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I think my wife and I have decided that our daughter has no common sense. She has definitely got to marry someone exceptionally rich so that she doesn't have to face the world of work. Alternatively she will just have to find a career where a lack of common sense helps... like first line support for broadband or perhaps she could work in an estate agents.
This was highlighted last year when we were in Spain. We put the TV on whilst we were getting ready to go out. Luckily at the age of seven, getting ready for going out takes you two minutes, all you need are shoes, t-shirt and trousers whereas my wife and I need a shower and I need the conversation that start “Is that what you're wearing?” and ends up with “wear whatever you want” with “what do you want me to wear?” in the middle. So during getting ready we put the TV on and what was on was Futurama in German. A true gem I think you might agree. After a couple of minutes my daughter said “Can you turn the TV up because I can't hear”. Well you can imagine the conversation but no amount of explaining could get it through to our seven year old that turning the TV wouldn't help.
A similar bit of nonsense happened tonight. My wife was out at a Christmas do and I was sat relaxing watching the TV and the phone rang. I was personally glad it was a wrong number... “Can I speak to Ian?”. The call was short as I explained to the chap that there was no Ian here and he had a wrong number so I put the phone back. Settling back I carried on watching Strictly Come Dancing (not out of choice but I was recording else and I was recording Strictly Come Dancing and couldn't switch... oh why didn't I get a PVR with three tuners!). As I sat back my daughter asked me, “Who was that”, so I said it was a wrong number, something you could have guessed if you overheard my end of the conversation but my daughter doesn't do overhearing unless it involves chocolate. I also then made the classic mistake of over elaborating and said that they wanted Ian. A few seconds passed and then my daughter asked “Ian who?”, at which point I turned round and said “Does it matter? Do you know an Ian?” which is obviously another classic mistake because the answer was yes. This is the point where I loose as logic has left the building.
23:16 13 Dec 2008
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I thought that Saturday nights could get no worse. Of course there's Dr. Who which is always a class act now thought it went through it's period of wobbles until (I think) the irresistible combo of RTD and David Tennant got on our screens, sure Christopher Eccleston started the roll of this but I can't help thinking that David Tennant made the whole thing complete. But this isn't about Dr. Who since Dr. Who is finished.
We have had “Dancing on Ice”, “Strictly Come Dancing Ballroom Celebrity Edition”, and “Ant and Dec”. So what in it's infinite wisdom will the BBC deploy in the void left by Dr. Who?
Last Choir Standing. Wow what a delight of Choir fun with the uber-exposed Myleene Klass. How I now regret my love for Dr. Who. If only Last Choir Standing happened in my youth then Tom Baker would never have been a hero of mine.
Sorry to say this but I'm starting to wish that ITV would retaliate with Blind Date.
23:48 2 Jul 2008
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I'm sure it's a well trodden path now after the UEFA Rangers match but I didn't think (before the riots) that it was a fantastic idea to show the match on big screens in Manchester. I must admit I never knew that the match was going on until the signs went out on Monday all over Albert Square about it's closure. I suspect from some of the comments most of the residents of Manchester didn't know about it either, which is a strange decision if you believe that Manchester City City council has been trying to entice people to come into Manchester not just to work and play but to live.
The reason why I thought it was a strange decision is because the last time a big screen was used to show a match... hold on can you guess. Yes there was a mini riot, very 10 out of 10 go to the top of the class. From memory I believe it was for the World Cup and the rest of the matches were not shown. So wind forward to now and Manchester Council think that importing over one hundred thousand Rangers fans to show a UEFA match is a good idea.
I was in Manchester on the day up until five o'clock and all seemed well. Before then though I could have guessed things were not going to be too healthy when I cycled into work on the morning of the match and stopped at a set of traffic lights just before nine o'clock. Two Rangers were sat on a wall dropped a bottle over a wall and stumbled off but then again that's just isolated and that could have happened if nothing had kicked off I suppose. Of course the line of nose to tail riot vans filling Jackson's Row didn't give me a good feeling when I went to lunch but hey that's just a precaution I thought then.
What's strange is that the parade after the EUFA final for Manchester United has been called off. Unless I'm completely wrong I don't believe that we have had many problems with parades in Manchester but we have had problems with screening matches. I understand the nervousness with the parade but surely the parade has been harmed by a stupid decision to screen the Rangers match but surely this is just knee-jerk which basically tells me that Manchester Council have no idea and it's all about being seen to do something rather than actually doing something.
23:15 16 May 2008
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I read the news on the BBC website today to find that a strike has caused an oil refinery to shut down. From the site I believe that it's responsible for a third of the oil that comes in to the country, I started getting worried. Luckily Number 10 has put out a plea to tell people not to panic buy.
That should sort it.
00:31 26 Apr 2008
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This one of those blog posts that says this it isn't going to talk about one thing or another because something else is the thing the blog about despite making snide comments about one thing or another that the blog wasn't about.... So let's go.
I wasn't going to talk about Matthew Parris with his comment in the times about him thinking that “stringing piano wire across rural roads” [sic] was a joke. I read the article and agree to some extent but I think he must have still been drunk from his Christmas excess on the 27th of December because it did look a little like an attack and one that should stay in his head rather than being poured out into a column. However I didn't want to write about him purely because his opinions don't really and have never bothered me because he's someone I don't care about too much but this text seems to show him as someone who reads the Politically Correct Manual without realising that most of the reason that the manual has been written is because there are some people who don't have any respect for anyone else. Normal people don't the need the manual basically because they realise a stupid thought before it leaves their brain to the mouth (or pen or laptop in this case). I am of course not blogging about it because it's all been said in his Wikipedia article. So I'm not blogging about it.
I was going to talk about J.D. Wetherspoons decision on parties of people with at least one child in the party. The official line is that adults in the party are only allowed two drinks. There's been a bit f conflicting information as to why this and what the official line is. Is it new legislation and is it two drinks or just alcoholic drinks. The word from Wetherspoons is on the last BBC report was that parents could have a drink with the mean and one after but after that there was no need for them to be in the pub. I personally challenge this. If I drink really fast I reckon I could have four so long as I stack them up prior to the meal and then have two after making six. I would have to stack them up purely due to the length of the bar queue this would significantly reduce drinking time. Luckily I don't have the problem of meals in pubs with my family and if I were to go to a pub I would never choose a Wetherspoons purely because I hate them because usually the family area is in the most uncomfortable part of the pub. Makes you wonder why they even offer a family section at all. Mind you it's a good job I'm not blogging about that either!
So on to the main event. There was an unfortunate incident over the sudden death of Mark Speight's fiancee Natasha Collins. Now I am not making fun of the incident however I think the picture you see in Google isn't so much appropriate. At this point where I took the screen grab it's not so bad:
However the previous picture had him on his own with his rubbery smiley face with two thumbs up.
Nice.
21:12 4 Jan 2008
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