{"id":5185,"date":"2011-06-11T16:49:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T15:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5185"},"modified":"2011-06-12T08:54:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T07:54:54","slug":"lip-up-fatty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5185","title":{"rendered":"Lip up fatty"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 14th July it’ll be the next Oxford Band Practice.<\/p>\n

This month we’ll be working on ‘Chasing Cars’ by Snow Patrol, ‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door’ by Bob Dylan and ‘Comfortably Numb’ by Pink Floyd.<\/p>\n

Just one of those pieces would be pretty adventurous for me, but not for everyone else.<\/p>\n

All three of them?<\/p>\n

It’ll be interesting to see how things pan out.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

I made a video nasty today:<\/p>\n

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It’s weird, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

That’s the thing with unscripted improv; wheel out a few props and just see what happens.<\/p>\n

Hmm…<\/p>\n

While I was editing that I accidentally saw an episode of ‘Made in Chelsea’.<\/p>\n

Have you ever seen that TV Show?<\/p>\n

If not, skip the next question.<\/p>\n

Aren’t the people who feature in ‘Made in Chelsea’ some of the most self-obsessed, repulsive, vapid, empty-headed, odious, reprehensible, abhorrent, loathsome, revolting, detestable, repugnant, vile, nauseating, repulsive creatures ever to walk the face of this planet?<\/p>\n

Jesus, what a complete waste of oxygen they are.<\/p>\n

But ‘Made in Chelsea’ is car-crash television.<\/p>\n

What it is doing is making these horrid people famous for being horrid.<\/p>\n

I hope they enjoy their new-found fame.<\/p>\n

Just not on my planet.<\/p>\n

Speaking of people not on my planet, Germaine Greer, who I have long admired, has proved that even world-class academics can, on occasion, be complete and utter idiots.<\/p>\n

Here’s why<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What a twunt she is.<\/p>\n

One would have thought that Dr Greer would know the difference between a professional, disciplined army and a group of rag-tag scruffs from a second- or third-world country.<\/p>\n

Obviously not.<\/p>\n

And while I’m in the ‘obviously’ zone.<\/p>\n

I can’t help reading the information that the BBC has 8,000 News staff, and then wondering how many news staff Sky International has.<\/p>\n

I have read one source that says Sky has more than 20,000 news staff.<\/p>\n

Which is interesting, if true, when one reads articles that say the BBC news are to try and reduce their staff-count by 1,500<\/a>, in order to save money.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying that either the BBC or BBC News are sacred cows, in fact I’d love the organisations to be given a spot of my scrutineering style of Business and Functional Analysis.<\/p>\n

But the practice of sending a television OB crew and an over-salaried presenter to stand outside 10 Downing Street every time our Prime Minister farts, has to be questioned.<\/p>\n

Mind you, over in the News International corner things aren’t going very well for the Australian<\/del> American media mogul Rupert Murdoch.<\/p>\n

And the news that News International is sending in to the London operation a team of American lawyers<\/a> to *cough* investigate the goings on at News International must be filling everyone with confidence.<\/p>\n

I’m sure the brief given to these lawyers is to thoroughly investigate everything and turn all of the evidence over to the Metropolitan Police.<\/p>\n

No, really. I’m sure of it.<\/p>\n

*withering stare to camera*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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