Moved out today

Well, it was almost inevitable. Things were going downhill.

To be perfectly honest I wasn't prepared to put up with it any longer and so I bit the bullet.

There's still a few things I'll have to remove from the old place, but all in all it went very smoothly.

Anyway, I hope you like the new home, the pages should download more quickly. I'll be able to use mod_rewrite, in fact it's in use now coz I've been renaming pages and using 301 redirects.

Yeah, it's been quite a day, but glad it's all over bar a few things that need sorting.

Off home to cook the dinner now... :)

Tranny Mentoring

Probably not the first to think of it, and definitely not the last. But what about a list of girls that would be prepared to "mentor" other trannys. I mean, just being there for support, possibly encouraging trannies new to the scene, accompanying them out on their first excursions.

I don't mean this as a systematic way of getting new trannies out on the scene, but where a trannie would like help and encouragement to take those first nerve-wracking steps a mentor could provide moral and practical support.

Of course, it wouldn't be confined to going out - just talking on the phone or meeting in a pub in male mode could make all the difference to a less experienced tranny.

I suppose some may say that this would just encourage and foster the checklist mentality, but I was thinking more of a situation where those in need of encouragement could contact a mentor as and when they feel the need.

How would it work? Well, maybe sites like UK Angels, TV Chix or Roses could provide a mentor field in their databases so that members could indicate their willingness to act as one, and of course "untick" their mentor box as and when so there is no pressure.

Just a thought...

Big Brother and the Media

On account of my two daughters wanting to watch Big Brother last night and my wife having nothing else she wanted to watch I was out-voted. So I put myself through the ordeal.

Apart from the usual drivel two media related issues surfaced that really galled me.

First, let me set the scene. BB told the household that the members must choose three of them to stay in the "luxury" of the main part of the house and eight had to leave and be incarcerated in "squalid" surroundings.

Being the nice bunch that they are they let Ken Russell, Jermaine Jackson and Shilpa stay behind. What they didn't know was that the three left behind would be up for eviction, see where this is going? There's more.

Next, we see Jade and boyfriend enter the house followed shortly by her mother. BB then asked Jade to read out another set of instructions, which ordered the other members in the "squalid" area to wait "hand and foot" on the members in the main area.

Hang in there, we're getting nearer to what pissed me off. Once the members in the squalid area got to find out what was happening Donny decided he wasn't going to let himself in for being made to look stupid, or humiliated - his choice. So he pulls off a clever stunt. He gets another member to give him a "leg up", gets onto the roof and escapes.

And this is when BB comes up with their crass announcement. Donny has forfeited his right to stay in the house, because he has had contact with the outside world. Excuse me, just a minute, Donny left because he didn't want to take part in an arse-hole of a game, which affords sick and purile entertainment for those in need of that sort of "diversion". Good on ya, Donny. It's a shame more people don't get up and walk out of that house. And that's just typical of the media, trying to make themselves look good despite the shit that clings to them.

And let's face it, all BB do, it seems to me, is set up confrontational situations so that the public can enjoy the degradation and humiliation of people who put themselves up for a stay in the house... for whatever reasons.

Secondly, and more laughable is that, according to Jade, the papers have said she's the 25th most influential person in the world, not that she could pronounce the word "influential" and she even said she didn't know what it meant (all credit to her for admitting it). Of course, I'm assuming this nonsense wasn't peddled by the broadsheets, but a.) do we have people in this country that would actually believe that (apart from jade, maybe) and b.) what do these editors have between their ears that such ludicrous statements should be published in the first place?

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeez. Needless to say you won't find me watching this drivel, unless I'm out-voted again and can't be arsed to go do the washing-up. See, there's a more worthwhile activity - washing-up.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr