Sunday, October 12, 2025

Davids Daily Dose - Sunday October 12


1/. Want to know what the Government shutdown is about? 
Let the most popular politician in the country and AOC explain it.
This is how you communicate in 2025 - short, to the point and totally believable......
2 minutes.....




2/. The SNL cold open with Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem.......6 minutes.....
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey!



3/. Two Democrats with a successful podcast.......telling it like it is, no BS!

When Donald Trump scheduled a press conference after a weekend in which rumors about his health swirled, two women in red-state Oklahoma launched a live stream for their more than 1 million followers on YouTube to speculate about the condition of “Cankles McTacoTits”, shortened to Canks “for expediency and spite”.

It was fitting for the profanity-laced, straight-talking liberal podcast I’ve Had It that quipped, after interviewing Barack Obama, that the former president has “big dick energy”.

Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan have risen up the podcast charts, buoyed by Democrats looking to commiserate and find their party’s answer to the bro-filled atmosphere that helped propel Trump’s victory in 2024.        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/05/ive-had-it-podcast-democrats-liberals?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other



4/. Tom Tomorrow and the shutdown....



5/. A list of the best magazine covers of the last few decades.....very interesting!

Despite all the groaning that “print is dead,” many people seem captivated by magazines lately: When Anna Wintour relinquished her editorship in June of Vogue, which she’s overseen for 37 years, it was national newsa memoir by the former Vanity Fair editor in chief Graydon Carter and a dishy nonfiction chronicle (by the New York Times reporter Michael M. Grynbaum) of Carter’s ex-employer, the luxury magazine publisher Condé Nast, made many summer reading lists. And even if magazines don’t hold the same cultural sway — or profits or attention spans — they once did, it’s undeniable that the people who make them, and the stories and images they’ve made, still have much to show us, not just about how we read and see, but about how we live. This has been true for nearly two centuries: Popular magazines like Scientific American and The Atlantic have both been continuously published since the mid-1800s.



6/. A new drama - Lesbian Hunting Wives.......or something.....SNL amusing.....3 minutes.....



7/. Need a new EV? Bob Lefsetz says consider a used EV. as a lot are coming off lease.......

You may not want to buy a new electric car, but when it comes to buying a used automobile…

America’s isolation is leaving it in a backwater. Especially when it comes to electric cars. If there were no tariffs on Chinese EVs, they’d wipe out the American manufacturers overnight, they’d dominate sales in the U.S. They’re that advanced, they’re that good and they’re not that expensive.

But as a result of our present Administration, the focus is now on coal and traditional fossil fuels. And this has become a tribal issue. Elon Musk may make electric cars, but really they’re for the coastal elites who believe climate change is real.

But your beliefs are no challenge to your pocketbook.

Used EVs are a stealth incursion into the market, they’re how electric cars are going to come to dominate the U.S. fleet. While GM and Ford are icing their EV investments/production, and as the conventional wisdom has people deciding on hybrids, the supposed best of both worlds, everybody is ignoring the obvious…

EVs REQUIRE ALMOST NO MAINTENANCE!                                                                                                                                   https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2025/10/03/used-evs/



8/. My favourite SNL cast member, Sarah Sherman, is a concerned New Yorker......
A really funny 4 minutes on Weekend Update.....



9/. Democrats  - read this if you want to win the next election.....

For close to a year, Democrats have been locked in debate over their path out of the wilderness. In party retreats and private Slack channels, along with testy exchanges on social media and strategic leaks to reporters, Democratic insiders have wrestled over the mistakes of the Biden administration and the shortcomings of the Harris campaign.

The stakes of those arguments have risen even higher in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, with the White House intensifying its crackdown on dissent, and MAGA leaders declaring holy war against the left.

But an air of denial — and, more recently, panic — has pervaded the discussion about what comes next. It’s easy to say drastic reform is needed, but there’s no agreement on what this should look like. In practice, the party establishment is doing what party establishments always do: counting on the other side to self-destruct so it can squeak back into power while changing as little as possible.



10/. Just another Trump day......


11/. Want more friends? Read this article and learn from Gerry! 

