More of the same

The Mail also has a job as a PR agent for Omit Scabby’s book of fiction with characters with the same names as the Royals.
    Not brilliantly done, apparently. According to the NY Times, Mr. Scabby writes like a not very well programmed ChatBot and just recycles ancient whinges.
    So that’s him put in his place!

Top of the hit list

Scriptwriters have really got it in for ozone. It got the blame for being the frozen, explosive chunks hurled out by a stonado, and the ozone layer copped the blame for the ice twisters started by a failed weather experiment.
    Wot next? Can’t wait!

Pile up the bodies

The Daily Mail, which had the headline “torture-obsessed killers”, seems to have an obsession of its own with killers.
    How else would one describe the succession of podcasts with every gruesome detail (according to the puff for them, not watched by me!) of the killings by Lucy Letby and the murder of the boy turned girl Brianna Ghey?

Quel Convenience!

How lucky it is that the American countryside is studded with big corrugated drainage pipes where people can take refuge from icy bombs hurled out by a stonado or ice twister.

What’s the excuse?

Is GB Views acting as a PR agent for Omit Scabie, the Sussex’s creature? Sure looks like it.

Just Cosmetic

The Jewish lobby here might have scored a lot of points with the orderliness of their march in London, but it didn’t say anything new and no one where the war was going on was listening.
    But a morale-booster for the locals as a counterblast to all the left-wing anti-Semites on a Sunday is okay if it doesn’t cause too much disruption.

Garbage War?

Are the gang fictionalizing the life of Princess Di for US TV going to end up in competition with the Sussex Creature, Omit Scabie, over who can sleaze the present Royals the most?
    Sounds like that would be a good time to look out the box set of Get  Smart or Babylon 5.

Nose, amputate

Does booting the Tories out of office for failing on migration and letting in open-door Labour make any sense? Going from not trying to Worst of All Time certainly doesn’t.

Nelly the Elephant

Maybe that stroppy woman in ITV’s jungle should be made to publish a list of people she’s influenced so that decent people can avoid them.
    And she has to be number one on the cancellation list.

Would they dare?

Will the Dutch bale out of the EFU? It seems rather a stretch when the Man of the Moment, that Wilders bloke, has thirty-some seats in a parliament of 150.

Slacking in the ranks

Where are all Trade Descriptions bods when you need them? How dare they let Black Friday, a single day, drag on for a whole month without stirring their stumps.

Just a thought

Maybe they need to dump all the Chinese plague experts in a dark cellar and let them argue it out. The one who emerges alive gets to write the history of how dealing with the plague was botched and how he was right but ignored.
    And if we could have infra-red cameras spying on the inmates, that would be a great new reality show.

First refuge of the scoundrel

What does a politician in Argentina do when he gets into trouble? Start yelling the Falkland Islands are his personal property. Predictable, and BORING!

Something to yell at politicians

“Obsessing about illegals arriving on small boats is like worrying about an unlocked first-floor window when your front door is wide open.”

Gasp!

If ITV is counterblasting complaints from Nigel Farage’s lawyers about Bumgate with a claim that there are no rules and restrictions on the cameras pointed at its jungle contestants, does that mean that, if they get desperate enough, they’ll show the mugs watching the series pictures of the contestants having a pee?
    Or worse?
    Mind boggling furiously already.

Not buying it

Why does no one take scandal-prone charities like Oxfam seriously? One of their people waving whingeistics in the Sunday Post ‘proving’ that the rich buzzing round in private jets are killing the plane doesn’t help.
    Not a word about all the coal-fired power stations in Asia and the Americas, of course.

And to conclude

At least MotoGP had the decency to leave crowning the champion to the 20th and last event of the season. 27 laps and a crash at the back of the field right away. Bagnaia was leading from challenger Martin, who zoomed off the track after getting too close to the leader and ended up 8th.
    Martin blasted Mark Marquez off the track with 22 laps to go, making Bagnaia the boss even if he didn’t finish. Jack Miller fell off in the lead on lap 20 putting Bagnaia back into the lead. Rins also fell off on the same lap; the approach of night cooling the track was blamed.
    Brad Binder was being a bugger. A big crash for Espargaro was also blamed on the track getting cold. Zarco second, was ahead of Digi; just; until lap 26. A Ducati 1,2,3 at the end.

Made by idiots?

Captain Manewearing saluting with his left hand in the third cartoon Dad’s Army episode? WTF!
    How did they manage to get away with something so daft? How could they not know it’s something a real officer, or even a fake one like Mainwaring, would never ever do on parade? Especially in front of Corporal-Colonel Square.

