Ears of cloth?

“Adjustable bed socks sponsors daytime TV.” Is that really what they say around the advert breaks in Star Trek on the Legend channel?

Doom & Gloom

A government survey just before the present lot reached their first anniversary found that we are not a nation of happy bunnies. The main worries are about long cuts in power and water supplies, violent storms wrecking the place, extreme cold and extreme hot weather and even a war.
    And 85% of those asked didn’t think the UK is prepared for these disasters, no matter how much wibble our wonderful government offers.

Somewhere similar

Edstone Milipede’s green taxes resulting from the climate crisis about which he can do nothing are ripping off the poorest in the nation to shove cash into the pockets of the land owners who provide overpriced wind-sourced electricity and cop for massive fees when they have to turn their turbines off.
    Electricity from offshore costs 297% more per person than the original guesstimate/forecast on which the scam was based. So much for Edstone’s £300 bill-cut guarantee. He’s too busy throwing even more of our money at wind farms to be bothered about that.

Somewhere very grabby

A good place to go if you’re American and you want to be ripped off is Paris. A survey by the newspaper Le Parisien found Yanks can made to pay 380% of what is charged to a local in a café.

Tourist Attraction?

Why, I’m wondering, does Angola have this minefield in which Prince Hairy did his strut? What’s stopping them from driving one of those mine-mashers that were used in World War II through the site?
    Other than keeping up the ‘poor, oppressed us’ image and give us more dosh to keep the regime in beer & fags.

More data

One of them there surveys has come up with the news that 25% of people asked admitted to being comfort eaters and snackers. The experts would like them to stop it as they contribute to the 60% of the population who are obese.
    Which would make the snackers uncomfortable and miserable, which is not much of an improvement.

He don’t know

Big boot for Serbia Smarmer for claiming that councils are awash with spare housing, which can be filled with illegal immigrants. ‘Clueless or dishonest – possibly both’ is the most accurate reaction to his absurdity.

Give the people what they want

The BBC seems to be reconstructing its image in the direction of entertainment and away from politics. 550 bodies sent to the pop music show at Glastonbury. None at all to this year’s political party conferences.

Handle with extreme care!

Corned beef tins with a key for unwinding a strip of metal to remove the base have been voted the most sneaky hazard in the kitchen.
    They have a phenomenal talent for inflicting a small cut (via that metal strip) on a finger, which becomes sore only hours after the empty tin has been consigned to a recycling bin.

Decoding the guff

A new electric Mercedes car is claimed to have a range of 484 miles (WLTP). Wot do those initials stand for? The best guess I’ve heard is ‘Without Leathering Throttle Pedal’.Which has the benefit of not attracting speeding fines.

Reality bite

Typically, our wonderful government is bragging that it’s going to make the UK the world leader in A.I. Bucket of cold water from the industry. No plan to upgrade the infrastructure needed to move the vast quantities of data created around makes a mockery of the claim.

Just posturing

If President MacRon of France is really keen to recognize Palestine as a state and impose peace on that part of the world, why is he waiting until September to tell the United Nations to do it? Why not just get on with it right away?

One back at you

A survey by a travel insurance company has found that over 20% of Brits don’t go for it. Too expensive and too full of get-outs to avoid paying out is the message to the industry from the survey.

Evading the real issues

The government is planning to bin red tape to turn empty shops into cafes, bars and music venues to revive high streets. But nothing will be done about extortionate business rates and the tax rises which are killing off the hospitality industry, of course.

Not making an effort

The First Year in Office report on Serbia Smarmer concluded that he is very like Creaky Joe Biden as far as performance goes. He can’t deliver a speech properly because he doesn’t take the trouble to read and understand what his minions concocted beforehand. And he doesn’t understand the policies he’s being given to advocate.

Militant figurehead

Some teachers aren’t bothered who’s in charge of their union. Just 4.7% of the NASUWT membership voted into the job, a former boss of the firemen’s union who has Nett Zero teaching experience.

Was it worth it?

Become world champions of Europe and what does the government do to the Lionesses? Gives them a trip to 10 Downing Street to be patronized by Angrier Robot.

Taxpayer mugged again

Illegal entrants parked in the Peterborough area are being accused of growing the gambling industry. Instead of using the £49.18 per week that they cop from the taxpayer via an Aspen card for buying food, clothing, etc., they are using the card to make cash withdrawals from ATMs to support a gambling habit.

Today’s Slogan

Say “No!” to Putin.
Say “Yes!” to put out.

More from the Weekend Warriors

The Blue Bombers were in Toronto on Saturday. A first-half fumble recovery gave the Argonauts just a field goal. One by the Bombers gave them a go-ahead TD.
    Another pick stopped the BB when they were close as the half ran down. Another Argo FG from it for 10-25 at half-time.
    The Argos continued to have to kick FGs in the second half. 17-31 final, a repeat of the Grey Cup outcome.
    Finally, the Tiger-Cats visited Vancouver. A fumble recovery set up a TD for the BC Lions. The Cats got to 13-17, then they had a pass to the BC end zone picked as Q2 ran out. 13-20 at half time.
    All square early in Q3. 23-all in the first minute of Q4. A fumble recovery went to a BC TD with 4 minutes left. A TD for the Cats with 16 seconds to go put the Cats 37-33 ahead and gave them their first 5-game winning streak.

