Misheard lyrics: The Script, Breakeven

This song plays on the radio all the time on the way to work. Although this isn't technically a misheard lyric its a reworking which makes more sense to me. Bear in mind that this in fact is making sense to someone who is a bit off the wall.

Original lyric

I'm falling to pieces yeah
I'm falling to pieces

Off the wall lyrics

I'm falling to pieces yeah
I'm talking to mices

(mices pronounced mieces)

It makes more sense to me as if your were talking to mice then you definitely would be falling to pieces.

UK rural broadband plans move on

Great idea, super fast broad band in UK rural areas.

However, what is slightly depressing is the lax approach to putting a photo against the story. Obviously a story needs a pointless picture for those people that cant manage a full page of text. So the BBC thought we need a picture that says rural, there is nothing that says rural like a tree line road. Good so far although again a picture for this story is just going to be window dressing, something to look at then you get bored of the story.

Unfortunately the picture of the BBC chose has nothing to do with the UK, I suspect it is a road in America. How have I come to this conclusion, well in the UK we don't paint double yellow lines down the middle of the road even in the most rural areas of the country. However the US do, see here for a google image search of double yellow lines in the US.

Come on BBC if you are going to put a pointless picture in at least make sure it is in the same country as the story.

AV Vote results in a resounding no from the public

Well we was robbed, to use a sporting quote.

In a 70/30 split the public voted NO to AV, only several London constituencies voted YES. I personally believe that the vote was lost because the public was mislead by the no campaigners, the Yes campaign wasn't strong enough and it was a protest vote against Nick Clegg and the liberal democrats.

The no campaign was about horrendous costs, the winner being the winner and no one uses AV so why should we.

In terms of the costs even David Blunkett from the No campaign admits they were made up. Sadly as with most lies once they are out there they are difficult to retract.

The Yes campaign needed to create a real need for change similar to Barack Obama in the presidential campaign. They should have got us all voting for AV because it was the right thing to do. Sadly the fact that it was fairer never seemed to be the one message. Although one good thing about the Yes campaign which cannot be said about the no campaign is that it was very clean and fair. They didn't tell lies they hoped the truth would speak for itself. Alas it was not to be.

Finally no one uses AV, again a message that got lost somewhere in the maelstrom is that actually the political parties uses AV to elect their leaders. David Cameron was actually elected by a type of AV election.

Time to leave it there and move on.