So bloody what?

The average temperature in a British home is 17.7 degrees Centigrade, I read. Which is a completely meaningless number, given the range of properties and locations.
    There’s also the question of the shameful waste of taxpayers’ money in making the guess. Not something that ever seems to be a consideration.

Foul, Ref!

How come the Russian bloody meerkats on TV haven’t been cancelled under the regulations banning everything to do with Putinstan?

Dictionary wallah, get inventing!

Hippocrisy no longer comes close, where that beery liar Starmer is concerned. We’re in the realm of the brontosaurus, size-wise, where his double standards for Labour dos during lock-in are concerned.

A way to waste some time

Counting up the number of victims of the woke mind virus I’ve never heard of, who flounced off Twitter in a cloud of indignation because they’re afraid people who challenge them will be let back into the ‘community’.

The way ahead

Looks like female MPs are going to have to turn up at the Commons in dungarees, a head scarf and a face mask so that they can’t lark about, flashing their bits at male members opposite, have a laugh about it and then throw a monstrous wobbly when someone dares to mention what they’re up to.

Laugh of the day

People in the States are shoving money at plastic surgeons to reduce the size of their nose so that it doesn’t look huge in selfies!

Bye-ee

I see the woke virus victims are threatening to abandon Twitter en masse if Mr. Musk allows free speech that’s legal, and lets people who don’t have the virus back to challenge them.
    I suppose it’s too much to expect that they’ll find something useful to do with the time they would have wasted Twittering.

Internet access ruined

Aren’t websites for banks and NSandI and other financial places a real pain to use on a PC. All those big, babyish spaces needed for a baby screen on a phone.
    Don’t you just wish they’d have 2 websites, one for phones and one for people using a proper computer?

Protesting too much

That Starmer bloke just can’t win. He’s now being investigated over his boozing by the police and there’s his deputy, moaning about people noticing she was flashing her legs at the PM months after she was laughing about it. No attention on him, all on her. Shame!

Furthermore

Blair admitted he was a liar and there was a story doing the rounds in 2009 that he was too busy on his knees in church begging forgiveness to talk to his minions.

Mealy of mouth, mean of spirit

The UN has no problems with Rwanda, which tells us rather a lot about the Bremoaners & Team Putin yelling about it. Even if the destination for illegal entrants was a Mediterranean tourist hot spot, they’d be agin it because Tories suggested it.
    They don’t call lefties looney for nowt!

Alternate glib reality

Nothing is more important to voters than having PM whose word can be trusted, claims a contributor to my paper’s letters column.
    Being charitable, maybe she’s too young to remember Tony B. Liar and Gordon F. Broon & that Campbell bloke and all the rest of the New Labour crew who came up with monstrous lies to put us into a war in Iraq.

Old joke but still relevant

Whenever former PM Gordon Brown starts putting the world to rights, I’m reminded of when he retired (before he could be deposed) and his Cabinet colleagues wanted the National Railway Museum in York to name a locomotive after him.
    One of them wanted to rename The Flying Scotsman but asked how much it would cost. “Not much”, was the reply. “All we have to do is paint out the ‘F’ on the name plate.”

Guilty Admission

Sticking the passive-aggressive label on Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP, for going round Whitehall, leaving polite notes on empty desks, is a clear admission that he is in the right and all the absentees are in the wrong
    Home-shirking skivers who are getting extra allowances from the taxpayer for working in London are as bad as expenses-swindling MPs.

More Dosh Down the Drain

The pillocks who thought rebranding the town of Bromyard in Herefordshire by reversing the final ‘D’ might have thought their idea was worth the 90 grand of taxpayers’ cash they got for it.
    But printed letters to the residents will have to ignore it as there’s no backward ‘D’ on a standard keyboard.

Something rotten right here

You have to wonder about the fitness for their job of the people on the public sector payroll who hired the mob who let children be abused and killed in Birmingham whilst they were in charge of social services there.
    Never mind something rotten in the state of Denmark. You don’t have to go that far.

Sounds very likely

Why isn’t the Irish Republic a member of NATO, someone else asked. Could it be something to do with Ireland always being on the side of the UK’s enemies?

