I SAW

THE NEWS

TODAY...

OH BOY!

Two news items on the box caught my eye today...

The first was... "Video game GENSHIN IMPACT earned an estimated $2 billion (£149m) in its first year, from mobile phones alone"

When I saw that, I thought "Wow... with money like that to be made, I reckon I'll try and get some of the action." The problem is I haven't the faintest idea where to start... although I have got a title for the game... it will be called... SWITCH OFF AND DO SOMETHING CREATIVE!

The second story was about someone who had been found guilty of murder being... "sentenced to a whole-life prison term.", which apparently is different to being sentenced to "life" in prison. where a number of inmates have been released after serving less than six years!

Curioser and curioser!

So now, if you go into your local branch of McDonald's and ask for a burger, they will enquire, "Do you mean a burger or a whole burger?" Hmmm?

Come to think of it, according to the legal system in this country, an apple could be an orange!

 

IT’S NOT

CRICKET!

According to the BBC…

Ed Sheeran has revealed his true feeling about award shows in a candid new interview.

Speaking after Sundays MTV awards Sheeran described the ceremonies as "horrible" and said he often leaves "feeling sad" and deflated.

"The room is filled with resentment and hatred towards everyone else and it's quite an uncomfortable atmosphere," he told The Julia Show.

"It's just lots of people wanting other people to fail and I don't like that."

He continued: "All the artists are sweet people, but they're surrounded by entourages that want them to win too, so it's one artist surrounded by ten people and another artist surrounded by ten people and everyone is kind of giving each other the side-eye."

Now, I am not a fan of the inked oik, but then you see, I was 11 years of age in 1955, when Elvis Presley recorded ‘Heartbreak Hotel’. My father took myself and my younger brother to see Bill Haley and the Comets live on stage in February 1957 at Bradford. The Beatles ‘Love Me Do’ reached number 17 in the UK Singles Chart in 1962, and two years later Simon and Garfunkel recorded ‘The Sound of Silence’. That all happened before I was 20 years of age. We had the best, and now they’ve got the rest!

Sheeran, lives in Suffolk and is a Tractor Boys (Ipswich Town) fan. He sponsored the shirts of the men's and women's first-teams this season, and was given the squad number 17.

Now... fans who support a particular football team, tend to want their team to win, but for this to happen, their opponents must lose. Currently, Ipswich Town are in the third tier of English football, and for the first six games of the season they have been very benevolent to their opponents, drawing three games and losing three games. No “resentment and hatred towards everyone else” there then… Mr Ed would have been happy and inflated... BUT… last Saturday they beat Lincoln City 1-0. The tousled troubadour must have felt "sad and deflated"… wouldn’t it be great if you could just let the air out of him!

competition noun the activity or condition of striving to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others.