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With heartfelt apologies to Reg Smythe, Goldsmith & Garnett and Go Comics, for blatantly knicking their cominc strip, without even the courtesy to ask

Wassaaaabi!

I've just seen some wasabi paste on offer. 15p for 45g. Bargain. Trouble is, I've no idea what wasabi tastes like, never having eaten it before

So I did what any normal person would do, and I Googled, "What does Wasabi taste like"
This is what I got


What the actual F does that mean? How does something taste green?

I guess I'll just have to buy some and find out for myself...


They wonder why we hate them

I smoke cigars
I used to smoke small cigars during the week, and big massive ones at the weekend
I used to buy my cigars online from Holland or Germany
When various Governments stopped cross border sales, I had to start buying the little ones from Tesco (I can still get enough big ones in my suitcase to last a while)
The Tesco ones are far too expensive to smoke all the time, so I only buy a few. These days I mostly vape in the week. It's not as good as a cigar, but with the right flavoured liquid, it's certainly not bad

We had a budget last night. I didn't bother watching it, just waited to hear about it on the web
According to Chris Snowdon, the Government are now going to tax e-liquid. The one I use will be taxed at £2 per 10ml bottle

This is to prevent the kiddies from taking up vaping

I just bought ten bottles of my regular stuff on Ebay. You get a discount for buying ten, so the whole thing, including postage, came in at £8.90. That 89p per 10ml bottle

When this new tax comes in (Not until after the election, but Labour aren't going to scrap it) it will be £2.89 per bottle. That's an extra twenty quid I have to give to the Government, to stop the kiddies taking up vaping

The only peeople who should be stopping the kiddies taking up vaping, are their parents, and at a push, the police if they buy the stuff illegally

I don't see why we should have to give all that money to the Government. And what are they going to do with it? Build a statue for war muslims

Jeez!

Gone in 157,680,000,000,000,000 seconds

A K Haart reminds us, via the Daily Mail, that the Earth only has five billion years left before the Sun kicks the bucket and takes the Solar System with it

The science is pretty much standard stuff that we all knew
In five billion years the Sun will expand into a red giant 100 times larger than now
And the reporting is pretty much what we'd expaect, as A K Haart says:
I could never be a journalist. It would never occur to me to use words such as terrifying and gruesome for an event predicted to occur in about five billion years. 
But by then, maybe some positives to look forward to?
Humans will be long gone, everything we have ever built will be long gone and Net Zero won't even be a memory of a memory. Even the language will have vanished, even the BBC licence fee will have come to an inglorious end - probably.
I wouldn't be surprised if the TV Licence fee survived the sun going nova, and the whole event was blamed on climate change, but humans long gone?

Nah. I'm a Trekkie and I reckon we'll be out exploring the galaxy Star Trek style, in the billions of years to come. Hell, that far in the future, we may even be living in a state of pure energy, having left our frail Earthly bodies behind long ago

I know Einstein said we cannot travel faster than light, so can't cross the vast distances of space necessary for space travel, but let's be honest here, Einstein was a bit of a moron

Ok, so the human race is still obviously well in it's infancy at the moment (Probably the toddler tantrum stage), so it's hard to imagine us ever achieving much beyond skriking and flinging feces (Metaphorically), but given a few millennia to grow up, I reckon we'll do better

One day, we'll be out there



The Guardian wants you!

I'm not sure when the begging paragraph at the bottom of Guardian articles changed, but it's the first time I've read this one
 
 
So it's clear the Guradian don't like billionaires, but we already knew that. Even though billionaires create jobs and wealth that benfits everyone
And it's clear the Guardian don't like fossil fuel executives, but we already knew that too. Even though they create energy that we use to heat our homes, cook our food and power our transport and infrastructure
And it's clear they don't like populist politicians, but we already knew that one too. Even though populism, by definition, is doing what the people want

Yes, we already knew that. I didn't know this bit though:
And do you know who does like us? People who believe in a free press. People who believe that the truth should be available to everyone. And people who recognise the importance of challenging those in positions of power and influence. Does that sound like you?
Well yes that does sound like me. I believe in free press and that the truth should be available to everyone, although I don't ever remamber seeing the truth in the Guardian
I believe in challenging those in power, but all I ever seem to see in the Guardian, is demand for more power and more influence, for our glorious leaders

Yes, that does sound like me, but I certainly do not, never, not in any way, not at all, not on this Earth, like the Guardian

Presumptious bastards

Misleading headlines from The Guardian

If you're abreast of what matters most to the Government and media at the moment, you'll know that they have a large bug up their arse about misinformation. This being the telling of porkies in public online forums such as Facebook and such

Social media may be a big cesspit of the utter bollocks, but the biggest source of misinformation is the Government and media themselves. I mean come on, who can actually remember a truthful thing that either of them have said

Four-day week made permanent for most UK firms in world’s biggest trial
I suppose there could be a case here for commas, grammar or interpretation, but on the face of it, the headline is a lie - most UK firms have not introduced a four day week
Most of the UK companies that took part in the world’s biggest ever four-day working week trial have made the policy permanent, research shows.
So it's not most UK firms, it's most of the 61 companies who took part in the vanishingly small trial of a four day week
The report’s author, Juliet Schor, professor of sociology at Boston College, said the results showed “real and long lasting” effects. “Physical and mental health, and work-life balance are significantly better than at six months. Burnout and life satisfaction improvements held steady,” she said.
The initial findings do sound very positive, however reports have also recently found that smoking causes blindness, cow farts change the climate and lockdowns work
But Matthew Percival, a director at the Confederation of Business and Industry, said the four-day week was not a “one size fits all answer” and would be “unlikely to pay for itself in many industries”.
Indeed. The companies that took part are not listed in this article, but I remember looking at it when the trial started and they were mostly financial services companies. I can't think of many other sectors where a four day week with no loss of pay could be made to work, although I imagine there may be some

Unfortunatley, one of these may be the civil service
This month, the Scottish government launched a four-day working week trial for some public services. Autonomy is calling for the Westminster government to introduce policies that would enable its wider take-up, including giving workers the right to request a four-day week with no loss of pay, a public sector trial, and funding to support the shift in the private sector.
As Timmy points out, 
The usual claim here is that productivity goes up with the extra day off. But as we don’t – can’t – measure bureaucrat efficiency that’s not a useful argument for them, is it? 
As usual, Tim Worstall describes the situation a lot more eloquently than I could. My thoughts would be something on the lines of, They're all a bunch of lazy grifters and the only way to cut their hours with any meaningful result, would be to sack the lot of them and be done with it

The idea that they would spend even less hours working than they currently do, on our dime, really grips my shit