Good Old Days

Prompted by Insty’s invitation to his open thread:

…let’s take a wander down Memory Lane (right-click to embiggen):

Ah yes, the good old days, when California actually produced things, and made stuff.

News Roundup

Today’s piss-poor news is sponsored by:


gawd, I hope not.  As it is, they’re too much like Democrats for my liking.  (no link because paywall)


key word:  “Pakistan”, but it could have been any of the Muslim garden spots, really.


I would have thought that “machine guns” and “barbed wire” would work better than “cameras”, but then I’m just a simple man.


and you can stop that raucous cheering and applause, you lot — because the fucking Austrian prosecutor wants to charge her for assault. 

Train Smash Watch:


can’t be long now


wait for it… wait for it

OF COURSE SHE DOES.  Only an intersectional feminist could imagine that she could stop an international flight just because of ME ME ME ME ME !

Let’s look in on Covidiocy:

  


good.  I hope they all catch it and die.


I would normally be sympathetic, except that Levi Strauss is a bunch of gun-controlling assholes, so fuck ’em.

How about the Freedom Trail:


just wait till the tar, feathers and ropes come out.


LesboPM can’t imagine any resistance coming from her cowed Kiwi peasants.


and when you’ve lost the Belgiesoh wait:


as Castro’s love child goes full Stalin.


[whimper] oh FFS, kill me me now.

And now, more INSIGNIFICA:

 


and if you used the Hubble telescope focused to “infinity”, you still wouldn’t be able to find my interest in this story.

Lastly:


Amanda who?  Nemmind:

And dat be Da Nooz… for now.

Opulence

Combat Controller sends me these pics under the heading:  “I think someone’s police department has too much money”:

“…compared to the Sheriff’s department…”:

When you think of how often the city cop cars will be in the shop for repairs (five times per month, average) compared to the Sheriff’s cars (twice a year, average), it’s an even worse picture.

News Roundup

If you thought the news was bad before, wait till you see this stuff.


this being Britishland, they can’t wave shotguns in the trespassers’ faces.



yeah, and should he find these fuckers have been breaking the law and abusing their authority, I’m sure we’ll soon see prosecutions of both the miscreants and the politicians who told them to do it.  [/eyecross]



under the reign of World Emperor Kim, instant coffee would be banned as a crime against humanity.  Also light beer.

From the annals of Covidiocy:


an excellent example of corporate totalitarianism.


I’m just wondering how our own shithead politicians managed to miss that one.


this would be the time for Blue state governors to copy a Scandi country, seeing as they already have similar tax rates.


fucking hell, if Goldie Hawn can figure it outbut having seen “mental health” in a headline, I have to go and down a shot of gin.


should have tried Beethoven, but as they’re Kiwis, they’ve probably never heard of him.

And speaking of idiots:



if I were the judge on this case, I’d give the little fucker a choice:  life in prison, with no Internet access or TV, ever;  OR be stoned to death by a group of volunteers .


oh bloody hell, another “mental health” headline.  At this rate, I’ll be shitfaced by 10 o’clock.

“What about INSIGNIFICA, Kim?”

      

Finally, Brit TV presenter Holly Willoughboobies turns 41:

Here endeth the news.