Twitter With Brain Cells

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/08/judi-dench-says-harvey-weinstein-should-be-released/ Why should he expect to be released while he's still delaying the Courts from passing sentence with his refusal to accept his wrongdoing. 

Tuesday December 9th 2025 (9/12/25). A miserable day of chores awaits. 

https://news.sky.com/story/arne-slot-has-no-clue-whether-mohamed-salah-has-played-last-game-for-liverpool-13481107 If he was looking for another way to waste it.

https://news.sky.com/story/thailand-launches-airstrikes-against-cambodia-as-border-clashes-reignite-13480794 https://news.sky.com/story/syria-jubilantly-marks-a-year-since-assads-fall-with-parades-and-leader-makes-new-pledge-13480899 https://news.sky.com/story/greek-farmers-have-forced-shutdown-of-crete-airport-13481062

https://news.sky.com/story/ex-footballer-joey-barton-sentenced-for-posting-grossly-offensive-social-media-messages-13480820 As Leviathan said of the Kings. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/08/asia/tsunami-warning-japan-earthquake-intl Needless to say. I directed my questions to NHK News. https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/probably-being-oversensitive.html Even though I had to skip over Al Jazeera to get to them.

https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2025/11/lets-all-go-to-movies-pt11.html Although every moment spent having to suffer a fool does feel like a lifetime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu6CoxUBvOM (Jolly Banker, Woody Guthrie, Library, Audio, Topic). 

Monday December 8th 2025 (8/12/25). Let's see how much of it I'll be able to decide what to do with. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-15361515/Strictly-Come-Dancing-Lewis-Cope-dance-Amber-Davies.html And is really unpleasant with it too. Exactly the type of the 4-5 paddings that should never have been booked in the first place. They're so devoid of ideas I strongly suspect they'll be doing it next year. Even if just slapping on some more Michael McIntyre repeats would be good enough for those so hopelessly, terminally brain damaged they're too bedridden to even master one of those Stephen Hawking eye-blinky remotes.  So I can only hope that now we've all had a good laugh at the expense of that Downs Syndrome girl the hideous virtue signalling era has hit rock-bottom and ended. Obviously if your act involves you having to don a clown persona to get away with the outrageous things you say. Then there's a very high chance of you saying something that's far, far too outrageous for an audience of children. However I think the tone of La Voix made for a good, o...

https://news.sky.com/story/young-people-may-lose-benefits-if-they-dont-engage-with-help-from-new-820m-scheme-government-warns-13480447 People could've served their sentences and been done with it by now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBYsbYyYmNs (14 Years, Guns N' Roses, Official Visualizer).

The last thing someone like me needs is weaker. I wouldn't go so far as to say I've been experimenting with that massage-gun. More periodically fiddling with it, while reading relevant medical textbooks. I have to say that I'm finding it really good for sprain type injuries. The downside being that it seems to significantly weaken the muscles and ligaments it's used on. The other reason I really had to get back to the gym is that I spent American Thanksgiving, "Thursday" everywhere else, stunning everyone in Sports Direct™. By buying sportswear to be used doing sport, rather than claiming benefits and ordering takeaways. If you're really that interested I got a two-pack of crewneck sweatshirts. One black, one green. One for sports, one for laundry days. I also got a zip-up black Sherpa hoodie, for Winter. The main thing I went in for was a replacement pair of trainers/sneakers. Due to being what I now know is a size to small uppers particularly the toes, o...

https://news.sky.com/story/cruise-ship-stuck-in-port-after-shipping-containers-carrying-bananas-fall-off-cargo-ship-13480542 While I've yet to invent my own term for it. There is a sort of subsect of State-Absent Totalitarian Capitalism. https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/of-course-theres-more-than-one-type-of.html In which Governments pass laws and Courts enforce laws restricting the behaviour of Corporations/Companys. Except for the ones who are in the same club as the Government and Courts. Sort of like how the CEO of ITT Corp was really good friends with the head of the CIA just before Brazil's 1964 Coup d'état. Or how US President Taft was really good friends with the CEO's of the US fruit companies during the Banana Wars. "Last f'cking chance means; "Last f'cking chance." So don't be wasting everyone's time asking again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHspVLAuWc (Date With Destiny, Pennywise, Official Audio).

