So occasionally my mates and I go to a cult classic movie night at a venue nearby, for example we watched the Shining last night. Nothing like a little screeching violin background music to get the blood pumping.Intense. Anyway, a few weeks before we watched Valhalla Rising, also an amazing film to look at, the cinematography was absolutely mind blowing but I can't say much about the script, over the 92 minutes the whole cast muttered something like 36 words. Anyway, one of the scenes was a fight between these two viking guys, absolutely brutal. The one guy "One Eye" bit a chunk from the other poor sods neck, he later went on to smash another poor souls skull in with a rock. All the while he is chained to a pole like a dog. Heavy stuff.
So this got me thinking how hard core these people in general where back in the day. I mean, we moan about forgetting our cell phone charger at home. I once saw a grown man cry because someone spilt beer on his shoes. He would have been eaten alive if he did that with vikings around. So I was speaking to my mate about how wimpy we have become as time has progressed, men are looking like women, I think half of us are even starting to wear womens pants! but I digress...So I watched the news in fascination about the whole Egypt riots as they want to get ride of old Hasni Mubarak. Absolute madness, I saw a man on a camel charge into a group of pro-democracy supportes, get pulled off and absolutely destroyed. Another set a Pro-Mubarak supporter afire with a Molotov cocktail.
I have not studied politics or anything like that, but I understand that at some point enough is enough and it might be warranted to stand up and be counted. I have never seem images like that though. Literally hundreds of thousands of supporters going berserk throwing missiles and then some knob starts shooting and all hell breaks loose. Mayhem. But then it goes a bit awry, all the blood pumping leads some previously pacifistic protesters into a rage and they take it out by turning a car over, setting a building on fire and stealing Tutankhamun. Again, I do not understand politics too well but I'm sure the old Kings of the Nile aren't involved. Hope the museum makes it.
So I reckon that regardless if your skinny jeans are too tight, your man liner is running down your face and your ipod is beeping low battery... come crunch time I think everyone has a little Viking in them.