Head Rambles Awareness Week
With monotonous regularity, we seem to have Awareness Days, or Awareness Weeks.
When we aren’t being reminded to be aware of something, we have a Day for Something.
I just don’t understand these.
Last week we had a day where we were all supposed to head off to record shops to buy some music. Why? I know where my nearest record shop is, so if I want some music, I will go there and buy it [if I haven’t already found it on Pirate Bay]. Why do we need a special day for it?
Another one that gave me a laugh was the recent time we were all supposed to switch off our lights for an hour. What the fuck was that all about? Was it supposed to make us aware that we are using electricity? I know I use electricity. Was it to make us aware that if we switch our lights off that we can’t see in the dark? That must be a huge revelation to some? It was hailed as a great success, but to succeed, you have to achieve something, and nobody yet has told me what was achieved.
The Awareness ones are another weird phenomenon. We have things like Breast Cancer Awareness Week. During this week, we are apparently to spend our time thinking about breasts. To be quite honest, this makes little difference to most men who dedicate a very large portion of every week thinking about breasts. Is there any chance we could have a Breast Non-awareness Week, so that all men could have a rest?
Then there was the campaign recently when all bloggers were supposed to change their aviators, or whatever you call them [those little pictures that appear in comments and the like] to black, in protest at Eircom’s decision to censor the Interweb. What was this hoping to achieve? Was the Chief Executive of Eircom supposed to log on for his morning blog browsing session, only to see all these black blobs and shout out “Holy Shit! All the aviators have gone black! We have to reverse our decision.”? I can’t see that working.
My problem, as I say is that I just haven’t a clue what it’s all about.
I do have a suggestion though.
Is there any chance we could have an Awareness Awareness Week?
Then all could be explained.
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant this Awareness Awareness Week!
In the meantime I’m not sure how to celebrate Earth Day. Should I dump the 55 gallon drum of bleach into the creek or set alight a ton of coal in my backyard or maybe after dumping the bleach refill the drum with gasoline and leak it all over the road as I drive around in a truck that gets 5 MPG? Hmmmm, decisions decisions.
It’s a very tough call, Brianf. Next Earth Day, I shall celebrate with my own little bonfire of old tractor tyres soaked in sump oil. Bleach in the river is OK but it would smell a bit? Just make sure it’s nowhere near your home.
Personally I’m thankful for “Cantankerous Auld Blogger Awareness Week” because that’s the week I found you.
I endorse Ignorance Day. I just can’t remember what date it’s celebrated upon, nor what it’s about. But I’m comfortable with that, and in the end, shouldn’t that be all that matters? The answer is no. But I’m comfortable with that too.
If you wanted to organise the week Brendan Behan style you would have a committee that met in a bar and the second item on the agenda would be ‘The split’. There would be the official Awareness Awareness week and the Awareness Together Awareness Awareness week and the Ecumenical Awareness Awareness week and any number of other permutations with which you could fill the year, except on Christmas Day and Good Friday, when the pubs aren’t open so no-one would be aware that it was Awareness week
RhoderTer – I didn’t even know there was one. They must think I don’t qualify?
Irishbegrudger – Isn’t that Amnesia Awareness Day you’re thinking about? I don’t know anything about Ignorance Day.
Ian – You are hereby elected Chairman. I’ll see you down the pub….
Awareness awareness – I like that. Can we have an anti-awareness day too? Just for balance. That way at least one day a year, all us folk who are a step behind being aware of anything at the right time, can take the higher ground for a change.
J A – I have put my name down for a Non-Awareness Awareness Day sometime next year.
The week after next, 1st-8th May is shades week, sort of like an awareness week for guide dogs. I just thought I’d make you aware in advance.
It just means you chuck a few quid in the collection boxes and buy a pair of glasses if you want/need them. It doesn’t mean you go around feeding guide dogs or anything.
The organisation gets the money, not the owners. Unfortunately!