Rants

It's always funny when the housemates get a telling off.

Especially when they seem to ignorantly be breaking them.

So, the first mistake was clearly pointed out by Big Brother that it's a no no to talk about the auditions or the chaperoning process.

I bet this wont be the last time we hear Big Brother reminding the housemates of what is and isn't acceptable topics of discussion.

And so it's that time of year again, the time for another bunch of entirely vacuous preening narcissists to live together on national television while a gloating public watches the fall out and begs for more. I've never been the biggest fan of big brother, in fact, to be honest, I've never been a fan at all, I am firmly in the "don't watch it" camp, and not even the one where people say they don't but actually do. I actually don't.

...apart from, that is, last night. Last night under duress I saw some of the first show where they introduce the contestants to the baying public. The gimmick this year? The house starts off all female. Apart from the entirely obvious fact that they're doing this to see how far they can push things this year by throwing one man at a time into a house full of frustrated young women, this has highlighted to me a problem with modern society.

Don't any young girls have aspirations anymore? Want to be teachers or writers? Lawyers or designers? Please, some one reassure me, because on the grounds of last nights show one can only think that every girl in the country wishes to be nothing but famous, forget any kind of intellect, you can be famous for being famous and show as much flesh as possible in the press. Surely there are some young women out there who have role models other than a bunch of footballers wives? Please, as a single man, tell me there are somewhere young women who actually have real live intelligent thoughts, who can read, and articulate?

So, it appears that the BBC are indeed producing a second series of the ever imaginative new adaptation of Robing Hood. The first one was really popular, however, I had my problems with it, so what better way to encourage them to up there game than rant in the BBC inbox.

Dear BBC,

For the past few months your prime Saturday evening slot has been taken over by the latest adaptation of that classic British tale that is Robin Hood, with some pouty young chap running around in Leather pants and not quite saving the day. I have to applaud the idea, it's high time there was some good family entertainment on a Saturday evening and Robin Hood is the perfect type of story to make a series.

Now, I'll be honest, after the first couple of episodes, I lost interest, in fact, interest is probably too strong a word for what I had, let's go for, curiosity. However, I have caught small parts of some episodes since, and I have to say, my impressions went from bad to worse as I found out that the new Robin is nothing short of a wimp that's afraid to kill people. Now, it's a family show, so I know we don't want gore, but shooting people with a long bow was just what Robin Hood did, who are we to mess with seven centuries of folklore? Robin Hood was an outlaw, and a former Crusader, at which point did we decide he'd not kill the bad guys, and as he won't why does he have that ruddy great bow?

Under the latest advertising rules adopted for children's television, all cheese ads are banned during kid's tv shows. The Food Standards Agency has listed cheese among other products as junk food and such ads are not to be played. Both the National Farmers' Union and the British Cheese Board are outraged at the development. Would you have called cheese junk food??!!

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