Bone idle

I'm not saying the Royal Family are lazy but Tom Baker finally wins an MBE at 92 and no actual Royal Family member can be arsed to turn up.  The Lieutenant of Kent, Lady Colgrain is sent along instead.  There are 800 MBEs each year and about 7 "full time working" Royals?  If they divvied them up that's about 100 or so each? Okay, they're recently down a Prince or two but come on... Bone idle!

They don't make things like they used to

Proof they don't make things like they used to.  This phone charger is held together entirely by friction... As I discovered when it electrocuted me.

Hell hath no fury like Marjorie Taylor Green

 

Once upon a time Up the Creek used to have a Sunday night gig with the open spots sandwiched in the middle.  There would be an opening 20 from a pro act, and then the open spots, another interval , another 20 set and another interval and then the closer.  Malcolm Harder used to kind of set up the open spots for failure and part of the entertainment was watching the new acts get booed off.  I didn't get booed off but knowing Malcolm's modus operandi, I kind of sat at the back antisocially until it was time to go on.  So without any ammunition from casual conversation, Malcolm introduced me as "some bloke at the back who I know nothing about, probably a peadophile".  I went on, there were a few heckles.  I went over them.  It was okay.  However, Malcolm's over the top defamatory introduction stayed with me and I found it amusing so I put it on my CV for a while until someone said "Take that off.  Some people won't take it as a joke and peado stuff is something no one ever forgives anyone for." Sage advice.  I did.  But it made me wonder if Trump has finally done something the public will never forgive him for - I'm not saying he actually did anything but it's interesting that the Epstein files are a subject that Republican Congressmen and Senators finally seems willing to break ranks for.  Of course MTG has been breaking ranks for a long time over Israel (I did not have her on my anti-Zionist bingo card) and other issues... But it's a bit of a shock that such a close Trump acolyte is prepared to go this far.  After all, it wouldn't be the first time Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct... Meanwhile, I read that in Georgia the state level RICO prosecution for January 6th crimes is still ongoing with a new prosecutor being brought in to replace F Willis... Perhaps he hasn't evaded justice (and a constitutional crisis) after all...

Fake Admiral Arrested

A 64-year-old man has been charged following an investigation into a suspected fake admiral at a Remembrance Sunday event.  "Captain Birdseye", from the Feltum area of Gwynedd, is accused of wearing uniform bearing the mark of His Majesty's Forces without permission.  Images widely circulated in the press, television and on social media showed a man wearing the uniform and medals of a high-ranking navy officer whilst surrounded by children in Llandudno on 9 November.  He will appear at Caernarfon Magistrates' Court on Thursday, 11 December.

Chief Inspector Trystan Bevan said: "We understand that this incident has caused significant public concern, particularly given his assertion that only the best is good enough for the Captain's table.  We cannot have civilians dressing up in uniforms they have not earned.  Who do these people think they are? The Royal Family?  In response to the reports made to North Wales Police, officers have responded swiftly to make an arrest and proceed with charges.  We urge members of the public to avoid online speculation and to refrain from sharing any content that could compromise future court proceedings such as fish fingers, frozen scampi or other frozen food products.

Whopper of the Day with Grok

 

Grok 4 there - with some classic whoppers, cherry picking, pretending that there are numerical reports produced by Ofcom, pretending Ofcom reports say one thing when they say the reverse. pretending a one man band called News-Watch which ran out of funding is a genuine academic analysis, pretending the BBC has always been regulated by Ofcom and not knowing Martin Scorsese from Quinten Tarrentino but saying it all with enormous confidence.

What's really scarey is that this nonsense is only applied to politics at the moment.  

What when the LLMs get implanted in cars and androids?