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Spit Beer at TV

I made a resolution today. One that I plan to keep for the rest of my life. Ready?
Here Goes....

I will never, ever again watch the Channel Ten News as long as I live.

I know that's bold, but there you go. I can not believe the level of stoopid "News-Tainment" total , utter toilet clippings they pass off as journalism. And it dawned on me the other night as I was watching something really important about Brad and Jennifer, that I don't actually have to watch this crap! I can turn it off! so now, everytime I hear their serious news theme, I'm going to turn the TV off, or walk out. Save money on all that spat out beer. And cleaning.

I was thinking of writing some software that did speech recognition on the newsreader, and then everytime there was an adjective blowout , automatically e-mailed a complaint to the station - you know stuff like " A Heart-Breaking Decision for a Lonely Panda", "A Horrifying, Barbaric Act of Cruelty to handbags." etc..

So, maybe not all spam is bad?

(My wife brings me wine. I do so love her.)

Is it just me? or does Mr Incredible look like Steve Ballmer?

(that's not to say that I look like Steve Ballmer - what I meant was, am I the only one who sees the resemblence between them.)

Regardless of whether you do or not, that's still disturbing...


Comments

  1. Ian12:01 am

    If you had been down at the beach, like me, then you wouldn't have had access to a television and you wouldn't have been spitting out perfectly good beer. Instead, you would have been swallowing perfectly good seawater... What a bloody fantastic day!

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  2. Ian12:31 am

    By God, you're right!!! See Evidence

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  3. Gordon11:35 am

    Well, that settles it then. somebody at Pixar must've been a spy for Microsoft. Terrorism knows no bounds.

    And give me swallowing seawater over spitting beer any day.

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