Podcasts Culture Don Woods What the Dickens is going on?

What the Dickens is going on?

Published: July 12, 2014, 9:35 a.m.

b'..track 6 on my CD (Doowop Pioneers)was an idea to educate the world as to what is actually Doowop...it originally began on street corners in the U.S.A. whereby a group of guys would congregate and harmonise...similar to our barbershop...and it developed into those great 50\'s classics such as Blue Moon...Teenager In Love...Why Do Fools Fall In Love...etc...this song is a tribute to them.\\n\\n......O.K. Brazil took a hammering in the World Cup...but if you went by the headlines you\'d think it was the end of the world......the country was "HUMILIATED...SHAMED....DISGRACED...." and people in the street crying....it\'s a FOOTBALL MATCH!!...that\'s all...surely there are other things to think about?...mind you to stand alongside thousands of people overnight to see a bunch of cyclists fly past for 11 seconds....I begin to wonder whether some people actually have a life.\\n\\n......The news is full of the "missing" documents regarding child sexual abuse....when you watch the media\'s re-action you would think that the country is run by a load of perverts...what is it with these people?\\nMind you I would think there will be a few quaking in their boots.\\n\\n....The Open Golf is at Hoylake a again next week....already the road signs are up and there is talk of a big hotel complex being built...amazing how they find the money for these big events and yet the public sector gets told there will have to be cuts....and they will have to work until 68...so they go on strike - which will have no effect.\\n\\n.....Obviously there is so little news the BBC have to let us know AGAIN that we are the most obese nation in the Universe...."scientists" have studied this and that and have come up with this amazing conclusion which helps fill 20 minutes of BORING BBC news...I personally don\'t care...I keep myself fit which is easy to do if you are prepared to put in a bit of EFFORT...something these blobs don\'t seem to be able to do...their problem - not mine...and I don\'t want to hear about it on the news every day.'