Things that are true but unsaid

[UrbanDad]

All minor light entertainers die in poverty
All plasticine, whatever its colour, eventually becomes brown with little streaks of colour.
Parents who work insane hours to afford to send their kids to expensive schools and nannies secretly know that it would be better to spend less money on the education and more time with their kids, but don't want to admit it.
All kids' clothes look like second-hand clothes after a couple of weeks of wear.
Parents all secretly hate primary schools for closing the gates at 8.55am and humiliating them when they arrive late.
Grammar schools are a state-subsidised private school for the middle-classes.
Every generation will have a bottle-blonde female pop singer at whom the press will feign mock "outrage" and a boy band who are mediocre singers but look nice and are successful for that reason alone.
Denmark does better than the UK at everything even though they are a tiny country with a fraction of the population.
Being a cynical b@stard is sometimes the correct option.

A walk in the countryside followed by a visit to the pub beats the hell out of any videogame.
If we factored-in safe cycling to every new road-scheme we would be a healthier, wealthier, happier country.
A certain amount of female resistance to porn is about a frustrated inability to compete with plucked, enhanced, on-demand, hassle-free sexually alluring women.
The riots are the most recent manifestation of a simmering war between adequate and inadequate parenting and the respective resulting offspring.
Advertising is just another way of trying to make you want stuff you don't need.
Women who criticise porn as demeaning to women, but who buy Cosmo/Elle/Glamour/Vogue etc. are hypocrites.
Advertising companies who target "pester power" are real scumbags for trying to manipulate parents' relationship with their children.
There is no point jailing riotous children without also addressing the causes of their behaviour at a family-level.
The true meaning of wealth is having everything you want and the easiest way to achieve it is to want less.
Benefits and social housing are crucial to stop this country becoming medieval in its inequality, and it should not surprise anyone that they act as economic incentives for poorer people to produce children they could otherwise not afford to look after properly.
Who do the tabloids think they're kidding - they all phone-hacked and bribed police.
Neither D.Cameron nor BoJo (ex-members of the Bullingdon Club, famous for trashing restaurants and hotel rooms) has any reason to consider themselves morally superior to a one-off, opportunistic child rioter - the only difference is they weren't caught and prosecuted.

Other people's houses are always more tidy than yours (for the simple reason people only invite you round when the've tidied up).
You never really realise how messed up the other kids at school are until you (and they) become adults and they are still wildly off-beam.
Any appreciation of the importance of work vanishes when you read "Hairy McLary from Donaldson's Dairy" to your children.
Holding your child's hand and chatting as you walk them to school is a deeply fulfilling experience.
British people hate flats and as soon as they get their own garden space it will include (in varying proportions): patio, path, lawn, flower-bed and shed.

massive trampoline? though I cant fit one in around my GINORMOUS double swing. grrr

Coming home in the am after a night shift watching other people going to work bleary eyed is marvellous.
Drinking beer at 7am because it's 7pm to me is an indulgence I get used to.

That love is all about saying I'm sorry. In a multitude of ways for things you'd never even previously considered were wrong.

That a piece of music can have a profound effect on the way your day works out.

The second beer never tastes quite as good as the first.