girlofprey

I just watched Dancing On Ice. I cannot actually believe that. I can't believe it. In fairness I missed the first three contestants, so only watched Sharron Davies and the people after her skate. But Sinitta was good. She was actually good, a lot better than a lot of the others, and quite lovely, and sort of my favourite. And I thought Heather Mills might be in trouble mostly, because I know a lot of the public hate her, though I did hope she'd go through. And she did, and instead the only black contestant ended up in the skate off, against one of the actually bad skaters. And there was a difficult lift in Sinitta's routine, and she did it really well the first time, but she missed it in the skate off, and now she's gone. In a way I feel a bit annoyed with Torvill and Dean for giving her such a difficult lift in the first show. But mostly I feel annoyed with the viewers. I was never that convinced when people said it was a bit racist that Heather kept being put in the dance-off last year despite being better than some other contestants. But now I'm starting to rethink it.

Adverts. I hate them. Most of them. Mostly I hate that thing they were doing for a while, though I haven't seen it lately, of ending the advert with a slogan, and then putting an asterix at the end of the slogan, with no noticeable bit of text that the asterix led to. THAT IS RIDICULOUS. I'm assuming that it meant they could use slogans that were lies, because they put an asterix on it leading to a qualifying statement. Without making the qualifying statement, and I assume the facts, too noticeable. THAT REALLY ANNOYED ME. At the moment I hate the Magnet advert which is all about "tell us what you do in your kitchen". "Give us market research without making us do it ourselves", is I think the true meaning of that. Aside from it's weird CCTV Society connotations. Also I hate the adverts that encourage us to buy products to help FIGHT THE TERRIBLE WAR WE'RE HAVING WITH THE WORLD/NATURE. Like that weird eyedrops one for stuff they want you to use when "the world makes your eyes dry and painful". But also those horrible Tampax ones they've thankfully stopped showing about using tampons to defeat that PRUDISH BITCH MOTHER NATURE. I hate them. A lot.