Just Excellent

30 years old but you can’t beat a Police Squad film, even if it was full of green garbage. Was that really President Bush and his wife in it? And what an amazing stunt woman Mrs. Bush turned out to be!
    p.s. A list of SEX Technicians in the closing credits!?!
    No, it was SFX techs.

Stop Digging

Red Bull is not bothered, apparently, about digging a huge hole in its credibility with its attempts to get Lewis Hamilton retrospectively disqualified from his win in the British GP.
    Especially when the driver on whose behalf they are playing the Pool Little Stinker card has earned from his own reckless driving style, the nickname Mad Max.

Inspired? Actually, no, I’m not

The news meeja seem to be going overboard on the Olympics as it gives them lots of pictures & human interest stuff to put between the adverts (including the endless self-promotion on the BBC).
    But I have to say I feel no sense of involvement or impulses to watch or read about stuff I don’t think about from one year to the next. And there must be enough people who think like me to form a vexatious minority large enough to get the whole thing cancelled! Because cancelling stuff is the new normal.

Bonfire of Credibility

After letting himself be browbeaten into cancelling a social meeja post containing the word ‘cower’, the Health Secretary’s career as a prime minister in waiting is seen to be over. Much too wobbly. And rather telling that he didn’t realize this.

Counter-intuitive, or what!

Who would think of going to The Foot Warehouse to buy a gadget for shaving female eyebrows? Not me, that’s for sure.

Not even slightly Horace

Rumpole of the Bailey as a woman won’t work, even if it is written by John Mortimer’s daughter in cashinski mode.
    Not even if She Who Must Be Obeyed becomes a bloke.
    Or remains female-ish.
    Que crappadoccio!

Whiskey Cavalier Clunk

Is it convincing as a training exercise to have bad guys pretend to kidnap the British prime minister & his wife to get other bad guys out of gaol? Especially when politicians are infinitely replaceable.
    “Go ahead and shoot them,” should be the message to the BGs. “Our dear leader’s rat pack is already scrapping furiously to be his successor.”

Some will always take advantage

The end of the furlough scheme is going to ruin the lives of the skivers who are deliberately putting themselves about in crowded places to get themselves pinged by the NHS App.
    Maybe the government needs to start adding up how much time off some people have had and make them do 150 hours of unpaid community service if they’ve been taking advantage of the taxpayer’s generosity.

Unexpected, but welcome

The BMA, the doctors’ trade union, has surprised the nation by coming up with the eminently sensible view that blaming the NHS App for the self-isolation pingdemic is like blaming a fire alarm for going off when there's a fire. Good sense is not something normally associated with the BMA.

There’s always some silly story

If your council stops cutting grass verges and the grass in parks, but doesn’t reduce your council tax to take account of the service you’re no longer getting, it’s okay. The council is just rewilding and you should feel grateful that you are helping to save the planet with your C Tax contribution.

You have to start somewhere

Who’s the young bloke with the stooopid pony tail haircut in the 30-year-old film? Why, it’s Stephen Seagal looking the part of an action hero. Before he proved that if you can still clobber bad guys, looking old and fat is no handicap.

Logic vs WW

If Shameless, the Irish lout, really did have a broken nose, he wouldn’t be in the ring. Therefore his defused scold’s bridle is just a silly gimmick. In fact, a recycled one. And a detachable one when comic effect is required.

Blame Shame

Why are MPs furious about billions of pounds being wasted by the Dept. of Health on unused PPE gear? Everything every government does wastes TONs of cash and if they’d been paying attention, the MPs would know this.
    What is needed is MP action – but we never seem to get anything useful in that line.

Charge what you can get away with?

A thousand quid for a rechargeable hearing aid? What are they; platinum-plated and hand-built by electronics professors in their professional prime?

Groan

Wouldn’t it have been nice if the BBC had picked a human being to replace the late Nicholas Parsons as the chairman of Just A Minute on the steam wireless? Instead, they went for the self-congratulatory Super Kins. Wonderful.

Good or Bad?

An MP telling lies to jump the 3-year waiting list for a council flat proves that the Commons contains a representative sample of all the population, dishonest people included.
    Next thing you know, someone will be telling us it might be a good idea to broaden the criminal element to include serial killers.

Flawed Concept

Is there any point in having vaccine passports? As long as people who have been vaccinated can still be plague carriers, they’ll just be an indicator of who has made an effort to protect themself and others.
    They won’t say anything about the people who don’t have one, be they not bothered about the plague, convinced a vaccine will alter their DNA or have some medical issue.

