Happy New Year 2022

 This Years Seasonal Posts have fallen on two successive Fridays ....

Happy New Year 2021

... which I can't recall it doing for quite some while.

Tis The Season To Discuss Costumed Crimes

It wouldn't be the Christmas season if I didn't post at least one bad Santa story ..... 

 

Mr Finn Brought His Own Beard To The Party ....

 

..... so this year its a Santa from last year, Raymond Finn.

Happy Christmas 2021

This last year has finally seen some hope return .....

Happy Christmas 2021

 .... after a very stressful 18 months

Missing Post

At this time of year, when most of us are relying on the postal and parcel delivery services more than at perhaps any other time  ..... 

 

Santa's Delivery Company - 100 Per Cent Guaranteed

 

.... then a survey by the Citizens Advice UK is perhaps an appropriate subject to discuss.  

The Idiocracy Confirmed

Without a doubt in my mind, the last couple of UK generations are thicker ....

Already In A Location Near You .....

..... or at least far less well informed about subjects such as History and Geography, than earlier ones.

The Blood Feud

Piers Morgan, the journalist sacked ..... 

Sympathies Are Split Over These People

.... for daring to suggest that the then Prince Harry and Meghan, were not being truthful about Meghan's treatment inside the Royal family, has not forgiven or forgotten them. But then again he has a tradition of keeping feuds going.

Can't Cure Paedo's

If there is one crime that the general public consistently feel the authorities (especially the courts), let them down on ....

The Public Feel Let Down By Courts And Politicians

....... its paedophile rapes and murders of children.

Signs Your Past It

I freely admit that I'm getting past it ... 

Getting Past It Is A Function Of Getting Older

 .... the signs of this are all around me, for instance I don't watch any 'celebrity'  or reality TV shows, because these skanky so called celebrities, and non-reality stars are totally unknown to me. 

Dildo Dodgers

We have seen before that Russian women are not to be messed with .... 

Sex Shop Workers In Russia Have A Lot To Handle ..

..... indeed we have posted before on their strength of character (it must be having to deal with all those drunken Russian men).

Guns And Schools

 Another month, another school shooting in the the USA.

Oxford School Shooting - Michigan ... Just Latest Incident

This time at a school in the state of Michigan, by fifteen year old student Ethan Crumbley, leaving four fellow students dead, and seven others injured, including a teacher. Crumbley's parents were also arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Cat-flap Raider

Hannah Carver, a lady from Gosport, Hampshire, England had been waking up to sounds of someone or something crashing and banging about in her kitchen ....

Cat Flaps Attract All Sorts ..... Not Just Cats

 ....she had come down to find her food from her kitchen freezer was missing with packaging all over the floor.

Florida Iron Man And Others

Florida is a state that just gives, and continues to give ....

 

The Florida Iron Man Makes Withdrawal From The Blood Bank

 

.... when your looking for the strange and weird. 

 

Christmas Is Coming ...

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat ......

The New Normal Christmas ......

 

.... please put a mask on, lockdowns coming back!

Viet Man

In 2020, a crime was detected ...

Condoms In Vietnam

 ......that has set birth control and safe sex in Vietnam back a decade or so.

Corbyn Cockup

When ex-Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn resigned after his election defeat, and his subsequent expulsion from the party over anti-Semitism rows .....

Some Families Are Drawn To Megaphones ...

 .... you might have been forgiven for thinking that he would gradually disappear from view, and we would be spared his name for a while.

USA At Critical Mass

The latest trend in PC/WOKE educational circles in the US .....

Critical Race Theory Is A Veritable Industry

.... is called Critical Race Theory (CRT) ...

The Lazy Man's Nirvana

The perfect gift for the lazy man or woman in your life ... 

The Perfect Present?

  .... has been developed by car manufacturer Nissan.

Boozy Brits

As the pubs finally become mask and distancing free again .... good news we hope ...

The British Fail A Number Of Health Markers ... And Football

.... the Brits may well revert back to their former drinking habits.

The New Luddites

 Anti-Vaxxers are the newest Luddites ...

Getting Anti-Vaxxers To Admit They Are Wrong Takes Force

 .... harsh? Maybe, but its the only conclusion one can reach if you look at their behaviour in denying vaccines and its impacts.

Generation Useless Parents

When I was a kid, day trips out in the summer with my siblings and parents ... 

Kids Always Like Museums ....

and then increasingly by ourselves, were part of the fun of the summer school holidays. 

The Shape Of Us To Come

We are the size and shape we are ...

Can The Ascent Of Man Become The Descent Of Man?

.... because of climate change.

It Ain't All Black And White

On the 23rd of August 2020 a police officer shot Jacob Blake, a black man, in Kenosha Wisconsin, seven times in the back.

BLM Protests Meant Kenosha Wisconsin Burnt

This was after a woman (the mother of his children), had called police to say that Mr Blake had turned up at her home, armed with a knife, and in violation of a restraining order. 

Coming Back .... Honest Guv

Now the thing about criminals in prison is that they are dishonest ...

Davad Zukanovic, and Lil Ahmetovic - Honest Crooks?

..... I mean that's generally why they are is prison, isn't it?

Lockdown Landlords

The lockdowns have hit the pubs and clubs more than most industries (unfairly in my opinion, but enough of that) ...

Sheffield Pubs And Landlord In Lockdown Disagreement

  ... and while the big chains have taken a hit, they all seem to have survived for now.

Glasgow - City Of The Rat

Glasgow in Scotland has a rat problem ....

Rats Run Loose In Glasgow's Garnethill

 .... and it has a rodent problem as well, with two (or more) council workers bitten by 'large rats' recently.

A Hairy Beer

Picking a name for a product that's to be sold internationally is something of a minefield ...

 

Pubic Beer?

 

.... as one mans Finnish 'Lumia' smart phone, is another mans Spanish language slang name for a prostitute.

Robbin Ratbags

Nikki Edmunds, is a 32 year old petty thug and burglar  ....

Robbin Ratbags

... whilst on a 24 hour crime spree with his girlfriend, he broke in to a house and threatened the householder with a 10-inch meat cleaver. 

China's Future Impact

With some campaigners estimating that in just nine years' time, global emissions of greenhouse gases are set to be roughly double the level required to meet the goal of holding the temperature rise to 1.5C, China's rush to 'modernise' its economy since 1975, and its wish to dominate the second half of the current century and beyond, has a price ..... 

China's Economic Aims Are On Target - But At A Price

 ..... not just for its immediate neighbours, who now live under its ever more aggressive political and military threat (the claim to the entire South China Sea is an example of this threat), but also for the urgent fight against global warming.

Canine Critical Comment

Mayor Susana Prieto was doing her Mayor thing ....

The Lady Mayor Opening The Building

.... by opening a new government building in the Argentine town of Maimara, on the evening of 23rd June 2021 to a small crowd of one man and his dog. She was suitably attired with a face mask, and along with other dignitaries she was due to give a speech.

Wasting Police Time?

In the new woke world that we live in, about the worst crime imaginable is a race crime by a white person on an ethnic minority (especially black people) ....

Race Perceptions May Vary .......

.... This can come in the form of outright assault (actually rare, even by pressure groups interpretations), or verbal insults, or micro-aggressions. These last 'crimes' are claimed to be very common, especially if you care to see an insult in every action, or are looking to get money as 'compensation' for an alleged slight or wrong.

Super Vaccines

Scientists are trying to develop a super one shot vaccine against all Covid-19 variants. 

Super Vaccines Are On The Way ....

This vaccine would allow the world to not get dragged back in to repeating lockdown cycles as each variant emerges. 

 

Elephants Never Forget

In 2015, in the Chatra district, of north-eastern India, which is about 160km from Ranchi city .....

Desperate And Hungry Elephant Mother ...

 ... a lone female elephant had been digging the ground for 11 hours, and had not eaten.

Buck Naked Bathers

Australia went through a much rougher second wave of Covid-19 than the first wave and had to introduce local lock-downs in early July ....

We're Just Sunbathing ... Honestly Officer!

 .... this stretched the police and health authorities to the limit, especially in the cities where lockdowns were in force.

Put Out To Pasture

China, like many societies is facing an ageing workforce, and also youth unemployment issues.

China's Youth Unemployment Rate Higher Amongst Graduates

How they deal with this is a major concern to the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), whose unelected rule can only be justified if the population is, by and large, content to let them retain power.

The Drunk Tank

If you live in or near Apatity .....