Joining in

I see Radio 3 is joining in the trend for offering programmes with nothing much in the way of content for people who want the radio on but don’t want anything challenging on it. A dog doing heavy breathing and a bit of barking is on offer.
    Rather like 2-hour TV shows of a long drive in the country for people who need their TV on regardless of content.

Hard to tell

Someone who claimed to admire Prince Hairy in my paper’s letters column didn’t want where she lives to be revealed.
    To avoid having people coming round to laugh at her or accuse her of taking the mickey? I wonder which . . .

Trying to be helpful

A bloke was complaining that his gas & electricity will cost him £171/month at the new, improved rate and his pension is only £78/week.
    He asked for suggestions. Stay in bed for three weeks of every month with the heating off is all that comes to mind.

Tunnel vision

Strange that the pillocks leading the Opposition parties didn’t do a whinge about the PM wearing a turban in India. No howls of cultural appropriation.
    But maybe they’re too focussed on ancient parties as a smokescreen for their own misdeeds to be able to handle something else.

Back markers win out!

Spots of rain on the visor for Moto2. Canet took the lead on lap 2/23, white rain flags started to appear around the track. And it all went horribly wrong on lap 9 with 9 leaders, including Sam Lowes, just flying into the kitty litter when their slick tyres failed to grip the wet track.
    Red flag, 18 riders doing 7 laps at the restart and it was cold & horrible. Dixon crashed out of the lead on lap 1. Roberts went into the distance and the Californian stayed there for his first ever MotoGP win.

Brilliant idea

A bright spark in the US has noticed that there’s $100 billion of Russian assets frozen by the Federal Reserve, and it could be used to give aid; military & humanitarian; to Ukraine at no cost to the US taxpayer.

Staying dry

Them black clouds were back to threaten the 25 laps of the MotoGP race. Rins charged from the back of the grid to join the leaders on lap 1!! Martin fell off on lap 6. Bastiani gone, too.
    Quateraro built a good lead. Miller fell off after passing Mir and took both of them out, so neither of them on the podium in 3rd place. That went to Espargaro behind Zarco.

The sun’s out

After a wet run-up, the sun came out for the Moto3 race in Portugal. 21 laps and a long line of riders developed with no bunching, except on the start-finish straight where overtaking was possible.
    Garcia built a big lead, then became part of the lead 5. As the craziest, he remained the commentators’ fave for a win. Which he went on to do.

No use, either on ’em

It’s all very well for Team Hairy in the meeja to pretend he’s a huge threat to the monarchy here, but we, the real people, can see right through it. We know he’s irrelevant and as big a waste of time as that tool Starmer.

TV adverts have their uses!

Shock-horror surprise, but it’s true. Seeing the cofficionado pillock on his bike reminded me that I needed to start a new brew for consumption after dinner. But Aldi coffee, not his.

An Inclusive Too Far

Can we really believe that well-paid newspaper columnists like Sarah Vine are members of the ‘most of us who struggle to pay our gas bills’ club?

Cover up, cover up!

I see the SNP regime in Scotland is keeping the shutters down on another child abuse scandal. So much for transparency. And no wonder Wee Burney would like everyone to focus on trivia, not her gang’s neglect of duty.

Total Tripe

There’s a ‘shoes off indoors’ debate that’s dividing Britain? If so, it’s into a vast majority who aren’t interested and a few nutters trying to get noticed.

Well, yes . . .

There can’t be that much of a cost of living crisis if people feel the need for a Definitive Guide to On-Demand TV. All those extra channels don’t come cheap. But if people feel they can afford them, we’re obviously okay.

Like as if

Also in the paper, someone claiming that the unwanted migrants who’ll be shipped to Rwanda would be eager to fill the gaps in the ranks of waiters and crop-pickers here.
    Right!

Nailed!

Trouble-shouter someone offered on the fun page of the paper with the definition: ‘someone who magnifies a small problem to major proportions’.
    A perfect description of that pillock Starmer.

Feckan Filler

What does it matter whether actor person Johnny Depp does or doesn’t having his hair in a pony tail in court? Complete with a photo. Trival tosh. No real news around, then?

It’s just good sense

Why would anyone who can afford to be a non-dom pay taxes to fund stuff like the partygate crap? I see the Rolling Stones aren’t bothered by all the recent whinges about their choice to up sticks and not encourage the morons, like lots of others.
    Good luck to them.