Where’s the sun?

Shining on the Moto2 race in Valencia. Canet was on pole for the 22 laps. There was a horrible crash at turn 4, and another later in the opening lap. A combination of desperation and it’s not easy to pass on this track.
    Aldeguer pulled a small gap at the front when Dixon was 4th and Sam Lowes 7th. Canet and Lopez were 2nd & 3rd at the end. Lopez squeaked 3rd in a photo finish. Dixon dropped to 6th ahead of Lowes but he was still able to finish 3rd in the championship.

Equally deadly

When you think about it, the Aztecs and climate criminals are out of the same box.
    The Aztecs thought they had to murder thousands of people to give their blood to their god to keep the world turning.
    The climate fraudsters are modern vampires, sucking the life blood out of the world and enriching themselves in order to save it from imaginary demons and also forces, natural and unnatural, over which they have Net Zero control.
    All the coal-fired power stations in China and around the world, for instance.

Finish in Spain

20 laps of Moto3 in Valencia was all about a race win and settling scores now that Masia has been crown champion. A bunch at the back went off at turn 2 on lap 1. And another bunch was bashed off on the next lap. Just one on lap 3.
    Then it all calmed down. Rat and bag at the finish with Sasaki leading into the last lap, then Alonso, then Sasaki getting his first win. Ortola was 3rd.

Today’s Quiz

Question: How do you know that winter is sneaking up on you?
Anser: Finding the cat water dish in the back garden frozen solid is a pretty good clue.

Buried treasure

Why is there no cash sloshing around in Russia? Because its army is having to put minefields ten miles deep in front of its troops in the occupied parts of Ukraine to make them feel safe or safe-ish.

Oh, for more daylight

One thing I’ve noticed recently that I haven’t before is that it’s becoming harder & harder to get anything much done in the late afternoon.
    Half-four is now so bloody dark that it feels like the middle of the night!

Use them, lose respect

How many of the 25 most annoying words/expressions tossed about by millennials have I encountered? 9, which means I’m moving in the right circles.
    Especially if the 9 offending words have been around for yonks – long before snowflakes were invented.

Silly but fun

Stonados hurling big chunks of frozen explosive ozone at Boston is definitely as inspired as the Sharknado idea.
    Blow the bugger up! Always a good idea for menacing tornado variants.

Information Deficit

Is that HUGE woman who was beefing @ N. Farage about immigration on ITV, as shown hundreds of times on GB Views, as thick as two bricks? Or is it three?
    Where do they get these characters?

Groan

Lord Dave thinks it’s our public duty to hand vast amounts of cash to the rest of the world as reparations for slavery and we also have to feed the buggers as well.
    Shame he can’t get his Chinese mates to take over the role of World Leaders. They did their best, with Dave’s help, but look how that turned out – they’re just as broke now as everyone but Dave.
    Hey, Dave, why don’t you put a hand in your own pocket?

Tripe, tripe & more of the same

What sort of jungle has baths in it? And why the surprise in the meeja that N. Farage takes all his clothes off when he has a bath? How desperate can you get for a talking point?
    Even more, I suspect.

Big sensation

An exploding crashed car near the Rainbow Bridge to Canada certainly put the cat among the pigeons. The security forces were leaping about, hoping for a major terrorist incident, and the local airport was closed to international flights.
    But it turned out to be just one of those American cars that explode when they crash, killing the occupants. Not terrorism, nothing to see.

Hold the front page

Nigel Farage has a bum, which is bare when he’s in a shower, having a wash. And to think, ITV paid him a million and a half quid to find that out.

More to it?

It has been pointed out to me that yob is a backward boy and slag is backward gals.
    This cannot be just a linguistic quirk.

Even Falser

We were told by what are supposed to be news outlets that the state pension will go up to over £220/week next April, which is a lie, those in the know assure me.
    Not for those on the Osborne swindle old state pension, who will be getting £40/week less after making two-thirds more National Insurance contributions.
    No danger of anything being done about this, though.

False pretenses

Why do they call prison sentences ‘for life’ when the customer can be out in as little as 6 years? This is typical of the legal trade; using a word with a definite meaning and ignoring that meaning when it gets in the way of what’s really on offer.

Just bin it

What actually is the point of telling TV viewers what the prison sentences of a gang add up to? It’s pointless and it makes the totalizer look like a pillock and a jobsworth.

