Almighty offended

Has California done something to upset God? They start moaning about an extended drought and water shortages. The next thing you know, the state is battered to bits and flooded by the mother of all bomb cyclones!

Desperation time

You have to wonder about the mental health of a bus driver who thought a court would believe he thought he was driving a single-decker when he smashed a double-decker bus into a low bridge.

Whose side are the sods on?

You have to wonder how many brain cells the current stock of chief constables of police forces have if they think it’s a good idea to erase vast numbers of criminal records from the PNC, which will result in much shorter sentences for hardened criminals. Has the police union been given a bung by the criminals’ union? That’s an obvious conclusion. It certainly explains the facts on offer.

Great idea

There seems to be an international campaign for Meaty Mondays to counter the veggies’ claim that Meat-Free Mondays with save the planet from global warming. I know which side I’m on!

Bright idea

Maybe we can have a revolution, bin Boris and go for the Saudi solution to zero carbon. Just keep on going as we are and promise to use yet-to-be invented technology to remove our carbon from the atmosphere 40 years from now.

Don’t buy it, no way

The 2016 Ghostbusters remake with female leads stars Kristen Wiig, says the Daily Mail TV guide? Who? Melissa McCarthy is the lead we’ve heard of.
    I liked the way you get a title in passing and all the rest of the credits are put on at the end. And Ms Weeeeeg does a good job as Erin the theoretical particle physicist, which sounds like a great job. If the particles are all theoretical, no one can prove your opinions about them are wrong!
    Someone weird did the subtitles. There was a £ pound sign to indicate musical lyrics instead of the US pound sign #. Must have been added by someone with a case of literalitis.

Really or just professionally

Is Prof. Brian Cox really worried that we’re all there is in the way of semi-intelligent life in the galaxy because we haven’t been visited by (conquering) aliens?
    Or is it just something that goes with the job as a tactic for being noticed? Or having something to say in front of the cameras.

Not me, Gov!

That was a brilliant idea by the boss of Facebook. If the cash machine becomes mired in scandal, change the name.

Oven-ready religion

A comedian in Ireland claims that an Xmas turkey will sustain us for a couple of meals but the birth of J.H. Christ will sustain us 365 days a year. Good luck with making that convincing when hunger pangs strike his family!
    p.s. We’re being threatened with polish chicken for Christmas – Kiwi or Cherry Blossom?

No more-pressing problems?

You’d think everything was fine and people need to look around for things to do. That’s the impression the people trying to arrange cosmetic pardons for the long dead create.

“It should be about ME!”

Is there a sense of entitlement bigger than that of the aptly named Greenhouse Grotter? She is outraged that the climatefest in Glasgow hasn’t been made all about her and she isn’t No. 1 on the guest list. Or even on it at all to give the views of a teenager with a severe persecution complex.

Stay at home!

The climate plague-spreading hoo-haa in Glasgow seems to have put the kybosh on travelling around the city. The roads are closed and the trains will be on strike. Worse, some of the ‘delegates’ are getting accommodation in parked cruise ships, which have been described as an ideal place to get a dose of the plague if a carrier is staying near you.

Needs the money?

Dustbin Rhodes can still go a bit, if slowly, on AEW despite being about 150 years old. Same with good old J.R., who has to be a lot older.

Fall-Gal

I was amused to read that the rest of the EU is blaming Angela Merkel, the outgoing boss of Germany, for the shambles the organization has become. All the fault of the German steerswoman and nothing to do with all the rest for letting her make all the decisions.

Dodgy is as dodgy does

The Daily Mail seems to think it has some sort of duty to spy on the personal life of no longer a government minister Matt Hancock. How does that serve the public interest?

The inner cynic emerges

The finish of the US Grand Prix was described as a thriller. But only by a journalist pretending to be thrilled – a newspaper version of the shouty bloke commentator.

Official foul, ref!

