The two Manchester clubs donate £1m to the fund for the victims of the bombing. Liverpool donate....a signed shirt.
Well, the intention is to do so. After The Angry Tide finishes we're into new territory, unless you include that HTV version of The Stranger on the Shore, which really didn't work at all. BBC don't make a habit of cocking up period drama, so I expect them to do justice to any further Poldark material that Graham wrote.
No I saw The Stranger On The Shore and it was awful. Badly cast and acted, and the plot changes were risible. Looking forward to seeing the lives of Jeremy, Clowance, Bella, and Henry (sorry if that constitutes a spoiler for anyone!) develop on screen at some point. All the second series of books are just as good as the original 7, by the way, for those who haven't yet read them.
And for those who find that their lives are so busy these days that they can't spare the time to read them, of even to buy them them, some slightly naughty person [not me, I hasten to add] has put up all the recent audiobook recordings on Youtube. So you can listen as you work hard sitting in your favourite chair.
I don't find it odd that the Manchester clubs donated so much more. I have no doubt that Liverpool and Everton would do the same if it happened in Merseyside (heaven forbid). Sadly this won't be the last such tragedy.
There's a link between the clubs, and it's more that they made a song and dance about a crap donation.
I was kicked out of ScrewFix once. I went in the trade entrance. I don't have an account there so I'm not considered trade. Sod 'em, I thought. I went to Toolstation. They were cheaper as well. And better. I've since been back to ScrewFix that many times, but I did get, "haven't seen you for a few weeks"
I think it is quite disgraceful the way the police have released pictures of Tiger Woods in custody....especially accompanied by background laughter. These should only be used in a court not released to the public.
Graham Norton was rather good this evening. I grinned unexpectedly widely, considering that none of the guests raised my interest particularly. I suspected the zero gravity action in the falling aircraft clip might have been properly simulated, and sure enough, they did it vomit-comet style, instead of CGI. Aside from Tom Cruise's inclination to always go for authenticity [laudable], I always feel that he is a little too good to be true as a film star, but Norton always manages to sidle very close up to disrespect and then back away to faux awestruck again. The programme finished with me once again thinking that Norton could entertain an odd number of hippos and have a successful show. It's him and his formula that makes the time pass. Sadly, we only get 45 minutes, but the BBC must get great easy sales worldwide from it, as practically every other country has to have advert breaks which conveniently round up the show to the hour. Kind of wish they'd do an XL version.
Just been reading through BBC News and found this item about a US comedian being sacked from a show she fronts because of a stunt she pulled. It being her holding the severed head of Donald Trump with a caption stating, There was blood coming out of his eyes, blood coming out of his … wherever.': http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40108959 Now whilst I don't condone this kind of humour, in the sense that I don't like to see the outright depiction of violence as a piece of comedy, the USA do get a little precious with their 'land of the free, home of the brave' crap. You could pull that stunt in the UK and there would hardly be a raised eyebrow, even in these edgier, less than enlightened times, and even from our own holier-than-thou right wing newspaper press. I bet some UK comedians have something to say about this. Hopefully, truthfully too, instead of watching their own images too closely.
I don't find the idea of beheading funny...not least because similar videos of real murders are on the internet. My attitude would be to ignore it however....and not give it publicity.
The trouble is, in talking about it, we give it exposure. Time was, when our little conversations stayed within our peer groups while we talked directly over the dinner table; in the living room; or in the pub perhaps. But this is the age of communication, so even our little here conversations can give it a wee bit of exposure, because we add to what's fashionable [I'm not going to use that awful portmanteau 'trending'] and make it more fashionable. But subject is about freedom of speech, not violence. Apparently, it is illegal in the USA to say naughty things which imply violence towards the President, the Vice-President, and a few other top officials. And it is no new law either, so musician Ted Nugent [who used to be quite a big star] could have been up-the-creek had President Obama not shown his usual presidential discretion, some years ago, when on several occasions, Nugent advised the NRA to cut off Obama's head, and Hilary Clinton's too. And since, Trump has invited Nugent to the White House and has shaken his hand there. Huge double standards.
In the past, no one would have thought you meant it and it wouldn't get wide coverage. The trouble is that we all know nutters are out there....especially in America.
In the past we didn't have instant mass communication. These events have their time period. A lot of people heard about that incident very quickly and through instant mass communication they were able to give their opinion, and did so. In the past, people weren't able to give their opinion, so events like these died almost instantly. And it's the nature of these events that the most vociferous make the comments. The reasonable, tolerant ones let it go. Our world of instant mass communication is still in its infancy, and we are still getting used to it. I'm hoping that, in the future, the world settles down, as it does with most new things, as it gets used to it and the novelty wears off. Typically, the old western world [largely those not in the USA] takes these things with a big pinch of salt. We've seen it before and done it before, and Homer wrote about it some time ago.
