I'm currently avoiding watching Murray's first round Roland Garros match. It's hard work for him out there as well, to be honest. Shouldn't be, but there you are.
Isn't subjectivity annoying? I wish there were some kind of quality meter built into Word. You know, so that when you save a draft, the little dancing paper clip helpmate pops up and says something like 'Wow! That's genius!' or (more likely, today), 'Hmm. I don't want to say you've completely wasted your time, but...'
Actually, that'd be quite fun. If I were a computer programmer, I'd spend far too much time thinking of all the sarcastic things the little Cowell-esque paper clip could say. Sure, it could just be blunt, but where's the fun in that?
Anyway. It could never work because of that whole aforementioned subjectivity thing. More likely you'd have to have two little dancing paper clips so that they could argue about it. On the days when they can't argue, you must either have written something truly great or something truly dire. You'd know which one by their comments. And then when they argue, you'd learn a fair amount about what you're doing well and what you're doing badly.
It could be a very valuable tool, but more likely it'd turn into yet another reason not to do anything. I don't need another one. Not while there's the internet, anyway...
I do feel I should say something about yesterday's Eurovision contest, but there isn't much point. I used to love it, back when I was a kid, because there was a genuine excitement about who might win. Nowadays it's just unfunnily political. I reckon the UK (and the BBC) should just remove their substantial financial investment from the franchise. Well, what's the point of it nowadays? All it does is highlight simmering resentment and age-old bias. Not even its high campery acts as a suitable distraction anymore.
So, I reckon we should bid farewell to Eurovision. Well, who needs it? We've got Britain's Got Talent to watch. It's as good a replacement as any.
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