Spoiling The Archers
WHOA! Hang on. Before you fall over clutching your sides in helpless mirth, some people really
do listen to the daily tale of country folk on Radio 4. We’re the ‘silent majority’, the people that prop
up the welfare state and pay for all the leeches on the system, so watchit!
Every night at 7pm some announcer bloke on the radio says, “In a moment The News, and
then in The Archers Debbie finds out who the masked intruder was and Joe ferret runs amok in Linda’s cucumber patch”.
Well don’t tell us the flamin’ plot you twerp, we were going to listen anyway so there’s no point trying
to tempt us with juicy storylines.
Then, after The News, the announcer bloke comes on again and says, “And now The Archers,
and Eddie’s desperate to find a new paving job so he can hide the mutilated corpse of the Polish strawberry picker”.
Dammit! That’s another storyline exposed. It’s only a thirteen minute programme, WE WERE GOING TO LISTEN ANYWAY!
We don’t need to know what’s going to happen. So knock it off BBC.
Suicide Drivers
Basically I don’t have a problem with lunatics hell bent on self destruction at the
hands of a Peugeot 105 with a large exhaust and wide wheel arches. Not if they do it alone. The problem is they tear through
country lanes with blind corners like The Stig on acid, assuming there’ll be nothing coming the other way. I know it
takes an awful long time to get a poxy little car up to escape velocity but don’t do it when I might be coming the other
way. Your bid for auto inspired destruction is all fine and dandy, I just hope there’s a nice shiny snowplough coming
round that next blind corner or a tractor with one of those big spikes. Better still, drive into a bridge support on a motorway.
Media Driven Recession
We all know the economy has slowed down a bit; some people have lost jobs and income as a
result. But it doesn’t help at all when the media jump on the story like starving hyenas then ram it down our throats
with front-page headlines and leading ‘stories’ on the TV and radio. All that happens is people get bombarded
with bad news, stop spending and then things just get worse. It’s irresponsible and lazy journalism but they’ve
got to fill the news with something, at least it justifies sending a reporter to stand outside a posh building in London then
creating fancy graphics to indicate the demise of the global economy. Snap out of it. Find something more newsworthy.
Police Violence
Bring it on. It’s about time the Boys in Blue clawed back a bit of respect. What’s
wrong with a Police Force with the power to instil fear amongst the population? Well, quite a lot really. We can’t have
thugs dressed in Police uniforms beating the living daylights out of innocent passers by, isn’t that how Germany
got stuck with the nasty Nazi’s? On the other hand the Police need to be more respected than they are; unfortunately
the recent incidents in London will probably result in the
opposite. Discuss.
