Outbreak of hostilities?

The Labour party want’s to stop fracking because the Tories want it and it would benefit Britain. But their trade union paymasters; the ones whose members will make money out of it; are in favour.
    It will be interesting to see how that is resolved.

Spoke, Wheel

You’re a Russian woman and you want to prevent Putin from shipping your husband off to Ukraine to get killed; what do you do? Threaten to break his bones to make him unfit to be in the army!
    Could work.

Weird way to live

I was struck by the strangeness of something I saw the other day. Someone ahead of me on the pavement walking along holding a phone instead of putting it in a pocket.
    Not looking at it, just clutching it as if their life depended on an immediate response to a call. Not that there was one in the five minutes before a parting of our ways.
    “People are strange,” the Door sang on their second album. They sure got that right!

How frustrating

The SNP regime in Scotland is so useless that it can’t even produce statistics to pretend that everyone is in fuel poverty and they need more cash from England.
    Their statisticians reckon that nothing is possible before next February. When everyone will have frozen to death and the problem will have gone away.

The way it goes

The Labour party spends ages and lots of our money coming up with brilliant scams to relieve us of even more money; only to see most of the major ones crumble into dust, like ending fossil fuel use, when exposed to the light of day at their conference.

The Rule

If there’s something live on TV before something you want to record, tell the box to record the programme after the one you want to be sure of getting the ending of what you want to see.

Impressive!

That’s an amazing bit of technology when you think about it; the AEW ramp from the fake stargate to the wrestling ring that’s a full-colour, decent definition video display that can withstand the heroes bouncing one another off it.

Kill the compiler

Wall pass (3,3) WFT is that all about? O something something, T something something. Nope. Nuffink.
    Next day; the answer is ‘one two’. Still nope.

No extinction yet

Those predicting the end of cars and a total switch to public transport are going to have to think again if the RMT union manages to achieve what it appears to be aiming to do: drive all railway companies out of business.

Is it worth it?

NASA spending £314 million on bashing a tiny asteroid with its half-ton DART spacecraft makes me wonder if what’s here on the Earth is worth the enormous cost of launching something big enough to deflect a decent size comet on a collision course with us.

Oh, no; not me

Am I thinking about Christmas preparations right now, as the TV adverts seem to assume I am? That would definitely be in the ‘Nurse, he’s out of bed again’ category.

A permanent joke

“Watch R6,” said Colonel O’Neill’s subtitles in one of last night episodes of Stargate SG-1.
    Who’s that? A pal of R2D2?
[your six, Ed.]

Not that bright

It will be interesting to see if the Welsh government makes any cash out of its proposed tax on tourists with the country sinking deeper into a cost of living crisis.
    Inflation on butter: 33%.

Do the dirty deed, take the trolling

Message for Tom Utley of the Daily Mail: No, we’re not going to stop vilifying the Lying-In-State Two. They deserve it.

Another random thought

When about to watch Stargate SG-1: “Did the continuity bloke say Sky Macs and are they selling raincoats now?”

Reasonable Conclusion!

I saw Abbey Road described as ‘the last recorded album by the Beatles’, which immediately set me wondering if there are suspected to be other albums but they haven’t been put on the record yet.

No hiding place

There was no escape from Miss Fisher and her murder mysteries last night. She was on both Drama and Alibi.
    Which makes rather a mockery of the trite slogan that “There’s only one channel called Drama” if it just shows the same programmes as the Alibi channel.

Incendiary Event

Miller and Martin were dog-fighting at the front of the pack in the MotoGP session. Tsuda’s Suzuki caught fire on the track rather dramatically on lap 12/24! Turn 9 claimed Darryn Binder on lap 14.
    Marc Marquez was running an unusual 5th for a while. Brad Binder went past Martin for 2nd on the last lap. Bagnaia crashed out of 9th place, losing ground to Quateraro (finished 8th) in the championship, and Marquez was 4th.

Retro + Good

There was an “It came from” night on the Legend channel the other night. “Beneath the sea” then “from outer space”. SF in the 1950s was just straightforward monsters + fright.

Home Front Hero

Canet was on pole for Moto2, two off the front early and the sun was still shining. Two gone by lap 4/22, it became 4 when turn 9 bagged Canet from the lead and the attrition continued relentlessly.
    Lopez and Ogura swapped the lead. Ogura (Japanese) followed by Fernandez pulled a gap on Lopez. Turn 9 struck again on lap 21. No change in the front 3 at the end.

