Why is it so hard to get public transportation to work properly? And if it really is so hard, and the things break down all the time, how come they can’t give any valuable information?

The other day I was taking the subway from the outer end of the red line in Stockholm in to the central station. That’s roughly a trip that takes 15 minutes. But naturally there has been a breakdown of the traffic, and no trains are coming.

Then they fix the problem. “Traffic to resume right now” is the message. Ten minutes later they gladly inform us that the traffic now has resumed. However, the traffic has only resumed from the central station. This means that the next train will be arriving where I am in 15 minutes. But it takes another five minutes for them to tell us that.

Inform us right away. It can’t be that hard to say “the next train will be leaving your station in 30 minutes”.  What’s the point of all this? No point. I just had to complain a little. And the title? Nothing. I just love the Beatles.

I hate morons who go to the movies and then can’t shut the hell up. Why is it so difficult to understand that other people’s enjoyment of the flick might depend on actually hearing the dialogue instead of inane blabbering? If you want to sit and make loudmouth comments about a movie to your friends, do it at home! AT HOME! Your home is your own god damned private space and you should feel free to make up your own rules there. But at the theatre? SHUT UP!

There is however an excellent tool that let me enjoy a movie without hearing the stupid people. Earplugs. The volume at the Cineplex is usually high enough that you can wear industrial sound dampeners and still hear the actors whisper to each other. Earplugs filter out the audiences sound and let the dialogue through. Yay! Go earplugs!

I often warn my friends when we’re at the movies. Right before the film begins I say “Time for me to check out! Don’t talk to me. I won’t hear you.” The look at me as if I’m insane but accept it. Then I shut up and watch the movie.

Today I watched War of the Worlds. But I forgot my earplugs at home. Damn that movie is loud. I had to put my hands over my ears at several occasions. It was scary too. And I committed a sin. At some point during the movie I leaned over to my left and said something to Victoria. I don’t remember what it was, but it was probably nothing important. It hardly ever is.

And now I realize that today I was the idiot who couldn’t keep his mouth shut. Not only did the earplugs keep the sounds out. They obviously held my brain in as well. I will never go to the movies without earplugs again. Sorry Victoria for diminishing your movie experience. Sorry anyone else who sat near me. I hate myself for talking during the film.

Why would anybody ever want to make deep fried mozzarella sticks? I mean, come on! When you deep fry something it adds even more fat to it. It’s not a coincidence that the “Super size me” guy almost keeled over. It was all the fat. And what is mozzarella? It’s fat! And some crap from cows guts. It hadn’t been cheese otherwise. So deep fried mozzarella sticks is in fact melted fat covered with a fatty crust of fat. Nice. No wonder people gain weight.

Tastes delicious, though. Damn it.

So I hate politics. Or at least I've always said I hate politics, which unfortunately isn't true. I hate politicians. And that too is a modification of the truth. I hate politicians that behave like the public image of a corrupt politician. And there are a lot of those. Here in my country we are ruled by one. In my opinion our prime minister is one of those slick, smart, lying scumbags that claim to look out for the people and the country while all he really is interested in is keeping the power. And smart he is.

A short background. Sweden is a socialist country. That doesn't mean communist though, thank god. For a couple of years now the socialist party have held power in their hands with the help from the communists (yup, we have those) and the green party. And the country has gone down the tubes. And king size tubes they are. We've come to a position where a lot of decisions have to be made that will piss off the little guy. The public. Those who vote. We can all see that. So in the upcoming election of 2006 the prime minister isn't interested in being in charge any longer. He doesn't want to make those decisions. He wants the rightwing politicians make them for him. In that way he can sit back while the rightwing rescues our crumbling economy and save us from our steady decent into oblivion. People won't like the steps taken and in the election of 2010 they will regain power by saying "lookit what the other side did. They made it worse for you. We promise to do it better".

And the peons will look up from the mud and think salvation lies in the socialistic views. And once again the steady decent into oblivion will be resumed. And eight or twelve years later it will all be repeated.

No, I'm not paranoid. The prime minister has lately said a lot of obviously stupid things. Among other things he said he was open to censorship of the media to stop the increasing slant towards sex in the main media of the country. Well, hello. Any sane person won't ever agree to that. Freedom of speech is quite a nice thing after all. But it's all a step in the plan of not keeping the power. Fool the people. He isn't that stupid after all. He's a politician.

But something must be rotten in the state of Sweden if the prime ministers main concern isn't making it a better and working country, but to keep his party in power in any way possible. Something must be rotten indeed.