Making a political interview interesting

While at work today I had an idea to liven up political interviews.  The interviewer should be given a taser.  It the politician doesn't stick to answering the question asked exactly or if the politician starts answer by pulling another party or politician to apart they should be shot with the taser. My first thought was to use a real gun but using a taser would leave at least some of the stronger ones alive until next time. Even if the politician being interviewed didn't receive a jolt from the taser the discomfort of having to stick to the point and not answering the question they want to answer would probably kill off quite a few.  If they didn't actually die from sticking to the point it would be interesting to watch the facial contortions as they attempted to do so.  Does anyone else like this idea?

General Election UK style.

We are now less that five weeks away from our General Election.  Yes we have the dubious pleasure of turning out to vote for the lies that we like the most.  Or at least most of us do.  To be a little different I will, as usual, totally waste my vote.  I will do this by voting Liberal Democrat, they have no chance of getting voted in, and they certainly have no chance of returning a member of parliament for this constituency.  But given all this I will still vote for them.  Its not that I like them, I don't know what their policies are and I don't know the name of the candidate for the area, further more I don't care a jot.  My vote can be seen as a protest vote but it's not really that, what I don't want is a strong government with a large majority.  What I would really like is a repeat of the government we have had for the last five years, a coalition and that is what my vote is about.  A coalition has to negotiate thereby avoiding the excesses of a power crazed leader bulldozing through any legislation they can think up.  But it will soon be over and we won't be subject to the pathetic wrangling that we are getting put through at the moment.  The sooner its over the better.

25/12/15

Happy Christmas everyone. Today is the day that reminds everyone why they avoid their relations for the rest of the year. Have a great new year all.

Adverts on TV

I wonder if anyone had ever begun a campaign for better quality ads on TV.  I am constantly amazed that some of the ads actually get shown. Some like the Cilit Bang ad in the UK I find so irritating that I go out of my way to find an alternative product.  I hope this ad hasn't been allowed to escape the UK to pollute another country.  If it has please accept my apologies as a resident of the UK, we really tried but it escaped.
Seriously though why shouldn't TV ads be interesting, amusing and or enjoyable.  I know different things irritate different people but there's no to make such poor quality ads as the Cilit Bang ad.  Its not the only ad that has turned me away from a product.  Do other people have the same response and avoid a product if the ad is irritating?  I would really like to know what ads others find irritating.  Advertisers spend a lot of money on producing their ad and I would have thought that it would be a better idea if people enjoyed the ad.  If they could get people talking about it, even better laughing about it it would be remembered.  Surely an ad remembered with fondness would sell more product than one that leaves a feeling of complete irritation. If there are any employees of advertising companies reading this please make a little more effort.

UK supermarkets.

I don't know what supermarkets are like in other countries but the main stream supermarkets in the UK, whilst good at most things, are universally bad at anything that requires a modicum of patience.  In the meat line they are good with pork and chicken but when it comes to beef they are very poor.  The beef on display usually looks bright red which suggests that it hasn't been hung for long enough or possibly not at all.  Strangely enough at least of half of the beef products on display in Liddle does show working of patience, especially some of the stake which is a deep red plum colour showing it has been correctly aged and the quality shines through in the cooking and eating.  What has really started me off on this rant is cheese, in particular blue Stilton.  In my view good correctly ripened Stilton is certainly one of the worlds great cheeses and possibly the best in the world.  The sample I bought from my local Morrison's was enough to put anyone trying it for the first time off the cheese for good.  The sample was lacking any of the full flavoured tang that I expect and all I got was a bland chalk taste.  This was especially disappointing as I had purchased what purported to be "Mature Stilton."   The only way I have found to eat blue Stilton or Shropshire blue from a supermarket is to place it in the fridge and leave it for at least a month past its sell by date.  I find it offensive that when I purchase what is supposed to be mature cheese it is anything but.  I haven't found a good cheese shop in the area yet, and the delicatessen in the local town shows supermarket impatience as well.  Please, if anyone from a UK supermarket reads this learn a little patience and sell properly mature cheese, stop selling soggy chalk and calling it mature cheese.

Politicians

Just made the mistake of watching the news and had the misfortune to see some of the day in parliament televised.  It just went to further my view that if all politicians are similar to UK politicians they must be universally disgusting.  If politicians would just get with trying to run the country and stop their pathetic point scoring and squabbling we might get somewhere.  When will they understand that we have chosen to elect them and we expect them to get on with doing their job.  The job they were elected for was to run the country together and bring to the table the best of every view.  What they seem to think we employ them for is to partake in scoring points off each other by criticising everything any other party suggests then reinventing the idea in their own colours a week later.  Its not surprising that most young people seem to think that its not worth their effort voting, in truth it probably isn't.

The Longest Day

Here in the UK we are now past the longest day, it's all down hill from here.  Until recently I didn't understand why the longest day didn't correspond with the hottest part of the year.  I listen to BBC radio 4 as I drive and I glean some interesting facts as I listen.  Apparently the heat continues to build after the passing of the longest day because the atmosphere is gaining temperature faster than it cools for about eight weeks so it doesn't start to cool until the length of sunlight is short enough to allow more cooling than the heat received.  I probably haven't explained that very well but that's the gist of the reason.  I found that fascinating, perhaps I'm just sad.