Friday 27 November 2009

Friday reading matter

Bored at work? Can't think of anything to occupy your Friday? Lucky you. Here's some stuff you can read.

1. If you enjoy being outraged by things in the Daily Mail, read this article by Sue Reid, 'Mapping out the strain on your NHS'. Racism in the Daily Mail almost goes without saying, but it's rarely quite this blatant and self-contradictory. Mailwatch has written a lovely response to this "news story", set out as a letter to Daily Mail readers.

2. If you enjoy reading about popstars making rash decisions for publicity, read this story about Robbie Williams proposing to his girlfriend on a live radio show.

3. And if you enjoy arguing about spurious top ten lists, here's Heat magazine's top ten "weird crushes" 2009. I can understand why Jeremy Clarkson is considered a strange person to have a crush on, but Derren Brown, Richard Hammond, David Mitchell and Michael McIntyre? What's so weird about them?! And as for Russell Howard... well, I'm sure it must be a misprint.

2 comments:

Becca said...

Obviously you had nothing to do with Heat's poll! I don't even want to know who you consider a weird celebrity crush... No wait, yes I do.

Just FYI, mine is Vince Vaughn - to me, he is literally sex on (very tall) legs. Yummy!

Pignut said...

Actually it probably doesn't count as weird unless you're so ashamed of your crush you'd never even consider telling anyone or voting in a Heat magazine poll.

Like if you had a crush on Hitler, for instance, or Peter Mandelson.

I'd just like to point out that I do not have any such crush.