Well, so, let’s start with the new. You notice when the BBC report latest death figures for co-co they now add a rider to the scary screen number? After the BIG scary number and large, readable text stating deaths in the last 24 Hrs, along the bottom, in print that looks like no more than a squiggly black line from a distance, they’ve started adding this; ‘Deaths for any reason within 28 days of a positive test’. So I guess they’re starting to cover their ass.
You also noticed how TV charity adverts are also now cashing in on the horror of co-co? Then, over at Guido Fawkes place, I spotted a piece about Oxfam. And this in turn reminded me of my bit I did a little bit after a while ago about charities so guess wot? Here it is again: The Beggars Banquet Top 5, a tad dated but close enough for jazz:
5 - Way down at No 5 is that old perennial, save the rain forests. This has been steadily falling in popularity, and could well loose all ranking, as more people become aware of the splinter {Pun?} group who are in favour of cutting down the rain forests, transporting it half way round the globe to burn here to generate electrickery, supposedly Co2-less. Or are they just clueless? If this splinter group becomes a government sponsored charity, the TV advert’s going to be a doozy.
4 - Dropping from No 2 way down to No 4 is the kid with the perpetually runny nose with, they would have us believe, a mum too dumb to boil water before using it for drinking. The previous No 4, featuring the kid who had to walk a six mile round trip every day to collect water, had to be quietly dropped when it became known the kids parents had finally woken up to the fact that moving their shack three miles resulted in having water right outside the family home.
3 - Down one place to No 3 is the polar bear. Ol’ Ursus Maritimus should’ve been out of the charts all together and was only saved by the cuddly cub dolly still being the main. ‘I want one!! And I want one NOW!!!’ cry of kids. These huge hairy critters became less marketable when the last bear population figures were released and it was discovered that the alarming increase in their numbers indicated they may well start migrating South and the North of England could become plagued with these guys rummaging in suburban gardens and rubbish bins within a couple of decades. A lot sooner if that long promised warming continues to refuse to put in a showing. Their money making potential was further dented when the coddled masses suddenly became aware these bears are actually wild animals and not averse to killing people on a whim.
2 - Save the dolphin, a favourite money maker from long ago, has made a surprise re-entry at No 2. The dolphin scam was dropped long ago when it was felt it had been wrung to its limit; and some more; and people realised they didn’t actually bounce beach-balls on their noses and clap their flippers excitedly when in the wild. However, in an attempt to keep the tills ringing the marketing people went into hyper-drive in an attempt to continue the fishy financial fleecing of us fools but, despite their best attempts, they failed to perfect a heart tugging begging advert featuring a doey-eyed squid. They also realised a cuddly, rubbery squid wasn’t going to be a great hit, thus the reintroduction, for a new generation, of the still doomed, after all this time, dolphin.
1 - Hanging on to the No 1 spot, for the fourth straight month, is the ever popular, scratch me behind me ears an’ tickle me tummy, snow leopard. This is a stroke of marketing genius as, on the small screen, it so resembles your little tabby kitty curled up in front of the fire and there’s absolutely no hint of the size of the pointy, rippy bits secreted about the voluminous folds of its furry feet. As with the polar bear, attitudes may well change if we do, indeed, enter a little ice age and these big, one scratch an’ you’re out, guys migrate Northwards towards, and into, Islington.
Let’s finish with a mellow sound for winter:
Quote; Murray N. Rothbard.
“It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.”
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