Extinct Voting Siege of Christmas Podcast

In my recloose state (waiting for payday) last weekend, I happened upon a program which i couldnt take seriously... even though Trevor McDonald was the host! It was a program called "Extinct", a 'text in to save your favourite endangered animal' show - the one with the most votes gets the money! I think Graeme Le Saux was the Mountain Gorilla representative, up against Annika Rice and the Polar Bears...Each put together a sort of 5 minute case why that species should be saved - David Attenborough style, but dreadfully! I think Sandi Toksvig was also in amongst the extinct animal representatives, as well as Portillo... ye, it was that kind of show! They've laid on plenty of text voting programs on for the masses havent they just recently... XFactor, Extinct, BBCs Dancing one, and the Sports Personality etc etc

I didnt vote... but i'd like to add, Darren Clarke should have won Sports Personality Award (not some member of the royal family for riding a horse over some fences). Darren should have won it, for his outstanding season (under tough conditions having lost his wife to cancer in the summer too - not a sympathy vote though!), his Ryder Cup performance - and his celebrations after winning, what a "personality" and what a sportsman too; Having hit a wayward shot into thick rough in the "Irish Open", just before play was stopped for bad light, on returning the next day a fan had lifted his ball out of the rough for him and sat it up nicely - Darren still chipped out sideways as if it was still buried in the rough, he went on to finish 2nd by one shot... Thats sportsmanship, and what a personality to boot - roll the man another fat Cuban cigar!

What else this week... oh ye, the same company which last week revelaed Dianas death was "a car crash accident", which took 3 years and £4.5million to tell us, revealed this week it "won't name any names" from it's investigation into the corrupt British Footbal Transfer System. This took nine months and £800,000 to tell us this. Anybody see a flaw in using this investigation company? If this is the long arm of the law...

In Wales was the Llangeitho siege, which if you saw BBC Wales Today this week, was made out to be another WACO, with reporters "in the armed police cordoned compound", the "head of the siege reported to have weapons, flames and smoke have been seen by eye-witnesses". Turns out it was a farmer disputing a council erected fence on his land, he didnt like it so burnt a councillors car out. End of story.

Anyhow, survived the Wednesday night football Christmas 'do'. Memory of Johnny Milks top-shelf cocktail (fittingly) curdling with Baileys still in my mind (Johnny Milk is... a milkman)! I have no idea what was in my cocktail... it was sort of blue and brown and on fire. One of the Tarmaster boys passingly announced "I was voted off X-Factor 8 weeks ago anyway boys" was enough to convince a couple of Conwy 'dogs' on another table... he had to carry it on, and to get rid of them had to convince them he was gay... which took a lot more convincing than he would have liked!

So, the final installment of the free Ricky Gervais Podcasts (or should that be the Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant poke fun at Karl Pilkingtons podcast) to look forward to on Christmas Day. How crazy is that? On a Christmas Day, be looking forward to "downloading" an "electronic audio file" from "the internet" to listen to on an "MP3 Player", its fucked, but i love it! Marc get with it, it's 2007 in just over a week... ok, i see your point.

Right then i'm off to a swanky hotel in Chester for Emmas birthday (Saturday), have a good Christmas / New year etc - see you all in amongst it or on the other side, laters!