Quote of the week!

[Cody]

A prototype flying car has completed a 35-minute flight between international airports in Nitra and Bratislava, Slovakia.

An actual flying car? Fascinating! Article here.

[Cody]

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because, as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.

As an obituary, that's right up there!

[Disembodied]

Weapon Of Mass Destruction Found Dead At 88

[Cody]

Yeah, that's pretty good too! Good enough to drag Teflon Tony in!

[Disembodied]

Interestingly, since the England team adopted a Marxist perspective they haven’t conceded a goal in a major tournament.

[Cody]

<scratches head>

Football's coming home!

Meanwhile...

In a blog post, Mr Cummings claimed Mr Johnson "regularly admits it's ludicrous he's prime minister".

[Cody]

The film [Titane] tells the story of a young female killer who has sex with cars after surviving a childhood crash.

The mind boggles!

[RockDoctor]

The film [Titane] tells the story of a young female killer who has sex with cars after surviving a childhood crash.

The mind boggles!

But the switches toggle!

[Cholmondely]

Just thinking about Cody's current tagline:

Who was it that set up a system, a supposedly democratic system
Where you end up always voting for the lesser of two evils?

Is this not, really, what indirect democracy will always be?

The moment you have political parties, none will ever totally represent what any one individual desires politically, so each party will inevitably offer a compromise tailored to keep most of their supporters relatively happy, and one inevitably ends up in the situation described.

[Cody]

Context...

Who dealt this mess, anyway?
Yeah, it's an old card player's term
But sometimes you can use the old switcheroo
And it can be applied to frontal politics
What I mean is, who was it that set up a system
A supposedly democratic system
Where you end up always voting for the lesser of two evils?
I mean, was George Washington the lesser of two evils?
Sometimes I wonder. You got some guy that says
"For God's sake, we've got to stop having violence in this country."
While he's spending 16,000 dollars a second... snuffin' gooks

The Fugs

[Cody]

Some good news to brighten a dark and stormy Monday...

Baroness Dido Harding, who ran the government's Covid-19 test-and-trace programme in England, will step down from her NHS role in October.

Where next for the Queen of Carnage?

[Cholmondely]

Dido

Queen of Carnage

A nice classical allusion!

[Cody]

"It turns out if you go 1,000 ft down in the ocean, it's really dark, and the animals are really strange. But if you put on some Pink Floyd, it's fantastic."

[Cody]

"My father worked on the road, my mother in the fields. We were very poor. I went to school… I learned nothing at all.
Everything I have learned has come from nature."

R.I.P. Lee "Scratch" Perry!

[Disembodied]

Kazakhstan's rich man Dauren Mussa offers to trade the last Buran space shuttles in exchange for the skull of the last Kazakh Khan, Kenessary Kassymov

https://www.caravan.kz/gazeta/burany-ve ... sa-777009/