whatho | Dancing, but it's nothing much to do with that.

There's been a thing this year with quite a few of the professional dancers, most particularly Brendan, saying they can't really enjoy their success because it comes at the expense of someone else. Which is very sweet on the whole and divinely uncompetitive. And technically they ought to be ECSTATIC right now, though for NO PARTICULAR REASON I sort of imagine they aren't. But it does make me laugh a bit. I keep trying to imagine Michael Schumacher saying 'I'd love to celebrate my seventh championship, but I can't stop thinking about those twenty-one other people who were denied success by my brilliance'. It always ends with his guffawing like an absolute drain. Or Stephen Hendry. Stephen Hendry crying because he's in the top sixteen and everyone else is back into triple figures.

I'm not criticising. I'm just laughing. Dancing's so weird.