Ageist discrimination
A TELLING blow is struck against discrimination on the grounds of age and sex. A group of British TV lovelies are sick of the way producers continue to cast men when they are well into their fifties and sixties, while women start getting dropped once they hit the forties.
Sherrie Hewson and Andrea McLean, from Loose Women (no significance in the title), Beverley Callard, of Coronation Street, and Gillian Taylforth, of East Enders, decided to do something about it.
They stripped as a foursome for Best magazine, appearing totally (though tastefully) nude in an explicit repudiation of the ageist prejudices of TV producers. Boy, does it have impact! Those male chauvinist producers have been shamed. They must be quaking in their boots.
This the kind of exercise to be encouraged world-wide. Women must not sit back and accept ageist discrimination. They must get out there and get into the glossies in the nude, shame these male chauvinist sexists. Let's hear from them!
I'm sure every real man, who respects and champions the rights of women, will be 100 percent behind them.
Bling car
AN INDIAN motor manufacturer has brought out a once-off bling version of one of the world's cheapest cars. The Tata Nano normally sells for the equivalent of £1 300. This version, encrusted with gold, silver and gemstones is worth £2.9 million.
Thirty master craftsmen used 80kg of gold, 15kg of silver and thousands of gemstones to create the bling version, which is eye-catching but, er, would not be to the taste of everyone. It was built to honour 5 000 years of Indian jewellery craftsmanship. It's not for sale.
That's a pity. Add a few touches like hubcaps that keep spinning at a stop street; artificial leopard skin on the dashboard; a nodding dog in the rear window;and a plastic orange on the aerial – add those and it would be a natural for Durban, a welcome accretion to the transport pools of the bling plutocrats who have arisen in our midst.
Sheila shenanigans
AUSTRALIA'S public broadcaster has come under fire for a TV comedy showing a lookalike of red-haired Prime Minister Julia Guillard romping naked with a man under the Australian flag. Bad taste, they say. They're so right. But it's funny.
Local scriptwriters – don't even think about it! Nor you, Zapiro!
Hear ye, hear ye!
HERE'S a bit of mediaeval news. Six Italian scientists and a former government official are on trial for manslaughter over the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila. The 6.3 magnitude quake devastated the city and killed 309 people.
It is claimed they failed to alert the populace to the danger of an earthquake. The scientific community is outraged, saying there is no way to predict major earthquakes, even in a seismically active area; that it is not their duty to do so anyway.
The law takes its course. They used to call it witch-burning.
Giant croc
THE WORLD'S biggest crocodile in captivity has been named Cassius and given a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Cassius is about 100 years old, he's 5.2m long and he weighs more than 2 200lb.
He was caught in Australia's Northern Territory in 1987 and put in a crocodile park on Green Island, off the Queensland coast.
Intriguingly, although Cassius is the world's largest captive croc he should measure even longer. About eight inches of his tail had been bitten off in a fight before his capture.
Shouldn't Guinness be looking for the crocodile that did the biting?
Numerate blonde
I WAS AT the local garage when this blonde walked in and said she needed a 710 for her car.
"A 710?" said the mechanic. "What's that?"
"It's that thingy in the middle of the engine."
"Thingy in the middle of the engine?"
"Every car has one."
"Can you show me on this car?"
She sighed and walked across to a vehicle that had its bonnet up. She pointed to a screw cap on the engine. It was marked: "OIL"
Tailpiece
DESCARTES walks into a pub. The barman says: "A beer sir?" Decartes says: "I think not."
Then – Ping! – he disappears.
Last word
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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