Be Prepared

Everyone here @ the Mansion is doing panic buying! We are assured that the lack of delivery drivers and the cost of buying stuff from China going up by 1,000% in some cases means empty shops come Christmas. Wonderful.
    There are some who are investing in home-brew kits after learning that pubs will experience beer shortages. No doubt all the VAT is doing the Chancellor some good.

Past-blaster

Good Grief! Billy Gunn and sons on Dynamite. No Road Dogg? Or X-Pack Sux? Maybe next week.

No thanx

The Stephen Lawrence murder and subsequent police shambles is worthy but pretty masochistic TV viewing. Especially three helpings of it starting on a bank holiday.

A new low

C.M. Punk is Junk on AEW? Did they bin the All Elite tag for the occasion? “No one deserves it more”, was Good ’Ol J.R.’s take on the ovation. What a load of crap. As was the “Best In The World” tag applied to Punk is Junk.
    If that’s true, we need another world ’coz this one sucks.

Original or imitation?

An episode of The Champions – ‘Nutcracker’, first shown on 1969/02/01 features a bloke being Ipcressed by a dentist spy. Which left me wondering which came first, the book or the TV episode. Cue a trip to Mr. Internet. And the book by Len Deighton was published in 1962. Which is no real surprise.

Even more pointless

Well, if Formula One had any credibility left, it was shot to bits in Belgium yesterday. Points awarded on the basis of qualifying positions after 2 laps sloshing about behind the safety car? Zero actual racing after the official time slot had run out? Just a sick joke. Bollocks.

Pointless

When you think about it, a wrestler wearing a vest with the slogan “The Truth Is The Truth” on it has no more value or enlightenment than claiming “The Truth Is Custard”.

Buck passed successfully

“As time runs out, God help those left behind”. So nothing for us humans to worry about going on in Afghanistan? That’s a relief.

Electronically Surplus

What is the point of a company sending you an automated email saying: “Rejoice! We’ve delivered your order!”?
    I bloody know. I was there at the time of arrival.

And finally

Sam Lowes went into the lead on lap 1/18 in Moto2! Didn’t stay there, though. Would he hang on to 3rd behind Gardner and Bezzecchi? No, Navarro rained on his parade.

Main Event second not third

Cal Crutchlow had an outing @ Silverstone in the MotoGP race. Marq Marquez was crashed out on lap 1/20 by Martin being stoopid. Quateraro was way out ahead of everyone else at the front. But the story of the day was Espargaro giving the Aprillia team their first podium with his 3rd place.

Shock-Horror!

Also on TV: some dippy bird with a fringe advertising CBD drops. Ain’t that something to do with cannabis? How do they get away with it?

Very gentlemanly outing

There’s a much more sensible start time for MotoGP in England. The British hope in Moto3, John McPhee, was back in 15th place in a big bunch in the early laps. We had 2 well off the front with a gaggle scrapping for 3rd.
    Fenati was well ahead on the last lap and McPhee’s 11th was ‘brilliant’ according to one of the commentators.

What a lousy message

The Uncle Ben’s rice packets look strange in the TV adverts without his image on them. Ditch the black guy to reassure the customers that eating rice doesn’t make them ray-sists? The wonk ‘culture’ has a hell of a lot to answer for.

Real Dilemma

A Daily Mail columnist reports she had to stop watching a trashy reality TV show because it made her want to stick pin in her eyes.
    Maybe she needs to rethink her viewing habits. But that would deprive her of the column’s essential cheesy photo. So maybe not.

Ornamental?

That’s the only conclusion possible about the London police if they let the Xtinction yobs run riot and block off streets without being arrested and fined until the pips squeak.

More Evil

I loved reading that the political enemies who tried to claim PM Boris fiddled the time a photograph of his observing a minute’s silence was taken came unstuck big time because they didn’t know he keeps his watch about a quarter of an hour fast to try to be less late.

Equal Evil?

War Hammer 40,000 was what the advert was for. I had the sound muted, so I don’t know the exact details, but collecting 40,000 plastic figures to paint @ 9 quid a pop seems just as bad as being addicted to online gambling.