The Great Debate

What is it Sir Starmer goes in for? Is it dog-basket politics or kitty-litter politics? It’s hard to tell.

Served some purpose

Was the Austrian Chancellor’s trip to Moscow worth the effort? He got to sit at the other end of Putin’s 30-foot isolation table but all he could report is that the dope thinks he’s doing a grand job in Ukraine and everything is going to plan even though he’s 5 weeks overdue for his victory parade.
    Still, it gave the news media something to do.

Curious

Why is Bradley Wiggins telling us he was groomed by a dirty old man of a cycling coach when he was a very young teenager? Has no one noticed him recently?

Spare Part

That bloke Starmer is a complete tosser. It’s difficult to decide if he’s more self-righteous than hypocritical or vice versa.
    Mind you, he wouldn’t be able to do much damage as PM, given the can’t-do skivery characteristic of our civil service.

Trivialities Rule, Nokay!

What’s this obsession with 2020? Socializing @ Downing Street by people who work there with people they work with. The UAE & other ‘friendly’ nations hacking our government with Israeli malware, including on a phone linked to No. 10 (allegedly).
    BFD. We’re all still here a couple of years later despite it all.

As New

It must be a hell of a long time since I last saw the 2004 film of I, Robot because it was full of stuff I didn’t remember. In fact, most of it was like that.
    The film version included the weasel words ‘suggested by Asimov’s book’. In other words, they kept the title but wrote their own plot. Foul! That amounts to rather dodgy passing off!

Better off without them

Whose rotting corpse would you like to find in the boot of an abandoned car? seems to be a popular discussion group topic. Putin has to be top of the list, of course. But that pathetic fool Starmer has to be on the list, too.
    He’s a complete waste of space, who is unable to focus on anything other than trivialities. Never anything that matters.

Rare Gem

Strange that The Monolith Monsters (1957) doesn’t get an airing as often as, say, The Blob and the original film. It has a lot more ingenuity than a lot of black&white SF efforts.
    Maybe a nod in the direction of Day of the Triffids, though.

Keeps them out of real mischief

How hard is it to come up with a load of gloopy tripe every single week? From the performance of the ladies who do in the newspapers I take, not that much of a problem.
    Especially if they have an excuse to sound off about the failings of the male of the species.

Yeah, sure

The Putinis tell our PM and a dozen Cabinet ministers they can’t go to Russia when they have no plans to go there. BFD.

Perfectly Reasonable

Is there anything wrong with wanting to see the corpse of an insanitary ex-wife rotting in the boot of a car? Of course not. All perfectly natural if she’s truly appalling.

Judgement passed

Let us leave no doubt about it – if a girl on a first date orders fish at dinner and the bloke doesn’t like it, he’s a twat.
    Especially if he claimed he was bothered by the fish smell but he ordered a curry. End of.

Out of our hands

How sackable are archbishops who play politics instead of doing the god-bothering they’re paid for?
    Or do we have to rely on a divine thunderbolt to take them out and clear the way for someone who can do the job as advertised?

Canadian mystery

A friend of mine was watching a new episode of Hudson & Rex on the Alibi channel with the subtitles on, and he was baffled by the fact that they didn’t match what the characters were saying.
    Same gist but different words & expressions from what was being said.
    Weird!

Such Ingratitude

There was this giant bird from outer space doing the world a favour by eating the United Nations building. But what did the ungrateful humans do? Zap the poor creature. Bastards!

Groan

Captain Marbles is a female in the latest wonky film? The wonk makers have definitely lost theirs.

Truth: the first casualty of propaganda

The looney left keep claiming that the people in line for shipment to Rwanda are traumatized refugees when 90% of them turn out to be draft-dodging young men and economic migrants.
    How strange that politicians don’t get that people can spot their story as a deliberate lie and if they keep repeating it, all this does is make people wonder what else they are lying about and reluctant to believe anything they’re told.

How bloody stoopid can you get?

