Sunday, 22 April 2012

Drying Paint and Joggers.

The main BBC TV channel was showing the London Marathon live at lunchtime.

I don’t understand this. I can well understand why somebody would want to take part, but I don’t see what’s entertaining about watching a load of people jogging along a street. I wonder whether TV has become so entrenched in the national mentality that a fundamental presumption applies:

If it’s on the TV it must be entertaining, so I’ll watch it and convince myself I’m being entertained.

Is that it, or is it me? Does my bafflement simply indicate some deficiency on my part? Do feel free to offer an opinion.

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