Terrible Substitutions

 I don't order my food shopping via the Internet but I had been told that the bane of this was product 'substitutions' ....

Which List

 

... which apparently is the supermarket saying that they don't have what you ordered but here's something very similar. The consumer magazine Which, has compiled customers reports of weird and strange substitution as well as listing the best and worst for using substitutions:

Florida Man - Family Gatherings

Now I don't know about your family, but before I removed myself entirely from contact with any of the clan (from my mothers side .... for reasons that I won't go in to, we never ever met any of my Dads family) ....

Donnie Adams Being Treated

..... family gatherings could be fraught with simmering resentment and grudges, often long held and never resolved. So there was always a frisson of danger in the air.

Ignoble Deeds In Iran

Ms Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist ......

Ms Narges Mohammadi In Happier Times

  ..... has won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. The 51 year old was honoured for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran.

Incompetent Councils

The Labour-run Slough council, a Berkshire local authority declared a a section 114 notice in July l (bankruptcy) last year 2021 .....

Slough Borough Council

..... as a result of its £760m borrowing debt (much of it channelled into property investment), and a cumulative budget deficit of at least £174m by 2025 - I can't recall a UK local authority going bankrupt before.

HalloHell

Now in this day and age in Europe, you would largely think that Halloween had been accepted as a harmless celebration ......

Halloween Pumpkin Heads

..... even amongst the Christian clergy (Note: I automatically assume that the mullahs are against it).

Its A Woke, Woke, World

Whilst the Coronavirus pandemic may have abated (at least to much of he world) ...

The Coronavirus Financially Bankrupted Many Countries

 .... the woke plague, that has swept the Western world continues unabated, with no sign of a vaccine.

Nearer To God Am I?

In June 2022, a TV reality show in which 15 women were hiking on Camelback Mountain in Arizona had to call emergency services .....

Camelback Mountain Girls After Their Religious Ordeal

..... after they succumbed to the extreme heat after temperatures topped 100F (38c).

Fate Can Be Cruel

Dr Michael Mosly was a well-known advocate of measures that humans could take to make themselves healthier and fitter.

Dr Mosley  - Last Sighting

He advocated (and often proved) that for example, type 2 diabetes be alleviated and even reversed by a diet and exercise regime ... a cure he carried out on himself.

A New Low

Well, well, well. Now Hunter Biden (son of incumbent US President Biden) is now a convicted felon.

Hunter Biden Faces Possible Prison Time

Meaning that it is the first time a sitting president's child has been found guilty of a crime, and also the first time a Presidential Candidate has been a convicted felon, and both in the same Presidential race.

Genius At Work

Barry Humphries, the comedian who came up with the characters Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson and Barry McKenzie, died in April 2023, aged 89. 

Barry Humphries And His Creations

It happens to us all, but he got to the age of 89 which is more than most of us will manage ..... so I'm not dwelling upon that death.

Karmic Revenge

 Sometimes the Karma of the situation is so obvious ......

Karma Caught Joseph McKinnon

..... it hits you in the face and then gives you a good slapping.

The Eunuch Maker

 The strangeness of some men's sexual desires is actually never ending ....

The Eunuch Maker - The 'Burdizzo'

 .... There are men who want to dress as women, there are men who want to be women and will have their penises removed to achieve that aim .... and there are men who just want to be castrated.