An Easter recipe for hot-X buns in the Mail – allegedly one of the Queen’s favourites – starts with 1.5 free range eggs.
    What? How can you have 0.5 of an egg? Eggs come in whole numbers or not at all and any chef who doesn’t know that is a waste of time.
    The only way to use the recipe would be to add one-third of each of the ingredients so that the egg count becomes 2. But given the dire state of education today, that’s probably beyond the average punter.
    Or maybe they can get a ‘health professional’ to do the sums for them.

Got It Right

Star Trek, the original series, on the Horror Channel? Well, that’s where it belongs because it must give wokesters nightmares.

Getting your own back the wrong way

You get the distinct impression that Russian fake news merchants have given up trying. Especially when they claim an accidental fire in an ammunition store sank their Black Sea fleet’s ancient flagship, not a pair of missiles built in Ukraine  using Russian designs.
    Missiles which would have been sold to Russia if Putin hadn’t invaded Ukraine, let us not forget.

Is your Purvis a bit Libby?

Is whether female footballers are more emotional than men worth a double-page spread in a newspaper? On a slow news day, maybe.

Failed O-Level Geography?

Memo to the British Red Cross – Rwanda isn’t half-way round the world from the UK.

Worth a try

It’s all very well for the UN’s refugee agency to claim that remote processing of uninvited migrants is illegal but our government can make it legal and if it worked for Australia, it’s worth trying here.

More tripe

Arctic Apocalypse (2019), on Syfy last nite, probably runs the Mayan tosh of 2012: Doomsday a close second in the daftest disaster film of all time stakes.
    Nope, there’s no one to mayday you in a snowy wilderness, you pilots. More daftness. Snownados strapped on!!

Not a convincing myth

Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough includes the word ‘incredible’ in the programme puff. Which is right. The asteroid strike 65 million years ago happened when dinos were on the way out but they kept going for a long, long time after the dust settled. And a programme that tries to tell us any different isn’t something I’d bother with.

Another no sale

2012: Doomsday (2008) has to be the absolute daftest of the catastrophe pix which they’re running on the Great! TV Action channel. Even I spotted right away that the science is absolutely bonkers.

No sale

What’s a good way to put potential customers off? Send them a quote for home insurance in March then send them another in April that’s 4% higher.
    Not a confidence-builder. Especially if it’s 50% higher than the renewal from my existing provider.

Gone but not for good

No doubt the bookies are taking bets on who long it will be before Imran Khan blags his way back to being in charge of Pakistan. In a way, it’s comforting to know that politics can get worse than what we have here. But not very.

Partygate Freeze

Every time some pointless nonentity starts going on about partygate and demanding Boris’ resignation, all decent people should turn their back on the divot and walk away.
    And we can bung all those who don’t walk away in the divot category and walk away from them, too.

Another alibi

People who are terminally obese can now blame it on the duff calorie counts on ready meal wrappers. A newspaper exposé cum knocking job has found that there can be anything up to twice as many calories as what it says on the box.

He never will be missed

Some politico no one has heard of quits over partygate. The nation yawns. I suppose we could always send the bugger to Rwanda as a migrant camp commandant.

Goes with the job

I wasn’t surprised to read that the Chancellor is now the most hated figure in politics after the sleazing he’s has from all directions. Especially from members of the House of Expenses Fraudsters.

Unlikely

If I had a diesel car, would I be rejoicing that the fuel is 10p per litre cheaper than a fortnight ago?
    Not when the price they charge now is a lot for a gallon, never mind the less than two milk bottles of a litre.

Original wins

If all the new film Operation Mincemeat does is tell us the identity of the corpse who featured in the film The Man Who Never Was in 1956, I’ll stick to my black&white DVD of the original and not bother with the irrelevance-loaded later film.

Condemned by absence?

The BBC claims you’re racist if you didn’t play with black kids as a child. I went through the education system from primary school to a first degree without any black kids in my classes or living near any. So much for the BBC’s arbitrary classification process.

Envious masochist

No doubt the people who got the benefit of the £15 million the Beckham family blew on a wedding were grateful for the business. Strange the likes of the envious Dan Wootton on GB Views was unable to grasp that concept.
    And no, he didn’t have to read about it. He chose to put it on his show. All he can do is blame his inner masochist.