Monster Merchandise

If the mass-murderer Joe Stalin can be rehabilitated in Russia and made the subject of a marketing campaign for souvenir mugs and stuff, could the same happen to someone like Tony Blair? Say, at about the end of the present century?
    Okay, he’s not in Stalin’s league, but stranger things have happened at sea.

They’re Everywhere!

There is no getting away from the WW. There was the All Mighty Bobby Lashley strutting his stuff before getting his ass whupped by the hero in a film on the Horror Channel last night.

Still Yawning

They just love their numbers on the TV news channels, don’t they? The number of new plague cases. The number of people flown out of Kabul, the number of illegals boating across the Channel. In one eye and out the other.

Mind boggling

A Five Girl Burger? Must be intended for a really BIG and hungry cannibal.

Still with the WW

How much practice does a TV grappler need to kick at somebody’s head but send their foot whistling over the other bloke’s bonce? Must be a fair amount.

Blissful ignorance?

The enormous lady wrestler Dewdrop spells her name Doudrop. But it still sounds like a droplet on the end of the nose of someone with a streaming cold. Does she know that?

Shroud-Waving Rules

Option 1: focus on the number of people rescued from the Talibandits. Option 2: focus on the number who will be left behind. Which will the papers go for? Definitely not No. 1.

Just NBG

If people have so little to do with their lives that they are blowing all their cash on betting websites, that doesn’t say much for the quality of our fellow citizens.

Not a nice surprise!

If you venture into a park in Vancouver, take your gun or an armed bodyguard with you. The coyotes there are scoffing scraps of drugs left by fresh-air fiends and becoming bold enough to attack human adults.

Not engaged

Is it possible to get excited about the paralympics? If you felt no involvement with the Olympic Olympics, not really. But it makes a change from wall-to-wall Afghanistan on the news.

Doesn’t fall over in amazement

People who don’t have the money can’t afford to provide their kids with nursery education, is one of the latest announcements from the Dept. of the Bleedin’ Obvious.

Levelling Down

Staycationers are being blamed for flattening all the nation’s hills and mountains with their rambler’s boots and taking all interest out of the national landscape. Nope, you can’t win!

Good news

Prince Hairy & his missus haven’t been apologized to by the Royal Family and they are going to boycott Britain until it happens. “They never shall be missed!”

You can’t win

If the police shove someone who’s a danger to other people in a cell, up jumps some legal clown to yell about unlawful detention. Cash outweighs principles every day of the week.

Gleaming in Purple & Gold?

A booster inoculation programme “will start with the most vulnerable cohorts”. Who comes up with garbage like that? Oh, it’s the current Health Sec.

The oldies are the goodies

Doesn’t Clint Eastwood look young in Magnum Force (1973)? Mind you, 48 years makes a lot of difference. There’s Hutch but where’s Starsky?

No Point To It

If the stuff sold by other companies is price-matched to Aldi, why go anywhere else?

Locked-in response

It’s no good. I keep hearing “Covid PC World” when that advert comes on.

What a dreadful job!

If you’re a TV newsreader, you’re lucky to get to the grand old age of 60 without being burnt out. The job is that taxing, one of the blokes who does it would have us believe.

Lies, damn lies & advertising

Using Eon Next electricity will have a positive effect on climate change? What utter bollocks. There isn’t enough being used to have the slightest measurable effect.

Sic Transit

Another thing I’ve read is that the most famous comedian in the country has met a premature end. No, never heard of him, was my reaction to the obituaries. So much for fame.
    Same reaction when I encounter a guest columnist whose name draws a total blank.

Sound & Fury

From the reports I’ve read of the Commons ‘debate’ on Afghanistan, it seems to have been an occasion for idiots and the ignorant to sound off and confirm their status. Which doesn’t get us much further forward.

Empty Spaces

If it’s silly to blame the PM for what’s happening in Afghanistan, that’s what Labour, the Liberals, the SNP and the odd Green will do. Perish the thought they’d ever offer anything helpful or useful.