Coaches should challenge personal foul penalties on their players when it’s retaliation and the replay shows blatant provocation was unflagged, especially if it’s done by the swindler Squawks. The flag-chucker should also get a black mark on his record for negligence or partiality if he missed the provocation. The Squawks gone on 4th & 28 at the end? Justice of a sort for New Orleans.

Indulgence defined

Letting the cat get away with parking on the TV box and making you move a drooping foot out of the way when you want to use the remote control.

Why, oh, why?

If you park a red Bic ballpoint upright with the point down, every time you use it, it will start with a black smudge before any redness is delivered. Store it flat and this doesn’t happen. Weird.

Never opted in

The list of the Top Ten Greatest TV Shows of the 21st century thus far includes nothing that I was tempted to watch. Thank goodness for Digital Heaven and the 20th century.

Descend to a yawn

That was officially a mental start to the US Grand Prix with Hamilton taking no crappen from Verstappen. But Surprise!! Mad bugger Max got the strategy right and won.

Viewed on fast fast-forward

That was a really poorsized (rather than supersized) episode of Friday Nite SmackDown with Brack Lessssnar kicking asses for 40 minutes with chat. Then a joke ‘match’ between Sami the Scarcrow and the Scottish sword-swallower.
    Then a King Xavier pantomime with chat and half an hour of fillers.
    “We’ve bin to Saudia Arabia, you know. Yesterday.”
    Yes, and it really showed.

Optimism Defined

Down 3-27, the Kansas City Chiefs going for a 4th & 18 in the 4th quarter – and getting their underperforming QB dinged. Or should that be ‘Desperation Defined’?

Somewhat off-target

It was rather amusing to watch the film Johnny Mnemonic (1995) and read the preliminary blurb telling viewers what things would be like in the second decade of the 21st century and being able to tell yourself, in 2021, “Nope, nothing like that happened. Guess again.”

More dust bitten!

Quateraro, 15th on the MotoGP grid, had a shot at being the champ. There was a Ducati & Honda charge at the front. Miller crashed out of 2nd early on, putting Marc Marquez behind leader Bagnaia.
    A high number of crashes was blamed on the lack of dry practice laps. Gulp! Bagnaia joined them with 4 to go, letting Marquez go on to his second win in a row and making Quateraro, who finished 4th, the World Champion of the World @ MotoGP!!

Yay, Sam!

Sam Lowes (GB) was on pole for Moto2 but he went backwards to 3rd in the early laps of 25. Back to the lead when the two ahead boobed.
    Championship hopeful Fernandez crashed out with 10 laps to go. Canet took over the lead. Lowes got it back and stayed there!

No Go zone

The Insulate bunch don’t need to do Glasgow. The council there has closed roads in and around the city for 3 weeks before and after the global warming jamboree. Further good news for travellers – the trains are on strike.

Not done yet

Moto3 @ Misano was a dry race after every other session was wet on a cold track with damp patches to make everyone a bit careful. Acosta had to win and Foggia had to crash for him to be the youngest ever champ.
    Acosta took the lead with 12/23 laps to go with Foggia 7th. Britain’s John McPhee, with flu, had crashed. Suddenly, Acosta & Foggia were 4th & 5th. Foggia took the lead and stayed there. Acosta went backwards but recovered to 3rd.

Not me, though

Someone has done one of these studies and found that wasting just two lousy minutes on the tripe on internet social media sites can ruin your day. Makes me glad to belong to a generation with better things to do.

Big new thing

For pop bands, it’s having kinetic flooring at their shows so that they can pretend fans jumping up and down on it are creating the energy to power everything.

Something to look forward to

The Insulate yobs are just taking a week off to let their bruises heal before they’re back for more, showing up the police, Highways England & the Home Office as chocolate teapots.

Right NOT to know

“Why did Palace cover up truth on Queen?” the Daily Wail wails about her hospital visit. Because the likes of you would have done an 8-page spread on her funeral plan otherwise and spread as much alarm and despondency as you could confect.
    Especially a couple of days after a big moan asking if H.M. is doing too much.

