Well, maybe

You have to wonder why the bloke Boris sacked as Chancellor is still doing his whinges in the direction of Liz Truss when all the polls keep saying he has no chance of becoming the next Tory leader.
    Is the fix in, does he know about it, and is he dead sure he’s going to leap before the nation in his Batman cape as our new figurehead? Could happen in Russia, but here?

No worries!

Despite all the pessimism, my Amazon order slid though the letterbox yesterday, most of the week earlier than the predicted delivery date.

Not active enough

Where the film 500 mph Storm comes apart is seeing our hero driving a few inches ahead of a massive twister and ignoring opportunities to turn left or right to get out of its path.
    That and longer shots of the road showing people driving in the opposite direction, apparently unaware of the immense tornado just in front of them.
    And the mad professor hero’s son comes across as T.S.T.S. [Too Stoopid To Survive - Ed.]

Sounds Great!

One of my neighbours showed me a newspaper cutting yesterday. The item can be read as playwright Harold Pinter’s twin passions being cricket and bridge crashing.
    An individual’s interpretation of the written word can often be much more fascinating than whatever the author intended, especially if there’s an over-active imagination involved!

Obstacle crawl

I’ve realized why Amazon allowed a week for my delivery. A bank holiday and the Royal Mail’s buggers going on strike. Good job it’s nothing urgent.

Still not sold

Watching Equalizer 2 (2018) again last night, I wondered again why they thought passing off a black, officially dead secret service bloke turned taxi driver as man-about-town Robert McCall was a good idea.
    Sheer bloody laziness, not coming up with a new setting.

Wise Choice

Did I park in front of my TV during the whole launch window for the new NASA rocket? Knowing NASA’s reputation for not getting the job done, I decided to be otherwise occupied.

Other Times, Long Gone

Genuine real world crossword clue:
    Home visit by the doctor (9,7)
[fictional concept]

A rant too far

Some woman was on TV last night claiming we should stop giving money to Ukraine because people in this country are cold. Presumably because they can’t afford to turn their heating on.
    Which makes you want to throw something at her and yell, “It’s bloody summer, mate! They’re not bloody cold! Pay attention!”

I’ll wait for the desert

There was a recipe for creamy beetroot and walnut spaghetti in the Sunday Post yesterday! Good grief!! Sounds incredibly wonk.

Good home for it

I noticed they’re showing motor car Grand Prixs (or should that be Grands Prix?) On the SKY FI channel. Sounds like just the place for them since they switched from sport to sport entertainment where the rules are optional and can be ignored as convenient.

Passing Orf?

No surprise that there’s a new James Bond book out in which the man himself doesn’t do much (he’s been kidnapped) and all the action falls to a gang of diverse usual suspects.

Extreme editing

The big mystery about The Doors: When You’re Strange, which was on TV last night, is how they found enough footage of dopehead Jim being coherent to give him much of a part.
    But the music will never die.

Well planned

Isn’t it amazing how the half-time break in a CFL match is just long enough to do a spot of washing up, feed the cat and still have a couple of minutes left?

Imposition

Don’t you just hate it when you buy something from Amazon and it takes you half an hour to spot the minute option to do the deal without signing up for their Prime thingy?

No fun for the lawful

Is it ‘lawless Britain’ as the headline writers would have us believe? No, we have plenty of laws. It’s just that the police can’t be bothered enforcing them, the courts do their best to keep criminals out gaol and the system busts a gut to release them early.

Erased

Watching Jim going over the top was followed by a weird TV experience. I’m sure I’ve seen Galaxy Quest (1999) before; that’s within the last few years; and I recognized most of the humans and some of the aliens, but as for the plot? Nothing. Except odd scraps.

Time Tunnel

It took a moment to recognize the future Captain Kirk talking about Project Vulcan in the second episode of series 2 of The Outer Limits, which was made in 1964.
    No surprise that he started doing buckets of ham over-acting. It just goes to show that everything in American TV is connected and everything is recycled.