Half-way to boiling

Temperatures in on-fire Greece were predicted to reach 44 degrees Celsius on Sunday. Crumbs! That’s 56 on the centigrade scale! 42 and a bit degrees centigrade actually reached.

Normal service resumed

Back in the dunce’s cap for Foreign Sec. Dippy Dave. His claim that his sanctions against people smugglers are a ‘landmark moment’ has been dismissed as bluster and an obvious PR exercise concocted by the government.
    What value do sanctions have if they are readily evadible?

More rule bending

The Essex Police are getting a booting for interpreting equality rules to include escorting visiting pro-migration activists to a confrontation with local anti-migration protesters and driving them away in police vans when the trouble started.
    A spokes for the police offered some wibble as an excuse and the Chief Constable won’t be resigning despite the lies told.

Doing more harm

Wonderful! We’ve got the BMA’s junior doctors killing off the customers again over a totally bogus pay demand. What we need is some really heavy rain drowning the pickets.

The good old daze

How different life was in the 1970s. I’ve been watching the repeats of the first series of the detective show Van der Valk, which was set in and around Amsterdam.
    Commissaris Piet seems to spend a hell of a lot of time boozing and smoking his fat cigars. It’s quite amazing to see a senior detective decide that he and his inspector have got time to dash ‘next door’ for a quick one whilst waiting for a witness to turn up. And he’s too mean to buy a box of matches.

No Danger Jaunts

Nice one from a Daily Disaster reader – Prince Hairy’s stroll along a well-trodden path through a minefield which no one had bothered to clear in Angola was like going to Hastings and wearing a visor to avoid getting a Norman arrow in your eye.

Two close matches

Week 8 of the CFL began with the Alouettes in Calgary on Thursday nite. The visiting Als had a one-point lead over the Stampeders at half time. The Stamps were a TD ahead going into Q4.
    Maltos kicked a 57-yard FG for the Als with 1:10 left for 23-21. And that’s how it ended, with both teams now 5-2.
    The Edmonton Antlers went to Regina on Friday nite. The kickers scored all the points in the first half until penalties on the Antlers helped the Roughriders to a TD.
    More QB sacks by the Riders in the second half and they continued to score and the Ants couldn’t catch up. 18-21 final and over 125 yards of penalties given away by the Ants didn’t do them any good at all!

Impure Motive?

Why is Serbia Smarmer so keen on an inquiry into the miners’ riot at the Orgreave cokeing plant in 1984? A chance to shove more of our cash into the pockets of lawyers and rewrite history temporarily?
    Giving the miners ‘letters of comfort’ similar to the ones tony b. liar gave to IRA terrorists and claiming Scaregill wasn’t to blame?
    That’s the leader who went into a strike with a small house and a big union and came out of it with a big house and a small union which, had it won, would have been abolished under Edstone Milipede’s ‘no coal’ Nett Zero BS.
    Or is it a distraction from Beer’s lack of concern about the activities of the Asian rape gangs?

The email Catch-22

If you want to open an email account with one of the main providers, e.g. Microsoft or Gooble’s Hotmail, you need to jump through a series of hoops in the name of security.
    No. 1 is a requirement to have another email account, to which a message can be sent with a button to click on to confirm your alternative address.
    No alternative email account, you’re screwed and you can’t have email account with the provider you approached. And they’re all using this same system.

Unwelcome chatter

Nigel Farage seems to have rattled the cages of the other parties with his plan to recruit Big Bobbies and show zero tolerance to every crime. Deporting foreign criminals is overdue and some ‘Nightingale’ gaols would be a good idea. The Tories are objecting on cost grounds and Labour tries to change the subject. Indicating that neither has any plans in this direction.

More cosmetics

Our wonderful government is planning to merge the useless water regulator, usually known as Oftwat, with 3 cousins – The Environment Agency, Natural England and The Drinking Water Inspectorate – into a ‘single powerful regulator’.
    A big pay-offs for any discarded qango- and burrocrats and not much actual, beneficial to the customers sort of change?

Par for the course

One of the surprising things you learn from watching American TV series: Knight Rider, The Fall Guy, etc.; is that just about every small town has a crooked sheriff and deputies. And the government doesn’t do anything about it.

Real tough guys

Greece seems to have the right idea for uninvited migrants - a choice between five years in gaol or deportation to their country of origin.
    And unlike here, there’s a government prepared to be tough in Greece.

Just idle chatter

Who is Nigel Farage kidding with his threat to send serious criminals to a supermax prison in El Salvador?
    Certainly not anyone with more than 2 working brain cells.
    The far-Left and the civil service would never stand for it.

