Snap

Something else I missed was a chance to boo the competitors @ the Champions League final for doing the Knee of Shame in support of American criminals and anarchists here, who want to abolish the police to make life easier for criminals.

Totally blasé

Oh, dear. I seem to have missed the Friends reunion special. But not having watched any of the previous episodes, I find that I’m not too bothered.

New blood

What the WW desperately needs is some cruiserweights who can put on a lively wrestling display without having to resort to a 7-foot minder or a gang of hangers-on. And retire waste of space pensioners like Rollins.

Being prepared

The pilot of the quirky cop show Due South teaches us a very valuable lesson – always have a high cliff handy for the bad guys to go over to crash & burn.

Hazard of the trade

The MotoGP race was overshadowed by the death of one of the Moto3 riders after a crash yesterday. Bastianini didn’t even get to the start line. He ran up the back of Zarco at the end of the warm-up lap and everyone zoomed off without him.
    Marc Marquez crashed at the start of lap 2, then Bagnaia when he was leading. Then things calmed down until the end. Rins and Nakagami bit the dust and Quateraro had a comfortable win whilst the lead group squabbled behind him.

Gravel trapped

Same story for Moto2; a casualty right away. Another on lap 4, Lowes of GB was running with the leaders. 4 more gone, all trying to hard. Then Lowes off from 2nd, doing the same with 6 laps to go. Bummer.
    What a last lap ride to a win by Gardner!

Guess again

400 Olympic swimming pools of sewage (dumped in rivers by water companies) gives how much of a mental image of the quantity? Absolutely none at all. An Olympic swimming pool isn’t a volume real people know.

Lots to go round

 Glorious weather here and in Italy for the Moto3 race. A crash at the back just before the first bend! 4 more gone just a short time later on the first lap. Then it settled down to who would get the best slipstream to the line at the end.
    McPhee, the British hope, had a rush of blood and went from 11th to the lead with 6/20 laps to go. Didn’t last and he finished 9th.

Oi! Nark it!

There should be a law against showing the same old, same old clip/plug for a TV series for more than a week. And a massive fine for doing it. After a week, the episode from which the clip is taken is probably history and there is only so much the punters can be expected to bear!
    Fox is probably the worst offender.

I believe him (ha, ha!)

Desperate Dom took his road trip which gave Barnard Castle some publicity because of death threats in London? Why couldn’t he have said that at the time?
    Including it in his megawhinge to Parliament makes it look like just a silly story he invented on the way there.

Panic over

Just how dangerous is “2C” of global warming? 2 centimetres isn’t much. 2 calories likewise. Even 2 cubic metres doesn’t exactly threaten a planet. So I don’t think we have anything to worry about.

Unfortunate association

When I’m not paying attention to the TV adverts, I’m still hearing plugs for Covid TV World. Which sounds a really safe place to shop. Not.

Tornado Alley or Masochism Alley?

Watching the super-CGI 1996 epic Twister last night set me wondering why people choose to live in areas where everything can be trashed around them in minutes by a wild weather event. And they can be wiped out as easily.
    That’s real people, not the nutters who chase tornadoes.

No way at all

Blade Runner 2049 is a strong successor visually and tonally to the 1982 film? Don’t believe a word of it. And don’t waste three and a quarter hours of your life, including adverts, on watching it.

Just how gullible do they think we are?

“Only the BT network is backed up by BT stuff”, proclaims the TV advert. And that’s supposed to be impressive and an incentive to break a leg to sign up?

Solidarity

Who says the European Union never agrees on anything? They managed to conspire to give the UK Nul Points in the Eurovision affair. And got Israel, which isn’t even part of Europe, to join in their dirty tricks campaign.

No worries

“Will Princess Diana ever be able to rest in peace?” a concerned citizen asks. Good news! She’s out of it and only her family is being upset by Bashirgate and all the rest.

Better out than in

Sacked Chief Advisor in Chief boots former employer in gulags. No one surprised. 7 hours of revenge and even stevenage in front of Commons committees.
    Then off into obscurity for Desperate Dom?

Somewhat off target

Robin Hood: The Rebellion on the Syfy Channel? Fi, yes. Sci, hardly.

