FlyTheNest

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Good morning.

Well, this is just...odd. And hilarious. Sandwiches for breakfast??

I'm not going to moan about having to endure Morgan and Streeting given my lucky escape from Farage last week.

RogerOThornhill wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2024 9:04 am Good morning.

Well, this is just...odd. And hilarious. Sandwiches for breakfast??

I will confess to occasionally making sandwiches late at night while a bit worse for wear then forgetting about them and having them toasted for breakfast the next morning.

My question is, if she doesn't like soggy bread what does she dip in her soup?

On the whole Gregg Wallace thing, I'd actually like to go out on a limb and thank Gregg. For years I've been telling friends, family, anyone who would listen, that he was a repulsive creep. They'd react with bafflement when they'd turn on Masterchef and I'd get up and leave the room. Patronisingly humour me when I tried to explain why the mere sight of him made me sick to the stomach. It's a burden I've had to bear for nigh on two decades. "Did you see that guy on Masterchef put salt instead of sugar in his souffle? Oh no that's right you've got that weird Gregg Wallace aversion." Well no more! I've been vindicated! Oh how I'm enjoying smugly saying 'I told you so' to all my detractors, gleefully rubbing their noses in it. So yes, thank you Gregg for being the loathsome, sleazy wretch I always thought you were and proving me right. I shall enjoy milking it for as long as I'm able.

He always seemed like a wrong un to me too. And no, I never liked Jimmy Savile even when I was a kid.

Sixth sense?

On the ability of so many politicians not to sense bullshit from 'business' people --

Faced with successful business people, ministers too often approach with one hand pre-emptively tugging on a forelock. Think Rishi Sunak “interviewing” Elon Musk and turning Downing Street’s No 10 into an X. Remember Gordon Brown lauding bankers on the eve of the credit crisis for inventing “the most modern instruments of finance”. Recall Tony Blair, who knighted Philip Green, praising him as “the person who thought up the dream and dreamt the dream into reality”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... t-startups

Good piece !

Spam alert (again)

Desperate for a slice of the action, Starmer’s official spokesperson weighed in to respond, saying the prime minister was “surprised” to hear that Badenoch had a steak brought in for lunch and he instead preferred a cheese toastie.

Silly season all year round ?

Sky'sGoneOut wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2024 2:26 pm On the whole Gregg Wallace thing, I'd actually like to go out on a limb and thank Gregg. For years I've been telling friends, family, anyone who would listen, that he was a repulsive creep. They'd react with bafflement when they'd turn on Masterchef and I'd get up and leave the room. Patronisingly humour me when I tried to explain why the mere sight of him made me sick to the stomach. It's a burden I've had to bear for nigh on two decades. "Did you see that guy on Masterchef put salt instead of sugar in his souffle? Oh no that's right you've got that weird Gregg Wallace aversion." Well no more! I've been vindicated! Oh how I'm enjoying smugly saying 'I told you so' to all my detractors, gleefully rubbing their noses in it. So yes, thank you Gregg for being the loathsome, sleazy wretch I always thought you were and proving me right. I shall enjoy milking it for as long as I'm able.

I actually preferred the original, Lloyd Grossman version of Masterchef. It just felt like a simpler show back then.

Oh, and it gave us this wonderful piece of weirdness

There's a lot of 'it' about, it'll be interesting to see who he infects tonite !

I had this last week!

Frog222 wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2024 5:50 pm

There's a lot of 'it' about, it'll be interesting to see who he infects tonite !

Hopefully he'll infect and permanently disable Streeting. Then we can have someone who doesn't want to actively harm children in charge of Health.

I've just noticed that the thanks have returned!

AnatolyKasparov wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2024 7:18 pm I've just noticed that the thanks have returned!

You're welcome

If anyone has a couple of £ they can spare, some of the people associated with TrashFuture are fundraising for people in Gaza: https://streamlabs.com/traditional_scrench/tip

They're also currently streaming on Twitch (although I recognise this is something that probably only I would enjoy). https://www.twitch.tv/traditional_scrench

refitman wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2024 6:33 pm

Frog222 wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2024 5:50 pm
There's a lot of 'it' about, it'll be interesting to see who he infects tonite !

Hopefully he'll infect and permanently disable Streeting. Then we can have someone who doesn't want to actively harm children in charge of Health.

Unlikely to get anyone less 'influenced by the private health lobby ?

Question Time came tonight from Beckenham which must be a librarians dream because for practically the entire hour the audience sat in total silence.

For Labour we had Wes Streeting. While other Labour MPs, even Starmer to a degree, have loosened up a little since the election and appear a bit more human Wes is having none of it. Faced with a quiescent audience and a pitiful Tory opponent here was the perfect opportunity for him to relax and talk to people in a vaguely normal manner, but no he chuntered on robotically listing goals and achievements while looking like he was spoiling for a fight. Sadly for Wes I think it's all he knows. The only genuinely interesting exchange he was involved in was when he was questioned about the funding he receives from private healthcare companies and his response was basically 'trust me'. Which is pretty hard to do when he has all the charm of an irritable spreadsheet. The funny thing is he's so combatively defensive all the time that it's only when he has answers dragged out of him that you get a better understanding of the policies that he wants to enact and some of them even sound quite good. Left to himself he'd much prefer to give as little away as possible, stare at you like you were a piece of shit, then tell you to fuck off. He's a strange guy.

For the Tories we did not have Tom Tugendhat as advertised, instead we got Nigel Huddleston. Nigel attempted to come out swinging by hysterical screeching that Labour were indulging in a war on the countryside. When this got absolutely zero traction Nigel immediately deflated and spent the rest of the night feebly flopping around like a burst balloon being occasionally kicked into action when somebody accidentally stood on him. This is a big problem for the Tories. They've retreated into a comfort bubble which works fine on GB news and Twitter but disintegrates as soon as its exposed to the real world. See also Badenoch.

For egotistical pompous dickheads we had Piers Morgan. This was a strange performance by Piers. He kept attacking Labour for being unrealistic while simultaneously saying he agreed with them. From house building to healthcare he poured scorn on the feasibility of their policies while admitting he thought they were good. Eventually however he found a way to have a go at Labour past by blaming Ed Milliband for all the horrors that have happened in Syria since the vote in 2013 not to take military action against Assad. This from a man who rightly opposed the invasion of Iraq and who presumably is able to see what's happened to Libya after Cameron had us bomb Gaddafi. Everyone could see it at the time and Milliband was right to oppose bombing Syria, along with half the Tory party.

For people who say like a lot we had Emma Dabiri. Emma got some rare applause for her like left wing criticisms of like Labour and the Tories when she was like able to like hold a coherent thought in her like head for more than 30 seconds. Like I'm honestly like amazed that like people still talk like that, I mean like it's so like old, like I haven't hear anyone like speak like that for like years. Like.

For the Lib Dems we had Christine Jardine. Like many middle class women of a certain age Christine was the voice of reason and wisdom. She pointed out Streeting's NHS reforms were a waste of time without a functioning social care system running parallel to the NHS and offered cross party support in order to achieve it. Wes just stared into the near distance threateningly.