Ihave a friend named Gerry. I didn’t have much choice about being Gerry’s friend. If Gerry decides you’re going to be his friend, you don’t have much choice about it. He calls. He invites. He emails. If you don’t answer, if you can’t make it, if you make plans and then cancel, he doesn’t care. He keeps calling. He keeps inviting. He keeps emailing. The man is relentless in his mission to connect.

And guess what? Gerry has a lot of friends.

In a world where men suffer from unprecedented loneliness, Gerry is an extreme rarity: a man who works on his friendships. I can’t help wondering why he is so unique.

Gerry is 85, which is 36 years older than me. One weekend, he invited me to his cottage with several other friends, most of whom were around his age            https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/oct/03/how-to-make-more-friends?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other



12/. A little sick, but very, very funny! Golf video.....3 minutes.....




13/. A mini-DOGE operation comes to Florida......

The words of Blaise Ingoglia, the Ron DeSantis loyalist handpicked to lead the Republican Florida governor’s Doge-style assault on local government spending, could not have been more prophetic.

“Expect a knock on the door from us,” Ingoglia warned on 1 October as he announced upcoming audits for Democratic-run cities and counties whose “excessively wasteful” pecuniary habits displeased the DeSantis administration.

The knock came soon enough, but in an unexpected place. Two armed police officers in bulletproof vests, sent by the criminal investigations division of Ingoglia’s Florida department of financial services, turned up at the home of a retired couple in Largo, demanding to know whether they had sent him a handwritten postcard that contained only three words: “You lack values.”

“It was designed to intimidate us,” said James O’Gara, a military veteran who said the non-threatening card was one of dozens he has sent to various local, state and national politicians as part of a campaign of peaceful protest.                                                                                                                                                                                   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/12/blaise-ingoglia-doge-florida-ron-desantis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other



14/. A Weekend Update face-off with some familiar former hosts......3 minutes.....amusing.....




15/. The best movies on Netflix......Vanity Fair's picks.....

It can be hard to find the best movies on Netflix. We all understand the struggle of scrolling time—hours lost to wading through all of the Netflix movie options that could instead have been spent, you know, watching something. Or maybe something has been sitting patiently on your queue, waiting for someone to give you a nudge to finally press play. So, like a beacon in the night, here’s a guide to 25 of the best films within Netflix’s huge selection—including everything from landmark films to cult classics to Netflix-original hidden gems—updated monthly as films appear on and leave the platform. Take that, decision fatigue. (And if you want a list of the best shows on Netflix, we’ve got one of those too.)



16/. A new documentary on HBO about the abuses in the Alabama Prison system......
You will need a stiff drink to watch this......

When film-makers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman visited Alabama’s Easterling prison in 2019, they found a deceptively pleasant scene. Like Alabama’s 13 other prisons, Easterling largely prohibits media access, but allowed the documentarians to film its annual volunteer-run barbecue, a sunny day in which incarcerated men, most of them Black, ate fresh roasts to live music and sermons. On camera, men danced and smiled. But off camera, many more told a different story – horrific beatings, unreported stabbings, unimaginable violence swept under the rug and appalling conditions that “ain’t fit for human society”. Cries for help emerged from inside the sweltering, filthy dorms. When Jarecki approached the voices, a prison official shut down filming, claiming that it was unsafe for him to speak to the men without a police chaperone.                                                                                                                                                                             https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/12/documentary-the-alabama-solution?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other




