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I went for a coffee and sandwich in Loughborough on Saturday morning while J went and did stuff. I was about to grab a newspaper to read from the stack behind me however my choice was either "The Sun" or "The Daily Express". I spied another stack at the other end of the coffee shop by two women and a kid. I wandered over and asked if they would mind me grabbing a paper. The women said no, and I looked up and down the stack to see what they had.

"What do you want" the women asked? "I was looking for a broadsheet" I replied, looking back from the stack at the women. The women looked away from her friend, gave me a "Nutter!" look and said "I was asking my friend what she wanted to eat.". Doh! Feeling a bit of a twit, she then said " ... and you wont get a broadsheet here ... ". She kindly left out the bit about bloody foreigners, or Londoners, or strange people who read broadsheets. I grabbed a "Daily Mail" and slunk back to my seat.

Now the Daily Mail wouldn't be my first choice of paper. However I reckoned it probably was marginally better than the other two, and Cosmo had little appeal. Two things stand out in my mind from my little sojourn down to Daily Mail land.

The first was about some British women who upon hearing that Michael Jackson was going to be in court yadda yadda yadda fiddling with yadda yadda children yadda yadda yadda just had to be there to support him. At a cost of around £600. Where do these people come from. And this wasn't the kind of person who could just blow 600 smackaroos on frivolous things like this. This was their savings for their holiday (I think their was a husband involved too). Really, do you look at yourself in the mirror and really think wackjob needs your support? That this is the best use of your holiday money?

I was then reading an article on how Britain has become crap. Yobbo culture, trains falling to bits, yadda yadda yadda. Anyway the author (and I use this word lightly) has one line that went something like this

... although one shouldn't generalise, but only a fool does not generalise

And i'm sitting there thinking "But what does that mean?" I have never read such a meaningless sentence in my life. It's not like their is an old adage that goes "But only fools never generalise" or some such. Any normal person knows a generalisation is just that, applies to the "more or less" but not to the specific.

Saying things like that sounds clever and smart, but it's not. It's utter twaddle. It smells 'fresh' the same way people always say the country smells 'fresh' where fresh means to smell a lot like bucket loads of animal crap.

As a side note, I've found a place that does decent sandwiches. Although next time I am taking my own paper.