Believe In Better?

There's an advert for Sky TV on at the moment, trying to sell a subscription to their so called "Knowledge Pack". I say so called as Sky's definition of "knowledge" is fairly narrow. Think TV channels filled with documentaries about World War II, Nostradamus and things exploding. This particular advertisement features a stereotypical Camford student. She can be seen wandering around a university, poking at dead insects, claiming that watching documentaries on Sky (presumably including "Inside the World's Fattest Man" and "Miami Ink") inspired her to pursue a degree in Entomology. Now unless her degree has a large part of it's content devoted to the study of how Nostradamus predicted fat, tattooed Nazis would breed exploding insects, then I'm understandably sceptical about her claims 

But that's not the point.

So, you ask, what is?

The ad then goes on to tell us that her granny (who'd got Sky in before her parents did) would phone or text (to gloat no doubt) about the unbelievable shows she was missing out by not having Sky ("Fuck, you wanna seen the show about how Nostradamus predicted that fat, tattooed Nazis would breed exploding insects....)

Sorry? Did I miss something?

Call me suspicious but a "granny" using a mobile phone? And texting? Not about her medication or what the neighbours dog is leaving in the garden, but about TV shows on Sky? Right. You can only imagine the content of these texts. Either "Saw gr8 doc on sky 2 inspire u 2 uni luv u gran" Or "f off ur prnts r a par ov tite cnts thy shud gt thr own sky lolz".

So what I've taken from the ad is if you aspire to be like our plummy heroine then you don't need to subscribe to Sky. What you need to succeed is an elderly relative, with good eyesight and non-arthritic thumbs, texting you about how good some programmes you don't watch are.

"Top" UK University here I come.