Directionless rants
Life turns into US drama series
Firstly businesses consider the introduction of disposable mobile phones, or 'burners' as we 'The Wire' fans know they are called in the crack-riddled ghettos of West Baltimore. According to companies they will be extremely useful for tourists - they can buy a mobile when they enter a country, top it up with minutes, then chuck recycle it just before they toddle off home.
Of course, as everybody who has watched the beautifully written police drama knows, in real life the phones are almost exclusively used by drug dealers. It is impossible to 'get a wire up' on a burner, because by the time you have filled out all the paperwork (damn you, System! How your red tape strangles the efforts of hardworking po-lice!) the 'burner' will have been... well... 'burned.'
And talking of 'burned', Glitterditch's second piece of news for the day is that, in a move reminiscent of that rugged drunken Irishman Jimmy McNulty (may he rest his hungover head in our quivering lap), a policeman has been caught having sex with a prostitute. Whilst on duty.
And so, two questions for you to ponder. Firstly - if London life is starting to imitate art, when oh when will Bodie show up lounging topless on a disused sofa ? And secondly, are we objectionable products of a shit generation because, upon hearing these news items, we reacted with a cry of "Really? That's so season three"? There are no postcards, so answer below.
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Bodie gets shot in the head!
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Answer: Yes!
Bah! Can't believe you posted that spoiler C Etchi - I'm only half way through the 4th Season.
*wanders off muttering*
Fear not, shiny girl - Bodie may be dead in real life (by which we of course mean 'in the fictional TV series') but his spirit, pecs, and charming habit of spitting onto the pavement remain alive and well in our wettest of dreams.
Feel free to write your own season 4 ending, and let us know if it involves some hot Bodie/McNulty action.
I followed proper internet protocol by announcing the spoiler beforehand! My hands are clean!!!