No change

People who do TV shows jump queues that are hours long for everyone else and seem surprised when people get on their case. Yes, they really do live in their own little world and don’t have a clue what goes on in ours.

Makes a change

Race riots in Leicester! Turns out its Moslems vs Hindus over a cricket match that India won against Pakistan and people believing all sorts of garbage on the internet.
    People are the same everywhere.

Surprise! It’s not raining

The track for the Japanese grand prix was a bit of a gobbler, especially as yesterday was rained off and practice was hard to get. A big crash at the back on lap 1/20 of Moto3, and turn 9 claimed more than its share of victims.
    Four off the front, with Guevara leading, became 3 when Masia crashed out with 3 to go. Garcia’s 4th place at the head of the chase group left him with a faint hope for the season. McPhee was 4th for a while but finished 7th.

Going with the money

That’s a good point about posturing Starmer. He’s a barrister turned politician, which means he’ll say anything he’s paid to and any pretence of believing it is ham acting.

Doing us a favour

Something to be said for our new Prime Minister – she’s given us a Chancellor of the Exchequer whose name seems to launch endless inventions.

Motions, going through

It’s all very well for the looney left to moan about people being allowed to keep more of their own money, but they can probably be trusted to spend it more wisely than any government of any complexion.

Will he manage it?

It’s all very well for Putin the Poisoner to rattle his nukes but what everyone in the West is wondering is how much longer he has before some kind person bumps him off and he’s replaced by someone even more appalling.

No excuse for this

SG-C in the subtitles instead of SGC for Stargate Command, the home of the stargate. Is there no bloody quality control at all?

Not giving up

I had one of them phone calls the other day. Some recorded machine voice claiming to be ‘your internet provider’ with a tale about my internet connection being compromised and it’s going to be cut off.
    I suppose they must still be making enough money out of their racket to keep it going, which doesn’t say much for the people they swindle.

Still worth a look

Lake Placid (1999) is an another creature feature that became a series. But the first one is worth revisiting.

Never, Never World

If the papers publish on Wednesday, the script of what the prime minister will tell the United Nations on Thursday, what will they print on Thursday?
    More aspirations and plans rather than things that have actually happened?

Really Desperate?

Absolutely stuck for something to do? Totally and completely out of inspiration? You can always try shaking the cat’s bowl of dried food and try to convince her it’s Mexican Jumping Grub.

Rather repetitious

2 Lava 2 Lantula (2016) was on TV last night. The makers of this daft sciffy film knew it was going to be a daft sequel to the daft original, so they evidently weren’t bothered about giving it a cute title.
    Lavalantualas! Run! Especially from that bloody HUGE one!

Back to the usual slagging off

What’s that deafening sound? Oh, it’s all the BBC mugs and other usual suspects, who had to pretend that Britain is a great place and somewhere that counts on the world stage, ungritting their teeth now that all the pomp and circumstance is over.

Digital Imperative

They do so want the world TV audience for The Queen’s funeral to be four billion. So much so that you expect most of the usual suspects to top themselves in outrage if some bean counter reveals it was only 3.99 billion!

Today’s Tip

Using the TV remote control is so much easier if you point the right end at the TV.

Pointless filler

50 hours of must not miss in the TV listing magazine? How many are something that I’ll watch? A nice, round number. Think of all the things I’ll be able to do with the time saved. And all the dosh unspent by not having all the pay-to-view services needed to consume all 50.

Tosh

You can’t really call an event the Something of the Century when we’re not even one-quarter of the way in to the century.

Worst ever still

I’m still trying to come up with something more contemptible than using a cartoon of the celebrated mathematician Albert Einstein to sell ‘smart’ meters.

Real life?

Crumbs! Bargain Hunt on BBC 1 before the lunchtime news yesterday. Is it really all over?

Interesting slip

Sky Max was revealed in its true colours last night when Sky wasn’t doing adverts. Yes, it really is Sky One rebadged.

Random thought

Just how tiny were the minute guns, which were fired by the King’s Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery?

Too much of the golden!

Sky Max with the ads suppressed during Stargate SG-1 yesterday was extremely revealing.
    The silent breaks went on forever! And underlined just how long you have to leave the mute button pressed in the normal course of events.

