WHY do I do this to myself?

Every time I come home. There it is, the sky digital. All those lovely channels showing all that lovely crap. Every time I say I will RESIST. I will BE STRONG. But every time, I see it there in the list and I think 'I'll just LOOK and see what they're doing. Just QUICKLY. It'll be OK.'

And then, the TRAGEDY and the Brave Family Bearing up and the bus and the megaphone and the HAPPY ENDING with the shrieking and the suprise and the joy and the tears and oh Extreme Makeover:Home Edition, why do you do this to me??

I even came in here to escape. And really, I'm only going back In There periodically because it's bloody freezing in here. Really. Not to see why the Family is Tragic (the parents DIED and the other family Took Them In and they have no room and and...) and the Personal Touches and the sobbing and the JOY and *sniffs* I'm going to bed now. I'm not crying. OH NO.

Stupid tv.

Oh those Wacky Students

And the zany hamster-posting pranks they get up to...

http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/news/story/0,12891,1688415,00.html

Bizarre story. And possibly more disturbing because they're at Cambridge and, you'd *think* have at least some intellegence but with quotes like this, it appears not -

When asked why he gave a false name and address when purchasing the hamster, Jordan said: "Because I thought it would be a bit suspicious posting a hamster if I got caught."

Yes. Just a bit.

EDIT - according to the BBC they got fined and banned from owning animals for 10 years.
Personally I think this is going completely the wrong way. They should have been sent to work at a vets or animal shelter so they could see first hand what happens when people mistreat animals and hopefully learn a bit of empathy and feeling for something other than their over-priviledged selves.

Oh. And given a hefty kick up the arse too.