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Last night, I was channel flicking when I saw an advert for a TV show on one of our many foreign channels. It was a columbian channel and the show was a cookery show hosted by a chinese chef. After numerous clips of the no-doubt-famous chef chopping vegetables and throwing them in his wok, I could hardly contain myself as they posted the title of the show…. “Just Ming”!

Maybe the show is not selling well? Perhaps the columbians know what we, the scots, mean by the word “ming”? Who knows? Maybe my columbian friend, Santiago, has returned home and taught the masses.

Sometimes, I wish our TV and video didn’t use NTSC format (Some trivia for you: NTSC was the format set by the National Television System committee but the inventors named it “Never the same colour”). This format is incompatible with the UK system (PAL). Otherwise, I’d record our local, cheesy but brilliantly trashy TV and send it home for a laugh!

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