Masochism Tango +10

10 years ago, the appallingly conceited Samantha Brick was trolled 600 million ways from Saturday for claiming every woman in the world was jealous of her beauty and hated her because of it.
    Now, with her hair dyed brunette, or undyed from blonde, and rather less chubby, she’s back for more with the same ludicrous ‘notice me’ plea.
    Yawn.

Proof reader on holiday?

Degalle – that’s what they called Lucas in the sub-titles for an episode of the ancient TV version of Maigret with all the smoking. Why?
    “There’s a letter in this stocking” instead of a ladder. Sou, the coin, was soul. OK for Lucas later on. ‘One man woman’ for ‘one mad woman’. And lots more.
    What planet are the sub-titlers from!

Further exploration needed

After viewing the half-dozen episodes on ITV, I feel I need to reread The Ipcress File to find out if ‘based on the novel by Len Deighton’ is accurate or the TV version just has the same title and a few characters with the same names.
    After all, TV does have a reputation for playing fast & loose with real life. Why not also with fiction?
    Next on the reading list.

Fridge space thief

What do you get when you buy 500 gms of The Fishmonger brand frozen chunky cod fish fillets?
    A box with room for four more of them, which means that the fish end up in a freezer bag as a space-saving move and the box is condemned to the blue recyclo bin.

Mind boggling again

Why would anyone need an online calculator to work out if their waist measurement is healthily less than half their height? Is dividing by 2 really so difficult?    Do people really need a ‘health professional’ to work it out for them? What total bollocks.

A good question

Is ‘serious organized criminals’ a classic cliché with a surplus adjective? Or are there actually frivolous organized criminals? Presumably, doing it just to annoy the police and the public. I think we should be told.

Redundant?

One of my contacts has been getting phone calls from his water company with reports on a big leak, which caused low or no water pressure – now fixed.
    The message on the phone advised him to go to the company’s website for updates and did the “double-U, double-U, double-U” bit before the address. Which left me wondering if anyone ever types that ‘www.’ because I always type just the name of the site and its extension.

Saving the best for last?

A few excursions toward the car park in lap 1/17 of Moto3 but no one fell off. Garcia was crashed off with 12 to go, then the guy who hit him crashed. Foggia strolled into the lead with 7 to go. He was slipstreamed back to 2nd on that lethally long start/finish straight.
    Foggia started trying too hard. He retook the lead, dropped back to 4th, dropped even further back and recovered again. Masia was battling Migno for the win; and took it; and Foggia snaffled 2nd.

Main Event

That was a spot-on performance of the American anthem before the MotoGP race. Not too warm and windy in Texas. Marquez bogged the start, dropping from 9th to the back of the field. Miller took the early lead in the 20 lap race with Marquez setting fastest laps.
    Everyone stayed aboard, Bastianini got past Miller into lap 16 and Rins bagged 2nd on the last lap. Marquez was 6th.

Shouldn’t happen

Should Jessica Fletcher get paid for an episode if she just tops & tails it but isn’t actually in it? No, but I bet she does.

Austin Power

The American MotoGP was another late afternoon job with Marc Marquez back in action. We started with the Moto2 event and an American on pole for the 18 laps. Sam Lowes was crashed off on lap 1, five riders gone.
    A steady rate of attrition continued. Acosta crashed on the right of the track and slid right across it to the left side; missed by everyone.
    The series leader crashed out from the lead with 11 to go. Arbolino was way out in front for his first ever Moto2 win. The American guy crashed out at turn 16 on the last lap, two corners from the end.

Slogan shot down in flames

“It’s only live once” but if you’re watching a recording and you don’t know the outcome, so what? And the same if you’re watching your team win again.

Time to give up

When the Sun suddenly goes in and it starts doing a combination of hail and rain on you, that is definitely a sign that the Universe doesn’t want you to do any more gardening today.

Hoodwinked in Berlin

“Passing information to a person he believed to be a member of the Russian authorities”. Translation: the embassy security guard suspected of spying was reeled in with a sting operation.

Really piling on the agony

Geo-Disaster (2017) has an earthquake, a volcano and a tornado hitting L.A. on the same afternoon? All caused by a black hole whizzing right through the planet. How could you possible not want to watch this!
    STOP PRESS The puff for the film didn’t mention the tsunami that wiped out the area before the tornado was cooked up. Shame all the disasters failed to take out the obligatory dysfunctional family.

