As much as I like the concept of female singers/musicians performing in the nude (as Texas singer Kacey Musgraves did on SNL last week), I can only hope that the trend doesn’t catch on.
Why not? One word: Lizzo.
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Expansion Opportunity
As S&W has haughtily turned its back on Texas, we look to our Cousins Across The Pond for future investment in the Lone Star State:
Greggs today warned supply issues were pushing up the cost it pays for food and labour – presenting the risk of future price rises – as it promised sausage rolls are safe despite the UK’s pork crisis…
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The Newcastle-based chain is also looking into opening overseas locations for the first time.
For my Murkin Readers who may have forgotten about this fabulous company and its most excellent wares:
From the top: sausage roll, steak bake, cheese & onion.
And there are more, oh so much more.
[takes moment to wipe up drool]
I know that you folks at Greggs have probably employed vast armies of Bainies and McKinzies to ascertain where your best opportunities lie here in Murka — and if their suggestions don’t include the US, fire them — but I can save you a ton of money simply by suggesting the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex.
- Fourth-largest metro area in the U.S. (7.65 million)
- One of the fastest-growing metro areas in the U.S.
- We have a large expat community, including not only Brits and Aussies, but Seffricans as well, for whom sossies and steak pies are comfort foods like few others.
- The DFW-London air travel route is always full, not just of the aforesaid, but Texans going there for vacations and business purposes. They will know about Greggs.
Now I know that a bunch of Californians are going to say the same kind of thing about their state — but compare the time and cost in getting a food business operating license (hint: months and thousands of dollars in CA vs. days and scores of dollars in TX) and we haven’t even talked about the tax benefits (TX: low vs. CA: astronomical) and cost of land/rents (TX: low vs. CA: don’t even ask). And most Californians eat fucking salads more than pastries anyway, whereas we Texans loves us our fried pies and baked anything.
And by the way, I scored 7/11 on your quiz, and I haven’t been Over There in nearly four years. If that’s not a Greggs fan, I don’t know what is.
So waddya say, Greggs?
Today’s Earworm
The Association (kinda beta, but lovely melody all the same).
Book Of The Week
…and Picture Of The Year:
Seventies Beauty
When looking at something beautiful, you always have to take note of the time in which the thing appeared. This is particularly true of women, of course, because what was considered beautiful in, say, the 1970s would cause snorts of derision when applied to today’s standards. Here’s a sample of those 70s fashions:
None of which are particularly bad (the lass on the right is sensational), but the style is very dated.
I didn’t come here to talk about women’s fashion.
Nope; I want to talk about the successor to the wonderful Renault Alpine A110, the A310 which made its first appearance in 1971.
Of course, in typical French tradition, they put a severely underpowered engine in the A310 (a 1600cc four-banger which developed a muscular 105hp) which, considering that Renault intended the A310 to be a competitor to the Porsche 911 (which at the time was developing about 270hp in its 2.4L flat six), must have been a joke played by Engineering on Marketing.
In 1976, Renault got the message (prodded by piss-poor sales, duh) and put in a 2.7L V6 engine which developed 148hp: still nowhere close to the 911, but with its ultralight body and excellent handling (which was a little better than the 911’s), the new model doubled sales of the A310 — but sadly, doubling nearly nothing meant that Renault was selling about 500 units a year compared to the 911’s 1,600.
Pretty much only the French bought the A310 in any numbers, and in 1986 Renault pulled it off the market.
All that said, I quite like the looks of the later A310 PRV (denoting the larger engine). Once again, by today’s standards that angular shape might be considered ugly, but frankly, it’s not horrible compared to other cars of the time.
Even in the PRV specs, though, the petite A310 never stood a chance against the Porsche 911, and still less against the massive American muscle cars, never mind the Ferraris and Maseratis.
But for a nimble sporty little runabout which according to its customers was very reliable, you could have done a whole lot worse than the A310.
News Roundup
News that can be trusted, because it comes from TV, the newspapers and the Internet.
…and to think that we men used to get into trouble for referring to women as “life support systems for pussy”.
…key word: France. And ladies, if you and the Mister are in financial difficulties, watch out what he gives you to drink, or at least hide the videocam.
…there go the Republicans, under-achieving as always. I can think of at least seven, without even working at it.
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…from both sides of the blockage.
…but the national origins of said criminal clans? A complete mystery.
…they owed him one after turning down the gun-hater to head up the ATF.
,,,being too busy forming their own.
…fixed it for them, the woke journo bastards.
…vive la France.
…why am I not surprised by this? Best part is all those diet-conscious people who believed in the Diet Coke/Pepsi bullshit and felt virtuous about their choice are probably feeling like proper idiots right now.
…and in Comments, your suggestions for our new country’s name.
Time for INSIGNIFICA:
…I think we all know at least one woman like this.
…in Georgia, this news item would appear in the “Upcoming Weddings” section of the paper.
…tough broads, those Scottish totties.
…and when you see the pic, you’ll see why she had no difficulty at all.
Finally, here’s someone in the news:
Okay, Charlotte Hawkins is actually a newsreader on Brit TV, so technically I’m correct…