News Of The World Shites Again

Oh God I hate the News Of The World. I was gonna call this entry "Injury Worries in Sheffield" with reference to the injury I have done to my back, and in a light hearted homage to football teams struggling because of many injuries. But I changed my mind, I turned on Safari (the Mac OSX internet browser if you were wondering) and did my usual scan of BBC news. What did I see on the front page, political smut. Mark Oaten, a Lib Dem leadership challenger, has allegedly done the backstreet Tango with a rent boy. I absolutely don't care. It matters not one jot to me. My problem with it is, why do I know that? I know it because the News Of The World has dug around in shit and told everyone about it. Why is this important to anyone? "oh, well they're in the pulic eye so the public should know everything about them" RUBBISH "Oh he might one day be running the country so it's better we found out now rather than voting him in and regretting it" AAAAGGGHHHH. Why does someone's bedtime leanings matter to how they do things. Do I trust someone less because I know they've been to a prositute? No, I might say urg but no more than if I found out that someone I knew smoked.

Come to think of it though, that's not even my problem. I guess some people would care, I don't agree but I don't want to try and enforce my views on them. The problem is the way some newspapers (Red tops and tits and the bloody Daily Mail) put stories out and say they are in the public interest. Poor boozy Charlie battered and battered by the press and chucked out; Sven tricked and lied to and chastised for saying something behind somone else's back. Is it just me that sees disparity here? It's not just the pot calling the kettle black, its the pot dressed in a white Doctors outift asking the kettle about is characoal problem in an honest and caring way and then going telling the spoons about it! GOD! Go and report something proper! And to the woman from the NOTW who got arrested for trying to get a job at Buckingham Palace under false pretences, HA. HA HA HA. If anyone who reads this has the inclination to buy that bog paper tomorrow because of the publicity they have stirred up by leaking those 'stories' today - PLEASE DON'T, for the sake of the children. PLEASE. If you really feel the need to investigate, these stories further please do not go to the NOTW website, just click here or here I know I'm ranting but it really annoys me, as much as cyclists riding on pavements.

About the running anyway, I seem to have done something yukky to my back. It hurts when I breathe deeply. Not the best thing when you are planning to run 9 miles tomorrow! Urk, I think that might be off. When I was planning this marathon training schedule I knew that I was going to get niggling injuries, it's high impact is running, but I thought that if I couldn't run I could do something low impact like swimming. But you can't swim without breathing and I'm so rubbish in the water that I have to breath really heavily. Nackers is what I say.

Well there's enough of a long spout of gibberish to be getting on with so I'll leave you there. BTW, this might get to you in a more or less readable form. That's because I always let Kay read these things before I publish them. She is always spotting a missing "not" which totally changes the point of the sentence, or adds or removes some commas or other punctutation errors.

Besos (and R.I.P. that whale, poor bugger)

Ed

p.s. mmmmmmmmmm sadle!