Whilst discussing violence in films nowadays and when I was young we mentioned the films 'The Firm' and 'Scum'. Two films that were often talked about because of iconic scenes of violence and it was cool to have seen them. As for the latter, Ray Winstone's famous prison 'Daddy' role in which he beats a man with a snooker ball in a sock was a right of passage to watch before you were old enough. My work collegue gave me a fun fact. "The guy Ray beats up is Paul Daniels".  I pictured the 80's English magician in a prison bed with his bad toupee on,  turning to Ray and saying "Now That's Magic". He meant Phil Daniels. 

Whilst in the queue in the Co-Op today I waited to purchase one loaf of bread. I was fifth in line and the cashier surveyed the line up and said to the next in line, "I will just call for backup"
What does he mean by back up? It made it sound like we were all about to lynch him whilst armed only with groceries and ill will. 
I expected to see cashiers on high shelves with long range barcode readers and staff pushing towards us riot newspapers for shielding. Backup...idiot!. 

Later when I relaxed at home and had a look on Facebook, it suggested 'People you might know on Facebook-Chris Whitehouse'. What an anti climax. It made me imagine what it was like to be on the receiving end of such a message. Even I thought "oh he's a bit of a prick".
I used to joke when I was about eleven that I would make a great partner for myself. If I went out with a clone of myself I would be able to share my love of watching films and I could play two player on a games console. I'd be into all the same music and then my clone would also not want a cuddle. It was a little joke at the tome but little did I realise that I would walk away from all my relationships because they were not like me.