Today's DEI joke
A blind man walked into a cozy little restaurant and sat down at a corner table.
The owner, who was also the waiter, handed him a menu.
“Sir, I should tell you—I’m blind. I can’t read that. 
Just bring me a dirty fork from a previous customer. I’ll smell it and decide what to order.”
The owner raised an eyebrow, puzzled, but decided to play along. 
He grabbed a greasy fork from the pile of dirty dishes and brought it over.
The blind man held the fork to his nose, inhaled deeply, and smiled.
“Ah, perfect. I’ll have the meatloaf with mashed potatoes.”
The owner nearly dropped his jaw. How in the world…? 
Still, he went to the kitchen, told his wife—the cook—what had happened, and shook his head in disbelief.
The blind man enjoyed his meal and left.
A few days later, he returned. Once again, the owner accidentally handed him a menu.
“Sir, it’s me, the blind man. Remember? The fork trick.”
“Oh, right! Forgive me.” The owner fetched another dirty fork from the pile.
The blind man sniffed it, nodded, and said, “Mmm, macaroni and cheese with broccoli. I’ll take that.”
The owner’s eyes widened. Unbelievable! This guy can’t be real. 
He hurried to the kitchen and told his wife, “I swear, he’s messing with me. Next time, I’ll put him to the test.”
The following week, the blind man came back. 
The moment the owner spotted him walking in, he rushed to the kitchen.
“Mary,” he whispered to his wife, “do me a favor—rub this fork on your panties before I give it to him. Let’s see if he’s really that good.”
She gave him a suspicious look, then smirked and did it.
The owner, grinning mischievously, brought the fork straight to the blind man’s table.
“Good afternoon, sir! I remembered you this time—your fork is ready.”
The blind man took the fork, held it up to his nose, breathed in deeply… then broke into a wide grin.
“Well, well, well… I didn’t know Mary worked here.”


Today's hamster joke
Aaron, a mangy looking guy, walks into a very classy restaurant and orders a steak. 
The waitress says: "I'm sorry, but I don't think you can pay for your meal." 
Aaron admits, "You're right. I don't have any money, but if I show you something you haven't seen before, will you give me my supper?"
The waitress, both curious and compassionate, says, "Only if what you show me isn't risque."
"Deal!" says the guy and reaches into his coat pocket and pulls out a hamster. 
He puts the hamster on the ground and it runs across the room, directly to a piano. 
The hamster then proceeds to climb up the piano, and starts playing Gershwin songs.
The waitress says, "You're right. I've never seen anything like that before. That hamster is truly good on the piano." 
The guy sits back and enjoys a fine steak supper with all the trimmings.
Shortly thereafter, he asks the waitress, "Can I have a piece of that fine blueberry pie I see on the dessert cart over there?" 
"Only if you got another miracle up your sleeve", says the waitress. 
The guy reaches into his coat again and pulls out a frog. 
He puts the frog on the table, and the frog starts to sing up a storm!
A stranger from a nearby table runs over to the guy and offers him $300 for the frog. 
The guy says "It's a deal." He takes the three hundred and gives the stranger the frog. 
The stranger runs out of the restaurant with dollar signs in his eyes and a big smile on his face.
The waitress says to the guy "Are you some kind of nut? You sold a singing frog for $300? It must have been worth millions!"
"No", says Aaron. "The hamster is also a ventriloquist."


Today's blind person joke
Husband and wife are waiting at the bus stop with their nine children. 

A blind man joins them after a few minutes. 

When the bus arrives, they find it overloaded and only the wife and the nine kids are able to fit onto the bus.

So the husband and the blind man decide to walk. 

After a while, the husband gets irritated by the ticking of the stick of the blind man as he taps it on the sidewalk, and says to him, "Why don't you put a piece of rubber at the end of your stick? That ticking sound is driving me crazy."

The blind man replies, "If you had put a rubber at the end of YOUR stick, we'd be riding the bus!



Today's bonus joke
During my prostate exam I asked the Doctor "where should I put my pants?"
"Over there by mine" was not the answer I was expecting.



Today's blonde joke
John walked into a sports bar around 5:58 PM.

He sat down next to a very attractive blonde at the bar and stared up at the TV.

The 6 PM news was coming on. The news crew was covering the story Of a man on the ledge of a large building preparing to jump.

The blonde looked at Bob and said, "Do you think he'll jump?"

John said, "You know, I reckon he'll jump."

The blonde replied, "Well, I bet he won't."

John placed a $20 bill on the bar and said,"You're on!"

The blonde placed her money on the bar, and kept watching the scene on the telly. The guy on the ledge did a swan dive off the building, falling to his death.

The blonde was very upset, but willingly handed her $20 to John "Fair's fair. Here's your money."

John replied, "I can't take your money".  I saw this earlier on the 5 PM news, so I knew he would jump."

The blonde replied, "I did, too, but I didn't think he'd do it again."

