Football

I see that football appears to be infesting TV again. Live and let live, but I’ve never understood games with balls. Well, some of them I understand, of course, I just don’t understand the obsession and fascination with them. But, I have my obsessions in other areas, so fair enough.

Shave me eyebrows?

So what’s all this shaving tiny bits out of your eyebrows business, eh?

Drunk driving bitch

I got to hear the news today that a girl working for a company I have a relationship with (the company not the girl), was sacked on the spot.

Satire

Satire is a wonderful thing. The satirical writers of our world make us laugh by pointing at those who should be laughed at. Satire isn’t cruel or mean. It never picks on people who are the underdogs or are genuinely pathetic or in need of help and understanding. That’s not satire. Satire picks on people who should know better. Satire caricatures the dogmatic and the obsessive, those with closed minds or opinions, those who can’t see beyond their own mirrors, and it gives us wonderful comedy based on people who really really should know better.

Bob’s Bob?

Maybe that goldfish is trying to tell you his name is Bob.

Flash mobbing

I think the sport of streaking first started in the 1970s. This was the completely harmless yet completely pointless activity of taking all one’s clothes off and running stark naked through a highly televised event such as a cricket match. In fact, one large breasted lady became famous for so doing. I remember the breasts but forget her name.

Motivate to Metric

Good to hear that Ireland has removed all the silly imperial road signs spouting stuff like ‘miles per hour’ speed limits and has properly replaced them with metric signs showing ‘kilometres per hour’.

Whose holocaust?

Last month we had ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’.

Why do Jews never really acknowledge the “others” who were gassed, shot, or in other ways ‘terminated’ by the Nazis in the Second World War? Why are they re-writing history as if the Holocaust was only a Jewish thing?

Emergency Radio

Reading through the ‘Preparing for Emergencies’ book we all got quite a while ago, I notice that I have to gather up my belongings and along with a load of spare batteries, I need to have with me a portable radio. Indeed, I also have to make sure I know how to tune in to my ‘local radio station’.

Being 19

In conversation, I very very occasionally drop into the discussion that I am 19 years of age (Ok, I actually say it a lot). This often rushes by people, but others who examine the things I discuss, especially relating to things I’ve done, will question how it’s possible that I’m so young. Those who have followed my meanderings for many years will point out that I appear to have been 19 forever.

Time to cull the old people at Radio 1

What’s going on at Radio 1?

Either there is some obscure mental condition affecting those in control or it’s really really really time to cull the old people again. They did it once before in the early 90s when they repositioned Radio 1 back to being for da yoof instead of the older listeners it had accidentally drifted into serving.

The Fear that is London

In America, well New York, even before September 11th 2001, an interesting thing was happening. Crime was falling dramatically, and even murder had reduced by over 60% in 5 years. Attitudes were changing. The place was feeling safer. People felt happier and more optimistic.

Sudan Insane

Do you remember that mega-worry about minute particles of the illegal dye Sudan I getting into the food chain? Man, was that fun to watch.

Chris Evans’ TV set

I never really liked Chris Evans on the radio other than when he was first on GLR. I thought he was good on the Big Breakfast TV show, and liked the original Friday shows (got bored by the end), and was a complete anorak of the Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush series, but radio, no.

Valentine’s Day hype

I realise that Valentine’s Day is a hype. It is a device used to generate profit for those who publish and sell cards. And those who sell flowers. Or chocolates. Or sexy lingerie. Or sell food in a restaurant. Or sell ads in a newspaper. Or…well, the list never ends. The fact is, it’s Valentine’s Day and you are supposed to spend your money.

Reducing radio audiences

How to reduce your audience if you run a radio station:

It was god what dunnit

Natural disasters. As in, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc., etc. When the initial time spent telling the horror stories is over, we enter the phase where we more rationally(?) look for who to blame. Not unsurprisingly ‘god’ has his head on the chopping block on this one.

Kidnap

As a small science experiment yesterday, I decided to kidnap somebody. Well, it wasn’t just yesterday. I’d been planning it for a little while, and so had been sorting out the cellar in this old house. Since I live a way away from the nearest house the cellar will be fairly soundproofed. I’ve also put a heater in there, and welded everything so it’s like a sort of dungeon. Well, it is a dungeon I suppose. It has a bed, a toilet, and looks strangely more comforting than a police cell.

Avoiding Happy Slaps

Videoing drive-by shootings is popular in America. As you may know, a regular game is that a bunch of kids will steal a car, drive around looking for people they don’t know walking down the street. They will then empty a gun into that person, usually killing them or causing serious injury at the very least. This will cause screams of excitement and laughter from the others in the stolen car. To be able to relive the memory of this moment of great fun, they will usually use a video camera they’ve taken when mugging a tourist, to record the event. They will speed off after doing the drive-by and play back what they’ve recorded to howls of laughter as they watch the final moments of their victim as he/she falls to the ground, dead.

Muslims say tough shit to victims

Remember the Tsunami? And the aftermath? What I do find interesting is that the Muslim world seems to not have been that forthcoming with aid and funds, well, at least not to the level that the West appears to have genuinely been, for the victims of the tsunami. Ok, Saudi Arabia donated around $5 million, and Kuwait $2 million, for use in only the Muslim areas.