Yeah, right

‘The fashion industry produced 10% of global carbon emissions’, I read. On what planet? Or are we supposed to accept that it owns most of the coal-fired power stations in China, India, etc.?

Non sequitur

I’m still waiting for someone to come up with a convincing explanation of why our current tiny prime minister and his stooges, such as big Dave the ex-Leader, being duck eggs makes Sir Beer Smarmer and his crew somehow fit for office.
    The choice remains between two useless gangs if the Tories can’t buck their ideas up.

Is it real?

The sight of coppers stuffing Just Stoppers into vans after hauling one of their stupid road block outing off a road had everyone wondering if it had actually happened, or it was just a bunch of Just Stoppers dressed as coppers taking the mickey out of the real police.

How to annoy the French

Make a film about their Adolf Hitler precursor, Napoleon Boneparte, that contains buckets of daft inventions but doesn’t go for the Big One – Nappy winning the battle near Waterloo.
    Well, why not if it’s only fiction? Like The Crown, a series made by the Yanks to annoy those of us over here with a Princess Di complex, it doesn’t have to be true to life.

Excellence out West

The Grey Cup final of the CFL year had the fans of Canadian Crunch looking very happy after watching the replay. Everyone has a chance all the time if the scores are close and a half, or the match, is running out in those endless 3 minutes when no lead is safe. Which is never a guarantee that one will be lost.

Fine the parents till the pips squeak

We’ve heard a great deal of wailing about all the school time lost to the Chinese plague. So a School Strike for Palestine and kids skiving off to join in something which will have zero effect on what’s going on in Palestine?
    Welcome to the century of stupidly pointless gestures.

Dave the Disaster

Practically on his first day as Foreign Secretary, Lord Call Me Dave has come up with a Big Idea.
    Shower BILLIONs of pounds of our money on foreigners.

Worser, it don’t get!

When it comes to daft films, Fire Twister (2014) is Olympic level. The characters are mostly nutters, especially the eco-terrorists being presented as heroes. And the plot was created by more nutters.
    The ecoterrorist destroying the city-eating fiery tornado with a bang not the US Air Force? Pur-lease.

The Woke Equation

Someone else was bragging that there were marches against anti-Semitism in France. Which makes the ones in favour of anti-Semitism here just an attempt to achieve balance.

Bozo

Someone else was claiming we have an unelected PM, even though he was elected to be an MP and elected to be the leader of his party by the members.
    Maybe voting rights should be conditional on intelligence and general knowledge tests.

No decision yet

Martin bogged the start of the 22 laps of MotoGP. Bagnaia was the early leader. Martin made 5th but the 3 ahead of him were lapping faster.
    Digi started to threaten Bagnaia with half a dozen laps to go. Martin dropped to 10th. Digi took the lead with 4 to go. Bagnaia had an excursion off the track to avoid a collision but went no further back than second.
    Di Giannantonio got his first ever win. The crowning of this year’s champ will be decided at the final race of the season, but with Bagnaia 21 points ahead of Martin, he’d have to crash to avoid winning!

Asking the impossible

A bloke was complaining in the Daily Disaster that the BBC doesn’t verity Hamas claims about something that happened in Gaza. Has no one told him that the Israelis have cut off communications; phones, the internet, etc.; to make that impossible?

Much tidier

Sam Lowes had a bad start in the Moto2 race and 18 laps to do something about it. Joe Roberts was the early leader followed by Canet. The four at the front were caught by the chasers; no one was making a dramatic break.
    Aldeguer eventually established a lead with Gonzalez and Canet battling behind him, and that’s how it ended. Jake Dixon was 5th and Lowes was 12th with a fastest lap credit.

Front page? Not.

Does anyone care why Princess Di cut up a leopard print swimsuit in a rage 30 years ago?
    No? Thought not.

Isn’t it dark?

Floodlights for Moto3 in Qatar. Red bikes out front and a crasher on lap 1/16. Sasaki took the lead on lap 2 but bogged up on lap 3. Lots going on at the front and a crash that we saw on lap 7.
    Holgado was leading as the race wound down. Masia went ahead on lap 13. Sasaki, second in the championship, stumbled from 2nd to 10th. Masia stayed ahead for the win, and he’s now the series champion.

Ill-qualified judge?

