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News Roundup

December 1, 2021 Kim du Toit Bad News, Third World

With commentary so pungent, your nose will burn worse than Madonna’s hoo-hah.

…in case they die before they can be killed?

…and a quick glance at the student orgs involved will tell you all you need to know.

…said snow being the “thing of the past” as prophesied by some asshole or other.

…executive summary being:
1) keep drinking;
2) strongly think about vaxxing if you haven’t;
3) Boris Johnson is a dickhead.

…either somebody is lying, or else just stopped lying.

…so, not a red cent in their red kettles then. Hope it was worth it.

From the Heart Of Stone Dept.:

…stop that giggling, it’s a tragic — hahahahahahah.

…being Clarkson, his first ad line was rejected: “If you’re an alcoholic, don’t fight it, feed it”, and was replaced by “It’s really fucking good”

…and good for them, say I. Not all restaurants need be “family-friendly”, and I wish there were more of them.

…and just like that, the entire career of actor Peter Sellers vanished.

Now, INSIGNIFICA:

…and speaking of pointless Brit TV shows, here’s someone from the celebrity dancing thing, the wonderfully-named Nadia Bychkova:

I know: small boobs, long legs. She’s a professional dancer, FFS.

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November 26, 2021 Kim du Toit Bad News

Even worse than usual, these news snippets.

…gosh, and to think that only 18 months ago the U.S. was totally energy-independent. What could have happened since then?

And in related news:

…given the serious competition from Kamala, AOC, Tlaib, Schumer, etc., it’s more like a necklace of albatrosses.

…because he wrote that racist “Declaration” thing, no doubt. Oh. wait…
Daneek Miller (D-Queens) said he wanted the statue gone because it doesn’t represent contemporary values.
…and NOW you can start oiling the ropes.

…some? Res ipse loquitur.

…yeah, we’ll get right onto that. And on the same topic:

…gosh, why ever would that be? Oh, wait:

…that’s why.

…you lost, get over it, STFU and enjoy the fruits of Western civilization.

…maybe not in your house, fuckwit, but everywhere else in Real America…

…and we’re going to do just the same here. Viva Chile! Let’s Go Brandon!

…it started going downhill when to save money, UK doctors were encouraged to “consult horoscopes” instead of using actual medicine.

…once more, with feeling: Rope. Tree. District Attorney. (Some assembly required.)

…and your point?

…ummm because he is?

…I would have thought you could just use fish oil instead of cologne, but what do I know?

And for INSIGNIFICA:

…which makes the rather surprising implication that only Black people loot.

And:

…it also being a crime for Black people to call each other “dumb-ass nigger”, and London’s Cockneys may not refer to people from Newcastle as “fucking Geordies”.

Here are a sample few of the aforementioned Geordies.

Donna Air

Jill Halfpenny

Shivaani Ghai

Andrea Riseborough

Cheryl Cole

Of course, they don’t all look like that, but I wanted to spare you the projectile vomiting.

No? Okay, then… say hello to the Geordie Shore girls.

News Roundup

November 22, 2021 Kim du Toit Bad News

Bringing you the usual mix of pointless, stupid and crappy stuff. Also the sorta-news.

…key word: India.

…the difficult part is not involving Hillary Clinton in the process, because no one will believe a Kamala Harris suicide.

…just wait till they actually get to see some.

…

…Rope. Tree. Nadler. Some assembly required.

…not nice to refer to our beloved FBI as “tools”, but here we are.

And a few headlines from the department of :

…not to mention that it makes them think of eeeevil guns.

…all the hundreds of Nazi-loving actors who ever played Hitler could not be reached for comment. Best part: Mirren is a howling Lefty.

…good. Let’s go back to calling them perverts. sickos and Clintons.

…how about:

…too strong?

And in an unusual display of common sense:

…next on the list: Afghans, now that the Great Satan is no longer in their country and peace has been restored.

…what he said.

Time for INSIGNIFICA:

…actually, there’s no “could” about it. As the holder of a foreign title, Markle is Constitutionally prevented from being President. LOL.

Finally, from a hardworking wife and mother:

…and because:

…here ya go:

Hey, for a quarter-million bucks a year, I’m just surprised there aren’t more of them. Or maybe there are, but how would I know? (I feel a spin-off post coming…)

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November 18, 2021 Kim du Toit Bad News

When will it ever end?

…I always suspected something like that was going on.

…this is going to end well, just not for him.

Dept. Of Irony:

…guess she wasn’t really her best friend after all.

From the Josef Goebbels Memorial Wing:

…

And in medical news:

…

…this being Italy, she probably said that just to protect her cousin.

From the Karma Is A Cold Bitch Department:

…no reports on how many people showed up at his funeral, or whether there was laughter.

And from the Department Of The Blindingly Obvious:

and:

…where would we be without polls and reports?

…no doubt, the Jews will be blamed. Again.

Time for INSIGNIFICA:

…I suppose that means we’ll be stuck with the Kardashians and Lizzo forever. Hand me the pills, Simon.

…a.k.a. the “Frozen” Syndrome.

…it might have been even worse had we actually seen Gaga’s well-trodden pudenda.

And here’s Marilyn, just so that everyone can see what I’m talking about:

Not even close.

Good Man Down

November 16, 2021 Kim du Toit Bad News, Literature

I see that novelist Wilbur Smith has died aged 88, and I have to mourn one of the world’s great storytellers.

Longtime Readers will recall that when anyone asks me to recommend books about South Africa, I recommend Wilbur Smith’s Courtney trilogy (When The Lion Feeds, The Sound Of Thunder and A Sparrow Falls ) as the best of the bunch (along with Stuart Cloete’s Rags Of Glory, for the Boer War).

Having read almost all Smith’s Africa novels, I have to say that after a while the stories become somewhat formulaic — but that does not take away from their wonderful pacing, excellent settings and gripping conclusions. In fact, it says quite a lot that I, knowing all that, still have read and continue to read his books as soon as they appear on the (digital) shelves. In other words, even though I pretty much know what’s going to happen within the first few chapters, I still continue to read because at all times, I learn stuff about the location(s) of the stories and their characters.

Sooon there’ll be no more Wilbur Smith novels, and I have to say, a little joy has gone out of my reading world.

R.I.P.

News Roundup

November 12, 2021 Kim du Toit Bad News

Lotta stupid stuff to report today, same ol’ same ol’.

…probably just out of curiosity; because they sure as hell aren’t going to DO anything about it, the feckless twerps.

…that “math” thing being entirely a product of White men, of course, and therefore raycisss to the core.

…watch them all disappear, to reappear later taped to doorways, hanging from trees and used in place of face masks.

…or what we in Normal America would call a prima facie cause for necessary self-defense.

…as one wonders when or what kind of citizen response will follow — if any.

…NO. That being the answer to the question, “Can Vice-President Token get any more stupid?”

…yeah, that’s going to work so well with China and India, to name but two. Pure fantasy, like all the rest of this climate bullshit. And then there’s this:

… LOL. And the coup de grace:

…take that, round-eyed bastards.

…but the Swedes are only useful as a model for sky-high taxes, cradle-to-grave welfare systems and other Lefty tropes. On this topic, however, they’re to be ignored as “outliers”.

From the Dept. of Total Suckage:

…Graeme Edge was dubbed “Mr. Metronome” by other drummers. R.I.P.

…lessee: guy wears a dress to a trade show, then gets all butt-hurt when he’s called “a man in a dress”? FFS, he doesn’t even look like a chick, except maybe in certain bars in Greenwich Village.