Happy New Year 2026

 Keeping up the tradition of  

New Years Greetings To All My Readers 

 

.... and in this case a Beano from the 31st of December 1977 .... nearly 50 years ag, but sadly, that doesn't seem that long to me .... Eek!! .... God, where do all the years go?

Happy Christmas From PC Towers

           

Beano Comic December 1967

As usual there are restricted posts at this time of year, as I am sure that most of you have better things to take your attention! So also as usual, I use a comic from my youth to entertain you, and wish all my readers a very ....

Happy Christmas and New Year!!

The Xiangqi King (For A Day)

The Chinese can be a strange peoples .... 

Yan Chenglong - The Xiangqi King

Gambling, and by default, some cheating, are something of a national vice.

Blocking Airline Style Toilets And Engines

There was a news story run by a few media outlets that an Air India plane (Air India Flight 126) had to return to Chicago when most of the planes toilets were put out of order within an hour of the flight.

Air India Flight 126 - Cancelled Blocked Toilets

It was claimed that investigations showed that the passengers had dumped plastic bags, rags and even clothing down the planes toilets. Apparently this was not an unusual occurrence on Air India flights, but the article didn't explain why the passengers didn't just use the bins in the toilets to dispose of the items (as instructed on the notices).

Republicans Health Scare

My what lies we weave ....

"Fake News" Is Often Claimed For Bad News

 ... when practicing to deceive.

Penis Panic

In the USA they are selling remote controlled male chastity belts, that clamp around the mans penis (or some 'women's penises' in Angela Raynors world view), and are managed via a phone app by the dominant partner of either sex ....

Ronald's Remote Controlled Penis Clamp Was Hacked

.... presumably these are of the type (or similar) to the ones we have discussed before.

Loves Labour Lost

Some men are just born romantics .... but most know when to draw the line, and only ever get married once or twice and certainly not at the same time. There are some who just can't seem to stop themselves .... 

William Allen Jordan - Bigamist - Conman - Swindler

Maybe its the wedding day, the thrill of the chase or even the fact that its doing something illegal that spurs them on, but in any case, these men just are serial marry merchants. They of course split into three camps.

 

The Maniac Factory

 Putin's pardons ....

Monsters Freed By Putin: Denis Gorin,
Nikolai Ogolobyak, Artem Buchin.

..... are given to prisoners who agree to fight in his war in the Ukraine .... originally they only had to survive 6 months of fighting to be able to walk free of the army and be pardoned.

Ex Sex

Dating site Illicitencounters.com has an interest in human desires .....

Exes Desired

... especially sexual desires.

Texas Apaches

Random attacks on cars from road verges or bridges are thankfully rare .....

Spear Thrown At Car In Texas

 .... but sadly, not unknown. 

Green Dracula

Now its well known that Bram Stokers Dracula ...

Dracula - Christopher Lee

 .... was based very loosely on Vlad III Count Vlad Dracula aka Vlad the Impaler the 15th century ruler of Wallachia in the Carpathian Mountains.

Road Rage And Car Envy

Brian Kendal, a 28 year old from Rochdale is quite frankly a man with no self control ..... He is also apparently very sensitive about the size of his 

The Choice Of Cars For Men
Can Be Mean Something

 .... err, car! 

Cider Takes The Sting Away

Amongst the daftest of Britain's events ....

World Nettle Eating Championships

 ... is The World Nettle Eating Championship. 

Hellraiser Reprised

Sometime in 2012, someone placed a copy of a VHS tape on top of a Bus Shelter on the Old Kent Road in London ....

Hell Raiser Cover Image

.... the tape in question was the great horror movie Hellraiser.

Inconsiderate Home-owners

The owner of a property in Seaford, East Sussex, England was letting his property become an eyesore .....

Untidy Gardens Are A Blight

... he had filled his garden with junk, including a car, building rubble and old white goods such as fridges, as well as wooden pallets, and unwanted furniture.

