Gran Torino, directed and starring Clint Eastwood was ok.
I really like the racks of free post cards that you see in cinemas these days. Occasionally you can pick up a nice picture to adorn your work space with, just be careful, the last one I picked up made me think more than the afore mentioned film did.

Zombies from Hell is a seemingly innocent post card done in the style of an old comic book cover, but it turned out to be rather a bad choice for the council office that I am currently temping in.

Many of my colleagues have photos of their children on their works spaces, I don’t have any, but if I did they would probably resemble zombies from hell, so it made sense to me. Unfortunately, it was exhibited for a mere four hours. I returned from my lunch break to discover that my interfering manager had removed it as it was deemed “too offensive”.

In my department, I work alongside a Hindu, a Catholic and a very strict Christian. I would hate to think that I offended their religious beliefs in any way, but I can’t seriously believe that any of them, no matter how precious they are, would have taken offence to this post card. Religious education was never my best subject at school, but I would sure as shit remember it if I ever heard Mr. Bennett talking about zombies from hell.

It got me thinking exactly what part they found most disturbing. Could it be the word ‘hell’ that gave them goose bumps? Maybe the word ‘zombies’? Surely not ‘from’ but I just can’t be certain any more. Maybe they though that by having this card up, it would encourage a plague of the living dead to descend upon the work place and mess up the stationary cupboard with their projectile vomiting and their blood stained fingers before doing the thriller dance in the managers office and getting dirt on the carpet. Yes, that must be why, it’s the only explanation.

Maybe I should get someone up the duff so that they can thunk out some little bastards of my own. That way I can pin photos of my own spoilt, ungrateful, dribbling, snotty-nosed sprogs on the wall, that wouldn’t offend anyone would it? Good, now stop bloody whingeing!
HJ