 John took the money.


Saturday, October 4, 2025

Davids Daily Dose - Saturday October 4th

 Took a few weeks off folks.....and it gave me time to think about where we are going and what are all of our roles in the real life tragedy we are acting in.

One thing is clear - the media has completely failed in its duty to inform us of the truth of the takeover of our country.
While we still have them I would urge you to subscribe to Heather Cox Richardson, The Atlantic, Bob Lefsetz [free] and the last major news organisations left with a modicum of integrity, the New York Times and the Guardian US. 
TV news is corporately muzzled by its billionaire owners who are afraid of the wrath of "Him". 
The best place for news is our late night hosts, plus Jon Stewart, the Daily Show guys and John Oliver.

Anyway - we are plugging on! Enjoy!



1/  "How Democracies Die"....an excellent article by Thom Hartmann, on the 12 steps dictators use to consolidate power.
Guess what? We're there already....

People are baffled. Why are Trump and his Republican lickspittles so intent on gutting our government, destroying our alliances and reputation around the world, and screwing working class people while transferring over $50 trillion from them to the morbidly rich?

Historian Kevin M. Kruse captured the zeitgeist brilliantly, reflecting widespread public bewilderment when he posted over on BlueSky:

“We’ve had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup. It’s been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn’t be doing anything different.”

So, let’s engage in a simple thought experiment. If you or I were hired by Putin, an angry group of billionaires who want to end democracy, or a wealthy serial killer, and our orders were to tear our country apart and make us vulnerable to foreign takeover, what would we do? What steps would we take?https://hartmannreport.com/p/twelve-steps-to-national-collapse-636?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=302288&post_id=175147266&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=2cwgv&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email



2/. George Packer in The Atlantic with a must read article - "America's Zombie Democracy".
He writes on the erosion of our democracy and the rise of the fascist state. 
It's the way we are living now - all seems pretty normal, but don't dig too deep


It didn’t feel that way this morning, when I took my dog for his usual walk in the park and dew from the grass glittered on my boots in the rising sunlight. It doesn’t feel that way when you’re ordering an iced mocha latte at Starbucks or watching the Patriots lose to the Steelers. The persistent normality of daily life is disorienting, even paralyzing. Yet it’s true.

We have in our heads specific images of authoritarianism that come from the 20th century: uniformed men goose-stepping in jackboots, masses of people chanting party slogans, streets lined with giant portraits of the leader, secret opposition meetings in basements, interrogations under naked light bulbs, executions by firing squad. Similar things still happen—in China, North Korea, Iran. But I’d be surprised if this essay got me hauled off to prison in America. Authoritarianism in the 21st century looks different, because it is different. Political scientists have tried to find a new term for it: illiberal democracy, competitive authoritarianism, right-wing populism. In countries such as Hungary, Turkey, Venezuela, and India, democracies aren’t overthrown, nor do they collapse all at once. Instead, they erode. Opposition parties, the judiciary, the press, and civil-society groups aren’t destroyed, but over time they lose their life, staggering on like zombie institutions, giving the impression that democracy is still alive.



3/. And here we are......Tom Tomorrow nails it again.....


4/. David Wallace-Wells with a pretty depressing article on China's overwhelming lead in green energy, in a time when 
we are going full tilt in the opposite direction.

It’s a theme I’ve highlighted, too, over the past few years, including in a recent essay on the state of climate geopolitics for The Times Magazine. Ten years since the landmark Paris Agreement seemed to promise a whole new era for climate politics, the rich world has mostly abandoned warming as a matter of political concern — and the spirit of global solidarity on which those climate goals were supposedly built.

But renewables are storming forward anyway, thanks in large part to the spectacular rise of China as a green-industrial behemoth. By any objective measure, the pace of the global transition remains woefully inadequate. But last year, renewables accounted for 93 percent of global power additions — and as of July, 74 percent of wind and solar projects worldwide were being built by China.



5/. Over and over and over......


6/. Bob Lefsetz on the return of Kimmel last week......

You don’t poke the bear.

Let’s say you’re called into the principal’s office. And this puffed-up authority figure starts coming down on you, reciting your so-called offenses… You hang your head and listen. You stay quiet. You certainly don’t bark back, because of the CONSEQUENCES!