Any money in need of being thrown away?

Do we really need an urgent public inquiry into how the Chinese plague has been handled to avoid losing the chance to learn vital lessons? Sure, we do.
    All massive inquiries do is shove a ton of cash into the pockets of various members of the legal trade.
    Nothing useful ever comes out of them thanks to the degree of government obfuscation and general covering up.

Diplomatic Alternative?

No athletes testing positive for drugs @ the Olympics? Could that be because they’re being given the option of having a phantom case of the Chinese plague to spare Russian blushes?
    Cynical, or what!

Knowledge of no obvious use

Something I didn’t know before yesterday was the Patrick McGoohan of The Prisoner fame directed, produced and starred in an episode of Columbo, or Joke, as he is popularly known
    Three decades on TV for the world’s dopiest detective! Gordon Bennett!!

At a loose end?

What’s up with John Cena? Is he re-infesting the WW shows because the film industry has run out of jobs for him? Or maybe the usual suspects are dashing off on holiday and he’s making up the numbers.

Wobbly hurled

The aptly named MP for Wokington says he won’t go to the Tory conference in October if attendance depends on being vaccinated against the Chinese plague.
    No doubt his views weren’t worth having anyway and no one will miss them.

Dig Deep

The hate-crime nazis are really busting a gut if the director of the opening ceremony for the Olympics was sacked over something he said over 20 years ago.
    Shame that the current craving for offence is so desperate that it has to be sought so enthusiastically.

Not us, mate!

We humans are not guilty of causing global warming. It’s all down to wild pigs digging up the environment in search of roots and other grub and releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. So we can all relax.

Who thinks up these things?

I was amused to read that the competitors in the Olympic village have beds made of cardboard, which are designed to collapse if two people get on them for bonkage. Trying to be worthy but achieving an epic fail.

Also No Paragons

An MP takes a noisy pop at FaceBook, and then is exposed as taking cash from them for doing speaking events. Another tells pork pies to jump a 3-year waiting list for a council flat. There is clearly something badly wrong with the selection process for members of the House of Common Criminals.

It’s been done, mate

Next to Garfield on the page was a plug for Their Greatest Story Retold, which turned out to be Stephen Fry rehashing the Trojan war. Shame he couldn’t come up with something original.

No Escape

I assume from the Garfield cartoon in last Thursday’s Daily Mail that every cat grabs every opportunity to park on a keyboard and cause havoc. It’s not something peculiar to the Mansion cat.

No, you can’t win

One minute, the test ‘n’ trace mob are being told they’re not pinging enough people. The next, they’re pinging too many. A great degree of fortitude is required by all those involved.

Not paragons either

Not that national newspapers are particularly wonderful, especially when they accuse the prime minister of telling pork pies when all he is doing is passing on what alleged experts have told him about matters outwith his area of expertise.

Don’t you just wish . . .

. . . that when someone has to contact a national newspaper to get BT, NS&I or a similar outfit to unscrew one of their many screw-ups, the response printed in the paper would include: “XXX sent £225 as a gesture of good will, and also the testicles of the bozo who caused all the trouble.”

Brilliant idea

If people making a fortune out of the world of sports want to receive only adoration on social meeja, all they have to do is hire a censor to delete anything nasty (or painfully true), leaving the superstar with just the love of the little people to lap up.

Unmitigated Drama Queen

Honestly! There are some really hysterical wonks around. Like the one who claims he’s afraid Freedom Day will become Extinction Day.

How did they ever get a licence?

There was some world-class bozo-estupido freeway driving in an episode of CHiPs! last night. Those Yanks certainly do their best to keep death on the roads, where it belongs?

Deconstruction

Are we surprised that the pay rise of 3% offered to NHS staff is far below what the unions demanded? Nope. If it had been +3,000%, the unions would still have been throwing a wobbly because that’s what they do.

Real spectacle

The Moon put on a good show last night. Just scraping a few degrees above the horizon at its highest last night and bright red. Well worth being out and about to see.

Past Blasters

The WW must have been a bit short of walking non-wounded on Monday night if it had to get Cena and Goldberg out of their boxes to do a bit.
    That was real cute, though, making the wee Scots lass the women’s champ.

No Escape

There’s no getting away from Xmas on TV. They were doing it on “CHiPs!” the other night with buckets of the usual God-bothering.