Pleasant companion

It’s true. Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds is very catchy. If I find myself humming or whistling something after listening to it, it’s always something from the musical.

Yah, boo!

“Search!” without ‘please’?
    Go scratch your fleas.
It’s definitely time internet advertisers learned some manners.

L.B.J. Encore!

One, Two, Three, Four!
    Boot your Putin out the door.
Five, Six, Seven, Eight!
    Boot him till he’s lizard bait!

Land of masochists

Russia doesn’t seem to be much of a place to live. Serfs under the heel of the Tsar, serfs under the jackboots of the commies, serfs sold down the river to the oligarchs after Gorby was shunted into a siding, and now serfs under the jackboots of the Putinanzis.

Will anyone still be alive then?

PM Boris’ energy strategy for the future is all very well but there’s no strategy for keeping the lights on until 2050, when the nuclear power stations and all the rest will open for business.
    Eyes on the horizon, tripping over his own feet.

Crowding the house

The US Supreme Court has opened the door on tokenism with its first African-descent judge. Indians, Hispanics, Earlier Americans, Chinese/Japanese; they’ll all be demanding a place and the court is going to end up with as many judges as there are states.

Same story, different twist

How many variations of the Jaws theme are there? Swarmed (2005) has the corrupt town bosses running a major fund-raising event when killer genetically modified wasps are heading for downtown.
    Dr. Daniel Jackson of SG-1 to the rescue!

Jury is out

“Quietly sponsors”. Is that a firm with a bit of class now the proud thing has been done to death? Or has the whole ‘pick an adjective’ thing run its course? After all, what’s wrong with just a plain ‘sponsors blah blah blah’? It gets the job down without the associated pretentious gittery.

On a loser

Putin pretending to be a victim has to be the world’s worst sick joke. Russia is surrounded by enemies? Well, guess who made them.

Quote of the week

Has to be: “If there’s no unity at the United Nations, why would anyone expect security from its Security Council?”

Us too?

What would be a great idea would be to get rid of useless people in office the way the Chinese do it. They just declare the offender “extremely despicable” and he/she is gone!

Go for it

The most impressive piece of news this week has to be that Bombay has a civic rubbish mountain that is 18 storeys tall. Some people will do anything for a world record.

Lasting value

A contact has told me to get an earful of Jeff Wayne’s musical based on The War of the Worlds. He recorded it from Sky Arts last December and he’s only just rediscovered it.
    He got the album back in the 1970s and he was surprised to find that he could still sing along with the main numbers – they are that catchy – after a gap of 4 decades.
    He said he felt sorry for the narrator of the 21st century touring version – the bloke had to compete with Richard Burton, who did the album, and he was probably hoping that no one in the audience remembered that!

Getting your own back

I was surprised to read that the cruise missiles that Putin the Poisoner is firing at Ukraine were bought from factories there, and his bombardment is going to have to stop when he runs out of them and can’t restock.

Best of the Daftest

What was the best April Fool last week? The general feeling is that no one could top that malarky about Prince Andrew and the wedding cash in last Friday’s Daily Mail.

No wonder Left = Looney

Labour’s shadow Foreign Sec. would have us believe that keeping men out of “women’s spaces” is breaching the blokes’ human right to go anywhere they damn well please.

Ignore history

‘The most significant female movement since the suffragettes’ is a tag line which perpetuates the myth. The suffragettes were the equivalent of the nutters who glue themselves to motorways. It was the suffragists who got things done.

Forget Decency

Stories of Russian rape gangs in Ukraine come as no surprise. It’s 1945 all over again. No woman was left unraped in Berlin when the Russians got there. Their army is an uncontrolled rabble. It’s what they do.

Not that easy a job

The things Royals have to do on a foreign visit to prove they are game for a laugh! Shame about all the whinges about the Jamaican Jaunt from the dickhead tendency.

 

Not a Diamond Geezer

Everyone who completes the ONS survey is referred to the website for a £5 voucher, which could be quite easily sent to the participant’s email address.
    Worse, Professor Sir Ian Diamond, the Big Boss, expects visitors to the website to jump through all sorts of pointless hoops.
    The whole pantomime is a prime example of the needless nit-picking that affects every part of the government machine and shows no sign of ever going away.

