Yes, I do possess a radio but it's rarely switched on. Why is everyone so shocked that I don't take an interest in Slebs? Would my taking an interest in people like Max Clifford make an iota of difference to anything? Nope.
In my first term at uni there was a big train crash somewhere in South America (might have been Central). I didn't know about it because I didn't have a radio and in those days there was only one telly in the students' hall of residence that I was staying in. I worked from nine till five every day, sometimes till nine or ten o'clock in the evening. One evening a week I helped with a Brownie pack, another I went along to Menzieshill (pronounced Mingishill) Cycling Club. I swam in the students' union pool at lunch times and I went hill walking at weekends. I was busy minding my own business and not harming anyone.
My dad blasted me when he realised I hadn't heard about this train crash. I asked whether my knowing about it would have made any difference to anyone. The answer was no.
The point I'm making is that it is not a requirement of being a civilised human being to know things that other people think are important. The point I'm making is that most Slebs appear to me to be a waste of newspaper and magazine space. If other people want to take an interest, that's fine, but I don't and there's no reason why I should. I have more than enough to do without cluttering my life with all that crap.
Yes, I take an interest in some current affairs. Always have. Always will. I choose what I take an interest in; someone else does not, at least not in the way of that attitude which says "You ought to know about this", which is what the attitude of several gransnetters seems to be. If I were given to expletives, I'll tell you all to fuck off.
Just get this into your heads: I hate canned noise. TVs and radios emit canned noise. It does my head in. Call me weird if you like but that's how it is. The end.
