Will somebody please think of the children!

Many people out there treat celebrities as some kind of role model, something to aspire to and admire, this is even more true when it comes to kids. Joe and myself always talk about the rise of fame within the younger generation, when we were kids (god we sound old!) if you were into singing and dancing you were on the path to at worst a beating and at best bullying. Its seems a large percentage of youngsters (perception) fancy themselves as some kind of star! Whether that be singing, dancing, acting, modelling or just generally being famous for nothing or to give them their full job title "Reality Star". I'm not having a go at their dreams, I mean they are just doing what popular culture is basically telling them to do. You can't go anywhere without seeing a show that promises to make you a star whatever your talent or non talent! They then see the wealth and perks of being a winner that these "star" shows bring, so its of no surprise that kids worship these stars and try to "make it" themselves. The issue I have with it is the "class" of the people they look up to. Take for example the current king of teen Zak Efron. Everybody seams to bloody love him, he can sing, he can dance, he can act and every girl in the land is in love with him. OK he may be all of those things but he is also devoid of any personality! Watch any interview he has done, he says the same things every time, he is basically controlled by his Disney minders, keeping his image in check and making sure he says nothing that will damage his reputation! If I see him spin a basketball on his finger during an interview again I will have to track him down punch him in the face and shout "its not big and its not clever". Another Disney example is Miley Cyrus. She is no better! Another Disney puppet devoid of any personality and from what I saw on Jonathan Ross lass night devoid of any class or manners! While on camera she may be sweet and innocent, living up to the Disney image, but her conduct off screen left a lot to be desired. While Simon Pegg was being interviewed the camera cut back to the green room twice and both times she wasn't paying attention as she was too busy texting on her phone! You selfish little s**t! The other guests didn't have to listen to you talk about some Hannah Montana crap but they did, you could have at least had the decency to at least show some interest in the other people on the show! I hope her Disney puppet master gave her a flogging for this! Two further examples of celebrities devoid of personality are Katy Perry and Lady GaGa! On last weeks Jonathan Ross Lady GaGa gave one of the most boring interviews ever, she just sat there looking too cool for school, giving short answers to every question and even though she was talking about interesting things she has done in her life she made it sound like it was possible the most boring thing ever! Perry is no better, I had the misfortune of watching her T4 takeover weekend a few weekends past, she also just sat there and seemed to be too cool to get involved in anything. She hardly spoke during the whole thing, it was car crash TV. I could take numerous examples of celebrities who I think are devoid of class such as Jade Goody, Jordan, Britney Spears but that would take forever! These are the people we are pushing in front of the younger generation and saying this is how to behave and how to make it as a star! God help us when the next generation of stars have even less personality! We should be pushing forward the stars with a personality, showing kids that you can be a star, have a personality and just generally be a nice person. There's one man at the moment that is doing this, at times it seems he is doing it single handed! That man is Hugh Jackman. He too has been on Jonathan Ross and has also done a T4 weekend special thing. What a contrast from the above stars, he has shown himself to be a class act. He is interesting, interested in what other people have to say, willing to get involved and controlled only by his own mind. This is the sort of example we should be showing to youngsters and I for one call for more celebs to come forward, show us their true personalities and break free from the control of the puppet masters around you. It will certainly make things more interesting and will only benefit the future state of celebrity and the state of the future society! Work hard, be nice!

Are you f**kin kidding me????

I thought the madness had stopped, or at least was coming to an end, but it seems I was wrong. I'm talking about the whole Jade Goody story!! First we had the papers gunning for her calling her all the names under the sun, especially with the racist bullying incident of celebrity big brother. Then when they discovered she had cancer the press made a huge u turn on the issue giving her as much press as she had ever had and as Charlie Brooker put it in his screenwipe series moving her from a "reality star" to pretty much a "star of news". As he (and private eye) pointed out the tabloids also used some quite disgusting tactics to sell their dirty red top rags where they photoshopped a picture of her with the hair removed!! These tabloid antics where complemented with a show on living, constant news channel attention and followed quickly with the glossy mags and their antics. Every week a different issue of OK, first celebrating Jade's life before she had even died, then her wedding, then her funeral after she had died and now Jade's mum Jackie is in them talking about Jade and the release of her diaries. I have also heard that a few books have been released. But I thought that the Jade media circus had reached its logical end in book form, but oh no theres more!!! Wait for it!! Theres talk of Jade's life being made into a MUSICAL!!! This is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing ever heard!! Now I've got the feeling that instead of being the end of this farce that this could just be the beginning of it! Next up the single, if tupac can realise a single after his death than I'm pretty sure Jade Goody can manage to get a single out. What about the Jade Goody action figure? A 2010 calender? Jade Goody the theme park? A Jade Goody shampoo range? The possibilities are endless.

Heroes of the week!

1: Michael Parkinson


For talking sense (regarding Jade Goody) when all around are talking s**t! A victory for sanity and common sense!







2: Phillip Taylor

Had a good idea for a product, stuck to his guns, shot down the gobby/bitching cow, praised people for their efforts when others where ready to stab them in the back, was a gentleman and gave a standing ovation!!!

A refreshing change for an apprentice contestant!! Hire him now!!! (Although after that perfect week it can only go down hill from here!)

More ads (Good and bad)

Good stuff!!!!!
Here's a few ads I'm liking at the moment!

The first ad has been around for a while but I thought I'd put it up because I bloody love it!!!!!



