The Official Nonsense Thread

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That was a bit of a trek to get there, & they seemed rather disinterested in me so had to fight hard to make them care. I put it down to being first thing on a Tuesday morning when it sinks in for many that the weekend's a long way away

Was pretty surprised on the way back how heavily the Yes campaign are out & about. They mean business far more than the No people, that's to be sure. I also noticed that it's the No people that are being told to "F off" by passers by instead of the Yes people now. There seems to be something of a "perfect storm" going on - Salmond needed a miracle, he got one, & the wind is being whipped up some more by the No campaign doing all manner of stupid actions only convincing people the more Yes are going to win.

The Daily Record gave Salmond & Darling an edition of their horrible rag to edit last week (I don't like them because of what they did to a good friend - another tale for another day). The excuse was it was to give both sides a chance to put their own case forward in the interest of democracy & make themselves look so important (in reality its circulation's in freefall) - but considering how biased it's been towards Labour & how nasty to the SNP down the decades (playground name calling extent), all it succeeded in doing is convinced most that Yes are about to win & the Record's frightened its circulation will completely collapse if it's seen as too associated with the losers. They lost a lot of readers over being a Rangers/SFA propaganda sheet during the "Big Tax" business a few years back (lots of predictions about "armageddon") & couldn't really afford losing any more.

Speaking of losing, who was the bright spark at Tory central office who decided it would be a good idea to ask people in Clacton on Sea about what they thought about their Tube station when they're 60 miles away from the nearest one?

Sorry to see Joan Rivers died, although it was good to read all those wisecracks she came out with. She did a special year's ago with Bob Monkhouse which was labelled "the silver tongued wit meets the acid tongued wasp" & it was one of the funniest shows I'd ever watched. I always thought that Judge Judy was trying to be Joan Rivers too much (avoid the British copy of her show, it's embarrassing)