Seasonal Extremes

There are always those who try to out do others at Christmas, usually in giving extravagant presents, or in the level of decorations outside their houses.

Giant Santa - Big As A House

I took this picture near where I live, and where Christmas house decoration has been getting decidedly competitive in recent years. I think this monster Santa was the easy winner.

Odds And Euro Sods

Pumpkin Face

A 23 year old girl from Castellon in Spain who had been dumped, attacked her ex-boyfriend at the market where he worked, by throwing pumpkins seeds at his face, while shouting "Take that you son of a bitch".
 

Pumpkin Face .....

While this seems an odd thing to do, there was method in her madness.

Baphomets Time Has Come

As its New Year, and this is the season for ghost stories and other satanic tales ..... I thought I might end the years posts with a story of Baphomet.

Satans Gift - Plinth Legend "Knowledge Is The Greatest Gift"

The Chicago chapter of the Temple of Satan made the news recently, when they added a four-foot statue of a snake, coiled around an outstretched arm, holding an apple to the Government building, of the US state of Illinois to mark the festive season.

Miracle Workers Of The Ancient World

All religions borrow from those that came before them ..... none arose in isolation. That's true of Judaism, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism, as well as Christianity.

Akkadians Gave To Babylon The Great Flood Story,
Utnapishtim Sailing Above The Great Flood

..... and none can truthfully claim otherwise.

Seasonal Greeting From The Tower

As is something of a tradition on this blog, we at PC Towers would like to wish the whole world a  

Dandy Annual 1967 ....

..... with a comic annual cover from my childhood. They always remind me of a more innocent age.

What A Bruiser

Recently we discussed big, Big and BIG .....

What A Bruiser! (Kangaroo Sanctuary)

But then, there is BIGGER!!

Santa Bob And Friends

T'is the season to be naughty ....

The Poster Boy For Bad Santa's - Billy Bob Thornton as 'Willie Soke' ....

At least as far as Bad Santa's are concerned. Yes its really that time of year again ..... it comes round so quickly!

Stupid Science

The 28th annual science Ig Nobel awards at Harvard university in the USA have caused the usual stir this year.

.... The winner, who has understandably gained the most press interest, was for the medical scientists who said that kidney stones could be removed, by the sufferers riding roller coasters like the infamous Wild Mouse ride in Blackpool above.

Man's Worst Friends

What Dogs are in the Western world, so Camels are in the Arab world.

Dogs And Camels Are Dangerous Friends ....

So imagine the shivers going through strong men, from Baghdad to Cairo, after scientists have warned that a virus passed by camels, could cause a pandemic in the human population.

The Poster Boys

A recent interview of President Trump in the White House  ....

A Picture Of A President? .....

.... highlighted a painting on the wall in the background.

Press Ganging

In the not so distant past, and certainly in the Nelson tradition, the Royal Navy would often resort to impressing, or press ganging men in to the service.

A Royal Navy Press Gang 1780

This often involved violence or trickery, as men were usually very reluctant to join up and just disappear for years at a time.

Registering A Dissenter

I can't say that I think of myself as a dissenter. A free thinker maybe, but dissenter no.

A Catalogue of the Severall Sects and Opinions in England and other Nations:
With a briefe Rehearsall of their false and dangerous Tenents 1647 Anno Domini

However I found myself cast in that role recently, when a letter arrived from Computershare PLC.

My Kinda Town ....

Someone decided that making a bottle of vodka worth $1.3 million made from silver, gold and diamonds was a good idea.

More Money Than Sense

Apparently it was to “woo Russian royalty, tycoons, and wealthy aficionados worldwide,” .... why is not clear to anyone who is not 'Russian royalty, tycoons, and wealthy aficionados', but there you are.

Man Spreading

Man spreading, the act be some males of the species of sitting in public spaces or travelling on public transport, with their legs wide open.

Man Spreading ... Signifies A lack Of  Confidence In Some Regards ....

Thus taking up more than their share of the limited space, and indicating that the rest of the world should admire their (usually diminutive) crotch area.

The Sins Of The Past

The US doesn't seem to be able to move on from the sins of the past ..... and no more so than in the deep south ....

The Sins Of The Past Still Haunt The USA.

A recent senatorial election race in Mississippi was won by Cindy Hyde-Smith, a woman of white heritage for the Republican Party.

Killing Sprees

“I can go into my world and do what I want to do. I won’t go into your world.”

Samuel Little  - Happy Killer.

These are the chilling words of Samuel Little, a 78 year old diabetic, who has confessed to more than 90 murders.

Big Knickers

There's big, then there's Big, then there's really BIG .....

Bridget Jones Big Knickers ... Were Big.

 
.... and I am not talking Bridget Jones underwear.

Son Of Boaty

A couple of years ago we had the "Boaty McBoatface" scandal, when the public voted to give that name to a polar exploration ship ....

RRS Sir David Attenborough ... A Very 'Worthy' Name ...

..... but the snotty powers that be refused to accept the democratic vote (how familiar that sounds as Brexit approaches .... or not), and renamed the ship the Sir David Attenborough.

