FOX News are doommongering fucktards, it's links time!

Firstly, not funny, but damn, I thought the Sun and the Daily Mail were full of over the top bollocks., then I saw this, from the Fox News Network, essentially saying the Nintendo DS is a tool for paedophiles...the fuckwits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orpgUPNSRPI

Now this could have been a small, informative piece, telling parents that the DS has a text chat system, and to teach the kids about safe use, IF they have a DS and not a mobile phone or the internet, which both do the same thing. But no, its basically saying Nintendo want your kids meeting perverts.

If this is the quality broadcasting of Fox, its no wonder they're seen as 'that station with the Simpsons and nothing else worth watching'.

On a brighter note, Dr Ashen deserves his own place on TV reviewing tat in his own style, although he may have to be a bit more careful with his language. Go see his review of the 'Megacrisper' home microwave crisp maker, and the DS clone (costs about £5 and is overpriced by about £10).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H46GX2MvPQw

A trailer for the family friendly Wii version of 'Full Metal Jacket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98V8w0w4WtY

An extremely peurile and offensive Tintin - Geordie edition (sweary)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN7uICa9Yig

After Katie Price and Peter Andre got a sudden flood of 'overwhelmingly positive' reviews on Amazon for their CD, it seems a similar thing is going on with the release of Richard Littlejohn's book of how wheelie bins and immigrants have destroyed Britain, heh.

Here's a typical Review snippet -

Like 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', 'A Brief History of Time' and 'The Bible', Littlejohn's earlier work 'To Hell In A Handcart' looked set to be the next in line of impenetrable heavyweight tomes that nobody read past the first chapter. At the time, I headed a one-man campaign urging readers to give this work the attention it deserved. Persevere, I said, and be rewarded. Every subtle twist of dialogue and style will surprise; only upon turning the final page will the truth be revealed.

So it was with excitement tinged with trepidation that I approached Littlejohn's latest. He'd naturally had to dumb down his work upon moving from The Sun to The Daily Mail, and rare is the sequel that better its original. But this is no Tesco Value 'me too!', this is a special edition 'Taste the Difference' made by the lad Oliver himself. Where once Littlejohn's handcart was Tressell's Cave, now Littlejohn's Britain is Blatchford's Utopia. Littlejohn piles his new handcart high with Swift, Fielding, Whittier, Engels and, even at times, Chaucer; sending it hurtling down Merrie England's hills, casting haywains asunder.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0091795680/b3ta-21

What makes it more amusing, is the 'people who viewed this, also viewed' has two B3ta people's books, and Charlie Brooker's, who wrote 'Nathan Barley' for Channel 4 and actually reviewed the Littlejohn book by its cover, because it saved time.

Possibly the greatest internet timesaver ever? If you know someone who hasn't had the internet before, when you know they are getting it, send them this link, as it will save them hours of looking up rude placenames in the world. Don't pretend you never did!

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=116743716118638336829.000001125726221458c74

One for Fink, stare at a screen and watch photos being uploaded to Flickr -

http://flickrvision.com/

Ifound a clip of a wheelchair bound boy band, from Sweden I believe, 'Boys on Wheels', who are obviously playing it for laughs, if you skip the first minute or so they'll start on some familiar stuff . I wasn't sure if it was horribly offensive or funny, but hey, they're making cash and getting fame, and good luck to em! I do always think disabled people trying to do disabled humour always have a disadvantage immediately because people just aren't ready to laugh at them, though.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aCxDZRJKkqY

Anyway, that'll do for now.

Obligatory Big Brother 8 new series post

So like someone who can't stop poking at a bad tooth even though it hurts, I've let myself watch the opening night of the new UK Big Brother.

11 in to start with, all women, which seems a strange choice, but I imagine they'll get some men in over the next few days, although I hear a rumour they'll be sending in ONE, and I don't envy him.

So, first impressions... I won't bother mentioning all of them, because, as usual, at least half of them are so tedious, the only licensing deal they'll be getting when they're inevitably voted out might be from Dulux as a new name for 'beige'.

I think I said last year, the problem is, instead of grabbing a wide range of types of people, they seem to pull a minibus up to a nightclub queue and grab the 12 from the back. This time at least, 3 or 4 of them don't fit the 'waiting at a kebab van at 3am' stereotype.

So, the twins, thingy and whatshername, how is having two pink teenagers squealing at once going to be more interesting than one? They say they've never been apart, so the only fun we can have is vote one out in the first week, and then keep the other one in and watch the fun.

Lesley, 60, exactly the kind of person I've wanted to see go in, being completely different from the tpical BB contestant, and I can already see her struggling internally with not stabbing everyone until the high pitched squeaking stops.

then there's thingy, who 'aspires to look like Victoria Beckham' and thingy, who is a 'wannabe WAG', who should really both hand themselves in at the nearest NHS hospital for spare parts if that's their highest goals in life. Oh and not forgetting thingy, who think she looks like Peaches Geldof, and thingy who 'hates men'.

There's Tracey, who is looking dangerous like a cross between Kitten and Pete, with all the charm of the former and all of the masculinity of the latter. Already annoyed me by constantly talking about herself in the third person. 'Well, that I aint doing, cos Tracey doesnt need to do that, have it!' Either trying way too hard, or genuinely annoying.

Laura, not demanding the spotlight, and comes across as genuinely nice. I won't say favourite, but maybe least hated, heh.

Carole, who's 53 and an 'activist', unfortunately there's maybe only 2 or 3 in there who could spell activist, never mind hold a conversation that didn't revolve around shoes, hair or make-up.

What I have noticed, however, is most of the interest seems to be about ones I've managed to remember the names of, maybe for Big Brother 9 they'll cut back even more on the teenage clubber clones and put some more variety in.

My one big hope is that if they put one man in soon, its someone geeky like the wonderful Eugene from 6 or Jon Tickle from series 2 or 3. Leave em with loads of expectations, and then inflict someone who wants to talk about maths and science.

I can see the girls being cut in numbers pretty damn quickly tho, unless they do something to stamp some individuality on themselves, as about 7 or 8 of them are interchangable, not only with each other, but with half the contestants from any other year.