I found out today that two of the nurses that are looking after me are sisters. Yup, the blood pressure was a bit high today.
I also discovered ?ting tong? means ?crazy? in Thai. I found this out after trying to watch American news programs for an hour, non-stop. It's just not possible. Maybe I was spoiled being brought up on the BBC but channels like CNN and even more so Fox News are just unbearable. Fox News is by far the worst 'news' program I think it is possible to make. They take a mole-hill, dramatise it, turn it into a mountain and then present it as 'fact' with all the flashy graphics and painful overacting they can muster. It's horrible. Although, it has brought something to my attention. We are always having a go at the Americans for being uneducated about the rest of the world. Sure, it's a cheap shot, but for the most part it's true. We like nothing better than to mock them for their complete lack of knowledge about anything further afield than the contents of the fridge and the next celebrity wedding. But now I know why. It is because the sources that they turn to when they want to broaden their horizons do nothing more than make you more stupid. It is the televisual equivalent of hiding Viz inside a Broadsheet. It really isn't Americas fault they have a hard time grasping complicated political issues when by the time they are presented on the news they have been sanitized into glorious three minute dramas with single-faceted characters and situations. Oh, and one other thing for the Americans. Sitcom means ?Situation Comedy?. A black family is a situation. People working in an office is a situation. A Family with a) annoying children b) weight problems c) annoying children with weight problems, is a situation. Comedy is something that makes people laugh. What you have managed to produce in mass quantity are 'sits'. Aptly named because you just sit there through the whole painful show.
Not a lot happened today. I watched a lot of cable television. Really wish I hadn't.