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As I’d been tinkering on the net and vegging the last few days I had suffered a media blackout. This hasn’t been helped by the radio in my car dying (well, MW so I can’t listen to 5Live). Without wanting to sound flippant, I thought a trip over the border to Blackburn for a torrid 2-2 draw was a bad way to spend Boxing Day.

It wasn’t until I got home and turned on the telly, that I found out about what had happened around South Asia. Good grief. I have a very dear friend who comes from Sri Lanka and a large part of his family lives there. I’m also sure some people I know were heading to Thailand around this time of year, but I can’t recall who.

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I was watching Match of the Day this morning and endured the usual 10 minutes or so coverage of the Man U game – also known as Wayne Rooney‘s "How To Fight Like A Schoolgirl" Half Hour. Behind one of the goals were a few noticeboards for radio station XFM.

Nothing unusual in that, except that XFM is a local radio station for London and the surrounds, not Manchester. Ah. Wait. Of course. Silly me.

Something tells me you’d not see adverts for XFM at Man City. And don’t tell me about XFM being available on digital via Sky. Who on earth uses their Sky Digital box to listen to the radio?

I just caught an advert for Currys or Comet (or somewhere – they’re all the bloody same). First of all, it featured a woman who looked scarily like Linda Barker. I thought we’d seen the last of her after she single-handedly caused the ruination of Courts, but it seems not.

Secondly, they were advertising a "food centre". Now, I’m no technical expert, nor am I a white goods salesperson, so excuse my ignorance. But this food centre looked exactly like… a ******* fridge. A big fridge, I admit, but a fridge nontheless. Actually, it wasn’t even that big. I think mine’s about the same size but it lacks the all-important water and ice dispencer. Having said that, my fridge does actually have bottles of cold drinks and ice trays in it so I don’t really think that’s an issue.

All I can assume, therefore, is that this "food centre" actually is a fridge and they’re only trying to make it sound more exciting. Now this may work on kids ("NEW Frizdongles… with added… PTWANG!") but I hardly see it working on the age range of people who buy white goods. Tut.

In the meantime, I’m starting to veer towards getting a Mazda MX-6 or an MX-3. The MX-6 has two diesel engines, one of which is £500 dearer, has about 20% more horsepower, does 0-62mph 0.4 seconds faster than the other and has a top speed 3mph faster. But… I get a bigger number next to the badge.

It’ll be that one, then.