A Dystopian Future

The great Sci-Fi author Isaac Asimov once proposed a future for humanity, set roughly three millennia ahead in time, where humanity had colonised several worlds (this future including a vastly overpopulated earth).

Domed Cities Maybe The Future ....

Some different human cultures were envisioned. In some, each individual person never left their habitations, while in others, huge numbers lived in underground domed cities, like hives.

Death Of One Syrian

Raed Fares, was one of the few peaceful pro-democracy activists from the early days of the Syrian uprising still making his voice heard .....

Peaceful Syrian Activist Raed Fares ....

He had been a vocal critic of both President Bashar al-Assad, and the Islamist militants during the civil war.

No Humour From Old Comrades

Bulgaria's Soviet Army memorial in the centre of the nations capital Sofia, is seen as a memorial to the 'brave soviet soldiers,' who liberated Bulgaria in 1944 by the Russians.

Monument of the Soviet Army Sofia .... Liberation Or Conquest?

Whereas Bulgarians don't see it in quite the same light. Many say it celebrates the occupation of the country by the Soviet army in 1944, right up until 199,1 when communism collapsed in Europe.

Love Hurts

Its an interesting fact that we are biologically hard wired to be unable to relive pain from our memories ...

Ouch!!! That's Gotta Hurt

By that I don't mean that we forget physically hurting ourselves or even being hurt by others, but that our brain refuses to actually recreate the pain, based on our memories ..... and thank god for that small mercy.

Your Worst Nightmare Writ Large

There are some stories that are so horrific that you can't actually imagine them, except perhaps in the worst of your nightmares or the horror movies.

The Furnace - Too Much For Me To Watch ....

One of my perennial nightmare fears as a boy, was being threatened with immersion in hot lava or liquid metal, or trapped in an oven or furnace.

Girl Gangbangers And Parental Thugs

In a depressing sign of the times, two teenage girls were stabbed in playing fields near the Rivermead Leisure centre in Reading, UK in November 2017 ....

Girls With Knives .... A New Phenomenon

..... In a mass group fight, over a boy who was dating two girls from the different rival schools.

Animal Magic 1

Behemoth

The first part of the post has a single picture .....

Deep Blue - The Largest Great White Shark Ever Filmed And Released

.... But what a picture.

Tis The Season To Be Silly

UFO's have been making the news again recently .....

Buzzing Earth Flights Has Its Risks

And I don't mean aliens, I mean unidentified flying objects .... UFO's!!

Dick v Dyke

Now don't get me wrong ... if you really think that despite biology to the otherwise, you really are a girl, then perhaps you are in some metaphysical sense.

Sexual Predator ... Danger To Women and Children

However, until those little biological bits are removed (and even then in some cases) .... I am not sure that its safe to treat you as a woman, just you know, to be on the safe side.

Looking After Their Own

Vested interests and power blocks have a rather dirty habit of looking after their own ...

Some Groups Seem To Look After Their Own

The often try to ensure that when of their followers or practitioners commits a crime or offence, they don't actually get the punishment that the rest of us might feel the matter deserves.

Shakespeare's Curse

In 1703, Hannah Twynnoy became Britain's first recorded victim of a tiger.

Hannah Twynnoy ~ Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright

Her grave stone, in Malmesbury Abbey has the epitaph:

In bloom of life, She's snatched from hence, She had not room to make defence;
For Tyger fierce, Took life away, And here she lies, In a bed of clay, Until the Resurrection Day.

Wiping Away The Years

Now it's official .....

PC Nonsense Starts To Eat Its Own Tail

....... PC madness is now eating it's own tail.

The Complicity Of Silence

Another week of tolerance in the lands of the pure ......

Incitement To Murder Nothing New .....

.... and yet more Christians are in fear of their lives from the Muslim mobs.

Red Thames

The river Thames is foaming with much blood this year .....

The River Tiber Foaming With Much Blood .... To Quote Someone.

I don't care what the leftist elite and black activists say it is ....

Banned Things

A strange number of items or activities have been banned from a surprising number of countries ...

Banned Goods In A Surprising Number Of Countries ....

For instance both Ovaltine and Marmite were pulled from the shelves in Denmark in 2011 and 2004 respectively, because they needed to be tested as fortified (added minerals and vitamins). Marmite didn't get approval until 2015 and Ovaltine still awaits it and with Brexit, may never do so.

It was also reported in 2014 that the owner of a British food shop in Canada was ordered to stop selling Marmite, Ovaltine and Irn-Bru because they were said to contain illegal additives.

Spectre of the Brocken

When I recently blogged on the urban legend of the 'Slender Man' .....

I thought that would be the end of the matter. Particularly since the origin of the myth was well known and documented.

The Law That Never Was

One day we may all sit back and laugh about, how a whole 12,000 year old culture nearly wiped itself off the map .....

British Values Trampled Underfoot

.... How in order to meet the rules of a 'law' that never was, we had to pander to often violent and non integrating immigrant groups, who thrived due to a quasi policy, introduced by left wing liberals, and which was called 'multiculturalism'.

