Renton

True, but howay, you don't say it. Reminds me once I was giving a talk about some research I had done based in Stoke on Trent. We were quite an informal bunch and I described the place as "the arse end of the Universe", which was fine, considering the context of the study. In the any questions bit my line manager raised his hand. "Do you know where I'm from Renton?" "Erm, no now you come to mention it Paul" "I'm from Stoke, Renton". Oh how we laughed.

Blimey, I thought Cleverly was one of the better ones.

I am imagining it is a transitional place for this, not long-term storage. That shit is all gathering dust in the attic.

Alternatively, it will all work out swimmingly and solve all my garage related storage problems? And I will further contemplate what has become of my life.

"Mandatory work placements". Tories are literally bringing back the work houses!

Oof. Over on Weirdside....

Ooohm, nice. I've asked Santa for some garage shelving. And I'm not even kidding.

Why do I listen to PMQ? It literally makes me feel murderous.

Tories last roll of the dice today. Fucking cunts.

Probably. It might have been one of the first singles I bought tbf and one of the best examples of a narrative song ever. It's brilliant and I love the fact the bands name shows it was always intended as a one off.

Random thought for the day. Why is it that some songs I have loved for years or decades, play on an almost daily basis, and still don't know the words off by heart? But when a reference is made to Anthony Gordon, all of a sudden "Gordon is a moron" by Jilted John gets in my head and despite never listening to this for 30 years I know every lyric of the entire song (verse and chorus) off by heart? I've been going out with a girl Her name is ju u u lie But last night she saifd to me While we were watching telly......... ............ Oh she's a slag and he's a creep She's a tart, he's very cheap She is a slut, he thinks he's tough She is a bitch, he is a puff Yeah yeah, it's not fair Yeah yeah, it's not fair

Last month it was on the news they weren't imprisoning rapists because of a lack of prison capacity. "Priorities". One rule for us, another rule for tory MPs.

Louis Theroux interview with Pete Doherty is on iPlayer. I dunno, I can't help liking this bloke, he's funny as fuck. He's a bit tragic but rock and roll and all that. He's clean now. Except copious amounts of rum and cheese.

I admire Carl Heneghan's work prior to covid, and he raises some very good points about the enquiry here. But he also comes across as a bit bitter, he's very much a generalist, and when you're allying yourself to the likes of Julia Hartley-Brewer and writing for the Spectator it suggests to me you are half way down the rabbit hole. Still, the Swedish data is interesting and is worth looking at. They didn't formally lock down in 2020 in the same way as everyone else and had by far the most deaths of any nordic country in that year. But in the following years, other countries have caught up and Sweden overall has the lowest excess deaths rate in Europe - much better than ours. But then they are not a densely populated country with a healthcare system that routinely is above capacity even without a pandemic. I think their policy would have been disastrous here (i.e. even worse than it already was).

Thing is, the science was not hard. Exponential growth. Literally every adult without learning disabilities should be able to grasp this means you lockdown as soon as possible which not only minimises deaths, but also greatly reduces healthcare disruption and reduces the length of lockdown, so is economically beneficial too. It was a no brainer. We on this thread got it, look back if you want. Johnson and Sunak couldn't grasp it. Sunak said "ignore the scientists". Hard to blamne Whitty or Vallance for that. It is all on them. Remember October/November 2020, when Starmer was asking for a circuit breaker, only for Johnson to mock him for cancelling Xmas? Then what happens, we lock down for 5 months including Xmas anyway, and the extra spread of the virus causes it to mutate to omicron, killing literally >100,000 people? And during this time these cunts were partrying in Downing street whilst people couldn't say goodbye to their loved ones. It's unforgivable. They should be in prison, I really mean that. Nowt will happen.

I should stop following this enquiry, not good for my health listening to how these cunts completely fucked everything up and will face no real consequences. Listewn to this welsh uber cunt Guto Harri.

Phwoarrr. You could crack walnuts in those thighs.

Why I was talking about R5 man. Stop spoiling my biased anti-BBC rant.

Dunno if we are just numb to this by this point. But Johnson and our current PM are little better than murderers. Absolutely shocking what is coming out. Barely mentioned by the BBC as usual.

Works on old pallets nailed together too.........

Wait, is it David Bowie? Ahhhh fuck, no, it's that plukey kid at DFS who wouldn't fuck off when we said we didn't want the sofa protection spray.