Tom Parker-Bowles finds the best chippie in Britishland, and it makes me want to go there.
Except Scottishland at this time of year is… well, as put by Combat Controller, who with Doc Russia has just returned from the annual roe deer cull in the Cairngorms: “Cold, miserable, windy and wet.”
Okay, but I’d still like to get to the Sea Salt & Sole at some point. A good fish ‘n chips meal is becoming alarmingly hard to find Over There, at any price. The low price is a bonus.
Could have been worse; it might have been your Dad. Anyway:
Time for some nice stuff to look at:
Get that smile working (I know, it’s hard) and get on with it.
One of the several ingenue actresses of the era, Hayley Mills was always too much the “girl next door”, despite having all the attributes, because everyone around her nurtured and maintained the image (like they did with Julie Andrews) — and not the least because her father wouldn’t let her play the title role in Lolita.
That’s not to say she wasn’t beautiful, both as a young girl and then a teenager.
And in color:
And surprise surprise, she turned out to be a gorgeous older woman, too.
That was her in her sixties, and not in the Sixties.
Lovely.
There are two groups of people in the world: those who think Mozart’s Requiem in D minor is the greatest requiem ever written, and those who think that Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem deserves the accolade.
No prizes for guessing which camp I fall into.
Seems as though the horrible Washington Post has had to pull a cartoon for being, and I quote, “grossly mischaracterizing” and “blatantly mocking the crisis in the Middle East”. Also, “The caricatures employ racial stereotypes that were offensive and disturbing. Depicting Arabs with exaggerated features and portraying women in derogatory, stereotypical roles perpetuates racism and gender bias, which is wholly unacceptable.”
So what’s all the fuss about? If the Post can’t publish it, I sure as hell can:
So if Ramirez had made the spokesman look like Owen Wilson and the cowering woman was wearing a bikini, then everything would be okay?
And the terrorists do exactly what the cartoon shows: hide behind women and children, then scream bloody murder when the women and children are harmed.
Feel free to explain to me exactly what is inaccurate in the above.
Oh and by the way, for those who are Perpetually Indignant, cartoons are supposed to shock and surprise people.
And fuck you.