How curious that a pundit can think that a Home Sec. being braver than the average person and expressing decent and honestly-held opinions is issuing an invitation to her boss to sack her.
    But maybe that’s just the pundit applying the rules of his or her own trade to another job. And if members of the Home Sec.’s own party object, maybe it’s just the bland jobsworths with no opinions of their own objecting to being shown up.

The actual lesson of history

The big problem with the mantra that ‘the government needs to be responsible’ is that some politicians see that as a licence to be responsible for driving the country off a big cliff with their lunatic policies.
    Gordon bloody Brown is the prime example of the genre.

Worra lorra pigsin

There isn’t going to be a lot of room for Xmas pud left if the nation is expected to scoff its way through 423 MILLION pigsin blankets on Xmas day.
    I think I’ll donate my share to the local greedy bugger. Come to think of it, I can’t remember ever indulging in a pigsin.

Well, maybe

One of these days, the Met Office might give a name that’s actually recognizable as a name to one of its storms. But on one is holding their breath.

Pocket Monsters

Dave the Leader, our smug new Foreign Secretary, is trying to give away more of our money to undeserving foreigners. Groan.
    And he’s in China’s pocket. Groan.
    Just how many new friends does he hope to buy with our cash? We should be told.

No, thanks

Recieve a free Xmas tree with an 80-quid Hornby train, the advert said. A very tiny tree.
    And a free dictionary?
    Typing the headline into this post, and then correcting it back to the original mistake, gave my DTP program’s spellchecker severe indigestion!

The bloke for the job?

Chancellor Hunt will lead an offensive against the civil service’s woke idiots? Well, that sounds like something that’s bound to be a huge flop, going from his record as Health Secretary and then Chancellor.

How seasonal

Steve Austin vs a Mr. Scrooge factory boss as a Xmas episode? Why try to think up a new plot line when you can nick an old one? Same for Walker, the Texas Ranger. He and his gang were bashing & booting bad guys as normal. But his lady friend doing her dying swan act was different; to be continued.

Why the delay?

How come the Israeli army hasn’t found the massive complex of tunnels and bunkers the Hama gang is supposed to have dug under Gaza’s major hospital?
    Option One: it doesn’t exist, it’s just propaganda.
    Option Two: the Israelis aren’t looking, they’re just hanging about at the hospital for some reason known only to them.

Blatant swindlers

That’s what councils in Scotland demanding cash to cope with climate change sound like. Wasting money on wokery and PC garbage instead of doing essential maintenance work is behind most of the catastrophes caused by weather.
    The councils are to blame for their neglect, not the climate.

Also in the news

The beach at Newquay where that dead whale is being looked at by experts has been closed after the police were reminded that a beached dead whale in Oregon exploded 50 years ago.
    No doubt there are lots of hopefuls lurking around in Cornwall, hoping to get a viral video for the internet of the same happening here.

That’s telling ’em!

How reassuring it was that a school in Wales countered a load of tripe on the internet and sent letters to the parents of its kids assuring them that anyone daft enough to pretend to be a cat rather than a human wouldn’t be issued with a litter tray.
    The woke wonks have a hell of a lot to answer for.

Unnatural selection

Are we going to get a rant from our local global warming fraudsters and demands for a boycott of Iceland from the enviromentalist when their volcano shoves billions of tons of crap into the atmosphere?
    Not if they’re foreigners rather than British.

Big chance

Are the indoor plants @ the Mansion suffering from heat exhaustion because we have the heating on for the benefit of human occupants? My plantologist reckons they should be embracing the opportunity to evolve to a new environment and the rosy glow of success that it will bring.

Nosy lot

Do I want a banking app that tells me how much carbon dioxide everything I buy puts in to the atmosphere?
    If the number is meaningless compared to what’s already there, and what’s coming out of foreign coal-fired power stations, I’d think about switching to another bank.

It’s the way they tell ’em

Israeli troops barging into a Gaza hospital had no problems interacting with the staff, the TV news told us. Well, there wouldn’t be if the invaders were armed to the teeth as well as carrying a few token tins of baby food.

New lingo

I switched the TV on for the news a bit late and the first thing I heard when the sound started by ‘bjarnes’, which made me wonder if I’d been hijacked by Swedish pirates.
    Turned out to be a regional version of t’be honest.

Bloody foreigners

They’re doing their level best to ruin the British economy in all sorts of ways with their wars. Now, the Icelanders are getting in on the act with their Fagradalsfjall volcano, which is getting ready to erupt and stop air travel like the one that blew off in 2010.