Brilliant idea

Sniffer dogs with a 94% success rate to screen queues at airports for plague spreaders? That’s definitely the sort of out of the box thinking we need!

More info needed

“Boris bottles fixing social care scandal” read the headline. Well, hooray! I thought.
    But what exactly are Boris bottles?

Suspicions

What was the real purpose of Desperate Dom Cummings’ previews of what he intended to tell the Commoners to trash the PM? Talking they up to increase their price in the non-fungible tokens market?

New gag needed

That trick of wrestlers charging the ring post with a shoulder and sustaining an apparently life-threatening injury is becoming a really hairy old cliché, even by WW standards. Especially if the actors are unable to sell the impact as anything like real.
    But if it sets up a boot in the mush for Boring Bobby Lashley, okay.

More cash down the drain?

NASA is experimenting with a supersonic jet at a time when air travel is being frowned upon from a great height. Their plane won’t be as fast as Concorde but it won’t make a loud sonic bang when travelling over land, just a gentle pop.
    But how it will get on when jet fuel is banned remains to be seen. Or whether it will get into service before then.

Life is tough all over

Divorce lawyers are outraged, I read. Why? Because their adversaries; presumably blokes; are hiding their wealth in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and the lawyers can’t grab a slice of it.

Aptly named

Heads should roll at the Can’t Prosecute Service if it really has wasted 10 million quid of taxpayers’ cash on dragging two former coppers and a solicitor to court over a ‘cover up’ in relation to the Hillsborough football ground disaster, only for the judge to declare there’s no case to answer.

Nothing changes

There was an enormous uproar when it was revealed that MPs were putting things like the upkeep of their duck house on expenses. Thing will change, we’re told. But they didn’t if MPs are now being outed for spending vast amounts of taxpayers’ cash on fancy phones and video equipment for making propaganda films of Youtube, etc.

Could be an eternal complaint

Don’t you just hate it when you do a careful sweep to the left with the mouse to select something, and the bloody cursor promptly bounces to the right and discards all your good work?

Par for the course

The illegal regime in Belarus goes in for hijacking an airliner belonging to a foreign country to kidnap a dissenter?
    No surprise there.

P.S.

“Lessons will be learnt,” sez the BBC.
    “Yeah, right,” say the rest of us.
    It wasn’t just one bad apple, the BBC barrel was full of them. And probably still is.

The Right Choice

How many people are like me – they didn’t bother watching the much-hyped Bashir/Princess Di TV interview? Billions?
    All now feeling smug because we didn’t waste an hour of our life, or however long it was, on BS.

A point of view

One way to classify words is in terms of their logical opposite. Like staycation. The opposite of which is leavecation, which makes no sense. And if the opposite is a junk work, so is the original.

Not loitering

Monaco, we are told, is the most glamorous venue on the F1 calendar. Not much to offset against the boredom of the procession round a track where overtaking rarely happens.
    One notch of fast-forward after lap 7 at normal speed, 3 notches during the adverts, which kept the shouty bloke silenced. The only drama was Botas cancelled because they couldn’t get one of his wheels off at his pit stop.
    Start to finish in half or so of an hour. And the cat slept right through it.

Questions, questions

A charity ad featuring some poor woman who has to walk for 6 hours to provide water for her grandchildren prompts two questions. What is the government of the country where she lives doing to provide their water? And why does the family linger for generations in a place where there is no water?

Tripe in large quantities

Well, that was a load of crap! Viewers of the latest effort from WW SmackDown! would have been buzzed regularly for repetition had they been competing in Just A Minute. In fact, it’s a wonder the buzzers didn’t melt.

We’ll take his word for it

Someone else who’s getting a bashing is claiming he’s really a good guy. That Bashir bloke. Which means that everyone at the BBC who gave him special treatment needn’t lose their job. Wonderful news!

Well assassinated

MicroSoft creator Bill Gates seems to be getting a real bashing after his divorce was announced. His enemies seem to be trying to get him as hated as Harvey Weenstein and Mr. Epstein combined.

Wrong question

Can dogs eat bananas? a Daily Mail Correspondent wants to know. More to the point, will they eat bananas? Even if peeled by a human slave?