Easy Ride

That guy on the horse who celebrates the Calgary team’s TDs has a pretty easy time of things. How do you get a job like that?

Just a thought

Maybe they should offer Prince Hairy and his missus a job at the F.O. They have no idea what to do about Afghanistan either.

Yawn Again

The Foreign Office screwed up over Afghanistan. But it’s the F.O. It useless. Always has been, always will be. Which means that all the shock-horror outrage is confected BS by people going through the motions. Politicians & newspaper editors alike.

WoMD @ the Garrick?

Cherrie Blair was being economical with the truth in her rant against the men-only Garrick Club? Must have caught it from her husband.

Just Don’t

Ladies, like our fave Daily Mail correspondent, who feel they need a life transplant after scrolling through pictures of perfect houses, gardens & kids on Instagram, need to stop messing about on the internet and destroying their mental ’elf!

Off Target

“I’ll hold Boris responsible if my wife is harmed,” complained an ex-Marine in Afghanistan.
    Not the Taliban? The ones going round harming people? And nothing to do with him and his wife choosing to live somewhere uncivilized?

Stupid Exaggeration

It’s impossible to see the cost of applying the Triple Lock to pensions of £8 billion as ‘staggering’. Not when you think how much cash the Ministry of Defence blows on tanks and ships that don’t work. And the billion quid wasted on Afghanistan.

Oh, re-ya-lee!

I never thought reading the news on TV could be a particularly demanding job, but there’s a bloke who’s complaining that it’s so ‘taxing’ that he’s burnt out at 60. Presumably inviting a life of idleness on a fat pension courtesy of the licence-payers from now on?

One way of looking at it

With age comes a different perspective on life. One of my correspondents found that he read the government announcement of a ban on new gas boilers in 2035 as part of Boris’s greenwash posturing with complete indifference – mainly because he is in his mid-seventies now and he doesn’t expect to be alive then!

Fell for it

A woman on the news today was complaining that US troops invaded Afghanistan in 2001 ‘to make America safer’ and she was asking ‘How is America safer now?’
    But what she is ignoring is exactly who made the ‘safer’ claim. In fact, it was the same politicians who claimed that Saddam Hussein in Iraq had an arsenal of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Credibility shot to little bits.

Just plain daft

How is our clottish prime minister going to get all this extra aid that he’s promised to the people of Afghanistan without having it stolen by the Talibandits? But that’s Boris for you. He just doesn’t think these things through.

Like as if

Hexapods’ purpose Earth? Was a question asked of the alien party crashers in Arrival (2016). Don’t you just wish the answer that came back had been Lunch!

More cooking fat

What’s the most inconvenient aspect of a cat choosing to park on top of the TV box for a kip? It has to be a tail dangling in front of the gadget which detects signals from the remote control to prevent you from changing channels and making other adjustments.

Even More political BS

Why shouldn’t the Foreign Sec. Stay on holiday as Afghanistan ‘disintegrated’? Could he have done anything to prevent it? Of course, not. So all the outrage was confected by idiots.

A hollow façade

“A lie lasts a lifetime but the truth will live forever” is the cute strap line of a TV series. But swap over lie & truth and you have something that looks equally profound.
    Which underlines the perils of taking anything seen on TV or online all that seriously.
    Especially if a lie can be half-way around the world before the truth has got its pants on.

Bosh Journalism

Why would anyone be surprised that the Russia-loving spy @ the British embassy in Berlin has books in Russian ‘all written in Cyrillic script’? You’d be surprised only if they weren’t in Cyrillic.

It’s just the way things are

We’re hearing a lot of accusations that the British troops who were murdered by Talibandits in Afghanistan died in vain. But if they did, that’s just unfortunate. And The Universe doesn’t come with a guarantee that every life has to be meaningful and everyone has to make a lasting difference.
    In fact, it’s nothing to do with the dead soldiers and everything to do with the drug culture and the mega-amounts of cash the Talibandits are making and will make from their drug farms in Afghanistan.
    But on the positive side, the troops have frustrated the Taliban’s drug growing and selling activities for 20 years That has to count for something. And if the Afghan people aren’t prepared to stand up to the Talibandits in order to have human rights and a modern way of life, that’s their choice.

