Daytime TV

I watch daytime TV. I watch it from morning and all through the afternoon. Fortunately I watch it with the sound off because I am developing TV equipment. The morning seems to revolve around money.

Buying, renovating and selling property. Turning bric-a-brac into antiques. Buying and selling tat. Sometimes it is in Welsh as the only digital channels that we can get in this Cotswold valley come from Cardiff.

The afternoon is more predictable than TV was in my day. You get Dick Van Dyke wanedering about in a doctor's white coat. Then you get Lazy Town and the girl with pink hair. The Owl gets torn to bits in ingenious and unexpected ways. Then there is Scoop which has the same plot every day. But I miss Carol Vorderman who was always worth watching even with the sound off.

But the most annoying thing is the blatant rip-off quizzes which go along these lines: "If you are a dab hand in the garden, are you said to have red, blue or green fingers?". The answer is always really obvious. Are the people who enter really that gullible? Or are they stupid enough to think that this is a genuine test of their knowledge? And why would they want to pay a pound to prove that they are fools?

Now it has been revealed that the winners are chosen long before the phone lines have closed and this apparently is a scandal. The actual scandal is that these mind numbingly insulting quizzes are allowed to continue to part stupid people from their money.

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On a lighter note, Alyssa got a letter promoting a magazine subscription and on the envelope it said "Time. Do not bend.". I take this to mean that if there is any time bending to be done then somebody qualified should do it such as Einstein or Doctor Who.