Dizzojay's Dean Dreams

Not that I love my job any less than normal, but April is always a fraught month in my line of work.

Mainly due to tax year end, but when your organisation raises 700 peoples' salaries in the same month, the government requires you to uplift all their pension contributions, your HR Director is REALLY keen for you to get the draft Reward Strategy draft for the whole organisation ready for the board meeting in the first week of May and then Easter gives you two less working days to do it all in, Dean ably demonstrates my attitude towards some of my less understandding managers this week!

I haven't been following this whole ridiculous drama that's going on about this stupid 'joke' from NOLA Con, but I've seen enough on social media to know the general gist of the situation:

The guys get baited into telling a - probably, in the current climate - vaguely inappropriate joke and now they, Jared in particular, are getting crucified on Twitter by the oh-so-fucking-righteous brigade.

There's a reason why I very rarely go near Twitter; because when that lot get going like a bunch of screaming, demented baboons flinging shit at their chosen target, it's unbearable to watch.

All I will say on the matter is that when those who are shouting the loudest can stand up, look me in the eye and show me that they have NEVER once made an ill-advised or inappropriate comment, or spoken without thinking under pressure, or just - basically - made a mistake, then I'll take them seriously.

But they can't, because they've all done it.  We all have.  Every man, woman and child on the planet has made a stupid misjudgement at some point in their lives - and most of us have the benefit of not doing it in front of a room full of people and five hundred cameras.

So, they'll happily tear down two amazing men who have done wonders for people less fortunate for themselves because of one human misjudgement.  They'll happily tear them down because their voice HAS to be heard - their ego HAS to be let off it's leash. Hang the consequences for J2 and the rest of the fandom.

Well, they're so fond of judging people, now I'm going to judge them.  They make me sick.  I don't care about them, I don't care about their offended sensibilities.  They are self-righteous, hypocritical twats.  The worst kind of narcissistic bullies, because it all has to be about them.

I hope Jared and Jensen have the strength to weather this storm, and can take comfort in knowing that they can count on the support of the REAL fandom - a fandom which wouldn't exist without them. I support @Jensenackles and @Jarpad 100%.

And as for the Drama Llamas - just go and crawl back under your rock - I'm sure you'll find something else to be offended by soon.

Bowie, Pete Burns, Prince, Rick Parfitt, Greg Lake and now George Michael ...

I feel like the soundtrack of my youth is slowly being erased.

Please, no more :(

I've just spent a nice couple of days down on the Isle of Wight visiting my parents.

This post may sound like a moan, but let me first qualify things by saying that I love my parents dearly; I would walk through Hell for them without question.

The same, however, cannot be said of my Mum's unswerving and obsessive fascination with her own (and by extension - my) family.

( Family don't end with blood. )

I'm standing shoulder to shoulder with my lovely friends.

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As many of you may know, here in the UK, Sky Living have axed Supernatural, leaving UK fans unable to legally watch our show without waiting over a year for the DVD's to be released.



So I have decided to follow in the footsteps of these lovely ladies and send my own plea to UKTV, on the basis that if they get swamped with requests, they might get an idea of the strength of feeling (and more importantly, the size of the influx of viewing figures).

This is what I sent:

( A plea for mercy! )


If you wanted to add your voice to our crusade, you can contact UKTV here.  Let's keep it nice, make them think we're the sort of people they'd like to have around.  Either that or make them so desperate, they'll buy Supernatural just to get us to shut the hell up!!!

Here's a word of advice for anyone pondering a career in HR.

DON'T!


( Here's a little something that satisfies my need for light relief and involves people I don't want to strangle ... )