Very inventive

That’s a new one on me; calling the people who moan about big companies doing a different from the usual bleahh Xmas TV advert, e.g. Marks & Sparks, ‘Hedge Hitlers’.
    Sounds about right.

No great advert for him

If the PM sacks someone in whom he had ‘full confidence” the day before, what does that say about him?
    That he’s just another unreliable political weasel & just plain fickle.
p.s. Starmer has the full backing of his deputy, Angular Robot. A stab in the back from her on the way?

Worth two biscuit barrels!

A weirdo wheeze I’ve just come across is lunar gardening. No, not growing plants on the Moon. Pretending to use its gravitational, tide-generating effect on the Earth to heave your plants up faster and make them bigger!
    Well, if you’re a washed-up celeb who wants to remind people you’re still around, it’s as good as anything the Gloop-meister and others of the ilk have come up with.

Only for the moronic

A vastly overpriced perfume for babies contains notes of cotton wool, I read. Whoever came up with that needs locking up. In a padded cell. Because he or she is obviously a dangerous lunatic.
    “I love the smell of coffee and cotton wool in the morning.” Yeah, right.

Cynical? Moi?

“A top advocate has called for a public inquiry” tells you what? It tells me the legal trade is trying to shove a fist into the public purse again in pursuit of another circus which will do taxpayers no good at all.

Steps to be watched

News readers need to be extra careful when talking about King Charles to make sure that ‘new king’ doesn’t come out as ‘neuking’!

1 + 1 = one hundred and eleven

 One does get the feeling that all this chat about the far-right is just something cooked up by the news meeja out of a twisted sense of a need for balance, no matter how unjustified.
    Something to lessen the impact of thousands of mugs waving the Palestinian flag by pretending the mugs are up against something equal and opposite.
    Apart from the fact that they’re all anti-Israel.
    Their antics here suggest that what’s going on in the Middle East is irrelevant and they’re just doing it for the hell of it.

Just Don’t!

The film San Andreas Megaquake (2019) taught me something very important: never take a flight in a US Marines helicopter, especially one belonging to the 4th Cavalry.
    They have a habit of crashing for no apparent reason.
    This happened twice to various of our heroes. If you’re vital to the plot, the crash is non-fatal. But I wouldn’t care to rely on that myself!

What the choice actually is

Being homeless per se might not be an actual lifestyle choice but living in a charity-donated tent out on the streets and in the way of pedestrians (and lunatic pavement bikers) is.
    But honesty in descriptions is not exactly fashionable.

Drama lacking

It was hot, humid and horrible for the Malaysian MotoGP race, the commentators decided, and tyres would be a problem. Bastianini and Alex Marquez took the lead and gapped Bagnaia and Martin.
    Espargaro crashed at half way. Otherwise, nothing much happened and the lead three took all the podium places.

Something more apt needed

There’s something really mealy mouthed about claiming the glorious dead of world wars ‘gave their life’. Maybe a few of them did but most of them were killed and had their life ripped from them and had no choice in the matter.
    It would show them much more respect for their loss, rather than an illusory sacrifice, to come up with a much more fitting description. Or just to call them the war dead and leave it at that without the inapt/inept qualifier.

Space Waster

Is it good for Sir Starmer if he takes a robust line on Israel? Hardly, if no one who counts in the Middle East is taking any notice of him. It’s just the usual hypocritical political virtue flagging to no purpose.
    And let us not forget that Starmer was the DPP who was more interested in trying to get his creature, Tom Watson, to frame Tory politicians and entertainers for child sex offences than in doing anything about real bad guys, like Sir Savile.

More mayhem than usual

Gonzalez managed to crash on lap 1/17 of Moto2. The field became well strung out right away. Arbolino had a champion-ship hopes ending bump and excursion off the track. Aldeguer went off the front of the field.
    Two riders crashed out independently at turn 9 on lap 3. Another gone on lap 5. Then Canet. Aldeguer was nearly 4 seconds ahead of Acosta.
    Everything calmed down. Aldeguer had a very comfortable win. Acosta’s 2nd place was enough to make him this year’s champion and he finished well ahead of 3rd place Ramirez.
    Jake Dixon, currently 3rd in the championship, was 5th and Sam Lowes was 8th.

Tell ’em anything

Can we really believe the BBC claims that there were vast numbers of ‘far right’ marchers in some parts of London as well as the anti-Israel left-wingers plus Just Stoppers and trade unionists that they showed us?
    Just shows how popular Israel is currently if the far-right and ludicrous left both hate the regime!