https://news.sky.com/story/benin-government-says-coup-attempt-foiled-after-soldiers-claimed-to-have-seized-power-13480487 Technically the Portuguese Empire invented the business model of the African Slave Trade in Madeira. However they quickly exported it to Brazil. The African Slave Trade being the process that ended Slavery as a legal practice. Although, according to the Critical Race Theory of Black Lives Matter, the African Slave Trade was the only time Slavery happened anywhere in the World, throughout all of Human history. Why ever should the etymological root of; "Slave" being; "Slav" cause to give up on: "Hope."? Madeira is an island off the West coast of Africa. So the local Slaves used on Sugar Plantations there were probably African. However the Slaves used in Brazil's 15 Captaincies were local, indigenous. Despite what Hamas fanboys seem to believe White Hispanics are not indigenous to Latin America, let alone Los Angeles. It was the Northe...

https://news.sky.com/story/japan-accuses-chinese-fighter-of-locking-fire-control-radar-on-its-jets-13480416 That's certainly the issue with my smoke alarm.  Water boiling in a metal pan sets it off through a door less than 1cm ajar. I know it's the steam heating up the grease trapped in the stove. However that's still far, far too sensitive. Although Yom Kippur isn't the reason why it certainly provides a memorable date to remember when I deep cleaned the kitchen. Getting the stove as clean as it's possible to get it without it being factory fresh only made the smoke alarm worse. Before getting a new one and, possibly, finding a better location for it I want to open it up and check on the strength of radioactive source, the sensitivity of the receptor and the distance between them. In the meantime I've taken to disconnecting the battery while cooking. The one time I forget to reconnect it. That'll be the time there's a fire. Obviously I'm directing t...

https://news.sky.com/story/hundreds-of-books-at-the-louvre-damaged-in-water-leak-just-weeks-after-76m-heist-13480700 https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-should-we-expect-these-irritations.html

https://news.sky.com/story/man-arrested-after-people-pepper-sprayed-in-heathrow-suitcase-robbery-13480438 I certainly do. Fair point I was thousands of kilometres away from the frontlines and did it to myself. Accidentally making Chlorine Gas, while cleaning the indoor flush-toilet. You'd think I'd pay more attention to the ingredients list on household products now. If I did I might have realised earlier that if you mix one of my outdoor products with one of my indoor products you get Detonators/Blasting Caps. Pretty much anyone can make ANFO explosives. At this time of year anyone who can't can just by Gunpowder at a supermarket. Like the Fireworks local Soviets keep trying to scare me with. The difficult bit is the Detonator, the thing that makes the explosive explode. That's not the impressive bit of the story though. The impressive bit is that just as I was going to bed on Thursday (6/12) I noticed what appeared to be a trickle of liquid leaking from the Garage doo...

https://news.sky.com/story/at-least-23-people-dead-after-fire-in-goa-india-13480407 https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/making-it-more-like-super-bowl-wont.html And, frankly. I don't know why anyone would.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15360369/George-Clooney-Amal-joke-Muslim-Brotherhood.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-15359889/Strictly-fans-enraged-Amber-Davies-day-job-West-End-score-40-Musicals-Week.html Or how little the training she has had has prepared her. Incidentally, if they are bringing that show back next year they need to make it a lot shorter. Aside from hyperfans no-one's in the mood for it until the autumn and no-one's got the time to learn the names, let alone stories, if the padding needed to sustain it through the excessive first month.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15359543/Lisa-Riley-lost-TWENTY-pounds-Im-Celeb-jungle-rice-beans.html

Sunday December 7th 2025 (7/12/25). I really should get back to the gym. Start strengthing my knees up again. 

