A Selection Of Unrelated Thoughts

In bullet form.

• Match Of The Day isn't what it used to be. The point of Match Of The Day is that you don't know anything about the games until you watch them, but they now show you a bunch of the best bits from each game in the opening sequence, as if to reassure you that it's worth staying tuned. Message to the show's producers: if I've already made the commitment of locking myself in my room with the internet off and my fingers in my ears from kick-off until half ten at night, making sure I turn on the TV at exactly the right moment so I don't accidentally see the ridiculously placed sports news bulletin that directly precedes it, chances are I've already made a firm decision that I'm going to watch the whole program, so don't show half the bloody game during the title sequence which, by the way, is a lot shitter than it used to be because you've arsed around with the music and made it all jerky.
• Have you noticed that the cleaners at certain railway stations have 'making a difference' written in bright pink on the back of their uniform? Maybe it's some sort of company slogan, but it strikes me as being very patronising. If the message was 'it may look like my life is shit but I'm saving the money I earn here so I can go to university', or even 'yes, I sweep shit off platforms while you're negotiating multi-million pound takeovers in the city, but I bet I'm less of a twat', then fair enough, have a message, but I have an inkling everyone would be a fraction happier with no message at all than the one they've got at the moment.
• Little Miss Jocelyn is offensively unfunny, and even if there is a particular demographic that does find this show amusing, I'm not sure it's the same demographic that Never Mind The Buzzcocks hits every week, so why place the two shows adjacent to each other on a Thursday night? 'Thursdays Are Funny!', scream the BBC trailers; maybe so, but to different people. It's like putting cheese on your ice cream because they both come from cows.

More thoughts as and when I have them.