Too early to do live

It was 31 deg.C in far off Malaysia, about 20 more than here!, for 15 laps of Moto3. Masia and Sasaki were the early leaders. A big crash on lap 5 took out Alonso, Holgado (ending his championship hopes) and 3 others.
    Masia went back to 4th with 5 laps to go. Into the lead with 3 to go as Öncü crashed out. Back to 3rd. Veijer went past his team mate Sasaki and stayed ahead for the win. Masia ended up 3rd.

Another mystery

I noticed that a bloke who’s up on sex charges is described as a ‘modern languages teacher’ in inverted commas, which are usually applied to distance the report from accusations of dodginess.
    What, I’m left wondering, is dodgy about teaching modern languages?

Where to put it!

“Trump clashes with fraud trial judge” needs a hyphen to clarify the message, and knowing how politics in Noo Yawk operates, I would suggest trial-judge rather than the alternative.

Another puzzle

What could be achieved if all the communists & clowns who are out on the streets wanting Israel cancelled actually tried to do something useful? But that quality of person would probably just make things worse, so maybe they shouldn’t bother.

Unmatched news and olds

Aren’t news media inconsistent? One day, they’re yelling that the PM has drawn pre-election battle lines with Labour. The next, they’re claiming he’s given up and there ain’t going to be a battle.
    Our only concern has to be that we have enough pinches of salt to sprinkle on all the alleged shifts and shuffles.

Off the mark

You have to wonder about anti-virus software which keeps on telling you your webcam is available for hijack when the gadget isn’t even plugged in to your PC!

What they should be saying

The following programme may contain language and attitudes which will make modern day wimps realize how pathetic they are. That’s what the preliminary screen should say.

Yet another familiar face

It takes a close look but that’s definitely a much younger version of Dennis Weaver, the future Marshall Sam MacLeod, in an episode of the Alfred Hitchcock all stars.

Let’s get it right for once

Is there anything wrong with the Home Secretary noticing that the police are biased toward left-wing agitators when they are blatant about it? And why isn’t London’s cosmetic mayor doing anything about the bias? Because he’s Labour?
    Whatever happened to freedom of speech for someone in a position to know? Collective responsibility for members of the government doesn’t include turning a blind eye to abuses.
    That’s the job of opposition parties.

Farage, or . . .

It seems to be quite popular to suggest that Nigel Farage should get a Tory party membership and take over as he’d be a great PM. But there are alternatives . . .

 

Shrink-fit?

The missing Dad’s Army TV episode recreations as cartoons have a peculiar thread. Everyone who did any writing in the first episode did it left-handed.
    That episode lasted 28 minutes, and 6 minutes of that was adverts. They must have missed out a hell of a lot of what was originally a half-hour episode on the BBC.

Just Tell Them

“Excuse me, what are your pronouns?”
    “Don’t use ’em, mate. I only use nouns, not inferior substitutes.”

No way

Is it racialist for a politician to tell a heckler from Bahrain to go back there? Of course, it ain’t. A magistrate declaring it is just brings the court system into disrepute.
    We Brits are under no obligation to appreciate foreigners.
    And what about free speech? Doesn’t apply if the bloke in the dock is a Tory, apparently.
    No wonder they call the area Westmonster.

Not entirely harmless, though

The mushroom poison cook can't be much cop if she tried and failed to kill her husband four times.

Scraping the biscuit barrel

The tale that climate change and deforestation will create plagues that will kill twelve times more people than anything current in 2050 has to be worth just a couple of crumbs from a shortbread biscuit.

Deliberately Daft

I do get the feeling that ‘experts’ are often pranksters who vie with one another over what they can get away with.
    This story that eating raw fish wrapped in rice lets you enjoy a comedy film to the max takes at least a chocolate biscuit.

Explosive hobby

As well as a Third World war, Mark Dolan of GB Views has been talking up a civil war in the Tory party.
    Does he have shares in arms-dealer companies?
    We should be told.

Another familiar face

Crumbs! Who’s that incredibly young bloke in the Alfred Hitchcock show facing a murder charge? He must have got away with it if James Tiberius Kirk went on to join Starfleet and zoom round the galaxy in a spaceship.

Not just him, you!

Anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together knows that smarmy Starmer isn’t going to resign and take his nose out of the trough because he’s not demanding a cease-fire in Gaza.
    A demand which the combatants will ignore because it doesn’t fit in with their plans and what’s their war got to do with Starmer anyway?
    If anyone should resign, it’s the gang of attention-seeking councillors and others, who are proving they’re not fit to have their nose in the trough either.