Good Old Daze

It’s ages since I last watched The Glimmer Man (1996) and it was pleasantly surprising to be reminded that Steven Seagal’s weird cop knew how to knock the stuffing out of bad guys instead of having to be nice to them.

Just Silly

Why would anyone be in a state of fear & trembling over whether pundit Andrew Neil is going to stop working for GB News? This is taking the current victim culture well over the edge.

New Abnormal

You’re nobody in Celeb-land if you haven’t had a struggle with mental health and alcohol. And maybe even drugs as an added ‘poor me’ bonus.
    Cynical? Just going from the celeb interview evidence.

Unrealistic, or what?

There’s something about writing for a newspaper that puts the brain into an alternative universe. Like the bloke who thinks that Dave the ex-Leader should pay back his ‘tainted’ millions.
    Next thing you know, he’ll be saying the same about Tony Bliar.

Poetical illogicality

“Do not stand at my grave and cry,
“I am not there – I did not die.”
    So how come you have a grave?

Logical consequence

Not much ring action in what used to be The Rock’s Show. Maybe the WW needs to change the name of the programme to SmacklessDown! to avoid being fined billions under the Trade Descriptions Act.

Different sort of pain

Not quite as severe a ‘bad hair day’ for Edmonton fans in this week’s match against the Montreal Alouettes. They got hammered at home 3-13 rather than losing by a single point.

No end to it

Some woman in America is trying to get the word ‘curry’ banned on colonialism grounds. But you could apply the same charge to most western European languages that are based on Latin. All a product of Roman colonialism.

Cooking Fat!

The cat jumps up and walks across the keyboard. Suddenly, the desktop has been rotated by 90 effin’ degrees! How the fuck did she manage that? I had no bloody idea.
    Have you ever tried to move a mouse pointer when up & down sends the pointer to left & right and left and right mean up & down? Ain’t bloody easy!

Weather Woes

Would it rain on the MotoGP race? Everyone was on slicks but there were white flags waving on lap 1/28. Marc Marquez was up with the leaders and led a couple of times.
    Some riders started swapping to a bike with wet tyres with 5 laps to go. Marquez led the leading group into the pits. Brad Binder stayed out, he got it right, he tiptoed round the last lap and he won. Despite the wets, Marquez fell off @ turn 1 on lap 27 and finished 15th.

More in Austria

Shambles @ the back @ turn 1 of the Moto2 race, lots off but only 2 out; a double long lap penalty for the culprit. It was all very well mannered after that.
    British hope Sam Lowes was a distant 4th at the end after taking pole. Fernandez won.

Both feet shot

The Bombers won the field position battle in the Friday Night CFL match, the Argos crippled themselves with penalties and weren’t up to much. Is Western Canada as far as you can get from China and its plague, and that’s why the CFL is playing there?

Still in Styria

But this week it was the Austrian Moto3 race on a dry track. One gone at the end of the first lap. Basher Binder tagged another rider off with 16/23 to go. Lots of scrapping at the front. Fenati was most mentioned but 5th and Garcia won another.

Falling well short

Dave the former Leader didn’t break any rules to make just $10 million from his efforts for the failed company Greensill? Which leaves him scrambling in the dust, way behind Tony B. Liar.
    Must try harder, Dave.

Groan!

Some crazy woman in the US is claiming we can’t have a curry because the concept is tainted with colonialism. But since when did America’s colonial ambitions have anything to do with us? Not since the 1770s.

Sheer perfection

Given Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions are 1% of the global total, the best summary of our government’s idiocy is “Your house is on fire so you go and pee on the garden gate and get fined for public urination”. Wish I’d come up with that!

Just levelling down

The once mighty Calgary Stampeders seem to be having a bad hair day every time they appear in their home stadium. The Argos last week, the BC Lions this week. They are definitely not used to starting a season 0-2.

A whole basket short of a picnic

How can Prince Andrew have a downfall when he’s currently a non-person and has been for ages? Don’t make no sense.

