New news, old news or no news.

Flicking through the channels this morning and I stumbled across a story on the BBC about a town using donkeys to carry their shopping up a steep hill. "That's odd", I thought, "Didn't they do that story a couple of months back?" The report started and didn't look like the same area. "Perhaps they were inspired by that other story" I thought, then they showed two women and a dog clambering up the steps on this hill and "That's the same footage they used in the previous report!".

"We've been here before" said the reporter "Yes I know" I said before the interviewee replied "Yes we used donkeys in the 30's"

I'm guessing I saw this on our local news and it's only just permeated through to the national level, got to be at least two months old.

I'm guessing despite the earthquake, cyclone, and local political woes it must have been a slow day as GMTV were asking the most pressing question of the day "What's the best way to boil an egg?" To which my answer was - there is no 'best' way to boil an egg as it's purely a matter of taste; that would be like asking 'What's the best amount of salt and vinegar to put on your chips?'.

In case that wasn't pointless enough their news segment then talked about our child obesity "epidemic", how they may introduce stomach stapling and how some obese children have to wear masks to sleep to stop them suffocating. Again here's an odd thought - Parents, stop letting your children eat whatever they bloody like; take some ******* personal responsibility and teach them not only to eat correctly but why they should. Wah wah we haven't got time, why can't the schools do it, why can't we make businesses stop selling food that our kids buy with the money we give them, why can't we all have a personal chef to cook out meals when we get home instead of bringing in a takeaway wah, wah.