Be Excellent To Each Other

Absolute balderdash!

Get in! Get in!

It was good, but not absolutely amazing. I'd give it a few more weeks to air, then binge it, or just Yarr it like plenty of other people.

I see UKIP have ditched the pound sign (unwanted Italianism, after all) in favour of a lion with a huge mane. Not sure what this imagery says about them, as male lions lounge around all day whilst the lionesses do all the hard work, not to mention the whole pride thing.

Also lions are African. And Richard Lionheart hated this country. And was french.

Made a tactical error yesterday. Promised Josie that we would go up Blackpool Tower today (my first time too after 43 years of living down the road) then proceeded to get wrecked until almost three in the morning. This really wasn't where I wanted to be after three hours sleep:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/7irieOBVdYh8qGNH2

Sweet Jesus, my legs were like fucking jelly walking around on that thing.

That gasp at the end of the first video. Sounds like you were gonna hurl

I heard Mikhail Glinka's 'Variations on a Scottish Theme' from his 'Greeting to my native land' suite for the first time on Friday and it was one of the loveliest pieces of piano music I've listened to in a long time. Available to listen for a bit from the Radio 3 website.

Spaceship.

And there was me thinking you'd upgraded your homebrewing efforts by a couple of notches.

Looks safer than the Rover.

Another mass shooting in the States. Vegas this time at a country music festival.

At least 50 dead.

Shooter is apparently a white guy so it's "not terrorism".

Mr Trump always waits until he gets all the facts before he passes judgement or starts tweeting about these things. Always.

Admittedly, I shouldn't really make light of this. The news reports I've read are horrific.

Nevada! A state with very little gun regulation. Everyone can carry one. You have to have a background check to buy a new gun, but private sales are legal, so that's pointless. You can buy as much ammo as you want. Yay for freedom!

And there's little point in being armed yourself for self-defence purposes when you're being shot at from the 32nd floor.

Not done that myself yet, keep meaning to.

FTFY

Why the hell do members of the public need automatic weapons? And how did this guy manage to get ten weapons and ammo into a hotel room without anyone noticing.

The most depressing thing was the bit at the end of Channel 4 News when Krishnan said the share price in the gun companies went up today as everyone would be going out buying more guns.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34996604

This BBC article from last year states that between 1968 and 2011, the number of deaths from firearms on US soil was 1.4 million people. More american deaths than all of the wars that they have fought combined. But, yeah, carry on. You get your handgun and feel safe.

I saw a video of a governor (of Kentucky, I think?) saying that introducing gun control won't make any difference because "there's already laws against murder, and these people were murdered."

Jesus fucking wept.

I saw on Twitter that someone said that this could have been averted if more people were carrying guns to protect themselves.

Can you imagine all those people in the crowd, shooting up at the hotel where the shooter was based? Madness.

I can't fathom why anyone would think that they need to own a gun let alone a machine gun.

I would love to own a machine gun.

I was irked, a while back, when going into the petrol station shop to find out it was full of guns that I couldn't buy there and then.

And there's the problem. Games and movies have made guns so... sexy. They're cool.

A cool, sleek, deadly, easy to use, sexy, child murdering instrument of horror.

I read somewhere, probably on Reddit, a point that in those situations, especially during the initial confusion, anyone with a gun would immediately be presumed to be a threat too. Not having a gun would be safer. I hadn't considered that aspect of it before.

I read that too and like you, I hadn't considered it either. It's a very good point.

Wait until you find out about the drinking laws in most states.

Eddie Mair opened 'PM' yesterday by reading out a list of recent US shootings. It was a chilling start to a generally depressing programme, and pretty effective.

That's a pretty standard rebuttal to gun control arguments in the US.

There is a certain element of truth to it in theory (in close quarter situations at least, wouldn't have been any help here at all) but, as you quite rightly point out, you're more likely to be treated as a threat by actual law enforcement, and even before they turn up - with your adrenaline dialled up to 11 - you're unlikely to be able to shoot straight without proper training (ex military types etc.) so you're more likely to hit innocent people than you are the attacker(s). And that assumes that the attacker(s) aren't wearing any sort of bullet-proof vest, armour etc.

Point this out to people though, and they just turn into keyboard warriors and ignore any stats or other evidence that refutes their argument.

Probably told this before:
When I was in Iowa, we'd been out drinking the night before and I wss chatting to the daughter of a baptist preacher. Anyways, the next day we're down at her dad's place riding horses and stuff, and he asks if we like to shoot. We agreed it would be most excellent, so he said "Boy, get the guns". Tje 12 year old disappeared into the house and reappeared a couple of minutes later. Over one shoulder was a shotgun, and the other was a rifle. We spent a most enjoyable hour with this preacher lobbing dinner plates into the air and us trying to shoot them. With the shotgun. Given the range, success was low. Turns out, we were shooting slugs, not shot, and the background foliage was getting a pasting. With the remainder of the plates, we plinked at them with the semi automatic rifle. We also had lemonade and listed to the guy's high opinion of Thatcher and how none of his guns were registered as he didn't trust the state. It was great!

A few days later, the daughter talked away us skinny dipping in a gravel pit to 3am to a policeman on the grounds of our nationality ("They're British. They..they do that") and as I left, she gave me lots of bumpf about being a better person. Which I totally read.

Was this before or after your stint as a Grime DJ?

In other news, Oxford City Council removes Aung San Suu Kyi's 'freedom of the city' award. Her star has really fallen over the past few months.

It was before the world went mad. I landed at Heathrow and the front page of the newspaper was Jeffery Archer imprisoned. A day later, my friend got married at the church at Windsor castle. I sat in a cardinal's seat at the back.

Happy Birthday to Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Oh and Grim... too.

Happy birthday Grim...! Hope you're not too drunk at work.

Happy Birthday Grim...!

<KF2KLEEK> Three and a half fucking grand... </KF2KLEEK>

I hope he didn't have to clean his own anus yesterday.

Zlatan, I mean.

Red Leicester Mini Cheddars are awesome.

surely they are mini red Leicesters.

No.

Happy Birthday Grim...

AND also Siri!

Happy Birthday Grim...!

(I thought he was one of the December lot)

He did unfortunately. Phil Jones and the gang were too busy cleaning Grim...'s.

Thanks, gang!

Quiet today.

Sorry been working.

All was quiet here till a few minutes ago. Mum text me to say their car has broken down on the hospital grounds, so I've been speaking to the garage on their behalf. Unfortunately, this is where my lack of car knowledge lets me down

"What make or car is it?"
"Er, it begins with 'I'?"
"Ibiza? Insignia?"
"Insignia! That's the one"
.. on to where they've broken down..
"And is that opposite the Pinkstones Garage?"
"Er.. I've no idea where that is"

Thankfully they're on their way to my parents now, so fingers crossed it's getting sorted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_physics

I understand now. Thanks internet.

Dunno about anyone else, but I have no idea what you are referring to.