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How about these two arseholes? Film has just surfaced of a brawl that took place when two professional boxers, Shakir Stevenson and David Grayton fought a man and two women in a car park in the middle of last year. Both men were arrested and are awaiting trial.

Slow mo the very beginning of the clip and you'll see Stevenson (an Olympic Silver Medalist) who's wearing a white cross on his jacket, use his right hand to punch a woman in the back of the head before throwing one at the bald guy dressed in all white. He then backs off real fast. Then keep an eye on the lady in white pants who jumps in to defend her friends. Then the other boxer (with the white t-shirt) proceeds to pound her to the ground. Somehow, she manages to find her feet and then go after him, letting loose with all she has, including her knees. Brave woman. The cowardly pricks Stevenson and Grayton triggered the exchange with lewd comments about the women.

 

Awoke to see news of the fire at Notra Dame. Pretty sad stuff.

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What an utter gink he is. He brings vilification on himself, surely?

 

Who, or what, on earth is that at the train window?

 

Alfred Hitchcock?

 

"No one travels like Kim Jong Un...literally"

Some great comparisons here with old Charlie Chaplin/Jack Oakie/Goldfinger movies.

Clip transfer does not work, but it can be picked-up on related article by Jeanne Moos on CNN channel.

 

He might be North Korea’s branch leader of Extinction Rebellion. What he did not realise was that he was supposed to glue his hands to the outside of the train – would surely have been a quicker extinction than having to listen to Kim all the way to Russia.

 

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Can you smell a rat as well as less smoke on your clothes?

Philip Morris want you to switch from one heavily taxed product they produce to a less heavily taxed new system in the hope that you will live longer and keep buying their new products so they can keep turning a profit and paying out good dividends to their shareholders. This really is flogging a (nearly) dead horse and winning...

 

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My daughter gave up smoking completely recently. She has bought what is known as a professional vapour something. After one week she not only lost the urge to need a fag but she hardly uses the whatever it is. You can get various strengths to suit and choose from a number of flavours, which you can change any time when you re-fill. Already she feels much healthier. Her husband has done the same but rather than buy the re-fills, he has bought the kit to make his own re-fills (all herbal based). Saving them a fortune. And, low and behold, my wife who spends far too much on fags, having seen my daughter switch so easily, has only followed suit. That will save us about 200€ every month. Magic. I wonder if I should use that as a betting allowance

I must find out who makes this particular version because I think it will take off and worth buying some shares. A possible take over target from fag makers no doubt

 

It's started already, even though Joe Biden has only just started his campaign for the Democrat Party nomination against Trump, and even though the latter was strongly advised NOT to engage in a verbal assault on Biden at this stage. Go on Joe, give him hell!

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/29/politics/donald-trump-joe-biden-attacks/index.html

 

A couple of radial engine war birds of the type first flown in 1944. One from each side of the pond, but extremely close on performance stats. One on the elegant side, the other an aggressive looking little bastard. Some very nice, close flying too.

 

Lucky or what. My eldest grandson lost his phone over Easter and it contained his school lunch card. On return to school after the holidays, he went to buy his new lunch card and the lady said "Ah Harry, we have your phone. Someone came in this morning and said I believe this phone belongs to one of your pupils".

 

Ooh, there are some inexpensive yummy Italian family favourites here!

https://www.bbc.com/food/collections/cheap_italian_family_favourites

As I am only a dish-washing assistant, I have passed this valuable information on to my better half for possible action…..

 

Danny Baker. What a dick.

 

Absolutely, the BBC had to fire him for insulting an intelligent creature like a chimpanzee by comparing it to a member of the Royal Family. Chris Packham would be livid. Does anyone know who is Archie’s dad?

 

Don't agree Cyc. Followed this fella for quite a while, read his books and been to a couple of his shows. I'm as certain as I can be without knowing him personally that he is not a racist. He made a silly gag granted. But borne out of the absolute fact that he doesn't and never has associate black people with chimpanzees.

 

From the "Evening Standard":

"Police are reviewing an allegation made about the tweet that resulted in DJ Danny Baker losing his job.
The broadcaster was sacked from BBC Radio 5 Live for tweeting a joke about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son featuring a picture of a chimpanzee."

God Almighty, don't tell me that the UK is going he same way as Thailand and "Lèse-Majesté", which I think applies to all members of the royal family, not only the King or Queen?

 

Janet Street-Porter has written a decent piece about DB in today's I paper. Though, as she admits in the article, she is a mate of his so she was hardly going to throw him under the bus. In all the furore that has surrounded his tweet a couple of things really stick in my craw. Firstly the often quoted or tweeted view that he clearly is a rascist and he meant to infer the chimp resembled the new royal baby being of mixed race because he is 60 something and people of that age group well are all rascist cos they just are #irony. Secondly the BBC response last summer to a certain Lord's tweet about the Senegal World Cup squad's resemblance to the beach salesman in Marbella. ThIs chap still has his high profile job at the Corporation. Though I do love dear ol aunty I'm left with the view that their policy on dealing with issues of rascism amongst their employees does rather hinge on how it may impact on their market share of the listener/viewer.