Channel flicking in my room before I fell asleep for the last time in October was weird.
There were the usual films either half way through or in Spanish, the obligatory games of football ( it seems that Brazil isn't the only country madly in love with the beautiful game ) and regretably enough coverage of the US presidential elections to bore me to tears, but it was the other news articles that caught my attention.
Despite being in the end of 2008, and supposedly in a more peaceful and civilized world, there were bombings in India, naval battled between the Sri Lankan goverment and the Tamil Tigers, a holding temporal ceasefire in the Republic of Congo, ongoing battles in Iraq and the Indonesian government was preparing for a backlash following the imminent execution of two convicted terrorists of the 2002 Bali bombings.
There was also a story about a high ranking Japanese official who is having to resign after publicing an article stating that he felt Japan was not an aggresive participant in WW II, which of course has greatly angered China, both North and South Korea and a number of Pacific Island nations.
This is a bit like some German professors stating that the Holocaust never happened and is all a huge Western post war conspiracy made to damage the Germany's public image.
But the article that put a smile on my face was about the fact that the guiness book of records has just had another of its records broken by the recent successful additon of the worlds largest pair of jeans.
It is so large that it requiring a construction crane to lift up one end, and a pair of large inflatable tubing pipes running down each of its legs, and judging from the look I would say that it is of average proportion and not a drainpipe or flairs style.
It is sad to think that there is still so very much aggression and violence in todays society and it's the main reason why I chose not to watch too much news coverage these days as its always so depressing.
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