Help - I think I'm cracking up.

This weekend the major stories in the British media were as follows :

#1 - 17 year old teenager drinks beer in local pub;

#2 - President of USA chokes on a pretzel

At a time when our public services are falling to bits in front of our eyes are we really interested in teenage drinking habits and the snack preferences of George W Bush?

Surely there are more important news stories out there - or maybe the US is going to bomb the pretzel factory ?

Bill

I did read in an inside page of our local newspaper (where we hide the World News) that bin Laden had left Afghanistan in the first week of December by sea, it claims this appeared in a CIA report. Apparently many ships have been searched during the past couple of months in the Arabian Sea. The bit of the report which does confuse me is, and I quote "the CIA have concluded that bin Laden most likely fled by sea to Pakistan". Er, I thought that Afghanistan was landlocked so which sea would this be?

Back to the important issues, underage drinking by teenagers and pretzel eating by Presidents

Well at least you aren't hearing about Ben Laden's evil henchman's motorbike that he escaped on.

By the way, the main 17 year old caught for drinking and smoking pot was Prince Harry, a co worker gave me his Daily Mail from the plane (claiming you couldn't read a regular size paper in the plane without draping it over your neighbor) and it was full of what to do with Harry!

We were saying, "Now why didn't they just arrest the pubowner for serving an underaged kid booze? I mean he's the main kid whose age you know!"

The pretzel incident, well at least he made light of it. I think I'd rather have international press on a pretzel than Monica.

There is a thread about our dear Harry, however what I find amazing is that the said prince has a police bodyguard with him at all times, so how did this policeman allow the prince to be served alcohol in a pub, not alone to drink rather heavily?

In the U.S., kids' Secret Service bodyguards don't intervene when the kids engage in underage drinking (such as Bush's daughters) because there's a fear that if the kids find their bodyguards too annoying, they'll try to lose them. The job of a bodyguard is to protect from violence, not to be a nanny. At least that's the way it's viewed here.

Latest News

Bin Laden opens pretzel factory in Switzerland where he escaped by sea from Afghanistan.

17 year old teenager develops acne and finds communication with adults difficult.

Bill