Crumbs!

10,000 quarantine checks every day on everyone who has been abroad sounds a bit excessive!
    And can we afford the billion Border Force agents needed?

Not such a guarantee after all

James Patterson is the boss. End of.
    The plug by Ian ‘Rebus’ Rankin rather loses its wheels when you notice that the entire set of books on offer in the catalogue is by Patterson PLUS some guy called Marshall Karp. Who, presumably, did the donkey work around Patterson’s ideas.
    Bee’s knees or Krap? That is the question.

Everything Shrinks

I happened to pay attention to a Birdseye fish finger advert and started to ask myself if they’ve shrunk. I’m sure the fish fingers I had for school dinners had a fish core with a square cross-section. The ones in the advert had fish only half as high as it was wide.

Weird Notion

It seems rather a far fetched notion that killer Fred West would have buried the bodies of victims in a café where he was just a customer. If he owned the place and had secure access, maybe.

Obfuscation Alley

Post Office chiefs could be hauled before the inquiry into their persecution and imprisonment of postmasters, but they definitely won’t lose their bonuses & gongs. Despite ruining over 700 lives.

Still with the Beeb

What do the BBC worthies mean by ‘deprived areas’ of Bolton? Areas where the people aren’t making an effort to make themselves undeprived? Areas where they are waiting for the mugs elsewhere to do the job for them?

No one to suffer, though

Martin Bashir is a disgrace for lying to Princess Diana. The BBC’s bosses are a disgrace for covering up what he did and getting rid of anyone who could blow the whistle. Lord Hall isn’t going to lose his peerage, though. In fact, everyone is just going to keep on his or her merry way.

I wish!

Our heroes are floating on the sea in a rubber boat, well pleased with themselves having just saved the world from a massive eruption of the Pacific ‘ring of fire’ volcanoes.
    Chomp! Don’t you just wish a giant shark would hoover them up at a gulp when the smugness was at its max? I know, I did!

Boggling mind

I read the other day that gas boilers could be replaced by ones using microwaves to heat the water. And because electricity is three times dearer than gas for the same amount of energy, the system will have to use cheap overnight electricity.
    Which will be fine only after someone straps on an artificial intelligence adjunct, which will be able to predict how much water needs to be heated overnight to last through the next day.

Which is he?

What those who are paying attention really want to know is if Prince Harry is really as thick as he appears to be. Is he really too dim to understand the first amendment to the US constitution? Or is he just too dim to listen to his minders, who should be telling him not to mess with America’s sacred institutions?

Will he, won’t he?

The nation waits anxiously to find out if the prime minister will knuckle under to the Death ‘n’ Doomsters of SAGE and  not unlock us on June 21st because some awkward sods are refusing the Chinese plague vaccination for non-medical reasons. Anyone who has Boris’ mobile phone number should give him a ring and tell him to get on with it.

Logical Conclusion

If half of the population has seen online abuse in the past year, as we’re invited to believe, then half the population needs to get a life.

Interesting Experiment

If you’re little and past it, like the tedious A.J. Styles of the WW, what do you do? Get yourself an 8-foot minder. Works in the TV wrestling world, but what about real life?

Interesting proposition

Prince Harry explained! He’s had too much mental health therapy, a newspaper doctor reckons, and that’s why he’s now an unreconstructed whinge merchant.

Expert knowledge

A spin-off from watching Canadian football is that you get attuned to the accent and you find yourself waiting for the closing credits of a film, like one on Talking Pictures last night, to confirm that it was made in Canada with a sprinkle of British stars.

Not somewhere to linger

The Great British Sewing Bee was the Pick of the Day on the BBC? No wonder I don’t watch their offerings any more; apart from the odd Cup Final.

Back to front

There was a picture in last Saturday’s paper of a Fairchild Metroliner jet plane, which had been clobbered in mid-air by a prop-driven Cirrus light plane.
    Both landed successfully, no one dead. There was a huge void in the green plane’s fuselage and it looked ready to fall in half. But the real mystery is why the slogan on the fuselage of ‘Key Lines Air’ was done in mirror writing on the starboard side. Was that supposed to be cute, or something?

