Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without... complaining

Hi everyone.

I don't know about you (obviously) but I'm constantly amazed at the ridiculous, some might say crazy, stories that are constantly served up to the British public as "news".

So I thought I would set up this blog to try to highlight some of the more ludicrous examples.

And lo and behold, what do we have here, a prime example on day one.

BBC News were today reporting that eight people, yes EIGHT people, have complained about the new M&S Christmas advert.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8366133.stm

Wow, eight people out of a UK population of more than 60 million.

What percentage is that you ask? Well I'll tell you.

Almost zero.

Percentage wise, almost no people have lodged a complaint to the Advertising Standards Agency. (That could have been their headline!).

The complaint seems to centre around Philip Glenister, the star of crime drama Ashes to Ashes.

The ad has a number of celebrity faces telling us what they love most about Christmas. Glenister is last up and in the style of Gene Hunt - his Ashes to Ashes character - says, 'Oh come on it's Christmas! That girl prancing around in her underwear', before cutting to french Underwear model Noemie Lenoir who sexily says, 'Moi'.

You see, she IS french!

It seems the main reason for the complaint is that this is 'sexist', rather than the harmless bit of fun it actually is. But this is beside the point.

Why has the BBC felt the need to report this story? If 80,000 or even 8,000 people had complained about it than I could understand. They would be reporting something of interest to a large number of people.

But EIGHT people. That equates to two average households in an entire country.

Now that IS localised reporting!