Hello world

I had my internet cruelly ripped away from me last Sunday. Just as i was going to entertain you with stories of my Saturday night I found out the hard way that my ADSL was pre-paid :( One phone call/many automated menus in portuguese and about 4 switchboard operators later I also discovered you cant recharge it over the phone (only by using ATMs, conveniently my ATM card arrived on Thursday).

So the last week has been a lot of Portuguese TV. Very strange:

• My BBC Prime connection comes with bonus Hungarian subtitles?!
• Stingers is the only Aussie show, apart from V8 supercars or docos on the Variety Club Bash (comforting in a feral bush kinda way).
• The backpacker girl on the travel channel is possibly the most annoying, judgemental and insensitive Amercian tourist I have ever come across (well top 5 at least)
• Sex in the City in French?! Nuff said.
• Fox has realised that none of its demographic are awake before midday so just shows station IDs until then
• The same show appears on different channels almost like they have combined schedules- e.g. I can watch Futurama on Fox then on SIC Radical, I can watch 2 episodes of Coupling on people+arts (!) then switch to BBC Prime and only miss the first 5 minutes (tho made harder by the 2 season jump)
• Random British comedy - Yes Minister appeared out of nowhere one Saturday arvo, similarily Monty Python last Tuesday night.
• Everything stops for football. Even when its the U21 side. Or Italian Serie B.

With my internet redone Ive also done some playing in an effort to try and syndicate this for those misguided people who want such things.....

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I have no idea how to use either - the privilege of being the blogger not the bloggee