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/05/tara-reid-hotel-bar-surveillance-video-drinking-wine/ Then her career stalled. For some reason. Not that I'm really interested in coming up with more opinions on the story.

https://news.sky.com/story/at-least-11-killed-in-shooting-in-south-african-bar-including-young-children-police-say-13479982 https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-should-we-expect-these-irritations.html Notable from a Sustainable Development perspective.

https://news.sky.com/story/tower-of-london-closed-after-display-case-containing-state-crown-defaced-13479937 When they can't limit themselves to normal business hours. As I mentioned my Wednesday (10/12) will have to be spent dealing with Thames Water sending a representative to confirm that huge torrents of water haven't been flowing through my house, down the stairs and into the street for several months. this morning I got an email off them demanding information they've already been provided with several times. Hopefully it should just be a question of sending them a quick email on Monday (8/12). However we might be looking at having to lose another whole week.

Saturday December 6th 2025 (6/12/25). Aren't we all counting down to the next sleep. 

https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/good-things-happen-when-migrants-are.html No mean feat. As Thomas Hobbes suggested, the most widely cited source is hardly known for its fidelity. Isn't it long past time the old King James was retired? While it's widely accepted that Joseph and Mary had to take that wee fecking donkey back to Bethlehem, Joseph's birthplace, for the Census ordered by Emperor Augustus the results of that Census were hardly set in stone.  A wider collection of independently corroborating sources strongly suggest that King Herod died around 70 years before he supposedly ordered the; "Massacre of the Innocents." An event that not even the (slaver) King James version of the Christian Bible universally accepts as having taken place. Even indulging the claim of a Massacre of the Innocents then it's very highly unlikely that the new mother gathered everything up and trekked off South to seek "Refuge" in Egypt, a convenient r...

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/05/white-house-doubles-down-sabrina-carpenter-ice/ Do you have to pay before you can exit? Or can you leave, then pay?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAQIchLSYmk (Pretty Tied Up, Guns N' Roses, Official Visualiser).

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/05/jelly-roll-cocaine-birthday-running-high/ He looks like he knows why. My issue was finding myself blocked after three very intense hours trying to gather disperate, scattered thoughts into a coherent narrative. While some very violent proctors paid invasively close attention. Before the next three hour burst I just needed to sit down for half an hour with a quick sandwich cup of coffee. However I decided not to do that as it would have meant me working until midnight and drinking until dawn. In future I shall be much less considerate to my neighbours!

I've discovered better manners. https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/okay-i-get-it-now.html One thing that made me want to watch; "Sons of Anarchy" (2008-2014) is that I enjoyed it's spin-off; "Mayans M.C." Which, according to the BBC had its first season in 2019 and it's final season in 2021. As I was watching Sons of Anarchy I constantly found myself thinking; " It's not as good as Mayans." It's as if one was shot in HD while the other was shot in SD. So I would like to continue watching Sons of Anarchy. Even if there is a difference between; " Appreciating something within its proper historical context" and simply; "Enjoying it." Despite its vintage I do enjoy; "Bones" (2005-2017). Not that I'm finding the time to. And as, apparently, every scratch of my balls is of vital significance I should confirm that I have now, successfully, seized control of the central-heating system powered b...

https://news.sky.com/story/all-flights-halted-at-edinburgh-airport-as-it-issue-hits-air-traffic-control-13478798 https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/and-thats-before-ofcom-fine-them-10-of.html https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/making-it-more-like-super-bowl-wont.html All thumbs, perhaps. https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/okay-i-get-it-now.html

https://news.sky.com/story/drop-and-cover-earthquake-alert-turns-out-to-be-false-alarm-13479519 https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/11/seismic-monitoring-seems-to-have-become.html That's a task beyond the fundamental laws of the Universe.

