Prime Ministers Questions, the forum for the ridiculous

I only have a part time job, so while having a ridiculously large amount of free time and desperately trying to better myself I have started to watch Prime Minister Questions. It is by far and away one of the most bizzare pieces of television I have ever watched. Take a look at this clip,




These people are supposed to be well educated, eloquent and have the countries best interests at heart and yet somebody trips up on their words and it brings the place down. I dread to think what would happen if somebody farted, absolute chaos probably. These are the people employed to represent us and our communities and yet they behave like school children, if I were the speaker i would make them write lines in silence about how it is rude to talk over people while they are speaking. On my first day of upper school when taking my GCSE's, a girl tripped head first down some stairs infront of our entire year and nobody laughed as hard as that and we were only 14!

This isn't a one off thing either, every time anybody speaks its met with cheers or boo's like its a pantomime. The saddest part of it all for me is that this really shows that none of these people have a sense of humour if that is the type of thing that gets them falling of their chair and throwing their hands in the air. I've seen funnier things on My Family and that show is awful.

A career in politics is not for me, I'm just too fucking funny.

Talent shows

Talent shows have a fairly poor reputation. This isn't an unjust opinion, talent shows have pretty much dominated British television schedules for a long time. My Saturday nights since I had a double digit birthdays have pretty much been dominated by watching the next superstar singing or dancing for survival. I'm a young woman and its safe to say this has probably been quite detrimental to my social life, I'm pretty sure I became known as 'Katie the girl who loves television Jones'.

Talent shows are by no means perfect, The X Factor has destroyed the christmas number one, and Britains Got Talent lose all credibility when someone like DJ Talent can make it through to the semi finals, but what I love about them is their ability to make the most bizzare thing popular again. Thanks to Michael Collins from Britains got Talent I got the joy of hearing Tracy Chapman's Fast Car being blasted out of a car, with four lads thinking they are the shit with their sub woofers and cigarettes. I hope that didn't sound sarcastic because it wasn't, that song is amazing, and I have loved it since the first time it was played to me by my Dad, and thanks to BGT it was heard by a whole different audience. Turn My Swag On, by Soulja Boy would have never charted if it hadn't been for Cher Lloyd on the X Factor, (can't say I'm quite as happy about that one) and just this week Damien Rice's Cannonball will go top ten because of John Adams. They can rewrite the rules of the chart, and clearly the contestants know good music. I just hope somebody does an amazing version of Band of Gold by Freda Payne because I would love to see that back in the charts.That or Day and Night by Billie Piper.

I challenge you not to enjoy this, it just warms the heart.

Australia's forgotten pop princesses

Its a well known fact that for actors in soap operas being able to act is not their only skill. Many of the stage school alumni's have a multitude of performance skills in the bank, and it's only natural that after there time on the telly box has come to an end they might want to try a new direction.

Now with their beautiful faces and large fan base already you would think that making the transition into pop music would be a breeze for our Australian lovelies, however it is not. Of course some people manage it, Kylie being a classic example, Holly Vallance for a time, Delta Goodrem is dating a Jonas Brother now so she's landed on her feet, but for as many successes there are twice as many failures so I am going to take this time to remember the music that never made it across the world from our Australian stars.




Introducing Bec Cartwright, Bec played Hayley in Home and Away and was one half of my favourite ever Home and Away couple Hayley and Noah (RIP Noah, I loved you as much as Hayley did!) This is her single All Seats Taken, i'm not really sure what that means, if its a cinema? or a bus? Or anything with seats? She later goes on to sing that she's 'all booked up for you' so I can only assume its a hotel or restaurant. This reached number 10 in the Australian chart but her album came in at a dissapointing 21 so it was never released in the UK. Bec no longer acts or sings, but she is married to Leyton Hewitt the Australian tennis star so don't feel too bad for her.



This is Tammin Sursok, this song is Its a Beautiful Thing I wanted to play Pointless Relationship which is my personal fave but the embedding was disabled, annoying! You get the idea of the type of music she made with Its a Beautiful Thing though. Tammin played Dani Sutherland on Home and Away and a story she was in involved Dani not being able to sing but learning and being able to sing in front of everybody at school, it was all very moving. This should have been a clue that she would want to sing once she left. Her singing career did not takeoff with this song charting at number 30. It's not all doom and gloom for Tammin though, she now lives in LA and is acting again playing the character of Jenna Marshall on the television show Pretty Little Liars, and that shows bloody amazing!



Saving the best till last its Stephanie McIntosh!! Stephanie played the character of Sky Mangel in Neighbours. She unbelievably signed a 5 album deal with her record company, and a reality show that was about making her first album was called  The Steph Show coincided with her first single release, Mistake. The video is hilarious! She sings to a mirror! Alas her album did not chart as well as hoped  and after some questionable live performances she was dropped. This song was released in the UK so you might have heard it, but then again probably not.

Australian soap stars turned pop stars, gone but not forgotten! (Well not by me at least.)

MyZoo MyObsession

I have been playing on the facebook application MyZoo on and off for about 3 years now, and I am doing pretty well if I do say so myself. It started at uni and became a small craze in my friendship circle, but like most things the hype died down and people got bored and stopped playing. Not me.

I continued with MyZoo relentlessly and even now I dont understand how people could have become tired of it. If MyZoo were real I would be the richest person in the world by a good 100 trillion dollars. My zoo is almost 700 years old and I get as many visitors a day as a small festival. I am incredibly enviromentally conscious as I release almost two thirds of my animals back in to the wild as well as rescuing animals in need.

I became quite content alone in the MyZoo world, however something has occurred that has caused me to question where my loyalties lie. My good friend Toby has started to play MyZoo again. At first I was thrilled, Toby was the person who originally introduced me to MyZoo and I was delighted that he was back in the game. That was until Toby started making progress. Toby's zoo is less that 20 years old and he is already on level 58 (I am on level 165) he is getting through ten challenge levels in less than a week and if his progress continues like this then my lead, that I though was unassailable could slip from my grasp.

I am now having to ask myself what means more to me, MyZoo or my friend? What type of person does that make me, of course I care about my friend more, but the fact I could think that is cause for concern, does my life really revolve around animals that don't even exist? So much so that I would risk long friendships? I think I need to take some time and really think about this, possibly go to a MyZoo retreat or something.

I would like to give Toby a special little message if he should happen to read this, this is my current favourite quote for this situation,

'I don't meet competition. I crush it' Charles Revson.