Don't Piss Me Off

A prisoner at a low security unit was ringing his girl friend or wife ...

Don't Piss Him Off

 ..... when a male voice came on the line and said that he was seeing to her, adding 'You're in prison, what you going to do about it?' .... well those were the wrong words.

Terror Tactics

It says a lot about the current trajectory of Putin's Russia ....

Memorial Closed

 ..... that alongside of the expulsion of Western journalists, and the branding of some Non Government Organisations (NGO's) as 'agents of a foreign government', Russia's Supreme Court ordered the closure of 'Memorial', Russia's oldest Non Government Organisation, which was devoted to uncovering examples Soviet-era oppression.

A Short History Of Failure

Since independence in 1947 .....

A History Of Failure ...

..... no prime minister has ever completed a full five-year parliamentary tenure in Pakistan.

Small Surprise

A girls Hen Party is meant to be a safe way to go out with her friends ....

Hen Party Strippers
Come In All Sizes

..... and blow away the last vestige of the single girl, before becoming a wife. 

Belly Flop

Hamo Beeka and Omar Kamal, two popular Egyptian mahraganat singers made a video in 2020  .....

Convicted For This Video

.... that featured the well known Brazilian dancer Lurdiana.

African Backsliding

I suspect that many western politicians often privately (they would never dare do it publicly),  wonder why sub-Saharan African states are so often such basket cases. 

Some African States Have Been Basket Cases For Sixty Years ......

The answers they may determine to this question, are no doubt many and varied, and usually not discussed publicly ... especially in these race sensitive times.

British Pageantry

Whatever else you can say about Britain ....

British State Funeral Pageantry

We can still do pageantry like no other state ..... 

Elizabeth II State Funeral

 

 

 

Elizabeth's State Funeral Parade

 

 

Elizabeth's Coffin Escort

She Passes Buckingham Palace

Flags Lowered

The Thin Red Lines

Coffin On Gun Carriage

The End Of The Procession

 

The Last Moments ......

We probably won't have another such occasion in my lifetime .... so its worth the two posts.

It's Doggone

In October 2018 a 22 year old Scotsman from Haddington, East Lothian, had a fight with an English Bulldogge  ... his pet.

'Biggie' Really Loved Peanut Butter

..... He lost. 

The Sick Man Of Europe

 Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose government has become very authoritarian in recent years ...

Türkiye Has Been Branded
'The Sick Man Of Europe' Before

.... accused philanthropist Osman Kavala of being an agent of the Hungarian-born US billionaire George Soros, although why Soros would need agents in Türkiye has never been explained by the government prosecutors.

The Age Of Nationalism

Once, not so long ago, two old established parties, the Republicans and Socialists used to run France ....

Frances Traditional Left And Right Beaten ..

.... but in a sign of what is happening in many states worldwide (such as India where the Indian National Congress party is on life support with just 19.5% of the popular vote), the old political consensus is breaking down, and in the recent French Presidential elections, both the two old parties lost their deposits. 

Most Iconic - Or England Dreaming?

English football fans have unsurprisingly voted ...

Most Iconic Sports Jersey?

..... for the red football shirt worn by the World Cup winning team of 1966 as being the most iconic football shirt.

An Endangered Species

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the US, legally ended racial segregation ....

Black Businesses Thrived In The 1950's

 ..... but with it also went an entire Afro-American economic and social sub culture. 

The Worlds Energy Pain

 If ever the proof was needed that the world is globalised these days .... 

Its A Truly Globalised World

.... its the impacts if the Covid pandemic, and the Russian invasion of the Ukraine.

Queen Elizabeth II Passes

 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has died.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

She passed today, surrounded by her extensive family aged 96-years-old, as Britain's longest serving monarch.

The Roos Carr Figurines

 What a creepy couple of little buggers these are .....

The Original Slender Men?

You wouldn't want to mess with them .... even though they are only between 35 and 41 cm tall.

Royal Chicken Dinners

Cambridge University researchers analysed more than 2,000 Anglo-Saxon skeletons in England .... 

Anglo-Saxon Meals Pretty Vegan

 .... all from the 5th to 11th Centuries (Saxon England before 1066), to determine their diets by analysing chemical signatures of the peoples diets preserved in the bones.

The Drug Culture

In 2015 a former Miss Nevada USA 2007, and aspiring 'actress' faced a string of meth-related drug charges, according to a criminal complaint filed by Nevada prosecutors. 

The Road To Arrest Was Short

The then 30 year old Katherine Nicole Rees, allegedly sold meth to a man ID'd as J. Peacock .... but this was not her first drug bust.