It's 2009 !
It’s 2009 and no matter how many times I banged my head against the wall during 2008, the news was still filled with doom and gloom, a depressed looking accountant with bad hair was still our Prime Minister and Kerry Katona was still popular. While we’re on the subject of the former Mrs Westlife McFadden, what does she have to do to make us so tired of her, that we really wish she would go to Iceland ? I’ll arrange a whip-round for the flight !
Yes, Kerry needs to make a living, but I’m convinced if she spoke nicely to the manager of her local frozen food centre, they could find her work on the tills. While Kerry wasn’t much of a singer in her girl-band days, she was certainly no Karen Carpenter, I’m sure she has the ideal voice for "price check, till 6!". It would make a lot more sense than her latest wheeze, which is to have the MTV cameras film her taking medication for her bi-polar disorder and have the viewing public witness her most private moments. Surely, even for someone that is bankrupt and short on cash, this is crossing a line ? However, is there such a thing as "a line" that you can cross anymore ? Can people just do whatever they like and if the rest of us don’t like it, then we’re the ones that need to "get over it" or "get over ourselves" ? That seems to be the thing we're to do these days if we see something that we don’t like. Objections are not allowed.
It must be partly for this reason that when the current advert for Virgin Atlantic comes on, where it’s all yesteryear nostalgia, Rubik’s Cubes, Ford Cortinas and Wimpy Bars, I feel that however normal it is for things to change and progress, they don’t always seem to change for the better. Ok, the cabin crew girls with their legs from here to yah-yah help get my attention, but while the news programmes may not have been 24 hours, the mobile phone coverage was not as big as the phones were themselves and the TV may not have been reality back in 1983, maybe we were better off without such things ? One thing I can say for certain, is that the last time I saw Policemen on the beat, it was in this advert.
Yes, Kerry needs to make a living, but I’m convinced if she spoke nicely to the manager of her local frozen food centre, they could find her work on the tills. While Kerry wasn’t much of a singer in her girl-band days, she was certainly no Karen Carpenter, I’m sure she has the ideal voice for "price check, till 6!". It would make a lot more sense than her latest wheeze, which is to have the MTV cameras film her taking medication for her bi-polar disorder and have the viewing public witness her most private moments. Surely, even for someone that is bankrupt and short on cash, this is crossing a line ? However, is there such a thing as "a line" that you can cross anymore ? Can people just do whatever they like and if the rest of us don’t like it, then we’re the ones that need to "get over it" or "get over ourselves" ? That seems to be the thing we're to do these days if we see something that we don’t like. Objections are not allowed.
It must be partly for this reason that when the current advert for Virgin Atlantic comes on, where it’s all yesteryear nostalgia, Rubik’s Cubes, Ford Cortinas and Wimpy Bars, I feel that however normal it is for things to change and progress, they don’t always seem to change for the better. Ok, the cabin crew girls with their legs from here to yah-yah help get my attention, but while the news programmes may not have been 24 hours, the mobile phone coverage was not as big as the phones were themselves and the TV may not have been reality back in 1983, maybe we were better off without such things ? One thing I can say for certain, is that the last time I saw Policemen on the beat, it was in this advert.
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