A sad day for British comedy?

 

Well, unless I'm a monkey's uncle, we all fully understand & appreciate that Frankie Boyle's a comedian who plays it close to the knuckle. His legendary sardonic humor works so well as he reflects life - and he tells it like it is. Frankie takes no prisoners and can be distasteful, but his 'victims' are not limited to particular races or social classes: anyone & everyone are considered fair game.

His ability to make ordinary situations side-splittingly funny and his observational wisecracks are indeed his trademark, and the reason his shows are invariably sell-outs, and his regular appearances on so many panel shows.

It was only a matter of time, however, before the politically-correct namby-pambies got their claws out and into him. In fact, I'm amazed he was allowed to be so artistically free for so long. Our UK culture has long been one which stifles originality & restricts free speech on the basis that it will offend at least somebody.

If Frankie is censured for his recent comments, then British comedy will be a sadder institution.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/12/24/frankie-boyle-racism-storm-bosses-back-comic-115875-22804030/ 

The Land of the Free?

Wondering what dirty tricks the US admin has hidden up his sleeve for Julian Assange? We've already got the trumped up sex charges which gave an excuse for an InterPol arrest warrant, we have the idiotic bonehead, and possibly the US's next president, Sarah Palin screaming for him to be 'hunted like Bin Laden', but what if all of this doesn't stick?

Well, clearly the US Admin is feeling rather peeved. After all, they're being exposed and revealed as the duplicitous, bullying dullards they really are, and their lack of understanding of international affairs has been exposed as stunning. They must be incandescent too to realize that their 'friends and allies' now know precisely what they think of them. This must be a massive embarrassment for them.

The big thing though is that we now all know this, and lots more incredibly shocking stuff is set to be released, whether or not Assange remains a free man - and we have the proof of this. It's no longer information shared amongst a small group of cronies 'in the know', it's world wide exposure, with massive publicity to boot.

Being exposed, and vulnerable, the US Admin will want blood, and lots of it. They'll want Assange. Then they'll look for victims amongst their own kind, and eventually, we'll have show trials which will make 'Mama Mia' look like a cornershop production. It's the American way. Let's just hope American people, now in possession of WikiLeaks facts are now a little clearer on what goes on inside their country, and how their politicians hold the rest of the world in so much evident contempt!

I find it somewhat ironic that the Russian newspaper Pravda (Truth), former mouthpiece of the Soviet Union's repressive Communist Party, now reports on their fears for press & personal freedoms within the USA. How times do change.

What next for Assange though? No doubt the CIA baddies are plotting plots. Poisoned fish next? a re-run of the ricin-tipped umbrella routine? Radioactive soup, or maybe even abduction by aliens, perhaps those locked away in Area 51? 

Who knows... but they WILL be plotting!

An ice age cometh?

It's beginning to get more & more dull & snow-like here in the Vale, I'm actually feeling the much anticipated blizzard is on the way.

Keep having visions of that film, 'The day after tomorrow'. I wonder if... ?

(Scientists say an ice age is 'at least 60,000 years' overdue!)

The curse of the Stannah stairlift!

Michael Parkinson is now appearing on Funeral Expenses Plan ads... guess he must be about to go into a care home & needs the extra funds!

He's just one step ahead of June Whitfield & the Stannah stairlift ad ~ usually means about 6 months before drawing on the aforementioned funeral plan!

As if we're stoopid!

Watching an old - but especially frank edition of 'Mock the Week'. Hugh Dennis is skillfully 'mocking', but blatantly telling the truth about Diana & David Kelly. The Royals & Tony Bliar jokingly, but obviously being accused of murder.

Just thinking, consequentially, how frustrating it must be for Mohamed Al Fayed & Mrs. David Kelly, knowing absolutely that your loved ones were brutally assassinated by UK special forces, but that bogus legal systems ensure they'll never be able to prove it. 

The least credible cover stories in history, too. 

Julian Assange: We need people like you! x.

Wagner & the X Factor spoilers...

Simon Cowell is reputed to secretly want Wagner to appear in the X Factor finals, or even win the show! Simon owns SyCo, the show's production company, and apparently, ratings are 'thru the roof' as a result of public discontent over Wagner's continued, and voter-rigged survival.

...and pigs will fly, perhaps!

Listening to a priest make a total ass of himself by explaining, passionately, that GM crops will lead to ‘rabies & other horrific pestilence’ taking grip of the nation!

