After the post below about people l would like to have a night out with, here's the opposite.
Prince Andrew might not sweat, but he's got a lot to answer for inviting these three to his daughter's 18th. Then again, l guess they were close personal friends, although he's bound to deny that now.
If l was able to go out tonight, here's two fine fellows from a few years ago where l'm sure I'd be guaranteed a wild night out. Billy Connelly and George Best. George in this photo (from 1977) looks as though he thinks Billy might be a bit too much for him. And that is one hell of a statement.
He's not just been an all round genius in music, he's also funny as fuck.
Ladies and Gentlemen (and all of other persuasions), l present to you Bob Dylan's answer to a routine question in Playboy.
Happy New Year
It's about time, but The New York Post has finally decided Donald Trump should admit he's lost the election. In what other kind of mad world would it have taken so long? I understand people want to keep jobs and feed their families, but they should have been on the side of democracy straight away.
Rather sadly, l think the Biden presidency will be a blip, and there will be a lot more right wing fuckers in power in the future
I bet this Vibra-Finger wasn't used to massage gums, no matter what the advert says.
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This will be me when the pubs are open again without the restrictions
So the pubs are back open for business in our neck of the woods, as long as there is a substantial meal with the booze, which, according to Michael Gove, can be a couple of scotch eggs. Looks like he's saving his for later.
It looks like John in Bootle is selling my old sofa. What a bargain.
l've only just seen this from earlier on in the lockdown, but it certainly made me laugh. Elaine Paige dealing with the lockdown with cock, according to The Telegraph. At least she took it well (Fnaaar)
I've argued the Brexit point before of rich capitalist bastards trying to do away with regulations, but there's an excellent article in The Guardian a couple of days ago that l have just read by George Monbiot that goes deeper. Here's a part of it, and the full article can be found here.
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I bet this is produced a flashback for the orange skinned bullying morally bankrupt charlatan when he had to repeat years due to his general ignorance and belief of self importance, against the teacher's revenge for him being a knobhead.
I haven't posted any comic related nonsense for a while, so here's a beauty, which I'm old enough to remember reading at the time, whilst lying in my bedroom in Bootle, listening to the trains go by. Dennis the Menace meets Gnasher for the first time. From The Beano, issue number 1363, August 31st 1968. Drawn by David Law.
I don't know which artist is responsible for this cartoon, but it certainly appealed to my sense of humour
I've lived my life not believing in a creator, nor an afterlife of the Heaven or Hell type variety, but believing space is infinite, with infinite possibilities. This renders our lives on this tiny planet insignificant, and l'm happy with that, but think people should enjoy life as they wish, but try not to harm others. One of the early arguments about space being infinite, therefore with infinite amounts of stars, is why is the night sky not lit up with them, rather than dark? Obviously the fault is with our poor optics and the vast distances of the stars, but with advanced technology, we are getting there. As evidence, here's a recent photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope of a mere 500 million stars (roughly) in the Andromeda Galaxy.
Remember - enjoy life while you can. There's bugger all else.
I've nothing profound to say about the Konstantin Korovin (1861 - 1939) painting 'The Great Boulevards in Paris' (I Grandi Viali Parigi) apart from l saw it for the first time the other night, and it makes me want to go back there, drink some red wine (and possibly some absinth), until l can view it like this myself. I actually prefer it to the similar painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) with the same name (below it). Love it.
I don't know who is responsible this cartoon, but it is always worth sharing to remind people of some of the real enemies.
It's also similar to 'The Great Money Trick' in Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists', which is well worth reading or re-reading, and l've blogged about before.
If you think this makes Murdoch appear racist, l pass no judgement, but here's a couple of old cartoons from his papers
So, at long last, the bullying investigation regarding Priti Patel has been leaked to the press, and it's a good job it was, as there is no way our great and glorious leader Boris Johnson would have released it. This time, the rather delightful Ms Patel was found to have been in breach of The Ministerial Code (again), but the bullying may have 'been carried out unintentionally' (but did cause the resignation of Philip Rutnam, the then Home Office Permanent Secretary). If this was her first offence, l would have had some sympathy for her, although a lot more for the victims. However, this is the third time she has been accused of it, in three different departments, and has already had to settle out of court and pay damages with a former employee (and has already had to resign once for previously breaking The Ministerial Code). She is a serial offender. Who would have expected that from her? Even the apology was a classic case of a non apology along the lines of 'I'm sorry if other people have been offended'. Of course Boris Johnson has backed her, and gone against the report, basically dismissing it, and getting other MPs to show support to her, leading to the resignation of the person who oversaw the report, Sir Alex Allan, Whitehall's independent advisor on ministerial standards, who at least has shown some backbone. If Ms Patel had burned the report in the middle of The Houses of Parliament and crapped on it, Boris would just say she hadn't, and exonerate her, saying the matter was now closed, but that does not make it right. However, what do you expect from this rule breaking government, in anti bullying week, and just after axing anti LGBT bullying projects in schools? All they have done is lie and bluff, meanwhile lining the pockets of their friends and backers, with a total disregard of what is expected of a government, which should be leading by example, especially in the middle of a crisis and the Brexit shitshow. Apart from their general ineptitude and disregard for what is right (such as feeding hungry children), l do think that it is also a deliberate ploy to undermine democracy, rather like Trump has been doing in America. Once all the rules as are no longer effective, and the population becomes blasé about the rule breaking, they are free to do away with freedoms, worker protection, housing regulations, and all the other irritating titbits that prevent the rich getting richer. All of this is being done right in front of our eyes both here and in America, and things are only going to get worse. Well done to all of the fuckwits who voted these bastards in, and expected them to change, show compassion, and not be corrupt. I didn't expect anything else.