Right to know!

Has C.M. Punk kidnapped AEW’s granny? We seem to be getting a disproportionate amount of his posturing on the shows.

Got me baffled

Crossword clue: ‘one with northodox views’. Something to do with professional Northerners? The answer turned out to be ‘maverick’ and it came the next day with no apology for the ‘u’ missing from in front of ‘northodox’.

Not convinced

Why is it taking the 5USA TV channel forever to fix its broken subtitle service? If they really were ‘working hard’, they’d have got the job done ages ago.

Yeah, right!

Some musicians are complaining that the world should make streaming services pay them a fair rate for using their music because not doing it is forcing them to go on tour to make a living and causing all the global warming.

Brilliant idea

It an actor plays the captain of a spaceship, it’s only logical that he should do a cosmetic flight up to the edge of space. If you have a twisted sense of logic, of course.
    William Schatner also played a cop: T.J. Hooker. Is it logical that he should go along on a raid by real police and be allowed to bag a bad guy? Sounds fair enough.

The perils of piracy

The Russian Sputnik vaccine, based one theft from Astra-Zeneca, works but Russia is enjoying a surge in plague cases because the people think anything Russian has to be rubbish and they’re not lining up for it.

One-note samba

According to the EU bosses, all our problems, including the Chinese plague, are down to Brexit. Which saves the poor dears from having to think and engage with the real world, I suppose.

Par for the course

No fireworks in London at New Year because the useless mayor has blown the budget on something pointless? So it goes.

I’m the King!

Someone else who has blown a fuse is Paul McCartney, who can’t forgive the Strolling Bones (some of them) for still being able to perform when he’s sidelined.

He’s lost it

The Prime Minister is ready for the looney bin if he thinks his plan to blow one trillion quid on cancelling the UK’s 1% of total global greenhouse emissions is worthwhile.
    We’re not the problem, Boris. China and India and the other big emitters are. But Carrie won’t let you see that? Poor old hen-pecked bloke?

Journalistic tripe

Are we really expected to believe that Newcastle United fans could believe that they would suddenly become world beaters days after the Saudi takeover of the club? If it still has the same gang of players & managers in place?

Yellow duster shower

How many flags can you have in a Monday Nite football match? The Bills & the Titans seemed to be trying for a new world record! Amazing there wasn’t one during the 76-yard TD run by Henry.

Licence abuse?

I see the blessed Judy Murray in the Sunday Post and Sarah Vine in the Daily Mail don’t (or won’t) get that Prince Chuck runs his Aston on waste products from making wine & cheese, not the actual final products. But hey, what do facts have to do with creating a good knocking job?

How it should be done

What a relief that the lady lance-jack who did our anthem @ Spurs on Sunday didn’t do the daft twiddly bits perpetrated by some performers. And a straight version from the bloke doing the US anthem; even if they were suspicions that he was trying to sound like Paul Robeson.

Acrosy? Who needs it?

One of the daftest things said about Billy Shatner’s rocket jaunt is that he reached orbit. Given that he was up in space for just a few minutes, and at a height that no orbiting space vehicle would ever use; too much atmospheric drag; and he didn’t actually travel that far sideways, we have a significant relationship deficit between deed and description.

The crowd went wild

T.J. Swatt and the Steelers grotted all over the Squawks in the Sunday late match. Yay!

Design appropriation

Why are the Bears trying to look like the Bengals with their new helmet design? Weird.

Time Warp

I’m glad not to be living in Brighton. The Green council has upset the binmen there and sent the place back to the 1970s with the streets full of uncollected garbage. Good news for the local rats and foxes, though.

The Not Functioning League?

Brilliant start from Sky Sport Mix – first, the NFL Red Zone show with no sound then sound with no pix! Visions of a bloke sitting on the satellite holding half a dozen bits of wire together to get everything across the Atlantic.

