I was up and about very early yesterday and, having downed several cups of tea, I slumped into my favourite armchair with eyes like a Japanese sniper's to watch a little TV.
The aim was to catch up on the news overnight and see if it was worth getting dressed or whether Bush had finally hit "the button" and life as we know it was about to end.
What did I get? Wall to wall bloody cartoons! They were everywhere. Now there is nothing wrong with cartoons - Hell, Leonardo Da Vinci drew them but his characters never caught on!! The trouble was.....well....they were all SHITE! (Those on the telly, not Leo's). Cheap, poorly drawn Jap and American imports mostly involving slitty-eyed space kids fighting ludicrous monsters. Humour? It would have been easier to find a pork pie in a synagogue.
No wonder our kids are off the rails! They are being fed shite by the fast food chains and now shite through the box. Hard pressed parents no doubt plonk their little Jakastas and baby Hermans in front of the Devil's Lantern for hours in the mornings so that they can get a few extra hours kip. I understand they need a break but, Jesus, isn't there some other way to keep their little thugs of the future occupied? Peg them out on the washing line? Put them on a treadmill? Teach them how to climb a tree - but not how to get down? Enlist them for national service - abroad? Anything but feed them a diet of this televisual crap.
When I was alive we had REAL cartoons. Heroes with humour. Whatever happened to those days? Obviously, they never did me any harm. Grantham can have the cheapo, galactic wank warriors. Give me a duck falling over everytime.
Now these were REAL heroes!
Every one a winner? Oh, please yourself then.
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To Make You Laugh and Cry
I was listening to this on a Sunday, the very-soon-to-be ex-Mrs Pither is a Catholic, Tom Lehrer is one of my all-time heroes and this is one of his best.............no other reasons.
On a more sombre note (and with thanks to Fish for coming up with this Woman's-Own-passes-the-time-in-the-dentist's-waiting-room nonsense), why not get a computer to tell you that you are a waste of space and your life is a sham of a mockery of a farce? Ok, it's from one of those poxy dating sites but...go on, take the test. You ain't got much to beat!!
Apparently, in my case, "computer say 'no!'"
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