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Is there anything this woman can’t do?
Carol Vorderman makes her debut as a WEATHER GIRL as she presents the forecast in a figure-hugging dress… and recites it totally in WELSH
And of course, this being Carol, speaking Welsh was not the most outstanding aspect of this event:
Majestic clouds, those.
Hoofbeats? Yup, Definitely
“It is called a manicure after all!”
Actually, “manicure” has nothing to do with men. It derives from the Latin word manus (hand). But if only ignorance were the biggest of my complaints.
Great Jupiter’s Ravished Anus.
“I like having a new way to express myself,” Cusick tells The Post. “My wife gets her nails done regularly, and after I started painting my nails at home, she suggested I come along with her. I see celebrities doing it all the time.”
Cusick opted for black nails with a skull design that he found on Instagram under the hashtag #guynails, which has more than 1,400 posts. Next month, he plans to go back to get “something book-themed” for a publishing party.
“I’m already a bit obsessed,” Cusick says. “I’ve always been comfortable with fashion that’s not stereotypically masculine. This just feels like a natural extension of that.”
I feel queasy just having read the article.
Good And (Maybe) Better?
I have waxed lyrical before about pistol-caliber semi-automatic carbines, and I remain fond of them, for all sorts of reasons. However, a couple of recent articles are making me rethink my fondness — not towards total rejection of the concept, but perhaps towards a better option.
I speak firstly of this article, about the TNW Aero Survival Rifle LTE – 9mm:
There’s a lot to like about this: it uses Glock mags, it has an AR-15 clone action, you can get it in multiple barrel lengths, it breaks down easily for storage, and so on. (Of course, as it shoots the plentiful 9mm Europellet, practice is cheap too.)
My antipathy towards said cartridge is well known, however, and I would far rather have such a carbine chambered for the .45 ACP — but from what I’ve read about the Aero, it’s going to be offered solely in 9mm. Fine. But then we come to the retail price of $650 (street), and about a hundred more for the short-barreled “pistol”. That makes me wonder whether one couldn’t do better, cartridge-wise, for about the same money.
And right on cue came this article, suggesting that it may be time to reconsider the venerable Ruger Ranch Rifle (Mini-14 or Mini-Thirty):
Now my own experience with the Mini-14 has been dismal — it couldn’t hold zero, the hot barrel whipped like a cooked noodle, and the larger magazines (aftermarket, because Bill Ruger thought that nobody should ever need more than 5 rounds) were Jammin’ Central.
But apparently, Ruger has fixed all that — even unto offering 20-round factory magazines — and they’re apparently now manufactured as they should have been made in the first place.
What I’ve always liked about the Ranch Rifles is that they’re not threatening to the gun confiscators, appearance-wise anyway. (That doesn’t mean that the bastards wouldn’t go after them with similar fervor to the hated AR-15, but there’s less justification for doing so — at least, in the public’s eye. Yes I know it’s all bullshit — the AR and Mini-14 are functionally identical — but these are the times we live in.)
The Mini-14 retails for just over $800 right now — and given that you’re shooting the 5.56mm poodleshooter instead of the 9mm Europellet, the price difference might be justified. (You know where I’m going with this, right? Yup, the Mini Thirty in 7.62x39mm Commie is the one I’d pick, if I was going in this direction.)
All the above assumes that the boys at Ruger have fixed all the old problems with the Ranch Rifle, of course.
If anyone near north Texas has recently bought one of the latest generation of the Ruger Mini (with the 20-round mag) in either caliber, I’d love to give it a little impromptu range test. I’ll supply the ammo.
Comments, as always, are welcome.
Dept. Of Righteous Shootings
A Michigan woman caught on surveillance footage fatally shooting her 43-year-old partner at an indoor trampoline park won’t be charged after prosecutors determined she had reason to fear he would kill her 14-year-old son.
Here’s a profile of the corpus delicti:
Genesee County prosecutors said on Monday that Hodges has a violent criminal history dating back to 1993.
Nine different people have alleged they were the victims of domestic violence at the hands of Hodges, WJRT-TV is reporting.
Hodges’ criminal history includes a 13-year prison stint for child abuse.
According to MLive.com, Hodges was charged in 1995 with assaulting his 16-month-old daughter, leaving her with brain damage, deafness, and vision impairment.
He was eventually released in August 2008.
Hodges also has a history of choking women.
No wonder Our Heroine isn’t going to be charged. She should get a damn medal.
You can all start applauding, now.
No More Talking At The Office
Working at an office is bad enough; but working at an office and being discouraged from talking to one’s workmates is awful. Yet that’s just what this harpy is suggesting:
Ann Francke, head of the Chartered Management Institute, has said that bosses should actively curtail male staff talking about football, cricket and rugby in case women feel ‘left out’ at work.
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‘A lot of women, in particular, feel left out. They don’t follow those sports and they don’t like either being forced to talk about them or not being included. I have nothing against sports enthusiasts or cricket fans – that’s great. But the issue is many people aren’t cricket fans’. She added: ‘It’s very easy for it to escalate from VAR talk and chat to slapping each other on the back and talking about their conquests at the weekend. It’s a gateway to more laddish behaviour and – if it just goes unchecked – it’s a signal of a more laddish culture’.
And in an even-more horrifying development, I am forced to agree with Piers Morgan, who said:
‘What utter twaddle. We’ve got to stop these virtue-signalling cretins sucking all the fun out of life’.
And then the inevitable response:
Critics have said that by applying the same logic non-work related chat about TV shows such Love Island, EastEnders and Game of Thrones should also be curtailed. While others asked if workers with children could be stopped from talking about them in case it offends those without them.
Yeah… let’s just stop all non-work chatter altogether. If it’s not work-related, then HR should have the power to swoop in and… do what? Fire the offenders? Have them flogged in the public square? Have them endure yet another hectoring lecture from HR? [Cries of “No, no! Anything but that! Please flog me instead!”]
I know! Men should only be allowed to talk about such “exclusionary” topics inside men-only enclaves — except, of course, that Feministicals International has already banned those for being “exclusionary” themselves (although chick-only workspaces are, of course, just dandy).
Fuck off. Just… fuck right off, you pissy little control freaks.
This all started when we gave them the vote. I hope you’re all satisfied.