Credibility requirement

If you don’t have some initials, you’re no one in the world of female wrestling.     A.S.H., D.M.D.; wot next?

Yeah, Right

Okay, the script person of the series Whiskey Cavalier thinks killing Prince Hairy & Megan the Merciless will destabilize our government? Sounds like a huge excess of whiskey was involved in dreaming up that one!

Yawn again

DC Comics plumbs the depths. Robin is a part-time poofter. The things some people will do to get noticed. What next? Batman as a dirty old man? Or maybe they did that whilst I wasn’t paying attention

No Chance

Don’t you just wish that people would create mental wealth instead of using mental ’elf as an alibi?

Spot the difference

That’s a good point about the UN’s forecasts about global warming looking pretty similar to all the wild exaggerations we got about what the Chinese plague would do. And there’s a similar dose of coulds and mights and maybes and a bottom line of just plain ‘we have no idea, really’.

Yawn

Huge come down for the fans of WW’s RAW. After Cena & Goldberg strutting their stuff, it was back to the Veins bloke and the titchy Styles. Who had to be saved by sidekicks.

A chance to be an example

Let us hope that everyone who is out gloriously shooting grice today is suitably masked and safely spaced.

Not a brilliant example

“Most elite universities to still teach online in the new term” by the Education Editor. Who didn’t spot that the ‘to’ should have been placed after the ‘still’.

Today’s Aunt Sally

You can tell things are getting back to normal if the newspapers are pretending there’s a furious row about private schools being better at grade inflation than state schools.

Good point

Pay stop-at-home civil servants less because their expenses are reduced? Sounds a great idea from the taxpayer’s point of view.

No self-respect

I’ve just seen a picture of entertainer Ant looking posh at his wedding beside another of his ex-wife looking like a bag lady in holey jeans which look like they were rescued from a skip. No wonder he dumped her!

Brain-dead

The government has to blow half a million quid per year on storing boats used by illegal immigrants to cross the Channel in case the owners turn up to claim them. That’s the law because the boneheads in office can’t be bothered changing it to do the taxpayer a favour.

Mixed message

Wearing a face mask is now seen as a political statement, according to one of the government’s minions. Shame no one can agree on the message that statement gives.

Stupid consequences

You can’t give away the AstraZeneca vaccine for the Chinese plague in Africa after all the propaganda against it from EU leaders like Merkel & Macron. But will they accept responsibility for all the Africans who die unvaccinated? Joke.

Cancel Culture

How welcome are Eskimos in Edmonton? About as welcome as Redskins in Washington, D.C.
    Who needs an offence when you have a defence and special teams? Well, the guys in Edmonton with antlers now and the Ottawa Redblacks for starters. Only one offensive TD in their match, and that was called back for a penalty. The antler guys ending up 1 yard short of a TD that would have given them a win with 0:00 on the clock summed up the day for both offences.

Phew, Gov!

Still Way Out West, the Argos were in Calgary, where the Stamps started 2 & out. The Argos added +2 to a TD drive, 8-0. The 75-year-old Stamps started Q2 with a FG, 8-3. A 58 yard FG try by the Argos missed rather than falling short. The Stamps went ahead with a TD and +2, 8-11.
    The Stamps kicked a FG. Bebe kicked a 53 yarder for 11-14; and missed a 28-yarder for 1 point. 12-14 at half time.
    Almost an Argo TD from the first play of Q3, but the Stamps forced a fumble into their end zone for a touch-back. The Stamps had a TD cancelled by a challenge and ended up with a FG, 12-17.
    The Argos seemed stuck playing catch-up but they got to 20-all with 8 minutes to go. They went ahead with a FG with 37 seconds left, 23-20. Mitchell’s first play was picked. Game over.
    The Stampeders are now only 11-1 up in their series with the Argonauts.

Just a thought . . .

Is changing the name to Great Movies an example of TV dumbing down by channel executives who didn’t think the customers would get the word Paramount?