Clobbering them where it hurts!

I was amused to read that new freedom of speech laws mean that universities, which have embraced the woke and cancel cultures with enthusiasm, are going to have to make probably huge compensation payments to staff and students who lose jobs and places on courses through being cancelled.

Another conclusion

When you think about it, it’s perfectly reasonable for a bread manufacturer to pick munching buttered toast and listening to The Pearl Fishers over having to hob the nob with George C. Looney in a video call.

Just started ‘Poseidon’s Arrow’

‘Cussler is hard to beat’ is quoted from a national newspaper on the jacket. Which, when you think about it, isn’t a brilliant recommendation as it carries the implication that the author can be beaten.
    And another thing; if Clive Cussler was coming up with the ideas and letting his son Dirk do the donkey work, the slogan should have been: ‘Cusslers are hard to beat’. Plural.

Cut the cliché

‘Sirens wailing in the distance’ at the end of a cops ‘n’ robbers film. But don’t they always? Far too late to be of any use. So why bother with the sirens and the rush?

A crashing finish

Morbidelli was squeezed off to a lap 1 crash in MotoGP. Will it rain? Yup with 24/27 laps to go. Miller dropped to 4th during the bike changes and Marc Marquez took the lead! Rins crashed exiting the pit lane. No wipers on the cameras?
    Big crash for Marquez at the end of lap 8. He got back to the points but crashed down & out with 9 laps to go. Zarco was faster than Miller at the end but it was too little and too late. Still no French winner of this race. Ducatis 1, 2 & 4.

Deep pockets, short arms

Rejected politician David Miliband, who’s bigging it up in the States, wants someone to work for him for 3 months for nothing. That’s a bloke who’s paid (rather than earns) a million bucks per annum. What a tight git.

Crashfest II

It was sunny but the track had wet spots for the Moto2 race in France. 4 down in the first 4 laps? Make that 6 including Sam Lowes. A couple more crashes then things got fairly sensible. But this race racked up a new record crash total for Le Mans. Lowes still 4th in the championship despite his crash.

Another guess

Work From Home is doomed, the experts reckon, because people are getting bored with their own household, especially if it’s just them, and eager to resume interacting with others. It will be interesting to see how this latest prediction pans out.

Crashfest

Soggy in France for the Moto3 race. Much abused John McPhee managed to complete the first lap without some bugger else crashing him out, and he went on to score his first points of the season with a 4th place whilst setting fastest laps. The magic figure of 100 crashes for the meeting was reached and exceeded during this race.

Give us a break

It looked like the score was going to be 900-nil after all the replays of that first goal, which was a cracker. But even so.

Cunning tactic

Turning the TV sound down to 11 so you can hear just crowd noise and mumbled voices of commentators removes their rambling pretty much but preserves a bit of atmosphere.

Worth a try

Should a player who falsely claims that his team should get a thrown in when the ball goes out of play get a warning? Brown card once, yellow card twice, red card and marching orders for thrice. It would certainly improve standards of sportsmanship.

The only way is let down

The final and last ever episode of Major Crimes had ‘RUSTY IS NEXT’ on a wall in blood, written by the totally tedious serial killer.
    If only! He was a whiney little git, just like Stroh, the serial killer.

Distinct lack of appreciation

An exciting Cup Final? The Mansion cat slept through the first half, had some tuna at half time then slept though the rest.
    The cat wasn’t woken up by all the booing before the kick off directed at the blokes doing the knee of shame on the pitch in support of American criminals.

A Fast conclusion

What does a bloke getting measured up for a suit have to do with travel insurance? It’s probably the Swiss Tony approach. He reckoned doing anything at all was like making love to a beautiful woman. This advert agency clearly reckons everything can be related to getting measured for a suit.
    “Suits you, sir! Ooooooh!”

No sale

Does the power industry have a moral compass? Adverts with some bloke got up to look like an elderly Albert Einstein in a bath trying to move ‘smart’ meters with a load of Warmist BS confirms that they are totally bent.

Good Guess

Independent confirmation comes from the fact that the Dodgy Cars Scofield is selling gin door-to-door. Clearly, his day in the car market is less than occupying.