A Good Afternoon

Triffic match at Spurs FC. The Miami Dolphins and the Jacksonville Jaguars put on a great show. Nice to see the Jags get a win at last.

Or maybe not

Prince Hairy has a real job on because snowflakes think that everything they believe has to be 100% factual and the truth and if anyone disagrees with them, they are up to no good.

Way to go!

Prince Hairy is going to save the world, which means the rest of us don’t have to bother. Well, that’s a relief.

The Invisible Man

Some Daily Mail readers seem to expect some guy called Bradley Walsh to be on TV all the time. Can’t say I’d recognize him if we bumped trolleys in the supermarket.

Trying, but not hard enough

Supersized WW SmackDown – what’s that all about? Another half hour of chat rather than a rush of extra ring action. And all the repeats, of course. Although, the ladies did put about five times more effort into their Big Match than usual.

How dare they?

Rumblings @ the Mansion! B bloody useless T Sport is failing to deliver a full quota of this weekend’s Canadian football. It seems there are too many repeats to be shown to allow original material to get air-time.

Was he, wasn’t he?

I still haven’t worked out whether David Hockney wore that weird suit at his exhibition in Paris to win a bet or because he lost one.

On the nose

I have to agree with the observation that despite all the propaganda we’re getting about black history, it’s still of as little interest to most people as cricket.

Maybe, just maybe

Maybe we need a Citizens’ Militia, which will step in and take charge when the police stand idly by and watch idiots glue themselves to a motorway.
    A Militia with the power to arrest coppers for dereliction of duty would shake things up nicely. Especially if it could bust senior officers and members of the Can’t Prosecute Service and the judiciary for the same crime.

Practicality wins

Richard Littlejohn, sage of the Daily Mail, appears to be aghast at the NHS using live maggots to eat dead tissue around wounds that refuse to heal. He thinks it’s too old & mediaeval for the modern world. But if it works, who the hell cares?

Change, but not for the better

“At this moment in time” seems to have a rival – “At this moment in life”. Even with a new T-shirt, a cliché remains just that.

Small spot of good news

As the current shortages of everything to do with Xmas do not include supplies of tins of tuna in spring water, the Mansion cat’s Xmas treat remains assured.

We’re the good guys!

Fireplaces @ the Mansion have been checked and approved for use. Chimneys swept. And we’ve had a delivery of smoke-free coal. We are now looking forward to doing out bit to relieve the gas shortage via our Alternative Energy Option.

A bit impressive but not a big bit

Is the 90-year-old T.J. Hooker actor Wm. Shatner an astronaut after spending 3 minutes floating around in zero gravity? There must be more to it than that. But I suppose we’re supposed to be impressed by an old codger being able to withstand the G-forces of a rocket launch.

Selfish is the only way

Why does Paxperson the Pundit think all people of 70 are stooped and watery-eyed, like himself. None of the over-70s of my acquaintance is. But that’s a meeja person for you. It’s always all about them.

Inventive wildlife

Them foxes! They don’t care how much havoc they wreak. Luckily, the ones locally don’t seem to have cottoned on to the trick of chewing through brake lines to get a drink of the sweet-tasting juice inside.

Always gonna happen

In fact, there is no real point in applying hindsight to what the government failed to do when the Chinese plague arrived because when some similar catastrophe occurs, the same sort of useless sods will be in charge of dealing with it; experts, politicians and civil servants alike; and there will just be another huge and deadly shambles.

Do it louder!

Good for the Hungarian football fans who booed England for doing the knee of shame in support of abolishing the police and giving criminals a free ride.
    And an extra boooo! for any of the England players who complained about it.

Why always us?

Is it really our responsibility to take in Afghan judges who sent Taliban thugs to gaol and who are now hiding from the packs of thuggish murderers? Are there no nearer, enlightened countries in the area?

Total unconcern

Having given the matter two full seconds of deep thought, I have decided that not having pigs in blankets as Xmas morn nibbles will not bother me in the slightest.

