Sorry for my absence - waddaya mean ya never noticed?! - and thanks to 'SoD' for 'filling in', as it were. My reason for going a.w.o.l. is simple - I just felt dead lazy! Also, the fact is that I couldn't think of a single thing to say to y'all - and I heard that! At 81, my life is fairly boring but looking around me, so is the rest of the world! A 'boring-snoring' world, of course, is not necessarily 'A Bad Thing' because compared to an, er, exciting world with all that that might entail it is much to be appreciated.
The fact is that my, er, 'creative juices' (so to speak) appear to have dried up along with the minute amount of energy still hiding somewhere inside me! To my amazement, the two prime sources of ludicrous behaviour on the world stage on whom I was relying for a steady stream of stories, Boris and 'The Donald', have turned out to be, on the whole, a pair of 'Steady Eddies' - hoodathunkit? And, of course, the support act of 'Jezza the Clown' took early retirement and has been replaced by the most 'boring-snoring' politician in my lifetime, Keir Starmer!
I haven't been doing nearly enough, or even any, reading just recently, particularly of my history books, so I think I need to get back to them and see if they will energise me.
David, you "skiving"? Surely not!
Posted by: Whitewall | Wednesday, 29 July 2020 at 12:19
Can you not raise just enough energy for funnies? Maybe not every Monday, but every now and again?
I know the world at large is in a funny state, but even the Babylon Bee is more to the truth than satire.
Why is SOD so long winded? I asked my daughter this morning why did she have to react in such extremes, and she replied, "Who do you think I got it from?". Surely not me. I don't see SOD getting it from you either.
Posted by: missred | Wednesday, 29 July 2020 at 13:45
Missred, you notice The Bee too? A satire site that has the NY Times squarely in its sights. The Bee does good work.
Posted by: Whitewall | Wednesday, 29 July 2020 at 14:07
I got it all from him, Missred!
In his day, before age and infirmity took away half his brain, he had a Libertarian lashing for everyone with the cyclic rate of an MG42.
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Wednesday, 29 July 2020 at 14:47
If he is using only half his brain, you would do well to emulate the gaffer.
Posted by: missred | Wednesday, 29 July 2020 at 17:14
Touche Missred!
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Thursday, 30 July 2020 at 16:39
That ther'un Missred is as we'uns'd say here'n hillbillianese 'is a goodern!'
Take thet to heart Lawrence.
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 30 July 2020 at 17:02