Pic of the Day (above)
‘Expecting the Worst’
Taken during an army drill showing South Korean army soldiers rescuing civilian victims during a chemical warfare drill outside a hotel in Seoul on May 24, 2010. The drill comes as South Korea cuts trade links with North Korea and vows an immediate military response to any future attacks vowing to make the communist state “pay a price” for torpedoing a South Korean warship. (Getty Images)
JOE’s Mood Swingometer
Today JOE has mostly been feeling… Cooped up.
It’s the Monday after the warmest weekend we’ve had this year so far and we’re all feeling antsy in the office.
In most parts of the country the ‘tropical’ weather has continued into the working week and it’s driving us mad. Lucky are those who have outdoor jobs.
Maybe the boss will let you out early so you can don those Bermuda shorts that you’ve had on all weekend for the first time since you returned from your last sun holiday. Quick, go make him a coffee!
Live Like JOE…
Think positive
Apparently all it takes is visualisation. So say the sports psychology dudes over at the Health & Fitness section. It’s all about imagining desirable scenarios, making them real and staying positive that you can achieve the results you’re aiming for.
It’s supposed to apply to sport, but who’s to say it can’t be put to good use somewhere else? Like the bedroom for instance. So get those creative juices flowing and you never know, they may not be the only juices to flow tonight. Hweh, hweh, hweh…
You’re fired – Ed.
Tonight’s Telly
Pick of the night: Baz’s Extreme Worlds
The title sequence of this new show from RTE promises all sorts of fighting: cage-, bull- and fire-. The first episode, about prison rodeo in Oklahoma, proved lamer than it should have been but we’ll stick at it for another week before making up our mind conclusively. Tonight Ashmawy climbs aboard a 120ft trawler and sets sail for the Atlantic on the trail of monkfish and megrim.
Sporting highlight: England v Mexico, ITV, 7.30pm
A first chance to exercise the particular slant of the vocal cords which we only usually put to good use every two years or more. Gazza’s tears. Three Lions on the shirts. Beckham’s metatarsal. Beckham’s sarong. Rooney’s petulance. Rooney’s brilliance.
Ah yes, every couple of years England give us reasons afresh to find something in common with countries around the world which we know almost nothing about. In a few weeks’ time it will be Slovenia and Algeria and the USA – yep, even the Americans, for all their faults, are more palatable than John Terry, Ashley Cole, Steven Gerrard and the rest of the overpaid philandering scoundrels who masquerade as successors to the likes of Charlton and Moore, who were part of a World Cup-winning England side that everybody liked. Fancy that.
More TV: Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
At the risk of coming over all high-brow, who’s not interested in the history of censorship, decency and soft porn? Ms Whitehouse was the complainant-in-chief when the BBC went all risqué back in the day. Considering the descent of decency since the spread of satellite TV and the birth of the internet, one can only imagine what Ms Whitehouse, who died in 2001 at the age of 91, would make of it all these days. Podge and Rodge would probably have made her swoon. Julie Walters, Alun Armstrong and Hugh Bonneville star.
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