Just odd

The concept of someone who’s dead being laid to rest is a curiously archaic notion. When life is extinct, rest and restless no longer apply.

Hopelessly Hype

TEN DAYS that shook the world? Really? Ree-a-lee! Come on! Can we have our sense of proportion back, please?

Afraid not

Am I going to spend 10 hours sitting in front of a TV set today, watching the BBC do the Queen’s funeral? Not unless someone ties me up and tapes my eyelids open.
    But I will be getting on with things indoors as the weather looks distinctly wet in my part of the world.

No contest

Is it really “Britain’s Finest Royal Reporting”? Or would “Most Relentless” be more accurate?
    I know where my money’s going.

Then the big boys

Quateraro, the series leader, crashed out on lap 1 of the MotoGP race; badly; after running into the back of Marc Marquez and dinging Marquez’s bike so badly that he went on to a collision moments later that left Nakagami in the middle of the track with riders scrambling to avoid him. Marquez, unsurprisingly, had to retire.
    Bagnaia was leading comfortably. Bastianini took over with 15 laps to go; until he ran off the track! Who’s got more tyre? Bastianini was just a couple of bike lengths behind Bagnaia, he took the lead @ turn 7 on the last lap and stayed there.

Elsewhere

A curious thing about the walk-past photos of the various lyings in state is how many of the people are staring straight ahead and not actually looking at the main attraction; as if they’re with someone as an escort and doing it on sufferance.

No let up!

A messy crash and a whole gang off on an excursion early in lap 2/21 in the Moto2 race after Fernandez shot into the lead. Arenas gone on lap 3. Then they got well strung out. But there was bunching at half-way to give the comms something to talk about.
    Acosta pulled a gap at the front and Canet pinched 2nd off Fernandez. Dixon crashed out on the last lap.

Pension plan not needed

Speculation seems to have started about when Putin will get the boot after 30-odd years of plundering and despotism. And how high up the window he falls out of ‘accidentally’ will be.

Off to Aragon

A 3-way crash at turn 1 of lap 1/19 in the Moto3 race. McPhee was up with the leaders unusually, Guevara leading. Foggia was back in the middle of the field. McPhee dropped back to a couple of places ahead of him. Garcia was playing silly buggers in the same zone.
    A dramatic excursion and a job for the stewards with 6 laps to go. Guevara scored his 4th win ahead of a huge argy-bargy in the chase group at the last corner.

FOIA!

Switched on the BBC news channel at lunchtime yesterday and they were actually showing some!! Not the endless repetition of the funeral plans. Well, not for the first 20 minutes or so. Then the rot set in again.

Epic fail

What do you get if you watch the Thursday Nite NFL match highlights on Sky? Quarters 1-3 but the useless fuckers didn’t show Q4!

Hardly appropriate

Football gets everywhere. Ukraine’s successes in the north-east of the country are now being described as the equivalent of scoring a goal just before half time against the Russkies.

Dog-fight

The BBC and UEFA seem to be in an arse-kicking contest to see which can claim the title of The Most Miserable Bunch of Bastards. Given the BBC’s greater number of opportunities, I don’t UEFA stands much of a chance.

Not wanted on voyage

The award for the most ignored scribbler has to go to R. Hardperson of the Daily Wail. I might look at the pictures that go with his grievous gushes, but the words are there to be overlooked entirely.

Nice change

For once, the police seem to be handling the attention-seekers and nasty sods about right. The ones who wave offensive messages on a bit of cardboard are being harassed just a bit and dozy buggers, like the one who ran out into the middle of the road to get a photograph of the funeral cortege are being allowed to fade back into the woodwork.

Nits Aplenty

How typical of the usual suspects to claim that the arrangements on the way to The Queen’s funeral are being done all wrong. Just jealous because they’re not in charge, I suppose.

Bullet dodged

Terrible about that volcanic eruption in LA that was on some recorded TV news seen in passing. Good job there were some people who knew what they were doing around to defy the waxworks in charge and save most of California.

Unheard of!

Wow! A wrestler getting a public warning for using a closed fist in an AEW match! They have rules???

Running low

You have to be getting really short of space-fillers if you are reduced to telling the nation that Queen Consort Camilla used to go shopping in Sainsbury’s thirty or forty years ago.

Tough Enough!

You can’t say some of us are short of stamina if they’re prepared to stand in a queue for 30 hours to walk past the Queen’s coffin.
    Or short of the ability to take time off when they want to.