Hot, hot!

Marc Marquez was too injured to be in the MotoGP race after that horrible crash. 60+ deg.C track temperature. Can Espargaro, on pole, win at last? Martin went off the front at the start of the 25 laps.
    Turn 2 got Zarco with 20 to go. Can Espargaro pull the pin? He went ahead on lap 21 and stayed there for his first ever personal win and the first ever MotoGP win for Team Aprilia.

Early bath

Two gone at turn 1 of lap 1/23 in the Moto2 race, including Fernandez, the series leader, plus 2 more at the back of the field. And another gone early in lap 2. Wot’s going on? Moto2ists can usually stay on their bikes.
    The pole man crashed with 16 to go, the Argentinian went out with 3 to go. Sam Lowes was 4th at one stage but finished 10. A second win this season for Vietti.

Surprise!

Despite two front pages of outrage in the Daily Wail, ‘there is no suggestion of any wrong-doing by Prince Andrew’ over the £750K, according to the Sunday Post. So what was all the fuss about other than nothing?

Return with some difficulties attached

Moto3 in Argentina, so don’t mention the war 40 years ago. One rider out on lap 1/19 – unusually with a mechanical. The lead pair were caught with 14 laps to go and became part of a group of 5 then part of a long chain.
    Bash! Two of them out on lap 14, both potential winners. Foggia or Garcia? An incredible last lap pass gave the win to Garcia.

She had to write about something

One of my contacts is indecently pleased that he was born too soon to be a baby-boomer (1946-1965) and therefore not obliged to share the guilt trip of Jenni Murray, 72, in the Mail during the week.
    Apparently, she buys the story that baby-boomers are wrecking the planet.

Sensible

Having MotoGP on in the middle of the afternoon is a very bright idea. You can’t really appreciate it as much when it’s dumped out during the morning.

Credibility Zero

We’re being invited to believe that Russia’s failure to walk all over Ukraine isn’t Putin’s fault, it’s the fault of his minions, who daren’t tell him the truth. Not a line that will wash, given that he’s not subject to censorship and he can go on the WWW anytime he likes to find out what’s really going on.
    Once he’s waded through the morass of disinformation, of course.

Not by a long chalk

Is the P&O boss really the most hated man in the UK, as MSPs would have us believe? He’s nowhere near leaders of non-working rail unions, morons running NHS services, cancelling academics, the list just goes on and on.

Paradise on Earth

Looks like the best place to live in the coming years is somewhere that’s doing fracking with cheap gas on offer and somewhere with a new nuclear power station with free electricity on offer.

Extinction ahead?

Could the United States survive replacing creaking Joe Biden with ancient Hillary Clinton or giving Donald Trump another go?
    You’d think the world’s allegedly leading democracy would want someone a lot younger and more thrusting as its leader. But then again, he could do something as daft as starting another equivalent of the Vietnam war.

Par for the course

A bloke who made a bog of being in charge of Police Scotland is being put in charge of the Metropolitan Police until they can find someone to replace Dame Dick.
    How the crims in London must be larfing.

Journodaftness

Is there any relationship between the Chancellor paying over 300 quid for his sneakers and what he does in his office in the way of Stealth Taxing the nation, as the papers would have us believe?
    It’s unlikely that wearing ten-bob trainers would improve anything that goes on @ the Treasury.

No problem

It’s okay for the Russians to claim everything is going to plan in their attack on Ukraine if they’re rewriting the plan on a minute by minute basis.
    Not a contradiction but totally dishonest. But what else do you expect from the Russian propaganda machine?

Mindless Moaning

Consternation as Prince Andrew led his mother to her seat at the memorial service for his dad? Who was consterned? Apart from a bunch of scribblers in need of something to put between the adverts. No real people.
    It’s just the same sort of knocking job as the Royal visit to Jamaica got. Welcome to the new normal.

Flake News

Global backlash @ President Biden saying Putin must go?
    What total tripe.
    Has America been boycotted in protest? Sure, it has.

Grrr!

I see the mattress industry is outraged by they way we British hang on to them for 20 years or more instead of buying a new one every other year. Of course, some of us can afford to do just that but do we need the hassle of getting rid of lots of old mattresses?