The principal has the power and you don’t. You will ultimately be gone, but the school will remain. The institution is bigger than the individual. Therefore, you must heed its rules, however insane they might be.

But not Jimmy Kimmel.

The course of behavior was clear. Jimmy needed to do a bit of a mea culpa and then go completely off topic, steer clear of the controversy, but Kimmel LEANED IN!

My inbox is full of right wingers telling me Kimmel isn’t funny and he and late night will soon be gone. That’s completely missing the point, in a world where what is said today may not even be remembered tomorrow. The future has never appeared less locked down. The nation is in turmoil. You fight your battles today, because the war might be over by tomorrow.

And in case you didn't see it, here it is......wonderful!




7/. Heather Cox Richardson masterfully explains how the military summit went down this week.....
She quotes Trump's actual words and you can clearly see, like all of our top brass, he is completely demented......
But if you read/watch MSM your takeaway is troops to be used on US soil.....nothing about the insanity and racism,.

Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation’s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to meet at Marine Corps Base Quantico, in Virginia, today. Such a meeting was unprecedented, and its suddenness meant military leaders across the world had to drop everything to run to Washington, D.C., at enormous financial cost for the country. Under those extraordinary circumstances, speculation about what Hegseth intended to say or do at the meeting has been widespread.

Now we know. This morning, in front of a giant flag backdrop that echoed the opening scene from the movie Patton, Hegseth harangued the career military leaders, pacing as if he were giving a TED talk. The event was streamed live to the public, making it clear that the hurry to get everyone to Washington, D.C., in person was not about secrecy.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-30-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=20533&post_id=174999513&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozOTYxMTgzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNzQ5OTk1MTMsImlhdCI6MTc1OTMwNTYyMiwiZXhwIjoxNzYxODk3NjIyLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjA1MzMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.oiM2cBbaMZkI3sDbWqJjTtkgwFVRoLBqC1OKXySALb0&r=2cwgv&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email



8/. Time for an AI mini-movie.....three minutes....."God is a Cockroach".....



9/. A typical day in DC.....



10/. George Monblot on what is really going on in Gaza......

Alandless people and a peopleless land: these, it appears, are the aims of the Israeli government in Gaza. There are two means by which they are achieved. The first is the mass killing and expulsion of the Palestinians. The second is rendering the land uninhabitable. Alongside the crime of genocide, another great horror unfolds: ecocide.

While the destruction of buildings and infrastructure in Gaza is visible in every video we see, less visible is the parallel destruction of ecosystems and means of subsistence. Before the 7 October atrocity that triggered the current assault on Gaza, about 40% of its land was farmed. Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged. That’s roughly 200 hectares – the only remaining area directly available to feed more than 2 million people.



11/. A new ad for pregnant ladies.....30 seconds...



12/. Fight your way through this article - Andrew Sullivan with a fascinating take on where our society has gone.
Well worth reading, if indeed you still read anything.....which if you are a boomer you probably do....

I’m sure some of you had something like this moment if you were an adult in the 1990s, but this conversation has stuck in my mind over the succeeding years. At The New Republic when I was editor, one day the business manager, if I recall, decided to bring up a weird subject at the weekly editorial conference. He didn’t usually say much. But he nervously cleared his throat, and stiffened his sinews to ask: What did we think we were going to do about this new thing called the Internet? If discourse went online, as everyone seems to think it will, what would happen to the magazine?
Various dismissals and grumbles followed. “But is it good for the Jews?” was the final, sardonic response, and we all laughed. But I remember saying that if the web was what it seemed to be, then magazines would surely cease to exist, because they depended on a weekly or monthly group of writers and articles, held together, by paper and staples. Take the paper and staples away, and nothing coheres in the same way. So we’re doomed, I confidently said.



13/. Tom Tomorrow skewers our billionaire owned media......


14/. A classic commercial.....the Ballet Beer ad.....1 minute...



15/. The title of this is "Listen to the Dictator".......Trump and his goons always tell you exactly what they are going to do.....

