Some old Polish guy died today

And if all you knew of world events was learnt from Sky News, you could be forgiven for thinking that nothing else happened.
At all.
Seriously, I've been flicking over every now and then for the last five hours or so, while doing housework and shit and at no stage has there been anything on but news of a dead pope.
I. Don't. Care.
JP2 was a good publicist who did pretty much nothing else of significance. And before any of his fan club start dribbling about how he 'destabilised' the communist regime in Poland, let me just say "Bullshit!"
If you were going to bang on about JP2's opposition to modern materialism, go and have a look around the Vatican, local cathedral or even Popey's wardrobe, then look up the word "hypocrite". You'll find a photo of an old hunchback Pole there.