Our regular Orange Wednesday trip to the local Vue was ruined last night. You could say it was our fault for choosing "Paranormal Activity 2", a film that appeals to young people but there are lots of more mature film fans who enjoy horror films and Marion and I are among them. The cinema was packed as it often is on Orange Wednesday but usually the audience quietens down once the film begins. Not last night however. Despite the cinema manager turning away scores of people below the 15 age rating of the film, if these kids are typical, it seems that those over 15 are no longer able to watch a film without doing something else at the same time. The cinema was alight with mobile phone screens as scores of them appeared to be using them for God knows what. Those who weren't using their phones were either talking and giggling loudly, repeatedly shouting at the screen "don't leave the baby", running out screaming when anything remotely scary happened and then returning en masse a few minutes later and spilling their ice creams, coke and popcorn all over the place - not doubt the second screening was delayed half an hour for the place to be cleaned up. We don't usually complain but we had to speak to the manager to try and save any more viewers from going through this ordeal. He kindly gave us complimentary tickets (which were welcome but unnecessary) but that did not prevent the film being ruined.Was it any good? Being unable to concentrate it's hard to say. I thought it was pretty good but I was not impressed with the ending. If this audience (and it wasn't just one or two of them) is any reflection on today's young people (and I really don't want to sound like a boring old granddad), something has gone wrong. It won't really bother us as we'll be long gone in forty years but who's going to be running the country from this lot?
We are off to see Jimmy Carr at the Southport Theatre tonight. I like Jimmy Carr but it seems that few of our friends do as we were unable to give away our two spare seats. I know that he made an offensive joke about gypsies a few years ago that made headlines and he upset people again when he said that due to the war in Afghanistan we'd have a great team in the Paralympics (the consensus was that the troops actually found it funny) but he's not that outrageous is he? We'll let you know tomorrow.
Before we go to watch Jimmy we're off to Pizza Express for a bite to eat. "Diet well and truly over then?" you might ask. But no. Hat's off to Pizza Express, you can download their full menu from the Internet complete with the calories in every dish. I don't know whether to go for the Grand Chicken Caesar Salad no dough sticks regular dressing at 491 calories or the Leggera Pizza Margherita at 500 but at 1165 calories there's no chance of the Calabrese.
Watching the women on last night's "The Apprentice" arguing about who got each of the orders they took for their body sculpting vests, reminded me of our sales team now that they have individual targets to meet. "I sold that" says one. "But it's my area" says another. "I opened the account" says the third. I think any order in dispute should be given to Craig (who doesn't have a target)or maybe we should use Lord Sugar's wisdom of Solomon method and none of them can have them.
As for TV, don't forget "A League Of Their Own" Sky1 and Sk1HD tonight at 10pm. Marion and I were in the studio audience. Another five seconds of fame beckons.You know how it is when someone has a slight personal problem but you're not sure how to tell them? Well here's a very discreet new method.
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