Ththbbthttbt!
I just spent 90 minutes at the medical centre waiting for the Dr, not an unusual thing in itself, but they had blaring away in the waiting room what the media is pleased to call daytime television. As a dedicated cable watcher, I have either a news channel or a documentary channel or, occasionally, when I'm feeling brain dead, an oldies rerun channel on. Now I know why.
In effect I watched a 90 minute commercial for stuff that I mostly don't need being purveyed by people whose faces are in danger of falling in half from the fake grins and who assault my ears with an endless inane whinny. I used to be in community commercial radio; if I sounded in any way like that, may I offer my heartfelt apologies.
Even that would not be so bad, but these people are utterly without spontaneity or humour. In the "medical" segment the host interviewed a female Dr. who is getting over whooping cough (hmm, that's interesting) and who was asked about a viewer whose problem was that she had been trying for a year to get pregnant, couldn't, and wondered whether her husband's previous steroid use might be the cause.
The Dr., at one point advised a sperm test and suggested that if he wasn't producing it would be a whole new ball game. Nearly cracked a grin, but was mown down by the oblivious host surging on with the programme. Spare me.
Oh, and the news at 10AM? 25 seconds of "new Iraqi President not what the US wanted, Oil prices up and some footballer does something - details at 11. 30 second bulletin we presume, followed by "moire Australians get their news from 9 network than anywhere else". 9 is plainly an environmentally sensitive organisation, trying very hard to keep Australians green.
Bleaah. back to something akin to reality on the net.
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