How true

Something else I read is that there might be an infinite number of ways to say the same thing about what’s happening on the Royal Funeral front, but by now, most people are just skimming the words and mainly looking at the pictures in their newspaper before they turn the page for more of the same.

Catching up

They take equality really seriously north of the border, is the conclusion I came to from a news item that told me that women in Scotland are doing their level best to overtake the men as excessive drinkers.

Brilliant idea

All the Labour party has to do to fulfil the requirement for a female leader is to get their creepy current leader to identify as a woman for a couple of days.
    Whoever suggested that clearly has their head screwed on the right way!

Short changed

Looks like we’re going to get through the SG-1 box set a little quicker than anticipated. Those buggers @ Sky are missing out episodes, e.g. series 5 no. 17, which was somewhat vital.

All the same

The subtitlers for Stargate SG-1 are no better than the ones who do Maigret. The Goa’uld Nirti became Nearty and you don’t want to know what they did to “Kree!”.

Not a lot know this

The focus on the transition here from one monarch to the next seems to be sparing Putin the Poisoner’s blushes. I heard in passing that his gang have been driven out of the north-east of Ukraine. Not much chance of hearing that on the TV news here.

At it again

Lord Gummer, when just a bloke, stirred up a lot of bile by making his young daughter eat a burger for the photographers when Mad Cow disease was rampant.
    He’s back at it again, claiming that electricity from wind and solar is cheaper than the stuff you get from proper power stations.
    Right. If you forget about the monstrous subsidies. Which go to companies he has an interest in.

World of their own

Inspector Maigret said “Torrence” (referring to one of his minions). The sub-title said “Charles.” Not much of an advert for the quality of the tin-eared titlers!

And Again

‘Cats think of us humans as useful idiots’, I read on the next page. Totally spot on! Cats are very good at telling us what needs to be done; doors opened, food dishes topped up; and excellent at ignoring suggestions or orders from us.

Reality Bite

‘Many of us think of our civil service as a Rolls-Royce’, claimed an expert in social cohesion. Which is tosh. Most of us know they’re idle, unsackable obstructionists, whose hobby is wasting taxpayers’ cash.

Off course

The Sunday Post, Scotland’s favourite newspaper, offered a front page from 1961 yesterday with a story about 100 mph storms sweeping in from the Atlantic. Global warming in action? Actually, 60 years ago, the alleged climatologists were predicting we were heading into another Ice Age. Which just shows how good they are at interpreting the evidence.

Monotone

You have to up-channel from the UK TV news channels to NDTV 24x7 to find out that Ukraine is bashing the Russians so hard in the east that speculation has begun that the Russian invasion is about to collapse. And the Indian government is up to no good with the buses there.
    Just the one topic here.

Rather easily, apparently

“How to find the words?” asked the newspaper columnist before stringing together quite a lot of them.

The other lot back in force

It was the first NFL Sunday for a long time yesterday. I still think the Washington Woodchucks would have been a great tag for the un-Redskin’d team.

Try harder

How very strange that nobody in an episode of The Saint, which was allegedly set in Montreal, had a Canadian accent. Simon being excused, naturally.

Don’t blame the Chinese!

The NHS was dropping to bits before the Chinese plague came along, we are now being told. Which means what? We’re supposed to feel grateful to the Chinese for making an already bad situation infinitely worse?
    What a strange set of values some people have.

Words without meaning attached

“Also available as a cabriolet”, they said in the TV Ad. “What’s that?” I wondered, “Some sort of taxi?”

Something else off the TV schedule

NASA’s new rocket is billions over-budget and years late, but it won’t be ready before the middle of next month. If it is then. You’d think the US government would have caught on to the simple fact that NASA is crap at creating space vehicles by now. But I suppose too many politicians have copped for bungs to change anything.

A relentless round of repetition

One does get the feeling that there are only so many things you can say about a thoroughly decent and admirable woman, and going on and on all day and all night does no great service to her memory.

Lost example

Our monarch, 96, accepts the resignation of an outgoing prime minister on Tuesday and endorses a replacement. On Thursday, she dies.
    That’s 20th century grit and the associated sense of responsibility. That’s what will be lost as this century progresses if the woke ‘culture’ is allowed to spread its poison.

