Not just recently, but over and over and.......over again, I keep reading 'headlines' which I know have been 'headlined' in the past, the most recent one I can think of is the '....the use of mirrors in the treating of phantom limb pain...!' Another one of note is the associating of the genetics which give people 'Red' hair and the last vestiges of a neanderthal code! This one I clearly remember being announced as '...the lastest research into....etc etc...!' Again, I think this was no later than 2003 [ish]
Both of these I recall, because with the first - it was also featured in a documentary about 'strokes' and another about how the 'brain' functions, both BBC programmes, I having suffered an illness of this nature, was interested, also I have had quite a serious head injury which causes me some bizarre symptoms, the second example however, is of interest to me only on a more trivial level......err.... it gave me the opportunity to take the rise out of a [to quote their preferred name] 'Titian' associate! Mercilessly SO!
However, to the point, no matter how repetitive! Ha ha! It is not that I object to being reminded from time to time of 'news' which is probably of little or no interest to anyone other than those affected by it!
It is just this!
If we are to be fed a constant stream of 'news' due to the 24hr nature of News channels and the Internet, it is feasible that there must be long tedious hours that those who feed these sources, may find themselves filling with the odd 'read' of Journals of all natures, who on seeing something in 'print' for the first time may believe that it is something the rest of the world will not have, due perhaps to their erroneous belief that we 'the people', wait with baited, godknowswhat, for the next profound announcements to issue from their 'gibbering' gobs!
Again, I would'nt mind tooo much, if these 'repeats' were of a more interesting, even perhaps, quality nature! Just like the TV and the interminable repeats and repeats of the omnibuses, and the repeats 'plus 1hr', etc etc! are just 'noise', these 'News' repeats in their irrelevance, are just 'time fillers'!
However, no-one minds if a TV repeat is of a 'classic comedy', 'brilliant drama', or timeless classic movie! So if they wish to maintain our attention, why do they not take great news stories, or perhaps groundbreaking journalistic events and run them by us again? I am sure they would cause more than the odd ear to 'prick up'...mmmm?
They already do this, do I hear you cry? Yeah, well sort of, but they seem doomed to remake these events with lacklustre personel, so taking what once was great and if not to be equalled should have been left alone, then thrusting it in our faces, aghast at our disinterest, nay...disgust for their travesties!
Also, it is probably not necessary to point this out, but even the greatest in the 'film' genre seem not to be immune to this effect with one after another of movies which were perhaps at least 'good' if not great, getting the make-over [under?] treatment! But the pasty, celeb-cultured teens which get the roles there, seem only to make the past less interesting and 'nostalgia', more of a 'bad taste in your mouth', than a 'butterfly in yer tummy - warm' experience!
DO you remember the days when a 'celebrity' was someone who was 'celebrated' for some ability and their prowess in this skill!
BE it a 'thespian', a rare beauty, a virtuoso performer, an innovator of anything etc etc! Rather than some loud mouthed, overbearing, dipshit squeaking their way to instant fame on 'reality tv shows', which send the more discerning viewer to the News channels, an attempt to avoid the mindless drivel these new celebrities foist upon us, only to fed a diet of re-gurgitated boring, non news, whilst they await the main events of the day, 'an ousting of some twat from some Reality trash'!
Well, my 'reality' is and has never been like anything hyped as such for our consumption! But if the choices are ' a rehashed movie', 'celeb worship of Reality nonentities', or rehashed news regarding 'phantom limb' disorders.....? Well, come and chop my other leg off, at least the trick with mirrors would be far more interesting when you get two!
I don't really know if any of this is of any interest to anyone but, who needs a 'multiple universe' continuum in which to wander away from yourself. 'Cos it appears that no matter if a quantum bifurcation occurs each time a choice is made, it only will end us with an WORLDS x n, Us x n, EVENTS THEREIN x ....precisely the same number, just as if all this quantum, splitting and general buzzing about had never occurred in the first instance!
Sorry if I repeated myself and went on and on, like a manic Duracel Rabbit on 'speed'! But there's little to hold my attention on my new Hi Def TV, actually listening to the radio and almost like the old days, participating in the debate thereon! [So this has taken some time to type out!] It appears that there at least a 'participant' has to have a little more about them than the vacuous celebs, seen far to highly defined for their own good on my expensive, new TV! Sony - Bravia Old World!
off back to the wireless for a bit, got the books out I want to read, can manage to do both without any problem, just don't bring any mirrors anywhere near me! Malice Thru' The Looking Glass is my 'Non Gamer Name'
teee heee heeee....etc etc
'take coke, worship satan'... if you wil!