Triggered by a flashback to a song The Atlantic Showband played, herewith some music of that time.
Hey, we enjoyed playing that stuff. And see if you can guess which one triggered the flashback…
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3 Worst Christmas Presents
…either to give, or to get. First, the pricey ones:
- One-way air ticket to New York City
- Toyota Prius (with 50,000 miles on the clock)
- Free weekend at the downtown Seattle Holiday Inn
Next, the “Well-Meaning But Still Crap” ones:
- Gas station pocket knife
- Cheap Chinese-made car tool set
- Box of corrosive Warsaw Pact-era mil-surp rifle ammo
Then the cheap-ass ones:
- $5 gift card for Domino’s Pizza
- scented candle
- coffee mug with some shit like “World’s Best [whatever]” printed on it
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News Roundup
(Ad may have been slightly edited to bring it up to date, because nobody wants a Buick anymore…)
Some news you may not have been aware of:
...not to mention that 75,000-mile “new battery” cost.
...wait, what?
...okay, that’s more like it.
From the Global Warming Climate Cooling Change© Dept.:
...you know, there are times when I think we can learn a lot from the French.
In Entertainment News:
...007(a) and 007(b)?
From the Glueball Jewhate News Desk:
...but if I were to do the same outside some mosque shouting “Drown Gaza City!” the response would be a lot swifter, and more severe.
And a “new” development in the Great Cultural Assimilation Program:
...no doubt, on his third or fourth illegal entry into the U.S. via our “secure” border.
In Election News:
...”and that’s only if she campaigns topless from now on”.
And in International News:
...”because we terrorists have to stick together, right?”
In Animal News:
...is it too much to hope that it was a Birkenstock?
And in INSIGNIFICA:
...the ducal dildo?
…
Finally, in somewhat-more-palatable Showbiz News:
...just so you all know what the poor man had to deal with, here she is:
Looking a little more perverse, so to speak:
And still not bad, even though a (fake) blonde:
The line to be her next co-star forms over here, behind me.
Proper Attire
Oh FFS, this just takes the cake:
British Airways bosses have apologized for telling cabin crew members what bras to wear under new ‘transparent’ uniforms which led to comments from passengers.
The see-through blouses were issued as part of a new uniform, unveiled earlier this year, designed to ‘take the airline into the next chapter’ and for a non-binary crew.
Last year BA relaxed the rules around its strict uniform policy and went gender-neutral to allow male pilots and crew to wear make-up and carry handbags.
Lemme just deal with the low-hanging fruit first.
- Companies have every right to create a “uniform” policy, and to dictate what does and does not constitute “proper” clothing under that policy
- the corollary is that if the uniform consists of “transparent” clothing, they also have the right to set policy for “proper” undergarments
- but if they do specify transparent clothing, they deserve everything that comes to them.
Now for the ugly stuff.
I’m sick and fucking tired of companies feeling that they have to apologize to their employees for bullshit like this. Were the topic that of terrible salaries, foul working conditions and in short things that deserve corporate groveling, okay; but for causing hurt feeewings? Screw that.
But in to the topic at hand.
Nothing would make me question the capabilities of an airline’s crew faster than the whole thing turning into some kind of costume party, with the “men” wearing clown makeup and the “women” wearing no bra under a transparent blouse (although at first glance the latter wouldn’t seem too bad, please consider that the average age of trolley-dollies now appears to be 50, and all seem to have been recruited from branches of the Ugly Tree).
And frankly, I’m not sure I want to see any of the flight crew wearing transparent clothing, given that said crew will likely include girlymen and butchygirls, all of indeterminate gender.
I don’t know why I bother fulminating about this stuff anymore, considering that my chances of flying at all are minuscule, and on any British airline even less than that.
I’d give this one a try, though.
Caption Competition #310
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Always Upwards
Upon reading this cheerful little note:
The economy sustained above-trend growth in the third quarter of 2023, with gross domestic product rising 5.2% year-over-year, greater than the 2.1% that was seen in the second quarter of this year. Analysts are mixed on recession predictions for 2024, with strong growth but persistent inflation leaving mixed signals of the U.S. economy’s strength.
Since Biden took office, costs have risen over 17%, while average hourly wages have only risen 13.6% as of November. The resulting price increases mean that families have to pay more than $11,000 in additional costs to maintain the same standard of living.
…I have only this to say: with the exception of commodities-based products like gasoline where raw material costs are closely tied to the retail price, once prices go up, they never come down.
Seriously: when last did you see the everyday retail price of grocery store products — to give the best example — get reduced?
Forget it. Ain’t gonna happen. And as for those products which keep prices stable simply by shrinking their size (e.g. chocolate), if you’re expecting the products to go back to their original size once inflation comes down, I have an Arizona rainforest to sell you.
And as for “average hourly wages have only risen 13.6% as of November“, people on fixed income (like me) haven’t seen anything close to that — 4.5% for us, and that was well over a year ago.
About two-thirds of households at the bottom 20 percent of the income bracket pay over half their income in rent and utilities.
In my case, without New Wife’s salary it would be 78%.
Ask me how I feel about all this.
Option A:
Option B:
Option C:
