C is for Crackers, Nuts, Not Quite Sane!

A late entry for this years Nutcracker posts, these came winging their way here, from New York, the other day with a message from Brian that he was wondering how people could put this stuff in their houses . . . and it had to be said, that apart from the final image which is the traditional wooden type we've got  into the habit of posting here at this time of year, the other four are plastic shite, and couldn't crack a walnut, let alone a brazil or almond! And the first three are even worse - gold-chromed, plastic shite . . . 

 

. . . who indeed? Who would put this shite in their house? Well, I suspect footballers wives might? Golfers or working-men's club comedians who have retired to Dubai might? The wife of the previous President of the United States of America, might! But sane people, who paid attention in class, who learned about 'class', taste and decency . . . ? Nasty, nasty plastic shite!

Marginally improved by a traditional decor, but, we are destroying a Planet, our Planet, without another Planet to go to, so this shite can be put on a shelf, let alone taken home!

 

There is a madness to it, to stop it we have to take a long, hard look at our souls, we have to re-configure the way we live, in a million ways, and to do that we have to dismantle capitalism, and to do that we have to defenestrate the capitalists & big business, and to do that we have to disempower the powerful, and to do that we have to destroy (or rewrite by force) democracy, which the powerful and the capitalists seem to have a head-start on doing anyway! And not for the better? Sorry, to bring such a downer to the Blog at Christmas and all, but . . . this IS the time for reflection, and none of it bodes well for the future.

This is what we like, nice Bavarian, wooden, craft work, they would look lovely either side of the porch, or an unused fireplace, and might crack a nut! It's all nuts! And that green???? Thanks, Brian . . . I think!