It's Brass Monkeys

Isn't it?!

Britain's going through a 'cold snap' according to the News... Well, according to everyone really. You'd have to be a bit of a halfwit to be unaware of the majestic blanket of white ('ello poetic) that's been covering our fair land since Monday night/Tuesday morning.

I love the way the News reports the cold snap. Obviously when it first happened, it was News. But then, the next day it's less so. Then the next day, even less so. Surely they're going to run out of things to say eventually? There's only so many different degrees to cold weather (Pun intended, Sorry... There's a good joke later on, I promise)

The stages are basically:

1. It gets a bit nippy,
2. It snows,
3. Southerners Panic (Apologies to any of my Southern friends... But you know it's true :] )
4. It eventually melts, and life goes on.

I'm dying to turn on the TV one day to see Jon Snow (The perfect man for the job with that surname) simply go; in true Ollie Williams fashion: "IT'S STILL COLD!"

That would absolutely make my life.

My Dad got an E-mail of Diane Oxberry yesterday, She's the weather lady for North West tonight by the way... Yup, my Dad knows famous people.

This E-Mail said that the North West should expect some 'Organised Snow'

Pardon my ignorance... But what might that be? How can snow be organised? It's possibly one of the most disorganised things I've ever witnessed... And I'm a Student, so that's definitely saying something.

My Mum wins, because she suggested that maybe organised snow, is snow that falls as ready made Snowmen, so we don't have to go out and build them. I think that's a boss idea.

I was watching ITV News yesterday, and they seem to have so little to say about the weather that they're just showing gratuitous clips of people falling over!

Personally, I think that's completely out of order. Seriously. People know it's slippy! It sort of comes with the territory when it's icy! There's no need to show people footage of some poor woman going arse over tit! It's not chuffing FailBlog!

I half expected the caption to be "Whaaayyy! Who fell over?! Who fell over?!"

I think what annoyed me most about the clip, is the fact that the camera crew have clearly gone out to get an interview from someone, but they've seen a few people slipping at that particular spot. So, they've set up the camera there waiting for it to happen again, just to prove a point that doesn't need to be proved.

I know all this because I'm a Media Studies student... obviously.

This woman's now going to be the laughing stock of Youtube. She'll be 'that woman who fell over on National TV, then got pasted all over the net for people to have a massive giggle at.'

If I was her, I would definitely take them to court. I'm not sure how well it'd stand up in court. (Probably better than it'd stand up in a street in Bristol... WHAYY!) But she should have a go, then share the money with me for feeling sorry for her.

ITV are stupid.

Now I'm off to write a sternly worded letter.