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I'd love to say staying up until 4 o'clock in the morning watching Scotland scrape a 1-0 win against Haiti in a match that could barely be described as football was fun, but I'd be lying, it was excruciating. And then my stupid brain woke me up just after 9 for no good reason. Could be worse though ...

A hideous number of years ago I was seeing a young lady from the local private school (yeah I know class traitor and all that). Her Dad was a major in the army in charge of procurement contracts. He was a genuine lunatic, we came in one day to find him loading the dishwasher by throwing crockery ...

It turns out the very same flag draped scum I'd encountered at lunchtime turned up later outside Leeds gallery where my friend works and were drunkenly harassing people coming in and out as well as staff so the police were called and 3 of them ended up being arrested (and are now presumably spending ...

I had a run in with some flag draped scum outside the Corn Exchange in Leeds at lunchtime. There were a gaggle of them and some bloke in a suit who seemed to be live streaming. I avoided them on the way in but upon coming out I noticed they were arguing with a woman, mid Sixties maybe, who'd taken ...

Question Time came tonight from Makerfield.

Let's just get this Reform twat Robert Kenyon out of the way first shall we? Anyone with more than two functioning neurons to rub together voting for him after his performance tonight needs to be thrown in the sea. The man could barely finish a sentence ...

Imagine being so corrupt you end up being investigated for corruption in Albania .

Imagine seeing a pristine island and wetlands home to 40 endangered species from flamingoes to seals (which was protected until the government was bribed into changing the law) and thinking, 'Let's concrete over all ...

I'll be having a go at this tonight.

We should thank Murrell for adding to the gaiety of the nation.
He bought the van and never used it, presumably because he couldn't think of a good explanation for Wee Nicola of where the money had come from.

It's genuinely bizarre. I mean I like my coffee but who the hell needs 3 coffee ...

Like most mornings I turned on 6 Music when I got up today. You know, the BBC's alternative radio station for us weirdos and liberal minded degenerates. I think it was only this last weekend when they were playing a playlist of entirely gay/bi or trans musicians. So it grated a bit when it came time ...

Don't forget the paper umbrella!

Indeed, and this reminds me of something I was thinking about the other day. I watch a lot of Japanese stuff and when it's hot there you see loads of people quite sensibly sporting umbrellas to shield them from the sun. Not fancy parasols just ordinary umbrellas ...

Remember I said I'd met Mothin Ali and had a chat with him? He said if I ever needed anything I should get in touch so...

There's a guy who's been washing cars directly across the road from me in the disabled parking spaces of a church. He's been doing this using a trailer that contains a large ...

I've already looked into the cheap infra red blocking film for windows (which does work) but the problem is it can destroy double glazing by creating a huge temperature difference between the two panes, which can result in (at best) the seal being broken as the air between them expands or (at worst ...

Anyway getting back to being boiled alive. Tuesday was an ordeal. When I got up early in the morning after barely sleeping it was (no word of a lie) 29.8° in the front room. It remained above 29° until the evening. I ended up resorting to wrapping ice cubes in a flannel and plonking them on my head ...

It was an 'AI special' QT tonight so I can't really give it a proper review, but I'm happy to say it was better than I thought it was going to be.

Suffice it to say if any of the Yank tech bros were watching they wouldn't have been pleased. Throughout the programme all of the applause from the ...

Thundery this morning. Just had a clap so strong, it moved my bedroom curtains through the open window.

No rain though.

It was hammering down here when I got woken about half 5 by the racket. From my vantage point I got a great view of lightning strikes right across the North of Leeds before ...

Burnham, the 'change' Labour needs.

Why don't we play the AK game and say he's only coming out with this shit to get elected but once he's in power he'll suddenly volte face and next thing we know we'll be living in a Socialist utopia?

Seriously though what would make you happier? A soulless ...

I had to look up 'napery' and am still confused.

At last, the sun's gone down. Nice try you bastard ball of plasma but I'm still alive. It peaked at 29.1° in here and is still at 28.3°. I stuck my old analogue thermometer on the windowsill outside at noon and I don't know how hot it was in the sun because it maxed out at 50°. Fortunately the solar ...

Uurgh.

It's 24.7° in here with every window open. After visiting a pub to sit outside and cool down I'm now back sitting in my underwear*. It's apparently going to be up in the 30's on Monday so this may be the last you hear from me. I'm of Scottish blood with an Old Norse surname, I'm genetically ...

It's weird how Starmer is happier aligning with the right than the left.

In Scotland it's been going on for years, they've been happy to work with anyone *but* the SNP and Greens. It'll be interesting to see what happens now with the rise of Reform North of the border. I suspect cavorting with ...

QT came tonight from Dumfries so probably about as mixed an audience as you're going to get in Scotland.

For Labour we had Kirsty McNeill. Poor Kirsty. She seems like a nice lady and was clearly trying her best but given the material she had to work with she was always going to struggle. On ...

refitman wrote: Thu May 21, 2026 6:40 am They're trying their hardest to erase trans people from public life.

I wonder how popular it's going to prove when cis women and men who jobsworth zealous freaks think 'look a bit trans' end up having to show their birth certificates to go for a piss in a pub or restaurant.

I've got nowt better to do tonight so it's off to bonnie Scotland for QT.

The nearest liver specialist to North Yorkshire is at the Freeman in Newcastle and that's where Mr gilsey had to go, many times, in 2023. I think all but once I went with him. How would that work if you weren't retired? Again, no idea.

Same in North Northumberland for pretty much any specialist ...

Ok so I skimmed the Owen Jones video. Is Burnham perfect? No, but who is? And politics is all about compromise anyway, or at least it should be. The most important things as far as I'm concerned are would Burnham's Labour Party go out of its way to 'punch hippies' (or disabled people, or poor ...