Subtract Another Point from Our Collective IQ

Every time they make one of these programs, and people phone in or get to be contestants our collective IQ drops. It's a drip-drip of stupidity diluting our general intelligence. The chief huckster is Noel Edmonds, deluding the gullible on Deal or No Deal, "Yes you have no idea of probability but if we all believe and have faith we can beat probability.

Come on everybody start chanting,

There is no probability, There is no probability, There is no probability,

that's it, if only we believe we can overturn the laws of physics, we will escape gravity. What's in that box? Remember the rule a newbie never has a blue number (what fucking rule Noel? where do I find this in the books of probability?). Oh dear the banker has won again. remeber the only certain probability on this show is as long as you keeping hoping-against -hope I will keep pulling in a big big salary. Look it's in the box, but I'm not going to open it.

The cheap new age snake oil spirituality peddler.

He's the one they all look up to. Jasper Carrot on his aptly named new show Golden Balls looks up to him and Nick Hancock on his even more down market show, Win my Wage, if only they could, hey Nick, looks up to him as the master spinning finacial gold from people's creduality.

But maybe it's only to be expected when so many people have seen the property lottery deliver so many prizes. All of life must be like that. We're all winners. We only have to believe in something, write it down on a piece of paper and voila it's there for the taking.

On the property lottery people should remember that the Bulls and Bears are in a constant battle. The market's down, the Bears have the Bulls pinned to the deck and then the Bulls slip free and run only to hauled down again by the Bears. Round and round again.

Look at nature it always strives to achieve a balance, sure it gets way out of kilter, but it always rebalances. Nature will rebalance the climate, though we may not be around to see it. It might be more monkeys or possibly dolphins or just wildebeest taking over, but it'll rebalance.

So sooner or later countless aeons later there will be a wildebeest standing in a TV studio on the set of Lion or No Lion, trying to decide which box contains the Lion. And some wheedling Crocodile intoning,

"Well in Box 3 there has never been a Lion."

" Errrrrr hummmm errrrrr grunt grunt errrr Box 3."

"Oh dear that's never happened before. Can somebody pick up his intestines?"