Weekend gone, mainly spent watching rubbish
Another weekend hurtles towards its speedy conclusion, much to my annoyance.
I have been out leafleting a fair bit this weekend. In Sedgley mainly, as we unleash the latest Focus upon the world. A new one for St Mary’s is on its way as well, and will be out shortly.
I am delighted at the new “wireless” broadband we now have in the house. I realise that this is hardly cutting edge technology, and that people have had it for years, but I haven’t, and am hugely excited by being able to type emails in front of the TV without trailing trip-wires all over the house and turning the living room into a suburban version of Indiana Jones. So thanks to Sky Broadband for allowing me to leave the 19th century phenomenon of “wires” firmly in the past. Having said that, I am right now sat in my study, at my desk, millimetres from the modem. I don’t really notice any difference…
Unfortunately the arrival of Sky TV has also availed me of the “miracle” of multi channel television. I always secretly laughed when people talked about “300 channels and nothing on,” thinking that they were clearly insane. However, I am now firmly of the view that the entire digital TV universe is awash with nothing more than an unending tidal wave of dross. For instance, Tamsin is currently watching “Most Haunted” on Living 2, a programme so God-awful, on a channel so exceptionally rubbish, that I am fairly close to lobbing a lump of stone at the screen. It really is laughably stupid, and the fact that my girlfriend is lapping it up leads me to believe that there may well be excessive mercury levels in our domestic water supply.
I did get to watch the Milk/Littlewoods/Rumbelows/Coca-Cola/Disney/Worthingon/Carling Cup Final earlier, on one of Sky’s 859 sports channels (I forget which), which was fairly exciting. And I suppose that if I flicked through the channels for long enough I might be able to catch the last few seconds of something good, before it’s replaced by “World’s Deadliest Trout” or something.
Anyway, I am being summoned downstairs now, probably to have my eyes assaulted by a jibbering idiot screaming into a camera on UK Rubbish 4 +1 or whatever channel we’ll be watching.
Give me good old BBC2 any day.
Unless Weakest Link is on.
Rick
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