Iron chancellors and Scouse songstresses

This makes me wince... probably because I'm supposed to be having a wisdom tooth out at some point in this next decade:

Chancellor Gordon Brown has allowed a dentist to drill through to deep nerve tissue beneath his teeth without using an anaesthetic.

Mr Brown made the apparently painful decision because he did not want his mouth to freeze up just hours before he was due to deliver a speech. (more)

Don't you feel better knowing that the country's probably going to be run by a man who's THAT HARD? I bet he gargles with Irn Bru and everything. (Mind you, if he does, no wonder why he's at the dentist, etc.)

Now I'm nodding off to sleep watching Never Mind The Buzzcocks - which is much better with Simon Amstell presenting, don't you think? - and sometime Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm's on it. I'd forgotten all about her, but guess what, she's got a new single out and a new fringe and everything. I don't care what the single sounds like and I don't really want to find out, because her musical career's been a bit rubbish, frankly. (Her fringe suits her, mind.)

But she seems like a really nice person. Astonishingly nice. Like someone you'd really want as your friend. She could give up the pop star pretence and just go on TV as a Professional Nice Person. Not quite sure why this sticks in my head, but with my telly full of sneering tossers, cackling thickos and bossy know-it-alls, it feels like a pleasant change. Then again, it could just be the fringe...

Comments

[Greezy Pimp]

I read and can't believe that Gordon Brown story. It hurts having the pain killing injection at the dentists, root canal work would be unbearable for anyone and leave his face looking even more like a baboons arse he'd never be able to deliver a speech some hours later. Just trying to make him look the strong man to run our country. Utter nonsense!

[andrew]

They had a dentist on the PM programme on Radio 4 saying that the whole 'iron man' thing is a load of cobblers. This was probably the second part of a two-stage procedure at which point the tooth is dead so it's all just drilling away at dead tooth. He said that singers and athletes ask him to do it without anaesthetic all the time. So nice try, Gordie, but we know you're a big Scottish softie really, trying to make PR out of nothing.

And, no, I don't think NMTB "is much better with Simon Amstell presenting". Mark Lamarr is infinitely funnier.

[Inspector Sands]

Next time, I shall write ironic posts in bright pink.