The Adventures of Dysfunctional Dan

Every now and then I like to write a blog post which is a mish-mash of thoughts. There’s no real connection beyond the fact that I have been thinking about them. Sometimes it’s major world news, sometimes it’s closer to home. So, let’s see the kaleidoscope of stuff my brain has come up with this month. Gay Marriage Or as we now simply call it, marriage. The supreme court in the USA has voted that marriage between two people of the same gender should be legal, like it is in most of the Western world. I am delighted. I have mentioned here before about how equality is so important to me and although there are issues in other areas, the biggest one globally is how gay people are treated. I cannot imagine how horrible it would be not to be allowed to marry the person you love because the government has decided that person is the wrong gender for you to love. It’s ridiculous. I once had quite a heated argument with a Christian about gay marriage. It seems silly that some parts of a r...

I feel like I disappeared from the real world recently. I ate something very dodgy and ended up pretty ill and I wasn’t with it properly for about four days. I couldn’t eat and that made me feel really weak after a few days. I felt like some sort of zombie in that I was awake but didn’t really have much of a clue what was going on. I was tempted to write a blog post but it would have been the most non-sensical surreal thing I’d ever written so it’s probably good I left it for a week. So today I thought I would discuss being a pedant. Let’s open with a definition. Pedant ,  n:  a person who is excessively concerned with formalism, accuracy, and precision. I think this may describe me. It’s not exactly a popular thing to be but I can’t really help it. I like things to be right and so often, particularly in the meaning and usage of the language, they are not. It’s very frustrating. My frustration mostly comes from idiots on the TV, but it is known to come from idiots in re...