I’ve been home sick for one week now, so you could describe me as a Swiss daytime television expert. Something I am obviously incredibly proud of.
Here are the things you miss out on if you have a job; aka things I have seen on TV this week:
- A cow trying in vain to give birth, taking too long. A vet and two student vets attempting to pull the calf out manually, taking too long. Calf dying (well, I didn’t actually see that bit, since it happened inside the cow). A vet and two student vets slicing open said cow and pulling out a dead calf.
- A woman breast-feeding in an advert for baby powder milk. Having lived for quite a while in continental Europe, I’ve grown used to seeing women’s breasts advertising shampoo on a billboard. This only shocked me because I thought there were so many anti-breast-feeding-in-public people about. Perhaps they all have jobs and don’t watch daytime television.
- Enough poor English on CNN to last me a lifetime. Where do they find their presenters for goodness sake?
- A teenage mother shouting at her mother after she insisted that Friday night was the only night she wouldn’t look after her daughter’s child. Daughter complained then that she had no free time. Mother said welcome to motherhood. They made up, predictably, and then the mother decided to treat her irresponsible daughter to a trip to the solarium. As if she wasn’t orange enough already.
- Peer Steinbruck, the German Minister of Finance, talking angrily about money going missing in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. I have never seen this man smile, but then I found this photo of him! What on earth is a politician doing making hand paintings? Curious.
- A hippy looking couple being made over from hideous crumpled tie-dye outfits, to crisp, Goths. Interesting indeed.
- A penguin eeyoring like a donkey.
Unsurprisingly I am looking forward to returning to work soon.
Here are the things you miss out on if you have a job; aka things I have seen on TV this week:
- A cow trying in vain to give birth, taking too long. A vet and two student vets attempting to pull the calf out manually, taking too long. Calf dying (well, I didn’t actually see that bit, since it happened inside the cow). A vet and two student vets slicing open said cow and pulling out a dead calf.
- A woman breast-feeding in an advert for baby powder milk. Having lived for quite a while in continental Europe, I’ve grown used to seeing women’s breasts advertising shampoo on a billboard. This only shocked me because I thought there were so many anti-breast-feeding-in-public people about. Perhaps they all have jobs and don’t watch daytime television.
- Enough poor English on CNN to last me a lifetime. Where do they find their presenters for goodness sake?
- A teenage mother shouting at her mother after she insisted that Friday night was the only night she wouldn’t look after her daughter’s child. Daughter complained then that she had no free time. Mother said welcome to motherhood. They made up, predictably, and then the mother decided to treat her irresponsible daughter to a trip to the solarium. As if she wasn’t orange enough already.
- Peer Steinbruck, the German Minister of Finance, talking angrily about money going missing in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. I have never seen this man smile, but then I found this photo of him! What on earth is a politician doing making hand paintings? Curious.
- A hippy looking couple being made over from hideous crumpled tie-dye outfits, to crisp, Goths. Interesting indeed.
- A penguin eeyoring like a donkey.
Unsurprisingly I am looking forward to returning to work soon.
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