The fifty most annoying…..
Yes, do let’s concentrate on all those irritating little whatevers in life and put them in a list and go over them and dwell on how irritating they are so that we can stamp our little foots and grind our teeth and generally make ourselves more irritated. Quite frankly who needs it! Do we need to dwell on life’s little annoyances any more than usual? We are bombarded with grumpy old men and grumpy old women on TV talking about their pet peeves – I ask you, do we need to watch this on TV, the supermarkets are full of them grousing on about something or other. We are putting complaining and grumbling right up there among our favourite national pastimes and how better to salute this sport of sports than by giving ever more TV coverage!
Oh, sorry I was just reading something on a webpage somewhere that started a train of thought.
I have discovered iPlayer now, I’m slow to get on board with things but every now and then I try to catch up. It was essential to catch up with some of the Christmas goodies and iPlayer was only way! We had the mother-in-law to stay over Crimbo and unless the programmes had Poirot or Marple or Barnaby in they weren’t favoured viewing. I’m not sure why I missed Jonathan Creek though, perhaps I was out. However, I managed to catch up with it last night. I keep going over the whole tank of water-with-the-bodies scenario, it haunts me, but other than that there were quite a few queries I had about the plot. For example why did no one at any stage call the police? Spending a night in a strange place one’s friend is not only locked up in a strange attic room, but in the morning she has completely disappeared, does this not at any point the next day alarm one enough to perhaps call the police. After another day or so would one not start to feel even more anxious about her disappearance rather than forget her very existence in the story? When it finally emerges that this poor creature has been tipped into an ancient escape-proof water tank to drown amongst a bundle of long dead corpses does nobody think that it might now be time to call the police? This girl presumably has some friends and relatives that might notice she has not come home, been into work, facebooked or paid the bills in several days. HALLO-O-O? I mean clearly her part was only a cameo but surely…..
