Apologies for my absence over the last couple of days and I am sure you can guess the reason. One of the main problems is that the 'Memsahib' needs to visit the hospital every other day in order to have her dressings changed and her wounds inspected for any signs of infection. Excellent notion, of course, but that can take 2-3 hours out of the day - then there's shopping, cooking (well, my rough approximation of it!), tidying/cleaning and, worst of all, planning ahead! And, yes, yes, Ladies, I know you do that everyday of your lives but us chaps are not used to it - or to be absolutely frank, we're crap at it! Even so, I would like to thank you all for your good wishes which I have passed on to her 'ladyship' and which cheered her up.
Gradually, very gradually, I am getting the hang of this 'domestication thingie' so I hope to be blogging a bit more from now on. One thing that happened the other day left me totally 'gob-smacked'! I had slumped into my armchair for a nap and the TV, as usual was tuned to the news (which is uniformly ghastly) and so I decided to flick around the channels. In the equivalent of inadvertently treading in an enormous dog-pile, I came across the "Jeremy Kyle Show" - yeeeees, quite!
This odious little man, and the even more odious people who pull his strings, set out to find totally dysfunctional families and invite them on TV to air their mutual hatreds in public. If the people at the studio end of this disgusting 'entertainment' are total shits, what can one say of the gawping public who, week in and week out, regularly tune in to watch this garbage?
Pass the sick bag!
Duffers your septic isle is not the only one to have such dross on the "idiot box". Down here we had a show called "Married at First Sight" which was apparently some sort of grand social experiment. I refused to watch it but I am assured by some female acquaintances that it was a bunch of self obsessed mentally defective bozos getting their rocks off with various other members of said show.
The decline of Western Civilization is on display for all who choose to watch it on the local tele.
Posted by: AussieD | Tuesday, 23 April 2019 at 11:02
Four words come to mind. The Jerry Springer Show
Posted by: Up2L8 | Tuesday, 23 April 2019 at 12:11
Best wishes to both of you for speedy and complete recoveries.
Posted by: Jack the dog | Tuesday, 23 April 2019 at 12:56
Where could they have gotten that idea?
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2x20hn
Posted by: Bob | Tuesday, 23 April 2019 at 15:04
No-one ever went broke through underestimating public taste & standards.
Posted by: Ted Treen | Tuesday, 23 April 2019 at 15:50
Good grief, David, you are well behind the times! Jeremy Kyle has been synonymous with the ignorant uncultured masses for years. You know, the sort I see on Facebook who insist on calling the rich people (the ones who pay the taxes to let them sit on their useless behinds) "scum" who should be "removed", the sort who appear on this programme/watch this programme/provide material for this programme in some gigantic circle jerk which you can only watch in horrifed disbelief.
Just to add to your woes, there is a little nugget coming to channel Four called....er.....The Sex Show? The one where people film their sex life and let other people watch it to give them points. Sorry, pointers. I'm just giving you a heads up so you can make sure you're out or asleep.
Seriously, several hundred channels and not a thing to watch. Apart from "Game of Thrones" of course. Winter Has Come. #LittleFingerLives.
Posted by: Mayfly | Wednesday, 24 April 2019 at 21:13