Hundreds of senior military officers sat in the crowd this Tuesday as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump wasted their time. They had been called in from around the world, a world that sits in an increasingly precarious position. The trip was no doubt arduous and exhausting. And, for their troubles, they got to listen to a Fox & Friends host lecture them about merit and physical standards, and a president ramble about whatever in the hell crossed his addled mind.

Hegseth’s performance was among the most cringe worthy I’ve seen in modern politics. This unqualified fraud thought it was a good idea to strut around stage and emphasize the “warrior ethos,” which, from what I can tell, amounts to ignoring the Geneva Convention and lamenting the armed forces as being “too woke.” It was embarrassing and if there’s any comfort I took from this spectacle it’s that those in the crowd were serious people who doubtlessly saw through Hegseth’s bullshit and, in the long run, any fascistic threat has a moment where the military has to make a decision whether to side with the state or the people. I’m not hanging my hat on the hope that this soured the potential for the state to win out, but it’s also not out of the question. It was…that bad.

Trump’s address was, in a word, insane. Those of us who pay attention to his comments know that he is in rapid decline, but this performance and the one recently at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service really underscore how severe it is



16/. Republicans despise the poor.......



17/. Just been on vacation abroad? Get a shock at your roaming data charges? 
Here's the answer - an ESim card.....

On a week-long trip to Paris last year, I racked up nearly $100 in data charges on my iPhone, with taxes and fees. Ditto for a separate, eight-day trip to Spain, which was even more pricey. And, in what I now jokingly call an act of piracy, my three-week trip to seven countries – including a seven-day cruise – cost me over $300 for data.

I (eventually) learned my lesson, and a little research yielded a simple solution that can make life a lot easier: Switching to a local carrier for your travels. This used to entail a visit to an airport kiosk or a mobile store to get a fingernail-sized plastic SIM chip installed in your phone, but a new feature called an eSIM lets you handle it all from your phone before you even leave. My eSim for Paris cost $11 for 5GB of data, plenty for checking emails, using Google Maps, and browsing social media (although I was careful not to upload photos until I had wifi access). In Spain, I spent $10 for 5GB.

Here’s how it works, and how to use it on your next trip abroad.



18/. An AI short about waking up the old Gods......
Definitely a little weird....2 minutes.....



19/. If you are poor and live in the stupid South it's a crime to be pregnant.....

In the first two years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, prosecutors in 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, new research released on Tuesday found.

Of the 412 cases tracked by Pregnancy Justice, the vast majority took place in the US south, targeted low-income women and involved allegations that women broke laws against child abuse, endangerment or neglect, according to the research, which was compiled by the reproductive justice group. About 300 prosecutions took place in Alabama and Oklahoma. In 16 cases, law enforcement charged women with homicide.                                                                                                                                      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/30/pregnancy-us-women-crimes-study?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other



20/  Kind of what happened.....



21/. A must watch medical ad, just in case you have these symptoms.......2 minutes....



22/. There are some really good shows out, and here the Guardian summarises them with a synopsis - the full review is there if anything tickles your fancy!
We are watching Wayward and House of Guinness - really good so far.....

Summed up in a sentence “House of Guinness is Like Succession but about a booze dynasty in 19th-century Dublin, Steven Knight’s latest show is full of smarts, heart and sex appeal. It’s a career peak for him.”

What our reviewer said “As the shouting, fighting and drawing-room tensions escalate, and sex proves to be as much of a hindrance to clear thinking as money (the casting of James Norton, pheromones fairly radiating from the screen, is a big help there), House of Guinness matures into a romp that you can hardly resist.” Jack Seale

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/sep/27/house-of-guinness-to-olivia-dean-the-week-in-rave-reviews?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other



23/. Not sure if you are catching the new South Park episodes, but it's worth [gulp] subscribing to Paramount just for these.....

In the three weeks since South Park last aired, things have changed. The assassination of rightwing pundit Charlie Kirk exploded already fiery political tensions, with the Trump administration and its base embarking on a campaign of retribution the likes of which haven’t been seen since the McCarthy era, and stating, without sufficient evidence, that Kirk’s murder was the result of a wide-ranging leftist plot. Scores of people in the public and private sectors have been punished for commenting on the situation, most notably late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, whose show was briefly pulled off air after the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, put parent company Disney under pressure to do so.

