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Topic: Baffled
Good Evening,
I hope you are well. I've spent a large part of the day asleep following a work's night out. Sadly I do not have any hilarious anecdotes for you. It was a very dull evening, the food was edible but astonishingly bland and overpriced and the wine was gutrot. I would also point out the restaurant was chosen my my irritating work colleague who assured me that the food was 'brilliant, really nice'. That man is a liar and an idiot. I like men but I do not like him.
Moving on I remember my late granny telling me about a dance at an afternoon pensioners club she attended. One of the ladies in her set spent the day dancing with a series of men before returning to her female friends who were sitting at a table tut-tutting at her shameless behaviour. What upset them was that any woman would spend time in male company when there were women available to talk to. It puzzled them. My granny turned to the woman and asked 'do you like men?' in a doubtless incredulous tone. To the horror of the assembled company the woman confessed that yes she did like men. 'Well I thank that's disgusting' my granny said and she meant it.
Like the above pensioner I must confess that I like men, not all of them of course, but most of them are good eggs. That may be why my dreams of a TV career lie in tatters. As Charlie Brooker points out in todays Guardian men are continually portrayed as idiots and 'tumbling ninnies' on television. He draws our attention to a programme entitled 'Bring Your Husband To Heel' which involves naughty men being retrained by a dog trainer. Incredibly this is a real programme on an actual television channel, not one of the ones Charlie makes up. I realise that certain men, like politicians, would probably pay a lot of money to be brought to heel by a dog trainer but surely to Christ no one normal would wish to take part. What sort of man would consent to such a thing and what sort of woman would want him to? It would be impossible to have any respect for a man prepared to undergo such demeaning treatment in front of people. If a series were commissioned in which women were brought to heel by dog trainers there would be riots up and down the country.
Apparently programmes of this sort are aimed at women. I expect they are the the sort of women who buy 'bloke joke' books, yet are completely unable to function without a boyfriend. In other words television is, as ever, pandering to idiots instead of telling them to fuck off and get an education. This will not be allowed when I'm in charge.
Anyway I recommend you have a quick look at Charlie's article, which is as always very, very funny.
Cheerio
Posted by Clairwil
at 9:56 PM BST
Updated: 18/09/05 9:24 PM BST