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Americans!

I avoid eating in central London and the West End as much as possible, for various reasons, but sometimes you just have to.

So, the other week I found a quiet pub and I was having a nice lunch and a glass of wine in a corner, minding my own business, when two American tourists came and sat at the next table.

i have nothing in general against Americans, and know many, but American tourists have a reputation. This is not to say anything against anyone, this is just what happened.

How did I know they were American? He had a loud shirt on and shorts and a backwards baseball-type cap. I saw later it was MAGA. She had pink trainers, the kind five year olds would wear. They were in their fifties. Oh, and they were very loud and very noisy.

I ignored them.

They started on me. Did I know this pub did not sell Diet Coke? They had come in for burgers and diet cokes and no Coke. It’s what they always had.

I wouldn’t go to a pub for only burgers and cokes. I always understood soft drinks in pubs are expensive. Go to McDonald’s. Trump likes McDonald’s, and Diet Coke.

Isn’t some part of going on holiday trying different things? Have a beer.

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Ghosts

If you have never seen the BBC comedy series Ghosts, it concerns a married couple who inherit a haunted mansion. The wife dies, but recovers and, as a consequence, can see and talk to the ghosts who inhabit the house.

It ran for 34 episodes.

Like many comedy shows, eg The Office, it was taken on by the USA and dragged out for everything you could imagine and more.

So far, the USA version of the show has run for 94 episodes. One series there is nearly as long as the entire run here.

The BBC here in the UK does show the American version. We noted the introductory credits of a recent episode:

There are two executive producers.

Then three executive producers.

Then three executive producers.

Then three executive producers.

Then one executive producer.

Then another executive producer.

Then an executive producer.

Then two executive producers.

Then a co-executive producer.

Then a co-executive producer.

Then a co-executive producer.

Then a co-executive producer.

Then another co-executive producer.

Then a co-executive producer.

Then a consulting producer.

Then it was produced by two more people.

And there is a co-producer.

And another co-producer.

I wonder what all these variations of producer actually produce…

If only it was funny.