I haven’t done one for a while but as it’s Friday and it’s raining here’s some cute, funny cat commercials for your perusal and delectation.
Cat v Fish, maybe not the outcome you’d expect:
Is your cat trying to tell you something?
Sometimes I really do miss British tv.
Bonus clip: This is in Thai, but never mind the quality – feel the width!
Temper, temper, Lord Foulkes:
Looks like government nerves are getting a little frayed.
This would be the same Lord Foulkes who claimed £54,000 in expenses from the House of Lords, including overnight subsistence of £21,014 and a day subsidy (meals and extra travel) of £7,626, despite concurrently sitting as a Scottish member of Parliament.
What did his lordship’s party colleagues think of his performance? Not a lot. Labourhome:
Lord Foulkes disgraces himself on the BBC
In response to being pressed about what the public might think of all these expenses claims when they are having to tighten their belts, Foulkes says “No!”, showing his ignorance. He then starts spouting the party line on funding for health and education and prisons etc. He refuses to answer whether they should be made to pay back the money, then attacks the BBC for “sneering at democracy”. Yes, that’s right: a member of the House of Lords accused the BBC of undermining democracy when they try and hold people like him to account.”
Do they actually have to be strung up from lampposts before they get it?
What a political weekend.
Never was so much freeloaded by so many in New Labour’s long march to attain – and maintain – the haute-bourgeois lifestyle to which they think they should be accustomed. Never were so many acres of newsprint or miles of pixels expended in condemning it. ‘Do they think we’re stupid?’ is the general cry.
Yes, they do.
If this ASDA customer service recording is any evidence, they’re right. We are stupid. And like greedy MPs, we all expect something for nothing too:
Hello? Is that ASDA/Walmart? Can you deliver another Parliament, please? This one’s got no bottom to it.
Light saber fighting? Ho-hum. On Segways? Lemme see!
Why did no-one think of it before?
Bonus clip:
Alice takes a trip; a nice bit of totally SFW music video for your coffee break. Video runs full screen and you may want to plug the headphones in, but it’s a totally absorbing and brain clearing few minutes. Lovely.
North Korea’s video instructions to the populace on how to vote:
See, apathetic UK voters, it’s easy. Step up, bow to the nice party officials, and don’t forget to vote overwhelmingly for the Dear Leader. It certainly works for Kim Jong Il, who got 99% of the vote in the last North Korean election: it could work for Gordo too. He could put a copy through every letter box along with the swine flu leaflets.
It’s the only way Labour under Brown will ever get elected again anytime soon, despite their members’ best efforts to subvert the vote.
Labour MPs know this. They see the gravy train rapidly steaming out of the station. That’s why there are so many carefully placed rumours Charles”I’m ashamed to be a Labour MP” Clarke is plotting for the leadership as a Blairite ‘safety’ candidate, just to get rid of Brown.
Prepare for mean, stalking safety elephant on a media rampage and worse; like the once-laughable Squirrel Nutkin Hazel Blears and the lightweight James Purnell being touted as actual contenders for PM.
But the Blairites’ve tried it numerous times before, and like the Dear Leader Brown’s still there, despite being universally loathed by the public and his own party alike.
They’ve all failed to dislodge Brown; despite every failure, every disaster, every mismanagement and however many Nokias and printers he’s attacked in temper, the bugger’s still bloody there. It’s at least a year until the general election. We may yet get the instructional voting videos in the post.