Its triple velvet Baby MD!!!! This ad is great, I love it just for the subtle touches that just bring a smile to my face. This ad has 5 lovely touches! The first is "without trees birds have nowhere to ......land" great comedy pause. 2: Whats donkey doing there? 3: The small umbrella for baby MD. 4: the fall off the podium and finally the water pouring! All its needs is a look to camera at the end from baby MD and it would be perfect!

The next one isn't a great ad over all, I get what they're trying to do but I'm not won over! It's like if McDonald's said all our meat is organic, it still wouldn't make me want to go there and this ad doesn't make me want a Ginsters any more than before, even if they do keep a close eye on their ingredients! However it does have a great moment and that moment is the cows!!



Moving onto people I want punch! This week the award goes to this ad dad! (sorry i don't think the link works!)

Stir Fry Deception w..
Watch the ad...

S**t theme of the week!

Stupid girly laughing!!!!

No Egg Puns for East..
Watch the ad...

There's also an ad for north west markets! Its bad. But the girly laugh at the end makes it worse!!!! (I can't find it as its a regional ad but hopefully I'll find it somewhere online soon!)

And finally

The worst ads

Well this is a bit of a double edged sword. On the one hand its absolutely rubbish! The dubbing is rubbish, the voices are unbelievable, there's a slight "package" shot (which is extremely disturbing! no one wants to see a crotch shot on tv even if it is computer generated!), all round its generally rubbish! But on the other hand the kid is hilarious "Mr Muscle!" It isn't on YouTube so you can see it here (its worth it!)

All sofas ads are terrible and the new csl sofa ads is no different! Its so new that it isn't online apart from on the actually website. You can check it out here. Its the stupid i robot inspired nonsense!

Dont Panic!!!!!

I open up my Internet explorer today, and as usual taken to the bloody stupid AOL in partnership with talktalk homepage (I should really change this but I really cant be bothered). Its stupid as it mostly contains links to sites with rubbish slide shows of pictures, with titles such as "Paps take cover! When Celebs attack!!!" or "Spotlight on rocky celebrity romances". It doesn't interest me in the least whether Amy Winehouse has swung for some pap or who madonna is dating. It bores me just thinking about it! Sometimes the site has a headline for the day or a bit of a news story. Today on the site they have the celeb rocky romances, where you can swim wild in the UK, weekend football match previews, how dieters can enjoy Easter eggs and finally the news story which reads "Calm urged over Easter terror fears". WHAT!!!!!!! I was calm, I wasn't concerned, I was going about my normal business but now with that headline I feel that I should be panicking!!! Instead of calming me this has put me on edge, everywhere I go now I will be looking over my shoulder, is this person a terrorist, is that person a terrorist! Good work TalkTalk and AOL what was meant to be a story about calming fears has heightened them, when everyone stays in this weekend and the news next week is all about how sales in high street stores are down a certain percentage on last years sales well the blame lies in your hands! In all seriousness I dont think I needed this article to tell me to be calm, I already was, I'm not really concerned about it, in fact about anything really. (I lie, I am deeply concerned and scared about Alaistair Darling's eyebrows, Tony Christie's hair, David Dickinson's tan, Noel Edmunds, Alan Titchmarsh, Bruce Forsyth and the job market). Its just another example of news media trying to tell us how to feel when we didn't bloody need it! I'm actually quite surprised that there was no link to the Daily Mail on the page somewhere! The Mail probably would have told us how to feel about it and then gone one step further telling us what to do about it as well!

Maybe it was his plan all along?

My previous post discussed the mind games used by a certain Ray Quinn on the Scottish national football team. However Scotland won on Wed with 2-1 victory over Iceland. I had suggested that Ray had been trying to kill Scotland's world cup hopes but Joe brought up the interesting idea of reverse phychology. Maybe Ray wasn't trying to kill their dreams after all!!! Maybe he wanted them to start believing in themselves and keep the dream alive!!! He's given hope and self believe back to the Scottish team and the Scottish Nation! With the self believe Ray has installed who says they can't make it to South Africa and win the thing. Come to think of it he's like a new age William Wallace!

Has this man killed Scotland's world cup dreams?

The Scottish national football team have never really been that good and the last few years have been no exception (not having a go at Scotland by the way, England have also been s**te for many years as well!). But this week, so far anyway, has been particularly poor for the Scottish team, with a thumping in Holland and two players dropped for breaching discipline rules (staying up late and getting pissed in the team hotel). This weeks poor showing can be traced back to one man and one man alone! Ray Quinn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (not the bloody dancing on ice one, but my dad). Lets just say that my parents took a little break last week/weekend to a place called Cameron House Hotel near Loch Lomand in Scotland and who else should be staying there but the Scottish national football team! During his stay he said that he saw a few of the Scottish lads having a little mess around to which one Scottish fella said "you lads should be taking this seriously", with big Ray suggesting to said fella that Scotland would get hammered 4-0 in Holland, needless to saw he was pretty much right (he always bloody is!), 1 -0 Ray Quinn. Sadly Ray left Saturday evening so wasn't involved directly with the drinking antics of the Scottish team but I think his psychological put down of them getting beat by such a large margin must have been playing heavy on their minds and forced them to the booze! 2 - 0 Ray Quinn! Tonight he goes for the hat trick with Scotland playing in a World Cup Qualifier against Iceland. Scotland will surely want to play down the effects of Ray Quinn's psychological mind games and give their world cup ambitions a boost but if they are still being affected by his words then to quote the mind game tactician himself "it could be curtains" for Scotland's world cup dreams.