Short supply

One gets the distinct impression that there are as many firms chasing the nation's dodgy old cars as there are dodgy old cars.

Strange Brew

I got a copy of the Sun the other day as a result of a mix-up @ the newsagent. I was amazed by the size of the type. It’s tiny. The impression I got is that the paper is designed as a broadsheet with a normal type size then the pages are optically shrunk down to tabloid size to reduce the amount of paper needed at the print works.

Surprise!

I did a tweak to my direct debit and took the opportunity to look at E.on’s slavery statement. There’s a load of blah, but basically, they’re against it. Not having any option about it.

Not impressive at all

“Since records began in 2007”, we were told about NHS waiting lists. The numbers can’t have been regarded as all that important if the collection process didn’t start until the end of Tony B. Liar’s spell as the boss of New Labour.

Information gap

Rinsing your mouth out with water after brushing your teeth is a bad idea, I read, because it washes the fluoride off your teeth. But if this is true, why do toothpaste manufacturers just tell you to brush for 2 minutes twice a day? Nothing about not rinsing.

Obvious, really

What is the hardest poetry to write, a Correspondent wants to know.
    The good stuff?

WW last resort

Things getting a bit boring in the ring? Send out Alexa and her little friend on swings in their playground, then roll the adverts.

How does he know?

There was some bloke in a Dr. Livingstone outfit holding up a sign reading: “Jesus Christ Will Return Soon” behind a BBC bod doing an outside broadcast in London during the lunchtime news yesterday.
    Not wearing a mask, the bloke! Shame he doesn’t have something useful to do.

They’re all at it

Trying to give the slow-moving E.on website some meter readings, I noticed that they have a Modern Slavery Statement. I decided not to waste time on it but it came as something of a surprise. I had no idea that the nation’s power companies go in for slavery, traditional or modern.

Another one not gone?

Apparently, the French hero Napoleon wasn’t above making cash out of the slave trade. Is he now going to be cancelled in his native land? Probably not, as it would be an admission of British superiority!

Coded Message?

Are we really facing crippling climate change problems, as Sir David Attenborough has claimed? Or is he just voicing his doubts about the ability of the current generation of woke panic-mongers to keep the lights on? As their ancestors have done very successfully for centuries, even during world wars.

We’re told relentlessly

It’s true. Prince Hairy and ’er indoors have to keep reminding people they’re the Duke & Duchess of Sussex or they’d be ignored completely.

We need to be told

“Banker assaulted wife in £11 million home”, the headline told me. But would it have been okay if the home was worth just £10 million?

Something else strange

We’re supposed to be croaking from global warming but the May Day bank holiday was officially the coldest and windiest on record, and killer whales have deserted freezing Scottish waters for warmer seas off Cornwall.

Another puzzle

How is it that people in ‘deprived’ areas can always scare up enough cash for enough booze to give them serious health problems and record death rates due to them?

A puzzle for the ages

How did Napoleon Bonaparte croak? The first guess was that his evil British gaolers fed him arsenic. Then he was supposed to have breathed in arsenic fumes from his green wallpaper. The latest notion is that it was in the eau de Cologne that he used. Wot next?

Interesting idea!

It has been suggested that the state should annex all the assets of compulsive gamblers to stop them handing vast sums to the operators of gambling websites.
    It’s probably all that would work.

Desperation move

You know they're really scraping the barrel when they have to put on Hitler’s Secret Sex Life to fill up a prime-time hour on Sky’s history channel.

Another faux inclusive

A newspaper columnist being unable to see how anyone can come out of the second lock-in completely unscathed is her failure and nothing to do with actuality.
    But at least she thinks fixing the multiple messes in Scotland is much more important than Wee Burney’s presidential ambitions.

Pull the other other one

Does the boss of Warburtons not taking a call from George C. Looney in a TV advert mean his bread is irresistible?
    Sorry, I’m still going to get mine at Aldi.

Not on the edge of my seat

Not exactly a frilling Grand Prix in Iberia. Hamilton had the better car for the track. Reading the Sunday paper while watching was a good idea.

