Let the sky fall, when it crumbles,
We will stand tall,
Face it altogether ..
In no particular order:
1. I missed Felix Baumgartner's space jump. During the first two attempts which were aborted because of the weather, I sat watching all the live-feed on YouTube, with baited breath, and was genuinely disappointed when the jumps were called off. After the second time, after 2 hours or so of viewing, I closed the window and told myself that I would not miss it when it actually happened.
Then the next day I went to work, came home, and the first thing on the BBC was the news of the third, successful jump and the breaking of the sound barrier.
Retrospect will tell me that the money I earned probably trumps watching a man falling off a balloon at the edge of space, but at the time, I was certainly cursing the bollocks timing. I've watched it since, but it wasn't the same.
2. Facebook feed suggests something bad happened on Downton Abbey. I know nothing about Downton other than there's some ruthless businessman type played by Iain Glen, who also plays Ser Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones. He can't possibly be as much of a badass as he is in Thrones.
3. Someone got here the other day by googling "grey pubes".
4. Adele's new track Skyfall, for the new Bond film, is fucking brilliant, hence this evening's intro lyrics. Google that sucker, it's some stirring stuff.
5. I still don't understand why Coors adverts still try and extol the virtues of how cold their beer is. Admittedly the ads are always amusing, but as soon as you realise that they're simply equating "cold" with "refreshing", with no mention of taste, you begin to smell their bullshit.
You can't taste 'cold', and as a general rule, liquids like coke and lemonade and of course, alcohol, start to lose some of their taste when they're really cold. So Coors, by exporting their beer via glacier, is concealing the fact that it doesn't actually taste of anything. Depending on the goal of your night out, this may be a good thing.
I might keep those two paragraphs written on a slip of paper and read it to my customers when they order a Coors. Or just say "Yeah, Coors. It's so cold, isn't it?"
