(1028) You had breakfast yet? (1120)
15. Comedy spot
Nah, not having that! These three are much worse:
Did you notice 7.4m views? Now, if they were 14 or 15, then the gross overacting of the third, trying to be a male, would be fine. These though, according to bios I’ve found, vary between late 20s to early 40s, making them Millennials … and their jokes seem to be about Gen Zees’ habits and fashion statements … cf. the things we go on about here.
My next door neighbours are late Millennial and early Gen Zee respectively … we do get on and have a laugh but no politics can ever be mentioned … not that there is disagreement … they just aren’t interested in politics, fair enough. I said that was fine but politics were certainly interested in them. They bought that one.
Now, given that level of political maturity, Starmer wants to give uneducated 16 year olds the vote?
14. Watching the Watchers
Probably need to be serious again, just this once. Here’s another which turns out, possibly, to be a bit iffy this Bank Holiday Monday (unless you’re not in Britland of course):
13. BBQ weather today
… going anywhere near Liverpool?
12. AKH has an important post up
… about Three Pads Rayner. 🤔 Hmmmm, reminds me of something I recall … can’t quite place it:
By the way, I BS you not … the lead in ad to the clip was … yes … selling sheds. Also, there’s a rumour going around that Andy’s off with his bit of skirt playing bowls … but don’t quote me.
11. Burly biker Longrider is a treasure trove
It has been said that there are only 7 basic plots (see Wikipedia for a summary):
Overcoming the Monster
Rags to Riches
The Quest
Voyage and Return
Comedy
Tragedy
Rebirth
Taken together with the Rule of 3 this lays out a limited palette from which journalists can … catch your attention.
Plus:
That sounds a bit like Gell-Mann Amnesia.
James, have you been eavesdropping on our bowls club committee meetings? Three weeks ago we had a mixed (ladies and men) match against another club. It was noted by the opposition that we had no ladies in our team, my opposite number was their ladies’ captain. All afternoon she banged on about it, during the post-match tea she harped on. Later It turned out that other men from our club had been subjected to similar earlier bending. It came as no surprise that one of their ladies had complained that a vile and expletive ridden comment was made by one of our men. This has now blown up into a major diplomatic incident. My mother warned me decades ago to be very careful when bowls goes mixed, at the time it wasn’t. She said that some of the women are simply awful when it comes to gamespersonship, ever looking to upset the opposition.
So, in answer to your suspicion; not if I can help it.
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JH: Yes, telepathy told me something was going down. ☺️