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Don’t get me started on role models. Please, don’t.

Actually it’s too late, I’m started on role models. The thing that has me taking beta-blockers to stop me going into a gun fuelled rage, is than none of the muppets who are told they are bad role models when they horse up have any idea they are role models when they are actually doing well.

It must come as a suprise to someone like Katie Price that she’s a rolemodel when she gets paid for having big tits and eating insects. Who’s she a role model to? 7 year old girls who want to be buxom? Hedgehogs who admire how many grubs she can pack away? No – she’s a role model to absolutely no-one. And if she is, then we’re in a shockingly perilous state … “come one kids, think what Jordon would do in this situation” is not a national apiration surely. So why are the tabloids acting like she’s somehow corrupted our moral code?

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So we read that the blog world is up in arms, livid, snapping their Michael Buble CD’s over their pets faces about Facebook’s privacy changes.  Who’d have thought having an iphone virtually pointing up your trouser leg and automatically posting every facet of your daily life to a website really meant you wanted it kept to your group of close ‘friends’.

Surely in the age of celebrity where not actually being famous is a minority sport and actually have a job that produces something you can eat or use makes you some kind of circus freak you’d all be glad.  The Plooptionary reads a press release from Doncaster Council claiming they have just 3% of their population left to become famous.  It’s their intention to print the names and addresses of those people remaining who have no fame in the hope that the media cirus that it creates will, in turn, make the remaining 3% famous – for not being. The one person remaining will be given a Nobel Prize for secrecy and then photographed picking up the award with Barack Obama in front of a global audience.  No disguises will be allowed. Facebook is just helping this process.

We are reminded of the compellng science of this graph posted previously: