Mainly buy the papers I buy for the sports pages although I do love to hover up news anyway. Normally I buy the Daily Mirror, The Daily Star and the Sun or another paper; three is my number in one day.
I am ever so OCD I even have an order in which I read them and why. I always start with the Star because I find it a bit of a lightweight paper on news and more interested in celebrity. The sports section is not up to much either so why the hell do I buy it? Could be because it is cheap and I like reading crap.
Mid-day or early afternoon I partake of the Sun or the Echo although I tend to read the Echo online most of the time. If it is the Sun, it’s for the sport mainly with the politics in the paper so far right of Genghis Khan making it too much for this socialist to stomach. Many people have problems with the sun for all kinds of reasons and so do I. That is why I tend to buy it at the weekend for the sport.
My main read of the day is the Daily Mirror and not because I am a socialist, I have always preferred it has long as I can remember. I even preferred the old page seven that would have a model in lingerie or bikini than the topless page 3 in the Sun. The sport reporting is top notch, politics is right down my street most of the time, and it lays off the celebrity over kill you get in other papers.
From today’s front page the story that caught my eye was the ‘Brit girl: I’ll be wife on Mars’ in connection to the story hitting the press about 5 British volunteers willing to take a one-way trip to Mars. The five are on the short list of 100 hopefuls and hoping to make the final four to be marooned on the red planet. When people eventually live on the moon, it is expected a return trip would be viable but for now, Mars is a one-way trip. Many experts have expressed doubt that even if they do land safely, radiation would soon kill them off. If this were on offer in the early 80s, hell I would have loved to volunteer.
Another story, Jon Snow has been doing some skunk (weed) for some upcoming TV show and he said never again.
A comment he made about his experience,
“You can hear this distant voice wailing ‘I can’t stay here … let me out.
“I’ve worked in war zones but I’ve never been as overwhelmingly frightened as I was right then.”
He was join by former MP Matthew Parris and former royal correspondent Jennie Bond both of whom didn’t find the experience enjoyable. Free weed! I no one of my sons who would love that,
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