With Sharks In Mind

Louis Hamilton seems to be refreshingly unrepentant after his “negative encounter” with Max Verstappen. Maybe his mojo has been relined.

Calm down, dear!

“Are you free, Mr.Humphrys?” He’s certainly not free of panic mongering, playing the drama queen in the Daily Mail and claiming Planet Earth is on a countdown to catastrophe.

Go with the lie

We’re invited to believe that ‘the vast amount of racialist flak’ aimed at failing footballers proves beyond a shadow of doubt that Britain is the most racialist place in the known universe.
    Shame that the amount of actual racialist abuse is very tiny, and that most of it comes from anonymous donors abroad. But if the truth doesn’t fit the bill, print the lie.

Was it something he said?

In a pre-British GP interview, Max Verstappen revealed that he is not interested in social media hype and hanging out with alleged celebs. Was there an implied ‘Unlike some people I could name’? Which Mr. Hamilton took personally? Crunch!

“Poor, but not as we know it, Jim.”

I was amused to read Amanda Platell’s wails of indignation in the Daily Mail about the hunt for the poor old whistleblower who blew Matt Hancock’s career with CCTV pictures of him snogging Gina, his aide.
    That’s the poor old whistleblower who copped for 75 grand for those pix.

Wonderful story. Not.

According to their apologists in Australia, sharks which rip bits off a human swimmer are not attacking their victim. They are just delivering a negative outcome to the encounter. Which makes all the difference.

They’re back

Vince McMahon hauled out of his old folks’ home to do a 10-second strut before an arena full of spreaders? The WW is back on the road. Sadly, still the same old sorry pillocks like the Ass of the Table and Rollings on offer.

Get out of that!

Quiz question: What does water become when it freezes?
    Very cold?

Maybe next year

No lead-out, no final stage win for Mark Cavendish in Autour de France. Belgium rejoices that the Merckx record of 34 wins has only been equalled, not eclipsed.

False Dawn?

Just a wrist-slap 10 seconds for Hamilton for causing a collision. A Mercedes unable to pass a Ferrari and Hamilton finishing second would have been a more realistic bit of scripting providing some hope for the rest of the season, but they just couldn’t resist the Hamilton wins at home option. Good drive by Leclerc.
    Still, Verstappen can look forward to 9 more wins if his luck holds.

No real excuse

“He’s put ’im in the wall!” How come people in sports can’t speak the same proper English like what normal people use?

What a mob!

300,000 potential spreaders @ Silverstone for the British GP. Would the shouty bloke blow a fuse when we got a Senna/Prost shunt, which sent Verstappen heavily into the tyre wall?
    Still, it gave the bloke with the red flag something to do.

Not bothered

The cat is sitting in front of a fridge/freezer. I open the door. Does this release a shower of cold air onto her and make the cat run away, spitting & snarling? No, she just carries on washing and takes no notice.

What’s he on?

If Richard Branson thinks he’s going to be doing 400 launches per year of his Virgin Galactic nearly into space planes, he is definitely heading for the funny farm.

Nurse, the ear plugs!

The shouty bloke on Channel 4 was nearly incoherent with self-generated excitement when the first ever sprint race qualifying went on for the British GP with Hamilton a win and a quarter behind Verstappen.
    One really mad moment in the event. Otherwise, it was just a short procession instead of a long one. What did it all prove? Don’t expect anything much from today’s race. Verstappen will lose only if he has a mechanical or does something really daft.

More failure

European leaders are blaming the death & destruction caused by this week’s floods in the north on climate change, which is a slow process and one which can be mitigated by keeping the infrastructure in good repair.
    Something which these leaders have evidently failed to be bothered to do.

No need

“What we eat and drink is killing us. We MUST act”, said the headline in the paper. Why? What’s wrong with letting natural selection run its course?
    It’s not as if the Earth is short of human beans trying to wreck it, the doombuggers keep telling us.

Still in Wonderland

Freedom Day here; well, in England; on Monday is a threat to the world, hysterics in the rest of it claim! Well, sod the lot of you.

Illogical Logic

Claiming people have a human right to do the Knee of Shame but those who disapprove don’t have a human right to boo them is definitely Wonderland politics.

Accentuate the positive!

More marks to the bloke who pointed out that Britain’s cut in foreign aid to dictators & spivs gives the world’s tight-fisted gits a chance to step up and bridge the gap.

