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| Samantha Brick can fuck right off. Louise Mensch is the photogenic idiot we've been waiting for. |
Pro-Fox Hunting, Pro-Censorship, Ex-Tory
MP Louise Mensch featured heavily in the papers last week. Why was that? Has
she solved world hunger? Slashed the deficit? Invented self-removing socks?
Nope, she’s come to the stunning realisation, in her blog, that not drinking is better for
you than drinking a little bit. Now, hold on people. It may sound outlandish,
but hear her out. Mensch claims that she was “self-medicating” for stress by
having a glass of wine per day.
“ I
relished that moment every night, after work, when I could get a large glass of
white somewhere, and relax.”
Whilst
the Sauvignon shakes can be savage, it’s not exactly Irvine Welsh, is it? "Self-medicating"? Really? My stomach is making strange rumbling noises. Do you think I should self-medicate with a sandwich, or is that just feeding the problem? True,
she acknowledges that there are proper alcoholics with proper addictions, but
Louise Mensch also suffers from a harrowing illness of which she can find
little respite. Okay, it’s not Hodgkin's Disease, but it certainly has a cooler
acronym:
“Moving to America finally coincided with my
being treated for my ADD (type 2 inattentive).”
Coincided? To quote Jim Carrey in Ace Venture Pet Detective: "Re-he-he-heally". America loves disorders.
It loves diagnosing things. It loves taking the massive, confusing, paradoxical
thing that is life and simplifying it, treating it, putting YOU back in
CONTROL! Most importantly it loves selling prescription drugs to people. America
produces and consumes vast amounts of drugs which makes a few companies a hilarious amount of money. “Your child is behaving like a child? Unacceptable. Little
Tyler must have Non-Grownup Juvenility Syndrome. Let’s dope the fucker back to
the stone age!"
How many children are put on Ritalin in the USA just because it
is so readily available? How is it that the USA are plagued with these
seriously ill children and yet the rest of the world, who don't have the drug, somehow seems to escape this
epidemic? Weird, that.
“If, like I was, you are a woman who drinks
"reasonably but regularly", it's not reasonable. Consider that you
may have ADD. Ask your doctor.”
How's that going to work?
“Have I got attention deficit disorder?”
“Yes.”
“What?”
“Yes?”
“Sorry, I was miles away.”
Amazing how the human race has survived for
millions of years without knowing that Ugg the Stone Arranger had OCD. Now, I’m
no medical expert (but then neither is Mensch) but maybe she struggled with
politics because of her advanced attention-deficient condition. Or maybe the
business of reading and debating a new bill to make paperclips Euro-regulation is just bloody tedious.
During my history degree, when I had to study parish records of 17th
century England, I seemed to suddenly and uncannily come down with severe bouts
of ADD. The only cure seemed to be to retreat to the library toilets and
playing Snake on my Nokia 3310. Simpler times. I’m quite sure that there are
hyperactive children, some extremely so. I’m have no doubt that it felt to
some 16th century merchants that they were suffering from melancholia
of the humours, and they could only relax at the end of the day with a good blood-letting. But am totally certain that there are as many quacks in the USA
today as there were in Renaissance Venice.
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| "Dude!" |
Mensch claims that ADD is “something
a lot of creative people have.” Good old non-specific
creativity. 'I’ve always had this special, intangible gift that makes me more
special than the people around me. That’s right. It’s no particular skill or
actual quality. I’m just CREATIVE!' Proclaiming oneself ‘creative’ whilst having ADD isn’t about being unable to pay attention. It’s about the feeling that people aren't giving you enough attention. 'Check me out! I’m creative and I have ADD. There’s a
deficit of attention flowing in my direction! I’m a butterfly, fuckers!' And what title did this creative juggernaut chose for the blogpost in question? "WHY-NE O'CLOCK."
Seriously. She must have been out of her face on not drinking when she came up with that turd.
She makes a case for not drinking because you'll sleep better, you'll feel less awful the next morning and you'll have more energy. She's right of course. But you could achieve the same result by not working or having kids, and strangely if you do both those things, you'll probably find yourself less inclined to drink. So why give up a moderate amount of alcohol?
“It's how most American women live and they
are happier and healthier for it.”
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| Who wants candy? |
Then why is it Americans suffer from so many more
disorders of the brain than Brits? Why are self-help snake oil salesman such a feature of the landscape if everyone is so blissfully content? Why are so many Americans popping down so much potentially lethal OxyContin and Vicodin? Why is it
that they are rattling around on so many anti-depressants with names like
Wellbutrin and Joybazole? (Okay, I made the last one up, but try typing ‘list
of antidepressants’ into google. Terrifying.) If people in the USA are happier, it's because they're so egregiously high all the time. It's no wonder they can't find their own country on a map. I've been high, and have been unable to tell the time as a result. They're pilled up like comatosed rhinos. A glass of wine wouldn't touch the sides.
Of course, all Menschtown, Alabama is doing is thinking up some guff for her blog, but fascinating that most major papers think it newsworthy. ("That mouthy, saucy Mensch wench Tory totty is at it again! Front page, Guy! Front page!") What will this creative whirlwind come out with next?
Louise Mensch’s Next Blogs:
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Learning Flemish more beneficial than
stabbing yourself in the eye with a pencil.
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My dog keeps wanting me to perform the same
throwing/ walking/ scratching tasks over and over again. Canine OCD?
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If I write the L Ron Hubbard School of BrainLearnGood out a cheque for £500,000, I
could become an OT8!
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