Wales, most of the year is a dark, dreary cold place to live, out summers are pleasant but rarely... continental. But every now and again, we break from tradition and have an unexpected hot(ter) spell, and I'm sweating in the middle of one now.
Sadly, the rarity of these blue skied outbursts really goes to peoples heads. Yes, it's warm, but no, man by ponty bus station, nobody wants to see your middle aged gut in a vest and floral shorts, let alone your hairy feet in flip flops, it's just not on. As soon as the sun comes out 45,000 chavs appear with no tops on drinking strongbow in every beer garden for 25 square miles. The very thought that this 2 week period of relative heat may be it for the summer gets these people into such a blind panic that common sense goes straight out the window.
I'm a moderate fan of the heat, but very rarely and in much hotter climates have I ever felt the urge for a bit of public disrobing (Then it was just the shirt). I work in an air-con free office and if you open the window not only is there no wind to speak of to cool you down, but the birds have a habit of shitting on it, it's not an overly comfortable place to be at the moment, but this doesn't mean I'm going to turn up to work with my moobs flopping about the place contained only by a primark vest and my stinking feet on full display.
On route to this bus this morning I have already come across one chav in sunglasses, vest and shorts, it was 7am and cold... Still at least it was excellent golf weather Sunday!
The sensationalist media will probably kick off any moment, half will be proclaiming UK hotter than surface of sun, while half will be predicting all of our deaths via global warming and skin cancer, oh and the sun thanking Simon Cowell for bringing the sun to the UK (as it shines from his backside).
So overall, chavs... keep the top on, it's still March and I've only just eaten.
Showing posts with label Sun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sun. Show all posts
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
News of the World
Before I start, I don't buy newspapers, be they daily, Sunday, weekly, monthly whatever. I don't even get the freebie Metro 77 people assault you with as you walk to work in the mornings in Cardiff. Generally I tend to use a blend of a few websites to gather whatever daily knowledge that I'm needing.
Partially this is because websites tend to update as things happen, while once a paper is printed, that's as up to date as it gets. Partially as I don't want some jumped up journalism graduate pushing his bosses OTT political views down my throat, expecting me to believe them as fact just because they're in print.
But primarily it's because the vast majority of the British press is of a very low quality. Actual news stands aside for bullshit 'celebrity' news (it escapes me how people like the '3am' girls and Dan Wootten have jobs and well paid jobs at that, where in a less obsessive society they'd be branded nosey or stalkers), sensationalist crap (Daily Mail I'm looking at you), self indulgent pointless filler (we won the election... did you fuck) and downright made up stuff (Sun Hillsborough story immediately comes to mind).
Possibly the worst at this has always been The Sun, and of course it's Sunday sister paper the News of the World. Over the last few days I'm sure everyone is aware of the allegations against the Sunday waste of paper, in that they have been responsible for hacking into the phone of missing girl Milly Dowler, quite what they hoped to achieve by this god only knows, but hopefully he'll get the chance to judge them soon enough.
Off the back of this (they've hacked many a celebs/MPs phone before, looking for the dire shite excuse for stories that populate their pages) it's come to light that this may well have been common place in such things as missing persons cases and they may have done it on other occasions. It's absolutely sickening. I've always thought these papers were low, doing whatever they could to appeal to a pretty low common denominator but this is new depths.
Problems are, so much of the media has a common owner, things like this will get about half the coverage of Prince William having a cold or a photo up some celebs skirt proving she's a 'slut' or something that the photographer had to lay in the gutter to take (easy to get shot then). Let's be fair the gutter is where the papers (Sun/NotW) and everyone who works for them and condones these actions (I see silence or brushing over as condoning) belong.
No action will ever be taken against the likes of Rebekah Brooks (editor) the actions were probably fully supported by everyone at the paper at the time. They'll be quick to look after their own no matter what hurt and concern they've caused other people. People, probably the same people, will still buy the papers regardless of meaningful content, just because there's a picture on the front that Cashley and Cheryl Cole were in the same postcode last Thursday, which of course proves that Diana was murdered as she was pregnant with Hugh Grants child following some sort of alien link.
If there was no demand for the gutter press these nobs provide, they'd be out of a job, but as long as there's demand they'll continue to exist and do more of the same. Occasionally overstepping the mark (as they have done now) with no real consequences, but for the most part, just feeding the public's obsessions. With a bit of luck this could start to change peoples attitudes towards papers like the Sun, but I doubt it.
Partially this is because websites tend to update as things happen, while once a paper is printed, that's as up to date as it gets. Partially as I don't want some jumped up journalism graduate pushing his bosses OTT political views down my throat, expecting me to believe them as fact just because they're in print.
But primarily it's because the vast majority of the British press is of a very low quality. Actual news stands aside for bullshit 'celebrity' news (it escapes me how people like the '3am' girls and Dan Wootten have jobs and well paid jobs at that, where in a less obsessive society they'd be branded nosey or stalkers), sensationalist crap (Daily Mail I'm looking at you), self indulgent pointless filler (we won the election... did you fuck) and downright made up stuff (Sun Hillsborough story immediately comes to mind).
Possibly the worst at this has always been The Sun, and of course it's Sunday sister paper the News of the World. Over the last few days I'm sure everyone is aware of the allegations against the Sunday waste of paper, in that they have been responsible for hacking into the phone of missing girl Milly Dowler, quite what they hoped to achieve by this god only knows, but hopefully he'll get the chance to judge them soon enough.
Off the back of this (they've hacked many a celebs/MPs phone before, looking for the dire shite excuse for stories that populate their pages) it's come to light that this may well have been common place in such things as missing persons cases and they may have done it on other occasions. It's absolutely sickening. I've always thought these papers were low, doing whatever they could to appeal to a pretty low common denominator but this is new depths.
Problems are, so much of the media has a common owner, things like this will get about half the coverage of Prince William having a cold or a photo up some celebs skirt proving she's a 'slut' or something that the photographer had to lay in the gutter to take (easy to get shot then). Let's be fair the gutter is where the papers (Sun/NotW) and everyone who works for them and condones these actions (I see silence or brushing over as condoning) belong.
No action will ever be taken against the likes of Rebekah Brooks (editor) the actions were probably fully supported by everyone at the paper at the time. They'll be quick to look after their own no matter what hurt and concern they've caused other people. People, probably the same people, will still buy the papers regardless of meaningful content, just because there's a picture on the front that Cashley and Cheryl Cole were in the same postcode last Thursday, which of course proves that Diana was murdered as she was pregnant with Hugh Grants child following some sort of alien link.
If there was no demand for the gutter press these nobs provide, they'd be out of a job, but as long as there's demand they'll continue to exist and do more of the same. Occasionally overstepping the mark (as they have done now) with no real consequences, but for the most part, just feeding the public's obsessions. With a bit of luck this could start to change peoples attitudes towards papers like the Sun, but I doubt it.
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