So it seems it’s that time of year again…

Yep that’s right, it’s time for another barrage of weeping, wailing, begging and sob stories, collectively known as the X-Factor, Britain’s equivalent of American Idol for those that don’t know.

For anyone who doesn’t know, the X-Factor has 4 judges and 4 categories, over 25′s groups, under 25 boys and and under 25 girls.  After they narrow it down at boot camp, each judge gets a category to mentor.

They’re currently showing the final episode before the live shows were we get to see who gets through, and I’ve just figured out what’s missing.

They need a fifth judge

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I swear four years between Olympics just isn’t enough.

For the last month or so every time you turned on the television there was something about them on, first the torch run, then the athletes being flown over, then the event themselves.  It’s been finished three days, yet still they’re bleating on about them like something stupendous has just happened.

Maybe I’m just getting old, crabby and cynical, but I truly don’t get it.

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Why is it so hard to get good quality stuff any more?

We’ve been told for years that we’re now living in a throw-away society, yet at the same time we’re told to cut down on packaging, cut down on purchases, recycle more…

How?

You buy an expensive piece of equipment, it breaks 2 days after the warranty runs out, but you can’t get it replaced because (according to the manufacturer) it isn’t cost effective, it would cost more to repair than it does to buy a new one.

Although you have to love how they don’t give you the option of repair to judge the cost for yourself.

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I swear I’ll never understand the whole porn industry. Mind you, I should probably be just as pleased about that when you think about it.

I was tootling about the internet, as you do, when I came across a blog. It was quite interesting, but after every entry was a couple of paragraphs about seeing the author on some cam site.

Now call me naive, but I was thinking it was going to be a facebook or myspace but with webcams.

Silly fraggle!

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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again… My father is just plain weird!

I know that sounds a bit harsh, but it’s true.

This time it’s the cellphone that proved his weirdness.

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What is it about workmen and bathrooms?

Lets face it, in day to day life you don’t have more than a 5 minute gap between them grasping at themselves, like their genitals are likely to fall off and they need to be sure it’s still attached… (Velcro dahrling… it’s the only way )

Now send them to the bathroom…

Never mind hoping they put the seat back down, I’d settle for them just hitting the bowl.

Usually they manage to hit the wall, the floor, the seat, the cover… I sometimes wonder if any of it actually goes into the bowl.

So how come, they’re clothed and working and grabbing their genitals every few minutes, put them in the bathroom, the one place you really hope they’d have hold of themselves.

I mean, come on… They have a directional hose attachment, so how can they manage to miss the bowl so much?

Am I missing something?

Well it seems the great digital revolution began today.

The first area of the UK last their terrestrial television service today and are now a digital only zone. This is the start of a 4 year scheme to go from standard to digital television services across the whole country…

For anyone that didn’t already know that :-p

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Did you do your part?

I did. I reduced my carbon footprint by turning it off!

The problem is, these concerts are great to raise money for charities, but they aren’t really much cop for awareness of global issues. People go, they have a great time, and then they go back about their lives like it never happened.

And having a concert for global warming and carbon emissions? Umm… Am I the only one to notice the number of lights, the number of trucks required to move all the equipment and the number of air flights that will have been used to transport all the acts to tech various locations. It’s a safe bet that lot probably tripled the carbon emissions for the month, if not more.

Seems a bit counter productive to me…

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How come the rest of the world gets the joys of duct tape, while we get stuck with this…

Edit

I should maybe mention, the contents of said elephant packet looks identical to duct tape

So rumour has it that A certain Paris Hilton just doesn’t “do” prison.

Oh the poor dear…

Three days into her sentence she has a sudden (and a tad convenient) medical problem, which apparently caused the sheriff’s department to decide she should be sent home.

I guess state correction has gone slightly down hill… Heck people have more bother trying to get sent home from school early!

Still, I’m sure that having to wear an ugly, non-designer ankle bracelet, with a range too small to cover her entire mansion, and no shopping spree’s will really get the point of the punishment home to the poor girl…

After all, she’s going to have to do her shopping by internet and telephone, and any parties will have to be held at her own house, and only in certain rooms…

*rolls eyes*
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