Here’s another one that needs answering:
Okay, regardless of who these people are (most Murkins have no idea, which is not important), here are the the dramatis personae.
Holly Willoughby (no stranger to these pages, of course)
Alison Hammond (another Brit TV personality, and owner of the Most Irritating Voice On TV)
Ignoring what was said — trust me, it probably wasn’t that bad, it’s Brit TV — my question is: how would one tell if the latter was blushing?
One final thought on the elections:
Update: it appears that half of this post has disappeared into the Intarwebz Black Hole. Damn.
I’ll make up for it next week.
It should have been a speed bump, but there was no grammar involved. See if you can spot the absolute howler in the caption to the pic below, as it appeared in the Daily Mail:
Hint: there’s photographic proof of what the guy actually wrote on his armband, you fucking morons, yet you not only misread it, but gave it a completely different meaning.
Where did I put my flamethrower?
I should point out that Breitbart got it right:
English Premier League Star Who Wrote ‘I Love Jesus’ on LGBTQ Armband Breaks Silence
Clearly, they actually looked at the pic before writing the headline… unlike the Mail idiots.
Apparently, CanickiPM Castreaux’s visit with god-emperor Trump at Mar-A-Lago didn’t quite go the way the little socialist shit wanted it to:
Trump reportedly told Trudeau that “Canada has failed the U.S. border by allowing large amounts of drugs and people across the border, including illegal immigrants from over 70 different countries.” The once-and-future president “became more animated when it came to the U.S. trade deficit with Canada, which he estimated to be more than $100 billion,” and told his shallow Canadian counterpart that “if Canada cannot fix the border issues and trade deficit, he will levy a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods on day one when he returns to office.”
That was when Trudeau started whining and claiming victimhood status. After all, what else would you expect a leftist to do? Trudeau knows that playing the victim is the pathway to fame, favor, and fortune on the left, and apparently, he assumed this to be a universal tendency. So he told Trump, probably with tears glistening in eyes, that he just couldn’t impose such a tariff “because it would kill the Canadian economy completely.” There is nothing in the available reports about Trudeau offering to do anything about stopping the flow of migrants and drugs over the border. He just wanted Trump to withdraw his threat for nothing, out of his concern for the well-being of Canada.
Trudeau doesn’t seem to have realized, however, the implications of the fact that Trump is not a fellow socialist internationalist. It isn’t that he doesn’t care about Canadians; it’s that as president of the United States, he will act in the best interests of Americans. It’s actually Trudeau’s job, not Trump’s, to act in the best interests of Canadians.
And so the America-First president-elect asked Trudeau, “So your country can’t survive unless it’s ripping off the U.S. to the tune of $100 billion?”
At the end of it, Trump joked about turning Canickistan into our 51st state.
Well, now.
I know it was just a joke, but let’s run with this one for a moment. Assume that this all happened, and suddenly the Great White Empty Space to our north became attached to the U.S.A. There’s no way the whole of Canada would be just one state, of course; but the provinces could easily become lots of different states.
I for one would be perfectly happy to see Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as newcomer-states to the Land Of The Free, and I suspect that the citizens thereof might be just as happy at such a union.
Ontario, Quebec, BritColumbia and Atlantic provinces… eh, not so much. Ontario and B.C. are absolute non-starters because to be quite honest, we have enough socialist states of our own (California, Illinois, Oregon, NY etc.) without adding some more socialist senators to Congress. (I’m not familiar enough with New Brunswick and the Newfies to know their politics, but I suspect that they’d be closer to Ontario than to Alberta, so to speak.)
And then there’s Quebec, with that ultra-Francophone fetish. While that leads to excellent French restaurants in Montreal and Quebec City, it’s not enough to overcome their grating insistence on French as The Other Official Language, with all the bollocks and inefficiency that bilingualism entails.
To be honest, though, there’s way too much Woke in the whole of Canuckistan for us to have to deal with — gawd knows, it’s going to take long enough just to end the bullshit in our own backyard, without having to deal with Ultra-Woke Canadians as well.
Like all good colonizers, we’d want all the good stuff: oil, gold, natgas, forests etc. But all that good doesn’t come closer to countering all the bad.
So yeah: while it’s an amusing joke and all, it just ain’t gonna happen. Sorry, my Canucki Readers — who are definitely not wokistas — but there it is.
So as winter approaches, some seasonal humor:
And now back to the regular stuff:
And speaking of potty humor:
And that’s all for now.
Some days the wind blows strongly, some days softly, and other days not at all. This is not a suggestion, nor yet a theory, but a statement of fact based upon… oh, century upon century of daily observation and measurement.
So why would you want to base your energy supply upon so changeable a source?
Well to most of us, the answer is simple: you shouldn’t. Unfortunately, there are others — some in positions of great authority and power — who see the whole thing differently. And some in that latter group are now getting bitten in the ass:
“At the beginning of this month, Germany’s power supply reached its limits,” Dr. Markus Krebber wrote on LinkedIn.
Citing Nov. 6 as an example, Krebber bemoaned extreme high energy prices and “shortage of supply.” He also warned that the “same situation would not have been manageable on another day with a higher peak load.”
In other words, Europe’s over-reliance on wind power means that when wind speeds slow, energy producers sometimes cannot meet demand.
This state of affairs suppressed energy supply and raised prices in the UK, Germany and elsewhere in northern Europe earlier this month.
You don’t say.
Of course, British government officials have learned all the wrong lessons from “Dunkelflaute.”
For instance, Chris Stark, appointed in July to head the government’s new clean energy-focused Mission Control, doubled down on renewables.
“Even small amounts of low-carbon flex can displace a lot of gas. We’ll also need to support the build of a lot of new renewable generation – of all types, but especially offshore wind,” Stark said on Nov. 5.
Indeed. When foolishness proves not to work, what you need is… MOAR FOOLISHNESS. So if the wind isn’t blowing at all, more wind generators will solve the problem. Does he even realize how stupid he sounds?
As with all Socialism, when the facts do not conform to the theory, the theory is still paramount.
Unbelievable.