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It’s not often that I comment on celebrity stuff, but this takes the cake:
The American people still hold a grudge against the Royal Family for how Princess Diana was treated, claims a senior journalist at ABC News.
The late Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997, captivated the hearts of people worldwide with her charm, grace, and unwavering commitment to humanitarian causes.
And she had a particularly strong impact in America – with rumours she even planned to give up her life in the UK and move Stateside.
What a load of bullshit. I dunno where this “senior journalist at ABC News” conducted his poll — no doubt among his “senior” journo buddies, over several cocktails at some foul Manhattan bar.
I doubt whether the average American under age… I dunno, maybe 60 — even knows who the Virgin Princess was. And among the over 60s (like me), the reaction is most likely in the “who gives a rat’s ass?” class.
Indeed, the whole Royal Family concept is treated with barely-concealed contempt Over Here, with only a few royalty groupies even aware of the dramatis personae in Britishland’s little social soap opera. (I know who most of these parasites are, but that’s only because my university degree is in Modern Western Civilization — such as it was — and it’s necessary to know these goofs only because of the part they played in European history prior to WWI.)
And as it turns out, Prince Charles only married this upper-class twit because he couldn’t marry Camilla — yeah, that worked out well — and even better, she wasn’t the saintly Lady/Princess Di, but a shallow little Sloane Ranger (Britain’s Valley Girl equivalent, named for their fondness for the shops and clubs of Chelsea) who won the ultimate Sloan Prize: to marry royalty. And that worked out well, too. Not.
Anyway, there is no “grudge” Over Here towards the Royals. I bet this “senior journalist at ABC News” only made that statement to create some controversy prior to Charles’s coronation next week.
Sic semper iournalisti (or however they would have put it in 100 AD).
Caught But Not Shot
Seems as though that murderous Mexican illegal immigrant (discussed here) has been caught, but sadly, made no attempt to resist arrest and thus escaped being righteously shot to death.
Request to the trial judge: please move him to the head of the Needle Line. It’s even a Texas law — if you murdered someone and it was witnessed by others (as this one was), he can be placed as the very next candidate for execution.
Of course, the MexGov is going to piss and moan about this as they always do when we whack one of their citizens for being an asshole, but fuck ’em.
Not A Problem
Back when I lived in Johannesburg, I never lived anywhere that had air conditioning because, quite frankly, it wasn’t necessary — you’re hot, you open a window. Maybe turn on a small fan if there’s no breeze, but there was always a breeze.
Because of that, I had to keep my butter in the fridge because otherwise it would spoil very quickly.
Now? Forget it: with a/c and a constant (cool) temperature, I always leave the butter out (covered, of course) because I hate tearing up my bread with stiff, cold butter.
Apparently, this is a thing.
WE have all been storing butter wrong – and we should make a very quick change to revamp our use of the dairy delight, according to one campaigner.
Joelle Mertzel is the leading the charge to change the way people treat their butter – insisting it should be kept out of the fridge. The 49-year-old says that butter does not have to be chilled – and can instead be kept happily on the counter for weeks on end. Joelle, a mum-of-three, from California, has even commissioned lab tests to prove her theory.
And she is campaigning to make the American government change their butter guidelines.
Keyword: guideline.
In other words: who cares what the .dotgov “recommends”? Remember when the Food Pyramid was their big deal? And, as we all know, the pyramid has been proven to be totally fucked up, like oh-so many government “guidelines”.
Methinks the Californian woman has too much time on her hands if she’s bothering with this shit.
In passing, I should point out that in my house, no pound of butter has ever lasted longer than a few days before being consumed, so the whole issue is moot.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll make myself a sarnie.
Well That Explains It
Had a little email exchange with Reader Brad_in_IL, after he pointed me to this article and asked me if I remembered any or all of the items and products (follow link to see what he was talking about).
I replied that I remembered all of them, and had in fact used all of them, to which he responded: “Okay .. you’ll have to explain how/why you used that hair dryer !! “
And my response:
When I was a pro musician, I used to have highlights put in my hair. Monthly trip to Armando’s, one hour in the dryer. It was the 70s, FFS.
We did a lot of stupid shit like that back then.
Never Mind Your 5-Year-Old
…it appears that even a raven can do what Jackson Pollock did:
It’s Jackdaw Pollock! Odin the raven paints just like the American artist whose work is worth millions
A creative raven has the art world in a flap after producing a stunning range of experimental paintings – with her beak.
Eleven-year-old Odin uses an array of vivid animal-safe paints and food colourings to make her amazing abstract works, which are flying off the shelves…
My favorite part:
…for up to £15.
…which is about what people should be paying for Pollock’s stupid splashes and daubings, instead of millions.