A change of outlook

Virgin Media has upset a lot of its customers by changing their access for email accounts with a system of hoops to jump through introduced on Monday 21st July.
    To get to their VM email account, the customer needs an email account that’s not VM and either a pocket phone to get text messages or a computer gadget that does fingerprints or facial recognition.
    A couple of my correspondents have decided that if they need a non-VM email account, they might as well use that and abandon the inaccessible VM account. Which makes a lot of sense. Except that all the other email companies are demanding the hoop-jumping and a pocket phone.

Falls over in amazement

For the first time ever, I agree with Dippy Dave, the Beer’s mate Foreign Sec., who doesn’t belong in government any more than the other mate, Lord Squirmer. Yes, the Israeli Death Force is on a notorious killing spree in Gaza.
    Moreover, death chants at a pop concert are specific to the IDF, not all Jews and other Semites.

Okay, how?

The Metropolitan Police got a good booting for failing to engage a brain before putting up posters in crime hot spots telling people whose phone had been stolen to “Call 999 now”.
    The advice is now to contact the police as soon as possible.

Great Job!

The thing to be in Thailand is a Buddhist monk. They don’t pay taxes and some of them are so enormously wealthy that a female extortionist was able to use sexually explicit pictures to blackmail £9 million out of them!

Empty Words

What happens after Serbia Smarmer goes to Jaguar Land Rover in April and swears blind he will protect jobs there? 500 jobs go in July as unemployment reaches a 4-year high thanks to Labour’s economy-shrinking policies.
    As an explanation, a Beer Smarmer mouthpiece claimed that the guarantee was about “jobs being saved not jobs being done”. Which is meaningless BS.

Backward step

Our wonderful government plans to bin the anti-fraud measure of requiring voters to show photo-ID. Facilitating fraud is the Labour way? Or is Beer just worried that 16-year-olds don’t have a photo-driving licence?
    The customers don’t want votes to 16 and 17-year-olds by a majority of 2 to 1. Not that Smarmer cares.

Nasty lot

Israel’s tactic for Gaza seems to be to send troops to a larger crowd at a food distribution point where they claim they feel threatened and start shooting. Not exactly sporting.

Irregularity beheaded

If something or other “sponsors ITV3 afternoons” and we get adverts for other products, does that mean that the alleged sponsor is a cheapskate with short arms and deep pockets?

Still in their infancy

A.I. bots currently have the status of a quack medical charlatan of the 17th and 18th centuries. They refer to opinions of studies which do not exist, they are particularly good at spreading medical myths and they include false citations belonging to irrelevant material.

Decoded

1. “We accept more could and should have been done.”
Translation: It’s all water under the bridge, it happened and it can’t be undone now.
2. “Aberdeen, which is the oil capital of Europe . . .”
Translation: President Trump goes there to visit his golf resort and he has no idea that the Scottish and UK governments are working hard to kill off the petrochemicals industry.

Too simplistic

The International Monetary Fund bods are getting a good booting for advocating that people should work longer – ‘70 is the new 50’. This confuses longevity with the capacity to do work and ignores varying health conditions. Ageing is never uniform, an expert points out. Like everything else.

Scum rising

Police Scotland is looking forward to an overtime bonanza when President Trump visits his golf resorts. The whingers will be out in force and extra coppers will have to be drafted in from around the UK to cope.
    No danger of the whingers stumping up the £5 million this will cost, of course.
    Meanwhile, the business community in Scotland will be hoping that contact with the USA’s leader will deliver a real economic impact.
    More than the whingers waste.

The price of vanity

The medical industry is gunning for the sunbed industry as its products are overloading the NHS with cancer cases. Cases of malignant melanomas are up by one-third over the last decade, and eye cancers are another hazard.

Olds not news

We tend to think lawyers abusing the legal process with discrimination cases not based on ability is something fairly modern. Imagine my surprise when I found it used in a Peanuts cartoon by Charles Schulz that was first published in 1997.

Another land grabber

Israel is doing a Putin the Poisoner on Gaza by demanding 20% of the territory. 58,000 Palestinians killed so far and counting.

A small outbreak of good sense

Reform UK is sending a powerful message to voters by scrapping the cash-gobbling ‘climate emergency’ BS of local councils which they have taken over.
    This party seems to be the only one to recognize that nothing done here has any effect on the climate, Nett Zero is BS and if foreigners make the global climate change, all we can do is adapt to it.
    Shame other parties can’t grasp this self-evident truth.

Weekend warriors

The visiting Roughriders dominated the first half on the weird light and shadow zones on the pitch in Vancouver. They surged through the ranks of the BC Lions at the start of the 3rd quarter for another TD. A TD +2 got the Lions to 33-27 down with 14 seconds left in the match. Short kick off. Fielded by the Riders.
    The Tiger-Cats headed for the nation’s capital on Sunday night to play the struggling RedBlacks. It was 13-12 at half time but the Hamilton offence carried on scoring and the defence stopped the RBs with a pick twice when they were close to a score. 30-15 final, Ward kicked all of the RB points.

