A very big thank you for all of lovely comments on my “birthday” post. I ummed and aaahed over whether to reply individually, but laziness and time constraints took over. You made me blush with your praise.
I’ve never been considered a “wit”, perhaps a few other things ending in “it”, but I think the frustration at the response to covid and the current crazy state of the world allowed me to tap into a previously hidden reservoir of snark n sarc.
I’m not sure it’s much of a thank you, but here are some memes and other images I’ve either enjoyed or found meaningful.
Remember those people wanting to inject kids as part of the “wall of protection” for adults?
It’s “amnesty” these ghouls want now 🤬
But, to be fair, it was a super-duper-diddly-doo dangerous disease - and bakery workers faced particularly high risks
Amnesty isn’t on the table, and neither was sliced bread, but it would be nice if governments apologized for the mental incontinence they caused.
Airlines were particularly hard hit by the travel restrictions - and they did their best to drum up some business by getting people to think about great places to visit
I was often in awe of the savage wit employed
One of the particularly vile messages put out in the UK was to consider yourself to be a walking biohazard - to assume you could infect others with covid even if you had no symptoms and to “act like you’ve got it”. There were some great public responses
The IFR on this poster is way too high, but it still makes sense!
Common sense, if you spend too much time on Twitter, would seem to be in short supply. I have no real room to talk. As someone who has perpetrated more DIY disasters than any gay lover with a hammer, I would categorize myself as having about as much common sense as a bowl of porridge.
Activism is everywhere, on all fronts. First, they came for your burgers
The queer theorists seemed intent on giving your kids a Buzz
Fat became the “in thing” - and as someone who has overdone the blob a bit, I was really looking forward to the hordes of ladies who would now find me super-hot and attractive. It never happened 😭
I still wait in hope, encouraged by the great Calvin of the Klein
Most people commented on the ladies in the foreground - but what I want to know is what in the Name of God is that fucking thing lurking in the background on the right?
The medical proPfession, advanced in leaps and bounds. They went full-on with the ‘redefinition’ programme. Natural immunity, herd immunity, vaccines - all suffered definitional changes, as did the meaning of the word pandemic. But covid has waned and they are now applying their re-definitional expertise in other areas.
Concessions for those less fortunate are, of course, very welcome and needed and ableism needs to be fought in all its various guises. Even people sitting in a wheelchair need a place to, erm, sit.
Some people bravely fought for their own place, a new country called Chaz, where even Nature herself was on their side
I hope Jesus turned up because they’re going to need someone to do a bit of tinkering with the produce in their attempt to feed the 5,000
We entered a new era of sexual liberty where any and every dark fantasy could be realized
[I’m nearly at the email limit so you’re probably going to have to click on the title and view in a browser for the rest]
The social climate is changing, but so too is the climate climate. We need to do stuff. Stuff that will save the planet. Stuff that will send us back into the dark ages - quite literally if we rely on ‘renewable’ energy.
We’ve just reset the clocks here in the UK. It took me an hour to find the manual for the microwave. And a further hour to press the correct set of buttons, and for the correct length of time, to re-set the clock. I think other countries re-set their clocks on a different day of the year.
Back in 1945 we might have had some balls, but nearly 8 decades later it’s easy to find them. We live in an age of porn - and it probably isn’t too healthy at all. But at least there are still some limits and taboos
We shouldn’t be too despondent because literary eroticism is alive and well. And there are some particularly fine examples of the genre to be found
One wonders if some of these authors have actually ever had sex.
Everything today is about privilege and about how tewibbly, tewibbly unfair it all is. We need to just stop privilege altogether and level the playing field for everyone.
The solution, of course, is to abolish the family.
Science has progressed too. We now know that our previous understanding of things was a bit wrong. We used to think that the speed of light represented some cosmic upper bound.
Orwell is often credited with an almost supernaturally prescient vision. Tolkien, however, also was a visionary. He was aware of the dangers of going too far.
Although it has to be said that Tolkien’s views would not be welcome today. Questions have been raised about the bigoted attitudes of some of Tolkien’s much-loved characters
Immigration is in the news. I know it’s a problem in the US, but people in the UK are getting a bit bothered by it too. Despite the many great benefits new cultural practices and insights bring, sometimes their demands are too much
Financial systems are really struggling right now. Rampant inflation, massive debt and a growing lack of confidence. But we shouldn’t worry too much. The ingenuity of human entrepreneurship will win out.
And where would we be without some good old-fashioned plain sexism?
And that, as they say, is all folks.
A very big thank you, once again, for your inspiring and uplifting comments.
Awesome collection Rudolph. Thank you.
The Matrix has morphed
into a grotesque parody.
This madness shall pass.
In 100 years, it will all be wryly amusing.