@McTag,
Good letter in The Guardian today, of only one word:
Aussiemandias?
@McTag,
Well, it's a letter from Langkisstur ...
@Walter Hinteler,
I saw that, it's not often one word can sum up so much.
So Amy Winehouse got her final big story ...
@Walter Hinteler,
Yeah, shame, she was very talented, a bit like Janis Joplin.
@izzythepush,
Strange, how tormented souls can sell a song. They can communicate, something extra.
Edith Piaf. Judy Garland. Shane McGowan. Johnny Ray. Amy Winehouse. Billie Holliday.
Muzak.
My local shops (two Co-ops within walking distance) have introduced a sound system where they play, in a jangly and loud fashion, something called Co-op Radio.
I hate muzak of all kinds, and I think it is a bloody imposition to have to listen to this garbage while I'm queueing for my paper and pint of milk.
I think it is an intrusion, and an insult to the intelligence. It's a detriment to one's quality of life, imho. Certainly I'm going to write to the Co-op.
Any other opinions on the topic?
@McTag,
It's all bad, Asda do it as well, and I can't get my haircut without listening to the inane ramblings of Fern Cotton.
Last week in the Dail, Irish prime minister Enda Kenny roundly condemned the Catholic Church for its role in the latest abuse cover-up, detailed in a new report.
Fifty, twenty, even ten years ago it would have been quite unthinkable for a politician to voice any criticism of the Church in Ireland. The establishment and the Church were indivisble, seemingly immutably so.
And it would have been political suicide for anyone to have done as he did, just a few years ago.
This development is astonishing.
The times they are a'changin'.
@McTag,
More on this in the paper yesterday.
"Relations between the Irish government and the Roman Catholic church reached a historic nadir on Monday when the Vatican recalled its ambassador to Dublin, claiming "excessive reactions" in the Republic to the clerical child sex abuse crisis."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/25/vatican-ireland-child-abuse-row?INTCMP=SRCH
I wrote a cracking letter to the Co-op about use of radio advertising in their stores. Would you like to see it?
I think I want to start an ANTI-CRAP movement. Why should we put up with crap? Who do the purveyors of crap think they are?
@McTag,
You should use the Scottish nuclear option. If they don't have a voiceover by an actor who's pronunciation rhymes 'food' with 'good' they're stuffed.
@izzythepush,
They don't rhyme? Who knew?
@McTag,
They do though in their adverts, due to the particular inflections of John Hannah. As he is a fellow Scot you must know him.
@McTag,
But men are not really supposed to shop Mac. Women get a little frisson spending money and little frissons are not to be sneezed in this day and age. Your stores are not designed for men. Neither is anything else these days except maybe massage parlours, betting offices and old fashioned pubs.
If you send Mrs Mac to the shops you both get a benefit.
@izzythepush,
Of course I know Mr Hannah.
And I speak like him, as God intended us to speak. You'll hear quite a few versions of "good" if you listen to broadcasters for a while. Guhd. Gewd. Guid. Gehd.