Short wish list

What would I like for my birthday? An automatic death sentence for all bossy bastards who order me to download something. Especially if I have to do it NOW!!
    And the LV dom-diddy bloke.

Real frightner!

I was shown a graph of the price of natural gas paid by the UK over the last decade and a bit. It goes from an average of around 50p/therm until 2021 then it shoots up to £6/therm now. No wonder people can’t afford it.

Hot tip

Beware of white-haired granny figures in a US TV show. They are always up to no good.

Snail with gout mail?

I ordered some small items from Amazon yesterday (Thursday) and I was advised in the email that the order would be delivered on Thursday or Friday.
    “Blimey, that’s quick!” I thought. Then I noticed that it’s Thursday or Friday of next week.
    Not so blimey.

Tiny minority?

We’re told some people who haven’t had the government’s £150 council tax rebate don’t have a bank account. It would be interesting to know how they managed to become a home owner and liable for council tax without acquiring what seems to be the essential of a bank account.

Not much cop

How seriously can you take a Soviet era alleged super-spy if he really didn’t know his bosses gave him the joke name Agent Bond? One set of memoirs I won’t be buying. In both senses of the word.

There must be a reason for it

It might be only live once, as Sky TV keeps claiming, but can you tell the difference between something shown live in the middle of the night and a recording viewed the next day? Apart from the absence of yawns.
    Only an idiot would think that slogan is any cop. But maybe Sky paid so much for it that it can’t afford another. Or the bosses are worried that the next one will be even worse!

Wonky list

Of the Top 10 Jokes from the Edinburgh Festival, numbers 7 & 8 are both better than No. 1.
    Is Edinburgh still Garbage City? Or have the binmen deigned to go back to work?

Gloss stripped off

There’s a wonderful new blood test on the way for a range of cancers. But what, I ask myself, is the point of loading the NHS with thousands more cancer patients when it can’t cope with the existing patient list? But, no doubt, there’s someone doing wizardry with the numbers to make it look like a good deal.

Not much help

Note to the TV magazine blurb writer: there’s not much point in describing a ‘new’ TV series in terms of an ‘old’ one that the viewer might not have seen.

Something for the future

It would be nice to dash across the Atlantic in a mere three and a half hours in a mini-Concorde in 7 or 8 years time. But it will probably take the PR crew that long to come up with a pretence that the plane can be operated without destroying the planet.

Adios, good riddance

Why do so many people have their knickers in a twist over the Finnish PM enjoying herself? Everyone is entitled to some down time to recharge their batteries.
    The miserable gits who don’t get that should be sent to Russia to help Putrid with his declining population problem.

Fiction Factory

Did Mhegan the Attention-Seeker set fire to Archie’s bedroom to get some? Just going from the headline and making up your own version is the better alternative to reading her version!

Good Idea

Yes, cyclists should have to have licences and number plates so that the reckless ones can be held to account. It’s only fair on pedestrians on pavements, who end up on the wrong end of a collision with a selfish idiot.

Derivative

Okay, where did they get that paedopervs in high places plot for the latest & last Van Der Valk from? Not exactly stretching the scriptwriter’s imagination. And rounding up all the Deep State gang at the end was twanging the viewer’s. Something that never happens in real life.

Not here

I was intrigued to read that some retailers are bunging Xmas decorations onto their shelves. No sign of that happening where I live. Maybe we’re just too sensible for it. Or too miserable!

More mysteries

Why would the sacked Chancellor Mr. What’sisname think Tory party members would be impressed by knowing he pretends to go to McDonalds?
    And why did his PR staff let him release a photo showing something that hasn’t been on the McDonalds menus for a couple of years?

Wot Tripe!

How come it is so fashionable to feel sick when your A-level results are due? Especially if you’re a writer/broadcaster in your 70s remembering your youth?
    I didn’t. And no one I’ve asked did. Just another wonk urban myth, then?

