The co-editorial

The Co-Editorial - 1

Hello, this is the first editorial there ever has been and so maybe if you find this one crap, I might get better at writing them over time. In my case I'm imagining they will feature things that I don't like because there always seems to be something annoying me.

It annoys me when people call TV, the idiot box. Surely you can only learn things from looking at the TV, thing of how worse off we would be without TV's - it lets us see different cultures, different parts of the world and different things that make us think, (I don't think it's possible to watch the TV and not think at all) even if it isn't Einstein's theory of relativity explained by twelve politician ballerina's doing the nutcracker and simultaneously reading a midsummer nights dream and explaining how the economy works. There are bound to be things that aren't informative, like cartoons and so on, It's entertainment - and what's wrong with being entertained?

Something that occurred to me the other day was that when I (and people of the same generation as me) have grandchildren, how old they're going to think we are when we say to them, "do you know what, I remember when the internet didn't exist" - They are going to say - how did you send stuff to each others computers, you know like stupid pictures and chain mail saying if you don't forward this to ten people you will die and tigers will eat the contents of your stomach, "you had 56k modems when you first went on the internet?" what?! How crap was that - wow that must have been great for you - that and the start of electricity (you know that joke, like you would say to your parents, were you scared when they invented the steam train, ha ha ha). But you feeling ancient hasn't finished yet - then you tell them you remember when computers used to have tapes and big flat five inch disks that you loaded programs from, and then they ask what tapes were, "isn't that the stuff you stick parcels up with?" and "BBC computers, what are BBC computers? Acorns? - The things that squirrels eat?!" and then it gets even worse that you used to own albums on record, when you were a child. "I thought only DJ's used to use records?, you know the big 12" ones (only 12" will be a defunct measurement by then) that had one song a side that they used in Ibiza" "I bet you must have felt like right fools in those disgusting clothes you wore in the 1990's". "There were four terrestrial channels when you were little? Cable only had twenty channels? TV must have been really crap back then, I bet you could never find anything to watch at all". So think on, aren't you already feeling old now?

Rob

Well, Mr Arnold Schwarzengroper is in charge of the 6th biggest economy in the world. It’s a triumph for democracy over common sense again. Well done America, it’s a good job that a country with such a grip on serious politics is in charge of bringing representative government to Iraq and Afghanistan.

And while we’re on the subject of Ian Duncan Smith being useless, some of his parties biggest financial backers are turning away from the quiet man. Which I find funny, because I’m mean spirited.

Well Rob wrote more than me, but he has more time on his hands.

Joel