Government Goodies

Working people are struggling with the cost of living, said the Chancellor. Which means what? Non-workers are doing okay so vote Labour and join their ranks?
    Meanwhile, the PM has declared that Labour is on the side of workers who don’t save and, by implication, those who dare to have savings are fair game for more taxation.
    That’s what you get when people vote Reform and give you Labour.

Not impressed

Are we really expected to think that Prince Hairy was in any danger when he did his minefield stunt for the world’s press in Angola? Something he’s done twice before? Just how thick do his publicists think we are?

Cunning, or what!

The government is planning to claim that parcel lockers at petrol stations and supermarkets are Post Office branches so that it can close real Post Offices but cheat to maintain the minimum requirement of 11,000 branches and the fiction that most people live within a few miles of a Post Office branch.

A bit exotic

Following on from supery-[line break]acht and its cousin seat-[line break]anker, we now have Abk-[line break]hazia. The A.I. spell-checker at the Daily Disaster has not been told that ‘kh’ is the anglicization of a single Russian character and not splittable.

Gordon Brown II

Various experts have characterized our wonderful Chancellor as limping from one financial crisis to another and not being bovvered by surging debt, which is costing the taxpayer world record amounts to service, and heading for an unsustainable level. Also, she has shoved taxes so high that raising them becomes harder. Definitely another Gordo.

Soggy enigma

We’ve had the second wettest winter on record, and pretty much a world record for sewage spills, but debt-magnet Thames Water, as well as others water companies, has imposed a hosepipe ban.
    No reservoirs? Or too much pipe-leakage?
    The regulator is asleep?

A return to banana republicism

The banks went bust in 2008 because Gordon F. Broon failed to regulate the morons running them [because he was trying to use them to buy Labour votes in Scotland] and those morons got involved in the spivery around the US sub-prime mortgage scheme, which awarded mortgages by law to people who couldn’t afford them and who were bound to default on them.
    There was regulation after the crash.
    Now, our wonderful Chancellor is planning to bin the regulations and let the nutters of the banking world go mad again. Proving that the lesson of history is that no one ever learns from history.

Live long and rue it

Why does Beer Smarmer want to reduce the voting age to 16? Could it be that he thinks kids are too thick and/or busy messing about with their pocket phone to spot that the Labour lot are destroying their future?

Back to normal

 First up, the Argos in Montreal on Thursday night. The visitors took a lead into the second half. The Alouettes lost a TD to a forced fumble as time was running out but they forced a fumble right away to get the ball back!
    Alexander in for a TD. No +2, 25-26 with 1:46 left. An interception of a pass gave the home team another win.
    The Stampeders went to the home of the Blue Bombers on Friday night. They led for most of the first half, and the Bombers lost Collards, their QB, to injury just before the half. A pick stopped the Bombers on the verge of a TD in Q3. The Stamps went the other way for a TD.
    A foul at the BB goal line gave the Stamps another. And another from a pick as the BB were starting a drive deep in their own half. 41-20 final.

Let them croak?

The looney Left are now claiming that white Europeans raising cash for starving Africans 40 years ago via Live Aid was paternalistic. The message from the Grauniadistas seems to be that the event should never have happened and the Africans should have been left to starve unpatronised.

The Reversal Effect

The experts have found that smart watches and fitness trackers can turn their users into fatties!
    Some users; mainly women; feel entitled to reward themself with a snack when they feel good about their fitness score. It’s called ‘compensation eating’.

The big question

Is Putin the Poisoner bouncing Trump around like a puppet on a string? That’s certainly a credible point of view if Trump keeps blowing hot and cold over supplying arms to Ukraine.

How cunning

Those fiendish Chinese are supposed to have developed a system for turning bees into miniature spy drones. They are outfitted with a miniature camera and bugging equipment, and steered to a target by applying electric shocks to part of the unfortunate insect’s brain.

The Smarmer Dictionary

“groundbreaking”: puff & nonsense lacking substance
“in short order”: probably never thanks to the legal trade and the EFU
“requires legal verification”: never going to happen

Human failure

Derby City Council is getting a booting from the customers because it commissioned an A.I. assistant, which hasn’t been programmed with the local dialect. As a result, people who phone the system find themselves going round and round in circles of A.I. incomprehension.

A plague of gremlins?

Uproar at bloody Wimbledon when the automatic line judge gear was switched off during a match. An Air India plane crashed right after take-off because the fuel flow to the engines was switched off mysteriously, possibly by someone suicidal in the cockpit.
    Wot next?

No surprise

Why would we think it ‘unexpected’ that the economy shrank in May as well as April after all the tax rises that began in the new financial year? It’s not as if the government is doing anything to encourage economic growth. Quite the reverse, in fact.
    Big laugh that Thievin Reeves was demanding an emergency budget when the economy sagged by the same amount in May 2022, with the Tories in charge.
    One rule for them, another for her?

Only a matter of time

Can we expect members of our wonderful government to start deploying the autism alibi to explain why there are useless in office? If entertainers can do it, why not? Even if politicians are more destructive than entertaining most of the time.

Idle speculation

Another of those polls reckons Reform backers would vote Labour if Smarmer stopped the small boats. But the majority of all those polled reckoned that Labour has had more than enough time to something and delivery ain’t on the horizon.

