This weekend is probably going to go down as one of the watershed weekends of 2011 for some, and it would be without a doubt for mostly the wrong reasons.

Before we address the real ugliness of human behaviour that occurred in Norway and also to some extent the media coverage of the tragic events, this weekend we witnessed live the emergency services carrying away the body of Amy Winehouse, who was declared dead aged 27 on Saturday afternoon.

While a post-mortem was carried out today and so far has not come back with an official cause of death, pretty much the odds are unfortunately, that she was back on the Lemsip with a swift pint or 34.

It pretty much sums it all up when various famous folks paid tribute as stating what a terrible waste of talent, something which was echoed here on this site from many moons ago but of course, at the time she was still very much with us.

Russell Brand took time out from being a bearded eccentric gimp to write for the Guardian yesterday about the woman who basically rose up and then fell apart. Read the rest of this entry »

The News of the World may have ceased print but the legend is living on with resignation after resignation coming thick and fast, lots of questions still being thrown at anyone who is remotely connected to the whole phone hacking thing like custard pies to the face, (with one actual pie coming into play), it’s still a fast moving rollercoaster, borderline coming off the tracks. For those of you who have better things to do or indeed have read the amazing book “1001 things to do with a sock”, let us condense down the past few days events once more, which will already be out of date by the time we hit the publish button on this bloody thing.

The main event of today were Rupert Murdoch with his son James appearing before some committee that we’ve never heard of until today, on what they knew, didn’t know, and frankly it’s hard to think anything other that they were asleep at the wheel or perhaps easy to fool, as one question after another basically brought pretty much the same answers over and over again, No I wasn’t aware, No I didn’t know, No I didn’t rape that pineapple, no smoking, no running etc..with the world record for saying “The Company” 347329812 times in 2 hours certainly went to James.

Tom Watson was the main warrior against Darth Murdoch, deflecting several attempts by James The Hutt to answer questions about what was known as time and time again, Tom Watson stated that Rupert Vader was the man in charge of corporate governance for the entire company and therefore responsible. It just wasn’t going to go away.

You knew that certain things were never going be to answered and that was certainly the case for a number of questions, and on some level, they may very well not know that much that was going on, after all it wouldn’t be the first time people lied their asses off to pretend that everything is wonderful right up to the bitter end. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s so easy to watch in awe at the recent news while ignoring everything else that we, the mere working mortals of this world actually have the ability to do anything about. Not writing to your elected official about the lack of foxes stealing little children from the park or those damned kids throwing rocks through shop windows to steal the latest 42in flat screen. Just silly things that you’re obliged to have an encounter with at one stage or another in your life, that you never consider until the moment arrives. This is one of those moments.

It’s been some time since I spent a wind-swept Sunday with a happy go lucky chum (who we can only suspect was bored to do anything else) moving home from a one room cardboard box which was called by some “the country club” into a one bedroom deluxe hive of scum and villainy (some of the residents are in fact from the cantina scene in Star Wars), and soon afterwards there was one thing that was noticeable that anything else and it’s actually a very very scary thing.

There was more room. Consider this for a moment. More room.

From the vomit on the keyboard in front of you, I can tell that you were sick at the sheer horror at such an idea, considering that in London a mere £6000 a second will get you an empty crisp packet with outside toilet aka the street. What are you meant to do with more than one metre of room in a place that is entirely your own until the landlord throws you out?

Well, that’s the scary thing you see. Not only does it tell you that you didn’t have that much to begin with, which in itself makes you think that you aren’t actually doing as well as you might think even though that has no bearing on anything at all. When you have indeed take a good hard look at the additional room, the natural instinct that we urban dudes with our floor length mink coats and cheeseburgers leap upon is what crap to buy to fill it up with. Read the rest of this entry »

When it rains, it pours, and right now someone at News International better have a bucket handy to bail out the ever rising tide of brown stuff pouring on them from new heights not seen for generations, and god only knows what the state of the media in the UK will be after all the dust has long settled.

This ever evolving story of lies, treachery and deceit can only be described as the stuff of nightmares to people up and down the country, and still there is ever more that will come out in the days ahead. So given that events have moved apace since last time, and the news only had an earthquake to cover today, let’s recap on what’s been going on, in what some might say is rather boring commentary, and there’s not even much swearing either…

The number of people involved in this whole mess has risen to such a height, that the BBC has dedicated an entire page on their website with a list of people so long, that frankly it’s beginning to make ladies weak at the knees and for men to feel, inadequate.

Even more so, the supposition I made that BSkyB was still going to be bought, just not now right now due to people being slightly upset about their dead loved ones’ phones getting buggered with, took a left turn as News Corp dropped the bid to take complete control of the overpriced then under-priced in terms of shares (well, the crap TV remains overpriced) satellite broadcaster. Well given that there was a House of Commons motion tabled to discuss the whole thing due in a few hours from when the BSkyB withdrawal announcement was made, what else could they do?

But again, the language of the announcement was chosen very carefully, to not exclude them going after it in the future.

Remember that for the majority of all this, you could only feel cynicism with most of the characters invloved?

Well, the bandwagon remains in full swing for now, in addition to the actions being taken in this country, it seems that the FBI, apparently not having much to do these since Jack Bauer retired from blowing crap up to annoy them and Mulder went off to shag women in LA instead of looking over the X-Files, is investigating alleged hacking of the phones of 9/11 victims by the News of the World.
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If there was any time to come back to writing about the comings and goings of Britain, it would be now. As for as for bloggers who write about the world and the filth within it, it’s Mardi Gras, we’re all dressed up in our Sunday best, snogging anyone who passes by and partying right into the night like we had lives outside of sitting at home crying that no-one loves us, because as most of you know, pretty much as the week has rolled on, there has been just one story that everyone in the UK has been talking about the most and it’s not going to take a genius to work out what that was.

Yes, Dallas is coming back to our screens after JR, wanting a lie-in for a change, dreamt of pie and then woke in the year 2525, where he and Buck Rogers will save the Galaxy from overpriced toilet paper…no wait sorry….it was something else.

The News of the World newspaper came to an end this week in the UK with an almighty crash after it was discovered that people associated with the publication that love to shove tits, tat and terrorism in our weary eyes in recent years, was also “hacking” various phones belonging to well pretty much anyone who is alive or dead.

Even John Paul II stood up from his “nap” and said the paper hacked his holy phone to God, and deleted the voicemail where God asked him to get some milk while he was out in Tesco’s. God was most displeased there was no milk for his Rice Krispies that day. Read the rest of this entry »

When everything in the world is fully depressing you, it’s easy to forget that there are people out, creating such fine mystical works for us to absorb, and find hope in a tiny corner of the room. These people in time, become heroes, with tales passed down from generation to generation, so that others will know of the joyous message that these artists spread.

This is one of those tales to be passed on for all time.

Greater than Lord of the Rings, more epic than Lawrence of Arabia, slightly less dressy than Lady Gaga, there was a man, with whom no depth was too low to sink to, where no-one was safe from references to Knight Rider.

Ladies and Gentleman, Mr. David Hasslehoff. with something that frankly can only be described as the freakiest and funniest video known to exist since Osama was caught on camera watching the Big Bang Theory. The song itself is I’ve got a feeling, although you have suspicions the full title should have been “I’ve got a feeling that someone’s going to take the p*ss out of this”

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Hello. I’m Paul Hughes. You may remember from such disasters as inventing solar powered street lighting which only works during the day, and finding ways to hide the TV remote control under folds of fat.

It’s been two long months since the last post on OohSometimes, and in that time a lot of weird and some would say wonderful stuff has happened in that time. Let’s have a recap;

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