http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/2012/0...-life-with-beauty-queen-lover-86908-23848786/ the Daily Record at its incisive, searching, investigative best - once more - this article on bill miller is littered with record classics....." vietnam veteran miller ", miss georgia peach " ," harley-davidson riding miller who was a code breaking espionage expert " etc, etc
"Last night Rangers coach Ally McCoist was preparing to jet out to America for crunch talks with the tycoon over his bid for the crisis-hit club." What's that all about? What possible reason can there be for McCoist to have "crunch talks" with the tycoon? He's the football manager, nothing more. This is way out of his league. And who's paying for his flight? Have these people not got Skype? "This is the stunning American beauty queen poised to become the First Lady of Ibrox." She's not stunning, she's samey to the point of blandness. "Thereâs good news for the Wags at Rangers, however â Becky runs her own interior design and fashion business, Bellagio Designs. She also uses Twitter to communicate pictures of her tiny handbag-sized dog, called Abby." Aye, that's great news, if we may call it "news" at all. Utterly, utterly deplorable.
You got me. She’s let herself go and I’m bitter about it and the only way I can make myself feel better is by picking fault with right rare beauty queens. Busted. Gutted. Ashamed.
Think the hacks at the Daily Record must have caught a whiff of succulent lamb in the air ... or could that be thoughts of a good ol boys Delmonico steak, that's making them salivate?
You do seem to be somewhat shocked at the quality of journalism at the Daily Record - I know it's a terrible article, but my 'shocked by tabloid stupidity fuse' was well and truly blown when The Sun decided to tell Britain who Simon Cowell thought we should vote for, in the UK General Election, on the front page as their main headline, on the day before the General Election. I need a bigger stupidity hit now to get me all riled up.
Oh, that is a good line about unlocking the nation's talent....because he presents Britain's got talent and unlocks Britain's talent in the entertainment sphere. Whereas the electorate can unlock Britain's talent in the political sphere. Genius.
I didnât know that about Simon Cowell. Can you imagine how demented I am now? But actually, I find that it takes less and less to irritate/depress me these days. And by this I mean that my tolerance of the inane or the outright stupid has dissolved to the point of non-existence. Even the minorly stupid articles in our mainstream press have me holding my head in despair. I think itâs the thought that people may read this stuff without realising â or challenging - the ****e theyâre being fed. But âshockedâ is the wrong word. Iâm generally too numb for shock.
... and our idiocy is still only at incubation stage - just as is the gorgeousity of Mr Miller's wife ...
I actually feel myself going the same way and I'm a little bit worried that I'm either becoming arrogant, or turning into Victor Meldrew. An example of it maybe came last year when I read this article in the Daily Mail (I read it because I work in the industry) which has this quite frightening statistic: "Experts say around a million children are addicted to gambling and Labour’s lenient gaming laws are largely to blame." Hold on here, how many children actually live in Britain, at a guess about 10 million - and one million of them are addicted to gambling? Well this is a truly shocking figure - I am outraged, 1 in 10 of our children are addicted to gambling, and it's the bloody lefties fault... So surely in making such a claim, made by unnamed "experts", you are required by the laws of not being stupid to give a source, or link, or suggestion where these figures came from, that our children are ****ed? Well no the Daily Mail gave no such indication of where their data came from - they just tell us (or the lower middle classes as it were - yep that's right middle class readership) that experts say 1 million of our children are addicted to gambling, and we are obliged to casually take this figure as fact and move on with our lives, a little bit angrier at the left, for corrupting our innocents. So being all Victor Meldrew I decided to write the Daily Mail an email asking could they clarify their source of this 1 Million children with gambling problems. They never replied. I later found a gambling commission report stating there were 975,000 "young people" who could develop gambling problems in the UK - and there were 250,000 people of all ages with gambling problems. I'm assuming the Daily Mail took their figure from there and morphed it into something a lot more alarmist, but it's more likely they just made it up.
Ah, well, yes, thatâs a potential problem: being considered arrogant or actually simply being arrogant. Iâm certainly not arrogant â I know this because I know me â but Iâm sometimes considered to be that way (a terrible injustice, my Lord). And the problem with disdaining shabby newspapers or aspects of modern culture, of course, is that the impression is given that we somehow believe we know better â which, invariably, we donât. Or I certainly donât. All I know is that certain things that certain other people seem to like to read (or do) make me feel wholly desolate and that it would feel entirely false to pretend otherwise. (I should just say, however, that my own actions, my own words, my own everything, in fact, will always attract the most lacerating internal condemnation. Above all else, I bore myself utterly senseless with a grimly self-hating relentlessness. So I don't just pick on the little people, okay? Okay.) Better to be Victor Meldrew, probably, although I may draw the line at writing in disgust to the Daily Mail, you sorry freak. (Thatâs middle-aged behaviour, you know? And I think you may also need to live in Tonbridge Wells to properly carry it off.) Thatâs a grim story you point to, however, and a near flawless example of shabby, scaremongering journalism. It makes me think you might like to read the book Bad Science, if youâve not already read it? (Ben Goldacre, criticising the media reporting on health and science issues. Sounds boring, but itâs fantastic â and funny.) Here's an Amazon link, anyway, for all those who might be interested. Jesus, I'm rambling. Need to get to bed. Take it easy.
Yes - we've all got to work it out for ourselves. [video=youtube;LQqq3e03EBQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqq3e03EBQ[/video]
To be honest i can't believe they've made the same mistake again. I don't think even the rangers fans are buying there pish anymore it's gonna be so funny when miller strips the hell out of this club. Club 9 anyone?
Yeah I've read Bad Science (I'm actually struggling to remember what I took from it - Homoeopathy is full of ****, never buy organic food until they prove it actually does something different - oh and there's really no such thing as detoxing. I'll refresh my brain tonight, it's on my Kindle). In terms of other books which have turned me into a grumpy cynical bastard who sends complaint letters to the Daily Mail I'd recommend Flat Earth news http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flat-Earth-News-Award-winning-Distortion/dp/0701181451 - I think it was this book which made me angrier at news publications using words such as 'experts' then spouting figures as facts without quantifying them in any way. I was reminded of the book when several media organisations around the world reported as fact that people who used Internet Explorer had low IQs http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14370878
