{"id":44,"date":"2011-08-19T05:04:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T05:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/?p=44"},"modified":"2011-08-19T05:04:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T05:04:45","slug":"consumer-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spend a lot of time daydreaming. Often about whimsical beasts, coitus and if there is something deeply buried in my past that is going to lead to an unavoidable closet-escaping moment in later life. I&#8217;d rather just get it out the way whilst I can still get some worthwhile action down Canal Street.<\/p>\n<p>I should really see my friends and family more, but of course there are far more important things to do. Like avoid my friends and family. The cunts.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps one day I&#8217;ll daydream about being presented a flat screen TV by Jeremy Clarkson like a lot of other men I know. Perhaps Richard Hammond will be there to offer platitudes, perchance to drive me home in a new car. Maybe the thought will appeal to me one day.<\/p>\n<p>After all, a mind can change\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0I have now accepted that there AREN&#8217;T orcs at the bottom of the garden (although the wife has to keep reminding me every time I try and justify the purchase of some crude mediaevel weaponry).<\/p>\n<p>Steve Jobs and his army\u00a0have finally pushed an Iphone in to my grasp &#8211;\u00a0and I can&#8217;t put the fucking thing down. What hope would I have if I saw the beauty\u00a0presented by\u00a0an HDTV plastered against my wall? Is there such a thing as a slippery slope to technological fuckery? Gadget induced cunt-dom? Eisenhower&#8217;s domino effect twisted cruelly against an accidental capitalist as a horrid joke?<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I don&#8217;t have the answers. But I take solace in the belief that modern life has given us a bit more than it has taken away.<\/p>\n<p>Like the concept of\u00a0the &#8220;SQUIDAGEDDON&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bagfullofwrong.co.uk\/\">www.bagfullofwrong.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spend a lot of time daydreaming. Often about whimsical beasts, coitus and if there is something deeply buried in my past that is going to lead to an unavoidable closet-escaping moment in later life. I&#8217;d rather just get it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/?p=44\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social","category-vidya-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}