Okay now as you know i am a total freak about my diet, very careful about toxins and all the shit they subsutiute as food these days, on dropping in to see agent stone she gave me a present she purchased from something called the easter show, it was a bag filled with sour sweets, yeah a huge bag filled with SOUR sweets. I ate one and it was fucking foul, anyway the deal was that you have to keep the sweet in your mouth for 50 seconds, the first 20 being the worst, then it got slightly bearable, but i have to say people, i did it. The problem with these sweets is they are highly addictive, i mean this stuff pisses on smack or methadone, its far more damaging than ice or crack, this stuff is bad news, its legal and it sells in most newsagents, most mums and dads buy it for their loved ones when they have been good boys and girls, it's going to make children crazy, rot their teeth instantly, plug em into the medical adad model as the high levels of sugar ravage their little systems, it's going cuase diabeties and brain disorders, its going to poison the blood, and infiltrate the mind. I ate two sweets and suddenly my brain started to fuck up, tiny sezures, mild epileptic episodes, a sudden glimpse into dantes inferno, messages from the dead zones.

I was reading about the ethics of climbing up everest. apparently theres a big ho ha about the climbers who walk by other climbers who are half frozen and abandoned, they generally leave them to die, as did a group of climbers leave an english climber who subsequently froze to death, their rationale being, he would have died anyway.
Well i don't know, i don't actually put these guys in the same bracket as the edmund hillarys of the world, Hillary was a true adventurer, he didn't have the same kind of technology, he just had what was available at the time, no gps, maybe some thermal undies but he made the comment that he would never leave some one to die on the mountain and you gotta respect that. Maybe these modern idiots do know the risk, maybe we live in an age where the achievement has to be made at any cost but the real hero for me is Hillary. He spoke out where others didn't. I 'd rather climb with Hillary than the other bozo's, thats for sure.
I 'm reminded of 'Touching the Void' the brilliant film based on the book about two climbers in peru, one of whom had to cut the rope that connected him to the other lest he be killed. It was an amazing story, both managed to survive, under circumstances that they really stood no chance against. It's amazing what the body can do, the limits it can reach, one of the climbers said, 'My body was on auto piolet, i crawled home, my mind was gone, it was singing Boney M songs on loop.'