Tell ’em anything

We are invited to believe that the last of the Great Train Robbers, who has died at the age of 94, was a decent, straightforward bloke who looked out for his family.
    When he wasn’t robbing mail trains and doing time in gaols, of course.

The worst sort of greenwash

Recycling scrap steel instead of making it from iron ore isn’t greener if it relies on scrap steel which was originally made in places like China out of iron ore.
    The claim is cosmetic and it’s a politically based lie.
    Just as well British Steel is now owned by . . . China.

Looking in the wrong direction

We are told that successive generations are now unhealthier than their ancestors and the ‘experts’ are blaming poverty, junk foods, alcohol and drugs. Which cuts the ground out from under their feet.
    Relative affluence and idleness are factors which they choose to ignore. If we have an obesity mountain, clearly, ‘poor’ people are still able to choose ready made junk foods instead of having to make the effort to cook for themselves.
    And they have cash left over for booze and drugs.
    Mentoring is offered as a solution but we’ve had plenty of  it and the obese, drunk and drugged clearly ain’t listening.

In their pay

We keep hearing about ‘malign actors’ in connection with AI. Which makes them sound like pantomime villains.
    If journalists and others are talking about ‘our enemies’, they should call them that and not be so bloody coy.

The real message

What will inquiries such as the ones here and in Scotland into the response to the Chinese plague tell us?
    1. The witnesses will slant the truth and lie their heads off.
    2. Counsel for the inquiry will posture shamelessly.
    3. The figurehead will feel free to ignore inconvenient opinions if she chooses.
    4. News media accounts of the proceedings will be slanted and full of BS.
    5. Politicians will deny deleting official messages and holding meetings with no minutes taken to avoid being held to account.

Criminal Mastermind?

Putin the Poisoner is now getting the blame for prompting the Hamas attack, which is taking all media attention away from his assault on Ukraine.
    Hamas are Russia’s mates, not terrorists, is the message.
    Or terrorists just like Putin’s mob, who can’t be called terrorists in case it upsets the looney left.

This is Olympic level

The burning paper hats on a fire in the M&S Christmas TV advert are ‘the colours of the Palestinian flag’. But not any other flag featuring red, green and white?
    How pathetic can a whinge get? Or are the moaners hoping for some sort of award?

Arrest him!

Mark Dolan of GB Views was trying to talk up a Third World War last night. Isn’t that a hate crime, wanting to start a war against the Third World?

Taking dead liberties

The more we hear ‘testimony’ from people with an axe to grind, the more the Chinese plague ‘inquiry’ looks like a total waste of money.
    Like the claim from a former civil servant that Brexit preparations were a distraction from handling the plague. That’s the preparations that were over before that plague arrived in 2020.
    Feel free to rewrite history any way that suits you, why don’t you? A condemnation which is bulked up by onlookers noticing that the chief inquisitor seems to have made her mind up about some of the evidence more or less sight unseen. If it doesn’t suit her view, it doesn’t exist.

Wibblers Woeful

Russell Brand has really upset the Sunday Mirror by actually daring to make thousands of pounds after being accused, but not convicted in a criminal court, of various historic crimes.
    Not much credibility flying around when the ludicrous left throw a wobbly.

Wrong!

When is Bonfire Night? November the Fifth. The Mansion cat doesn’t appreciate lots of bangs and whooshes on the 4th.

Toricane or Hurrinado?

A film called 500 mph Storm may not be suitable for younger viewers. Groan. When are TV stations going to grow up again?
    It kinda blows the credibility to see our hero & family driving along with a HUGE tornado on their tail and someone going the other way(!) on the same road.
    That storm leaves everywhere looking like Gaza City.

Substitute, substitute

Okay, if Xmas has been cancelled by Marks & Sparks, as the whingers on GB Views would have us believe, that opens the door for something older and even more relevant – Yule!

Sodom, for Gomorrah we die!

Someone writing in the Daily Disaster commented that severe floods are now called ‘biblical’ and wondered what caused the bad weather 2,000 years ago that was so exceptional well before global warming was invented.
    The obvious answer is God – she was noted for her tantrums back then.

More lost credibility

Pretending the Mau Mau gang in Kenya wasn’t the Hamas of its day to try to screw cash out of the British taxpayer is worse than blah. It’s positively criminal.

