Monkeys Fist

Personally, I’d be quite happy with a bland and boring PM- we’ve had the parade of clowns and seen were it’s got us.

MLF behaviour

Honestly man, when I read through the text stream I felt sick, then furious. She was in a right state when I got round there, but all sorted, we brought her back to ours for tea and she’s back to her usual self…

In slightly related news, I’ve just spent 5hrs on the phone with Lloyds recovering £4,500 from my Mam’s current account, fucking scumbag scammers got her with a “family member in trouble” text scam. Utter fucking cunts. I have to say that the lass from the bank was absolutely fantastic- once she realised that my Mam had been completely duped, she very subtly steered the conversation towards my Mam’s health, and got responses from her that enabled her to tick whatever boxes were necessary for a full, instant refund on the grounds of temporary bewilderment. Keep an eye on your older relatives chaps, even when they’re compos mentis it can still happen to them.

Was it the Scotch version?

The MLF on the right was on pocket cheese duties for this infiltration, but let down the side by bringing tubes of Primula. Bald MLF is merely putting him right.

Pushing up Pineapples

I just assumed the “ UNSAFE SITE- ATTACKERS ARE TARGETING YOUR DEVICE” message was from the same lads who tell me about local milfs gagging for it in my area.

There’s time-travelling Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones under Pete’s left hand too. ( The look of concern on Sheepskin Steve’s face is the moment he’s realised he’s in the Gallowgate, and not with his fellow Manure fans in the away section.)

Fyp.

They’re asking 30p for some recipes.

The old lad sitting there thinking “ I only came out for a quiet pint and bag of scampi fries…ffs”

My favourite Viz character.

I’m just stunned that amongst their millions of STID worldwide fans there isn’t some bored billionaire ready to spunk his money away on them.… … that is, one who doesn’t need to ask his mam first.

‘Appen

I was coming through North Yorkshire around 4ish, as dawn was breaking, and there were temperature inversions aal ower the shop. Looked mint as you crested the hills and saw them covering the road ahead.

Reminds of this gem of a shop name pun. Most excellent.

9 years closer to disaster! ( I’m assuming in the intervening years they’ve got their shit together and made everything rickety-boo? … … no? Ah well, at least they won’t have any hospital bills when there’s no hospitals )

By full, you mean 6 on each hand and foot? The lad who loaded me , I don’t think it was his day for the community teeth, either.

“ Distain” - as in “ What’s distain on me shellsuit, la?”

You know when your armpit hair sometimes gets itself knotted and when you lift your arms up it tears itself out, making you squeal a bit? I hope that happens to Kuenssberg’s tatty minge every two hours.

Well said mate. Thankfully, a lot of folks are changing their thinking and it’s easier now , I find, to be open about mental health. I had a bad run-in with depression towards the end of lockdown, when a combination of several negative things got the better of me. I’m very lucky in that my lass has very good mental health training through her job, and we got sorted, but fuck me, it’s a horrible experience- the way it manifested in me was a total lack of emotions or feelings- no joy, no sadness, nothing. Thankfully, I’m just about back on top now. I’m a long drive home from finishing my first 4 days as a Class 1 artic driver. Started Wednesday at 6:30pm, drove down to near Dartford, dropped a trailer load, then head down for 9 hrs in the cab from 7:00am on Thursday. Picked a load up in Wisbech Thursday evening, brought back up north, head down for another 9hrs at home Friday morning, back in at 7:00pm yesterday drove down to Dartford, unloaded, and I’ve just picked up 25 tons of paper from near Sittingbourne. I’m now parked up, having a brew and a croissant then I’m having 9hrs off, driving back up north, timing it so I get back at 5 or 6:00 am tomorrow. ( I’ll find somewhere in Wykiki’s home county to dump the prozzies parts, so that’ll waste a bit time ). Then I’m off until Thursday.

Great article here about the threat to the Pacific North West of America and Canada from the Cascadia Subduction Zone. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one It’s a tectonic fault line about 80 miles offshore, running from Northern California up to Vancouver Island. Unknown until about 40 years ago, its cycle of activity runs roughly on a 250 year pattern, and it’s now 100 years overdue. When it does go, and it will, it’s going to be catastrophic- the land will drop by approximately 6 feet and rebound westwards for about 30-100 feet. That will cause a Tsunami which will hit land approximately 15 minutes after the quake. ( A wave anywhere between 20-100 feet is expected, depending on local topography). “Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.” In terms of preparation in the US, it’s basically … Within the inundation area, any survivors can expect no power for 6 months, no mains water for over 1-3 years, no permanent hospital facilities for 3+years.

Nice one Craig. It takes courage to face what you’ve faced, and courage to be so open it when there is still, for whatever reason, a stigma attached to mental health issues. I’m over the moon for you mate.