Cheeky Monkeys And Other Wonders

Big Tipper

Jack Tipper was wandering along the beach in Ilfracombe, Devon England, when he tripped over a lump of 'stuff'. Closer examination showed it to be ambergris aka 'floating gold' .... whale vomit to you and me.

Ambergris - Always A Valuable Product. Vanity Fair 1861

This is a valuable product used in perfume making, and the bit found by Mr Tipper could fetch £200,000 ($275,440) ..... not to be sniffed at.

Soft Soap Stories

I use liquid soap .....

Bar v Liquid ... The Eternal Struggle.

.... a bold and confident statement I admit, but one I am confident will remain the truth.

Stealing The Next Generations Time

The younger generations are increasingly railing against lockdown and social distancing rules ....

Scenes Like This Becoming More Common ....

And do you know what? .....

By A Strange Coincidence

With the news that China has, surprise, surprise, come up with a vaccine for Covid-19 .....

Chinese Coronavirus Vaccine Developed .....

..... which its 'friends' will also benefit from (meaning not us, the US or Western countries, but rather countries in Africa and its nearby neighbours in South East Asia, such as Papua New Guinea where Chinese Firms are mining its resources), we have to consider what this means.

A Brave Effort And Other Stuff

London Road, Sleaford Lincolnshire has cycle lanes - but Sleaford doesn't apparently have the templates to create the road markings, so in July 2017 an enterprising contractor decided to draw them free hand ....

Brave Effort ....

.... sadly, the contractors, Western Power Distribution said it was arranging for the sign to be repainted shortly .... personally I preferred the freestyle effort as it reminds me of a crime scene profile, and was a brave effort.

Childhoods End

The news that in the last 3 years alone ....

We Once Had More Innocent Childhoods .....

....  the UK police have investigated over 645 reported rapes, amongst over 5,500 reported sexual assaults in our schools since 2012, is almost not shocking. Its the fact that the police believe this is just the tip of the iceberg that's shocking.

Rape Is Rape, Not A Cry For Help

'Rape is Rape', and 'No means No' were the mantras of feminism in the 1970's .... (or should have been!)

No Means No ....

 .... and in the following decades, it was a cry that most of us could agree on.

The Elephant In The Room

When you report the news, using political correctness as the editor ...

New Lockdown's 2020

.... then you get in to problems, when it clashes with the actual reality.

Strange Bedfellows

You wouldn't think that Donald Trumps Supporters and Muslim groups would share much in common  ....

Various Groups Boycott Starbucks - Strange Bedfellows

However when Muslim groups in Malaysia and Indonesia in 2017, called on all good Muslims to boycott Starbucks, they created a strange alliance of purpose with Trumps supporters.

The Price Of Progress

Of all the disasters that could strike us the hardest ...

We Would All Miss The Internet If It Went .......

..... the loss of the mobile and Internet network would probably hurt the most.

Sex In The Centuries

It seems that as long as a man and a woman have been making babies ....

Horn Condom or Animal Love .....

..... they have also been trying to  stop making them as well.

No Loyalties In Politics

One of the peculiarities of the fall of communism in the East of Europe, is that the system that had control of the peoples thoughts for over 45 years, wasn't able to retain any loyalty from its former citizens after democracy was restored.

East German Propaganda Posters
Showing United Workers Ready To Fight Capitalism .... Standard Fare For 45 years. 

For example in East Germany, having brainwashed three generations of children's minds with communism, as firstly a Young Pioneer, then via the Free German Youth,and then the Socialist Unity Party, one would expect that these kids would retain this mindset, no matter whether elections carried real choice or not. I mean how could children's books with titles like 'Six-Year-Old Bronek and the Six-Year Plan' not have had some sort of resonance and created Homo Sovieticus.

SuperDry Revenge

North Korea has banned women from wearing fishnets and or mini-shorts/skirts ... 

Not In North Korea Miss ....

Offending will cost £3 in fines. Teens performing K-pop dances from the south, dyeing hair blond and floral pattern tights, are also banned, as are clothes with words or phrases in English (particularly popular in the far East).

Swansea Swine

Jackson Brown (who also goes by the name Jones), from Clydach, near Swansea, demanded money and threatened to post a woman's on-line sex chat with him, which also contained personal information about her, on to a Facebook page.

Jackson Brown (Jones) - "Blackmailer, Thief, Burglar,
Drug Dealer, Serial Woman-Beater"
... All By The Age of 23

He initially requested £75 not to do so, which the single mother paid, but later he got greedy and demanded even more money via messages on Facebook and Snapchat, telling his victim: "I can't go to prison for blackmail"

Pop A Pill ... Be Happy

In just two years, the town of Kermit, in West Virginia USA, received almost nine million opioid pills, according to a congressional committee ...

Kermit On Drugs - No Laughing Matter.

...... Just 406 people live in Kermit. Its hard to grasp those figures ... but its true.

Rejected By Baby Boomers And Generation X

After the dust settles and the establishment recovers from its collective thrombosis over the failure of the British public to vote to remain in the European Union .....

Britain Had Toyed With The Idea Of Joining The EU Since 1961 - We Were Rejected.

..... there is still one issue that is worth further examination .... not what happens next, that will unwind over the next 2 or 3 years. No I am referring to why the generation that took us into to EU, did so much to ensure we left it again and why the Labour Party supporters also voted for Brexit.