Let’s hope that cloning livestock doesn’t lead to explosive, fire-breathing, flying pigs incinerating the nation & bringing terror well beyond the Muslim population alone!

British Greed... sorry, GAS!

At a time when we're being twisted & screwed by (unnecessary) 'austerity' measures, where taxes are rising, wages are falling & where systems, services and people are failing, British Gas, a UK company running a multi-£billion profit, INCREASE their fuel prices by 7% for the winter 'to protect the interests of their (obscenely rich) share holders'.

The greedy bastards!

What a waste...

Complete respect & sombre remembrance to all those whose lives were lost in wars & conflict; but utter contempt & disrespect to leaders, who whilst safe in their closeted offices & palaces, sent them off to die, often on hopeless, pointless, avoidable missions. 

If they were human, and they had consciences, they'd not be able to live with the misery they've caused.

Sack the shoe-shine boy!

Just heard on BBC News that the Prime Minister, David Cameron has 175 staff in his Downing Street office. If they each earned an average of just £30k, that's over £5 MILLION per year. And we're expected to tighten our belts & face extreme austerity? 


Sack the shoe-shine boy for starters!

God save the queen?

The UK's queen, Elizabeth, has apparently joined Facebook. Well, really! 

 

Having demonstrated repeatedly that it doesn't even recognize top British TV & film stars or shows, and even having a slave to put toothpaste on its toothbrush, it no more understands what 'Facebook' is, than wipes its own asse.

Horizon: To infinity & beyond...

HORIZON... To infinity & Beyond is now on BBC iPlayer.

It's worth a look > they'll expalin everything I've written below...

Everything you're about to read here seems impossible and insane,

beyond science fiction. Yet it's all true.

Awesome worlds, some totally alien - and some identical copies of out own Earth, complete with us & our

own thoughts too... Scientists believe there's an infinite number of them.

Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe - in fact, there may be an infinite number

of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them. These other universes contain space,

time and strange forms of exotic matter. Some of them may even contain you, in a slightly different form.

Astonishingly, scientists believe that these parallel universes exist less than one millimetre away from us.

In fact, our gravity is just a weak signal leaking out of another universe into ours.

Awesome fiction from James Cameron, but mathematically certain to be 100% real in one of the many

of the parallel universes scientists now believe must exist... or rather in an infinite number of them!

The same but different

For years parallel universes were a staple of the Twilight Zone. Science fiction writers loved to speculate on

the possible other universes which might exist. In one, they said, Elvis Presley might still be alive or in another

the British Empire might still be going strong. Serious scientists dismissed all this speculation as absurd. But now it seems the speculation wasn't absurd enough. Parallel universes really do exist and they are much stranger than even the science

fiction writers dared to imagine.

Greater dimensions

It all started when superstring theory, hyperspace and dark matter made physicists realise that the three

dimensions we thought described the Universe weren't enough. There are actually 11 dimensions. By the

time they had finished they'd come to the conclusion that our Universe is just one bubble among an infinite

number of membranous bubbles which ripple as they wobble through the eleventh dimension.

A creative touch

Our own Earth, we think of it, and us as being unique. If the latest scientific theories are correct, there

are actually an infinite number of earths spread throughout our universe, and many more in parallel

universes, many with copies of us living identical lives, and thinking identical thoughts.

Mind blowing, isn't it?

Now imagine what might happen if two such bubble universes touched. Neil Turok from Cambridge, Burt Ovrut

from the University of Pennsylvania and Paul Steinhardt from Princeton believe that has happened. The result?

A very big bang indeed and a new universe was born - our Universe. The idea has shocked the scientific

community; it turns the conventional Big Bang theory on its head. It may well be that the Big Bang wasn't

really the beginning of everything after all. Time and space all existed before it. In fact Big Bangs may happen

all the time.

Of course this extraordinary story about the origin of our Universe has one alarming implication. If a collision

started our Universe, could it happen again? Anything is possible in this extra-dimensional cosmos. Perhaps out

there in space there is another universe heading directly towards us - it may only be a matter of time before we

collide.

Horizon, originally shown on BBC2 is now available for download & viewing on BBC iPlayer in the UK, and can be

downloaded via Vuze internationally.

A trip to Pandora!

Been reading about our nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri. It's only 4.2 light years away, just 30.9 trillion km. Sadly, with out current technology, it would take us over 70,000 years to get there! 


The furthest visible stars are 13.2 BILLION light years away, and by cosmologists' standards, they're still fairly local, at just over 123,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km away! 


Think of taking a trip there!!