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The first time we rented an actual porno was right up there on the weird list. We really hadn’t thought it through. Got it back to my mate’s house, started watching it, then he asked if I was ok with him actually having a wank. I was not. So we just sat there and watched it. Which was just as well because a short while later his sister turned up and that could have got really awks.

I’m far far away. Mine’s at The Bendricks, across the road from the dinosaur footprints.

We have booking and it really does work well, takes about a minute to book, absolutely zero queues, guaranteed parking spot. It was fun after everyone’s New Year house clearance, with all the peeps that clearly haven’t been for a while that just turned up with cars full of black bags of mixed up rubbish. All of them assigned a recyclingoberfuhrer to make them go through their bags and separate things with hard plastic, soft plastic, metal, wood… All us veterans smirking as we unload our pre sorted detritus. This was especially enjoyable for me, having helped on a house clearance and of the two of us I spent a tiny bit of time pre sorting, the brother in law announced that was pointless and just threw all sorts of everything in to rubble bags. They got him, and I didn’t even need to phone ahead on the crime stoppers number.

I can make out enough of that picture not to click play.

From memory, Porky’s was a film at a junction in time. We were teenagers. VHS rental had very recently become a thing. My mates house had a video player. His parents both worked so the house was empty during the day. Porky’s had boobs in it.

Remember, we should be voting for Starmer’s Labour because we can’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Then they needed a cleverly worded amendment to spell out that a ceasefire means both sides stop killing and now actually means as soon as convenient. Makes you wonder why they needed to cause such commotion on an SNP day when they get many more similar days of their own and they’ve had 5 months to make one about Palestine. Not least, when non of it actually makes any difference other than the optics for your potential voters. Luckily, they didn’t fall in to the SNP trap, well played, well played. Politics, eh!

Tangk is fascinating me. Every track I’ve heard, I’ve thought ooh I do really quite like this. Then before the end of that track, I’m skipping to the next one because I’ve sort of already heard it now and it’s not holding me. So I guess I’m liking the sound, not gripped by the material? It’s on the long list, but stuff on the long list rarely makes it to the counter…

Meh, I think it’s a promising step forward from the pricks on at least one side that they have almost reached a state of self awareness. If she has developed the ability to think Gazan babies will be told ‘what they did’, then the next step is to theorise on what revenge they may then be talked in to taking. If the Hamas side can also reach this state of self awareness and think what the Israeli children of victims of murder might do, then we could really be making progress.

I watched a little article on it and I presumed what they were using was library footage. They appeared to have dymo tape labels to some fairly important looking buttons.

22nd February 1797 A French invasion force of 1,400 troops are heading for Bristol. Sat nav not being what it is now, they land in Fishguard. On hearing of the invasion Jemima Nicholson marches out of town to meet them, armed with a pitchfork. She later returns with 12 prisoners.

6th form politics debate, how they managed to book Westminster for it is very impressive.

Eats shoots and leaves.

The car park for Cardiff Central Train Station had pay by phone app., which I used. A week later I get a ‘fine’. I tell them I’d paid and they said the fine was for not displaying a ticket!!! I explained my current phone doesn’t have a printer. They cancelled the charge.

I’d just become so fascinated at the reaction to some pretty basic numbers I thought I’d throw some more in!

I have repeatedly said I’m comparing a by election with a GE. I’m not sure what else I can do? I’ve already caveated that it was a by election, that Labour will likely have a massive majority at the next GE, and that my statement that Labour didn’t gain new voters was crude. I have conceded that Labour may well have lost Labour voters but gained tory voters. Also, that the Labour vote in Kingswood was their lowest ever in any election. Not sure I’ve said anything wrong or got any maths wrong.

Isn’t it? I’ve just checked again, last couple of by elections: 2024 Wellingborough = 13,844 votes 2024 Kingswood = 11,176 votes whereas at the previous vote: 2019 Wellingborough = 13,737 2019 Kingswood = 16,492 By my maths, that has them down by over 5,000 votes? Incidentally, they won Kingswood with their lowest ever vote total in that constituency. I don’t doubt for a second they are absolutely placed for a massive return of MP’s in the general election. It’ll be down to the first past the post system.

Hence my saying it was in crude terms. I mean, yes, it could be that Labour lost thousands of previously Labour voters and replaced them with ex tory voters. Some might even say that’s the plan.

The last couple of by elections which Labour have won, they’ve actually aggregated less votes than when they lost. It was the collapse of the tory vote wot won it. Now, they are by elections. But for all the scandal, nobody switched to Labour (in crude terms). That doesn’t mean Labour won’t have a massive majority in Westminster, it’s just not quite the ringing endorsement it might first appear to be.

The government couldn’t allow a significant rise in care worker salary so as to get UK workforce to fill the places. At the moment unemployment is quite low and those that are unemployed are not necessarily suited to those care work / social jobs. According to the House of Commons data, there are over 1.5 million people in the adult care sector. To give that many people a significant pay rise would interfere with the desire to get inflation down. The UK based people that would fill those better paid social jobs wouldn’t be the unemployed, they’d come from other jobs that would now be relatively low paid. If you’re going to give a care worker £15 an hour, why would a junior doctor work for less? Then you need to back fill the doctor posts… and on it goes. Those cheap workers from overseas don’t just pay their own tax, they potentially free up family carers or get people back to health and they also then pay tax. so paying someone minimum wage might well involve us having to educate their child. It also might mean the middle aged carers for the old lady can return to work as, well, whatever teachers, doctors, sole trader hairdressers. It’s fantastically complicated, those children educated in the UK will potentially hopefully have a favourable attitude towards the UK in adult life and either contribute by staying here or by being an ambassador for the UK back in their home country, as a soft power bonus for us. The system needs fixing, there can’t be any dispute there. We can’t have uncontrolled immigration, we need to know who is here, we need it to be a positive contribution. All that complexity has been abandoned to chase slogans for votes. If your elderly nan needs care, you basically have a short list of options: Let them suffer. Pay a substantially higher rate for carers. Then work out who’s going to do the other jobs. Have low wage foreign carers. You give up work and you do the caring.

No I don’t think we can expect people to keep records of conversations from months ago, that’s what work and stalking are for. I’m probably just overly cynical about those big international holdings, the whole military industry, and current government, when it comes to doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons.

Poison Ivy (The Cramps) is 71 today. Nothing particularly unusual about that, just an observation that people get old.

I shall forward a list of banned words to the Labour and Green candidates, and a map of the constituency boundaries to the Reform candidate, and a list of inaccurate immigration pledges to Scott Benton’s spouse, who I presume will be the tory candidate.