The Bloggler

As if Covid 19 isn’t dangerous enough, it seems there is another pandemic threatening to kill us all. It’s a deadly strain of ‘stupidity’. In America it has become known as the 'Pandumbic', after the ‘The Daily Show’ host Trevor Noah mocked President Trump’s inaction on the Coronavirus in a fake trailer for a terrifying movie called PANDUMBIC. It is described in the ‘Urban Dictionary’ as a condition contracted by: “An idiot, not necessarily, but typically of a younger age, who refuses to believe that COVID-19 is real and thereby exposes themselves and others to great harm. A paragon of Darwinian failure. A fucktard by any other name.” And I reckon it has infected over half the population of England and that the R rate is out of control. The scientific evidence is there for all to see in the News: the antisocial behaviour found in mass gatherings on Bournemouth beaches, the Yobbishness and mass demonstrations on city streets, football fans partying in Liverpool and...

Now we have more time to watch TV, the quality and variety of terrestrial offerings and most cable channels seems to have gone right down the pan.  So much so that people seem to be falling over themselves to sign up for subscription streaming services, like Netflix and Britbox.  We (my wife and I) haven’t yet gone down that road.   This is because as an alternative to our telly package we are not convinced it will be enough, and as an extra, it is really quite expensive. I know, many people enjoy rewatching tv shows and drama series but I am not one of them. I am in my 60s and have forgotten many of them or (at least the plots) so if I did watch them again, it would be like watching them for the first time.   But the thing is, I know I have watched it and it just seems wrong to go back.   I want new stuff but frankly, some stuff I have seen advertised on Netflix is not floating my boat. So while we ponder and pontificate, I have been delving more ...