Apatity Located Near Arctic Circle And Finland

.... a town of 59,000 people, located just below the Arctic Circle in Russia, there can't be a lot to do. Especially during those very long Russian winters. 

Eco-Space

In the antiques world .... 

Antique Treen Clogs ....

 .... little objects made of wood are called treen.

Educationally aWoke

In the US, and increasingly also in the UK, the trend towards historical revisionism, in order to appease the left-wing and ethnic minority groups interest in emasculating the white males role in society, has gathered pace.

Schools that teach pupils that “white privilege” as an uncontested fact, are breaking the law!

So much so in fact, that we are seeing US style woke practices being openly proposed here.

The Brown Note

There has been an enduring myth and legend in noise research and musical circles ....

No One Knew What Was Going To Happen Next .....

  ... its that of the infamous "Brown Note".

Cannonball Run

 Researchers from the University of Kent decided to answer the eternal question ...

One Small Step For A Tardigrade ...
One Giant Step For Tardigrades?

 .... What punishment can a Tardigrades take?

Educated Decision

There have been a lot of social changes in the Western world over the last one hundred years ...

Votes For Women Started The Changes

  ..... especially from the point of view of women.

Tape Measured

Its hard to think that there is anything nastier than having your body invaded by another creature .... 

Worse Than A Tapeworm .... But Not Much!

....a fact that many horror movies are based upon, including of course it being the famous premise of the movie 'Alien', where a creature emerges from a crewman's stomach. 

Its A Dogs Life

As if life isn't tough enough in possibly the poorest nation of Earth, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea to you and me) ... 

North Korea Disappears At Night - Outshone By Fishing Fleets

..... which, compared to its Southern neighbour, has virtually a stone age economy. South Korea 2021 - GDP $47,027 (IMF): North Korea 2021 - GDP under $2,000 (Estimated) ... they were actually nearly level in the 1960s.

A Lad Insane?

Doctor Laeek (Laeeq?) Khan from the city of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh in India is a qualified man ....

Aladdin's Lamp?

..... but that doesn't stop him believing in the supernatural and mythical world.

Tyreless And Legless

The M65 motorway in Lancashire, England, was the scene of an unusual traffic offence in September 2020 .....

Police Asked If Tyres Optional?

 .... when an off duty policeman saw a Fiat Punto driving down the motorway with sparks flying from all four wheels. 

A New Party On The Far Right?

While looking at the reports on another incident at the 4 Star Daresbury Park Hotel near Runcorn, England ....

The FBM - Picketing Asylum Seekers Hotels

 .... I noticed that the hotel at the centre of another story in August 2020, which was not reported on very much.

Whats Love Got To Do With It?

In a story that tells you all you need to know about arranged marriages ....

Manjesh Kumar And His Arranged Tragic Bride Surbhi

.... and the often loveless state that its entered in to in some cultures (and probably how much like property women are often regarded as well). 

Jet-pack Guy

Apparently on Sunday, August 30, 2020 a man in a jet-pack suit was reported to have been spotted flying thousands of feet in the air above Los Angeles.

A Birds Eye View From A Pilots Window ......

The report by an American Airlines pilot, was logged after he reported an unidentified flying person to air traffic control.

The King Of All Blackmen

Queen Victoria was a Queen and Empress of an empire that went on to become the largest empire the world has ever, or indeed is ever likely to see ....

The Areas Of The World That Were Once Part Of The British Empire At One Time.

At its peak in 1913, the British Empire held sway over 412 million people, which was 23 per cent of the world population at the time, and by 1920 it covered 35,500,000 km2 (13,700,000 sq mi), 24 percent of the Earth's total land area ... happily we won't see it its like again.

Perfidious Pakistan

The Pakistani military and intelligence establishments (Inter Services Intelligence - ISI), are believed by many in the West (and Afghanistan), to have nurtured and helped the Afghani Taliban for the last 30 years .... 

Pakistan And The Taliban - Marching Side By Side?

 ... they have always denied this, but their denials were easy to make and hard for the Western powers to disprove, without exposing intelligence assets to serious risk. Something that they can't afford.

Tongue Tied

Bethany Ryan and James Mckenzie are both residents of Edinburgh Scotland ...

Gulls Will Eat Almost Anything Dropped On The Street .....

... but were strangers to each other.