Excellent Suggestion

Full marks to the bloke who suggested that if the EU wants more Brexit cash, it will have to justify the claim with a set of properly audited accounts. Probably the first one in the entire history of this notorious haven of corruption.

Just a bit more

The professor thinks ‘community immunity’ is a better alternative to herd immunity. Presumably, because it makes us sound less like cattle.

Just inappropriate

An article from a professor telling us that the Chinese plague is less of a threat now included the news that the risk of dying from it is “fewer than one in 1,000”.
    Obviously should have been “less than” as one in 1,000 is a quantity, not a number. “Better than” would have been even . . . better.

Reality discarded

“1.4oF THE EARTH IS BURNING” is the slogan of the snoflake ecoterrorists in Firestorm, a daft sciffy film featuring a firenado rather than a sharknado.
    With people like that in charge of the future, Earth is definitely doomed. So soft in the head that no one can accuse them of being boneheaded!

Reality check

Crossword clue: biological sex (4)
    What other sort of sex is there, though? Imaginary?

Re-stocking needed

“Southgate & William back England stars”
    Over a cliff?

Brilliant idea

Maybe we should let the WWE stage the 2030 World Cup. Then England could have a shock-horror win in the final to provide one of the biggest upsets in the history of sports entertainment.

Nothing has changed

Are we inspired by the England football team? Not really. All the Euros final managed to do was confirm that there is a natural law that England will always lose on penalties.

That won’t work

We’re supposed to be cheered up by being reminded that there is a World Cup for us to have a go at next year. But it’s in Qatar, not exactly a No. 1 footballing nation, and it’s in the middle of winter because it’s too hot for the players to survive at any other time of year. Thus expectations are not that high.

Very small deal

Some woman who works on TV has dumped her husband after 20 years. Well, I suppose they have to put something between the adverts in newspapers.

Tell ’em anything

Are we seriously expected to believe that drinking one cup of coffee per day reduces your chances of getting the Chinese plague by 10%? Or is it really all about staying at home to drink your coffee and not putting yourself near any plague-spreaders?

Off Beam

When a footballer who takes the Knee of Shame in support of the mob that wants to abolish the police takes a hissy pop at the Home Sec., that’s when you know that making political gestures has taken over from making a living out of taking part in sporting entertainment.

Education, Schmeducation

Is there any point in mentioning to All Elite Wrestling that dynamite contains nitroglycerine, not TNT? Probably not.

Off Message

The Dept. Of Culture is upset by the use of the expression “it’s coming home” because it upsets foreigners by reminding them that modern football was invented in England with no input or help from them.

Off Target

“Let’s bring it back home, Harry!” said the headline on Saturday’s paper. Unfortunately, they gave the job to Harry, Prince of Wails, instead of someone who could get it done. That’s what it looks like.

Quarter-full to empty

Nothing diminishes a ‘celeb’ more than descriing an actor or actress whose name is slightly familiar as the ‘xxxx’ star, where xxxx is the name of a film or a TV series I haven’t seen.

Just a dictionary space-filler

There’s a word for describing things shaped like a mackerel, I was amazed to read the other day. Scomboid. Does anyone ever us it? Thought not. A valid candidate for cancellation?

Parity achieved

Bang goes the myth that showing an important match for England’s football team on ITV is always the Kiss of Death. Showing it on the BBC can be as big a disaster.

Poisoned chalice

I see old Beardie Branson managed to make his trip up to the edge of space without his rocket-plane exploding. He should now be bracing himself for the howls of rage from the global warming swindlers over all the emissions from his kite.

How to cheer a nation

“85k a day told to self-isolate” said the headline.
    “£85K a day for being told to self-isolate” would have been, well, Brilliant!!!

Send for the Fraud Squad

It’s a real cheek, putting The Equalizer tag on the Denzel Washington films. His character is nothing like the one created by Edward Woodward. Neither are his working methods or where he works.
    The films are well made but blatant passing off and Trades Description Act fodder.

Everything about Europe sucks

Penalties? Really?
Bang goes the England coach’s knighthood.

Reload the TV with bullets!

Attention the British Board of Film Censors: the daft film John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) should have an ‘M’ rating as it is chockablock with mucho moronic and mindless violence.
    Bullet count: 10 million. Body count: 9,999,999. Pretty much the same as the amount of glass that got smashed in the jocular Jap’s play pen at the end.