Still dry

A couple of buskers did the Austrian anthem before 28 laps of MotoGP @ the Red Bullring. 30% chance of rain. Mir went off @ turn 4 of lap 1. He’s doing a lot of crashing this year.
    Bagnaia was in the lead. Bastianini went out, tyre trouble; he was on pole. Martin blew his tussle with Quateraro with a trip across the gravel.
    Quateraro or Miller for 2nd? Martin crashed out from 4th at turn 1 of the last lap. Bagnaia scored a 3rd successive win and current champ Quateraro was 2nd.

Oh, yes

Is the cost of living crisis real? Going to the local supermarket and seeing a 3-quid box of cat food priced at £4.45 and a £1.40 bottle of sunflower cooking oil costing £2.40 drives it home.

Still no rain

There was a big single crash with a carry him off job @ the chicane in lap 1/25 of Moto2. Much more strung out and lots of overtaking. Ogura or Chantra for the win? All the racing was in the chase group with the crashes at the back.
    Vietti went off from 3rd with 9 laps left; he lost the series lead last time out. 2 bikes crashed on the track. Both riders were bloody lucky not to get hit and killed when running for their lives.
    Dixon nabbed 3rd on the last lap. Ogura held on to win and he leads the series.

Lazy trend

Nothing much in the first 20-odd minutes of the latest AEW Dynamite episode but Punk is Junk and Dee-On Moxie pretending to fall out & brawl. Getting as bad as the WW.

Will it rain in Austria?

23 laps of Moto3 on the safer circuit with a chicane. There was close racing with no early crashes! Mainly red ahead, easy to stray onto the green, and someone did a dramatic whizz through the gravel at that chicane.
    Suzuki, in blue, got to 2nd among the reds. Sasaki carved through them to the lead, and stayed ahead of Suzuki for a win.

Still discriminating

Of the allegedly 10 most watched TV shows in the first half of this year, I saw exactly one of them. An episode of Death in Paradise. So much for the essentialness of the viewing.

Which, oh, which?

An interesting environmental question. Do you remove the dust from the thermal blanket on a hot water cylinder or do you leave it in place as extra lagging and pretend that doing so will put the kybosh on global warming?
    A stance which requires that you ignore all those Chinese and Indian coal-fired power stations.

Double Service

The best way to treat someone who’s being unreasonable all the time for ego reasons is to tell them you find their attitude offensive and you’re going to report them to the police as a hate crime.
    If done often enough, it might persuade the offender to think at least once before uttering, and if the police are deluged with complaints, it might persuade the nation’s police forces to think again about inventing spurious hate crimes instead of investigating real crimes.

Cheerful reading

The brain-dead bozos running the NHS; the ones who are forever rattling a begging bowl; have blown a million quid of our money on helping their staff to waste thousands of hours per year on wokery instead of doing anything useful for the customers.
    No one will be sacked for this, of course.

Hard Life

It’s not much fun being Supergirl. When I switch on early for Stargate SG-1, she’s usually being bashed about by some other super entity.

The message? Give up now!

The DoomBuggers of the BBC were at full blast yesterday. Anyone who survived the heatwaves won’t be able to both eat and heat come winter, despite global warming, or pay their rent. And, of course, any rain will be of the wrong sort and in the wrong place for topping up reservoirs.
    But what else is new? Water management here has been neglected shamefully for decades.

Not much cop

Why should an alleged couples expert think holding a door open for a woman could be a problem? If you’re at the door, it’s polite to hold it open for anyone approaching – male, female or nondescript.

Going extinct

No wonder the NHS is going down the plughole. The BMA is demanding a 26% pay rise and junior doctors are going on strike if they don’t get it. And the moronic management is still recruiting diversity waxworks.

Ships in the night

Big splash in the paper about some celeb who has died in his early 40s. Not a flicker of recognition from me.
    I probably know as much about him as he did about me. Such is the selectivity of celebrity.

Woooo!

How does Ian Ladyman of the Daily Mail sportsdesk get away with having a name full of triggers?
    Lad – male, sexist.
    Lady – posh, elitist to slags.
    Man – male, the ultimate in sexism and provocation!