MotoGP of Mass Destruction

MotoGP was officially a dry race with lots of clouds over central Austria. Lots of aggro early on and a red flag on lap 3 after a bike on fire set the track ablaze, triggering a lengthy clean-up. The second try began three-quarters of an hour after the official start time.
    Martin & Mir pulled a gap. There were 2 DNFs due to mechanicals, then Miller crashed with 10/27 laps to go. Martin, on a Ducatti, scored his first MotoGP win.

Closer Battle

Pretty much a dry line for 25 laps of Moto2 but a crash at the end of lap 1. Much more of a competition at the front; until it became two separate pairs swapping places; until Gardner made a bog of it fighting for the lead. The kid in 2nd got a long lap penalty and bogged it up? Not quite. Bezzecchi won comfortably.

Summer break over

The Styrian Moto3 race was run on a wet track with bits of a dry line, some riders on wets, some on slicks and no one doing anything daft. The first crash wasn’t until lap 9/23.
    Garcia & Acosta left everyone else out of sight, literally. Garcia tonked Acosta off the track on the last lap but he kept on going, then Garcia fell off whilst being overtaken! But such was their lead he was able to remount and finish 2nd.
    Binder’s gamble on slicks didn’t get him onto the podium.

They also serve . . .

Switched on for MotoGP and the TV was on the BBC News Channel, where some woman was having a good whinge about one rule for them and another for us. And, no doubt, doing it with joy in her black heart over all the attention she was getting.
    Which left a sneaking suspicion that maybe the government gets its minions to break the odd harmless rule as a public service to give the miserable something to moan about.

Still going

Blimey! Wanda Ventham, the vamp of the much-loved TV series UFO, is 86 this month.

Another good ’un out West

CFL quarterback Mike Reilly is now venerable enough to be Micheal! His team’s match with the Roughriders was actually a game of two halves. The Riders did most of the scoring in the first half, which ended at 9-31.
    The Lions, with Reilly replacing young Canadian Rourke, battled back in the 2nd half. Another end zone pass by Rourke but a missed convert got them to 29-33, and the on-side kick didn’t work.

No Sale!

Yorkshire Tea – where everything is done proper. Apart from the daft bloody TV adverts.

Synchronicity

Detective Carrie is about to be engulfed by a fire! Cue an advert break, starting with one for barbeques. Insensitive, or what!

Welcome Return

Wow! Canadian football again with the Cats visiting Igfield to play the champion Bombers, who got to hoist their Grey Cup flag. Now, we’ll have to try to remember who everyone is.
    Speedy B? Yep, remember him. And Mr. Collards, who presided over a pretty solid crunching by the home team.

Not impressed

Why does ‘exclusive to’ always get me thinking no other TV channel wanted it? Maybe I’m just megacynical!

New Normal Reflex

“Download the app . . .”
    On hearing, cue an automatic mental switch-off before they get to “NOW!”.

Being Goldberg: You’re Next!

How old is Goldberg, legend of TV wrestling? He’s been around for centuries, feels like. And he’s looking a lot like Steve Austin now. But he can do a much better rant, even if he is 155.

Beats me

Some newspaper identifiers just don’t get the job done, e.g. referring to someone as ‘the Split star’ in an article.
    To me, that’s either something to do with bananas or a town in Yugoslavia, as was.

No, you can’t win

There are mad scientists and maddening ones, such as those who are telling the people who spent a fortune on perspex screens for offices, etc. that they don’t prevent the spread of the Chinese plague, and may actually encourage it by messing about with air flow and ventilation.

Nothing like a good alibi

Looks like sports coaches are going to have to reinvent themselves as clones of Sergeant Wilson of Dad’s Army if they want to keep their job. Telling their charges that they’re an ’orrible shower is putting the poor little darlings in the mental health ward and giving them an excuse to skive off.

Attention sought

No doubt the Sheffield cutlery industry is in a tail-spin after a weird Canadian foody condemned using knives & forks instead of fingers as racist and a celebration of colonialism.
    Another out of the Weirdos R Us box!

How does he get away with it?

Someone needs to tell the Daily Mail’s chief sports writer that ‘broke’ isn’t the word to apply to stopping a racing car – that’s ‘braked’.

