How I wrote about corrugated paper man

[hirez]

It's a bit odd when places where I used to fix computers turn up on the UrbEx boards. A while ago, I wrote that "The past was something other people brought up because they were festering for an argument, while for me it was some kind of unravelling stair-carpet and as long as I kept moving forward, the unravelling wouldn't catch me up and pitch me

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[nalsa]

Natasha Kaplinski is really a White Van Man? Crumbs.

[hirez]

Werl, guv. She's sitting there behind a wee round table with a pint of Carling, going "Dis bloke dahn ver depot reckons we should send 'em 'ome. An' 'e sent me a pitcher-message ov dem illegals eatin' babies."

[blue_condition]

However, after which particular coke-addled focus group did Ch-5 think it would be a bright idea to replace their 'news' 'programme' with a feed of a fat bloke who drives a white van reading from the Daily Mail 'speak your brains' section, live and direct from the public bar of The British Flag, Gloucester?

Were you one of the tiny but immensely lucky minority who watched Simon Munnery's wonderful Attention, Scum! - if so, you'll see exactly why I was reminded of Johnny Vegas' performance in the "24 Hour News Read By A Man Who's Been Up For 24 Hours" sketches.

[hirez]

I fear not.

Since I'm marooned at home, I had to watch ITV's hysterical eyebrow-waggling over the loss of a half-dozen chimney pots this lunchtime. Following on from the discussion in this here LJ with some anonymous sort in re. Ver Meejah's wholesale misapprehension of weblogging, it was just another example of their absolute inability to understand that Audience Participation is not newsgathering.

[moral_vacuum]

I stop now before I turn into Charlie Brooker.

Better than turning into Julie Burchill.