Crossover

That was an interesting episode of Jonathan Creep last night. Isn’t he looking old! People being hurled into what looked like a fiery stargate! The roasted skinhead was V.G.
    Strange how the idiots were swanning about in dark places without the benefit of a torch, though.

Great Chompfest

That 2-headed shark filom was fun and 3-headed Shark Attack (2015) confirmed that there were still idiots around who were too stoopid to stay out of the water.
    No wonder the shark was looking so well fed. Until Rob Van Dam sorted it out.

Just what you wanted to hear

Some bastard on the BBC lunchtime news telling us how the cost of living is soaring and sounding really pleased about it. Where do they get these characters?

Not much good

The BBC might have a Disinformation Correspondent now but the credibility of many of its claims of disaster is still as shaky as ever.

Some hopes

The new Chief Inspector of Constabulary has given failing police forces (i.e. all of them) six months to start doing something about their shoddy crime scene management when people are burgled or robbed.
    Cynics are assuming they’ll spend the 6 months coming up with reasons why they can’t do anything useful and demands for more cash.

Might be worth watching!

Tonite’s film: The Lego of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

No follow up

I read that a mountain lion has been spotted near where Prince Hairy and his appalling missus live in California. No word on whether they’ve been eaten yet, though.

Hmmmm!

Maybe all those rioters who are demanding defunding of the police have a point if, as the current Chief Inspector of Constabular reckons, most coppers are a waste of space, useless at the job and not doing anything for what the taxpayer hands out to them.

Not impressed

You can tell it’s the silly season if the likes of Gordon Brown, a disaster area in government, are being treated as some sort of guru with a fix for all the nation’s problems.

Asgard Extinction

We’re at the end of Series 3 of Stargate SG-1 already. Those Replicators need some work, though. There’s no reason for them to be that cute colour.

Nuisance value

We had a brief sprinkling of rain yesterday afternoon rather than floods of it. Just enough to annoy the Mansion cat.

Inappropriate Nomenclature

How totally ridiculous it is to to call someone who attacked a celeb with a knife with hundreds of people looking on in a lecture theatre a ‘suspect’.
    He’s a perpetrator.
    No doubt about it with that many witnesses.
    And when he goes to gaol instead of the electric chair in New York state, he’ll be an ‘incarcerated person’ instead of an ‘inmate’ as that word makes criminals uncomfortable. No wonder Americans have their reputation for being weird.

Replacement on the way?

The Environment Agency, I read, is claiming that its beavers are preventing rivers from drying up by building dams on them. Sack all the water companies and put beavers in charge instead to prevent droughts?

Empty Sky

That big, bright, hot object in the sky isn’t there today. We’re all outdoors filling sandbags in case we’re ordered to start panicking about the lightning that goes with thunderstorms causing fires and floods being in the wrong places to put them out.

Worst, definitely

The worst job in the world has to be having to come up with some totally unlikely explanation for a bang in the Russian occupied part of Ukraine. Like spontaneous combustion of ammunition or a carelessly dropped cigarette end to explain how a Russian air base went up in smoke.

The Chinese have a word for it

People who do virtually nothing at work aren’t skivers, they’re ‘quiet quitters’, according to a term imported from the Orient. Doesn’t make them any less useless, though.

Good start

I see the energy price cap forecast hasn’t been bumped up to 6 grand for next year. Not a bad way to start the week.

Still here

Despite all the bogus red splashed all over TV weather maps, we are surviving rather well in my part of the world. We even have chilly breezes blowing to cool things down outside.

Boxing Match

That was a good start to AEW Dynamite – a coffin with the icon Sting lurking in it.
    Fast forward through the Moxo/Jericho rants, though.

Un-numerate?

There must have been a few people around with more than one working brain cell around when some nutter stuck a knife in Salman Rushdie in The Land of the Free. So how come the papers were quoting anything from two to fifteen stabs?

