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My Rant for the day

yomchi · 2007-07-17 11:30:10

So im browsing around the news to see whas happening in the world and I come across these headlines... * Japan evacuation centres packed after quake * Bush calls for conference on Mideast THEN.... * Queen Latifah to open burger joint Are these nob ends living in the same world as the rest of us??

17-07-2007 11:30am

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yomchi

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So im browsing around the news to see whas happening in the world and I come across these headlines...

Japan evacuation centres packed after quake

Bush calls for conference on Mideast

THEN....
Queen Latifah to open burger joint

Are these nob ends living in the same world as the rest of us??

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#2 17-07-2007 11:33am

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So? It's all "news" on different levels.
Actually, Latifah interests me more than Bush' latest propaganda stunts.

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#3 17-07-2007 11:35am

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A new burger joint!?! *drops everything to read about this intriguing article*

That's news for ya. I always read me news www.bbc.co.uk that's got the best stuff on it.

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#4 17-07-2007 11:35am

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also the recent media surrounding Jade whatsherface's young fella going into school and her giving exclusive rights to some publication to cover the event..

That made me want to punch her in the face, quite hard... Again.

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#5 17-07-2007 11:36am

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In a similar vein, sky news last night had "breaking news" that David Beckham had taken part in a training session with his new team mates. Their breaking news ticker has lost all meaning.

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#6 17-07-2007 11:38am

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skywalker wrote:

In a similar vein, sky news last night had "breaking news" that David Beckham had taken part in a training session with his new team mates. Their breaking news ticker has lost all meaning.

Absolutely. Such a trashbag of a news channel.

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#7 17-07-2007 11:41am

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Jon wrote:

Queen Latifah to open burger joint

really when:eek:

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#8 17-07-2007 11:43am

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eo980 wrote:

Absolutely. Such a trashbag of a news channel.

agreed,

but I believe that the training session was shown live on espn. :eek:

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#9 17-07-2007 11:45am

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philstar wrote:

really when:eek:

and where

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#10 17-07-2007 11:48am

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skywalker wrote:

In a similar vein, sky news last night had "breaking news" that David Beckham had taken part in a training session with his new team mates. Their breaking news ticker has lost all meaning.

For a thread on the general sh!tness of sky news see here

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#11 17-07-2007 11:58am

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eo980 wrote:

Absolutely. Such a trashbag of a news channel.

I hear ya!

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#12 17-07-2007 12:04pm

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I stopped watching the news years ago because of this.

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#13 17-07-2007 12:06pm

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www.bbc.co.uk ftw!

10 times better than Sky News

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#14 17-07-2007 12:38pm

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Am I the only one that prefers to live in blissful ignorance and enjoys reading about such frivolous things as Queens latifah's bruger joint as opposed to "such and such got murdered, war going on in x, housing prices are crashing, x polititian is accepting bribes".
It's always the same sh1t...just a different day!

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#15 17-07-2007 1:19pm

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skywalker wrote:

Their breaking news ticker has lost all meaning.

I disagree with this statment as it implies that it once had meaning !

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#16 17-07-2007 4:39pm

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The whole ""Beckhams leave for LA" saga on Sky news finished it for me. Havent watched it since. It was completely grotesque.

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#17 17-07-2007 4:44pm

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I gave up watching the likes of Sky News a long time ago, anyone remember "Louis Woodward:The Homecoming".

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#18 17-07-2007 4:59pm

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It'll tank when she eats the profits.

Now "Queen Latifa takes a Spin Class."

Thats a ****ing headline.

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#19 17-07-2007 6:04pm

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Fratton Fred wrote:

and where

...and why?

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#20 17-07-2007 7:41pm

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I don't understand whatsoever why you are so upset?

Did they have the Queen Latifa story as their main headline, taking up half the page, and the other stories burried in supfolders?

If not, what is the problem?

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#21 17-07-2007 11:43pm

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Most people I'd imagine have some form of digital tv, be it NTL or Sky. When that's the case I can't understand why people would watch Sky News when there is BBC News 24. I'm not a fanboy at all, but it is such a superior channel compared to Sky.

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#22 18-07-2007 12:14am

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Queen latifah is a mad bitch. I love reading about her shenanigans.

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