Suffice to say, the situation is far too dire to worry about where a cartoon sitcom fits into it all, but South Park is a special case. The first episode of season 27 revolved around the politically motivated cancellation of Stephen Colbert, another late-night talkshow host critical of Donald Trump, while the second directly lampooned Kirk.



Today's video - widely acknowledged to be one of the best car chases ever filmed [until Baby Driver!]- from "Bullitt" with the wonderful Steve McQueen....who BTW did all his own driving!

"Bullitt" chase scene inside San Francisco.....3 minutes.....

Complete "Bullitt" chase scene including the highway.....
7 minutes....



Today's golf joke
This guy brings his best golf buddy home, unannounced, for dinner at 6:30 after golf. His wife screams her head off while his friend sits open mouthed and listens to the tirade.

"My bloody hair and makeup are not done, the house is a f****** mess, the dishes aren't done. Can't you see I'm still in my f****** pyjamas and I can't be bothered with cooking tonight!  
Why the f*** did you bring him home unannounced you stupid idiot?" 

"Because he's thinking of getting married."  



Today's Mensa joke
Some years ago, there was a Mensa convention in San Francisco.
Mensa, as you know, is a national organization for people who have an IQ of 140 or higher.

Several of the Mensa members went out for lunch at a local cafe.
When they sat down, one of them discovered that their salt shaker contained pepper, and their pepper shaker was full of salt.
How could they swap the contents of the two bottles without spilling any, and using only the implements at hand?

Clearly  --  this was a job for Mensa minds.

The group debated the problem and presented ideas and finally, came up with a brilliant solution involving a napkin, a straw, and an empty saucer.

They called the waitress over, ready to dazzle her with their solution.

"Ma'am," they said," we couldn't help but notice that the pepper shaker contains salt and the salt shaker contains pepper."

But before they could finish ..........  the waitress interrupted. "Oh  --  sorry about that."  She leaned over the table, unscrewed the caps of both bottles and switched them.

There was dead silence at the Mensa table.


Today's Jewish joke
A Catholic, a Protestant, a Muslim, and a Jew were in a discussion during dinner. 

Catholic: "I have a large fortune....I am going to buy Citibank!" 
Protestant: "I am very wealthy and will buy General Motors!" 
Muslim: "I am a fabulously rich prince.... I intend to purchase Microsoft!" 
They then all wait for the Jew to speak.... 

The Jew stirs his coffee, places the spoon neatly on the table, takes a sip of his coffee, looks at them and casually says: "I'm not selling."


The Apple Watch joke
A Navy pilot walks into a bar and takes a seat next to a very attractive woman.
He gives her a quick glance then casually looks at his new Apple watch for a moment.
The woman notices this and asks, "Is your date running late?"
No,” he replies, “I just got this state-of-the-art Apple watch, and I was just testing it.”
The intrigued woman says, “A state-of-the-art watch? What’s so special about it?”
The pilot says, “It uses alpha waves to talk to me telepathically.”
The lady says, “What’s it telling you now?”
Well, it says you're not wearing any panties.”
The woman giggles and replies, “Well it must be broken because I am wearing panties!”
The pilot smirks, taps his watch and says, “Darn thing’s an hour fast.”
 

Medical joke
A flat-chested young lady went to Dr. Smith about enlarging her tiny breasts:
Dr. Smith advised her. "Every day after your shower rub your chest and say, 'Scooby doobie doobies, I want bigger boobies.'"
She did this faithfully for several months and it worked. She grew terrific D-cup boobs!
One morning she was running late, got on the bus and in a panic realised she had forgotten her morning ritual.
Frightened she might lose her lovely boobs if she didn't recite the little rhyme, she stood right there in the middle aisle of the bus, 
closed her eyes and said. "Scooby doobie doobies, I want bigger boobies."
A guy sitting nearby looked at her and said. "By any chance, are you a patient of Dr. Smith's?"
"Why, yes I am. How did you know?"
He leaned closer, winked and whispered......
"Hickory dickory dock..."



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