Stuff I think
They were talking about Bradford and Bingley and recession and house prices on the news. It's interesting that everyone is very concerned about homeowners (who lets face it have been doing pretty well over the last few years) and forgets other people who live in houses.
Apparently increasing uncertainty in the buy-to-let market may lead to landlords not making their mortgages, not having rent cover and having to offload properties. The reporter said that this is obviously very bad news for homeowners.
I think tennants may also see this as bad news. But as they don't own property it's hard to see how their opinions could possibly matter.
I hate the new Incredible India advert.
The original had a lot of images of India: famous/beautiful sights, Indian people looking happy, colours, music, dancing. Basically lots of beautiful and interesting Indian things. At the end an elephant rose out of a river and a woman with a lovely exotic accent sang "India, Incredible India". Youtube doesn't seem to have the exact version I saw on TV but if you search it has the type of video sequence and music I mean.
The new advert has a middle aged white couple; they're smiling, they're at a nice hotel, they're having a swim in a pool, they're looking at jewellery in a boutique, she's getting a massage, they're having a meal. Oh look! There are some asian men dancing in the background with drums and bright colours, I'm pretty certain they're projected on a screen while Mr and Mrs Jones smile and act fascinated in that general direction. Then at the end an English man says "India, Incredible India" in a jovial, conversational tone.
The second advert wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't seen the first one. But whenever I see it just picture some marketing/advertising man saying "Yes well this one's very exotic and pretty, but it doesn't really sell India to middle class white people, how are they going to relate to it?" Argh!
The Flintstones was in many ways a bad programme and though I remember watching it quie a lot I don't think I ever bought into it's ideas. However the Jetsons was in many ways worse. I mean it's the bloody future! Isn't there any chance that some attitudes might have changed!? Maybe?
Jane did seem to be less manipulative than Wilma but possibly that was because George seemed a little less bone-headed than Fred. But George still went to work and Jane stayed at home all day and, um... Well I'm not sure what Jane did cos they had a robot maid and everything was self cleaning. I think she just watched holo-TV. Still not good.
Hanna-Barbera did seem to think that it had always been middle America in the sixties and it would always be middle America in the sixties and only the backgrounds and trimmings changed.
This is clearly foolish.
Apparently increasing uncertainty in the buy-to-let market may lead to landlords not making their mortgages, not having rent cover and having to offload properties. The reporter said that this is obviously very bad news for homeowners.
I think tennants may also see this as bad news. But as they don't own property it's hard to see how their opinions could possibly matter.
I hate the new Incredible India advert.
The original had a lot of images of India: famous/beautiful sights, Indian people looking happy, colours, music, dancing. Basically lots of beautiful and interesting Indian things. At the end an elephant rose out of a river and a woman with a lovely exotic accent sang "India, Incredible India". Youtube doesn't seem to have the exact version I saw on TV but if you search it has the type of video sequence and music I mean.
The new advert has a middle aged white couple; they're smiling, they're at a nice hotel, they're having a swim in a pool, they're looking at jewellery in a boutique, she's getting a massage, they're having a meal. Oh look! There are some asian men dancing in the background with drums and bright colours, I'm pretty certain they're projected on a screen while Mr and Mrs Jones smile and act fascinated in that general direction. Then at the end an English man says "India, Incredible India" in a jovial, conversational tone.
The second advert wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't seen the first one. But whenever I see it just picture some marketing/advertising man saying "Yes well this one's very exotic and pretty, but it doesn't really sell India to middle class white people, how are they going to relate to it?" Argh!
The Flintstones was in many ways a bad programme and though I remember watching it quie a lot I don't think I ever bought into it's ideas. However the Jetsons was in many ways worse. I mean it's the bloody future! Isn't there any chance that some attitudes might have changed!? Maybe?
Jane did seem to be less manipulative than Wilma but possibly that was because George seemed a little less bone-headed than Fred. But George still went to work and Jane stayed at home all day and, um... Well I'm not sure what Jane did cos they had a robot maid and everything was self cleaning. I think she just watched holo-TV. Still not good.
Hanna-Barbera did seem to think that it had always been middle America in the sixties and it would always be middle America in the sixties and only the backgrounds and trimmings changed.
This is clearly foolish.