FlyTheNest

Good morfternoon.

That was our first PTO for a while, which is nice.

It was so unexpected I didn't see it.

Just watching a load of Manc kids giving their views on the Derby.
I remember the good old days when City fans understood that "the queue for the chip van was longer than the queue to get in to the match".

I know I am very naive, but why is it important to Republicans/Tories that there are people who don't get any chances in the social environment their policies create. Is it something akin to managers who can't cope with having good people on their team. ie: they need to keep everything to themselves and equality challenges their long held perceptions of their place in the world?

They are big believers in the deserving/underserving poor, this explains much.

And, essentially, being born poor means that you deserve to be poor. Unless you're the bastard child of a monarch. In which case you're given a peerage.

So here's the weekly Sunday Telegraph woke-take.

** Exclusive in this weekend's Sunday Telegraph **

Laurence Fox enters City Hall race to fight Sadiq Khan to be the next Mayor of London

@LozzaFox
tells
@Telegraph
he wants to “offer a voice for those who are being dominated into silence”.

Should be amusing to see him get bugger all and then claim he was silenced...he might also have to think of some policies as I can't see him getting far on the woke stuff.

"All my voters have been silenced by not voting for me"?

Steve Analyst
@EmporersNewC
Replying to
@EmporersNewC
Based on the amount of disgusting prejudice I see being shared on the internet, if there are people with views they feel they can't share, it's probably for the best that they feel that way.
6:00 PM · Mar 6, 2021·Twitter Web App

Quite.

Evening campers.

Farage has apparently announced tonight that he is retiring from politics.

Is he going to retire to France? Or Brussels?

Am glad we sorted English out when we did. Wouldn't want to have to deal with a language with 12 ways to spell "the":

https://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ah, democracy...isn't it wonderful?

Reform UK
@reformparty_uk
We're delighted to announce @TiceRichard is the new leader of Reform UK!

Have to admit that this was a very quick election!

Good morfternoon.

Why Boris Johnson, the greased piglet, is eluding the grasp of Keir Starmer
Andrew Rawnsley (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... covid-hero

Well, that's something I didn't know...Winston Marshall of fairly tedious folk-rock band Mumford & Son and trending on that Twitter is the son of Sir Paul Marshall, venture capitalist, formerly on the board of the DfE, Orange Booker Liberal, and founder of ARK Schools.

I had the Mumford debut album a decade ago but found it dull and it went to the charity shop a couple of years back when I had a clear-out.

Never liked them anyway

PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.

Why Boris Johnson, the greased piglet, is eluding the grasp of Keir Starmer
Andrew Rawnsley (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... covid-hero

It's not creating a narrative that Labour has a problem with. It's lack of a voice in the national conversation that is completely controlled by a right-leaning, billionaire-owned media that's the problem. Always has been.

Though as someone who often criticises the BBC, I am glad to see some pushback against the "maxed out the national credit card" narrative there in the past week.

I'm not sure how much I believe this but it did make me laugh.

France is bacon.

https://twitter.com/NinjaEconomics/stat ... 6182801409

Good afternoon, everyone.

UK healthcare workers aren't getting a pay raise, is that correct?

I've just checked out Twitter. Yikes.

citizenJA wrote:UK healthcare workers aren't getting a pay raise, is that correct?

The health secretary, Matt Hancock, on Friday insisted the decision to recommend such a small increase was due to an assessment of “what’s affordable as a nation” after the economic toll taken by the coronavirus crisis.

...the country could not afford a more than 1% pay rise for health workers... .
https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... -nhs-staff" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

insulting lie

Not sure what happened to the weekend. Seems to have gone already.

My doggie don't wear glasses.


(PS. I don't have a doggie)

My eyes used to be ace. Now I'm an old git they are not what they were.

Sitting behind a laptop for 48 hours a day probably doesn't help.

