Archive for January, 2012
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Judge Judy Rocks
Judge Judy Sheindlin is one of Americas highest paid TV stars. She is a straight-talking, cut through the crap, grandmother figure who doesn’t suffer fools gladly in any way. She deals with cases where the claim is below $5,000. Many of the cases are to do with loans made between friends where one parts denies it was a loan but a gift. Cases where cars are damaged through being driven by careless mates under the influence and without insurance are also popular. She takes no prisoners when dealing with people who answer back or talk over her. She would be a really useful person to know when having an argument with someone. A pocket sized JJ would be a good idea!
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
The Street
How weird would it be to live on Coronation Street? To have all your neighbours know every in and out of your personal life and all your romantic history. To work 30 yards away from your own front door, and any time you find yourself out of work there is always a neighbour who just happens to be looking for someone for their pub, shop, factory, café, bookies etc. You can walk into the local at any time of day and meet up with at least 50% of your neighbours already in there, eating hotpot and gossiping, always managing to get the best seats. The downside would be that you would either end up murdered, pregnant with twins, married and divorced within a year or in prison for some crime you didn’t commit.
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
What Television Do I Buy?
Buying a new television is exciting stuff, better than a new iron or microwave. Given that your old television will probably break down during the run up to Christmas, that’s probably a good time to invest in a more up-to date one. So how big does it need to be? A good size for a living room would probably be above 40 inches. For a bedroom or kitchen you could go smaller. As prices for flat screen TVs have come down you could quite easily kit out all the rooms of your house with a screen. Make sure you have sufficient wall sockets for the area where the television will be situated. Do your homework regarding the various features of more modern TVs, compare prices and ask around when it comes to the various manufacturers and the reliability of their products.
Monday, January 9th, 2012
Perhaps it’s just me, but…..
I just don’t get the appeal of Big Brother. I watched the first three in the series I think, but what started as a social experiment became a programme is full of sad, egotistical, surgically enhanced wannabes who – on the whole – seem to share one brain cell between them. The trend started with Jade Goody. What makes it right for the most thick and socially inept ‘housemates’ to end up being kept in the house for most of the whole series and become celebrity household names earning squillions of money just for being stupid? It would be a very sad state of affairs if people living outside the UK thought the Big Brother housemates were a representative cross-section of the British population. How embarrassing. Don’t get me started about Stacy Solomon!
Friday, January 6th, 2012
A ‘Bird’s-eye’ view on Television
After all the trouble I had finding a decent programme to watch over Christmas and New Year I finally watched a brilliant programme on Television last night. This was the second installment of ‘Earthflight’. The photography was excellent, catching a great white shark in slow motion attacking a seal and almost swallowing it whole. Some of the scenes were taken from a bird’s-eye view – they must have literally strapped a camera to an eagles back to get some of the scenes shot over the Victoria Falls and Zambizi river. There were scenes of thousands of flamingos packed together and being chased (and caught!) by baboons and hyenas. This programme was a real pleasure to watch after all the repeats and ‘comedy’ dross aired over Christmas.