Sweeties, Pies and Ginger

Chappie came round yesterday to fit a new aerial for the telly as our reception has been getting worse and worse and worse lately. I was expecting to come home to find a new one strapped to the outside of the house, but he just replaced the one in the loft. We've gone from 50% signal strength to 95%+, so no more artifacts! Just in time for Xmas telly.

I watched the Scotland versus Ireland Six Nations rugby match this afternoon. I wish I hadn't bothered. What a dismal display of ineptitude by the Scottish side that couldn't seem to hold onto the ball for any length of time. At one point they had a 6 to 2 overlap and still managed to throw the ball into touch. They're really going to have to pull their socks up if they don't want to get the wooden spoon this year.

Channel 4 has a programme on Wednesday nights called Faking It. They take someone with no experience, give them to a mentor and a month later they have to convince some judges that they are the real deal. There has been a radiographer who did fashion photography, an insurance salesman who did stunt work and a Lawyer turned garage mc. Wednesday's offering was a video games tester turned racing driver and what an arse he turned out to be.

I'd kill to be given a chance like that, he went to the Johnny Herbert racing school at Rockingham for five weeks and was taught by a team of current and ex racing drivers. They even shipped him out to Monaco for a weekend to met David Coulthard and live the international al life of a racing driver. So what did this guy do…? He totally blew his chance by being an arrogant, cocky dickhead.

He seemed to think that due to having tested a few racing games, he'd be able to breeze the whole thing. He especially thought that woman they got into to help with the act he was going to have to put on of the judges interview, was a waste of time. How wrong he was going to be on that one. He just seemed to lack the commitment shown by some of the other people who have been in the other programmes.

He really didn't seem to care what he mentors were thinking and he came across as not really paying attention to them. His best lap times came when he was pissed off at them for dissing him, so he proved he could do it, just not when it mattered, when he had to do it off his own back. When it came to the final race, he did really well, although he still finished second last. It was his arrogance and lack of listening that let him down in the end though.

All through the interview he just kept on opening his mouth and sticking his feet further and further in. He even started going on about how they used special baked tyres and stuff, absolute bullshit. He was the only person out of all those who have done this programme that I really wanted to fail, he was so far up his own arse it was untrue.

I haven't even mentioned the argument he got into with an American tennis player in Monaco. He just summed up what is wrong with young drunk English blokes abroad, it was painful to watch. It's just such a shame that this opportunity was wasted on such an arrogant tosser, I just hope that after seeing how he came across on the programme he's going to take stock of his attitude.