Good point

We are constantly told that not having a government with a leader is terrible. But it has been pointed out many times that we are safest when politicians aren’t doing anything.

Well?

Has anyone thought to ask the Archbishop of Canterbury why his deity isn’t doing something about the climate change, which he’s blaming on Britain? Or is she on holiday?

Philosophical question

Does a hosepipe ban apply to people who don’t have one?
    That’s out of the same box as pretending that one hand can make a clapping sound.

Microwave pollution

It’s getting so that you’re surprised only if you see someone in the street who’s not yakking on a phone or messing with its gadgets, and contaminating the environment with their electromagnetic emissions.

You blew it, mate

If it wasn’t for hissy git serial killers, there would be one hell of a lot of TV time in need of filling. My conclusion from the latest Van Der Valk episode.
    “Go on, blow yourself up, hissy git!”

Selective colour vision

As usual, Rich Littlejohn in the Mail hits the nail squarely on the nut. The hooligan front went wild here when a cop killed a black criminal in the US.
    Not a peep out of them when police here tasered a 93-year-old in a wheelchair with dementia and a knife and he ended up as dead as that Floyd bloke.

Sounds convincing

According to Dr. Max, the Mind Doctor, a free NHS means that lots of people don’t value it and that’s why they can be bothered to go to medical appointments, and get stroppy if challenged over it.
    And the sacked Chancellor Sunak’s plan to fine no-shows £10 a time won’t work.
    Especially if it turns out that it was the NHS bureaucracy that caused the appointment to be missed; e.g. by recording the appointment but not telling the customer about it; and that fact was covered up.

Lift, then letdown

‘Drink champagne with your left hand’, said the headline. “Oh, good,” I thought, “I’m actually doing something right.” I always drink with my left hand; wine, tea, coffee, cider, etc.; because it leaves the right free for taking notes.
    Turns out it’s a plan for right-handed drinkers who want to slow down their glug rate.

Educational Stationary

I was looking at a box of large paper clips and it said ‘Trombones’ on the lid between ‘paper clips’ and ‘Büroklammern’, which is obviously German.
    So which country thinks a paperclip is a trombone? France! Go figure!!

Nice to be proved right

Was Brexit a good idea? Well, the shambles the EU is making of getting monkeypox vaccine is just as bad as the shambles over getting and distributing vaccines for the Chinese plague.
    There are just too many chiefs all yelling for different things or priority for their people for the EU to be able to work. And sensibilizing its bureaucracy is totally out of the question, of course.

Falls over in amazement

Were they rogue cops, that gang of French ones who intercepted a gang of would-be migrants on a beach, slashed their dinghy to bits and battered the engine to a ruin before zooming off into the sunset? It’s not something that happens every year.

Bunker Upgrade

I’m now wondering if I need to refurb the nuclear bunker, which I was surprised to find was included with The Mansion. If the brain-dead Russians keep shelling that nuclear plant in Ukraine, we might have to spend a few decades in the bunker until the radioactive shower over Europe decays to a safe level.

Quel Unsurprise

Boris bashing is okay. And that Starmer bloke’s failure to report to the Commons authorities on time earnings; or being paid; tens of thousands of pounds is okay because he’s not a Tory. So he gets away with it.

’Bye-ee!

Is anyone going to sack the Governor of the Bank of England for serial incompetence? Or can’t the nation afford the inevitable massive reward for failure he’d cop for?

Abuse the new normal?

The FBI assault on President Trump’s Florida home is being equated to the assault by the looney left & Bremoaners here on departing PM Boris Johnson.
    If there is no evidence of wrong-doing, there’s always someone ready to confect the illusion of it having happened.

Schmeducation

You have to wonder if there’s a university left that’s worth the tuition fees. Especially after Aberdeen showered its ancient studies course with trigger warnings about monsters because the epic poem Beowulf is included.

Crossword tripe

Metal support (4) Answer . . Pole? No effin way. A rod, pole or perch ain’t a metal support. Neither is a barge pole.