Logical impossibility

Crossword clue: superlative of bad.
    But superlative means the best possible.
    Which ‘worst’ ain’t!

Not always a positive thing

“It went viral,” we’re told by some breathless wonk.
    “What, like the Chinese plague?”

We know, we know

We bloody well know it’s 55 years since England’s football team won a major. We don’t need to be told it every day by the BBC news. Bin the effin’ cliché, you sods.

Yah, boo, sucks to you

Anyone impressed by the new BBC logo with more white space and smaller letters in grey blocks? It really is a display of corporate arrogance when they inflict something like that on the licence-payer.

Different Strokes

Something else you get from watching the CHiPs gang is displays of the world’s worst driving with silly but spectacular crashes on freeways at the slightest provocation. And no one killed!

Fugitive Celebrity

A guest appearance by Ed McMahon as himself in an episode of ChiPs? Not impressed. Who he? Which tends to be the fate of a lot of ‘celebs’.

Totally cancelled

The smug, sweaty Peloton broad seems to have been binned with the Fox Channel. Which is surprising. You’d expect her to have been a natural for infiltrating the commercial breaks during Autour de France highlights on ITV4.

Lost Cause

I suppose there must be mugs who will listen to an unsolicited phone call asking 10 questions about their personal circumstances in the hope that they’ll get a free replacement boiler out of it. Or the spivs wouldn’t waste the time of making their recorded message and sending it out to the unwary.

No Surprise

Unlocking could/maybe/might create a whole gang of new varieties of the Chinese plague, the experts reckon. As a result, we will be locked in again before we know it.
    How cheerful.

A Lost Art

Sub-titles are vital to follow an increasing number of TV shows these days. It took a showing of the 1972 film Nothing But The Night on Talking Pictures last night to ram home the message that decent sound is a thing of the past.
    Everything the characters in the film said was crisp and clear. Almost miraculous!

Hate crimes galore!

If every Scottish football fan who has done a hate whinge about the success of the England football team were to be arrested, finding somewhere to keep them in custody would reverse the infamous Highland Clearances.

World of wonkiness

The people who claim that Britain is the most ray-sist country in the world are at it again. They would like us to believe that only slavery involving white people counts. Slavery by people of any other skin colour somehow doesn’t count. Even if they enslave people specifically to sell them to people with white skins.

Not for long

The miserable monsters in the SAGE tent are predicting that we’d better not get used to being unlocked because we’ll have to be back in another lockdown before we know it.
    Just what we need to cheer us up.

Alibi in place?

Showing an important match for the England football team on ITV is the kiss of death, the apologists were claiming yesterday to get an alibi for a defeat in place. Nothing to do with the deficiencies of the team, all to do with the broadcaster. How very woke! Shame about the 2-1 win over Denmark.

Slim Degree of Celebrity

Does anyone outside the Luvvie Bubble think that what a bloke who used to work for Sky gets up to is news? Can’t say I’ve heard of the guy myself.

Weird people

You have to wonder about the mentality of the pushy gits who thought they had the human right to personhandle the government’s Professor of Doom Chris Whitty and turn him into selfie-fodder. He’s on the public payroll and that makes him public property?

Irrepressible

The BBC might have redone its website to cancel all the positives of a warmer climate, but spoilsports elsewhere on Mr. Internet have recorded them. And they look a much better option than anything the gloomy Warmists have to offer.

Less than the whole story

A commentary by one David Mellor about the English football win over Ukraine had the ‘who he?’ tag of: “David Mellor was a Cabinet Minister under John Major”.
    Was it just lack of space with deprived the innocent of the fact that he became a national figure of fun through his extraparliamentary activities? Some, allegedly, in a football shirt.

Something worth doing for a change

Nice to read that the Treasury is trying to make being able to use cash the equivalent of a human right. Likewise access to free-to-use cash machines.

Neither is telling the truth

Something else amusing is the kicking the BBC got for daring to offer GCSE students a set of 9 positives associated with a warmer climate. Cue outraged screams from the global warming fraudsters and a remake of the website page.

Winning is not an option

I was amused to read that Marine Le Pen has upset the grass roots of her party by choosing to move away from the strident extremism that makes her gang unelectable and becoming a bit more mainstream. The roots clearly don’t want the responsibility of being in charge of anything and therefore to blame when it all goes horribly wrong.

How could he?

PM splits infinitive, shock horror!
    “. . . we must all continue to carefully manage the risks of covid . . .”
    There’s a fine example for the yoof of the nation!

