And Then Let’s Talk….

It’s Friday again already! It’s truly amazing how tempus fugits! Indeed the older one gets the ocius it seems to fugit.

I note that the Ukraine jobby is still confusing the folk at the top. The top of ‘our side’ that is as it looks like the other guy’s playing a bit of a blinder. All is not lost though as I believe President Backfoot Obarmy was talking to Mr Putin for over an hour yesterday. It’s alleged Mr Putin took considerably less time to answer. His answer loosely translates to, “You want to do what now? Negotiate our withdrawal from our own bit? You’re kidding, right? You be not to hot on this Kraining game be you? Bu-by.”

Dave, I’m sure you’ve noticed how right quick the ‘other side’ have managed to glue together a Crimea referendum eh? And it doesn’t seem to have any caveats like, ‘….….a referendum; but only if I fail to get page 243, paragraph 6, subsection 3B, line 2 of the regulations relating to the growing and marketing of cabbages amended so as to help ordinary hard working families.’

All credit to the BBC boys over there as they still seem to be going to extraordinary lengths to locate  a young krainerainean, for every news bulletin, who insists they want to be in the new EUSSR thingy and not part of the old USSR. They usually manage to get at least one of those star circling baby-blue flags in the shot as well.

Enough already. For Friday I’ve been in-about that dropdown music deal on the left. If you venture in there you’ll find ‘Let Her Go Down’ for those who do or did business on the sea, a couple of ‘Going To California’, a ‘Coming Back To Life’, a ‘Big Bus’ clip – a sadly forgotten classic - and the clip wot’s been the most popular clip here, ‘Day Trip To Bangor’. The same warning to that one still stands as it did with the first time I linked to it. To reiterate, if you listen to it while having a coffee and chees sandwich right before bed, there’s a jolly good chance you’ll explode at about three in the morning. Play it twice and it’s a ‘given’.

Quote;  Fran Lebowitz.

“In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.”

And Then Something To Sign….

I was pointed to this by Mr Puddlecote, did the bizz and thought, why not? So without further adid, I glued the signing sights widget over there, left the way, above that photo of the good looking, jolly little fellow who, by the way, is a perfect example of the complete reverse of that old song about ugly ducklings wot grow up to be cool and good lookin’.

That’s the background, all you have to do now is please click on the widgie thingy and do the signing bit. Thanks. Pardon? you don’t smoke or vape?  Please pay attention. I didn’t ask if you smoked or vaped; I asked, nicely I thought, if you’d please go sign-up, okay? And pass the word along too. Thanks.

Please head over here to get the full SP. Here’s a taster;
”You don't need to be a smoker or vaper, just an EU citizen who would like - at least this once - for the EU to have their daft, unthinking rules exposed and challenged for the objectionable nonsense that they are.
Now wouldn't that be a thing, eh?”

Quote;  John Muir.

“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

And Then A Nice Line….

I can’t stay long as I’m all over the TV trying to keep up with a couple of things.

First we have that Oscar Pistorius trial and it looks like the TV people are going to give that one the legs to run and run. Hay!! Was that someone groaning at the back?

Then we have that thing where the old USSR have hopped in to keep hold of their bases and thwarted the new EUSSR in their attempt to grab a tad more territory. Seems to me the rank armatures running the EUSSR need to stop and think, hard I know, about what great big bears do in the woods before they blunder in there and find themselves up to their necks in a really, really big one.

Anyhoo, I’m here to report a nice one-liner I heard on the radio. The program? No idea. What I’ve typed below is all I got but I love it!
”If Alan Bennett hadn’t been born, someone would’ve had to knit him.”

Quote;  Alan Bennett.

“We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.”

“I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.”

And Then A {Late} Song….

This is kind o’ strange. As you’ll note from a couple of paragraphs down, which was originally the first paragraph, I glued this together and posted it on Friday. Today I see it’s not to be seen so I thought, ‘What went wrong there then?’  I’ve no idea what went wrong but it’s obviously Google’s fault as the likelihood of it having anything to do with me clicking the wrong clicky bitty is so remote as to be the obvious answer.

