Eshin Direct

I just love the biased, no holds barred, “here’s what we’re thinking” type of mentality of the UK daily rag – The Sun. It makes a pitiful attempt at being somewhat investigative and professional but you know the folks down at The Sun would be running around the streets singing Rule Britannia and waving large flags of the Union Jack around. Or would that be the Cross of St. George? What bit of Pulitzer Prize winning reporting am I talking about?

Anyway, three footballers from Leicester City FC have been charged with rape in Spain. The Sun does us the courtesy of showing us some pictures of the women and footballers in question. While on the surface it looks all sympathetic, it’s interesting how they like to show the pictures of the women dancing to “attract” instead of the footballers behaviour. Oh, and they go into the personal lives of the women who live in Germany. How is it that the victims deserve more scrutiny than the accused? To sum up the hidden “Gold-digger” headline, The Sun then reports on the anguish of the girlfriends – you could almost imagine Trudy from Leicester going “Nah, ‘ees innocent. I’ll stand by me man.”. Of course, the fact that their ticket to B-League celebrity status is now in jeapardy has nothing to do with it.

Maybe they can do what this guy in Germany did and ask the government to pay for porn and trips to a brothel? This guy allegedly did so because his wife from Thailand flew back to her homeland and he couldn’t afford a plane ticket to get her back. Of course, the fact that he couldn’t pay for the plane ticket had nothing to do with her leaving back home. Evidently, the woman’s departure had left so big a hole in his life that only porn and prostitutes could fill that void.

Poor old James Bond might even have to resort to hookers and porn since he might be out of a job soon. He’s now apparently too high (as most of the Bond actors are) to qualify for MI5 although MI6 doesn’t have any plans to introduce that height restriction. The reason cited for the restrictions is because MI5 agents need to “blend” into their environment. Of course, James Bond’s modus operandi was always to fit in as best he could with that pristine tuxedo, and that signature “shaken, not stirred” drink of his.

Right, enough trash talking for a Monday morning. Time to go do something constructive.

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