ryan Air and missing Marmite, but most of us do know that we are actually only across the channel, and not in downtown Baghdad. Repeated missives from the RSI may be incredibly annoying but not quite as life threatening as incoming mortar fire.
On the upside, the name does act as a firewall. Those that don't 'get' it, generally don't sign up. And trust me, this is a good thing. There are more than enough nice, interesting people in the world. I for one don't want to be surrounded by unpleasant, negative, judgmental morons in either my real or virtual life.