...simply because there's no DW equivalent (that I know of... thank christ) to the LJ ONTD - Oh No They Didn't account/page/whateveryoucallit ( Read more... )

I'm sure the very notion of fact-checking Tucker Carlson of Fox News (in)fame(y) is akin to King Canute trying to hold back the tide... but sometimes these right-wing, ignorant fuckers just get under my skin with their inflammatory mis/dis-information

Take his latest reported outburst for example...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has unleashed over ( Read more... )

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For every one of these: A Florida radio host who blasted Anthony Fauci and coronavirus vaccines has died from Covid-19.

There are still too many of these: A man who travelled to Byron Bay while Covid positive, sending the region into lockdown, reportedly didn't believe in the pandemic.

If only we could get more of these people together... in a ( Read more... )

Never let it be said I won't criticise my own country...


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'Thousands march against lockdown in Sydney'

Barely a mask to be seen & a bunch of signs cribbed from protests in other countries over the last 18 months or so... the usual drivel about personal freedoms & vaccine paranoia

How to prolong a lockdown: Walk, without a mask, in close proximity to thousands of people from infectious areas of town, ( Read more... )

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Oh dear. Please Mr Clapton, just shut up & play your guitar

I expect this kind of drivel from Van Morrison, who's an over-opinionated, grumpy old git. But you? Well, you do have form in going against the tide of popular opinion at the wrong time, I suppose... how'd that support for Enoch Powell work out for you, back in the day?

I love your music, ( Read more... )

... another stupid person with a gun, doing something stupid

Imagine if this had been in California, where a gun-happy judge has just overturned the state ban on owning 'assault' rifles - the kid would have been shot in the chest half a dozen times & the outcome would be very different

The very name - assault rifle is enough to make you question so ( Read more... )

Clearing out the e-mail account I've had for 20 years - so it's the one that's been shared around the spammers so much that for every one e-mail that's actually for me, there are 20+ that are the usual enlargement pills & techniques & entire fleets of phishermen...

It almost gave me a nostalgic glow to receive this one though... It's become such a ( Read more... )

I swear I don't go looking for trouble... Troubled people just seem to find me. I must have a giant neon sign above my head that only a certain kind of idiot can see

I've been contracting to a flooring company for just over 3 months now - visiting homes, offices, building sites etc... measuring & estimating, as well as noting any issues likely to ( Read more... )