Another ‘justice’ tier

Why is Serbia Smarmer so keen to abolish the Northern Ireland Legacy Act, which protects British soldiers from being persecuted vexatiously over matters which were settled decades ago?
    And why is he so keen on handing our cash to IRA terrorists?
    And why is he so keen on letting the IRA rewrite history?
    No answers expected, of course. Except the obvious one of cramming more of our cash into the pockets of the legal trade to no benefit to us.

A lie repeated doesn’t become the truth

Did Liz Truss crash the economy when PM? She caused a minor blip which lasted a few weeks. Nothing compared with the endless slump inflicted on us by Serbia Smarmer and his hopeless crew. But Labour’s apologists will tell us any lie to deflect attention from the true state of affairs.

Unlicensed Export

What’s the truth about the small boat scandal? Reform UK leader N. Farage watched from a hired fishing boat as a French ship escorted a dinghy to a Border Farce vessel.
    And the French even got their lifejackets returned so that they could hand them out to more migrants.
    Meanwhile, the politicians lie their heads off and throw our money at the scroungers.

Legal lunacy

The Attorney General, Lord Squirmer, has been accused of trying to give himself by stealth, the power to veto every bit of legislation he doesn’t like based on international law of dubious merit.
    Why does this matter? Look how much the Chagos Islands betrayal will cost us and start multiplying.

Quite incredible

From 2008 to 2019, Citroën was knocking out cars with a potentially lethal airbag system.
    They are now subject to a recall order, which was made more vital after the recent death of a motorist in France, and owners aren’t allowed to drive them.
    Took the buggers long enough to spot they had a problem.

The numbers game

Our wonderful government is yelling that only one-third of the junior doctors who are signed up to the BMA voted to strike. Which is rather more than the 20% of the electorate which voted labour last year.

Not so brave new world

What’s the cost to the nation of buying votes for Labour MPs? A system which pays people on benefits more than those who are prepared to work, according to the Centre for Social Justice.
    This is where we’ll be a couple of years before the next general election is due if Beer Smarmer keeps caving in to the far-Left.

One way street

Charities, the trade unions, the EFU and, of course, the legal trade are all ganging up to sabotage the Great Smarmer Deal to export illegal immigrants back to France. Strange that this isn’t also seen as a humiliation for Mr. MacRon, the other side of the deal.

Another thought

Crossword clue: support (4). Answer: back. As in ‘support over a cliff’?
    Which is what we’d like to do to Serbia Smarmer and his sorry apology for a government.

Revival agenda

Up for a new challenger, Peter Jackson, the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy is getting involved in a project to recreated the moa. These 10 feet tall flightless birds were wiped out by humans on New Zealand’s South Island 600 years ago.
    The aim is de-extinction rather than creating something that mimics the giant bird.

Just a thought

If the Chancellor’s eye-bags disappeared overnight; there in the Commons, absent during the next day’s hug-fest with Serbia Smarmer; were they real?
    Or were they plastic and part of an epic failure plan to generate sympathy for her?

Messing with the Law

Justice delayed is justice denied, quoted Justice Minister S. Sackman. So is justice diluted. This applies as much to stopping trial by jury as foot-dragging over compensation for the NHS contaminated blood scandal’s victims as the victims of the Post Office/Fujitsu Horizon scandal.
    And all the other casual abuses perpetrated by the civil service in ‘because we can’ mode.

3-Match Weekend

The visiting Stampeders were more than a match for the Roughriders when they met on Saturday night in Regina. The Riders went ahead with a field goal then they spent the rest of the match trailing. Both teams now 4-1.
    It was scorching in Hamilton for the Redblacks’ Saturday night match with the Tiger-Cats. The visitors led for most of the match but they made too many mistakes and the Cats snuck ahead towards the end of the 4th quarter and stayed there.
    The BC Lions established a solid lead in the first half of their Sunday match at Edmonton. The Antlers managed another TD in the second half but they were well beaten at the end.

Yeah, right

One of them there surveys would have us believe that over 50% of people with a job have blubbed at work. Fact? Or just the far-Left cobbling together Reeves-related propaganda?

Today’s Question

If there’s a hosepipe ban, do you have to go out and buy one if you don’t have one so that you can refrain from using it?

More figures fiddled by diluting justice

The country is so full of criminals, many of them migrants, that the court system can’t cope. So it’s going to be changed.
    More slap on the wrist stuff without a trial, no jury in a new court system, just a judge and a couple of magistrates.
    Prediction: the Appeal system will be swamped by challenges to the verdicts made by dotty judges and the legal trade will be laughing even more on the way to the bank.

So it goes on

Israel seems to be doing its best to wipe out the population of Gaza whilst the cease-fire manoeuvres go on. Clearing the ground for Mr. Trump’s grand holiday resort?

More Grabbing

The British Monsters Association wants a 30% pay rise on top of the 29% hoovered up over the last 3 years for junior doctors. Or else there will be 6 months of strikes and 1.5 million customers will lose their medical appointments.
    Not that the docs care, of course.