More of the same needed

Who was it who was drowned in a butt of Malmsey? The Duke of Clarence? Maybe we should be doing the same to the veganist milk morons, who are trying to wreck the cow’s milk industry in the hope that everyone will switch to their plant-based muck. Not using real milk for the drowning, of course.

Politics of the dustbin

First response from the Rishi Camp to PM Truss: give us jobs and snouts in the trough or you’ll be gone by Xmas. Wot scumbags!

Off the viewing list

Bloody Hell! Great! Movies Classic is now Great! Christmas. How many times are they going to show the same old, same old films between now and the end of December?
    Doesn’t bear thinking about.

Groan

Trust that old hack Robert Hardman to recycle the Kennedy assassination ‘none of us will forget where we were when we heard the news’ and apply it to Queen Elizabeth II.

Oh, oh!

When you’re told to go to Sky News for a newsflash during an episode of Stargate SG-1, it’s not hard to tell what it’s all about.
    I’m sure Queen Elizabeth wasn’t sorry to go to her reward; an eternity of peace & quiet.

Off means off

Is anyone watching all the tripe on TV as pundits try to second-guess the new prime minister? My TV doesn’t get much of a look at the so-called news at the best of times. It must be feeling really deprived this week.

Just a thought

Maybe we can hire Putin’s minions to do the same to the Commons privileges committee and put a quick end to their eternally tedious Borisgate conspiracy.

Not preferable, or is it?

Putin the Poisoner seems to have switched his method of doing away with dissenters. Instead of poison, their fate is now to be chucked out of a 6th floor window. Which is rather a lot faster than radioactive polonium or novichok.

Another political fantasy

The usual suspects are upset that only members of the Tory party were allowed to elect their leader, who automatically becomes prime minister.
    But imagine the outcry from those suspects if everyone was given a say in who heads up Labour or the SNP!

No Importance, Ignore

Does anyone in the real world give a rat’s ass about some political programme on BBC TV at 9 a.m. on a Sunday morning? The only reason to be up and about then is to get some breakfast before the MotoGP starts on BT Sport.

Wonderful Excuse

Okay, I’m off for a ten-minute microbreak to restore my mental health. See you in a couple of hours, or so.

Part of the job description now?

Are we going to see Bizzie Lizzie in a stab vest, rounding up drug dealers, now that Boris has done it?

Weird thought!

There are so many sets of roadworks in Scotland that they are driving the locals mental. All the delays and slow sections are really doing their heads in. But imagine the level of complaints if the roadworks repairing potholes were cancelled!

No, not what you want

You switch on early for Stargate SG-1 and you hear someone talking about a wormhole. It’s the nickers who do the scripts for Supergirl @ their piracy again.

A new space race

Elon Musk is supposed to be getting his colony on Mars going in 2024. At the rate NASA is going, he’s going to get there before they get to the Moon. How embarrassing!

Does the public sector ever get it right?

The BBC has been clobbered for its policy of shooting the messenger when its crimes against humanity are exposed. Same for the House of Commons kangaroo court run by Captain Underpants when he’s not recused and letting the appalling vindictive Harperson woman take charge.

How Cheerful

Inflation at 22% next year. What we need desperately is a giant brake which will halt the passage of time for a while.

New Aunt Sally

I wonder how long it will take Lizzie Truss to start asking herself why she didn’t see sense and let old Kishi be the PM and collect all the flak and obstructiveness.

Okay in theory

The latest good news from the United States is that drinking at least 2 cups of tea per day will do wonders for your life expectancy. Which leaves me wondering which tea company sponsored the research.

Cute Idea

Enterprising lot, the Scots. They’ve been buying chainsaws and dashing out into their wilderness area to chop down trees to create a log-pile to avoid having to waste money on unaffordable gas and electricity for heating come winter.

Finalmente

A gang of novelty musicians; electric guitar, cello & violins; did the Italian anthem before the 27-lap MotoGP race. Surprise! A crash involving Zarco at turn 1 of lap 1 and a total of 7 crashes during the first 2 laps.
    Then things settled down. Bagnaia from Bastianini at the end. It was his 4th win on the trot for the Ducati rider, amd he finished just a bike length ahead.

Not really

A bloke with a book to sell is claiming that Liz Truss’ premiership will be judged by what happens in her first 100 days in the job. Which is tripe. Who can remember without prompting what David Cameron did during his first 100 days? Or Gordon Brown? Or Theresa May or Boris Johnson? No one.

