Author: James R.

The idiot who owns and runs this site. He does not actually look like Jon Pertwee.

And compensation for it, too

Doggo here seems eminently correct. As one of my Facebook friends noted the other day, he hadn’t seen anyone posting “2026 is going to be My Year” or any of the similar bullshit that people say when the old year is ending and the new one’s about to start once they’ve got over their NYE hangover. Similarly, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone saying what a great year 2025 has been for them personally. Every December 31st I tend to say something about how glad I am to see the back of the old year, and I think this year that is more true than ever, and I just wish I had any confidence whatsoever that 2026 will be an improvement. I’d like to at least be able to say it won’t be any worse than 2025 was, but I fear 2026 will just shout “CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!” at me and prove me horribly wrong if I do say that… so I won’t. Just in case.

Anyway, unless something astonishing happens in the afternoon that I simply must comment on, I think this might be my last post for 2025 (getting it in during the wee hours of the 31st), because—and I can barely believe it myself—I might actually be going out. Yes, incomprehensible as it sounds, I’ve decided I might actually Do Something for New Year’s Eve this year, which I can only assume is a sign of baffling desperation or of something being wrong me… I mean, a number of things are wrong with me, including mentally, and I will probably end up with regrets if I do go out (which is dependent on me still feeling up to it on the night and taxis being obtainable if I am)… but anyway, that’s where things stand, so this might be my last word here for 2025. Time for bed and hopefully something approximating to sleep…

Initials RIP

Apparently Brigitte Bardot has left us. Shame she revealed herself as such a godawful racist in later life, cos for me at least that rather undid whatever good work she did as an actress and animal rights activist… on which note, I wonder what she made of her good mate and “alter ego” Alain Delon’s request to have his dog euthanased and buried with him at his death? I know her foundation stepped in to prevent that, I just wonder what she herself thought about it. After all, they seemed to agree on so much else politically…

You make me feel so white

Merry Christmas to you too, cunt. I’ve seen a few people posting about this, noting correctly that both Francis and Dino were the products of migrants themselves, but that’s the thing. Miller probably doesn’t count Italy as “third world”, they’re probably white enough for him that he can overlook it. A hundred or so years ago, mind you, well THAT would’ve been another matter… I have no doubt that had Miller been around in circa 1900 or thereabouts, he would’ve been an enthusiastic participant in the anti-Italian sentiment of that era, and would’ve agitated to keep out those aforementioned migrants who eventually produced Dean and Frank so that there would be no Dean & Frank Xmas special in 1967… And remember, Stephen Miller has immigrant ancestry himself, just like, you know, practically everyone in the US apart from the first nations folk, and I think it’s fair to ask what they contributed to the US in the long run if Stephen Miller was the best their genes could ultimately produce. Equally fair to say that Antonino & Natalina and Gaetano & Angela added something far more worthwhile to America than Stephen’s parents did or that he himself will…

Remember the Rapture?

Cos evidently this guy hasn’t forgotten it like the rest of us:

This… possibly not altogether there chap, Tilahun Desalegn, stood out to me in the coverage of the non-event of September 2025 by virtue of being noticeably Australian (I alluded to him here before). And, well, yeah, per the video above, he’s got new evidence that the Rapture would in fact finally happen at Christmas. It’s a bit unfair to single him out, cos a quick search on Youtube reveals several dozen other channels there predicting the same thing, or at any rate it would apparently happen at Hanukkah. Seems all those prophets never predicted what did happen at Bondi at the start of Hanukkah… but hey, they were only Jews so who cares, not like they were fully human to the people posting this bullshit… Anyway, I think it’s safe to say the Rapture didn’t exactly come off as scheduled this time either, just like all the other times it’s failed and will continue to do so. Not, of course, that this has ever convinced these morons it won’t happen eventually so they’ll keep predicting it…

Merry Griftmas to all…

Look who’s found religion…

Daniel’s going to be weirdly disappointed if Edolf turns out to be Muslim now, eh? Needless to say, none of his commenters are buying it, and quite a few are speculating about what charges are coming his way that he’s going down this route so suddenly, or whether he’s just in another ketamine spiral… To be honest I believe Russell Brand’s conversion more than this; I’ve said before that I think Brand’s Christian beliefs might actually be genuine, but I do not think this of Edolf. I doubt the latter believes in anything except himself and his bank account; if I still feel Brand’s conversion was suspiciously timed (even if genuine), Musk’s putative conversion to something or other is equally suspicious and even less real. No season of goodwill to this character.

Christmas images 24

Decided to go for one of those classic “weird” Victorian Christmas card images today. I read an article about these recently, asking what the hell was wrong with the Victorians when it came to these things, and the author made the point that it’s only us confused 21st century folks that think these things are weird and surreal; the Victorians found them funny ha-ha, not funny peculiar. Which I suppose just goes to show how tastes in humour change with time or something…