Signs Of Society's Imminent Collapse Pt. 285

Big sodding Brother. Thankfully over for another year, I still fail to see why a perfectly sensible human being would choose to watch this programme. It's rubbish, it's boring, it's pointless, it's artificial, it's a fraud, and yet this year's has been a record breaker by all accounts. It's certainly set records as far as I'm concerned. Never before have I seen less reason to watch this than the parade of dimwits, wannabe's, slappers and arseholes whose every witless utterance is foisted upon us by the tabloid press as if it were Moses himself delivering God's laws from Mt. Sinai. Who cares? No-one would except the programme is relentlessly hyped up for weeks before it starts and then used to fill pages and pages every day while it fills our screens. The only way to prevent this is yet again to not buy tabloid papers, be they the Official Big Brother Paper, the Unofficial Big Brother Paper, or the Official Anti-Big Brother. It all means the same thing. They are full of worthless shit, stealing space away from real news stories, because editors and proprietors aren't willing to trust their readership, and credit them with any sort of intelligence above that of plankton. In saying that you really do have to wonder when you read the 'thoughts' of Daily Star 'readers', and their texted in opinions on the upcoming football season:

'Kick out eriksson the geezers a sex maniac' - Speros hutchins, Bromley.
'Put evil saddam in the efc frontline. Scumbag must neva b allowed 2trouble ne1 agen' - TUX LFC4EVA
'I thought kenyon was a good business man 2 me buyin playas not heard of ayear ago and payin 5 times over the odds 4 them doesnt sound good business 2 me hope he nos what s doin?' - James
'2 amos you remind of a bin full of rubbish leeds 4 the title' - huggy.
'NUFC, last chance saloon 4 ur team coz once mary poppins retires uv got the mecenary n sicknote firing blanks' - BAZ OV BORO.
'only 1 van the man this season van persie mancs watch and learn' - slippery
'is it me or does every1 just hate wolves! We r premier league enough said' - Matt
'why watch black white when you can watch in colour' - pj safc
'3 words 4 u all liverpool liverpool liverpool enuf said' - mk 1 lfc'

Frankly, if you're texting your ill-formed opinions and enemy baiting to a newspaper, then you don't deserve to own a phone. When you do it in finest fuckwit text-speak, you don't deserve to breathe. With predictive texting it can be far quicker to type the word than it is to think of an idiotic abbreviation, then type it out character by character, especially when it takes four key strokes to type a letter 's', one of the most commonly used characters in our language!

I don't want to get all snooty about this but it really annoys me when people use that abbreviated language. To paraphrase something I read recently on the same subject, 'The written word is the finest weapon we have in the battle against ignorance. We should take better care of it.'

Right. Another rant over, another post, errm ... posted. Going to go and have a lie down now!