Secret Crush

Okay, it won’t be a secret after this, but nevertheless:  I have an old-man crush on Brit TV personality Kirstie Allsopp, the plump, matronly host of Location Location Location (or “Location x 3” as it’s sometimes called).

Apart from the obvious two, there are other reasons to love her and her  outspokenness:

‘Plug-in air fresheners are poison. If you use them you are a moron who is poisoning yourself, your family & your pets. No reason for them whatsoever.’

On having to deal with British Airways:

And:

If ever there’s someone with a large megaphone that you don’t want to irritate, it’s her.

And by the way, she has an exquisite accent and lovely speaking voice.  Hubba hubba.

Quote Of The Day

From the late- and very-much-missed Rik Mayall (as Tory MP Alan B’stard):

“NHS waiting lists can be eradicated overnight by shutting down the health service, thereby killing poor people and wiping out poverty.”

Cruel?  Yes.  True?  Also yes.

News Roundup

Starting off with some good news:


...and all he had to do was fire a bunch of government workers and close their departments.  Jealous, I am.


...”about fucking time”?  Well, I would have said that.

In Tech News:


...except when it comes to censoring conservative content and making it disappear from their search engine.

In the Lawn Order Dept.:


...in which we play the our always-popular “Guess the Race” game.  Also keyword:  Chicago.

And in The Great Cultural Assimilation Project©:


...to the surprise of absolutely nobody with any common sense, as we’ve noted before.


...and anywhere else, he’d be losing his mind permanently as his body temperature reaches that of the room;  but not in Britishland.


...which somehow manages to combine both The Great Cultural Assimilation Project© and Global Warming Climate Cooling Change©.

And speaking of the unspeakable:


...which would concern me if I actually gave a flying fuck about the snowflakes’ opinion of me — especially as:


...well isn’t that special.  Let’s send a few (hundred) thousand of them to live in Gaza, then.

And speaking of Unspeakable Wokism:


...in which we play our new “Guess The Sex of the CEO” game.

From the Sports Desk:


...is it just me, or does “German surfer” create the same cognitive dissonance as, say, “Swiss Naval Officer” or “Haitian chess player”?

In the Dept. of Redundancy Dept.:


...aren’t we glad that the U.S. doesn’t do titles?

In the Dept. of Health:


And, of course, there’s always some link-free 

 

 

And in a stroll down :


...well, let’s see what awaits the throbbing phalli of Teh Brits:


All together now:

♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ “Run Britannia!  Britannia run away!” ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪

And that’s all the news anyone needs, I think.