A right idea

Backed into a corner is a good place for a politician to be. The former Chancellor has had to come up with a pledge to treat the fifth columnists in Britain, who rubbish everything our nation has done and stands for, like terrorists.
    And rather than ignoring Wee Burney Sturgeon, as Truss would like to do, he would confront her with all the areas in which the SNP has failed during its reign in Scotland.

Gone? Ah, nope!

That Apophis! How much did he bung the scriptwriters of Stargate SG-1 to come back from the dead?

Election shifts explained

That was an interesting theory they were offering on GB Views last night – there’s no such thing as the swing voter in any great numbers.
    There are just people who vote if they feel motivated to do it and stay at home if they don’t.

How modest

In an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he apologizes for the lack of a murder in the story. Not something that ever bothered the makers of Jessica Fletcher Presents.

Finally

Lopez had the early lead for 18 laps of Moto2 @ Silverstone with some slick overtaking going on behind him. Two crashers with 14 to go. Another gone with 10 to go. And another on the next lap.
    There was a 4-way battle behind Lopez. Fernandez got close with 4 laps to go and took the lead on the last lap with 2 corners left. Dixon managed to hold on to 3rd.
    A good show all day.

Cosmetic

If the Football League has to discuss how many times it makes players kneel down in support of dead American criminals, it’s time to forget the whole thing.
    There’s nothing much worse than making an obviously insincere gesture.

Chance to shine gone

The French title hopeful Zarco was on pole for MotoGP and led for a while. Then he crashed out from the lead all on his own on lap 5/20.
    This is not a good place for Hondas. Ducatis were first & second, Bagnaia & Miller, toward the finish. Mir crashed with 6 to go. Viñales reached 2nd place with 3 laps to go and started to joust for the lead. No cigar.

No sale

Will we at the Mansion be obeying the Waitrose commandment to the effect that “Thou shalt eat tinned food once a week”?
    No chance. Proper food at every meal every day is the rule here.

Welcome back

MotoGP? Remember that? Back in sunny England. No one fell off on lap 1/17 in the Moto3 race. In fact, no Moto3 crashes in the whole weekend, we were surprised to learn.
    Lots of passing, Blue vs Red at the front with McPhee among them. Garcia, series leader, was crashed out with 3 laps to go by Sasaki.
    2 more gone on lap 16, and 2 more on the last lap. Foggia claimed the win and a boost to his hopes of the championship. McPhee was 7th.

No negative option?

“This is set to change humanity and people’s lives”, we are told from time to time. But did anyone have the courtesy to ask the customers if they want their lives changed, though?
    No? Surprise!

A real contest

Who’s moaning the most? The German media about how their Euros team was ‘robbed’? Or the left-wing media here going on about how undiverse our winning team was.

Decisions, decisions

Is it worth taking a trip to Iceland to watch that brilliant set of volcanic eruptions? Or is air travel out of the question with all the junk being hurled into the atmosphere? Maybe it’s best just to watch it on the internet.

Really pushing it

Are we really supposed to be impressed by Sir Starmer’s claim that he gave free legal advice to striking miners back in the 1980s?
    When he was barely out of his teens and barely qualified?

No herd instinct?

As I come to the end of the first volume of the first Dune trilogy, I feel no sense of loss at not having read ANY of an alleged top 20 holiday reads.

No one wins

If Archie Battersbee had suffered the death of personality, his parents weren’t doing him any favours by keeping his body going artificially. The only plus was that he didn’t know what was going on around his remains.

It’s everywhere

Inflation 13.3% in October? That’s nothing! One of my neighbours has just had a Multiflame coal delivery. No summer discount this year. 27% dearer than the last lot!!

Not buying it

 One Sky product, the Max TV channel, is ‘sponsored’ by another, Glass. Should we be impressed? If we still have to pay to view the Max channel, the correct response is derision for the bollocks involved.

