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[TV] Crime and punishment

So occasionally when I am home alone I have the TV on as company while I work on my laptop..
This quite often is shows like “Police Interceptors”, they are mostly ignorable, and don’t require me to actually pay any attention.

Now I am a law respecting member of the public, and these shows should reinforce that, basically it is people getting caught for their wrong doing, and at the end they tell you the resulting punishment..

Which is where things go a bit odd for me, they catch someone who has been doing double the speed limit, carrying drugs, get involved in a chase situation, and the voice over man tells you how they were fined 100 quid or something and got three points on their driving licence.
This inevitably just makes me think, is that it?

[TV] In need of a Doctor

Just caught up with the first two episodes of Doctor Who, not sure what I thought of that.. well apart from “hand mines” that was genius..

Clearly our new bad guy rides around on one of those new mini segway things, but it is a cool effect so we will let them have that.

Otherwise it was all a bit too drawn out and lacking in story, great premise, but very little actual dilemma, which was a shame really.

[Me] Signs that I am becoming my father #43

So last night I was watching the news with Mum. There was an item about a lady who had won London bus driver of the year..
During that item the reporter was saying that “the winning driver had to learn 13 routes with countless stops.”

Countless! I exclaimed.  That isn’t countless.

Mum just laughed, commenting that it was something that Dad would have remarked upon.