A post that isn't a list or a re-cap...

Sorry about all those lists and re-caps, we've been unutterably shit with the posting lately. We hate admitting when we've been shit, but we owe it to you, so: WE'VE BEEN SHIT. Moving swiftly on...

This is one of those obligatory X Factor posts that a lot of 'irreverent' (i.e. pretentious and humourless) blogs put up, having not written a single thing about the entire TV series previously. Well we have written about the X Factor previously, if only to instruct you not to witch-hunt Dannii Minogue (BUT WE HAVE, it still counts) so our 'obligatory X Factor post' is not irreverently wanky, it is justified and humourful (bear with us).

Well Joe McElderry won. Yes, the sweet, polite, gay one with the flawless musical theatre vocals and all the clout and personality of your average reality TV contest (so not much). But what does it all mean? Well damned if we know. Apparently Monsieur Cowell (the currently maths-obsessed Percentage Master) wants to take time over McElderberry Cordial's debut album, but we have a sinking feeling that no matter how long they take, it's not going to be the breakaway pure-as-the-driven-snow, kids-friendly, Disneyfied, High School Musical-style success that everyone at ITV is hoping.

More pronounced than any concerns we have over the Elderflower's career, is an overwhelming concern for the horridity (it's a real word, it exists) of that orange font up there. Utterly vile. And before anyone starts pointing fingers at OUR orange font in OUR wondrous logo, we would just like to say that it is flowery and pretty and festive, not just there, as Joe McBlossomberry's is.