THE GRILLOS.
Nigella Lawson was said to be disappointed but unsurprised
that the Grillo sisters were found not guilty of fraudulently spending £685k on
credit cards owned by the TV cook and ex her husband the Scott’s Restaurant
Strangler. Miss Lawson said her experience as a witness was deeply disturbing
and she has been maliciously vilified. But on the upside it did give her the
chance to swan into court haughtily with her nose in the air to show that there
were no traces of any white powder lurking up there in the old septum area.
After hearing the verdict Francesca Grillo said “there is a
God” in Italian, adding “but there’s not a Goddess, not a Domestic one anyway,
anymore” also in Italian. I wonder what she means by that.
Perhaps that Miss Lawson’s life wasn’t the big bucket of
treacly sweet perfection that she’s built a career on. A shame for all those
woman who saw her as a role model and aspired to be her, and it turned out the
women who wanted be her have a better home life than she has. Ironic eh? Nigella
probably has same life they do, but at least I suppose she has it in a
millionaires surroundings.
The verdict was great news for the Grillo sisters, and even
better news for the Peru Two because if the regular cocaine use allegations
made against Miss Lawson are true they’ll be able to get job as her personal
assistants when they get out. Like who’d have thought that writing handling
11.5kg on a CV would have been a plus. The Peru Two were wondering what their
job prospects would be when got out. Now they know their futures could be very
rosy.
ABBEY DANCER
Abbey Clancy, which is actually spelt Abbey, won Strictly
Come Dancing for dancing marginally better than your drunken auntie as a family
wedding. Just a well for her that the judge based their scores on dancing and
not on accents that sound like nails being dragged down a blackboard. UKIP
weren’t happy and Nigel Farage singled out Abbey’s dancing partner Aljaz
Skorjanec saying “he proves why we must have stricter border controls because
he’s over here stealing a British ballroom dancer’s job”.
This particular final had the lowest TV ratings for four
years though. This has been put down to A. It’s dancing” and B.People are
getting a bit fed up with all the completely insincere all the contestants love
each other stuff, when everyone knows that celebrities all bitch about each
other all the time.
All the finalists are apparently going on a live Strictly
Come Dancing tour in February and March, which begs the question. Don’t any of
these people have real jobs to go to.Or is being a celebrity their job?. Who
pays them for that?
The BBC may be paying them in this case, but who pays them
for celebing otherwise?. Is there some sort of fund funded by idiots which
allows celebs to live their lives like celebs?
The BBC reported when Abbey (maybe she’s name after the
road) Clancy won she ran into the arms of her husband Peter Crouch and said she
could not wait to be with her two year old daughter. Just for a few weeks
though before she goes off on tours for 2 months.
ALCOHOL AND PORK
Marks and Spencer’s has told Muslim staff that they can
refuse to serve shoppers who are buying alcohol or pork. Instead shoppers will
be asked to use special Christians only tills. They are easy to spot as they
have a big flashing crucifix above them. In contrast to M&S Sainsburys have
told its staff that there is no reason why their staff can’t handle such
produce even if they don’t consume them. Similarly Sainsbury have told their
Scottish staff that there is no reason why their staff can’t handle vegetable
and fruit even if they have no idea what they are.
Meanwhile Adsa have chosen not to let its Muslim staff
operate the tills which seems the most sensible solution, especially when a
customer has just piled all their shopping on the conveyor belt and hidden
under the pile is a packet of Danish Bacon and a bottle of wine which is only
discovered half way through the buying process. How do M&S handle that
situation? Awkward, and one really angry customer who will have to queue twice.
On the other hand if someone wants a job but doesn’t really
want to work a Muslim could apply for a job in a off licence and once they had
secured the position they could tell the employer “I’m sorry by it’s against my
religion to sell alcohol, so I’ll just stand over there reading the paper”.
How far could this go with employer bending over backwards
to sensitivities? Will they allow vegan staff to refuse to serve anyone buying
meat, or staff who don’t like old people refusing to serve them Ralgex or
Werther’s Originals, or some who is raging alcoholic refusing to serve anyone
buying soft drinks because soft drinks are for wimps.
And there was that case of an HMV customer who had to go to
the back of another queue because the assistants religious beliefs forbade her
from selling him a Peppa Pig DVD.
The point is and because it’s a religious point everyone
has to stay frosty, is that if someone applies for a job they know what that
job entails and playing the religious card once they have the job is a bit on
the “oh now, you’re complaining” front. It would be different is you really
didn’t have any religious affiliations prior to landing the job, but a few days
into the job you just happened to be passing a hate preacher in the street and
his preaching radicalised you, and suddenly you can’t even look at someone who
is buying a can of lager and a packet or pork scratchings. Then you may have a
slight point because how were you to know that you were going to end up
incredibly pedantic and religiously picky, other than that, M&S should
really have a much better recruitment process with Human Resources pointing out
at the interview “Sorry if you can’t do the job, you’re not getting the job”.
At the end of the day no one should impose their religious
beliefs on others, especially at Xmas. The bottom line is; we’ll respect your
religion but not its taboos. Plus it’s a bit Piggist. I don’t know if that’s a
thing, but it probably is as everything is an “Ist” these days. The pigs aren’t
happy over being called unclean and as the Director of the Pig Equality
Commission said “We are not unclean; we practically live in the laundrette”.
Shopping is a secular experience, not a religious one.
