Putting the 'happy' back into content
Thanks for Dave Hepworth for this brilliant piece of footage of Paris Hilton’s latest appearance on the David Letterman show.
My, my, could Jonathan Ross learn a lot from Mr Letterman. As much as I like Ross, he’s a little too sycophantic with his guests, unless he really knows them well. I can’t imagine him giving Paris the same treatment, can you?
Obviously having spent most of today in a bland Croydon shopping centre, I don’t really want to stop stores opening on the Day of Rest, but I’d be quite pleased if they did for one reason alone.
The reason? So the crap Sunday staff don’t get any work. The one big problem with weekend trading is that the proper full-time employees rarely work on Saturdays and Sundays.
One example: I went into (whisper it quietly) TKMaxx (look, it’s where I get my pants, OK?).
Having queued up patiently, I reached the till and handed over my purchases. The girl took them from me and rang them up. At the moment, one of her co-workers appeared alongside her and started to put them in a bag.
This co-worker started a conversation with ‘my’ assistant which lasted the entire length of the transaction. It wasn’t until the girl handed me my receipt that she looked at me and said the first word of the entire process: ‘Thank you!”
I’m not actually quite sure what she was thanking me for. Perhaps, allowing her to carry on her personal life with her mate, while still serving me.
So you see, if we ban Sunday trading, then people like this won’t have jobs and won’t be able to inflict their particular brand of customer dis-service.
The current stand-off between the military regime and pro-democracy protestors in Myanmar/Burma is pretty nasty, given the number of deaths that have already occurred.
However, I did hear something on the radio today related to this situation that made me chuckle.
A posh-sounding British foreign official was describing the latest situation in the country and produced this corker of a description:
“There are still knots of small protestors demonstrating on the streets.”
Now, I know what he wanted to say, but I immediately had visions of small groups of Burmese dwarves tramping up and the down the pavements brandishing mini placards written in coloured pencil.
Just me then…!