Empty words

How much is President MacRon’s ‘pledge’ to take a firm approach to the boat people actually worth? Our history with the French suggests that his words are as empty as any we get from Serbia Smarmer.

Good point

If Blubber Reeves had been in tears over a personal issue, a Daily Disaster reader pointed out, she’d have had a fistful of tissues handy. That she didn’t confirms the BS content of the story.
    Pity she wasn’t blubbing about frozen pensioners, over-taxed farmers and the rest, another reader offered.

One way street

The people on charge of the Post Office are going to drag their feet over compensation for wrongly persecuted sub-postmasters for another three years. No sign of those responsible for the mess going to gaol, though.

Another flop

To no one’s surprise, Smarmer’s plan to send immigrants back to France has turned out to be cosmetic and another of his many flops.
    Has there been a prime monster more useless than him in the whole history of the universe?

Today’s Definition

Pessimism: a conviction that you’ll perfect your pill-swallowing technique on the day your course of treatment ends.

Not terribly British

A Moslem matchmaking website claims to reflect the values of many practising Moslems. These include beating a disobedient wife and polygamy.
    Which are not things encouraged here.

Things to come?

Saracens & Crusaders is the third of a series of novels written in the early 21st century that I’ve read recently. They all contain what look like references to the seeds of the currently poisonous woke deviations. In fact, they could almost be contemporary novels. It’s only the amounts of money mentioned which date them and remind the reader what inflation has done to us.

Works for me

‘Bad actors’ is a phrase commonly dropped into official press releases. But all it does for me is serve as a reminder of pictures of Smarmer and Reeves pretending to be the best of buddies when trying to make the damage caused by the notorious blubbing in the Commons chamber incident go away.

Inspiration?

I’ve just finished Saracens & Crusaders by Alan L. Marshall in the hardback edition, which is 374 pages long, so a fair read. In chapter 40 of 48, there are exploding mobile phones to deter thieves. An idea used by Israel to cripple Hezbollah bad guys last year. As the book came out in 2004, maybe someone read it and ‘borrowed’ a good idea!

Destroying trust in the police

Surprise! Top police chiefs have realized that The Job has been polluted by the non-crime hate incident BS and having to pursue people who use ‘hurty’ words directly and on-line.
    But will the government do anything about the BS? It’s doubtful. Especially if London’s joke of a mayor is trying to get cannabis legalized when the top cops want a crackdown on its use and distribution.

Hidden disbenefit

Weight-loss drugs are having a disruptive effect on dinner parties and other social occasions involving food. Hosts are having to find out who is a non-eater and plan accordingly to avoid having to throw away huge amounts of lovingly prepared food afterwards.

Does he need locking up?

Serbia Smarmer reckons he is ‘proud as hell’ of his dismal record in government and he’s ‘a hard enough bastard to lead Britain’. Which has to be evidence of a severe case of delusion and Nett Zero contact with reality.
    Mr. U-Turn is someone who belongs in a padded cell, not junketing around the world trashing the UK’s reputation as a serious country.
    Smarmer is a hard man to beat only when it comes to telling lies and treachery.

Not much fun

Getting to the tennis in SW19 is a real headache thanks to the cosmetic mayor busily trying to get cannabis use legalized and neglecting Transport for London’s chaos.
    And if you get to Wimbledon, there’s a plague of mosquitos to endure!

Experience tells us . . .

. . . that President Trump has as much hope of stopping the war in Gaza as he had of stopping the one against Ukraine.

According to the circumstances

One of those surveys has found that ‘milk in last’ is what most people do when making tea. Which makes sense if it’s with a mug using a teabag. But ‘milk in first’ still applies to delicate china to reduce the shock of hot tea arriving from a teapot.

Costly obsession

According to Edstone Milipede, covering the country with solar panels and wind turbines made in China will protect families, businesses and the public finances from future fossil fuel shocks.
    Not ending oil and gas production around the British Isles would offer better security cheaper. But this is obviously something Edstone’s tiny brain can’t grasp.

Useless lot

If 50% of MPs are on fat jabs, as Health Sec. Wee Streeting would have us believe, they are clearly overpaid and oversubsidised in their bars and eateries as well as lacking in self-discipline.

Nimbleness needed

A convenient fitness guide for those recovering after a spell in hospital – can you get all the way across the road at a pedestrian crossing before the audio signal stops bleeping?

Not the whole story

An article on the NHS providing weight-loss drugs more or less on demand included premature mortality in a list of indirect costs to society.
    Which is rather weird if those affected by this no longer cost the NHS money for treatment and they don’t need an old age pension.

Proud of the nation’s finances

How big will the Gordon Brown Hole in the Budget be this year? His disciple, Blubber Reeves, has got it up to £40 BILLION. Which means it’s bound to be a lot more after more of Beer Smarmer’s U-turns.
    Reeves has promised she won’t repeat last year’s economy stagnating tax grab in her next Budget, but no one can believe her after a year of Labour lies.
    Was Smarmer lying when he said he didn’t know Reeves was blubbing in the Commons? ’Course he was. A man in lockstep, not the lockup where he belongs.

