One thing you can be certain of in life is this. When a
government is on the brink of a crisis that involves lack of funding,
footballers will get it in the neck.
This of course, is because footballers earn extraordinary
amounts of money and the elite hate them for that. They also know it is easy to
turn footballers into the enemy. There are a lot of jealous people out there,
who are easy pickings. Picking on footballers is vintage distrac...
I have just completed the Netflix drama, ‘The English Game’.
I did this with some ease. In isolation, when the dog is walked, there is
little else to do in the evenings other than watch TV or write blogs.
The English Game is a six-part drama about the birth of
football as a professional game in England and features a cast of actors which
annoy the shit out of you. This is because you get yourself all worked up
trying to remember what you ...
Well, that was a fascinating week of ups and downs. We are
now firmly locked into the Coronavirus crisis and everyone from amateurs, to
experts, must sit back and watch where we are heading. By week three of the lockdown,
the answers will be there. Whether they are the answer we need or want, remains
to be seen.
What I do know is that because a government is struggling
under the weight of it all, it doesn’t mean that blind support should ...
I saw a post the other day that is being copied and shared around
Facebook and Twitter. It was about what a great job Boris Johnson is doing and
how proud we should all be of his leadership in dark times.
I must be missing out on something here. From where I am sat,
he just looks like a waffling and incoherent buffoon. He appears totally out of
his depth when he is in a position where being court jester is inappropriate.
Leadership ...
New studies are indicating that storing toilet paper for periods longer than 14 days, can cause severe trauma to the anal passage.
The Sandpaper Effect
Because of the paper softening method required to make the
use of lavatory paper comfortable, disintegration and hardening of the product causes
what experts call ‘the sandpaper effect’.
Professor Anne Drex of ‘The Ringpiece Institute’, warns that
continued storing of toilet ...