NEWS JUST IN

Just checked BBC news Noel Gallagher has quit oasis which = end of oasis. Because everyone knows that he is the life and soul of that band, admittedly without Liam they wouldn't be where they're now, but Noel was the brains, if you can call it that.

What I want to talk about is that I have been working in a bar, shock. But more shocking is this bar, which is supposedly stylish and in Bristol is also empty, well this evening it was. So that is why I am home. What is causing this lack of people... Bad weather? Unlikely. Holidays? Maybe. Credit crunch? Certainly, times are tight. You know that when a Mr James Murdoch starts going on about the BBC controlling the press when his Dad is possibly one of the most evil and influential people this century. Rupert Murdoch controls newscorp and is getting his son to have a go at the BBC? I'm sorry but has Alanis Morrisette been lecturing people on irony again...

Right now it's a struggle to find anything news worthy and happy, even A-level and GCSE results getting better is treated as though a rebellion is occurring and all these exams could be passed by a chimp drawing with a bit of rock. So these exams we mock, we also build up to all the kids, yeah they are sometimes irrelevant and are getting easier. But surely these kids, well teenagers young adults are getting better at them. Besides they are learning to pass an exams, not like before where education worked differently. Don't blame them, blame a system, actually don't. It does work, most of the time, some people achieve more academically, others go on to different paths. This world would be useless with a load of English and science graduates without any plumbers or sparkys.

Now for that typical odd ball story people usually put at the end of the news with accompanying music that would not sound out of place on teletubbies

Girls like girly faces, apparently girls taught in single sex education are more likely to find female faces more attractive. However the reverse is not true about males. So women no need to not shave or shower, I however am going to get that eye makeup out

He or she

Due to lack of willing, struggle with boredom and nothing I can be bothered to speak about, all of a sudden the perfect article pops up.

Caster Semenya the 18 year old 800 metre runner from South Africa who split the field and came home over 2 seconds up on her rivals. This is a big winning margin by anyone's standards, let alone an athlete who beat her personal best by 5 seconds in the junior African championships.
Now miracles do not occur, but that is pretty amazing. So the IAAF thought something was a bit fishy, and the suggestion that she was male was batted about, when it should have been kept quiet.

Now it has transpired that she has an elevated level of testosterone, about 3 times that of 'normal' women. Not evidence of foul play, but interesting as testosterone the 'male' hormone is linked with athletic prowess, but could be artificial or could be natural.

This would be a good time to say that men and women are not strictly 2 different quantitative sexes. There is a line at one end male and the other female with lots of progressions in between. Just because someone is XX does not make them female similarly XY does not make them male. Some men are insensitive (the sentence does carry on ladies) to testosterone making them appear female, and sometimes the hormones are imbalanced making the clitoris bigger and a more male body shape and vice-versa.

Whatever the outcome of this I'll be following it, not because Jenny Meadows might get a silver but because it will be interesting to see if there is a line drawn, wherever it is it will be an outcome that will annoy certain people.