I’m sure Telly Savalas would chuffed to know there are still Kojak fans out there..I would obvs love to think it was a dedication to me but seems unlikely…
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Sandwiched somewhere amongst the headlines this week was the scientist’s final warning on climate change to the leaders of the world: act now or it’s too late. For decades they have been saying “before it’s too late” and now we are almost at the moment when there is no before..it’s just too late. Was this information greeted with alarm or urgency? Did they drop everything and leap into action? Ehh, not so much.
Most people barely noticed it. It got lost in the noise like everything else. And politicians certainly didn’t flag it up. And so there it is..facing a threat to our very existence the human race simply ignored it and went about their business. And we so limp towards this calamitous destiny ..not with a bang or even a whimper..just with a collective shrug of indifference…and possibly with just the vaguest hope in the back of our minds that some sort of miracle will somehow save the day..although none of us exactly know what that might be..a superhero possibly? Godzilla? The climate fairy? Who’s going to be our knight in shining armour? It certainly ain’t gonna be anyone in power cos they would’ve stepped up by now. So who? Actually the messiah is apparently due for a return so maybe we’ll be ok after all…let’s go with that..
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I’m thinking probably not a Vegan then..
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I can’t tell if this is an advert or a review..
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So we seem to be in the right spot then…
Strange position of the exclamation point don’t you think? It’s like they couldn’t wait! to get to the end of the sentence..
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I was by happenstance going to post this photo today even before I heard the magnificent news. I was always slightly confused by what was written on this wall as couldn’t tell if the writer thought the above were actually good things or this was a sarcastic list of his (lack of) achievements. Either way it don’t matter no more…cos its bye bye Boris! Finally amidst a relentless barrage of bad news something good actually happens…let’s just enjoy this moment.
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Words on the streets this week with some comedy commentary to ease us back into proceedings. Although I think the above wall scrawl requires a more serious take. Am assuming it is a reference to the protest bill that recently sailed through the Commons and is about to be passed by the House of lords. If it goes through it will effectively make protest illegal in this country and propel us in a single bound away from a democracy and towards something much more sinister. 1984 might finally have arrived.
While a giant chunk of the population was banging on about their freedoms being taken away, incensed by a piece of cloth that covered your face and marching in the streets to demand their right to flout restrictions that were initiated to protect us, there was a genuine assault on our freedom being quietly passed through parliament. And yet strangely none of these ‘freedom fighters’ had a problem with that which is ironic, as once this bill gets ratified, they won’t be able to protest about perceived threats to their freedom because a real one would have taken away their right to.
It’s pretty scary shit and once again our complacency and apathy will be our downfall. To be fair we have been distracted by this endless pandemic but while we were consumed by it, the war on the virus was being used as a very effective smoke screen to re-shape our society into some ting a bit more Orwellian. #killthebill
p.s Thank you to everyone for all their warm messages welcoming me back. Very much appreciated. I feel like i just got out of solitary. It’s good to be back in the fold.
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Ah, bless, how sweet, how thoughtful. It’s just all give, give, give with this one…
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I don’t necessarily disagree with this equation but did we really need a name for it? Is that helping at all? And why are you trying to make Britastrophe happen, yeah? How is that gonna get us out of this mess? It’s also not very good let’s be honest.
Why do we feel we have to labradoodle everything these days? It’s like everything has to be simplified to fuck and made hashtagable before anyone pays attention? It’s like our current government seem more focused on creating the right slogan rather than implementing genuine measures to combat Covid. The virus can’t read. It doesn’t give a shit what catchy phrase you use. Maybe now the Spin Doctor of Barnard Castle is gone, they won’t focus quite as much on advise that rhymes and think that’ means the job is done.
So featured this week are some random wall scrawls alongside some stickers & posters that have been plastered around to jolt people into thought. I think it is the fact that printing has got become much cheaper which has spurred on a new wave of slightly more professional executions than dragging a fat sharpie across a wall as presentation for people’s message out there on the streets. Its become more and more of a thing as you can see..
Many are of an anti-government nature but as in the drug one above, (which I don’t really understand tbh -are they drug shaming or class shaming ?) they can be sometimes quite oblique in their intention. Although most, it has to be said, are of a political nature as are most things these days and am quite astounded how over-politicised are lives have become recently.
It feels like almost everything goes through this political polarising filter. It would appear our persuasions are being pulled whilst others are pushing their own agendas. There was a time when not everything was about politics. It seems to really dominate all aspects of life at the moment. I think we all need to take a step out of the red corner and the blue corner and stop looking for a fight with the opposition at every turn.
I blame the 24 news feed which just wants to stoke our rage to keep us wired in and the easiest way to do that is to push our respective buttons & beliefs. But all it achieves is increased polarisation when we really all need to be coming towards the middle. I miss the centrism of 90s politics. Less black and white, less hostile, less like feeling you had somehow fallen into a civil war you don’t remember starting.
As for the anti-lockdown brigade trying to incite dissent, (well done on the logo & slogan, lovely work ;) they are seemingly the only ones oblivious to the irony that their activity will most likely prolong the very thing they want to end. And its pretty fucking pointless..I mean, go ahead, ignore the lockdown by all means, then what? What are you gonna do? Everything’s shut for fuck’s sake.
And so I will end this week of walled bulletins the way I started it, with some good ole fashioned sprayed graffiti with no real agenda other than to delight up your day…are you talkin to me? Awww, shucks n stuff..thanks!
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Ok, personally they wouldn’t have been my first two choices…I’m not gonna go into the first one but full? really? You want the new world to be full? For what purpose? I mean, it’s going that way anyway but who actually wants that?
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Scrawls on walls this week, some clear, some not, some finished, some not..with reference to this shot above it would appear they are anti-mask..no prizes for guessing that one. There are people out there who don’t want to wear one for reasons revolving mostly around selfishness, paranoia and/or stupidity but why would you have issue with someone else wearing one? What concern is that of yours? What harm could be done by wearing one other than to make CCTV cameras pretty fucking useless?
So many things these days are processed emotionally rather than rationally it is preventing an intelligent response or discourse on anything. With regard to the mask ting it’s just a bit of cloth covering your gob to help stop you spraying/swallowing spit globules. Latest research (here) reveals that there is way less risk from touching surfaces than they thought and if you are out in the open you aren’t in much danger either but close quarter indoor interaction is greatest chance of getting it which is why masks are so important if you aren’t chatting at a distance….and that’s it. That’s why they want you to wear them.
You wanna make more of it? You wanna get all riled up over face fabric? That’s on you. It’s literally all they are asking you to do. Most of us will only need to wear it for a fraction of our waking day. And you’re telling me you can’t even do that?
I don’t really have any interest to wade in on the mask debate because I can’t really believe its even still a debate. Its fuck all to do with your freedom. It’s disease prevention control. That’s it. There is no more.
They don’t want to curb our freedoms because we already gave them up on a plate. That horse has already bolted I’m afraid…
They don’t want to chip us because they already have. If you walk around with a phone every step you take is being tracked & monitored. Bill Gates isn’t putting nanobots in a vaccine to do that because it’s already happened and we consented.
And they don’t want to control us because they already do. And we let them in return for lil tit bits that facilitate our lives. We live in a comfy prison. We always have. It’s got fuck all to do with masks or Covid. Does it suck to wear them? Sure. Are there worst things out there than us all walking around looking like surgical gangsters? Fuck yes…like this thing dragging on forever cos we can’t reign in our behaviour. Don’t we all want things to go back to normal? I sure as shit do.
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just in case he came up to Soho to take advantage of the Eat out to help Out scheme..