Hitler Reprised

Passengers on Inter-City trains across the world ....

Hitler's Voice Heard On A Train

 ... are used to intercom announcements from the driver or conductor.

A Modern Phileas Bogg

Everyman should have a hobby, his quest, his holy grail .....

A Man On His Mission

 ... perhaps even his Shangri-La.

BBC Agenda

 
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) claims that they uphold a culture of fairness .....

BBC Founded With Lofty Ideals - Long Dead.

 ... over its front portals were inscribed the words “This temple of the arts and muses is dedicated to Almighty God by the first Governors in the year of our Lord 1931, John Reith being director-general …”

Sarnie Tosser

People throwing items from cars at speed ....

Holger Becker, And The Offending Foil Sandwiches

 .... are not new to this blog, although I can't recall in which particular post it has been mentioned, but I do recall it being mentioned.

Big Man, Little Man

 Inappropriate use of personal power by Indian Officials are not unknown, in a land ....

Indian Food Inspector Rajesh Vishwas

.... where, as has been highlighted before, power and justice is often a case of wealth, influence or celebrity.

Seagull Sex

 As we have discussed before seagulls are not the most popular of birds in the UK ....

Is This A Sexy Seagull?

 ..... but most of us wouldn't harm them, other than to fend off an attack.

X-Ray Specs

 X-Ray Spec are or were a dream of many people at some point in their, well boys mainly .....

X-Ray Specs Adult Version

 .... now apart from the obvious sexual motive, there were also dreams of being able to see through walls, bank vaults, and the cards held by gamblers at casino's etc. 

Fireworks And Alcohol

Fireworks, alcohol and humans are often a combustible mix ....

Mr McGrew Before The Accident

In the UK the number of accidents appear to have dropped over the last few decades (I certainly recall the subject being discussed on TV after each Guy Fawkes night when I was a kid).

Only On Halloween

Halloween 2024, Bay Village police in Cleveland, Ohio, have responded an unorthodox call for assistance - a giant inflatable pumpkin head blocking the road.

Giant Inflatable Pumpkin Head

No harm was done to officers or the pumpkin during the incident, it added.

Bad Pennies, Lucky Find

I once had to tediously count out, sort, and bag, in specific amount bank bags, the coins out of a very large vodka bottle of coppers and low value silver coins, that had come from my pocket change over about 12 months  ....

That's A Lot Of Pennies

... this was in order to not get charged by a commercial coin machine ..... it turned out to be over £400 ($505) so it was well worth it, as it paid for a weeks Greek holiday!! 

King Of Complaints

Like all airports, Dublin International Airport, which is located north of Dublin City Centre in Collinstown .....

Old Man Complains To Dublin Airport

 ...... gets its fair share of noise complaints.

Sticky Fingers

 Dr Wat Lun in Chon Buri, Thailand got an unusual visit in April 2023 ....

Magnetic Enhancements To  Fingers

 .... in the form of a self declared "Reformed Gambler." 

Ain't No Angel

Every now and then, we get reports in the press of miraculous events .....

These Children Saw A BVM Apparition

 .... statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) crying blood (from places across the Christian world), or of visitations by the BVM passing messages of hope or warnings to the world. 

Rough Justice

Beria, the feared head of Stalin's secret police once said ....

Stalin And Beria Knew How To Run Justice Their Way

.... 'You show me the man, and I'll show you the crime.'

Knotty Problem

Human screams coming from a forest in Germany alerted a cyclist and a hunter ....

A Knotty Problem

 .... they called the police, as they found a man tied up to a hunters platform. 

Melbourne Batmania

 Not had a superhero story for quite some time ......

Batmania Melbourne

... so it was with some glee that I saw a snippet in the UK press about the sightings in Melbourne Australia of a Batman stalking the mean streets.

Working In To Old Age

As the cost of state pensions grows for the states, working in to old age has become a thing in the West ..... 

