The Official Nonsense Thread

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Yesterday was ferocious in Glasgow, bodes well for the rest of the year if we can get this hot already. Saw some tiny "handbag" dog excitedly go up to some big wolf thing on a lead, they decided to eyeball one another as best they could, & the result was something like this:-




Council elections up here are getting very strange. There's the business of three corrupt factions deselected from their parties fighting as competing blocks of independent candidates in North Lanarkshire (two SNP & one Labour), & a deputy council leader standing as - nothing!

He left the designation blank, not even as "Independent". There's a suspicion he's hoping some think it is a printing error & he's still with Labour, others accusing him of only pretending to be an independent in the hope of getting a seat after transfers from the local Tories, stopping the SNP getting two, & will "rejoin" Labour once the election is over.

At first I thought it sounded the usual "gets deselected, stands as independent" sour grapes you always get up here at election time from those who miss being to claim limitless "expenses" on the public purse, but Labour only declared their candidates for that sole ward with a day to the close of nominations - very weird. Even weirder he managed to get nomination papers from the council & find ten people willing to sign it with less than a day by my calculations to do so.

Not that I'm surprised they dropped said deputy council leader after he was caught two years ago by a tabloid newspaper peeing in someone's garden during another election campaign!

As if there isn't enough lunacy going on, we have some ex-Kippers standing against their own lot due to some running feud with their fat sweaty Orange Unionist bigot leader up here. What party are they standing as? The SDP! Like, WTF? Weren't The Gang Of Four all for the EU?

One joker has said as their leader in Scotland is called Sarah Devenney (an "entrepreneur" - in other words "aspiring robber baron"!) SDP now means Sarah Devenney Party. May as well be the Anne Summers Party - the only party where they openly want to see the electorate screwed.

We've been getting Long Tail Tits appearing like flash mobs & causing everything else in sight to scatter. One of the neighbours cats froze when they arrived one time & started jerking its head this way & that chittering crazily like it was pretending to machine gun them.

"A Field In England" LOL, you saw it too on Friday? Yes, one of those movies where the longer it goes on you start to wonder "is this really the movie or what I've been drinking during it?"