I am fed up with the ridiculous reporting by the press and their continual idiotic following of celebrities and pointless information.
In today’s Telegraph there was an article about a village where metal thieves had stolen a number of iron/metal gates from peoples drives overnight, so far okay, then as an aside “the village is near to where Kate and Pippa Middleton grew up” who bloody cares, it is a pointless line that detracts from the story.
In the same way I was born in the same universe as they were is that news NO.
It appears to me that the press have decided not to create another Diana with Kate, but they are doing their best to make one of of Pippa by having her photo in the papers at least 4 times a week.
I hope she avoids tunnels and drunk drivers.
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I agree it is particularly irritating especially in a what was once a quality newspaper!
It has gone down hill dreadfully since those tossers in the Channel Islands bought it, getting to be a dreadful rag.
Are there any better left in the UK?
(And don’t any of you wicked buggers say the Guardian!!!)
Absolutely agree, Rick. I’m not only fed up with the real news being cluttered up with comments about ‘celebrities’ – I’m fed up with articles about such people.
It’s sad, to me anyway, to know that there are so many people who have so little going on in their own lives that they want to read about other people’s lives in all their boringly intimate detail.
On the subject of metal thieves, RR, I read today that one such had been electrocuted, fatally, while trying to steal copper wire. Could be a solution.
CO: The crossword is still pretty good.
I’m a sudoko freak!
I find them very soothing at night.
I rather fancy electrocuting the peasantry, one could electrify one’s gate, you could watch them fry from the house.
I would not recommend it CO, all that burning flesh would attract all kinds of scavenging wildlife, hardly worth it for a few moments of happiness.
I like the idea of electrifying all metal fences just to fry the buggers.
I also find the press reporting of some people as “living in a half million pound house” or whatever. The value of the house is pointless other than to create the wrong impression or envy.
I live in a half million pound house (nearer 600k to be exact) but it is a modest 4 bedroom semi detached, it is dear because of location, the same house up norf would be close to 250-300k.