More of the same

25 laps of Moto2 and an action replay of the previous race with riders biting the dust right away. With more to follow; lots! The Curse of the Special Livery took out Vietti.
    Fernandez woke up when he became the series leader. More crashes; 13 gone by lap 20! Lopez was unchallenged ahead of Canet. Could Arena hold off Fernandez and hold on to 3rd? Nope.

Relief in sight? Not really

Hooray! Voting for the next Tory leader is over and we will be spared the endless hustlings.
    Shame all that hoo-haa will be replaced by a determined campaign to slag off new Prime Minister Trussty Lizzie to the max.

Off to Italia

23 laps of Moto3 in San Marino had crashes right away on lap 1 plus dodginess. Another gone on lap 3. Garcia, the series leader, went off the track and later crashed on lap 5. Two more gone later in the lap!
    Foggia took the lead ahead of 3 other. Garcia rejoined and got the black flag with 8 to go for getting in the way of others. Foggia got a track limits warning with 3 to go whilst keeping ahead of Guevara. But the 3 guys behind started scrapping and he claimed his 3rd victory in a row at this track.

Forced Non-Event?

I do get the distinct impression that NASA is never going to launch its Moon mission. The bosses are so worried about a major Kablooie! on the launch pad that they’re going to keep on finding minor reasons for putting the whole thing off.

Got there but so what?

The partygate investigation by the Awful Harperson’s committee in the Commons would crash and burn if brought before a court, a legal expert has concluded.
    But will they stop them racking up expenses funded by the taxpayer and carrying on with the charade into next year? No chance, of course. Gutter politics Rulz, Nokay.

Yatter, yatter, heard it all before

There’s over a fortnight of summer and all of autumn to go before winter arrives. But the prophets of doom are howling that families are huddled in a single room, afraid to switch the heating on, right now!!
    Which makes it difficult to imagine what the dreary dregs will come up with to scare us if things ever get tough.

Surprise!

The Whiskas cat food that the Mansion Cat enjoys when tuna in springwater is off the menu has suddenly dropped in price from £4.45 to £3.50. But I suppose there’s no chance of an apology from Sainsbury’s for all the extra quids they’ve ripped us off for. Let alone a refund.

Small mercy

On thing in favour of theGuardian, even if it is £2.50 a pop on weekdays, is you’re not exposed to people who are supposed to be a familiar sight – but only if you watch the tripe on daytime TV.

Also rather late

Departing PM Boris has reached into his hip pocket and found £700 million or billion for a new nuclear power station. Shame we’ll all have frozen to death before it comes on stream.

Too late

It’s all very well for former coppers to emerge from the bushes with a total condemnation of the failure of the police to do anything about burglary and robbery. But their failure to do anything about such crimes when they were working in the police industry suggests that it is broken beyond repair.

How confusing

Watching an episode of The Saint in which DCI Claude Eustace Teal isn’t played by the usual bloke was weird. Why did they get an Oliver Hardy lookalike?
    Seeing the usual bloke playing a solicitor was even weirder!

Legend not being printed

Mr. Gorbachyov seems to be getting a good going over now he’s safely dead. Was he a reformer? No, he botched his end of the Cold War and made his empire drop to bits. And he wasn’t a very nice man, even though he smiled for the news media occasionally.
    Still, he put himself in the firing line, no one else did.

A show of independence

I see Liz Truss isn’t falling for the story of the BBC being a Tory haven. Not if she decided that being whinged at by the Labour party apologist Nick Robinson would be a waste of her valuable time!

BS Baffles Brains

There is something incredibly perverse about media folk pretending that the BBC is some sort of Tory stronghold, which is perverting the population with pro-Tory propaganda.
    But if Megan, a.k.a. Mrs. Prince Hairy, can get paid a fortune for similar fictions, no doubt her counterparts over here feel entitled to do the same.

It’s grown!

Will 6-Headed Shark Attack (2018) be twice as good as the film about the shark with 3 heads? I wondered. Nice to see the Sci-Fi channel give us a chance to find out.
    Brilliant shark! It can use its spare heads to climb hills ashore to get within chomping range of idiots. And what idiots the gang at its mercy turned out to be!

Distinctly overblown

I happened to see the cover price of theGuardian yesterday. £2.50!!! for 44 pages. You’ve have to be bloody rich or bloody wonk to take that every day.
    “News provider of the year”, it said on the front page.
    In what universe?