Clearly passing off

The ignorance lobby has removed spelling and a knowledge of English grammar from the basic requirements for getting a degree. Which means they really are no longer worth the paper they’re printed on. If they haven’t become PDFs.

Creepily Cosmetic

Are adverts voiced over by some bloke with a male nanny voice really going to make idiot gamblers lose only what they can afford to? Really?

Deathwish?

Some 7.35% of the population is not bothering to get vaccinated against the Chinese plague, I read. Which will create quite a lot of space for migrants if significant numbers of them croak of the plague they think they’re immune from.

Two-faced & Shameless

A pop star claims to be embarrassed that her marriage fell apart so fast. But does that stop her splashing it all over the meeja to promote a new album? One guess.

Off Target

The concept of the Guitar Heroes series on TV tends to fall apart when using old BBC footage of a band that concentrates on the lead singer and makes the guy playing the guitar just an occasional.

Weird Sunday

There was definitely something very strange going on yesterday with normally reliable NFL kickers missing field goal tries and extra points all over the place.
    Let us hope the East Division CFL teams are unaffected for their pair of Thanksgiving Monday matches this evening.

All change for paler blues

I note that Fox’s Glacier Mints now have light blue wrappers instead of dark blue, and they’re in a light blue packet. If the price of the packet stays the same after a design change now, that’s usually a sign that the amount in the packet has shrunk.
    And the mints themselves are a bit cloudy rather than clear. Messing with the recipe, too?

The way forward

Whatever happened to the fencing on a long table like wot they used to do in films back in the good old daze? That is something definitely in need of revival to put some life into the next and tediously politically correct Bond film.

Not much difference

The wet conditions were supposed to make the Turkish Grand Prix unpredictable, but they did a favour for Hamilton, who started 11th after an engine change. No one seemed unduly distressed by the state of the track; apart from Alonso, who played silly buggers @ turn 1 of lap 1. Bottas had an easy 10th GP win and Hamilton managed 5th.

Wine Words

A bottle of wine begs to be shared, a US intellectual would have us believe. All a bottle of wine has ever given me is an invitation to fill up a glass four times.
    Which only goes to show that the allegedly sage pronouncements of intellectuals can be as big a waste of time as stuff from lesser mortals.

Yawning again, again

The list of 25 greatest poems of all time starts off seriously before descending into the ludicrous with some shameful omissions. Which just confirms what a waste of time these lists are.

Devaluation

Inflation strikes again. You need to have killed 5 people to be a proper serial killer, but psychos with only 4 victims to their credit are getting the tag now.
    How soon before it’s down to 2 and some hysteric is trying to claim that a killer who accounted for just one person is a SK?

Dubai Spy? Aaaagh!

Do I really want to plough through 8 pages of over-excited journalism about an Arab sheikh hacking the phone of his estranged wife?
    Is life long enough to surrender that much time?

Dumbing Down

No surprise that the geniuses on the Radio 4 News Quiz don’t know the difference between a company that actually supplies energy and one which just issues bills.

Small bit of help

Nice to see the French police getting tough with north coast boat bandits. Rubber bullets clearly work. So well, in fact, that the useless Frogs will stop using them.

The me-me-me cult

I suppose it’s typical of a Labourite like Nick Robinson to make the story all about himself when he was graciously permitted an interview with the PM @ the Tory conference.

No one to blame

It seems that the Butterfly Theory is what is behind the current severe shortage of lorry drivers everywhere, not the refusal of haulage companies to give jobs to new drivers with no experience, who can only get the experience they need behind the wheel of an HGV.
    So don’t expect things to improve, ever, is the message.

Fruitless speculation

What does it actually achieve to declare that someone might have survived a terrible catastrophe if other people had behaved differently at the time? Not a whole lot.

