DIY
There’s a tv ad running for a build-it-yourself Dalek. It’s motorised, it has a voice and it will do most Daleky things short of elimination, or maybe even that.
It comes in 140 parts. The first costs £1.99. The next 139 cost £11.99 each. That’s a spectacular £1668.60. However if at actually does what it does on the telly it could be pretty cheap.
Why not?
I read this morning that Cristiano Ronaldo is open to a move. Mmm. So here’s my plan. Swap him for Marcus Rashford.
It’s a no-brainer. Rashford is warming the bench at best. CR7 would play, he would score, Hojlund, Garnacho etc would learn from him, and he would be the ‘big’ player that United lack at this moment. And, he and Bruno Amorim played together for Portugal.
Who is this clown?
When the commentator begins the game by saying that the referee has sent off players in each of his first two games, you know that you’re in trouble.
Edinburgh Airport
Once upon a time in L’Escala, the Club Nautic decided that all motorists would have to pay for access to the marina. This included the fishermen who worked from there.
They set up a barrier and a machine. On day one the fishermen arrived and duly paid. Then they held a meeting.
When it was over, they went back to the pay point, broke the barrier and threw it in the sea. It was never replaced.
Sometimes direct action is best.
A wheel too far
A tour guide told me today that Copenhagen is on course to meet its net carbon neutrality target by next year. If its cycle friendly policy is a by product they can stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.
Let’s have a pedestrian friendly policy first. In the Danish capital I feel much more at risk from bikes than cars.
Football-speak?
Lifted from BBC News on line:
‘The Aberdeen fan apologised last week in a ministerial statement and conceded he should have went to a “wider range” of football matches.’
Disgrace
It appears that ITV has no interest in showing the Scotland Euro matches anywhere on the network, nor has STV picked it up. is that not a scunner?!?
Lookalikes
Finally, four or five years down the line, I got round to watching 21 Bridges. Excellent, but for one thing.
Chadwick Boseman, the good guy, and Stephan James, the bad guy, each black, each bearded, looked so alike that I was fifteen minutes into the movie before I realised that they weren’t one and the same person.
Anyone else have that problem?
Eh?
Watching TNT Sport, I have just seen one of the worst tv ads ever, on several levels. Coventry Building Society, how many social groups did you mean to offend.
Doomsday
I began my working life sixty years ago, as a journalist. I wasn’t very good at it, but I was lucky enough to make the jump from poacher to gamekeeper, where I was more comfortable and successful.
Nevertheless I still think like a journalist. My values are based on those of the sixties, before the rising of the Sun when most newspapers were broadsheet rather than tabloid and truth, as viewed from either side of the fence, was valued above all else.
This morning, I am saddened by what I am reading. Specifically, a Daily Mail report touching on two broadcast incidents. In one, Tom Bradby, a respected broadcaster, is accused of calling Donald Trump a fascist during ITV’s election coverage. He didn’t. He quoted named people who had worked in the first Trump administration, and had used that term. Not only does the Mail distort his words, it portrays him as leading ‘the British liberal meltdown.’
In a subsequent section it refers to Emily Maitlis ‘mysteriously’ leaving C4 coverage, after being rebuked for swearing by her co-host. She didn’t … she attributed the term ‘batshit’ to others … and she wasn’t. She left the studio to record part of a podcast and resumed her role later.
The Nationalist, a fortunately little read publication, went further. It reported that she had been ‘pulled off’ coverage, a total misrepresentation, or to put it another way, a lie.
I know, we live in a different era. Today’s media has evolved beyond what was imaginable even thirty years ago. But surely standards shouldn’t have evolved with it. Surely truth should have remained truth, and respect should be constant.
But it hasn’t. I am now officially a dinosaur. 🦕 My worry is that there is another meteorite on the way. It may hit after I have gone, but it will swallow those I love and who remain.
Here’s what I see as today’s truth. The greatest threat to our society isn’t Trump, or Putin, or crazy Kim. It’s ourselves.
Whoops, they’ve done it again!
Need I say more?
Inconceivable
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7x5kl5l8o
Seriously? A couple earning a joint £60k, basing their family decisions on cost? Maybe as well they don’t, for the kids’ sake.,
Hey Rachel
Chancellor-speak. 2024 – 2028 = ‘a couple of years.’
Sorry, it’s four.
When Boydy sings the Blues
I am sick to my tits of the bleating about the current fortunes of Rangers FC, even from pundits who are supposed to be knowledgeable and objective.They are third in the league, ffs, with nine clubs behind them.
I’ve been listening to this crap all my life, from friends and enemies. I’ve even heard it from family members. Really they know nothing about being a true football fan.
If I had my way they would all be forced to follow Motherwell for a few years. That would show them what life is really like.
Barnstormer
Watching Rishi respond to the Budget I am wondering why he’s kept his best ever Parliamentary performance for his swansong.
Will Kemi or what’s his name be an improvement? No way
Go Joe.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c629qx5e6plo
The haka is a fine tradition, but isn’t Psycho entitled to question whether it remains appropriate in high-risk, full contact professional sport?
No honour
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly07l2ppkeo
Good for her but when the journalist becomes the story it doesn’t sit right.
Gobbledegook
Who is the clown doing the boxing commentary on Radio 5?
