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[Nov. 25th, 2002|06:25 am] |
| [ | Feeling |
| | awake | ] |
| [ | Reading |
| | None at the moment - finally finished Idoru | ] |
Ugh. Way too early in the day for me. Have to get into work early.
I seemed to spend the weekend driving past firefighters' picket lines and hooting - at least seven times during the weekend as the allotment and the Tube station Lisa travelled from both had fire stations on the route to them. Have to say, I was getting pretty bored with the whole hoot-and-wave business by the end of Sunday.
Oh, and I demonstrated my inner shallowness by buying a PlayStation 2 :o) All I can say is, your chances of winning in Formula One are greatly reduced if you drive a Minardi and try to use a game pad rather than one of those steering wheel things. And in the WWE (WWF in old money) the boss's daughter is suspiciously good at the Royal Rumble... |
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| Lovely, lovely country... |
[Nov. 25th, 2002|09:22 am] |
| [ | Feeling |
| | angry | ] |
| [ | Reading |
| | Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair | ] |
I missed Celebrity Big Brother last night, so I didn't know who'd been evicted until I saw a newspaper on the train. And guess what - once again the white guy stayed and the black guy was booted out. Goldie (entertaining streetwise DJ with youth appeal) has gone and Les Dennis (washed-up hasbeen comedian) stayed. It happens again and again - as soon as the voting public get a choice between white and non-white, they choose white.
I'm pretty sure there was one occasion in BB1 when it didn't happen - Darren survived a four-way vote when Tom was evicted - but Mel, Narinder, Amma, Alison, Adele, the boxer Chris Eubank in the first Celebrity Big Brother, and now Goldie. Not very subtle, is it? Oh, and guess who were first out of I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here? Uri Gellar (white, but with a funny foreign accent) and Nigel Benn, another black boxer.
Yeah, I know I can get boring on this subject. Yeah, I know I reveal a disturbing level of knowledge of crap reality TV. But it's things like this that mean I find it very difficult to dismiss the BNP's Blackburn victory as an unrepresentative one-off.
What sort of country are we? |
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