If my dad was still alive – he would be turning 100 at the end of this year – he would tell me I would get square eyes. I sadly lost him when I was 21 – 10 days after I got married – to an unexpected heart attack, but his words still ring in my ears. He was a British serviceman with a healthy dislike of Americans, and that included television which, in the then-Rhodesia, was dominated by programmes from the US.
I sadly lost him when I was 21 – 10 days after I got married – to an unexpected heart attack, but his words still ring in my ears. Dad refused to get a TV and warned me that apart from getting square eyes watching the goggle box at friends’ houses, I would learn nothing of value “from inane programmes likeBut lockdown means I am getting oblong eyes – from watching YouTube on my superior Samsung smartphone.
I watch anything and everything – from war planes taking off and landing on aircraft carriers – to epic fails, all the best bits from British comedy shows, classic clips from American TV chats shows such as David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, the world’s fastest workers, cops smashing motorists’ windows, wonders of nature and sport. Lots of sport.
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