Blame her not me
Some time ago some half-arsed twit in a bowtie working for an ad agency worked out that the town I llive in is somehow typical of the whole of Britain from the point of view of demographics, spending patterns and opinions and most damaging of all, politics.
We get surveyed, a lot. I mean a great deal and frequently by mail, callers, email and towncentre hopefulls. I gave up being part of a focus group call-list many years ago when \i found it hard to remember why I used to buy stuff at all, it was all so dispiriting.
Today in the playground a fellow mum told me how she was surveyed on the "new" Dr Who and how she was proud to have panned it, citing as her reasons that in the paper it said it was too complicated, and that responding to me saying that it wasn't as childish any more she said that was what she liked about the Dr Ten episodes, they were stupid and silly. She did not mean entertaining I think; she liked RTD because he was gay "and that's funny and a laugh". Demeaning of the non-straight in extreme, the gay person only being tolerated as a certain type of sharply dressed male effete and not remotely real and never an ordinary male or female next door. The nastiest stereotype of all: "not like us but over there".
If funding for DW 11 is pulled it's because of people like her watching "I can dance with a bucket on my head" Live. Even my ten year old sees the point of drama on tv as opposed to staged reality fake tv stuff. If funding for DW is pulled I'll just blame her full stop. She seems so nice and reasonable until you actually listen to the content of what she is actually saying...
Most other pics at this event looked like chicken legs... designer-clad weird pipecleaner legs at best. First year in the part did not DW9 also get nominated at the same event a few back? Plan B has always been to emigrate to Wales and I wish to have that sense of dislocation from a great deal of the people I live near to at this time today.
You can only hold optimism alive for so long then....
We get surveyed, a lot. I mean a great deal and frequently by mail, callers, email and towncentre hopefulls. I gave up being part of a focus group call-list many years ago when \i found it hard to remember why I used to buy stuff at all, it was all so dispiriting.
Today in the playground a fellow mum told me how she was surveyed on the "new" Dr Who and how she was proud to have panned it, citing as her reasons that in the paper it said it was too complicated, and that responding to me saying that it wasn't as childish any more she said that was what she liked about the Dr Ten episodes, they were stupid and silly. She did not mean entertaining I think; she liked RTD because he was gay "and that's funny and a laugh". Demeaning of the non-straight in extreme, the gay person only being tolerated as a certain type of sharply dressed male effete and not remotely real and never an ordinary male or female next door. The nastiest stereotype of all: "not like us but over there".
If funding for DW 11 is pulled it's because of people like her watching "I can dance with a bucket on my head" Live. Even my ten year old sees the point of drama on tv as opposed to staged reality fake tv stuff. If funding for DW is pulled I'll just blame her full stop. She seems so nice and reasonable until you actually listen to the content of what she is actually saying...
Most other pics at this event looked like chicken legs... designer-clad weird pipecleaner legs at best. First year in the part did not DW9 also get nominated at the same event a few back? Plan B has always been to emigrate to Wales and I wish to have that sense of dislocation from a great deal of the people I live near to at this time today.
You can only hold optimism alive for so long then....