I'm sure Pedro Pascal is familiar with State-Run Totalitarian Capitalism. State Owned Enterprises (SOE's) like Petrobras, PescaPeru, MineroPeru. And all that. However Big Tech's decision to adopt the No Nipples Rule could well be an example of State-Absent Totalitarian Capitalism. Where there are no checks on the power of Corporations. Rather like in the Captaincies before the locals got all nibbly. Or in the time of the Robber Barons during the US' Gilded Age. A small group of very rich people who own the infrastructure got together and decided this is the rule we have to live by now. Not only didn't we tell them to introduce that rule we probably don't even know who they are. We certainly didn't get a vote to put them in a position where they can decide what the rules are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW9H4M6eQqc (1913 Massacre, Woody Guthrie, Asch, Audio, Topic). Oh well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w397SIxbDo (If We Make It Through December, Merl...

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/04/miley-cyrus-maxx-morando-pda-post-engagement/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3JX01gxH_o (I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day, The Pogues, 30, Official Audio). I'm sure she can dress herself though(!) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12237793/Miley-Cyrus-gold-Flowers-dress-sparked-ex-Liam-Hemsworth-Jennifer-Lawrence-affair-rumours.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5i0ocA8IXg (Automatic Man, Bad Religion, Official Audio).

Sorry, I've been experimenting with a miniature fan-assisted electric oven aka an; "Air-Fryer." To begin these experiments I had to make space by clearing out the stacked kitchen cabinets. In doing so I discovered a really old packet of candles. Not the nice candles you use for things like dinner parties. The nasty candles you use for power cuts. So I thought; " What are these for now? We've not had a Labour government for 15 years. We've got solar powered lanterns for such things now anyway. "Oh well, I suppose I should see how many candles there are in the packet." "One." "Two." "Three." "Oh, p'ss off! " I'd post pictures but do remember that time I got banned from Twitter. In the hope I'd write legislation for online safety, for free(?!) Or that time I got banned from Instagram. In the hope I'd write legislation for online safety, for free(?!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZTwjljm5qc (Mam...

https://news.sky.com/story/cloudflare-large-number-of-empty-pages-on-several-websites-after-internet-outage-13479620 For every user on every one of those websites who dares to say anything even slightly haramful about random Islamic rage generator; "Tell Mama UK™." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-ofzciulJU (Sing Me Back Home, Merle Haggard, Official Audio).

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/04/us-military-blows-up-another-boat-video/ https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-free-samples-have-already-been.html I'm guessing; "Probably." He is that incompetent. 

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/04/tara-reid-911-audio/ And if she vaped was it hers? She'd have to have been pretty drunk by the time she ordered the one glass of wine she claims to have drunk in order to become that incapacitated. Oh well. In blood & urine tests we trust. 

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/04/jonathan-alpert-jan-6-rioters-biden-derangement-syndrome/ Although it is alarming to see anyone have that strong a parasocial attachment to a politican. A class of person who should be kept out of other people's lives as much as possible.  The way they're still picking away at the scab of The Pandemic That Never Was (2020) should be underlining to Trump that he isn't a man who gets things done. https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/04/fbi-arrests-dc-pipe-bomb/

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/04/nativity-scene-baby-jesus-zip-tied-ice-agents-illinois-church/ It's also debatable whether the European Colonial Occupiers had started using the name; "Place of the Peleset" to describe the; "Place of the Jews" at that time. While King Herod built the Second Temple of Jerusalem it's not clear if it had been destroyed by the time of the King of the Jews' birth. Despite the compulsory census. If you only read one book. At least make it the book your religion is built around.

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/04/erika-kirk-reiterates-support-second-amendment-charlie-death/ 

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-879328 https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/there-are-two-samples.html It shouldn't need to be reinforced through punishment. 

