issue 10

Meet George the Enquirer’s
very own Grumpy Old Man
(subtitled: a view from God’s waiting room)
TV! now we have hundreds of programmes to
watch. Yippee loads more rubbish!
All the adverts are now colluded to occur at the
same time(they slipped that in while no one was
watching-pun intended!) thereby removing my one
enjoyable pastime- channel hopping or advert
dodging as I used to call it.
Join George in posing
those questions and
making observations on
life that only someone
with some miles under
their belts have to
worry about.
Email the Enquirer with
your “grumps” for
publication
Ahaa! I hear you cry! go to BBC where there are
no adverts……WRONG! BBC is infested with
adverts for, well, the BBC, which of course
coincide with the adverts on all the other
channels. Even going to the ultimate insult of
advertising the very programme I was watching
Add to this an increase in the amount of
advertising time per programme and the moronic
Americanisation of repeating the end of the
previous pre-advert section of the programme at
the start of the next I get less actual programme
to enjoy and more adverts, which I don’t.
Programme producers: I know I must be a
candidate for senility but even I can recall what I
watched a couple of minutes previously so stop
insulting my intelligence and padding out your
programmes to cover up cost cutting.
Grumpy George
And another thing………
Why is it that in the much broadcast camera in the car,
camera at the scene of the crash, people falling down etc.
show it is felt that the occurrence is shown 3,4,5 or even 6
times?
I got it the first time and perhaps a slow motion replay
might be interesting, but come on!