That’s me educated

It’s amazing how educational reading old books can be. My current reading material is 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne and during a description of the novelties on the Nautilus, it registered on me that plata is Spanish for silver and that means that the River Plate in South America is the Silver River.
    This is not something new; millions of people must know it; but I didn’t until I read the book and experienced the joy of making a connection like that.

They never learn

It would have been a good idea for the scripters of Whiskey Cavalier to kill off the bad guy Ollerman as they have a habit of becoming excruciatingly tedious very quickly, as he has done. And also has the Mystery Woman in Deception.
    Terminate, terminate, terminate!

Draft? Daft, more like

Is there any point to the WW draft? Shuffling the deck chairs is just another excuse to do chat instead of in-ring entertainment, which is what is supposed to be on offer.
    20 minutes of it at the start of RAW, and lots more to follow. Lots of work for the minion operating the fast-forward button on the remote control.

Everyone relax

The Crisis to End All Crises is over. Benign boffins have found that fungi can be used to hoover all the surplus carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and we can go back to a way of life that works all the time.

What jolly fun!

‘At least 999 police officers & staff have been reported . . . for misusing social media’. Is this a journalist being cute instead of using the nice, round number of 1,000? And would it have been 911 misusers in the United States?

Turn the wick up to full

John Wick must be bloody strong to carry all the bullets that he shot off at bad guys in the third epic about him. Maybe he should have saved some for the wiseguy Jap skinhead at the end.

Sheer Bafflement

“Tomola glaffa klaaaa . . .”
    “Tomola glaffa klaaaa . . .”
“Tomola glaffa klaaaa . . .”
    Writing a ‘music’ score for an action film is a doddle if you don’t need the vocals to make sense.

Good Point

I was amused to read that Sir Starmer’s main objection to PM Boris being a showman is really that it makes him look terminally boring in comparison.

Activity deficit

The failure of Facebook and its satellites to be available from the afternoon to late evening is reported to have resulted in lots of people wandering around aimlessly, looking totally lost. Shame they don’t have something useful to do with themselves.

Curious Concept

Why does a TV ad offer just music from the 70s, 80s & 90s? Is it because people who remember the music of the 60s are supposed to be dead or gaga now?

Medical Crossover

After reading an article telling him it’s safe to have injections of flu and plague booster vaccines in separate arms in the same session, a friend recalled that last year, he ended up with an ache in the arm that didn’t get the flu jab. He’s now wondering if people will start blaming the plague booster for giving them a sore arm.

Yawn again

Pouring crap onto Jeremy Clarkson’s car is an Anton Dec prank and a real hoot?
    Sounds like one of the reasons I’ve never watched them.

Shock-Horror

The Big Surprise of the NFL weekend was how much of a struggle Brady and the Buccaneers had to scrape a win over the reconstructed Patriots. V. encouraging for the Pats.

A good way to sell a programme

Would be to include an on-screen announcement before it’s shown that reptile dysfunction ads are NOT included. I’d buy that for a dollar.

Blitzenfritz!

Lightning delay in L.A. Are we going to see the whole of Monday Nite Football on our recroding? Points were hard to come by; blurt & squirt.
    The Raiders were in a hole 3 TDs deep @ half time. It was only one deep after Q3. A missed FG didn’t help. 14-28 final and we saw the lot.

Killing the Planet?

Monday: “Cheers: your order has been delivered!”
    I know, I know, it arrived on Saturday. How much damage to the Planet is being done by companies sending out pointless emails several days late?
    Maybe banning them would save the world for mankind.
    Or maybe not.

Still not impressed

Why, oh why, did LV insurance update the dom diddy bloke’s singing on its TV advert. The original was crap and the update is just as crap.

Back where he belongs

93 Marquez swept into the early lead of the MotoGP race. The commentators had a lot to say about Miller on a Ducati but it was Marc Marquez on a Honda by a mile at the finish. Miller was only 8th.

