Author: Kim du Toit

News Roundup

Bad News

News so horrible, it makes Gwyneth Paltrow look lovely by comparison.


…in the Parents Of The Year Competition, Bonehead Division.


…I just read the TxGov tips on the same topic, and they read a little differently.


…but seriously:  who hasn’t wanted to say the same to a journalist, at some point?


…you had me at “Lori Lightfoot Acts Stupidly”.


…shoulda gone to Miami, just like FuturePOTUS DeSantis said.  Then again, silver linings and all that:


…and when we said “Buy American” back in the day, we were sneered at for being such jingoists.


…like nobody (except the wokists) saw this coming.

And here’s someone who isn’t a trannie:


…and pretty impressive they are too.  And speaking of boobs:


…hey, you guys started it.  Kyle Rittenhouse is only the first, bubba…


…Stephen owes me a new, non-coffee-stained screen for posting this one.

And now for INSIGNIFICA:

     

Speaking of roundups. here’s another passel of unused stuff from my Pictures folder.  This is Emma Louise Somebody, who is apparently married to some guy from a British TV show I’ve never seen either:

As my old buddy Paterson would say, “Shnot bad…”

Responding To Tyranny

Bad News

Holy shit.

Devid R killed himself, his wife Linda and their daughters after he faked a Covid-19 jab certificate and feared his children would be taken away when it was discovered.
Police found two adults, both 40, and three children aged four, eight and 10 dead from gunshot wounds in a family home in Koenigs Wusterhausen south of Berlin on Saturday.
In a farewell note found by police, the man, named as Devid R, said he forged a vaccination certificate for his wife Linda. Her employer had found out, prompting the couple to fear they would be arrested and lose their children.

This is the result of totalitarianism, where someone is so fearful of disproportionate government punishment that they end up doing something horrible.

This is a catalogue of catastrophes, from government putting pressure on companies to enforce Covid-related regulation, to a man doing something stupid just so his family’s income can be protected, to the threat of losing his children for doing so, and the whole tragic consequence.

Understand:  I’m not excusing this guy nor his actions.  What I’m saying is that excessive government action — most especially when it comes to threats against families — can have the direst outcomes when a man (rightly or wrongly) perceives that he is cornered and helpless.

And something else the government — in this case the German, but it could be any government — should note is that they got off lightly.  Our late friend happened to shoot his own family on this occasion;  but he could just as easily have shot the government agents first when they showed up to take his kids away, and then turned the gun on his family.

Perhaps he should have,

Top Picks

Advice, Men & Women

I wish we had more interesting surveys Over Here in Murka, but we don’t.  Here’s yet another one from over there, and a sample thereof:

Top 5 People We Wanna Bonk:

My top 5 wouldn’t include Margot or Kylie (Australians) or Emma Watson (Hermione).  My longtime restraining order  infatuation with Carol Vorderman is well known in these herrre parrrts, but girl-next-door Sandra Bullock has never really got my morals to begin their takeoff run.

As for the men… whatever, although the oily Paul Hollywood makes me want to punch him in the nose whenever I see him on screen.

Here’s another question from the survey:

Assuming that nobody’s lying about this (a big assumption), one out of ten people will be trying to shag someone else at the office Xmas party, assuming anyone gets to have a party this year (another big assumption).  Whatever that actual number is, I would be fascinated to see how many women are planning a little festive bonk, with hubby all unsuspecting.

Question

Food & Drink

Longtime Reader Sean F. sent me this, and wondered if I’d ever tried it:

My reply was unprintable, even for this website.  Gin-flavored tea — i.e. adding a sniff of gin to a cup of Yorkshire Gold — might be acceptable in cases of dire emergency (although rum is far better).  But a tea-flavored gin?

The fact that they chose the floral Earl Gray — tea of people who don’t know much about tea but are seduced by the ersatz  class of the name — says it all.  Revolting.