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I spent most of Wednesday afternoon trying to stay awake which was ironic as I had spent most of the previous night trying to get to sleep. Life's a real fucking comedian sometimes. It's always the way when you have to get up early. And I mean actual early (7.45am) and not waiter early (11am). I spent most of the night in that nowhere place between between being asleep and being awake, and I don't mean I was in the bathroom all night.

Being as I had to be up at the unwaiterly hour of 7.45 I had to go to bed at a reasonable time. So come 1am I switched off the Mac, knocked off the lights and set down my book. "The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole 1999 - 2001" which, by the way, is just a fantastically silly read that I heartily recommend it. For me to switch off everything at 1am is like sending a kid to bed when it is still bright outside. I wasn't happy. But it wasn't just my having to get up at such an impolite hour that was playing on my mind and keeping me awake....

I was angry and getting angrier.

One of my most favourite posts, of my own, is this one about that most peculiar of species, The Real Ale Drinker. Honestly it still makes me laugh. Almost funnier again was the reaction to it. I got more emails, and continue to do so, about that particular post than any other. Most of them from Real Ale enthusiasts and plastic bag aficionados calling me names. It seems to have ruffled more than a few feathers if not beards. Seriously. Take this chap who happened by the other day....

At first I thought little of it. You aren't compelled to like what I write and you are entitled to disagree. I mean it would be a dull old world if we all got on. Why just the other day there was a chap who took umbrage at my "Seamus and the Men Who Like to Say Yaaaar" post and he made a comment to that effect. I have no problem with that at all. But the more I thought about it the more I realised that this chap, Tom Donald, is an ass hat. An ass hat and then some.

Tom says, "Hating people is so unfunny" Are you kidding me? Hating people is tremendously funny, especially when it's completely irrational and obviously in jest. I should also point out that at no point did I say I hated Real Ale Drinkers. I'm not fond of them for sure, but hate them? No, that would be too much and a waste of hate. I only have so much hate to share and I'd rather like to save what hate I have for internet dullards who CANT TAKE A FUCKING JOKE!

Sake.

But it was his parting remark that really has pissed me off, "Happy holocaust day, idiot." January the 27th is indeed Holocaust Memorial day in the UK. Is he calling me a Nazi? Because that's how I read it. He is calling me a Nazi for writing a post about beardy men who drink flat pints of pishy beer? Because that's what I think he is saying. Is he comparing my gentle lampooning and comedic invective to the party of Hitler? To the people responsible for the mass murder of over 6 million people? Because if he is then he has lost all sense of proportion assuming he had any to begin with.

Disagree with me if you want. I welcome debate. But call me a Nazi or even imply it and I will cut you right off.

Beardy twat.......(probably)