And a bonus…
Thanks to Marcia, Dave and John.
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
ONE RULE FOR SOME
MEANWHILE, ON A DIFFERENT PLANET…
Thinking back to last Christmas and how none of us did what we would have normally, it’s clear the PM thought yet again that rules are for the little people, not the likes of him.
John Malcolm McMenemy@AberJohnnyReplying to @ruth_wishart and @ron_mould
last Xmas day my father died, I wasn’t allowed to see him (even the priest to give Last Rites wasn’t). Kinda put a crimp on my day and mophead does this.
489. In case you were wondering how many people died of Covid on the day that our Prime Minister had a Christmas party.
My brother died in hospital on 18/12 last year. He hadn’t seen any family irl for over a month due to #Lockdown. On that day, it seems a Christmas party was in full swing @10DowningStreet. Do others remember what they were doing on or around that date?
MASKS…WHAT IS WRONG WITH SOME PEOPLE?
(AND SOME VERY CHEERING NEWS)
Masks, which have remained obligatory in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (not to mention most of Europe) in most indoor situations, have once against become obligatory in England.
And you would think that the world had come to an end.
More than 20 Tory MPs voted against their government’s Covid regulations for mask wearing in England and the health minister who was obliged to introduce the legislation was heckled and booed by her own back benchers.
Amongst those who voted against the regulations were some names I guess you would expect to see on the far right of the right-wing Tory party of today:
Steve Baker, Graham Brady, Andrew Bridgen, Christopher Chope, Philip Davies, Jackie Doyle-Price, Richard Drax, Mark François, Philip Holloone, Mark Jenkinson, Craig Mackinlay, Esther McVey and Charles Walker.
Steve Baker, who gives me the impression of a slightly (slightly? Munguin) deranged person, accused his own government of “once again choosing that downward path towards, frankly, hell” by bringing in a new law telling people to wear masks in shops. “I intend to chart a course towards heaven and I hope honourable members will come with me,” he says.
HELL? If Hell is having to wear a mask on a bus, when I thought it was raging fires and intolerable pain, what have all these sinners been worrying about?
Mr Baker and many others, who presumably are also charting a course for Heaven, are still refusing to wear them in the Commons chamber despite it now being passed in the Commons.
It’s odd how wearing a piece of cloth over their mouths and noses to protect yourself and other people who potentially might suffer the effects of the virus more seriously than you, is considered such an infringement of liberties and human rights, but…
I don’t know for certain how effective a mask is… and I know that there are many different kinds of mask available, but it makes sense that a mask, any mask, will prevent droplets which we all exhale, being transmitted as far as they would otherwise be, especially when we are speaking, coughing and sneezing.
How accurate this diagram is, I do not know, but it certainly encouraged me to mask up when I saw it some long time ago.
I’m getting more and more angry with people who won’t put on a mask in public places to the point where I am now pretty obviously rude to them.
How are others coping?
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SOME GOOD NEWS
An opinion poll has put support for independence at 55%, the highest level seen in polling data since the election.
The Ipsos Mori survey for STV News showed 55% backing for Yes and 45% for No among likely voters when undecideds were excluded.
Independence support in each Scottish region: Highlands & Islands: 65% Glasgow: 64% Central: 59% Lothian: 56% Mid Scotland & Fife: 52% West: 51% North East: 50% South: 47%
That’s a YES majority in 6/8 regions. Source: Ipsos MORI, 22-29 November 2021. Undecideds excluded.
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RANDOM THOUGHTS
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I was broken hearted to see Tentsmuir forest yesterday, after the hurricane.
Paths I’ve walked for years blocked by fallen trees and parts of the forest practically flattened. At the car park by the river, a tree I’ve sat under and picnicked, down and dead. I picked up some of its cones for Munguin’s gardens so it will live on in kind.
Sad.
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Happy day, however, for the people of Barbados.
Congratulations to President Mason and the Barbadians. (And thanks to DonDon for putting me right on the president’s name.)
Charlie arrived in Barbados in his royal private plane (at heaven knows what cost to us and to the planet) as a member of their ruling family and left as a member of a foreign royal family.
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The English government has made it compulsory to wear masks in crowded public places as of today, in response to the new covid variant, which is now in the UK.
Obviously, this doesn’t apply to superior people or, if you prefer the alternative description, complete tossers.
JUST FOR A LAUGH
What do you call it when a shark, a crocodile, and a giant spider walk into a bar?
Another typical day in Australia.
21.
A horse walks into a bar: “I’ll have a triple whisky.”
Bartender: “Are you an alcoholic?”
Horse: “I don’t think I am.” He promptly vanishes into thin air.
This is a play on “Cogito ergo sum ” (I think therefore I am.) But if this were to be explained at the start of the gag, it wouldn’t work. It would be putting Descartes before the horse.
25.
Thanks to Brenda, John, Graham, Erik.
Bonus:
“I CAN’T stand innuendo. If I see one in the script I whip it out immediately.” – Kenneth Williams
SOPPY SUNDAY
Thanks to Quokka, John and Kay.
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
Thanks to Dave.
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE TORIES, AFTER LIZ TRUSS, DOMINIC RABB, BORIS JOHNSON AND NADINE NOODLEHEAD, COULDN’T GET ANY DIMMER …
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I GIVE YOU NICK FLETCHER (Nah, nor me but I’ll look him up for you.)
I can, of course, understand, that if you are a male British teenager and you hear that you are not going to be playing James Bond, Luke Skywalker, or even Dr Who, that you must think to yourself, “well, self. That’s it. There’s nothing left for me now but the world of crime. I’ll have to go rob a bank … or maybe even join a crime syndicate, like perhaps the Tory Party.
Why, only the other day I saw two young lads lamenting the fact that not only was the home secretary female but the foreign secretary was too.
Imagine their dismay when I added to their woes by informing them that the queen was a woman!
I await the crime wave.
THERE NOW FOLLOWS A MINISTERIAL STATEMENT FROM THE ENGLISH SECRETARY FOR “CULTURE” !*%*!
Just out of interest, can anyone arrange her words into a sentient thought:
And, so, though, it’s (or its), yeah, and, that.
Answers on a postcard, the winner to receive a week in the Clyde Tunnel with Jackie Baillie.
FYI: Unlike the BBC, Channel 4 receives no public funding. It is funded entirely by its own commercial activities. Most of their income comes from advertising revenue.
LEVELLING UP OR, FOR THE ETON/OXFORD BOYS, “ADTRITIO”…HOW EXACTLY DOES IT WORK?
Yep, I can see why the Tories voted for this. It will leave them more money to buy a peerage.
The thing is, once you get that blood transfusion and you become Noble, your view on so many things changes. After all, what is £1 500 per annum to the average aristocrat who can collect more than £300 a day for resting his or her eyes?
MUNGUIN'S NEW REPUBLIC 