Plucked from the headlines, online and in print
As much as the conspiracy theorists and general idiots are whining about us locking down here, we should all be thankful we’ve avoided the chaos of the northern hemisphere. Coronavirus is still spreading there like wildfire, and despite the claims from the morons of this world that it’s nothing more than a head cold, […]
Covid response bumbling, bungling and silenced Read Post »
Does the United States have the most corrupt, violent and bigoted police force in the world? No, it probably doesn’t, but there is messy minority of cops who fit that description. But one of the few good things about social media and smart phones: this sort of behaviour is getting harder to cover up. A
Bad apples held to account Read Post »
It’s important to find the positives in life, and even our current plague-y world can have an upside. It seems robocalls are down in the United States. And it’s the pandemic that they can thank. CNN has reported that the number of robocalls to US phones last month hit a two-year low. The reduction was
Ring, ring, why don’t you give me a call … Read Post »
It’s interesting to see how some of the inhabitants of our planet are navigating our plague situation. Like the idiot who seemed a bit surprised that borders were closed and he got stranded here, so decided to have a whinge about the television programming in Aotearoa New Zealand. Riiiight. So it seems a British couple
TV programming worse than the plague Read Post »
I don’t watch any of those Married At First Sight/Love Island/Random People Trying to Shag Other Random People on Reality TV shows, but it has become just about impossible to avoid them. Sadly, our news websites have decided trashy TV qualifies as news, so they all have this shite peppered throughout their sites. And you
A shitty act of revenge Read Post »
So it seems Trump’s wee fanbase got a bit upset at Mark Hamill for taking the piss out of the Tangerine Tyrant’s No 1 enabler and seller of overpriced made in China garbage clothing, and object of her daddy’s fantasies, Ivanka. Stuff has reported that Ivanka posted a photo to Instagram of one of her, hubby
… in a galaxy far, far away … Read Post »
Oh dear. A youngster working as a paramedic managed to raise the ire of international acting treasure, Dame Judi Dench. It seems the teenager didn’t recognise the 83-year-old actress when treating her for a hornet sting, She told The Sun: “A paramedic walked into the room who was about 17 and said ‘What’s our name?’
Appreciating a tough old bird Read Post »
Someone in the Sky News newsroom had a wee bit of a nightmare the other morning: the poor bloke doing the weather just before 9.30am on December 5 had to content with a woman making a phonecall, with her mic still turned on. Hope she got a better night’s sleep the next day!
Oops, I wonder who she was phoning? Read Post »