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-879285 

Friday December 5th 2025 (5/12/25). I'm going to pick up my cleaning tools. But Shh!, don't tell the government. 

https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/lets-all-go-to-movies-pt11-straighter.html The voice control on my Roku remote seems to be very frustrated with me. https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/okay-i-get-it-now.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2jEHyhBXe8 (In My Eyes, Minor Threat, Official Audio).

https://news.sky.com/story/brother-in-law-of-scotlands-former-leader-humza-yousaf-facing-extortion-and-drug-charges-13479425

https://news.sky.com/story/man-charged-over-allegedly-assisting-manchester-synagogue-attacker-with-reconnaissance-of-defence-facility-13479358 https://news.sky.com/story/four-people-arrested-in-eastbourne-and-brighton-as-part-of-investigation-into-right-wing-terrorism-13479354 https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/11/which-is-awfully-long-time-to-tell.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpnUKZKdKYQ (The Auld Triangle, The Pogues, Official Audio).

https://news.sky.com/story/major-incident-declared-and-200-homes-evacuated-after-two-men-arrested-on-suspicion-of-explosives-offences-13479379 Then you definitely want it out of your house! Or did they not teach you that at The School of the Americas(?!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43HujTS8Uo (Locomotive, Guns N' Roses, Official Visualiser). *shakes head* Kept it so clean😉! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiItPPqYIv0 (The Thrills Have Gone, Alabama3, Official Audio).

https://news.sky.com/story/israel-allowed-to-take-part-in-eurovision-2026-as-at-least-two-countries-withdraw-13479330 Payable immediately. Or the next time they try and board the short train. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA5ckLJ79-4&list=RDxA5ckLJ79-4 (Branded Man, Merle Haggard, 2001, Official Audio).

https://news.sky.com/story/no-discussion-about-banning-maccabi-tel-aviv-fans-at-stuttgart-europa-league-match-13479482 https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/its-still-giving-rochdale-mini-cab-then.html

https://news.sky.com/story/anti-hamas-militia-leader-yasser-abu-shabab-killed-in-gaza-strip-reports-13478656 Clear them both. https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-free-samples-have-already-been.html

https://news.sky.com/story/in-little-kabul-afghans-feel-they-have-to-prove-their-us-loyalty-all-over-again-13479172 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiNiXiNpmgI (I'm A Lonesome Fugitive, Merle Haggard, Remastered, Official Audio).

https://news.sky.com/story/us-defence-secretary-pete-hegseth-faces-escalating-scrutiny-as-report-finds-he-put-troops-at-risk-13478994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ucDiz3GYrg (Civil War, Guns N' Roses, Official Visualiser). Nothing's happened.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15351593/Sydney-Sweeney-glamorous-coat-NYC.html Some people are certainly still riding the short train. *shakes head* His life must be so much fun. https://www.tmz.com/2025/08/07/sydney-sweeney-brother-good-jeans-american-eagle-ad/

https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/i-think-theyre-attracted-to-sugar.html Well, Channel 4 at around 1am. Of course I'd ask if any of the Racoons had ID. Except the threshold is different in the US than it is in Australia (polite version). Plus it's already been done. Twice.

https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2025/11/lets-all-go-to-movies-pt11.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k04tX2fvh0o (Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Guns N' Roses, Official Visualiser). 

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-879151 

Thursday December 4th 2025 (4/12/25). And before anything else I'm going for a walk. I've not decided where yet. I just know that I can and after being unable to leave the house for five days I really, really want to. 

For the purposes of the UK Online Safety Act (2023) "Harmful Content" is defined by the Minister of the day, an obviously political position. In UK law these are know as; "Henry VIII Powers." That battle between Absolute Monarchy and Constitutional Monarchy which forced Brazil's Emperor Pedro I to abdicate and returned to Portugal. More widely used terms for it are; "Executive Order" or; "Diktat." As used by Deodoro da Fonseca during The Republic of the Sword. The biggest problem with explaining China's Social Credit System is that it doesn't have one. The general idea was actually part of Deng Xiaoping's early reforms. A way for subsistence farmers to access bank accounts and use money for the very first time in the history of their entire families. It was not unlike the Microcredit system that Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Prize for. In the months after 9/11, while Old Slowhead Tony was trying to convince us we needed Vaccine Pa...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15343997/Sydney-Sweeney-stuns-THREE-leggy-looks-New-York-Scooter-Braun-romance-heats-up.html Yet some people would still complain to the FCC that her appearance is obscene and harmful to them. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15334193/Stranger-Things-Noah-Schnapps-acting-wooden-sock-puppet-Netflix.html While Big Tech's decision to voluntarily adopt the "No Nipples" rule is already making it hard enough to see the clothes. https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2024/02/oh-yes-she-won.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15346713/Erin-Doherty-puts-striking-display-black-lace-mask-cape-leads-stars-world-premiere-Thousand-Blows-Season-2.html

