“Ethics? Just Ignore them. We’re the press!”

Just a quick peek at web pages such as Daily Mail. and Perez Hilton’s infamous blog, it is easy to notice that these people just did away with general ethical principles which are supposed to protect people from these immoral intruders who wouldn’t mind destroying someone’s life.

Case-study 1) John Travolta

John Travolta had been protecting his son throughout all his short life.  He even piloted his own plane whenever they wanted to go on holiday in order to avoid accidents but unfortunately Jett Travolta died in the bathroom after suffering from a seizure.  Needless to say, John Travolta was devastated.  He held a very personal ceremony to celebrate Jett’s life and asked the press to give him a short break in order to recover.

Right. Fair enough no?  Not for the press it ain’t!  Instead of giving him the time he asked for there they were blaming him for being a Scientologist!  THEN they recall the story when John Travolta was seen kissing the nanny who was a Scientologist too!  Then a huge extortion attempt from people who have photos of a dying Jett Travolta they threaten to sell to the press.  (All links open news articles)

Now let me remind you that this man lost a son.  And just when  he expressed his wish to be left alone there they go happily blaming him for everything. 

 

Case study no 2) Shelley Price the mother who “doesn’t love her daughter”

If you are not convinced that the press can and does destroy families, there you go.  The story of Shelley Price , the mother who doesn’t love her daughter.  The name pretty much says it all, but in short Ms. Price sold her responsibility of a mother who is supposed to protect her children to the press. 

'I'm a loving person,' she says. 'Over the years I've had time to think about how this happened and I haven't come up with anything that would pass as a reason or excuse.'

Of course, Ms. Price could consulted a counsellor, or a family psychologist.  But no.  She makes money out of it.  She sells the story of her daughter to the press, who instead of telling her to consult someone and get things right, they publish the story online.   And they even did the whole thing properly.  They took photos of the mother and daughter which were published together with the story!  They invited them in, asked the daughter to smile and the mother to frown and everything and paid the mother for it. 

Don’t tell me that it isn’t MORE than disgusting.   I hope that the girl is taken from the mother and the newspaper sued and hopefully shut for good.  There are so many things to report!  The weather going barmy, the new US president’s agenda, the Oscar nominations… but no, they think that a whole article about Kate Garraway getting a new hairstyle  is what people are after.

Our Beloved Elderlies with their Stinking Habits

So you're sitting comfortably in a bus, (well relatively comfortably) listening to your favourite song on iPod when the empty seat next to you is filled by a man whose age compares to Elizabeth Taylor's.  As comes natural in our politically correct society, negative thoughts are repressed and instead of cordially asking the not-so-gentleman to find another seat, you welcomingly smile at him... he grunts.

You ignore the grunt and go back to listening your favourite song... until the first whiff of stink infiltrates your nostrils, a stink which makes your brain itch.  As if that isn't enough, the old man opens that cavernous mouth, coughs out that nuclear waste trapped in his throat, followed by a loud gurgle which makes YOUR throat go numb.  THEN, after this ceremony is over, he raises his left buttock, pulls out a brown handkerchief and wipes his mouth and hands AFTER he's made the mess.

Now I do realise that we are expected to be nice to the elderly and respect them for being our society's infinite source of wisdom, but how do you respect someone who doesn't even respect himself, let alone others?  I'm sorry but if you're too demented (no pun intended) to take a daily shower, use a deodorant and pull out a clean handkerchief BEFORE you cough then don't blame your reflexes when people complain.  Blame your lack of manners and those who are too scared to tell you that your stink is insulting them.  Being old doesn't mean that you automatically gain the right to bother everyone with your smell.  If a 10 year old is yelled at for not taking a shower, then so should a 70 year old.  Then its their problem if they think that youngsters are ungrateful.

The ongoing saga of Maltese Telecrap

Is it just me or is the quality of Maltese television decreasing every year.  We watched "Dejjem Tieghek Becky" and thought "no way can she come up with something worse than this"  and BAM this year she started something new... KC...  In three words - cliche, low-quality, POPULAR!

