Irritations 2

For my sins, I was watching BBC’s Cutting It last night, whichg was filmed in Manchester. The problem with this is that I know a good 90% of the locations used during filming, and can identify them fairly easily. In fact, the only parts I’m occasionally not sure on are the bars – but they’re normally easy to do as a set, rather than using a location, so that’s perhaps understandable.

However, I find I get consistently irritated by the way locations move, and are “linked”. Last night, for instance, two characters walked round the corner from Urbis museum, and found themselves on a walkway by – um – the Bridgewater Hall. That’s quite impressive – as the map below shows…

So – turning the corner, and instanteously being transported about a kilometre. That’s just impressive. The magic of TV.

Irritations

I would just like to say that I’m already utterly fucked-off and bored with the guff surrounding Euro2004. TV adverts by the sponsors (bloody Coke and Carling, mainly – and no, I’m not even going to link to them, they’ve had enough advertising already), guff in the news, and fucking St George flags already flying from car windows and windows.

I can’t deny it, I’m about as interested in football as I am in the Gross Domestic Product of Bulgaria (yes, I did look it up – God, I’m sad) so I’ll be happy when the entire Euro2004 thing is over and done with. I’m thanking all the good goblins of the North that I’ve got a new DVD player, and plenty of other stuff to be getting on with, as I’m sure most of the TV channels will be obsessed with England’s defeat progress.

But for now there’s still two weeks before it even starts, so can we please find something else to talk about?

Bladdered

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For those who don’t know, Gert sometimes writes a post while drunk. Last nights post is a perfect illustration of this.

Two Days Time

Has anyone else watched the trailer for The Day After Tomorrow, the new disaster movie by Roland Emmerich. About halfway through, look at the text at the bottom of the screen. Bear in mind it’s a disaster movie.

Caution : contains scenes of extended peril.

No shit – it’s a fucking disaster film, you cretinous bunch of faceless nanny-state bureaucrats. What the fuck else is going to be in it?

I don’t know why, but we seem to have developed this extra rating system (and yes, I’ve blethered about this before, but it still drives me crackers on a regular basis) for which there is NO BLOODY NEED WHATSOEVER. It’s a 12A, so we know there’s going to be hardly any swearing, and not much of interest. (well, except plenty of dead Americans, so that’s a plus point) What the frig is the point of telling people extra about the content? Next they’ll be warning me that Harry Potter 3 contains scenes of magic , wizarding and fantastic creatures.

CPS

The CPS should change its name from Crown Procrastination Prosecution Service to Completely Pisspoor Scumbags after this story. A man in a Leicester court has been told – in public court – that he has HIV. He had no knowledge of this beforehand, and had never been tested.

Instead, a blood sample he’d given in a different case had somehow been kept, and then tested without his permission or knowledge.

The Terrence Higgins Trust, one of the biggest Aids charities in the UK, said the blunder was appalling. “To be tested for HIV without your consent is absolutely wrong,” it said. “To hear the results in court is just appalling. To find out you have a life-threatening disease and didn’t even know you were being tested is appalling. It goes against all your rights of confidentiality.”

Apalling doesn’t even come close – there’s no words strong enough for how amazingly bad this entire thing is.

Doctors

Does your doctor wear a tie? A story in today’s Guardian claims that well-dressed doctors may be a health-risk. Personally, I thought that doctors were a health-risk anyway, but that’s by the by.

While there is no direct evidence to implicate neckties in the transmission of infection to patients, the link between contaminated necktie and the potential for transmission must be considered.

Well, it made me laugh anyway…

Meeting with Bankers

At last, that seems to be over and done with. I went to see the new business manager at the bank previously known as “useless” which actually went well. It turns out my ex-business manager hasn’t just moved branches or offices, she’s actually been sacked. They say misconduct, I say “incompetence”.

Anyway, we’ve cleared up a lot of the old issues, and dealt with most of the crap around The Stop That Wasn’t from a couple of weeks ago. I’ve told them that we’ll start again from now, I won’t harp back over old problems, and they’ve promised to do better and be more professional with their dealings with me.

We’ll see how it goes, but for now, thank christ, it’s over and done with.