Author: Kim du Toit

Post-Lottery

Lifestyle, Travels

If I ever have the great good luck to win some kind of lottery, I’d be faced with a serious choice.

Option 1: 

  • become a jet-setter and travel the globe, visiting unfamiliar places like Helsinki, Prague etc.:

 

  • go shooting in Britishland with Mr. Free Market,

  • sip long glasses of G&T on the balcony of my hotel room in Monte Carlo or in a beach house in the Seychelles:

…and generally spend the rest of my life in strange, exciting places.

Option 2:

Buy a large farm somewhere and live (and end) the rest of my life like Uncle Hub and Uncle Garth, snarling at the world and shooting at strangers from my porch:

And don’t tell me to embrace the healing power of “and”, because the two lifestyles are completely opposite and contrary, and my faltering old brain probably couldn’t handle the sudden shift back and forth.

People who know me well, like my Longtime Loyal Readers, will appreciate the attraction of both options to me.

News Roundup

Bad News

Brought to you by:

And in other news that leaves a bad taste in your mouth:

…


…maybe if you hadn’t invaded Ukraine…?


…hands up those who’d prefer to see Sweden and Finland in NATO instead of Turkey — hmmm… all of you, huh?


…the competition to see how many tampons someone can fit into their mouth will begin in 3…2…1…


…as I told the officer during the Girl Scout Incident Of 1989.


…there are so many reasons not to order a Diet Coke at any time, e.g. it tastes like shit, makes you thirstier and has as much effect on your weight as a Classic Coke — so its extra fizziness is just a bonus.

Great Moments In Medicine:


…or as we call it in Murka, a “Clinton Suicide”.


…thus proving that shit movies can be bad for your health.


…or, more succinctly:  Get Woke, Get Fucked.


…in order of importance:  dogs, chocolate, heat-sensitive explosive devices, soft plastic items, babies.

And in no-link INSIGNIFICA:

 

Finally:


…I report, you decide: 

  

And that, as they say in the Anglosphere, is the news.

Captiones Interrupti

Captions

I’ve suspended the Caption Competition until such time as people can actually, you know, post captions.

Here’s a picture of a gun, instead:

It’s the Beretta Modelo 75 (later named the “Jaguar”), one of the most beautiful handguns ever made — and it’s the one with which I learned how to shoot a handgun.

Login Problems Update

Technology

Tech Support finally has time available to get after the above problem, and we both hope that it will be fixed some time over the weekend.

For what it’s worth, I’ve felt the absence of the Comments feature as much as any of you…