That's the thing!  She is actually making money out of that crap!  There are those who watch it in order to satisfy their sadistic tendencies, then there are those who find nothing better to watch (which is saying something) and there are those who actually plan their Sundays around it.  Whatever it is, this shit is making her rich!

I've followed just one scene, and it was enough to understand its 'complex' plot.  A sexy secretary (Eileen Montesin) and her sister (who looks nothing like her, luckily for her) together with the sexy secretary's daughter (yes you guessed again, Eileen's daughter) end up in "Livigno ma Stellina"(as always) on a holiday paid by the grandparents.  The sisters take two men, who they tell the parents are their husbands, when in fact none of them had ever been married. (chuckles)  

The sisters and the mother take a room, while the men take the other.  Then (snickers) the sister fought for the bed nearest to the window (titter) and it took them 15 minutes to settle.  The spectators had to witness those 15 minutes of hilarious (sic) arguing... at one point Eileen even calls her sister "Queen of Ice" (laughs).  Hilarious stuff.

I'm not in position to dictate what airs and what doesn't but is it possible that there isn't a board which decides what sould and what shouldn't be on television? I've never seen anything that bad on television.

And I'll close this blog with a promotional clip from the infamous KC:

Ara.. that's Stellina at 1.33mins. The speed of her diction fascinates me!

Very dense indeed...

So I've noticed that various bloggers are talking about The Killer's single Human and many seem to have been counfounded by their line 'Are we Human or are we Dancer?'  "Wouldn't it be more grammatically correct to say 'Are we human or are we dancers?'" they asked.

The short answer is 'no'

The long answer is as follows:

Brandon Flowers was impressed by Hunter Thompson who accused America of raising a 'generation of dancers'.  As farfetched as it may seem, Thompson, an American, from Kentucky, used a very clever analogy.  Follow me here:  What does a dancer do?  He follows a beat, imitates the great dancers' moves and tries to perfect them, follows very very strict rules when it comes to dress and facial expressions etc.

So what Thompson meant by a "generation of dancers", was that we have become puppets' whose purpose is that of impressing people by behaving in ways which is expected of us by their unwritten rules.  Freedom was replaced by laziness and people did away with creative thinking.

Had I been the author of the song I would have been mighty proud - all those who criticised the song for its triviality were simply confirming Thompson's idea... you all belong to the species of dancer (not dancers).  You cannot think out of the box and you are too lazy to research something before you haphazardly talk about it.

Inspired by my friend Chris' blog

Can I have some of those Waffles?

So my girlfriend has got one of those fancy appliances you make waffles with. We were hungry so we decided to try and make some. Amy conveniently pulled out, leaving the expedition to me and her sister, Ann.

We followed the recipe to the word, prepared the mixture, turned on the waffle-maker and started cooking the first one...

Phail...we forgot to brush some oil on the waffle-maker

So then the second one...

Not too bad but there was a bit of a spillage as you can see. So then we tried, and tried, until we got the perfect waffle! And that's only the fourth one!

Yeah and that's cream and chocolate-chips... I know, unusual but quite good

(And this is the recipe we used)

Oh and click the photos if you want some of that dramatic effect.

Rice with Soy Sauce

I can't call myself a chef, yet I'd survive if I had no one to cook for me; and I do have a cookbook too!... "Three or Four Ingredients" The number of ingredients needed for every recipes don't exceed four...

Well long story short, what I'll do is occasionally write down a recipe I've tried and successfully managed to cook without causing any (serious) disasters.

So here we go - Rice with Soy Sauce

Ingredients

• Rice
• Onions
• Ginger
• Soy Sauce
• A couple of eggs

Method

• Put the rice and water into the saucepan and bring to the boil
• In a pan, fry the onions in a thin layer of oil
• When the onions are half cooked (they turn a pale shade of yellow) throw in the ginger
• Grab a small pan and scramble some eggs
  
• When you think that the onions, the rice and the eggs are cooked mix them together and just add some soy sauce

That's it, you've got a very simple recipe which in my opinion isn't half bad