https://news.sky.com/story/water-supplies-restored-to-thousands-of-kent-homes-but-it-is-not-safe-to-drink-13478800 https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/11/sighs-let-us-know-when-it-starts.html

https://news.sky.com/story/doctor-who-supplied-ketamine-to-late-friends-star-matthew-perry-jailed-13478863 https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/11/mitigation-for-treason-offences.html Needless to say, this past weekend was also supposed to be tedious. Even without airfryers and sprained knees. https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/11/perhaps-i-need-to-start-taking-gas.html

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/03/drunk-raccoon-liquor-store-virginia/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A2qAesyVgw (Save Yourselves! Trailer #1, Video, Rotten Tomatoes Indie). But aren't we all. 

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/02/burna-boy-paying-funerals-stockton-shooting-victims/ Although it did sound a bit like a plot from Season 2 of; "Sons of Anarchy." The Neo-Nazi gang trick the biker gang into attacking them at what turns out to be a sort of family Church banquet. I do so wonder if there'll ever be let out of jail on bail(?) https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/okay-i-get-it-now.html 

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/02/accused-guard-shooter-pleads-not-guilty/ Looking at how much complex stuff I've got to do before I get there I'm tempted to ask some some sort of contract. If I go to the bother of explaining it to them they'll bother act on the explanation this time and the departees will actually depart.

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/02/k-pop-news-rose-bruno-mars-apt-tops-apple-music-charts/  Even to guy who's apparently still stuck in March those seems like the big songs of 2024.

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/02/la-toya-jackson-concerns-fans-shockingly-thin-frame/ Adults discussing whether self-harm exists could be viewed as promoting self-harm amongst children. Is there any word on which party she supports(?!)

Wednesday December 3rd 2025 (3/12/25). It already seems too late to try and save the day. 

https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/lets-all-go-to-movies-pt11-on-with-big.html Received Royal Assent in October 2023. Yet, thanks to staggered Enactment, Section 12 didn't gain appropriate force until June 2025. That's not even considering China's Social Credit system. I know what "Old Slow Brain" desperately wants it to be. https://www.reddit.com/r/oasis/comments/1cwpwnt/1990s_noel_gallagher_arrives_at_downing_street/ However I don't think any of that particular class appreciates just how into markets Xiaoping's China has gotten. These days any  Nouveau Riche with a little bit of spare capital can become the owner of a business; making tacky, little, gilded placenta chains(!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Zhimin_(criminal) If I'm being forced to revert to childhood then I remember all those Chinese hordes buying their first foreign holidays to Crystal Palace. All sold on the promise of seeing the ornate gardens depicting the victo...

https://news.sky.com/story/princess-of-wales-describes-power-of-reaching-out-in-festive-message-13478374 But it's okay. Hannah Waddington's going to attempt another song. So I'm sure it'll be fine(!) https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/11/they-dont-look-as-though-theyve-been.html

https://news.sky.com/story/sex-offences-against-women-not-given-same-response-as-other-high-priority-crimes-inquiry-finds-13478132 https://news.sky.com/story/why-mp-sir-christopher-chope-objected-to-making-upskirting-a-criminal-offence-11406015 And that certainly carries a lot more limelight than quietly writing a strongly worded letter to the Crown Prosecution Service. Demanding they provide the appropriate forces with a more understandable, simplified 'Yellow Card.'

