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What happened to all the skirts?

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So something of an unusual rant this time, and it may seem strange but I was out last night and I noticed just how unpopular they had become. Obviously excluding men from the equation, I don't think I saw a single skirt or dress in the entire night; the trend for a simple top and jeans as acceptable nightwear has seemed to be subtly increasing to the point that either I'm hitting all the wrong spots (and need somewhere 'classier' perhaps) or they're becoming extinct. Thinking about it further, its not just nightwear that they've seen a decline but in general use; I sometimes get the impression more skirts are worn by blokes during christmas piss-ups and stag nights than any other time! It's getting to the stage that I'm having difficulty thinking of fashionable items worn outside of film premières, the retro-70s crowd, the stereotyped goth crowd, school girls and weddings, and I don't quite understand why to the modern eye they're seen in such a

The Captain Commandeers his Vessel...err blog...eh whatever.

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I sometimes come up with rants in my mind. In fact, sometimes I wonder if I'm at least partly schizophrenic as it can often become quite heated arguing with myself. It turns out I can be pretty stubborn. During one particular “session” I began thinking I ought to write all this down somewhere for future reference, some sort of site or word file. Then I remembered I had a blog. Well actually I run three but two have valid purposes; this ones status as my ongoing novel seems under appreciated given its indefinite hiatus following the loss of all my notes. I'm blaming that and not the fact that I got lazy. So say hello to the new revitalised blog. Thats revitalised in content, I'm not changing the layout or anything. I'm still pretty lazy. I would like to think that this would be general ranting, and whilst I expect a fair amount of the books lore will come out – I managed to get a huge world in my head and most of it is still in there, so it seems natural I should write