How to humanize A.I.

Turning the A.I. line judge system off during a match at bloody Wimbledon recreates the behaviour of a human line judge (none one offer this year) who dozes off whilst on duty.

A choice that needs thought

Are weight-loss jabs on the NHS a solution to the obesity epidemic?, the Sunday Post asked. Yes, for lots of people but the more they’re used, the more dangerous side-effects come to light and the more the legal trade dreams of profits.

Belated afterthoughts

In the wake of the Glastonbury hoo-haa, if there’s no news, be the news. Is that the BBC’s policy? And is it necessarily a bad thing to take a pop at the Israeli Death Force, which has killed 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to accounts? They can’t all have been Hamas killers.
    Something else noteworthy is that the Texas killer storm hasn’t been given a name, the way the ones that assault us are always awarded a name by the Met Office.

More pie in the sky

The latest government distraction from its shambolic chaos is a ten-year plan for a neighbourhood health service. No guesses on offer as to when it will start to work but the experts are already highlighting two major problems. 1. Where will they get the staff to run it? 2. The whole thing is likely to collapse by being totally unaffordable.

Aggressive incursions

The A.I. boom is bad news for taxpayers. The NHS and local councils are having to spend millions on protection against cyber attacks. And guess who has to cough up the cash.

More record seeking

Having busted a gut to confect highest ever temperatures, those blokes in the science lab are now after a world record for the shortest day ever. Planet Earth is rotating a little bit faster than usual for an unexplained reason and the new record is expected either this month or early in August.
    The shortest day will be less than 2 milliseconds shorter, but this is enough to upset satellites and GPS system, which makes it more serious than a spurious record temperature.

Change of direction?

Europe is getting too hot for British holidaymakers, the experts reckon. Could it be that places like Iceland will be the next boom destination for tourists from the UK?

Close at the weekend

The Alouettes were in Montreal for the first time in a month. They were 2 points ahead with 2 seconds to go but the BC Lions ruined everything for them with a field goal and a 21-20 win.
    Both teams returned a punt for a touchdown when the Ottawa Redblacks visited Edmonton on Sunday night. The Antlers took a good lead, lost it, went out ahead again and they were able to hold on for the win. Both teams are now 1-3. A tub of orange stuff poured on the Edmonton head coach as his reward.

Those were the days!

Imagine going to see Black Sabbath, who have just played their last ever gig, for a mere £1.50. The venue is no longer on offer either.

 

Distressed human shield

Why would the Chancellor in tears in the Commons chamber and possibly facing the sack send the stock market tumbling and government borrowing costs soaring?
    Unless the spivs were betting that someone even worse would get the job and go on a looney-Left spending spree like Gordon F. Brown on steroids.
    Notorious liar Serbia Smarmer, who insisted that Blubber Reeves will still be in her job come the next election, has now gone quiet on the issue. But will he still be in his present job then?

Wild Weather

They really do things BIG in Texas if a river can rise 27 feet in an hour after torrential rain. And the weather forecast was for just a drop of it. If the Governor could offer nothing but prayers for the missing/dead, there’s nothing to be done that would make a difference.

A bit late

One of my correspondents had an out-patient appointment at his local hospital the other day – a follow-up to some treatment. “All okay,” the technician who had done the testing told him. “See you later,” the tech added as he headed back to his lab.
    It wasn’t until he was on his way home that my correspondent realized that “See you later!” is the last thing you want to hear from someone who works in a hospital.

Great value

The previously unbeaten Blue Bombers were wiped out in the first ever Stampede Bowl in Calgary. A pair of pick-sixes by the Stampeders didn’t help the visiting team.
    The visiting Hamilton Tiger-Cats zapped the Argos in a high-scoring Friday night match in Toronto; 51-38 final.

Another rip-off

Finished the tube of Aquafresh toothpaste and looked out a replacement. And it was tiny. The empty tube had contained 100 ml. The new one contains 75 ml. 25% less for the same price. Inflation or exploitation?

As expected

No surprise that the BBC has found someone who’s been in her job for about 5 minutes to act as a human shield for the boss, Mr. Davie, against the Glastonbury flak.
    The failure of the police to throw the hate-chant perpetraitor in gaol gives us a level of seriousness of the incident, despite all the noise from the vested interests.

Simply moronic

Do we really want the diversity plague to infect our banknotes, as some clown at the Bank of England is suggesting? Images of the great and the good sacrificed to massage the ego of those supporting some tiny minority cause or Boaty McBoatfacers? So much for the BoE as a serious institution.

One more for the list

Do we have to add misogynist to the list of charges against the Beery Smarmer if having to sit next to him in the Commons leaves his Chancellor in tears?

More trouble in store

Is the government facing a Mickey crisis? Work & Pensions Sec. L. Kendall is aware that a significant number of people on benefits are taking it – to the extent that demand could well outstrip supply.
    But Ms Kendall has no intention of stopping the existing ones, or of checking the growth of Mickey-takers, as they are mainly Labour voters.