Working In To Pension Age
 Becoming More Common

.... reversing the trend of the past 100 years (although noticeably not in France or Spain), since old age pensions were introduced in 1908 (UK), and 1935 USA .

Saved Is The Wordle

 I should imagine that being held hostage by a naked man armed with scissors .....

James H Davis III Faced Serious Charges

... is one of every persons possible nightmares.

Urine Trouble

In Japan, citizens normally obey the rules and norms expected by society ....

Japan's Pachinko Parlours

 .... this includes waste disposal laws.

Afghanistan Back To 7th Century

 Afghanistan had socially barely stepped into the mid 20th century by  ....

Afghan Women 1950s - 1970s - 2025 - A Decline In Freedoms

..... the beginning of the 21st century.

Poo Man .... Pong!

 Joseph Severn is a w*nker ......

Joseph Severn Arrested

..... Its official.

Thunderbird Road

In 1890, a small provincial newspaper in Tombstone Arizona printed a story .....

Tombstone Epitaph - 1890

....... decades and years later, that story was being touted as evidence of the the mythical 'Thunderbird' of American West fame.

Yet Another Mass Shooting

Yet another mass shooting event in the USA ...

Mass Shooting And Mormon Church Burning

 ... this time, it wasn't a school but a Mormon church last Sunday.

Goat God?

 We have discussed Pan the first born god before ...... 

Big Billy The Goat Overlord

.... but recently such a figure has emerged in Australia.

Is Google A Thing?

You would think that every human being in the Western hemisphere ....

Google Search

 

.... would now know how to do a Google search, wouldn't you? But apparently not so in Newark, New Jersey, USA.

Trump Sues Again

Donald Trump has a notoriously thin skin ....

Notoriously Thin Skinned Man

 ... something of a handicap in a real career politician, but then he's not a career politico is he?

Mammoth Meat

In theory, people have still been eating mammoth meat even after they became extinct ....

Humans Hunting Mammoth 

... this would be as frozen mammoths were exposed to the surface, due to melting ice or thaws, and the meat was then taken either by animals or very possibly local hunters ... of course we can never know.

You Can't Make This Circus Up

You can't make any of this stuff up ...

Tyler Robinson - Charlie Kirk Arrest And Trial

.... the information that is spewing out on the Tyler Robinson - Charlie Kirk investigation is frankly astonishing.

US Preventable Diseases

Around 1900 in the USA and elsewhere, before vaccines were available, almost 20% of children died before their fifth birthday .....

Vaccine–Preventable Disease Morbidity in the United States

.... and the most common causes, were the infectious diseases that can be prevented by the vaccines we have available today.

Ah So Hot

The craze for augmented toilets has spread from it homeland in Japan ....

A Typical Smart Toilet Design

.... also known as Smart toilets, that are actually like the often misquoted A.I. which people think is for Artificial Intelligence, but I believe is Artificial Imbecile.

Fly Mandy .... And Crash And Burn

The Epstein files have brought down an unexpected first politician and former supporter ...

Peter Mandelson In His Last Official Role?

.... it was unexpected, as the politician is in the UK.

Where Next USA?

The sharp growth of politically motivated violence in the USA over last eight years ....

1899 Children Pledge of Allegiance
 - Frances Benjamin Johnston

.... shows that the USA is increasingly not one nation under god, but rather two hostile groups in one nation.

Best Invention .... Not

 There are some inventions that man has been crying out for .....

Homer Proved To Be A
Natural At Focusing On Beer

 .... and Seth Jackson from Bristol, England has created one of them.

The Nazi Time Machine?

For years, Nazi conspiracy theorists have speculated that the Nazi's invented Flying Saucers and a Time Machine .....

Nazi Flying Saucer

 ... As well as secret bases in Antarctica, or the dark side of the Moon etc.

Oppressive Regimes On Parade

China's Victory parade was partly tied to an economic summit .....

China's Victory Parade And Summit

and so for example India's prime minister Mr Modi was at the summit, but not the military parade.