What a great wheeze. Some bloke on the tube who dresses as a wizard has taken the chip out of his Oystercard and put it in a magic wand. So he gets to the barrier, produces his wand and, shazam, the gates open. Brilliant and thank you James Crawford for pointing this out.
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I know it's fashionable to think young people are stupid and deep down I know they're not but I have caught two conversations this week involving young ladies who work in the public relations industry. In the first, the person in question had no idea who Nick Clegg is. In the second a different girl had just come off the phone to a regional newspaper who clearly felt there was no local interest. She turned round and asked 'is Kent near Buckinghamshire?'
I bet they've both got degrees in media studies.
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A dilemma for readers of The Guardian. They love intelligent US TV drama - there are regular blogs on Mad Men, The Wire, Lost and, er, Glee - but the first chance in this country to see the acclaimed Scorsese-directed gangster series Boardwalk Empire is going to be on the new Sky Atlantic channel. And no matter how much they love good television, they hate Rupert Murdoch even more.
Of course there are ways to watch such things via the internet, but it has to be on an Apple product for Guardianistas.
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A different dilemma for Daily Mail readers. Jonathan Ross's daughter is gay. Blimey, how much ammunition do they need? Ross AND homosexuality. If only her partner was Eastern European and they got refused admission to a Christian B&B in Cornwall and you'd have the full set.
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I rarely watch Film 'fill in your year of choice' but I happened upon it last night where it is hosted by Claudia Winkleman who obviously has some kind of sponsorship deal going on with that Orange Wednesday film promotion. If that wasn't bad enough, she had so much mascara on she could hardly open her eyes. I kid you not, she squinted throughout the whole thing. Which makes you wonder if actually manages to see much of the films she 'reviews'.
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Orcadians. I thought they were aliens in Star Trek with crinkly heads or, at the very least, a family of cetaceans. I honestly had no idea that it is the name given to people from Orkney. And I may never have found out if it wasn't for the Daily Record once again illustrating the rich lexicon that exists across this great nation of ours. And thanks to what looks like a fantastic new film coming out, we'll all be familiar with another great Daily Record favourite - Neds - before too long.
See you Jimmy....Solly
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