What A Way To Go

When I was younger, when asked about how I wanted to die I would reply 'with a Thai prostitute on top of me and a smile on my face' ... or was it 'with a Thai prostitute on my face, and a smile on hers'? .....  anyway it always got a laugh in the bar.

Soi Cowboy Street In Bangkok Is A Red Light Area ......

Well, James Downing a 61 year old British tourist nearly lived the dream ... or should I say actually died the dream.

Go Forth Young Man

We have posted before on the modern phenomena of children who leave home later, or in some cases never leave at all.

Flying The Nest Should Be A Right Of Passage
 For Young Adults And Their Parents ........

But then there are some kids who take this new trend a step further .....

Don't "Carry On Judging"

In a simpler age, the UK's judges were merely considered 'eccentric', nowadays they can easily be described as dangerous. Decisions now often take on all the appearance of something from a Carry On film .....

British Judges Look Odd And Often Are Odd

For instance, I had already posted on the 'Lost The Plot' post about a sword wielding Islamic nut job, being told he would go to prison but being placed on bail for a month before sentencing.

Scenes That Shame Football

An amateur football cup final between two teams from the Turkish Community Football Federation at the New River facility in Wood Green London has made the news this week.

Shameful Scenes After Game Finished ....

Not because anyone outside of this ethnic league (which by the way isn't racist for some reason which an English Community Federation would be for some other reason), cares who wins their cup final, but because of events at the end of the game.

Foot Stomping Wedding Feast

I have remarked before about the propensity for oddness in South Wales.

Edward I Defeats The Welsh .... Odd Result.

...and its fondness for fighting. In fact so popular is this particular pastime that its hard to imagine how the English ever beat them.

Small People Are No People At All

....Well that's the sentiments of many. As Randy Newman sang ..... Short people got no reason to live, they wear platform shoes on their nasty little feet. They have nasty little ideas. Don't want no short people 'Round here
 

Captain Mannering Had A Small Person Complex With Sergeant Wilson

... reflecting the idea that small people cant be trusted, and that small men in particular are prone to the 'Napoleon Complex'.

What If .... We Had Chosen Different Immigrants

A few years ago the BBC had one of those "We'd better redress the balance a little bit" moments. This happens when for example its been hammering the pro-migrant 'aren't we all getting on great' line for too long e.g. pictures of 'Syrian' babies leading every migration story for the previous months, and its worried that even the more obtuse of the public are seeing the agenda.

Its Unusual To Pick White Boys As Victims.

Normally, this 'balance' moment is a small non story based upon Orkney fisher folk or Cornish shrimpers (where there aren't any migrants anyway), but this time, it was entitled 'Poor white boys get 'a worse start in life' says equality report' .... wow controversial stuff. The reporter Declan Harvey may not have been reading those memo's from editorial and human resources and had reported on an unusual Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report.

My World Is Almost Gone

The Western world I was born into is in danger of disappearing, as our societies are fractured into racial or religious ghettos, under the ethos of mass immigration and the 'isms'. Certainly the old certainties of Britain, Britishness and the future of a unique culture, that I and 45 million people on this island shared when I was a child, looks to be gone forever.

England During The 1960's .... Outside Of London.

When I look around the world that surrounds me today, and compare it with the world I grew up in, I can't help but feel that 'my world', along with all the values that surrounded it, and along with the future we expected from it, has gone ... never to be realised again. Consigned to the dustbin of history, the good, along with the perhaps not so good, scrapped in favour of the 'isms' of our time, and replaced by an increasingly dystopian looking present and future.

Pet Ghosts

The UK pet charity Blue Cross ran a survey on psychic pets.

Pets Are Often Thought To Have Special Powers ......

.... predictably given the sort of people who would have taken part in the poll, a large number believe that their pet is actively psychic. In fact 29 per cent believe that their pet has either seen or sensed a ghostly entity.

Dodo Angst

These images are all imaginings of Dodo's over the centuries ....

Dodo's Were Strange Looking Birds ....

Its strange how different the bird looks in many of the images.

No Peta Da Pets

Once you go too far into the 'animal rights' groups, you often find that they are barking mad.

You Don't Have To Be Barking Mad,
 But It Helps If You Drink

For instance I have some sympathy with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and its opposition the famous dog show Crufts.

Witnessing Death

Concluding my recent series of posts on the subject of the US death sentence and death row inmates ..... I'll ask a question.

Executions By US States Since 1976 (Top Ten)

Did you know that many death sentence states in the USA require people with no connection to the crime to attend each execution that is carried out?

Have You Got A Light Boy?

The stupidity of human beings is hardly a new thing ....

Skyler Beau Whitebull aka Numbskull

.... but some people take it to a new level or depth. Skyler Beau Whitebull, is a North American native indigenous male, who takes the latest award for gross stupidity.

Sailor Beware

'Oh what shall we do with a drunken sailor, what do you do with a drunken sailor, what do we do with a drunken sailor, early in the morning' is a popular children’s ditty, and an even older sea shanty.

Drunken Sailors Have Existed Since Time Immemorial

I have heard several other variants of this part of the song, including the anti-British, American version ....

'What'll we do with a Limejuice skipper? ..... Soak him in oil till he sprouts a flipper.' .... 'Limeys' was the American name for British sailors who ate lemons and limes to stop the scurvy.

Last Word To The Ladies

Recently I posted on death row homilies, aka the last words of some death row prisoners. In response to this, the most prolific commenter on this blog, wondered if women prisoners last words were different. I said I would post some women's last words from death row.

Amelia Dyer ~ "Ogress of Reading"

Amelia Dyer earned her living by taking in orphaned infants from the state for a fee, and then selling them to would be 'parents', a practise which was known as 'baby farming'. But instead, she just killed them, discarding their bodies in the Thames River. Famously she even killed one on her way back by train from the state orphanage. When caught in 1896, Dyer didn't deny the killings, saying to authorities when they arrested her, "You'll know all mine by the tape around their necks." Her last words were "I have nothing to say."

What's Wrong With Targets

The British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has been forced to resign.

Falling On Your Sword Has Been A Political
Requirement Since Marcus Brutus Did It.

For those readers from abroad, I had better explain that underneath the Prime Minister, this is one of the great offices of state in the UK (along with Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Foreign Secretary).