My new favourite quote

“I know many people in other countries are scratching their heads and thinking ‘What in the world is the big fuss over there?’, but this country takes exposed breasts very, very seriously. We get very exercised about such things.” - Robert Thompson, Director, Centre for the Study of Popular Television (no doubt an international confluence of intellectuals at the vanguard of educational excellence)

Pass the the hats with the propellers on the top, please. Time for a nutbag convention. I’m no fan of American “football” (an intriguing term considering the ball is only ever kicked a handful of times a game by a few specialist players); it’s too stop-start, there’s too much of a preference for physical size, too many replacement players, and they’re all too thickly padded for me to admire any great deal of endurance and athleticism, and it seems rife with overpaid fevered egos who appear to deem a single tackle as an achievement on-par with a cancer cure, and I’d rather watch a The View marathon sitting between Joan Rivers and Ashton Kutcher than watch Timberlake swishing his skirt and squealing like a particularly effeminate desexed chihuahua, but the old saying “All publicity is good publicity” is certainly a truism. Meanwhile, you have a conservative state Governor who made his fortune in the Land Of Opportunity by pretending to shoot, pummel, stab, slash and explode hundreds of people in front of rolling cameras. Grow up and get some perspective, people. The rest of the world is laughing at you. As usual.

“For I have seen the nipple on your soul…”