https://news.sky.com/story/rachel-reeves-hit-by-labour-rural-rebellion-over-inheritance-tax-on-farmers-13478529 The moment it makes the mistake of escaping her mouth it becomes law. Wasn't that a rite-of-passage for us all growing up? Being dragged to Clarks™ to be expertly fitted for new school shoes, before they jacked the prices up at 5pm. It's only now I'm learning the silly buggers couldn't measure. https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/just-after-spiralling-healthcare-costs.html Seriously. How many more excuses does that fecking #DoleQueue need to be given(?!) https://news.sky.com/story/budget-leak-responsibility-of-obr-leadership-investigation-finds-13477959 Me, sitting here sitting here in the Christmas spirit and everything(!)

https://news.sky.com/story/former-pakistan-pm-imran-khan-healthy-but-isolated-in-jail-his-sister-says-13478344 Alone. He's earned that right. https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/okay-i-get-it-now.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjKYets2SBw (Time To Go, Dropkick Murphys, Official Audio).

https://news.sky.com/story/government-delays-chinese-super-embassy-decision-again-13478365 I had ScrewFix plans! *grumble* *swear* *grumble * *crumble* *swear some more* Honestly. I only mentioned the Little Leaguers to explain what I'd been doing with my time. Although I suppose at some point one of us is going to have to find a way to project manage the task of explaining to Little Miss "Fix the Foundations" our collective right to; "Light." However it's approaching mid-autumn now. So I really want to be telling COP30 delegates the saga of how I finally brought an Airfryer. Not Black Friday, but Black Friday prices. Technically I've long thought a miniature fan-assisted electric oven would be economically advantageous. However I've always lacked the kitchen space to store one. So one day the lure of Bin Day Eve overcame me and I tackled the stacked kitchen cabinets. Aside from an actual four candles I discovered them to be full of packaging for app...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15342877/Fashion-Awards-2025-arrivals-best-dressed-Royal-Albert-Hall.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15322033/Blake-Lively-vicious-Justin-Baldoni-kiss.html

I have flat feet. As a result of those flat feet I suffer a lot of sprained ankles. To the point that I long ago decided it would be economically viable for me to invest in my own pair of crutches. However I never followed through on that decision. When you have a sprained ankle you don't want to be going through the bother of having a set of crutches delivered. When you don't have a sprained ankle you don't want to imagine a future in which you will ever have a sprained ankle again. Despite all the evidence to the contrary. The other day I was walking past a shop that was handing out crutches for free. So I took a pair home. About a week later I sprained my knee. Crutches are of little use to a sprained knee. Lifting your foot off the ground only forces the knee carry the weight of that foot, and a bit.  And by; "Shop" I definitely don't mean; "Skip." As anyone with a working knowledge of the UK Theft Act (1968) would describe that as; "Theft b...

https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/yeah-season-2-of-animal-control-has.html Well, let's put it this way. I've never been more furious to have a case of wine delivered early. It wasn't until the day after I could pick the fecking thing up.  Seriously, how bad was it? Well. It's still three times larger than the other one. That one's sprained too(!)

https://news.sky.com/story/spirit-animal-raccoon-gets-drunk-as-a-skunk-in-a-booze-store-and-sleeps-off-hangover-in-the-toilet-13478586 Having finally landed in Britain. Seriously though, much like those bear Arctic Shipping Routes opened up by Climate Change. That previously unclaimed territory behind the shed is still *the* most important thing in Cat world. While I'm just debating whether "Nax" is, de facto, the greatest ever name for a Bengal Māo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jc8gOMu7D8 (Naxalite, Asian Dub Foundation, Disputed Audio, London Recordings). Or whether we should all just concede that the Chinese has already won that point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhXtiuTfAyA (The Naming Of Cats (from Cats), Official Audio Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals). Oh, to be in at the absolute lowest level of law enforcement. Again(!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-gbxmjzIKg (Spin Spin Sugar, Sneaker Pimps, Official Audio).

