Yey! Again

Nice to see the Armstrong Athletic of the NFC on the wrong end of some revenge for the 49ers in Seattle. Doesn’t the 49ers’ quarterback look very like a young Aaron Rodgers! He obviously has the right genes for the job.

Yey!

27-24 in favour of Miami in New England, 2 seconds left on the clock, the Patriots at their 36. Total shambles when they throw the ball about a bit before the Dolphins jump on them to beat Armstrong Athletic and avenge the Massacre in Miami in week 2 of the season. Who sez the Age of Miracles is past!

Miserable strike rate

Of the Top 20 TV Shows of the Year, I watched . . . none at all of them. Where were Starsky & Hutch and the other recycled oldies which people actually watch?

You can’t win

That’s a very strange story about the Bremoaner lawyer, who happened to have a baseball bat handy to slay a fox, which was trying to kill his chickens. What sort of rules give preference to a wild animal over domesticated animals? Or does the RSPCA get off on the publicity of things like this? Probably, just that.

Alternative viewing

Boxing Day was another TV dead loss. Out of the DVD collection came Them! – gi-ants terrorizing America,, which had created them with its atomic bomb tests. And then Scanners – David Cronenberg’s interesting take on telepathy with just the one exploding head; and starring Patrick McGoohan, I was reminded

Here’s a thought

Maybe, if you don’t watch anything on any of the BBC channels on a particular day, the sods should be obliged by law to refund three quid of your licence money. That would be very popular! Are you listening Boris and whoever takes over from Oh, Jeremy Corbyn?

Alternatives are available

Nothing worth viewing on Xmas Day TV, but that’s what CDs and DVDs are for. One of the DVDs I viewed was The Valley of Gwangi – cowboys & circus folk versus dinosaurs, a mad professor and some nutty Mexican peasants. Shame about the cathedral. And no ads!

Not just Cousins to blame

It’s all very well quoting the statistic that the QB of the Minnesota Vikings has never won a match on Monday Night but he’s just one member of a team. Okay, an important one, but it’s that team which has provided collective failure on those Monday nights.

Double Doink

If the kicker in an NFL match can bounce the ball from one post to the other when trying to kick an extra point, that should be worth three points without a doubt. And if he can hit both posts and the crossbar, that should be worth the same as a touchdown. Talent should be recognized.

Wild West show on Sunday!

The Dallas Cowboys @ the Philadelphia Cowboys last night on TV? Don’t believe anything you get from the Virgin Media TV remote’s INFO button without checking it.

Still Armstrong Athletic

Shame that Mr. Edelman is following the New England Patriots’ path of shame. After a pathetic attempt to pretend he’d been injured whilst committing pass interference, he crawled off to the dressing room. Only to return to run about on the pitch totally okay a little later. You ain’t foolin’ no one, buster.

One they missed

How have castanets managed to escape a ban like clapping, which Snowflakes want outlawed in favour of racialist Al Jolson impressions? If someone is upset by clapping, castanets must sound absolutely terrifying!

Another of life’s mysteries

You have to wonder what was going through the mind of whoever it was who cast a Bride of Wildenstein trout-pouter clone in the current Pantene hair advert.

No samphire, Shirley

The Department for Brexit will be axed after January 31st? Well, of course it will be. It would be utterly perverse to keep it when we’re out of the EU.

Rights for all apply to all

If someone wants to get chopped about and drugged up and made to look like a member of the opposite sex; and has the cash to do pay for it; fine. But they have no right to expect everyone else to treat them any more seriously than any other type of eccentric. Because that infringes the human rights of everyone else.

Tories take heart?

It looks like Labour has nothing other than entitled duck eggs on offer as a new leader. Especially if they have to get the obligatory spell of female leadership out of the way.

What a weird world our judges are creating

If a firm can sack someone for expressing the belief that there are only two genders, it follows that firms can also sack someone for expressing the belief that there are more than two genders. It’s only fair!

Well done, Mr. Brees

Great, isn’t it? The receivers do all the work and the quarterback gets all the credit for the passes they catch and the touchdowns they score. A new touchdown record for Drew Brees on Monday night; but somewhat diluted by all the NFL rules changes that made life easier for the offence over the years.

Another swindler

They don’t call them Global Warming Swindlers for nothing. Even though the train company had given her a free first-class ticket, Greenhouse Greta couldn’t resist being pictured sitting on her luggage, trying to look neglected. A trick she learnt from that other swindler Oh, Jeremy Corbyn?

Too much to hope for?

A judge is referring the testimony of Fujitsu computer experts to the Director of Public Prosecutions as they helped to convict Post Office postmasters of imaginary cash shortages created by their allegedly robust accounting software. Will they ever appear in the dock? Breath not being held.

One or the other

It’s all very well for Labour’s Shadow Chancellor to blame his crazy spending plans for the lost election but he put his name to them and he tried to sell them. If he didn’t know they were rubbish, he’s an idiot. If he did, he’s a crook.

NFL High and Lowlights

1. You have to love it when the ball drops into the hands of a linebacker called Merciless and he takes it back the other way for 88 yards.
2. Why doesn’t the NFL make the Dallas Cowboys buy some bloody big curtains for those annoying bloody windows on their dome?

A triumph of optimism

Mince pies with an expiry date in the middle of January? Like they’ll last that long!

Advance warning

100 Xmas Shows You Can’t Miss? There are . . . is . . . one that I might watch. Saving countless wasted viewing hours over the next couple of weeks.