Pull the other one

The food & advertising industries are really to blame for child obesity? Nothing to do with the parents? Really?

Credibility surge

Bilg Ates and his missus are getting a divorce with the usual cute woke explanation. Cue a rush of luvvies writing about how well they know the richest couple in the world and also knowing they just knew things were going to go blat!

Current reflex

“Suits you, sir!” Why is it that when I switch the TV on and find myself looking at the tail end of an episode of Father Brown on Alibi, I keep expecting to hear The Fast Show catch phrases? Probably because the characters look like the people the Fasters were taking the mickey out of.

Mystery moment

“WW recipes & videos” – what’s that all about? Reliving some anniversary from one of the world wars? Surprise! It’s actually Weight Watchers and the obsession some people have for dieting and losing a stone for summer.

Faint praise

It’s not actually doing the French president any favours to call him the next Napoleon when you remember that, like Mr. Hitler, the British saw off Mr. Bonaparte.

Puff & nonsense

“10 pages of unrivalled average” is what the headline should have read! (rather than ‘coverage’)

Things Mr. Internet doesn’t know

What is a hartle and how deep is its hartlepool? Just spurious claims that you can get low prices on hartle from Amazon and stuff about people named Hartle. Nothing about the fish.

You can always please someone

The newspapers have been going spare, agitating for the government to put an end to lock-in right away, instead of next month or whenever. Their case isn’t helped by the large number of people who are claiming that they are quite happy being locked in; it has done wonders for their mental health; and they’re up for more of it.

Foul!

23:03, BBC TV News Channel – BREAKING : The polls have closed in today’s elections.
    That’s not bloody news. Everyone knew they would close @ 10 p.m. It would have been news only if it hadn’t happened for some reason or other.

Variable news

Bad News: the French have sent a gunboat to intimidate the people of Jersey over letting their fishing fleet hoover up all the fish around the Channel Islands.
    Good News: it doesn’t have any guns!

Last hurrah?

If I’m not here on Sunday, blame the Chinese. One of their rockets; a 20-ton monster used to launch building bits for their personal space station, is out of control, due to re-enter the atmosphere sometime, and expected to do so sometime tomorrow.
    Or not
    And bits big enough to do a lot of damage could hit a populated area anywhere in the zone between Peking in the north and New Zealand in the south.

Honesty!

“Cast in order of relevance” – wouldn’t you just love to see that at the top of a film’s credits list?

Democratic Dance

There was a one-way system in operation in my local polling station. For the benefit of me and just one other person during my morning visit. Maybe everyone else is shielding, or they’ve gone back to work.

Just daft

“NatWest – tomorrow begins today” sez the TV ad. Cobblers! Tomorrow doesn’t begin until today is over and done with – any fule kno that – and telling blatant lies changes nothing.

Dead Zone

What’s a good way to get depressed? Look at what’s on offer from Channels 1-5 in the evening. A sewing bee, glamping, a crap gypsy scrap merchant . . . Sheee!
    Quick, turn the page.

Ta, for that

It’s 6 p.m. on a Tuesday. Does telling the customers what’s on Fox @ 9 p.m. on Wednesday make them create a mental bookmark? Or does it just remind them that editions of The Fast Show are being shown on Gold @ that time?

Another enigma

I’ve noticed certain a ‘news’ organization using ‘The Planet’ as a term of derision. Thus when I read ‘the Planet’ in the Daily Mail’s Saturday Essay, I immediately wondered about that capital letter. Totally unjustified in normal circumstances. Half a joke? Or just a bit of wonkism?

Not enough knees jerked?

Has the cosmetic boycott of social meeja been a tragedy for them? Or was it business pretty much as usual? I suspect the latter.

Strong finish

Deadpool 2 has to have some of the best closing titles ever made. Until they go into the acres of boring small-print text. Right, I’m off to reload my TV with swear words, as that film exhausted the stock completely and then some.

Easy decision

Do I want access to Jay Blades’ exclusive memoir?
    If I need to find out who he is first, naaah!

Hubris strikes again

Some organization ignores talent for diversity virtue-flagging, builds up someone because they’re non-white and splat! Egg all over the faces @ BAFTA over some bloke I’ve never heard of.
    Which rather reduces the impact.

