Laughter, blame and the straw poll

During my time I have been blamed for many things - the current recession, dodgy pork from Ireland and global warming amongst others; and I don't mind this, I've got broad shoulders so I'll take some of the blame. However, I am not to blame for everything and one thing I'm certainly not guilty of is being a bad influence to Mandie. Now I get blamed for this on a daily basis, usually by Mandie, but it is not the truth, it is in fact nothing more than a convenient excuse.

The problem is, in my opinion, we are too similar - we have the same wicked sense of humour, we are roughly the same age (Mandie being the older of us by a few years! - Sorry), have the same outlook on life and, hey, we both like men. 

So we are equally to blame, we get on too well, we find fun and laughter in the same, sometimes strange places; in short we are a bad influence on one another. And it's great, I love Mandie, she's a top friend who brightens my day up and whom I have laughed with until it hurt, seriously. 

However, there is one thing that we disagree on, one major hurdle we cannot cross; and that is Aston from JLS. As the world is now aware I so love this guy, whilst Mandie cannot see the attraction at all, and chooses instead to mercilessly ridicule me for my bad taste. We even held a straw poll of random people, mostly women, on this issue and unfortunately it appears I am on my own. Perhaps it's a gay male thing or maybe it's just me, I hope it's the latter - then I won't have to share him!

Anyway, as this issue snowballs out of control, I think I'm in for one major embarrassment at the hands of Mandie. She's making me an "I love Aston" banner, or something along those lines. Should this banner materialise (unfortunately I think it will) and against my better judgement I'll share it with you along with the photos of me in pain, probably from embarrassment but mostly from laughter. 

Top friend sharing happy times!