Did they bung someone?

All those white legs on bikes – how come the Tour de France isn’t being kicked from here to Hooterville for lack of diversity by the Usual Suspects?
    Playing fields may be unlevel in the name of diversity?

Austrian GP, take 2

Still the Knee of Shame by only some of the drivers. Then the hard rock ‘Hendrix’ version of the national anthem, which was as welcome as it was original.
    Ocon zapped on lap 1, safety car. Watching the driver’s view using fast-forward setting 1 can be quite alarming! Same with the pit stops; done with superhuman speed.
    All Max Verstappen had to worry about was a mechanical on his way to sewing up this year’s drivers’ title. And cheeky Norris bumped Louie Sam Milton off the podium!

Shame!

“Plans for trail to honour Wallace” read the headline in yesterday’s Sunday Post.
    What? Nowt for Grommit?

Forever thirty-something

Crumbs! Young Craig Stirling of The Champions is an old bloke who has gone to his reward at the good age of 84. But he’s still earning royalties from repeats on the Talking Pictures channel.

No excuse

Apparently, the Koran advocates killing unbelievers, which amounts to a hate crime now – and, in fact, has been one for decades. So why has nothing been done about the sale and distribution of this offensive literature?

Suspect Glee

Why is the Sunday Post, Scotland’s favourite newspaper, so bucked up that Denmark won their Euros match? Could it be because they’re hoping they beat England?

Try harder

Artisan bakers are in trouble for making loaves which create slices that are too big to go in toasters. You can tell it’s the Silly Season if people are moaning about things like that.

Another waste of space

Do we really need an eco rating on food packaging? Just more illegible print to ignore.

Express-lane leak?

The speed with which the Ministry of Defence ‘top secret’ documents 'left in a bus shelter' reached the BBC, rather than the police, suggests that one of our spies by-passed the bus shelter and went straight to the BBC to let the Russians know we’re not impressed by their playing silly buggers in the Black Sea.

No, thanks

Do we really need flying cars? They might reduce congestion on the roads a bit but the toll of death and damage from the skies is going to be enormous when the usual idiots take to the air. And the cost of the insurance premiums!!

Just bloody go

The whole of Europe is going to breathe a loud sigh of relief when Angela Merkel finally hangs up her politician’s hat. Okay, Germany pays for most of the EU and that should count for something, but her anti-British tantrums must be getting wearisome for other countries which want to make money out of us.

Idle nosiness

Have the government minister M. Gove and the newspaper columnist S. Vine uncoupled consciously or unconsciously? Or has no one had the bad taste to ask them?

Strike . . . how many?

Another SF cliché – the person of standing who gives up everything to be a shepherd to a primitive people. Mrs. Spock in Star Trek TNG and the Bajoran religious leader, the Kai, which opened the door for her truly appalling successor.

Niedergang

It’s definitely the spirit of 1945 all over again. Chancellor Merkel is squatting in her bunker, trying to prevent a British holiday invasion of the Continent.
    Meanwhile, British tourists are being welcomed by southern European nations, which are desperate for liberation from poverty and the dead hand of German control of the EU.

Depressing through

After Tuesday’s triumph, and bearing in mind past form, the football team of England has to resign itself to not beating Germany again in a major tournament until 2076!

Missed the boat

I have come across references to the ITV lunchtime news in some old notes and I started wondering why I don’t watch it now. The answer turned out to be quite simple.
    I have lunch at 1 p.m., which is when the BBC 1 lunchtime news is on. ITV’s news doesn't start until half-past due to an outbreak of loose women.

just there

I see the Daily Mail’s TV guy has got the BBC news line at the bottom of the News Channel’s screen sussed. It’s so small because they’re not bothered about making it legible.
    Probably because the stuff on offer is mundane and worthless. GB News and Al Jazeera, in contrast, offer a ticker that’s legible because it has information value, especially the AlJaz one.

Total Kill Zone!

Reading From Potter’s Field by Patricia Cornwell has told me how serial killers prosper in the US. The FBI and police forces are so dozy that a bad guy can access their computers at will and kill civilians and cops inside what are supposed to be secure buildings.
    Crumbs!

Buncha Dunces

How come NASA is Nasa, NATO is Nato but the FBI ain’t the Fbi? Or maybe it is where terminal iggorance thrives.

Misleading slogan

“We have the solutions”, they claim.
    “We have out hands out for your cash” more like!