Blab Blab Blab

When does a legal agreement and cash payment not count?

When All The Moneys Gone ..... The Deal Is Off.

...... Apparently when a woman has spent all the money paid to her.

Reasons To Be Cheerful ... Parts Two

This picture was on the BBC web site ……

Four Ladies Eating Fast ... And Living It Large.

It was posted in relation to the worlds fast food and dietary issues.

Turnips and Wet Gunpowder Prize

It appears that for every genuine award given out, there is often a spoof version.

The 'Razzie' Is A Well Established Award.

So for The Oscars, there's the The Golden Raspberry Awards, which mock the Oscars. For the Nobel Science prizes for scientific excellence, there is the Ig Nobel Prize for useless scientific achievements, or lastly The Turnip Prize, which parodies the Turner Awards for modern art.

Slow Death

The BBC was running a story about how a centenarian, who is on death row in Nigeria with his forty one year old son, was being considered for a pardon from death row and release, simply because of his age.

Death Row Nigeria .... Crowded Place With Long Wait.

He has been in prison for murder and conspiracy to murder over a land dispute for 18 years, with his youngest son. But they have been on death row together for the last four years (such is the speed of Nigerian justice).

Fearing For Our Cultures Future

I truly fear the worst for our cultures future, as the influx of immigrants whose values are not ours, continues.

Migrants Are Not Sharing European Values

There is simply no compromise nor no concession by the immigrants when they get here. This was best summed up by the two Syrian refugee boys who told the Swiss media (in German) that "nobody could make them" shake hands with a woman, and that they "could not just delete their culture as if it were a hard drive" ... No, but they fully expect us to delete ours instead.

Banksy Pranksy

This was probably British street artist Banksy's most well known work .....

Girl With Balloon ~ Iconic Image

....... Girl With Balloon. The image that really cemented his place in popular culture.

Naked Squatter And Naked Walker

In May 2017, it was reported that a nude squatter named Feliciamae Farrington was arrested in Big Pine Key, Florida, by Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Richard 'Dick' Wang, when she refused to leave the property.

The Naked Squatter ... Arrested After Struggle

Ms Farrington, who was from Harvey, Louisiana, had moved into an empty house listed for sale, and had been there for six days before her arrest. The estate agent had called the police after people showed up for a viewing of the for-sale house, and found it to be occupied by the naked Ms Farrington, and accompanied by her large pit bull.

It Was Time For Tea

Tea has been drunk in England for hundreds of years. It even retained its ancient Chinese Mandarin name in the UK right up until the mid 20th century.

Chá Drinking Goes Back A Long Way ....

Any WWII British war film is likely to have a reference to 'a cup of Cha' (pronounced Char), which comes from the Mandarin Chinese term for tea 'Chá'.

Canada Goes To Pot

So another country has joined Uruguay in making Pot, Cannabis, Mary Jane, Marijuana, Weed, legal.

Canada  - The New Flag Bearer Of Drug Reforms

Like most people, I have my concerns and would hope that Canada makes it a state monopoly, to not only keep the price competitive, but to reap at least as much tax as cigarettes generate. It couldn't possibly fair for it to undercut legal cigarettes at price and tax.

Driving A Wedge

Budget insurance ran a poll which found that seven in ten married couples argue about each others driving during a car journey.

28 Minutes Before Rows Break Out .....

The average time before the rows commence is 28 minutes.

Whats In A Name?

In Peru and across Latin America, names based on well-known historical figures are very popular. In neighbouring Ecuador, for example, the president's name is Lenin Moreno.

Lenin Moreno Not Alone There Are 18,464 More ...

That country alone has over 18,000 people named Lenin registered since 1950, comparatively the United States, with 20 times the population of Ecuador, has fewer than 1,700 Lenin's.

Losing The Will To Live

How often have you joked that some situation (usually repetitive, or boring, or both), has caused you to 'lose the will to live'?

Giving Up Is Not An Option ... For Some.

Quite often I would guess. Its a common term, and said with little thought as to any basis in truth.

Only The Lawyers Win

I recall that the cake dispute posting I made several years ago, caused some discussion, but I have to confess that I had to revisit it to recall what my stance was .....

Legal Rights Over Freedom Of Conscience?

.... which was with the idea that freedom of conscience, should weigh over legal rights, in general.

Welcome To The Dark Side Of The Moon

This is the Far Side of the Moon ...

Far Side Of The Moon - Apollo 16 (April 1972).

..... which is the correct term for the hemisphere of the Moon that always faces away from Earth. This iconic image was taken by Apollo 16. Of course we no longer go to the Moon, so the next best images come from satellites ....

De Big Dig Find

Archaeologists dig in the strangest places and they seek things we might not consider to be antique or ancient history .....

Sphinx Head .... Found In The Sands.

But of course if the Victorian era is now worthy of archaeological digs - particularly industrial sites as the birth of the industrial revolution becomes something to uncover - then more recent eras are as well.