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WE RESPECTFULLY PRESENT ANDIMAC’S LAMENT TO A PRINCE
YOU JUST CAN’T, MUNGUIN!
Douglas Ross tells @STVColin that he wants to build more affordable homes in Scotland so that he can sell them off under ‘right to buy’. Another blunder.
He honestly seemed to say that he wanted to build more houses and then to sell them off. Eh? Smart fellow. You can kinda tell that he’s being advised by Kirstene Hair, can’t you?
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NOTHING VERY MUCH…
I didn’t watch the debate… well, given I don’t have a tv, that’s hardly surprising, is it? But according to all I’ve seen on Twitter, Nicola Sturgeon came out on top by a long way …and Douglas Ross, who was pathetic and utterly out of his depth came out on the bottom, with the other three leaders somewhere in between.
It might have been embarrassing for Ross as leader to have the Right Honourable Noble and Gallant aristocrat do the debate for him… but not as embarrassing as making a mess of it himself.
Watching Douglas Ross skelping Douglas Ross after being skelped by Sturgeon, Harvie, Sarwar and even Willie fkn Rennie is the reason why a Scotsman invented television. #STVLeadersDebate
Interesting that Douglas Ross thinks it’s the death of Prince Philip that has made us consider what’s really important, as opposed to, say, a year-long pandemic. #stvdebate
Anyway, it will be interesting to hear if any of you watched it, what you thought of it.
In the meantime, it was a beautiful day here today in Fowlis Den.
While the weather has been largely marvellous these last few days, I was cutting the lawns the other day and this is what happened…
ENOUGH!
There have been an unprecedented number of complaints about the BBC’s coverage of the death of Philip Mountbatten Windsor.
I don’t have a tv, but I’ve heard that coverage was 24/7 on all tv stations except the special children’s channel.
Even the Gaelic language station BBC Alba covered his death, non-stop.
I occasionally listen (not often these days) to BBC radio, but because I was sick of the non-stop news about how wonderful Britain was and how horrible the SNP and Scotland were, I pretty much gave up on it, and listened instead, although rarely to Radio 4 Extra on which there was no news, just repeats of programmes from the recent and not so recent past.
I switched on the other day to find that Radio 4 Extra had joined with Radio 4 to commemorate the life of Prince Philip. I immediately switched it off.
According to the Guardian, complaints about this have broken all records.
I wonder if the BBC will learn anything from this…
Within not 10-15 years there will be other elderly royals who will almost certainly die. Alexandra (84) is elderly as is Michael (78) and the Dukes of Kent (85) and Gloucester (76). The queen herself turns 95 this month.
Will the BBC learn that while no one suggests that they should not note and report these deaths (the people are, after all, well known), the non-stop coverage for days on end on all channels of the state broadcaster is going WAY over the top.
If independent television wishes to do that sort of thing, then that is between them and their advertisers and if the BBC wishes to dedicate one channel (that most of the population pays for) to non stop coverage of royal death, then maybe that is OK.
But honestly, if I paid a licence fee, I would expect to have at least a few channels of the state broadcaster which didn’t fall off the perch just becasue a royal has.
National Rail showed its respect to Philip, by making their website unreadable.
I’d be interested to hear what people think about this…. BBC and Rail… and/or anything else that has been disrupted by the death of a very elderly man that very few of us ever met or even gave a second thought to (except maybe to “tut” when yet another rude and inappropriate comment, that only he could get away with becasue no one had the nerve to challenge him, came to light).
Replying to @JimMFelton and @robdelaney
How can you even think of catching a train when a 99 year old man had died? For shame!
JUST FOR A LAUGH
These jokes/cartoons are not intended to be offensive. Be aware that there is some swearing in a few of them.
Keep this in mind the next time you are about to repeat a rumor or spread gossip.
In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom.
One day an acquaintance ran up to him excitedly and said: “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about Diogenes?”
“Wait a moment.” Socrates replied. “Before you tell me I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Triple Filter Test.”
‘Triple filter?” asked the acquaintance.
“That’s right,” Socrates continued. “Before you talk to me about Diogenes, let’s take a moment to filter what you’re going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”
“No,” the man said. “Actually I just heard about it.”
“All right,” said Socrates. “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about Diogenes something good?”
“No, on the contrary.”
“So,” Socrates continued. “You want to tell me something about Diogenes that may be bad, even though you’re not certain it’s true?”
The man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued, “You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter, the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about Diogenes going to be useful to me?”
“No, not really.”
“Well,” concluded Socrates. “If what you want to tell me is neither True, nor Good, nor even useful, why tell it to me, or anyone at all?”
The man was bewildered and ashamed. This is an example of why Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.
It also explains why Socrates never found out that Diogenes was erm, “enjoying relations” with Socrates’ wife.
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BEFORE the internet what did our parents do when they were bored? I asked my 26 brothers and sisters and they didn’t know either.
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Some of Edinburgh’s politically incorrect humour:
· To a group of female Labour MPs at Buckingham Palace: “Ah, so this is feminist corner then.”
· To Welsh singer Tom Jones. “What do you gargle with? Pebbles?”
· To Cayman Islanders: “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?”
· To Australian comedian Adam Hills, who had a prosthetic foot: “You could smuggle a bottle of gin out of the country in that artificial foot.”
· To a disabled man on a mobility scooter: “How many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?”
· On the horsiness of his daughter, Princess Anne: “If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she isn’t interested.”
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WHAT do you call a cat that chases outlaws?
A posse cat.
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I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound – if I can remember any of the damn things. – Dorothy Parker
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Thanks to John, Brenda, Lexie, Erik, Graham and T.
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SO, HOW’S BREXIT GOING IN NORTHERN IRELAND, BORIS?
Holiday interruption
JUST FOR A LAUGH
None of the jokes in this article is intended to to cause offence.
The flying of the Union flag should be compulsory for all schools. If any pupils and teachers have concerns about this then surely they can be “educated” about what the flag actually represents. belongs to every single British person.
3. Yeah, great idea, Tom, mate. You gonna ram it down Northern Irish throats too? Because if you are, Munguin could offer you a few words of advice.
Thanks to Brenda, Tom, John, Erik, et merci à Claudine.