Harmless fun

The thing about turning down the sound and eating something while the TV adverts are on is that when you look at the screen, you’re never quite sure whether it’s the same ad or another one. Which can lead to some rather entertaining apparent links.

How it should be done

Moto2 got off just 10 minutes late. Fernandez went off the front and ended up with a 3rd win in a row during his rookie season. Gardner went out on lap 13/18 – with his championship hopes blown? Sam Lowes was nowhere and his bike croaked at half-way.

Late afternoon bikers

Moto3 of the Americas was on a shambles of a track, very civilized and soon became well strung out. Two long laps for a jump start? Crumbs! McPhee was up to 3rd and he’d done a fastest lap on lap with 11/17 to go when a crash stopped the race with a red flag.
    A 5-lap dash was to follow. McPhee was leading at half-way when a Gangbusters!! crash with flying bikes brought out another red flag. Through sheer good luck, no one was killed and the 3 involved were walking about within minutes.
    The result was declared on the basis of the first 7 laps, which put McPhee 3rd. Full points awarded? That shouldn’t have happened. The winner was a kid who was throwing a tantrum in his garage because his bike croaked during the 2nd stint!

Really not impressed

Did Braaaak Lesnar of the WW lose a bet and that’s why he has that stoopid apology for a pigtail? It’s as crap as the last show was.

Who needs the real world?

Die Hard 4 (2007) has to have some sort of record for totally daft stunts. Especially Mr. Willis shooting down a helicopter with a car. Not to mention playing silly buggers with a jet fighter.

Us in our place

How do you know that you live somewhere completely unimportant? No queue at either of the nearby petrol stations.

Whinge

-10 out of 10 to the Syfy Channel for putting the same film on in the 9 p.m. slot two days in a row.

Sinful? Who says?

Why is it wrong for protesters at the Labour conference to have been organized? Such as getting their red cards at a discount to wave at their boring leader? Unless we assume that only the lone fanatic counts and organized resistance is futile in Labour’s world.

Moreover

Talking about crap, I see the current Labour leader, Sir Starmer who’s ashamed of the K, is an admirer of the corrupt and warmongering Tony Blair. Or Tony B. Liar as he became better know. So if we want another dose of new labour, vote for him. Useful to know, I suppose.

Mish-mash

Any publicity is publicity. Which is just a well, as the new Bond film – the last with a bloke in the role? – is getting praised to the rooftops and condemned as a stinker.
    Oh, well, it will be on TV eventually and we’ll have the opportunity to watch it on fast-forward if it’s crap.

Wasted gesture

Apparently, a newspaper picture showing Kate Moss’ kid doing a modelling job includes her wearing an insulin pump. Two responses to that. 1. I glanced at the picture in passing and didn’t notice the gadget. 2. Even if I had, I wouldn’t have known what it is and that it’s not part of the outfit.

Useful at last

The much reviled Cressida Dick, the busted flush in charge of the Metropolitan police, has now become a universal scapegoat. Everything is her fault. Including not spotting coppers who turn out to be homicidal maniacs.
    Oh, well. She did cling on to the job.

Excitement level zero?

If the new Bond film has a 12 rating from the censors, that must mean the human to human violence has been extracted as well as the sex. Sounds like it will all be done by computers in the next one.

Collector’s Items

I’ve been advised to hang on to my rather vast collection of fountains pens, ballpoints and miscellaneous pencils as they could become valuable in the future. Apparently, the kids of today don’t write anything, they type it into a tablet or a phone, and the firms that make writing materials are heading for the scrap heap.

Will it last?

I see dairy products are back on the list of things that are good for you. But will they stay there long enough for me to put double cream on my Christmas helping of Fruit Paradise? Always assuming Xmas isn’t cancelled due to one crisis or another.

Backward Progress

The nation had a 3-day week back in the 1970s when the trade union wreckers were out of control. Looks like that’s what doctors are head for. They don’t work at weekends. Lots of them are giving up Fridays. And you can’t really expect them to work on a Monday.