I guess this is throwing up
There were a few good things about yesterday's sudden and offensively spectacular attack of food poisoning.
For example, it's years since I've even thought of Sleeper's Sale of the Century, which must be the most underappreciated song in the history of britpop. So, it was not at all bad to have the bit where Louise Wener sings "It's been too long, so it can't just be something we ate" stuck in my head for a few hours.
Also, I'm all for new experiences, and throwing up so hard that 20 minutes later I was still blowing food out of my nose certainly fell into that category.
More importantly, since I wasn't going to do much except sit around the house all day until the tendency to hurl at short notice abated, I had plenty of time to indulge my inner politics junky by looking up every electoral map I could possibly find and then clicking on each state to see the latest polls, just to make sure all the areas marked 'leaning Obama' still were.
It turns out that every poll ever taken shows that Barack Obama is absolutely going to win this thing. This includes a poll of 11 Peruvian shaman, which Obama won 9-2. Actually, I struggle to believe that this poll was ever actually taken, and I'm pretty sure someone in Peru is having a little bit of fun with the Associated Press. Still, it's nice to have the spare time to find out how they would react to this poll in South Dakota. And, indeed, how it was reported in Turkey.
As far as I am concerned, the two shaman who are backing John McCain should be fired immediately.
As a side note, people who remain obsessed with the Bradley Effect are yet to explain why they think anyone anywhere would lie to a pollster they have never met and never will just on the off chance that said pollster might jump to the conclusion that the voter in question is a howling mental racist rather than, say, someone who just happens to be voting for the other candidate.
Also,the same people who are currently obsessing about this may have noticed that there was o sign of this alleged Effect during the Primaries despite the rather obvious fact that Hillary Clinton is, quite openly, white.
Look, everyone just needs to stop worrying. Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States. And Sarah Palin will not run against him in 2012 because, although she hasn't realised it yet, CBS news actually keep their recordings of interviews for more than four years.
We just have to trust in the good judgment and common sense of the American people. And, really, how could one do anything else when faced with headlines like Naked Halloween Pumpkinhead Arrested.
Yes, finally, a news story that combines my twin passions of streaking and pumpkins.
I could probably have got past the fact that a bunch of people ran around naked with pumpkins on their heads. I could even have got over the revelation that this is an actual organised event which has been running for the past ten years.
What I can't quite cope with is the part where Boulder police Chief Mark Beckner said police officers "wanted to do something before (the event) got out of hand".
He's right. 10 years of naked people running around with pumpkins on their heads is tolerable, but allowing it to go on for 11 years is just plain nuts.
So, in conclusion, the future of the world's largest democracy is clearly in good hands.
For example, it's years since I've even thought of Sleeper's Sale of the Century, which must be the most underappreciated song in the history of britpop. So, it was not at all bad to have the bit where Louise Wener sings "It's been too long, so it can't just be something we ate" stuck in my head for a few hours.
Also, I'm all for new experiences, and throwing up so hard that 20 minutes later I was still blowing food out of my nose certainly fell into that category.
More importantly, since I wasn't going to do much except sit around the house all day until the tendency to hurl at short notice abated, I had plenty of time to indulge my inner politics junky by looking up every electoral map I could possibly find and then clicking on each state to see the latest polls, just to make sure all the areas marked 'leaning Obama' still were.
It turns out that every poll ever taken shows that Barack Obama is absolutely going to win this thing. This includes a poll of 11 Peruvian shaman, which Obama won 9-2. Actually, I struggle to believe that this poll was ever actually taken, and I'm pretty sure someone in Peru is having a little bit of fun with the Associated Press. Still, it's nice to have the spare time to find out how they would react to this poll in South Dakota. And, indeed, how it was reported in Turkey.
As far as I am concerned, the two shaman who are backing John McCain should be fired immediately.
As a side note, people who remain obsessed with the Bradley Effect are yet to explain why they think anyone anywhere would lie to a pollster they have never met and never will just on the off chance that said pollster might jump to the conclusion that the voter in question is a howling mental racist rather than, say, someone who just happens to be voting for the other candidate.
Also,the same people who are currently obsessing about this may have noticed that there was o sign of this alleged Effect during the Primaries despite the rather obvious fact that Hillary Clinton is, quite openly, white.
Look, everyone just needs to stop worrying. Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States. And Sarah Palin will not run against him in 2012 because, although she hasn't realised it yet, CBS news actually keep their recordings of interviews for more than four years.
We just have to trust in the good judgment and common sense of the American people. And, really, how could one do anything else when faced with headlines like Naked Halloween Pumpkinhead Arrested.
Yes, finally, a news story that combines my twin passions of streaking and pumpkins.
I could probably have got past the fact that a bunch of people ran around naked with pumpkins on their heads. I could even have got over the revelation that this is an actual organised event which has been running for the past ten years.
What I can't quite cope with is the part where Boulder police Chief Mark Beckner said police officers "wanted to do something before (the event) got out of hand".
He's right. 10 years of naked people running around with pumpkins on their heads is tolerable, but allowing it to go on for 11 years is just plain nuts.
So, in conclusion, the future of the world's largest democracy is clearly in good hands.
posted by I'm not Craig at 8:29 PM
4 Comments:
I think it's safe to say Obama will win. There was a poll that counted the sale of Halloween masks looking like Obama and McCain and Obama had sold the most. In past elections, this has proven to be an accurate measure of who will win the election in the world's most powerful (but stuffed up) economy - Both Clinton and Bush sold more masks than their opponents!
Hope you are feeling better.
Ah, pumpkin headed people. I feel much safer about the election outcome now.
I hope you used the mandatory tupperware lettuce crisper for a mobile vomtoon.
Also, who is Bradley and what is his effect? Is it catching? Was Bradley
the true cause of your spontaneous regurgitation?
Word Verification: furgogn - the sound you made wishing for mercy with head hung in Royal Dolton's finest?
Jo
Well you (and the mad Halloween statisticians) were right. Well done.
Femikneesm
Fret ye no longer, for change has come
Sirius
Bradley was some dude who ran for some elected position or other in Los Angeles in 1982 and lost despite a number of polls suggesting he would win. He was apparently of African-American heritage.
Despite the fact that I am yet to read any article suggesting that this has happened to any other African American candidate anywhere before or since, some tosspot decided that voters tell pollsters that they will vote for an African-American candidate even when they won't, because they don't want to look racist, even though how one votes is secret and answers given to pollsters are, by definition, not.
So no, I dont think it's catching.
At all.
And yes, I think I said something quite similar to 'furgogn' a couple of times in there somewhere.
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