6 November, 2007

How pointless

Ever played the game whereby one is challenged to write entertainingly on a random, mundane subject?  It's mildly diverting, but normal people don't get paid to do it, and people don't normally pay to have the results inflicted upon them.

This sort of vacuous fluff really, really annoys me, as does the justification that "it's just a bit of fun". Life's too short for such complacency; I begrudge the effort of moving my eyes across the text, never mind the utterly wasted time.

And no, I don't begrudge the time taken to write this, if there's the vaguest chance that it might persuade newspapers to avoid commissioning and publishing such pap.