It’s going to have to be The Pope. Il Papa sprang to mind immediately, I tried to think of others, but they were always trumped by him.
That man and his wretched organisation is responsible for more misery and poverty on this planet than any other in history and it needs to fucking stop. It needs to drag itself into the last century, let alone the present one. It simply isn’t on any more.
They had a fantastic opportunity when JPII died to modernise with a more progressive Pope, but no, they took a bad situation and managed to make it *even worse*. I was very (and genuinely) disappointed with this and frankly so should be all followers of the Catholic faith.
I bumped into GLS or whatever they’re called in Hilton Park services on the M6 once. That really is as good as it gets, I’m afraid, I don’t seem to be a celebrity magnet like you are :)
I *have*, however, told a number of celebrities to fuck off. These include (but are not limited to) Jack Dee and Jools Holland. I’m not sure that counts as “meeting” them, per-se.
I also sat next to Joan Rivers in a New York restaurant and endured several hours of almost constant swearing throughout the meal. It was hilarious, but, again, this probably doesn’t count as meeting since I never actually spoke to her.
I’ve much to thank the Internet for and I’m only sorry that it didn’t come along earlier. It certainly would be different without it.
It’s provided me with a career if nothing else, although since I’m an old-school educated software engineer I can in theory turn my hand to any kind of software development, regardless of the application. It just happens that I cut my teeth on web software applications.
When I was coming out I didn’t have access to the Internet and neither did the Internet have the sort of resources for gay people it has now even if I did have access to it, so I was pretty much fending for myself. I can only imagine how different my life would have been had I been born ten years later.
Glamourous visions of the future in old films told us that we would have flying cars and have almost everything automated. They never predicted that the whole world would one day be connected in the way that it is now. A flying car would be great, but I wouldn’t swap it for the Internet.
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