Our cross to bear

What sort of idiot leaves the tap running when they brush their teeth during a drought? Probably someone of the same mentality as those running water companies who can’t be arsed to fix the leaky pipes and prevent the drought being a problem in the first place.

New Version

A watched computer never boots up. Especially if it’s a decade old and too full of essential stuff to bin.

Missing essential character

Frank Herbert’s Dune has to be based on the situation in the Middle East? The Palestinians are the Fremen, the Israelis are the Harkonnens and the United States is Shai-hulud, the giant worm.
    But who is Muad’dib in this scenario?

Doing it for the money?

We have had some really ludicrous stuff written by alleged celebs and gurus about the England team winning the Euros for women. But a ‘glorious show of bold femininity’ that ‘can change the world’? Right.

Brain laundered

The Rock (9) was the crossword clue. Well, it’s not Dwayne Johnson, the former WW wrestler. And it’s not Alcatraz. So it has to be Gibraltar, which I would have thought of first if not for all the TV pollution from America!

Yet more

I suppose we should all be bracing ourselves for the inevitable hysteria about this latest Global Health Emergency, although monkey pox is not exactly making the Grim Reaper overworked.
    Not that something so trivial will stop the Fear Mongers from yelling that we’re all gonna die!

Him too?

Someone who is getting plenty of time to brace himself is the sneaky Mr. Sunak, who stabbed a popular leader in the back and doesn’t look like being allowed to take his place.
    No doubt his alibi factory is on extended overtime!

Braced?

I wonder if our victorious ladies football team is collectively bracing for the howls of disappointment and derision and trolling with which they will be bombarded the next time they don’t win a competition. That seems to be the goes around.

Something worth having

Nice to see the 2-quid litre for petrol in retreat. It’s now £1.80 locally. Which is a lot for a gallon, never mind a litre, when you dare to think about it.

Alternative universe

When I gave them an order on Monday, I had a choice of paying a fiver for next-day delivery or opting for delivery by Thursday for free.
    I chose the latter and got the delivery on Tuesday. But I suppose this makes sense in the World of Amazon.

Wasted breath

You switch on for Stargate SG-1 on Tuesday evening and there’s some woman telling you about something that’s being shown on Thursday. In one ear and straight out the other. Why bother?

Recycle Shamelessly

A bullet train with a bomb that will explode if its speed drops below 200 mph? I wonder where they got that idea? Surely not from the film about the bus with the bomb set to go off if its speed dropped below 50 mph?

Sloppy Slogan

“It’s only live once” but if you can record it, so bloody what?
    It’s as bad a slogan as “There’s only one channel called Drama”. Why would there be two with the same name? Duh!

Gone? So what?

Do I miss the Aussie sope Neighbours? Never having watched any of the episodes, not at all.

Class of its own

Crumbs! That AEW Dynamite episode with all that barbed wire was brutal! Nothing like that on the WW. Maybe they have more sense.
    Shambolico totalmente to finish.

Originality Rulz, OK!

Catching up on recordings of the Kate Bush items @ the weekend was very enjoyable. She’s a genuine one-off. No one like her before or since.
    But white titles on an almost white background are a sign of visual illiteracy and a total disaster.

Toe dipped into the water

I decided to watch an episode of WW SmackDown to see how awful it is and found that the opening match was of AEW length and quality, and the ladies got two matches instead of AEW’s one. But there’s still a lamentable amount of jawing.
    Try out WW RAW? Not while the appalling Rollins and the tedious Reigns are still there.

Tougher than the male?

I happened to see some lacrosse after fast-forwarding to find out what followed a recording of a CFL match. It was Canada’s ladies vs ladies from the US – and they weren’t wearing crash helmets and body armour! Which blokes I saw years ago were – something which surprised one of my correspondents, who played lacrosse at school as a lad when only the goal minder got a mask and some protection.

Goes around

I was amused to read that the Irish president is up in arms about our government’s plan to send bogus asylum seekers to Rwanda.
    Not because he’s concerned about the boguses, but because they’re now heading for his country in increasing numbers.