The problem with these people is that they do not tolerate that others are sceptic or non-believers and that makes them fundamentalists and extremists.

I once read that religion starts where reason ENDS. I think that this quote makes a lot of sense.

Surprisingly, my 8-year-old’s IT teacher is patiently including a section about touch-typing during her lessons. Not that it’s of much use, mind you, seeing that most of them have probably been playing around with internet for a couple of years already, and have thus mastered their own (slower, but still functional) method of typing.

[Daphne – Ah, but religion isn’t a way of life. It’s a badge of national identity. Christian since St Paul, remember?]

[Daphne – You don’t have to be ambitious to be successful. You just have to do something you’re good at, to the best of your ability. It’s that old Protestant work ethic….]

– Assasins Creed
– Da Vinci Code (the video game)
– Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templar
– Starcraft (futuristic game, containing templars)

Thats just from the top of my head. I suppose it’s a guy thing…

[Daphne – Spare me. You would think that in a ‘guy’ household I would know about these things, but they’re not into them either.]

[Daphne – I know. Why are some men fatally magnetised by these things? I have yet to meet a woman who doesn’t run a mile when she hears the word Templars. If somebody comes up with a computer-game based on the Templars it will be a sell-out. But maybe they have already.]

IC that is one of those women who resent any other woman who is successful in life.

[Daphne – I didn’t want to spell it out myself, but yes. Their line of argument is always the same: that it is not a good thing to be me, and therefore they can console themselves that they made the right choices in life. If they begin to feel for a moment that it is actually quite a good thing to be me, they go nuts. However, I went to a convent school between the ages of 4 and 15, so I’m more than equipped to deal with bitchiness.]

People reading the Bible in their own language. Whatever next?

[Daphne – Sanctimonious women, the worst. Now that they can no longer report other women to the Witch Police of the Inquisition, they’re at a loss. Actually, Josette, I’m hugely tolerant of, and largely oblivious to, any criticism in my regard. If that weren’t the case, I wouldn’t still be here two decades later. And I wouldn’t publish your comments. I would delete them. ‘I’m no prude but just loathed the ‘frenching’ – don’t tell me about it, honey. I’m not about to french you any time soon. Of course mine was just three sketches that everyone laughed at: I have far more entertainment value than the average politician, which is why you’re still stuck here instead of going away to chat to your prayer-group friends.]

At least now Labour party supporters are going to the Manoel and appreciate satire cause I remember when during a Christmas panto (when Labour was in government) some Labour supporters wanted to go backstage to beat the actors because as happens during MADC’s pantos they were taking the mickey out of some governemtn minister or other!

[Daphne – I don’t think Josette Pace is necessarily a Labour supporter. I think she’s one of those women who resent me on principle.]