Tesco replied!

They have chosen to give me clubcard points as I couldn’t get in for a refund. Not sure if they do clubcard points for 45p, but I’ve wasted too much of mine and their time to query it further, and look forward instead, with some degree of excitement, to the next statement.

Every year, at results publication, there are queries as to whether the increased number of high level passes is evidence of dumbing down of school education.

Similarly, every day, at a set of double doors, the evident confusion leads to the suggestion of a more fundamental dumbing down of society.

Double doors should be such a simple idea. Take those at the cinema, with the doors that are passed through when entering or leaving a film. Almost without fail, the audience will queue and push to get through the single door that is being held open, ignoring the fact that the other door, which is not locked or fixed, would allow exit of twice the number of people. If like me you choose to exit by opening this other door yourself, no-one will be prepared to hold it or pass through after you, presumably because it will bring misery and pain upon them, the door curse, or maybe they fear that they will fall into a parallel dimension.

Society is no longer based on morals. Morals are out. They’re not sexy, and they don’t sell merchandise. That’s why its now based on the aesthetic.

There’s a man reading news from a location, somewhere, and behind him is a christmas tree that is in green bulbs shaped, it seems, not like a portion of a forest but like a huge festive green member. It hardly seems appropriate to have an enormous christmas cock lighting up the high street with all of its twinkly glory, and yet this appeared to have been what had been created.

Film comment: Fakers

Trying, it seems, to be a cross between Catch me if you can and Shooting Fish, this is a jolly romp (TM) that pits a loveable rogue who is in trouble with a gangland boss (see note) against the less intelligent, and more self-obsessed, members of London’s art world. Its good fun, although the unwitting appearence of a wedding ring on the finger of one of the male cast members during a close up suggests either that a significant proportion of that character’s story was cut, or that there was a continuity issue.

Note: Copyright Rentaplot.

I’m sure I saw Jamie Cullum in a small venue next to where I live in the City of This Place. Now he is performing, next to Terry Wogan. What filth is progression.

Film comment: Dans ma peau (2002)

Ignores wider or historical context for main charactor including the rationale for the initial scenario. Ignores 50% of sufferers whilst portraying it at something that only the other 50% could understand, a predictable outlook. Interesting meal scene that shows the disjointed reality, good general coverage of some parts of the situation in this. Reasonable sfx. Mixed opinion. If you do see it, do try not to laugh like half the audience in the cinema where I saw it. Twunts.