Why, oh why, oh why
Everything is annoying me at the moment.
I’ve tried to keep it to myself, but what is a blog for if not to rant and vent?
- Why does David Cameron think that it is ‘a good thing’ to show that he can pull an all-nighter? So he’s been up for 24 hours campaigning, pressing the flesh and inflicting himself on innocent people. I’m not impressed. I would prefer my probable prime minister to realise that work is more productive after a good night’s sleep.
- What’s the appeal of the new John Lewis ad? They’ve reportedly spent £6 million on a load of schmaltz and a dodgy cover of the lamest Billy Joel song ever, ‘She’s Always a Woman’, to remind us that all a girl needs in life to be happy is marriage, some lovely children and a nice aspirational lifestyle bought from a department store. And over 600,000 mugs seem to have watched the ad of their own free will on youtube. What is with these people? It’s an ad!
- One of our suppliers at work thinks that the way to get on my good side is not to complete the work to deadline, but to send me through pictures of the new addition to his family, a puppy, with every email. How can I tell him that I don’t care quite as much about his precious pet as he does (even if it is very cute)?
- My already mixed feelings about Doctor Who have become even more mixed. I’ve long thought that the show is completely and utterly unrealistic. I mean, if you could go anywhere in the space time continuum why you would choose to hang around the UK in the late 20th/early 21st century all the time is beyond me. But who exactly is the target audience for this show? It’s surely not a family show now – the 7 year old me would have had a minor nervous breakdown watching the recent angels episode. What would I have done? Hidden behind the sofa in fear or stuck my fingers down my throat with all the yucky snogging? Many children must be facing this same dilemma and I feel for them.
OK, enough now. I’ll be back later when I have something civil to say.
Tags: rant no. 1
May 5th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
You go for it, Cocktails. I agree with you on everything, even the supplier I don’t know.
Doctor Who’s not doing it for me. I don’t like him.
‘Dave’ is doing that rolled up sleeves let’s get on with it schtick and it’s become very irritating
And while I think the music to the John Lewis ad is lovely, it’s a false view of life. But that’s advertising for you.
As you were.
May 5th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
1. He’s obviously trying to out-Thatch Thatch.
2. Macca was once quizzed about which song written by somebody else he’d wished he’d written – you got it, Joel.
3. Send him one back of your rude bits. OK, that’s maybe not a good idea.
4. I take it John Pertwee’s no longer the Doctor?
May 5th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Just read in the Guardian that sleeping for less than 6 hours can cause early death – so there is hope for us yet.
May 5th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
David Cameron never sleeps. Not does he eat, sweat or excrete, because he’s an avatar. His unborn child is currently being designed by a skilled team of CGI animators. It will have small expressionless features and never cry.
I’ve only seen half an hour of the new Dr Who and I wanted to push a custard pie in his face. He looks like the singer from a broadly unsuccessful but very self-important indie band. And I thought exactly like you – who on earth is this show aimed at? And why all that relentless music??
I’m in a bad mood too, so your man with the puppy pictures can get stuffed, the sentimental jerk.
May 5th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
While non of these things affect me i do understand and what’s more i’m glad when someone else has a rant like this. If i do this at home my wife tells me to “shut up”. If i do it on Facebook people think you are beside your self and defecto angry all the time, with a grim world view and in need of therapy. I could compile a list of stuff like this that is bugging me, i wont though because that’s my stuff and i’m here to add support and say GO FOR IT !!!!!!!. Life eh ? bloody annoying !!!!! :-/
May 5th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Cameron – he makes my stomach go over. He’s clearly hopeless – all puff and no substance. The Tories broke Britain last time. God help us if gets in tomorrow.
Loved the last Dr Who – this one’s not happening at all. He reminds of a young Jimmy from Reggie Perrin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-9R6NCZ0A
May 5th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
ISBW, you may well be right that Dave is an avatar. His skin is way too good for someone of his age AND it looks like he still has puppy fat.
Carl, this has kind of backfired now in that I have annoyed myself by getting annoyed about trivialities. Still, thank you for your support. Ive got plenty more rants in stock should you ever like to hear more. Actually, are you free tomorrow?
Matt Smith reminds you of Geoffrey Palmer Mondo?!!! Well, at least Dr Who has cooler hair.
May 5th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
No rant about Cameron is never unjustified. I’ve got a horrible horrible feeling I will be ranting about him even more violently this time tomorrow. Hope I’m wrong.
And yeah Doctor Who, with the whole of the past, the future, this and every other universe to choose from, how is it your Travelcard barely even gets you out of Zone 1?
Hrmph etc etc…
May 6th, 2010 at 12:37 am
couldnt agree more on the John Lewis thing… I found it particularly boring the 1st time I saw it, and even more so ever time after. There sould be a big “and?” on the screen at the end of it. Shmaltzy old rubbish. And spending £6 million on an advert sounds rather sickening to me (perhaps they all cost that these days).
The YouTube thing was annoying too…. one person actually wrote a comment to the effect of “what a wonderful advert, I really feel like buying something from John Lewis”… what a cretin! I’d like to send Carl round his or her’s house ;-)
P
May 6th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Hello Hoops and Piley, I just wrote a wonderful comment for both of you then managed to delete it! Anyway, before I get too angry here is the gist of it:
Hoops, Doctor Who is one of the most London-centric TV programmes on at the moment. What with all the gratuitous shots of the Thames, Tower Bridge etc. every season, it’s enough to make you long for the days when all galaxies, past and present, looked like a grim, grey quarry. As for David Cameron, I’m desparately trying not to think about it.
Piley, hooray another anti-shmaltzer! After reading the comments on youtube, I think that the world desparately needs more of us. ‘It brought tears to my eyes’ indeed! PAH! If its bringing tears to anyone’s eyes, it’s tears of joy to their management team – sales have reportedly skyrocketed… double PAH!!
May 8th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
I think challenging Dr Who on logicality front is to open a whole box of frogs also remember we only see one version of Doctor Who in limitless universe there’s Dr Whos who do everything and nothing. Oh and I like the new oen i think he pleasingly daft and other and my nephews and nieces give him the thumbs up .
BTW kids like being scared and DR Who is careful written to be scary without being horrfic hence angel monsters that don’t move!
Oh and the John lewis ad: most people seem to have missed that the ending is really creepy as the old lady waves her grandkids and us into the afterlife!
May 10th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
I’d teach em a lesson em Piley lol .
May 12th, 2010 at 2:29 am
Not putting a word in for Billy Joel, but I think the song has a degree of subtext that will always be defeated by it’s place in an advert.
Or if you take it on the surface as a misogynist anthem, then it really does make no sense at all in an ad for a department store…………
May 12th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Oh I don’t think that its misogynist Ill Man, just annoying. It’s got a lovely tune though. I don’t think ads or indeed TV do subtext do they? e.g. use of Belle & Sebastian’s ‘Funny Little Frog’ on a show about reptiles (not that I’ve seen that yet but it’s just a matter of time).
May 12th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
No, don’t think it’s misogynist either, but it’s one interpretation I’ve heard.
May 17th, 2010 at 6:11 am
In answer to your question about Dr Who;
Pretty sure it’s 9 year old boys.
Felix is the only boy in his class who is not allowed to watch it, because I am the meanest mother in the world, and also apparently the angels episode is really good, if you are 9 and a boy, and in Felix’s class.