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"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," is supposed to be the mail-man's (delivery persons if you prefer), motto, and creed around the globe.

Emptying Mailboxes Is Tiring Work .....

And in the main, especially in the first world, the mail does operate fairly effectively. There are differences, as anyone who posted a holiday card from Southern Italy, Spain or Greece in the 1980's, or before, will be able to attest.

Bare Gummy's

So the country that is the home of the Hollywood smile, and claims it sets a global standard in dental perfection ....

Income And Dental Visits USA

..... is also one, where millions worry about how to treat a toothache or an infection. Poorer Americans rely on free dental clinics and charities, which have a tendency to remove teeth, rather than trying to repair them, as its a cheaper basic treatment.

Celebrities In Justice?

Schadenfreude is a secret pleasure, usually best kept to ourselves, but guiltily felt by all of us now and then. My particular vice in this area, are the rewards that reality TV bestows upon the feckless, stupid, semi-literate, and most of all, totally talentless, individuals who seem to populate their shows.

Reality TV Throws Up "Talent" Like This ....

So when one of the talentless gets into financial trouble (usually based upon their assumption that the money will continue to pour in), I always secretly hug myself in glee, as they head down the toilet of life again, and end up stacking shelves, or unemployed on a council estate somewhere.

Labours Zionist Woes

In a brave attempt to do his bit to try and dispel the idea that the British Labour Party is a anti-Semitic party, its been reported that Muslim Khalid Mahmood MP, had an affair with his Jewish parliamentary assistant Elaina Cohen, which started after he split up from his wife in 2003.
 

Doing Their Bit For Labour Jewish Relations ... Well For While

But things went dramatically wrong after their affair had ended, when she accused another Labour MP, Naz Shah, of being an ‘anti-Zionist’ in a Tweet in 2016. Mr Mahmood suspended Ms Cohen from her £31k pa job, and (ironically given Labours reported backlog of anti-Semitism cases), began an internal disciplinary process against her. This continued despite the fact that Naz Shah MP was now suspended for his anti-Semitic Facebook posts.

Road Gits

In a moment of schadenfreude that most of us who have been doused by car or van driver, driving into the puddle next to you, will really enjoy, a van driver in the Canadian city of Ottawa has been sacked after he was filmed repeatedly dousing pedestrians.

T.W.A.T In A Van

A rear facing dash-cam recorded a 45 second clip of the van driver veering into the kerb on a rainy day, to drench pedestrians at least three times. The video of the anti-social behaviour went viral, and was viewed over 750,000 times.