(110%)

All things must come to an end. And that would include Man City's winning run, it appears

the baby-faced assassin will be chuffed

Simon Price
@simon_price01
Replying to
@simon_price01
Still, at least Laurence Fox has a banjo player for his next album.
9:44 AM · Mar 7, 2021·Twitter Web App

Looks like the original Tweet praising Andy Ngo's work of fiction has been deleted.

Saw somebody (can't remember who unfortunately) tweet earlier today that maybe no person on earth screams "DIVORCEE" as much as Fox

If Fox has attracted anyone of any note to his party, then I've yet to see it.

tinyclanger2 wrote:the baby-faced assassin will be chuffed

And me.

Ok so this will be my last Nicolas Cage review for a while. I know you'll all be upset because they've been so popular but for the sake of my own sanity I need to take a break.

Between Worlds.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7295450/

Nicolas Cage helps a woman save her daughter from a coma by strangling her so she can enter the astral plane and persuade her daughter's spirit to return. This goes a bit wrong when the spirit of Nicolas Cage's dead wife enters the daughter's body instead. As you can imagine this puts Nicolas Cage in the unenviable position of having to have sex with both the mother and daughter/dead wife which ultimately does not go well for him. In one bizarre scene Nicolas Cage is energetically fornicating with the daughter/dead wife while reading aloud from what appears to be his own real life journal.

Everything about Between Worlds is terrible. The acting is atrocious. The dialogue is laughable. The soundtrack is godawful. If it were up to me every single copy of this abomination of a film would be burned in a fire. It has absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever apart from maybe that his beard still looks vaguely natural.

Goodnight, everyone.
love,
cJA

Between worlds:

Oh great so according to Wikipedia that dickhead banjo player from Mumford and Sons is a Man Utd supporter.

He can fuck right off.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/between-worlds-2018" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Enter "Between Worlds," a supernatural thriller that begins with an uncomfortably extreme close-up of a fat guy's butt crack, but only after a Lynch-ian credits sequence involving an unconscious girl floating under a substantial-looking ice floe.

Grammatically challenging critique - over to you PF...

Arizona Republican wonders why no masks were required in the 80's when HIV (and I quote) 'was going to wipe our global destruction of human bodies with AIDS'.

https://twitter.com/AnaliseOrtiz_AZ/sta ... 8523484164

His bill passed, giving businesses the choice on whether or not to enforce mask mandates.

All going well then?

Peter Walker
@peterwalker99
I’ve belatedly watched the Laurence Fox campaign video for his London mayoral bid. He only mentions two sort-of policies - an end to all lockdowns and a change to the school curriculum to banish historical revisionism.

Neither is under the control of the mayoralty.
10:03 PM · Mar 7, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

tinyclanger2 wrote:

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/between-worlds-2018" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Enter "Between Worlds," a supernatural thriller that begins with an uncomfortably extreme close-up of a fat guy's butt crack, but only after a Lynch-ian credits sequence involving an unconscious girl floating under a substantial-looking ice floe.

Grammatically challenging critique - over to you PF...

I think the critic should be cut some slack. He must have been suffering unimaginable mental trauma after watching that film. He may well have been reduced to a gibbering wreck, and deserves our sympathy and possibly a medal.

A generous and noble sentiment PF.

That's a good review and I agree with it entirely. It's a repulsive film. I missed the Twin Peaks stuff as I was never a fan but in hindsight the stilted dialogue and bizarre music choices did give it a poundshop (I'm being generous) Lynchian quality. Good to see it confirmed that I wasn't imagining things and he really was reading from his own memoirs during sexual congress.

It's possible that Mr Cage peaked in the Rock, which I've just realised is quarter of a century old.

SGO - remember you have the handy emoticon (courtesy of Refitman) should you need it for banjo players and the like.

I gave in and watched Twin Peaks because that was all people at work were talking about. Even the people I liked. I do recall that there was one character (Albert Someone, played by Miguel Ferrer if I remember correctly) who I thought lifted the proceedings considerably. I was always pleased when he made an appearance.