Sexy Sells

Dust, is an X-Men mutant from Afghanistan in the Marvel Universe, and is described by Marvel as having a strong "respect for tradition".

'Dust' From The Marvel Universe - Ms Alfageeh's Version Of 'Dust'

 
However her latex effect Niqab upset some (American?) Muslim women ..... (why doesn't that surprise me?), even though they are not the primary audience, or even close to being more than a very small minority.

Finger-Lickin Good

Belarus is an old communist run part of Europe. Neither Russian, nor European, its rather an anomalous state stuck between Poland and Russia. Therefore its perhaps no surprise that industrial food processing practices are not too far removed from the old soviet days.

Finger Lickin Chicken

So when in 2018 a shopper found a human finger in a packet of chicken nuggets, people suspected the worst.

Incubating Life

There was once a Coney Island saviour .....

Dr Martin Couney Had To Sometimes Act Like
A Showman To Get The Crowds

From 1903 to 1943 he worked amongst the sideshows and freak shows, somewhere between the midget villages and the death-defying roller coaster rides.

Terrorist Bureaucracy

It seems that the islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda are a little bit prone towards a type of civil service bureaucracy approach to recruitment into its ranks.

Al-Qaeda HQ and Leader (both ex) - Home of Bureaucracy.

Questions asked, remind one of any large modern organisation, and include some about the hobbies, pastimes, as well as the willingness of applicants to be a martyr (well perhaps the last one isn't that common in the West).

Follow The Yellow Brick Road

The ten most influential movies in the western world have been named by the University of Turin.

The Wizard of Oz - Most Influential Movie?

They compiled the list order by examining the 47,000 films listed on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb website), and then allocating a influence score to each movie by the number of times it was referenced by subsequent other movies.

Smaller Money Issues

In what is positively the last post on people with money loss woes, we have these celebrity calamities...

Joe Louis - Ripped Off By Everyone .....

While I was researching all the previous posts on big winners/losers and infamous fortune blowers, I came across a few surprising UK and US celebrities who had made a fortune, then managed to destroy it.

Something Unremarked

There was yet another black on black stabbing and murder in London last week.

Gun Gang Signs ..... On Illegal And Stolen Moped.

Pictures of Jayden Moodie on the black moped (that had been reported stolen), with wads of cash or making gang signs, and describing himself as a 'trapper kid' (slang for drug dealer), had already appeared on social media.

The Day The Music Died

On Tuesday the 15th of January 2019, Britain suffered a special kind of coup d'etat by the house of commons ....

A Very British Coup .....

.... When a number of politicians decided to try and sabotage Britain's exit from the EU .... Oh it won't be officially dead, but to all intents and purposes it will be, if the EU refuses to offer another deal, and with this one being rejected. The anti-democratic saboteurs won't vote to leave with no deal.

The Future Right Here Now!

Yes, the future has arrived.

The All Terrain Armoured Transport, or AT-AT walker Seemed Futuristic in 1977

Do you recall the walking war machines in Star wars?

Time Travellers Tripping Over Each Other

Another time traveller turned up last December ....

Noah The Time Traveller From 2030 AD.

..... this time from the distant future of, err, 2030 AD.

Losing The Lot

We talked about lottery and pools winners who lost the lot after a bit of good fortune ....

Poor Little Rich Girl - Barbara Hutton.
Barred From The Front Door Of The Paris Ritz
Because She Is In Shorts

..... but what about the often spoilt second or later generations who blow the family fortunes?

Expanding The State

Perhaps not too strangely, many of Jeremy Corbyn's suggested policies would result in a vast increase in the number of public sector employees.

Rail Strikes Are Common In UK These Days

1. The railways should be renationalised.
2. The energy industry should be renationalised.
3. Public sector salary caps should be lifted.

These three alone would bring in thousands of new public sector employees, and add billions to the public sector bills that the tax payer has to support. So why does that matter?

Conspiracy Corner

I was in a bar the other day (no surprise there then), when I heard a conspiracy theory that I had not heard before. I will have to paraphrase it a little, as the gentleman spouting it, was a little verbose and prone to losing the point. 

The Invasion Fleet Coming Soon .....

Basically it was this. We will be invaded by an alien fleet of highly advanced technology within the next 50 - 100 years, and there is a conspiracy of silence to keep us in the dark about it.
 

President Macron Is Not Alone

A third of French adults dislike the English immensely, while just fifteen per cent of Germans feel the same.

The Feelings Are Mutual ....
Well If The French Were Worth Worrying About.

This news is probably not much of a surprise, except perhaps that its only a third of the French who dislike us immensely.

On The Winds Of Time

The imposing granite Courtoy mausoleum in Brompton Cemetery ....

Courtoy Mausoleum In Brompton Cemetery

..... is the last resting place of Hannah Courtoy (b.Hannah Peters), who died in 1849 aged 55, and two of her daughters who never married. She was rumoured to be a mysterious society woman of great wealth, and possibly a royal mistress ... hence the great tomb. She never married, but had three daughters (only one of who married), and inherited a fortune in a much disputed will, from a rich merchant named John Courtoy, whose name she apparently took. 

Wow, What A Package

Once again, our societies ability to imagine offence, where none was given, has raised a news story.

WHAT A PACKAGE - Offensive?

In this case the Advertising Standards Agency took offence at a light-hearted play on words. The company suffering from their false prudery, was Lewis Oliver Estates an estate agents in the Coventry area.