A rich seam of insanity today, no chance of getting into any detail with all of them so here’s a list for those who want to watch the world burn.
Millionaires are upset that another millionaire has built a large patio with a ‘H’ painted on it, on his own five acres of property. Quite how something flat and at ground level can be described as an ‘eyesore’ is a mystery, since they’d need to have helicopters of their own to see it. Note that it’s the flat concrete square they are upset about, not the helicopter. They had no objection when he flattened the property he’d bought and built another, but they are upset about something that looks like a patio or a tennis court.
Buy your baby a fancy dress outfit and you are an unfit parent. There’s really no point even trying to present any kind of logical argument when faced with nutters like that.
Today’s antismoking gibberish, planted low down on the page as always, so the ASH drones can get their hate glands exercised before sensible people show up.
British politicians are to be sent on courses to learn how to talk without saying anything, while French ones are to get courses on how not to be men.
Jack Daniel’s is getting ready for another round of Prohibition. At least one booze manufacturer can see which way the wind’s blowing. Don’t bother ageing it, get it sold while you can. This one isn’t really a loony story, more the result of the actions of loonies.
It’s hard to choose a winner, but I think the top story from today’s blast of insanity has to be the nurse who was found guilty of writing a book. It’s true she should not have been promoting and selling it at work, she’s not being paid to do that, but the actual wording is -
A misconduct hearing today found her guilty of writing the book, advertising it at work and distributing it to patients and colleagues.
On the second and third counts, fair enough. I’d be in trouble if I set out a stall and sold books while being paid to be a janitor. But guilty of writing it? Much is made of her attention to detail and her accurate descriptions of nursing methods and medications, as if that’s illegal in some way. Well, I can tell you that all the poisons and symptoms in ‘The Sweet Man’ are real. So there.
Just a snippet of the lunacy of the day. There’s really no way to keep up with it all any more. Tomorrow there’ll be another batch, madder than today’s.
There’ll never be any shortage of ideas for the horror writer in this world. The only problems will be selecting which to use and finding time to deal with them.
The helipad story: Hersham is ‘upmarket’ now? When the fuck did that happen?
They kicked out all the Hersham Boys with their lace up boots and corduroys (apologies to younglings who missed the eighties).
The ‘funny’ thing about Jack Daniels is that it is made in Moore County, Tennessee. Moore County is ‘dry’, so it is not legal to drink it where it is made. Probably just as well, as little would be left for sale elsewhere, were that not so.
So how do they deal with sampling the product before sale? Surely it’s illegal to taste it, but also illegal to sell it untested?
It never occurred to me to ask. I suppose that there must be some sort of exemption for those involved in the distilling of the liquor to allow for testing.
In my home county (not the same state), it is illegal to sell or make for sale, which is not to say that some personal liquor stills aren’t operating. It is also a rare week indeed when the majority of arrests aren’t for some drunken escapade or other. Americans are odd ducks, and sometimes honor the law perhaps less than the authorities would prefer.