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r_scribblesWell, things are looking up a bit. The Cold Straight From Satan's Sulphurous Arse (TM) now actually appears to be making a retreat... the splitting headache that it's been giving me for the last few days has now gone anyway, which is all good. Also we have discovered that we can get Dead Set off iTunes. It'll set us back about sick squid but I reckon that's worth it. We're going to wait until it's finished and then get all 5 episodes together. Woo!
I am, however, utterly sick and tired of the pointless, hysterical media circus over WossBrandSachsgate. Aren't you guys too? It was a stupid, puerile radio prank gone wrong, but then DJs are usually by their nature stupid, puerile and offensive. It was Bullying-as-entertainment, but then the great British public just laps up Bullying-as-entertainment these days, they were just pandering to us. Who are the real twats here...? That's right - everybody. Them, the BBC, the right wing media who've happily whipped up this storm over absolutely fuck all, and the general public. Yeah, we're all twats for so much as giving this stupidity the time of day. I'm a twat for wasting my time writing about it in my blog. Bah. It's so fucking depressing. Actually, I think 90s Comedian Richard Herring has a bloody good handle on this whole miserable heap of spidershit, I mean, he knows more about Da Business than I do. But I'd just like to add that the claim of '20,000 complaints' or however many it was wasn't actually the number of complaints when the show went out. That number was considerably smaller, apparently. 19,998 complaints smaller, in fact. The great however-thousand was the tally from 'Have Your Say', the BBC's miserable online 'discussion' board, on which I have made my feelings very plain. Now considering that many posters on HYS are sockpuppets, many more are Trolls and all the rest are shrill, bigoted, paranoid, Littlejohn-loving pricks who honestly believe that the Beeb is a Commie Conspiracy designed to filter out any but the most liberal, lentil-hugging opinions, and then find absolutely no irony in repeatedly posting such beliefs, along with their mouth-frothing, banner-waving thoughts on Immigration, Gay Rights and Wife Beating on... um... the BBC's website - I'd take anything submitted to HYS, even in such numbers, with more than a pinch of salt.
Not that I want to be seen as defending Jonathan Ross or Russell Brand here. I think they've both come out of this as utter turds. I just want it all to go away and for people to stop acting like it's the end of the world. I mean, both Gordon Brown and David Cameron have chipped in about this. Don't they have something better to do? Actually, Cameron probably hasn't, the pie-faced, media-fellating cunt, but I think Gordon Brown might have a country to run and an economy to stop from crashing and burning and whatnot.
Plus, it looks like Whatshername is now trying to make a career out of her Grandad's national humiliation. Classy.
Yeah, it's all pretty depressing. I almost wish the news would start banging on about how the economic apocalypse is upon us instead. It's practically heart-lifting by comparison.
I am, however, utterly sick and tired of the pointless, hysterical media circus over WossBrandSachsgate. Aren't you guys too? It was a stupid, puerile radio prank gone wrong, but then DJs are usually by their nature stupid, puerile and offensive. It was Bullying-as-entertainment, but then the great British public just laps up Bullying-as-entertainment these days, they were just pandering to us. Who are the real twats here...? That's right - everybody. Them, the BBC, the right wing media who've happily whipped up this storm over absolutely fuck all, and the general public. Yeah, we're all twats for so much as giving this stupidity the time of day. I'm a twat for wasting my time writing about it in my blog. Bah. It's so fucking depressing. Actually, I think 90s Comedian Richard Herring has a bloody good handle on this whole miserable heap of spidershit, I mean, he knows more about Da Business than I do. But I'd just like to add that the claim of '20,000 complaints' or however many it was wasn't actually the number of complaints when the show went out. That number was considerably smaller, apparently. 19,998 complaints smaller, in fact. The great however-thousand was the tally from 'Have Your Say', the BBC's miserable online 'discussion' board, on which I have made my feelings very plain. Now considering that many posters on HYS are sockpuppets, many more are Trolls and all the rest are shrill, bigoted, paranoid, Littlejohn-loving pricks who honestly believe that the Beeb is a Commie Conspiracy designed to filter out any but the most liberal, lentil-hugging opinions, and then find absolutely no irony in repeatedly posting such beliefs, along with their mouth-frothing, banner-waving thoughts on Immigration, Gay Rights and Wife Beating on... um... the BBC's website - I'd take anything submitted to HYS, even in such numbers, with more than a pinch of salt.
Not that I want to be seen as defending Jonathan Ross or Russell Brand here. I think they've both come out of this as utter turds. I just want it all to go away and for people to stop acting like it's the end of the world. I mean, both Gordon Brown and David Cameron have chipped in about this. Don't they have something better to do? Actually, Cameron probably hasn't, the pie-faced, media-fellating cunt, but I think Gordon Brown might have a country to run and an economy to stop from crashing and burning and whatnot.
Plus, it looks like Whatshername is now trying to make a career out of her Grandad's national humiliation. Classy.
Yeah, it's all pretty depressing. I almost wish the news would start banging on about how the economic apocalypse is upon us instead. It's practically heart-lifting by comparison.
