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I don't believe it!

3/11/2015

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I have had a few Victor Meldrew moments today.

First up in the disbelief department is the news that Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended by the BBC and the last three shows of this series of Top Gear will not be shown for the time being (if ever).

Links to the news articles follow:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31828184
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31824040
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31832698
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31832534

The suggestion is that Clarkson punched a producer which, if true, isn’t the kind of behaviour that would be acceptable in the corporate world or the legal one (if the aggrieved party wanted to press assault charges). Clarkson is a law unto himself and I pity the HR people that have to try and manage his prima donna ways.

I should make it clear that the suggestion that Clarkson may have thrown a punch is not something I struggle to believe (after all he punched Piers Morgan a few years ago) – what makes me come over all Meldrew/grumpy is that the BBC will still expect to charge me the full asking price for its damn license.

As an ever increasingly begrudging BBC license fee payer – the feedback I’d like to share with the corporation is that I want a partial refund of my fee to cater for the absence of one of my favourite programs. In terms of a car analogy (which seems appropriate), the BBC axing Top Gear would be like a car dealer trying to supply you with a car that was missing a seat – it wouldn’t affect the operation of the car but would make it a lot less desirable. You would at least want to haggle on the price but would probably go somewhere else and buy something different…

…though you can’t do that with the BBC without getting menaced.

Second on my disbelief radar is that Weebly's website traffic statistics report that my site generated 2,262 page views yesterday. That’s more than double the amount of page impressions from the highest grossing day during this site’s three year plus existence.  Now one might think I’d celebrate that achievement but to be honest, and to quote Victor, “I don’t believe it”.

Why?

Well it’s not as if Weebly hasn’t messed up the numbers before.

And yesterday’s statistics also record that the number of unique visitors totalled 69.

Not quite so impressive a number is it?

If accurate that means some of these visitors were very engaged with my writings. So engaged as for me to be concerned that I might be getting investigated.

Still no warnings, hate mail, job offers or blog contributions received so most probably the 2,262 is a statistical anomaly.

But just in case; if dear reader, you were one of yesterday’s visitors and you took the time to read everything I have ever published, I’d be pleased to hear from you. 

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