It is with sadness and a heavy heart that I report the left honourable Megatron hague has been sacked from his post as "Chief money waster" and "Lets make our defences weak defence secretary". While we knew David cameron was clearing out his cupboard...sorry cabinet, we never expected such drastic changes, especially to a friend he recently went on a seaside holiday with, which I am referring to right now even though that is in another continuity and another post I did. But continuites can change with the weather. It's the only excuse bosses at Eastenders haven't used yet but I better not give them ideas. Who knows, they may use it to bring back Johnny allen or Dirty Den. While their characters may of been good, in reality Leslie Grantham was up to no good. (Guess that's why he seemed right for the part) But Eastenders is used to being involved in scandal. If you watch an episode, I dare anyone to condone the appaling acting a few million viewers who are unable to change the channel and have remote control issues (battery related I suspect, invest in rechargable) have to be subjected to. Nooo. Nooo. Come on. That's rude. Eastenders has great actors and actresses. Not that I watch Eastenders really, (wonder why, everytime the theme tune starts of I fall of my chair. One day I shouted up to my sister and said, "That Firework came close". She replied, "No. We just turned on Eastenders". A soap which even on the quietest of volume settings seems capable of crumbling mountains. Or is that strength reserved for Bianca's, "RICKY") but the decision to have a cancer storyline (involving Tanya if you haven't seen it) and also I suspect to raise awareness for it at the same time is great. Not just because I know a few people suffering from cancer, it would be good even if I didn't. I suspect at some point they will display a contact number at the end of an episode for people in similar situations. Also Yusef (I hope I spelled his name correctly) is quite an interesting character, especially as I was quite bored of Zainab and Masood's storylines, or what seemed a lack of them to me but perhaps they were downplaying their characters to focus on others for a bit. Yusef is a doctor. But I don't see him as a doctor of medicine. Oh no, he is a doctor of the mind. He is a corrupt psychologist who uses his knowledge (you don't have to train as a psychologist to understand everything they do, I thought i'd say, I'm evidence of that and a good psychologist will say the same) of mind matters to manipulate people and so on, especially to confuse poor Zainab, and while people might be frustrated at Zainab's "stupidity", she isn't stupid and I would like you to ask yourself, if you were her, could you honestly see what was being done to you behind the scenes. Would you honestly detect every little hint by Yusef, every remark that all goes to his big plan that I'm still not quite sure what it is or perhaps even he doesn't or maybe his goal has changed along the way. But he is a lot like me I imagine. Fascinated by the mind, able to get people to say what I want them to everyday, play clever mind tricks and so much more that people wouldn't begin to comprehend unless you told them and explained. Except this is where the differences come in. Perhaps at one point Yusef would of done good, or he might believe he still is (as I don't believe any person does something completely believing it to be evil, or perhaps that's just me refusing to see bad in people even though I see it everyday) but he now has a sinister agenda. And I worry a sinster approach to carrying out these things. But I use my knowledge to help people. Wether it's something incredibly simple like purposely bringing up conversations about something somebody likes to cheer them up, or noticing somebody struggling to get their thoughts in a conversation so mentioning something which will stop the other person in their tracks or an often used tactic I do is give them something big to "chew on" and while they think over that, the other person gets to speak, or all the other tricks people like me use to help people everyday yet they never have a clue, not even in the non psychological ways we help them. But that doesn't matter, we don't do it for reward. We do it to learn more and also because we love to help. But it's not easy. My friends know I survey a conversation often and decide when to speak or wether to speak at all. People might say things that are wrong and if serious I would correct them if I believe I was right, but I limit myself (not because I'm so right all the time, I can be but so many things I don't have a clue about and have to trust in other people). As one example, if I or you, kept correcting people when will they learn for themselves? Well yes, they can learn from us teaching them and we should carry on doing so, but I feel times where wether they are wrong or right, we should let them speak and essentially let them be wrong and realise their mistakes. There are many other reasons as well for not speaking and many for speaking. (check my psychology blog) But I wonder if Yusef has spoken too much and it is time for someone else to, maybe Zainab, without the influence of her former Husband who plays people against other people, not far of from what I do. Except in his vision I believe there may be only him left standing, wether originally intended or not. Whereas in mine, it ends with the same amount of people I started with, plus extras who through my studies of humans and behaviours, I have hopefully brung together.

Psychology can seem a dangerous game. Judge reasoning, never the act. Put to good use, every single problem humans ever faced could be wiped out. If you believed.

Barry.

08/12/2011 Update. Yusef is playing Chess I guess. But what if it's checkmate for him? If he keeps using (Amira, Syed etc) his Chess pieces like this and sacrficing them, what will he have left to use? And what is to stop someone like Masood for example, coming in and Checking him in one move?