Credibility saboteur

When a BBC bod tells us that Hamas has been described as a terrorist gang by someone or other, it now sounds like ritual, mealy mouthed blah. Which should be stopped forthwith as it makes what follow sound like more blah by association rather than a serious news report.

Hindsight

When IRA terrorists were hiding in West Belfast, our government didn’t send the RAF to bomb the place to bits. Nor the mainland towns where the IRA took refuge with its fans.
    Is this where we went wrong?

Useless adornment

It’s all very well for a ‘top mandarin’ to blacken the government of the day during the crisis phase of the Chinese plague, but if he just sat back and drew his pay and did nothing to help, he’s not worth that much himself.
    And what he has to say for himself is worth about the same.
    The conclusion from this lawyer-fest inquiry is already clear and it doesn’t need to drag on for another decade.
    The next time the Chinese send us a plague, don’t let the civil service, wobbly politicans, doomy medical ‘experts’ and especially not Desperate Dom anywhere near it. Then we might have a chance of getting through it relatively unscathed.

Fillers

Does anyone who counts actually believe TV fiction about dead Princess Di? All it does is help TV stations to fill up space between the adverts and give viewers the opportunity to put the kettle on for a cup of tea and a snack.

Back for more

Steve Austin vs the Susquatch in another 2-parter? All very sci-fi with the isotopes and stuff. And very economical, getting 4 episodes out of the hairy giant suit instead of 2!

After you, matie

Prince Charles shouldn’t even think about apologizing for the suppression of terrorists in Kenya until the government there apologizes to the descendants of the Kenyans who were butchered by the terrorists 70 years ago and gives compensation to those descendants if appropriate.
    Compensation which ain’t funded by the UK!!
    The Kenyan government should also have to explain why it is going on about things that happened before their nation gained its independence – 60 years ago – instead of concentrating on doing things of use to the current generation of citizens.

Just not true

“A police officer charged with murdering an unarmed black man” it said in the newspaper article. Which has to be deliberately prejudicial.
    Contemporary accounts said the bloke was crashing about in a car and a threat to life & limb, and that’s why he was shot by a police firearms officer.
    Not armed with a gun, yes, but definitely armed with a lethal piece of machinery.

Tell it like it is

There’s something incredibly mealy mouthed about calling your nation’s army a defence force if it can send tanks crashing into a neighbouring country/enclave.
    Is that what the Russian occupiers in Ukraine are, a defence force?
    Looks like we’re in Wonderland where words mean whatever the user wants them to mean.

Met Office Morons

Anyone remember when storms had sensible names like Charlie? The ones we’re getting now look like they come out of an artificial intelligence program that’s supposed to do diversity and the rest. Babet? What the hell’s that?
    Storms that batter bits of Britain should get names that belong here.
    Or maybe we should just go back to accepting them as weather and leaving names for things like hurricanes and cyclones. Things big and destructive enough to merit a place in history rather than stuff that’s just wimps pretending that the world they experience is so much tougher than anything experienced in the past.

Some entertainment; at a price

Desperate Dom, the evil genius behind Brexit who went off the rails completely, got a good battering from an inquisitor at the legal jamboree that’s the ‘inquiry’ into the Chinese plague, which is liable to drag on into the next decade.
    He put forward an interesting defence to accusations of misogyny, though. When examples of his foul language were paraded, he countered with the opinion that what he says about blokes is infinitely cruder.

Just puffed up

The ‘Israel at War’ reports from nearby journalists are pretty much a waste of time. There’s a pall of smoke from burning buildings and planes & drones buzzing about and tanks firing at who knows what. But it’s hardly a ‘bloodied Colosseum’ if there’s no blood and no sign of an enemy.

Too far off

Does anyone care that Saudi Arabia is hosting [has bought from FIFA] the 2034 football world cup?
    Not if the likes of Russia and Katar have had them. The only consideration has to be the one that applied to Katar; that the matches have to be played at a time when the conditions on the pitch aren’t lethal.
    Which does allow the boycott get-out of not going to avoid buggering up the UK winter football schedule, as happened when Katar bought the event.

What answer do you want?

The NatWest bank’s ‘investigation’ into the Farage debanking scandal has done the legal trade’s reputation no favours either.

Woke wibble

How bucked up is Hamas going to be about people waving a flag saying Queers For Palestine in London? Apart from not even a little bit.

Ludicrosity

“Facing 115 years in gaol”, I read. Absurd to the point of stupidity. As if the on-trial crypto-banker Mr. Fried-Egg has any hope of living to 146 years old.