Sounds like a winner

After watching an episode of CHiPs!, I began to wonder if there’s a Freeway Channel on American TV offering non-stop insane antics of American drivers. I’d definitely watch it!

Are we or aren’t we?

Will we see chain gangs of criminals cleaning up litter and making the environment pleasant again? No doubt the human rights mob will make a few bob out of claiming that it’s an offence against the dignity of nasty bastards.

Cashinski Squared

Oh, crumbs! Poor old Robert McCall was blacked up for the films, which had precious little to do with the TV series. Now, he’s been femaleized for another TV series.
    Shame they couldn’t come up with something original. Looks like the fake McCall is after Steven Seagal’s job.

Just so you know

Apparently, the 49er Class is something to do with sailing and nothing to do with prospecting for gold.

Some might believe it

UNESCO wants us to believe that a Welsh slate quarry is a World Heritage site on a par with the Taj Mahal and Machu Pichu. But you need a pretty stretchy imagination.

Well, why not!

Apparently, what we have been told is a plague brewed up in China is just a part of a plot by the CIA to reduce the population of our overcrowded planet by 50% over a period of 5 years. Well, if you concoct a silly story, I suppose it makes sense to make it really good.

Just Do It

Should we bribe young people to get them vaccinated? No bloody way. And they should count themselves lucky they’re not being charged for something that could spare them a lot of grief if they get a dose of the Chinese plague.

Ingrained in us

Apparently singing the “Wham, bam, thank you, ma’am” song to get your hand-washing time right is no longer necessary if you’re doubly vaccinated. But it has become a habit after I venture out, and I tend not to remember that I don’t need to do it any more until I get to the “Bump, Bump, Bump, Bump” chorus.

Wot’s the message?

A TV advert that’s something to do with credit features a young lady with BIG hair going round a cartoon house switching all the lights on. Get credit karma & sod the carbon footprint? That’s going to be popular with the Green KGB!

The order to make it interesting worked

Shambles at the start of the Hungarian GP, Mad Max off the soggy track and it all happened behind Hamilton, so he couldn’t be blamed. Then his team bogged his switch to slick tyres and put him at the back; 14th with 6 crashed out.
    A better 2nd stop put Hamilton ahead of Mad Max. He got stuck behind Alonso and didn’t get past for 4th until lap 65/70 but he had time to reach 3rd with a fastest lap point. Ocon won, Vettel a rare 2nd and Mad Max got 1 point for 10th.

Worth Watching but bin the cliché

Deception @ 9 p.m. on Alibi on Friday looks a very promising series for magic fans. I’m not sure about the ongoing saga of the hissy tart who wanted Cameron’s brother in gaol, though.
    Yes,  it is different from the tedious yet apparently essential sub-plot of the detective looking for a relative’s killer. But different ain’t always that much of a recommendation. And this is just The Mental Case’s Red John done different.

Falls over in wonderment

The opening rant @ WW SmackDown! is usually fast-forward fodder because it’s usually someone boring like the Arse of the Table doing it.
    But John Cena’s effort was actually listenworthy. Just shows what they can do it they make a bit of an effort.

Making you think

Crossword clue: light umbrella (7). But its name tells you that a parasol is for sun not rain, was my initial reaction. But its name tells you that an umbrella is something for casting a shadow rather anything to do with rain.
    So that’s me feeling educated.

Not for the squeamish!

Old man Jericho doing a match with all that glass on AEW was barbaric all right. Especially when he and the other idiot were stabbing each other’s head with the broken end of a neon strip light! Definitely above & beyond.

Totally GaGa

If you have to wear platform boots with 9" stiletto heels to get yourself noticed, you’re really on desperation street, career-wise.

One with the immortals

Is it sad there could be no input from the Wise family in the extended jamboree around the lost episode of the Morcambe & Wise show, which turned up on a reel of ancient film? Like a lot of people, Ernie Wise died without descendants. But unlike a lot of people, his memory won’t die.

What they do

Anyone surprised that looney left dominated Lambeth council condoned serial child abuse for decades? No?