Only fair

If Chancellor Thieves has to go because she has lurched from crisis to crisis during her year in the job, then the same applies to Serbia Smarmer, whose premiership has hit the buffers with his failed welfare Bill.
    But since when did fair have anything to do with politics and government jobs?

No solutions

Gangs not fixed and record numbers of illegals arriving in the UK. Foundations not fixed either if the economy isn’t booming. And the NHS, and everything else (especially benefits), remains unfixed.
    No wonder Mr. Smarmer’s approval rating is -900 and sinking steadily with each passing moment.

The number is the issue

Does anyone care that Serbia Smarmer’s pal Lord Squirmer is pretending we don’t have Two Tier justice under a Labour government? No?
    Unless he’s complaining about the accuracy of the description and there are more than two tiers.

A fair question

Can we be comforted that nothing serious is going on in the world if the BBC lunchtime news; as yesterdays’s; leads with the accidental death of a Portuguese footballer in Spain?

Smarmer logic

He claimed that Britain would become an island of strangers without tough immigration controls. This upset all the Labour MPs who rely on migrant votes and maybe someone pointed out that a Labour government is incapable of delivering toughness on immigration.
    The outcome was a confused jumble of prime ministerial excuses and a veiled plea for everyone to forget it and move on.

Just a thought

Landslides are usually catastrophic events, causing damage to buildings and infrastructure such as roads and railways, and taking human and animal lives. Being flooded with uninvited migrants, the economy in ruins, etc., etc. makes talking about Labour’s ‘landslide’ election victory entirely appropriate.

Safe for now

PM Serbia Smarmer can’t sack his failing choice of Chancellor, Rachel Thieves. She’s too valuable as a blame-bugger human shield. Especially when he’s skiving abroad and not available to the House of Commons.

Dodgy conclusion

If an ‘analyst’ calls the Labour back-office bloke McSweeney a Svengali who masterminded Labour’s election landslide, is that inviting us to believe that he was behind Reform UK taking enough votes off the Tories to let Labour in by default after gaining the votes of just 20% of the electorate?

Don’t stop the panic

The latest on the Iranian uranium saga is that they don’t need to process it to atomic bomb standard. The panic-mongers have come up with a dirty bomb scenario.
    That’s a mixture of conventional explosive and any old radioactive material. The bang of the bomb would cause panic and removing the radioactive contamination would paralyze a large area of a city for months? More?
    A Weapon of Mass Disruption rather than Destruction.

Well, why not?

I had a second call from the BT scammers from a different mobile number yesterday. Again, the Indian bloke was prepared to do his broadband speed biz using my mobile phone as an alternative to a computer. A long time later, I realized I could have given him the first scammer’s mobile number and left them chatting to one another. Oh, well!

Quite a come-down

We had lots of scare stories about killer temperatures on Monday. What was it like on Tuesday? Still warm as a hangover? Not first thing. It was bloody cold. But it did warm up later; the messing about you expect from a British summer.

An explanation

The reason for the lack of riots and demolition in Venice when the Amazon boss and his bride staged a wedding there turns out to be that there was no wedding.
    The couple actually got married in the United States over a month ago and the Venice do was just a bit of a late shindig and a chance to put the beautiful people on show.

Speculate as you will

Is it a stunning  shock-horror that one of the grandfathers of the lady who will become next head of MI6 is a Ukrainian who defected from the Red Army during World War II to become an informant for the Nazi regime targeting collaborators with the Soviet occupiers?
    Mildly interesting to most people, maybe, but nothing to do with her life and career.
    But certainly something for the propagandists of Putinstan and their minions to wibble about endlessly on the interweb and elsewhere.

Coddle of the molly sort

Labour’s nanny state obsession – booze advertising and therefore the hospitality trade are the next target – has made the UK the 7th worst obstructive nanny in the European ranking.
    Nannying legislation seems to be the immediate alternative refuge when a minister is confronted with doing something that’s actually worthwhile or necessary.
    Action this day! No matter how pointless.

Another rogue

What exactly is a seat-[line break]anker? Turns out the story was about a shipping billionaire, who is taking his fortune to the UAR to put it out of Labour’s reach. And the mystery word is seatanker.
    A marine cousin of the infamous supery-acht.

The real story

What Smarmer should have said when trying to pretend his turn on benefits wasn’t a U is: “Buying the votes of the underclass with other people’s money, that’s the Labour way.”

Non-stop bombardment

Another day, another Indian; a bloke on a mobile phone; claiming to be from BT Openreach calling about my broadband speed. Such persistence!

A matter of definition

Labour’s policy of keeping tax thresholds frozen in a new Ice Age is dragging more and more pensioners into the clutches of the taxman.
    But as most of them are not ‘working people’, they can be considered fair game by our wonderful Chancellor.

Another mystery

Spain was expecting its hottest day since 1946 in the last few days, which raises the question of how that came about. After all, the global warming scam hadn’t been invented in 1946. People were too busy recovering from World War II to have time for stuff like that. Maybe it’s just weather doing what it does.