BBC News Strikes Again

Ramblings / February 2, 2009 / John / 0

Ok, so the BBC, in their usual hysterical manner, have been reporting on the fact that there’s snow. So I thought I should help out by suggesting a headline. Click the image at the start of this story to see it.

Obviously, as they have to manufacture panic to give them something to report on their eleventy-five hours per day news channel, they’ve been giving it laldy about today’s precipitation. I particularly enjoyed the poor struggling newscaster’s obvious discomfort as he tried desperately to think of some way in which TODAY IS THE <INSERT REALLY RARE THING> SINCE RECORDS BEGAN. Sadly, as it’s just a bit of snow, no hysterical hyperbolae were available to insert.

So, in the spirit of helpfulness, I could suggest:

“Today’s snowfall saw the largest single amount of snow to fall on the last third of an inch of a dog named trevor while it was running anticlockwise around a black pudding SINCE RECORDS BEGAN”

or even

“Today’s snowfall has generated more lines of copy, more minutes of dribbling newsreader-splooge, and more minutes of video footage of WHITE than any other snowfall SINCE RECORDS BEGAN.”

I mean, in the name of all that’s sacred – they were away bothering the Prime Minister for a quote! About SNOW! Really, I think he has OTHER THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT RIGHT NOW. Like Genocide in Africa. The economy. The melting ice caps. 

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John

UNIX geek, wannabe cook, musician, book-lover, and all round good-guy.