Hooray For Auntie

'The Berries' @ Seven Days


It's only in the past few months, as my job becomes ever more tedious and worthless that I have come to truly appreciate the BBC website for the goldmine of info it truly is. At my place of employment, it's the only thing we're allowed to look at on the net during working hours. I have to say, I understand their rationale. I mean, it's 'just the BBC!', who would give that any more than five minutes..........?

Yeah, more than half the department it seems.............Maybe it says more about the lack of intellectual stimulus provided by the job, but I'm not so sure. For instance, without the BBC Online, I'd know nothing about a certain region of Russia promoting a 'Sex Day' in an attempt to boost the falling population. Nor would I know that female joggers risk 'boob sag' if they don't use a decent sports bra. Oh, and it seems that the skins of tangerines contain a compound that kills cancer cells. It seems you should be eating the stuff, not throwing it away.............

Not the most important or eye opening tidings one will ever read, but obscure nonsense will always be welcome in my world.

Recently it was discovered that someone in IT had forgotten to put the work-time restrictions back after lunch and while it did allow me time to fanny about on Wikipedia for a while, I just ended up back at 'Auntie Beeb' devouring their science section and checking out the previous nights speedway results amongst other things. Theres a strange allure to it. The feeling that theres still something of deep interest to be read somewhere. Anything to kill the time I suppose. They also store archive stuff going back to the dawn of time (1998)

I'm sure there are more than enough out there who believe I'm just poisoning my mind with the brain raping evil that is BBC mis-information, foolishly believing it to be educational or useful. As opposed to the eternal spring of truth Murdoch churns out of course............

Yeah, well, long may their apoplexy continue. I rather like the BBC and I love that they're loathed by people whose sensibilities are so obviously fragile that they interpret every action of the company as being hostile/Socialist/Stalinist/whatever..........

I'm never happier than when I lose myself in something, and frankly, BBC online allows me to do just that....................