This weeks rants

Amazon Prime/Netflix/Now TV:

You pay them your money and get thousands of films to watch. Oh dear me, I never realised there were so many awful films on the market. 

Who is spending so much time and money and effort making such awful films? 

One scrolls up and down and left and right in the hope of finding something educational, or elevating. If you discard all the films that have that brightly coloured Peppa Pig look, and then remove all those with zombies on the cover, now chuck all the films where someone is brandishing a gun at someone else... then you are merely left with a shed load of dross.

Hyperbole:

Once upon a time, everything was awesome. Remember that?

Then the descriptor of choice became "Stunning". "Hey man, check out that stunning face flannel". Look, if it doesn't actually cause unconsciousness, then it hasn't stunned you, OK? 

Now the news video click bait is "Adorable". Really? I'll be the judge of that.




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