Standards haven’t collapsed completely

It’s reassuring to know that others have no sympathy for the unemployed scrounger with 7 kids who was doing a whinge about food banks. It’s possible to feel sympathy for the kids but not for the parents who were willing to breed them without being able to feed them.

Pointless pillocks

What exactly is the point of ‘hundreds of activists’ descending on Whitehall to protest about the Conservative election victory? Like anyone’s going to say: “Oh, sorry, did we get it wrong? What would you like us to do instead?”

Phew, Gov!

After the last election, it was possible to draw two conclusions: 1. It’s disturbing to know that 50% of the electorate are idiots; you never know when you’re standing next to one; and 2. It simplifies things greatly to know that 50% of the electorate are idiots; you can just treat everyone you meet as one and leave it up to them to prove they aren’t.
    After this election, it’s nice to know that the idiot count has gone down a bit, if only temporarily.

I’m more discriminating, mate!

I must have read or re-read around 500 books in the last decade. How many of the top 25 alleged best-sellers? None.

More Corbyn crap

A kid parked on a hospital floor – obviously, the doctors thought someone else was in a worse condition. Not a judgement that has anything to do with the prime minister and any Corbyn who says different is lying, as usual.
    The kid survived his ‘ordeal’ and his dad was none too pleased by Corbyn taking the kid’s name in vain. Typical!

Grab it and run

Actress Miriam Margolyes asks what’s a Jewish legsbian like her, who hates Xmas, doing playing a nun in an Xmas Day TV show? Cashing in and taking the money, would be my best guess.

Pretty anonymous bunch

Of the 15 ex-Labour MPs who have banded together for a ‘Corbyn ain’t fit to be PM’ advertising campaign, I have heard of . . . 3 of them. Maybe 4.

The last resort?

We’re hearing so much baloney from J. Corbyn and his gang about what’s going to be free in their post-election paradise; wi-fi, university education, TV licences and ghod knows what; it’s amazing they haven’t promised freedom from Tax for all British subjects with only foreign companies paying any.

All action

That was some score festival in New Orleans yesterday. 48-46 in favour of the San Franciso 49ers. Sometimes, no lead is safe south of the border.

Highly likely. Not.

What planet are those alleged Royal correspondents living on if they expect us to believe that Prince Andrew, who flew choppers in the Falklands war zone, would stand still for a wigging from Big Brother Chuck over the Epstein allegators?

It’s the way they tell ’em

That TV ad promising a one-in-ten chance to win this Xmas? Hmmm! A 90% chance you won’t win this Xmas? Not so hmmm.

More yellow dusters on the green stuff

Isn’t it time they started throwing flags when a player claims, falsely, that an opponent didn’t make a catch or get in to the end zone? It’s blatant unsporting conduct but something the NFL seems determined to turn a blind eye to.

New world record?

What’s the big idea behind Channel 4 letting sacked Commons squeaker Berko do a Xmas message like the one the Queen does? An attempt to get the smallest Xmas Day TV audience ever?

Out of it

We have one very lucky cat at the mansion. It is now persisting down with industrial quantities of rain but she managed to stroll in about 30 seconds before the serious stuff began!

TV Tripe

You don’t half hear some tripe on the non-drama TV channels, like PBS America. People on Hawaii had their homes burnt to the ground by a volcanic eruption in 2018. Never mind the sympathy; more fool them for living on an active volcano.
    And in the adverts; when did the elephant become ‘one of our oldest friends’? I can’t say I’ve ever known one. Or that I know any people who have elephant pals.

Include me out

Having seen the lists of BBC 1 and ITV 1 Xmas and Boxo Day TV offerings, I shall be looking in the DVD cupboard for inspiration if I feel a need to gawp at a screen on those days.

What’s different about this election

In the past, Labourites thought they had a licence to lie about anything that took their fancy. This time, they think they’re under an obligation to lie about absolutely everything.

Wrong in one direction only

President Putin has it in for Wikipedia, which he claims is full of inaccuracies. His solution is to create a Russian on-line encyclopaedia full of Russian’s version of everything and Russian fake news. An improvement? Hardly.

Boring . . .

Prince Andrew being sleazed again? File it under NTB**. Now we’ve had the accusations, any danger of something resembling actual proof? A period of silence until that is forthcoming would be appreciated.

** Not That Bothered

Crapman – total BS

Batman vs Superman with Batman written as a pissant hissy git? And the Incredible Kryptonian Hulk doing a King Kong? And Blunderwoman? Definitely an episode to file in the landfill black bin and forget. That’s two and a half hours of my life I won’t get back.

Updated quotation

There is no such thing as a bad Picasso. Some just rake in fewer millions than others.

Sunday Sensation

Did the Almighty Armstrong Athletic Patriots field their B-Team on Sunday? They certainly got stomped on by the Texans. Great trick play by the Texans in Q4, and it was nice of them to go to sleep to make the game look closer than it really was at the end.

Just gab, no sense

The idiot shouty bloke at Sky F1 was calling today’s last race of the season the last of the decade! Apart from next year’s races, of course. Someone else who left school without a maths O-level?

Catching up with the recordings

Oh, my turkey-leg. Three on-side kicks recovered by the Falcons on Thanksgiving Thursday! [Even if one was wiped out by a penalty, the re-kick was an action replay.] But there wasn’t much the Dirty Birds could do for their home crowd against the 4-sack Saints. Lots to cheer there.