As in “you’ve had your”?

Watching “ChiPs” on TV tells you two things – how daft American drivers are and what firebombs their cars become when they crash.

White ’coz white is all right

Upset by this year’s dead Oscars? Actually, no. I wouldn’t have noticed if I hadn’t seen the whinges in the paper.

Not paying attention

Memo to the script rotter of Death In Paradise: they don’t put pens in polling booths, they’re too nickable. It’s always small pencils.
    Rewrite!

Predictable

You can tell it’s a bank holiday – it’s bloody raining.

Portagoose Grand Prize

Raikkonen into the gravel as lap 1 ended, safety car, yawn. Louie Sam Milton back to 3rd at the restart but soon leading.
    “WHEN DRIVING NEVER DRINK” What, not even water, milk, tea, coffee, squash?
    Perez stayed on his first set of tyres for 52 laps and led a lot before Louie took over. The plot to give Verstappen a crack @ Louie failed.
    Louis was handed the win when 2nd & 3rd stopped for more tyres to chase for the fastest lap point. Yawn.

Otherwise engaged

Galaxy Quest (1999) is a daft sciffy film but fun. But don’t ask the Mansion cat for a plot summary. She scoffed half a tin of tuna in springwater for her tea and slept right through it.

Modern Wisdom

“In sameness there is strength”, I seem to remember. Which means there can be no incentive to stop and look for something new when fast-forwarding through advert breaks if they’re going to be the same old same old.

And finally

A Marquez bit the dust early in the MotoGP race at Jerez. But it was Alex, the younger brother. Two more gone by the end of lap 3. Not many red Ducatis up front. The elder Binder joined the crashers on lap 13/25.
    Jack Miller (Ducati) astonished the commentators first by taking the lead from series leader Quateraro, who began to go backwards, and then by keeping his head and winning.

Political wonk

The SNP’s foreign affairs guy reckons Scotland would totally sign up for the euro if granted EU membership. Strange that he doesn’t know that it would be a condition of the membership and not signing up for the euro would be not on.
    The quality of today’s politicians is sadly lacking.

Meanwhile, in Spain

Moto2 produced a classic turn 6 crash with Sam Lowes setting fastest laps in 4th place. More crashes to come, including a bike spinning end over end and just missing a fallen rider!
    DiGi scored his first ever Moto2 win and Lowes made the podium in 3rd place.

Rank amateurs

We’re hearing a lot of tosh from the wooden leader of the Labour party, who clearly isn’t up on his political history. I’ve just swum through some stuff that was put on the internet in 2002/03, when the Bush/Blair axis was doing regime change in Iraq. Now, there was a period of real sleaze! New Labour was more than neck-deep in it!

Bikers in España

In the Spanish Moto3 race in Jerez, British hopeful McPhee crashed on lap 1, completing 4 out of 4 episodes of nul points. Rodrigo crashed out from the lead on lap 5; ugly air-bag job. Basher Binder was still at it.
    Another win for the teenager Acosta after 2 Red Bull team-mates crashed out @ the last gasp.

Whatever turns you on

Some companies are compiling a weird TV corporate image. Such as Peloton, which wants people to conjure up mental pictures of smug, sweaty women.

Wheeee!

I see the Dodgy Cars Bloke has gone from admitting that his outfit won’t give much of a deal for a used car to fake acrobatics. Looks like the competition is winning if his paymaster is so desperate for attention.

Give it a rest

Inclusives are idleness incarnate but the stock in trade of the world of journalism. Things like: “During lock-in evenings, who hasn’t reached for their favourite tipple to provide some respite?”
    Well, me, actually. I have a glass of wine with dinner then there are lots of things to do and boozing is forgotten until the following evening. And most of my contacts are the same. When we have an evening conversation, neither ever sounds sloshed to the other.

Inclusive garbage

“Each life lost to coronavirus is a tragedy” is bollocks. By the law of averages, a fair number of people the world could well do without will have croaked of the Chinese plague. And by the same token, other diseases and conditions will have claimed the lives of a fair number of people who were a credit to the human race, either inevitably or because of the distraction of the Chinese plague.