There may well be some kind of a civil war in America soon, but where's a revolution when you want one?
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This is only part of the reason people shouldn't buy The Daily Mail. They're absolute scum, and the government's press buddies hounding of Marcus Rashford looks as though it has already started. Twats.
If the Covid lockdown is getting on your nerves and driving you up the wall, just relax and look at the picture. That's it......relax.....drift away........
Now send me all your money and the keys to your house - you'll remember nothing in the morning
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A one eyed shark that was caught off the coast of Mexico. If it's real, it manages to be both cute and spooky at the same time.
Photo by Enrique Lucero Leon
Just Fuck off with your precious blue passport and stick it where the son doesn't shine. The passport that actually makes life worse for us. Congratulations you poisonous git, and where's the report on your bullying charges?
As if l haven't found enough ways to waste time and avoid the dusting, this was recently recommended to me. It's the Macaulay Library Archive that provides copious amounts of scientific information about wildlife. However, as a rather magnificent bonus, you can also play various recordings of them. Mr Parrot is not enjoying it as much as me, and is currently losing the small amount of marbles he still has left.
Their website is here. Enjoy
That's me sorted at least - #1 on the list, and not because l'm an old git. Obviously l'm indestructible, but what a result!! Not just a care home worker, but also a peripatetic one, although l suppose that may change in the future.
But hold on a minute - In related news.....
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Solar flare 10 21 10 by Jason Major. The circle at the top left corner is the scale size of The Earth.
We are all so insignificant in the great scheme of things*
* There is no great scheme
Great stuff Priti. So this means that non of us Brits (or Scousers) can work, travel, live or retire freely in the many European countries that we used to be able to. Well done indeed you glory hunting, smug, dogs arse of a mouth hobgoblin. And fuck off if you think l believe you were taken out of context regarding starving the Irish, or that your self satisfied smile during the TV interview a while ago is your normal relaxed facial expression. You're a fucking liar who treats the populace as idiots. Don't forget to take Cummings, Gove, Johnson, Hancock, Raab and all the other fuckwits with you, and don't fucking come back.
Those crazy Japanese! Currently, there's the competition being run to colour in an outline of a dog. Nothing unusual there you may think, apart from the fact the dog is called wank (wank the dog). If you live in Nagasaki and want to enter the competition, the full details are here.
If we'd have had lockdown in the 1960's, The Beatles would have been slightly different.
Nigel Farage being a twat as usual. He's still a rich twat, but at least now he is £10,000 worse off.
The UK have banned travel from Denmark due to Covid mutating on mink farms, and it looks as though the mink will be destroyed. I've a better idea - just ban mink farming altogether.
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Goodbye Mr Shitty Pants, you won't be missed. Hopefully he won't be around when the next election happens
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People who have had privileged backgrounds often make out that they have struggled, and had the same chances and opportunities in life as anyone else, as they don't like to acknowledge their family, friends and schools network give them an unfair advantage over us plebs and scumbags. Take The Blue Collar Conservative group. Here's some examples of their info with the missing relevant information added.
MP Sir Peter Bottomley 'Came from a lorry driver to the House of Commons'. Sure - after Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Also, his father and grandfather went to the same Oxbridge college, and were also both knighted.
Privately educated John Courts is described as being self employed for 12 years before becoming a MP. Yes - as a barrister.
Johnny Mercer achieved 'average results at school, so had to go into employment', omitting to mention the school in question was Eastbourne College, a top public school.
If it wasn't so laughably pathetic, l would despair.
Meanwhile, the corruption goes on, further lining their friends pockets
Still one of my favourite photographs. Be a rebel and don't let the little people tell you what to do.
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