For those of you who know me you will not be surprised to know I am not happy talking about reality television shows. I feel, however, that the events of the past week or so have pushed me into mentioning the dreaded Big Brother house mates.
First off I am not about to go on about Jade Goody, although people who keep saying “her career is over” make me wonder what in the name of hell they are talking about. She has no career, she is famous simply for appearing as a loud mouthed, small minded gobshite on a low budget TV programme. Nor will I go off on one questioning the usefulness to this world of an ex-S Club 7 “star” or a model who dates a footballer (yawn, predictable but hehehehe, not anymore).
The thing I am most concerned about is how the country, nay, the entire WORLD will react to seeing the UK as a huge big pit of racism (wow homosexuality AND racism in two nights on the blog, shocking). For instance, with Big Brother still running, we now being lost up the ducks arse that is Shipwrecked and an 18 year old that wants the slave trade back (I totally agree, although not with ethnic cultures, just prisoners with frontal lobotomies). And now, the world will bite us at every opportunity because all those darkies are stealing our jobs (my words, no one elses).
Should Big Brother be dragged off the air.? Well I would take great delight in watching them detonate the BB house, even more so if EVERY SINGLE PERSON who has ever been in the damn place would go up in flames with it. Also the extra joy of being served fast food by a collective line up of Dermot O’Leary, Davina Macall, Aled from the Chris “If you are the saviour of Radio One then nail yourself to a cross you arrogant, unfunny arse biscuit” Moyles show (along with Gareth G.G.G.G.Gates, Michelle McManus and David Sneddon) would leave me almost moist with amusement. Trouble is, all this publicity (and remember, ANY publicity is good when it gets people watching the damn thing) has pushed the ratings up (and they also have 40Ks worth of addresses to send spam to I suppose) and people will be itching to watch another series of “Let’s Pick On The Asian/Lezzer/Disabled person/Black dude”. BB should have been treated like Cliff Richard.
Pulled off long ago.
Something else has been bothering me today. Mr Bush. Again. Ah that darling of the Western civilisation, purveyor of fine pretzels *coughchokecoughhackcough* and writer of the book “My Dad Couldn’t But Me and Forty Thousand Troops Could”. He has announced that the USA should be less reliant on oil. Hmmmmmm. *Rubs chin thoughtfully*.
Since the year dot, the Americans have built a certain type of car, quite simply put it has four wheels and an engine the size of your shed. Most aeroplanes have less horse power than the average yank tank and they drink fuel like you wouldn’t believe.! UK family cars around Mondeo/Vectra size average about 35 to 40 miles per gallon of “gas”, but over the pond (don’t dip your toes in the water by the way, it is full of nappies and motorbikes) a Buick Lucerne (only a V6 not a thumpingly thirsty V8 monster) will average about 22.! Not surprising considering the V6 is still almost a four litre engine where as the figures I gave for the Mondeo are only a 1.8 litre in line four cylinder.
I am not convinced that climate change is all that has pushed Bushy into this though. Consider the facts… the Americans, and indeed us, are getting a thorough kicking in Iraq, Iran is waving a large glow in the dark flag in the air and shouting “look at my luverly nukes” and Russia is looking at us through rose tinted specs and saying “ah the cold war, lets do it all over again”. If those oil fields in Texas don’t keep the USA running (along with their HUGE strategic oil reserves) then they have to rely on overseas oil, SPECIFICALLY from the Persian Gulf countries to keep on truckin’. If they get thwacked out of Iraq and insurgents take over then that oil will be lost to the USA for a very long time.
So tempering the use of black gold to power your Hummer may be a thing to remember in the not so distant future, Mr American. Better get out that horse and cart and start walking mate.!


