Anyhoo, just say Sunday to yourself when you get to the Friday bit and everything should work the same as it would’ve done on Friday – even though it’s Sunday. If, however, any of you click the link below and find yourselves back in Friday, enjoy your weekend again and please try to get a message forward to me on Sunday and let me know as it could prove to be a development of some importance. Thanks. And remember not to touch anything while you’re back there or we may not be here when you get back to Sunday, okay?

Although I could’ve just change ‘Friday’ to ‘Sunday’, I’m sure you’ll agree this was far more fun.

It's Friday {THAT’S IT!! That’s the place you say ‘Sunday’, okay?} so may I point you in the direction of a little song wot’s got it all covered. A little oilfield, a little country and a little story. That is, of course, if any of those three interest you at all. Trust me, you’ll like the story.

Captain Ranty, I’m sure you’ll relate to this number - along with all you out there who, like me, were, or are, idiots I suppose…. 

Quote;  Pablo Picasso.

“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”

And Then, How Long Have I Got….

If you bob into Dick Puddlecote’s place you’ll find a couple of links for smokers and e-cigarette users. I’m an e-cig user by the way; never touch tobacco. Filthy habit. Haven’t touched it since November.

I’m drawn to articles relating to e-cigarettes purely to do my best to keep a handle on how long I’ve got ‘till some group of joyless jerks finally ‘gets their message through’ and has them banned or made prohibitively expensive. It’ll be interesting watching this unfold as to how they present the banning, or pricing out of existence, of a possible life saver and leave cigarettes, a known killer, in situ. Follow the what? Oh do stop it!!  It’s health. That’s all they’re concerned with. Peoples health, right? On the other hand……

Seems to me the favourite front runner for the regulation, as a first step in banning them, is the ‘gateway for the young’ argument. The young will try an e-cigarette, like it and whizz down to the corner shop to buy a pack of fags. Really? Price no object then?

How do they reckon that works? Do these kids think; I quite enjoy this e-ciggy thingy and it’s only costing me buttons a day. You know what? I guess I’ll take up the real thing and get the same effect plus a bucket of tar and four thousand odd scary chemicals and I’ll pay an absolute shed load more for that. Oh, and a creepy picture of some road kill on the box. Okay, hold it right there!! I need to think about this for a heart-beat I guess.

A gateway to the smoking room? It’s doubtful anybody could get in anyway owing to the reported rush of smokers coming out the way to the  cheap, relative safety of the e-cigarette room. Another reason to follow the what now?

The very bad boys and girls? The very bad boys and girls will smoke. The very bad boys and girls where always going to smoke come hell, high water or a hundred quid a pack.

That was boring for Saturday wasn’t it? Okay, here’s a quick jolly!! Is this the best Homer Simpson clip? {There’s even a guy smoking!!}

Quote;  Frank Zapper.

“Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the non-smoking mentality has been imposed on the smoking minority. Because, first of all, in a democracy, minorities do have rights. And, second, the whole pitch about smoking has gone from being a health issue to a moral issue, and when they reduce something to a moral issue, it has no place in any kind of legislation, as far as I'm concerned.”

And Then It’s Not The Size….

There’s a piece up at Watts Up With That that’s well worth a read. The words of a Greenpeace dropout, the co-founder no less, presented to the US Senate on climate change. It do need reading by our Mr Ed going by his bit of bluster to poor Dave today. These folk at the top; are they really the best we can do?

It seems that later this year Google will introduce a new Nexus tablet. An eight inch version no less. About time too!! I mean the original's getting on for, what, three years ‘old’ now? Apparently, the seven inch version will be fazed out as the line between the screen size of the new big smart phones and seven inch tablets is becoming blurred.

If you find that hard to get your head round, the article adds this helpful line of help to help you;
“….a 7-inch display is not much bigger than a 6-inch one.” Maths was never one of my strong points but I still feel I could take a stab at this one so I’m hazarding a guess at one inch bigger?

Quote;  Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitz.

“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.”