https://news.sky.com/story/pope-leo-urges-donald-trump-not-to-try-to-oust-venezuelan-president-by-force-13478264 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gygAo1Ft7pY (Dirty Old Town/Tiocfaidh Âr Lá, Conor Kelly, Men, Audio, Topic).

https://news.sky.com/story/sabrina-carpenter-hits-out-at-evil-and-disgusting-white-house-video-featuring-her-song-13478430 Seriously. Tell us you've missed a few stops. Without telling us you've missed a few stops. https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/police-confirm-pro-gaza-mps-involvement-in-maccabi-fan-ban-amid-claims-of-political-pressure/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppEfGIGVteo (Mama Tried, Merle Haggard, Proud, Official Audio). While qualified candidates would have spent today asking for forgiveness from the Sergeant-at-Arms. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/police-chiefs-face-questions-live-32977570

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiBKUjt9G7g (The Last Of Us 2x02 Promo "Through The Valley" [...] | HBO Series, Video, TV Promos). It's certainly got enough trigger warnings in it.

https://bones.fandom.com/wiki/The_Nazi_on_the_Honeymoon But was it really so urgent that I had to be stopped from watching Season 2 of; "Sons of Anarchy" (2009)?! After all it was attempting to access the; "U" app that did for the tablet, the stick's no use. And, it must be said, that it seems a strange hill to want to die on. As, *sucks air through teeth* *tries to remember best manners,* Alongside "The Unit" (2006-2009) Sons of Anarchy was part of that; "Golden Age of Television." Back when Digital Broadcasting was still in its infancy and TiVo was nothing more than a dream of the 1%. What The Unit did back then was so revolutionary everyone copied it. To the point that it's now just considered the barest minimum expected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFqwSbAY4Lk (Automatic Man, Bad Religion, X , Official Audio).

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15343999/miley-cyrus-engagement-rumors-maxx-morando-avatar.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu5gY3zAzMQ (Four Green Fields, The Dubliners, Ballads, Official Audio). Even without the proper accent, I assume that translates into even simple tonal languages. The inference of; 'Moved to a farm upstate.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo2UfccViLk (The Green Fields Of France, International Pub Ensemble, 50, Audio, Topic).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GZZ0oXsuQQ (The Little Drummer Girl | First Look, Video, BBC). Which is probably why I still haven't found time to watch; "Oppenheimer" ( 2023). Despite having long owned a digital copy of it. For less than £1/hour!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14354039/Bemused-child-Grammy-Awards-2025-viral-hit-Bianca-Censori.html Democratic Socialists don't do contracts. In any of the universes he might find himself in today.

https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2025/11/lets-all-go-to-movies-pt11.html "I need all of the songs from the musical Cats!" "And I need them in Mandarin!!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gObESOG6ae8 (The Overture (from Cats), Audio, Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals).  Although the picture tells its own story. That does seem to be the only way that women, particularly lesbians, can be pictured on news websites accessible under the UK Online Safety Act (2023). "Pela Família, por Deus e pela Liberdade!"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXLr1HU-QN8 (Imperial March, John Williams, Wiener, Audio Topic)

https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/01/pete-hegseth-parodies-franklin-the-turtle/ 

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-876928 https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/11/lets-all-go-to-movies-pt11-its-not.html https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/11/im-certainly-not-hearing-reasons-why-i.html 

Tuesday December 2nd 2025 (2/12/25). I had to take a sick day yesterday. I sprained my knee and after struggling with it for a couple of days it was only getting worse. So I had to go on actual bed rest to get it back on track. On the plus side the yard work I had planned for today is definitely cancelled. 

https://news.sky.com/story/us-and-uk-agree-zero-tariffs-on-pharmaceuticals-13477892

Monday December 1st 2025 (1/12/25). I can't say I'm feeling particularly motivated.