The cricket world cup has been and gone, in the final Australia who peaked at the right time dominated the hosts India and won the trophy for the sixth time. It would have taken something special for England to have reached this stage but I didn’t see such a shambolic collapse in form coming. Hindsight is a piece of piss; before the tournament the thinking seemed muddled then selection was inconsistent and in the end they obviously got it wrong. Fifty over preparation was non existent as international cricket played second fiddle to the bastard hundred last summer. Ditch that stupid fucking tournament please! At the moment England are playing yet more white ball stuff in the West Indies and with two ODI’s gone we’ve won one and lost one, nothing so far suggests England are back at the level of Eoin Morgan’s side. The next test cricket comes in India early next year, probably the toughest tour of all, the home side are unbeaten in this format since Cook’s England beat them over a decade ago. We must expect the pitches to favour the home side but if any team can go there and win then it is Stokes’ England.
When not distracted by the things in life that bring me joy,
I try hard to ignore the bullshit that is thrown my way but it would be amiss
not to mention that Braverman creature is a foul, vile excuse for a human. In what universe is the Rwanda plan a good
idea? How fucked up is the world when
this is even being discussed? Then this
week we’ve had the bastard De Pfeffel squirming, lying and smirking before the
Covid inquiry. The cunt should be in
prison. We rightly laud the generation
that lived and fought through the war years, what would they think seeing these
Fascists in government? The trouble is people
have become too used to this shit, it’s become the new normal. It’s staggering to think that people actually
vote for these bastards and think they’re clever for doing so. They’re getting fucked just as hard as the rest
of us.
Since Lemmy died in
2016, closely followed by Bowie the genius and others all sense has been erased
from the world, its like the mega rich mutant class can see everything is spiraling and know the end in sight so they’re grabbing as much as they can
while they can.
I don't watch a great deal of tele but its usually on in the background somewhere. Some people say the adverts are better than the programs and although I'm not sure about that some of them do tax the brain a little more and I amuse myself trying to make sense of them. As long as we remember that all advertising is a lie its okay. For example;
Checkatrade. I don’t
know exactly what this is but I guess it’s some kind of register for small
businesses connected to the building trade.
(I Googled it and that’s pretty much it). If you’re on the register, (which I guess you
have to pay for – (you do)) then this means your business is trustworthy and so
by implication if you haven’t stumped up the cash to enlist then your business
must be less reputable?
Anyway the advert, we have a man showing his friend all the
home improvements his dwelling is undergoing, all thanks to Checkatrade of
course. But the twist is… they (the bloke and his mate) are Romans and
have Roman names. I mean they are
dressed as Romans as you’d expect to see them in Hollywood epics or Life of
Brian, even though they’re walking around a state of the art modern house. The builders aren’t in any kind of period
costume, they’re dressed kind of normal but not like builders because there are
no arse cracks or yellow vests. There’s
a pathetic joke involving a third Roman then at the end all the Romans do a
stupid dance.
What the fuck is that all about? Why dress a group of failed actors as Romans?
What connects ancient Rome to the building trade? How badly are these actors’ careers going
that they see this as a good move and what happened to their self respect. How is this supposed to influence me to have
anything to do with this checkatrade thing?
Who the hell thought this was a good idea?
What this ad does is grab my attention, it does this because the ad is so shit but still my attention is grabbed and I’ll guess it does the same to a hell of a lot of other people. So the advert has done half a job, I’m still never going use Checkatrade because the advert is so crap it offends me. But that doesn’t matter because I’m not the targeted demographic and even if I had any inclination for sprucing up my home I still wouldn’t be their intended customer. My first instinct is correct, this stupid thirty seconds of cringe-ness is designed to get the small businessman in a choke hold and coerce him or her into paying up and getting themselves listed on this checkatrade register. What does it say about your business if it’s not on the list? What we are seeing here is legal blackmail, nothing more nothing less.
I feel better for that.
I’ve fallen out of the habit of ranting, I really should do it more often.
