Friday, 25 August 2023

The Best Woke Fringe 2023

 I don't do the Edinburgh Comedy fringe anymore ... but of course its still going on ....

Lorna Rose Treen - Best Joke Fringe 2023
Lorna Rose Treen - Best Joke Fringe 2023

 And this means:

The Top 10 jokes of the 2023 Fringe:

   Winner: "I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah" - Lorna Rose Treen.

Life In The Public Domain

The football media community in the UK have been much taken by the outcome to the long saga of (Ex)Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood and his girlfriend this week ....

Mason Greenwood Was Accused Of Assault

.... after this weeks announcement that he has conceded that his career at Manchester United is effectively over, mainly because of his conviction by social opinion/social media, after the actual legal case against him suddenly collapsed, leaving the crown with no chance of a conviction.

Roger, Wilko, Over And Out

Like many people (well amongst the older population) in the UK, I was saddened by the news that general hardware store (and a bit of everything else as well .... that was part of it problem), Wilko was going in to administration prior to probable closure.

Wilko In Administration
Wilko In Administration

The news doesn't look good, as they said that they risked running out of money to pay the bills last Friday .... So the chances are pretty high that it will not be saved (at least not in its current form).

Friday, 18 August 2023

The Mars Doorway And Other Things

This image taken by the explorer's Mast Camera or "Mastcam" on Sol 3466 (7 May) ......

The Mars Doorway?
Mars Doorway?


.... appears to show an opening with filed away rock and has generated much speculation by UFO hunters and cover-up conspiracists.

Telling It Straight

This older story on the BBC almost speaks for itself .... 

Roofing Scam - Elderly Aussies Targeted
Roofing Scam - Elderly Aussies Targeted
 
..... but not without some decoding. 

Murder Rates USA

The United States is the 129th safest country in the world .....

Reykjavik, Iceland - Safest Country In The World
Reykjavik, Iceland - Safest Country In The World

..... according to the Global Peace Index, and according to them, the US’s safety ranking has decreased each year since 2016. For comparison Canada is ranked 12th and the UK is 34th.. while Mexico is 137th.

Friday, 11 August 2023

Welsh Party Girl

Courtney Healey, a 21yr old from from Maesteg in South Wales (The UK's Florida .... haha), was a healthcare support worker in the National Health Service.

Party Girl


She was also a regular marijuana user, telling friends via texts that: “I smoke it every day. I feel like I might rip someone’s head off otherwise."

We Reap What We Sow

Britain's casual habit of accepting migrants and refugees who hate and despise us, is going to be our downfall ....

Ghayasuddin Siddiqui And Kalim Siddiqui
The Fatwa Instigators?

 .... indeed we may already have laid the foundation of decades of low level terrorism, with the acceptance of just two hardline radical Islamists to our shores.

The Blood Red Line

After Deborah Yakubua, a Christian student was torn out of a college safe room, in the city of Sokoto, Nigeria ....

Deborah Yakubu Murdered
Deborah Yakubu Murdered

 .... she was then stoned to death, after which her body was burnt by 'righteous' fellow Muslim students.

Friday, 4 August 2023

Greatest Rock Riffs

These polls are ever popular, but a pain to type out.

Sweet Child O Mine - Greatest Rock Riffs
Sweet Child O Mine - Greatest Riff?

However the on-line poll by Muse Group placed 1987's 'Sweet Child O' Mine' by Guns N' Roses was the greatest riff with 37 per cent of the vote. Second was Survivors 1982 'Eye Of The Tiger', and third was the 1980 Queen hit 'Another One Bites The Dust' ....

Parental Rights

In May 2022 in India, a couple in the northern state of Uttarakhand sued their only son and his wife for £530,000 ......

Angry Parents - Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad
Sanjeev and Sadhana Prasad

........ for not giving them a grandchild after six years of marriage on the grounds of "mental cruelty".

The Sins Of The Father

"Reparatory justice" to "compensate for slavery" is the latest scheme by black politicians of ...

Slave Emancipation Was Well Over A Hundred Years Ago, Even In The USA
Slave Emancipation Was Well Over
A Hundred Years Ago, Even In The USA

... the often failed and corrupt Caribbean countries, to grab more money off us. In this it differs little from the claims by some black Americans for the same thing from the white Americans.