Blimey. There Seems To Be An Awful Lot Invested In That Dragon Drama, Innit(!)

https://us.cnn.com/2026/02/22/sport/gallery/photos-closing-ceremony-italy-winter-olympics

I'm starting to think I should've been taking harder hits during the O₂ #SixNations.

While I must confess that my knowledge of Classical European Opera is far from complete. "Rigoletto" and; "Aida" seem like particular gaps at the moment.

So I've no idea whether Aida is supposed to be Cleopatra, or some generic Egyptian Queen. Many Egyptian Queens were Black. However Cleopatra was definitely not Black.

Although I do know that "Madam Butterfly" was telling a version of The Perry (gunboat) Expedition to Japan. With Perry being renamed as a, topical for 1904, "Pinkerton." So where all the Chinky-Winky¹ nonsense comes into it is anyone's guess.

Now, I do have a strong desire to dissect Germany's 2025 Eurovision Song Contest entry. After all, explaining Nietzsche's destruction of self, within a Bratish context, certainly seems like a five minute job(!)

Obviously the truth will not be known until the morning after the all day drinking. However the good news is that the Cold seems to be at an end.

I know that might seem convenient. However 7-10 days seems like the standard course for a mild Viral Respiratory infection. Which is what Covid was in 2019. Then again in 2021. It was only in 2020 we seem to have, collectively, lost our damn minds.

Certainly if I'd planned it I would have planned it for last Thursday (19/2). That way I'd be able to have some idea of what I'm going to be doing over the coming week.

Workwise, it's still not looking good though. We're fast approaching a certain someone's last opportunity to avoid initiating a Civil Legal proceeding whilst holding an unequivocal, written admission of their wrongdoing.

It could be worse though.

You could be waking up tomorrow to discover yourself tasked with trying to educate Harry f'ckin' Styles(!)

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Beatrice_(Divine_Comedy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sffX9Wrbw9w (Nessun Dorma, Italia 1990 World Cup BBC And Credits, Video, MITOGEN).

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¹And if you think that's offensive. Clearly, you've never seen a Classical European Opera.

Speaking of crass cultural insensitivity though. They do realise the Winter Olympics us the one with the Figure Skating(?!)

So there's never any need to be doing Major Lazer to anyone.

No matter how much of a rush you're in for them to leave.