Bean glove. You heard me. || It’s a car, it’s a helicopter. (h/t, Things) || How to open a drawer. || How to peel potatoes. || The portable kitchen you’ve always wanted. || Pride. || “Alternatives to policing.” || More progressive motherhood. || The thrill of midwifery. || Monster detected. || Accelerated herding. || Maybe help will come. || Inside the Statue of Liberty. || Narrow city. || Vice of note. || Causality questioned. || Coffee Bar, 1959: “A square in the wrong hole is just not dug, even by the jukebox.” || Yes, there will be a test. || Not entirely unrelated. || Always ensure the tank is big enough. || And the robots will dance to K-pop. || The thrill of pencils. || Puzzling. || And finally, then they’ll pay. Then they’ll all pay.
They're here! They're here!
Posted by: pst314 | July 02, 2021 at 00:07
Maybe help will come
About suffering they were never wrong, the Old Masters... - ah well, make that almost never wrong.
Coffee bar, 1959
Two cappuccini, yes I suppose that's correct.
Posted by: Gord | July 02, 2021 at 00:50
And the robots will dance to K-pop.
I actually enjoyed that. Is that so wrong?
Posted by: Steve E | July 02, 2021 at 01:48
I guess things like finding a cure for Alzheimer's is just not that important anymore.
Posted by: Darleen | July 02, 2021 at 01:51
Then they’ll all pay.
Oops
Posted by: Darleen | July 02, 2021 at 02:14
The thrill of pencils.
More pencil thrills.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 02, 2021 at 02:19
More pencil thrills.
My mother would have loved to see that.
Posted by: pst314 | July 02, 2021 at 02:23
Bean glove.
I have questions.
Posted by: Connor | July 02, 2021 at 06:20
Morning, all.
I have questions.
My first thought was that maybe it has some improvised medical purpose. Still working on a second thought.
Posted by: David | July 02, 2021 at 06:51
"It’s a car, it’s a helicopter. (h/t, Things) "
It's also quite a thing of beauty, too...
Posted by: JuliaM | July 02, 2021 at 06:54
Pride.
Today's word is 'irony'.
Posted by: Mags | July 02, 2021 at 07:05
“I’m a leftist, if that’s an issue or conversation starter.”
Posted by: David | July 02, 2021 at 07:13
Today’s word is ‘irony’.
Or, “The chronically self-involved ain’t generally known for being conscientious.”
Posted by: David | July 02, 2021 at 07:14
I’m currently hearing a lot of ads for Pride-related stuff on Radio Two, with people proudly proclaiming themselves ‘gender non-conforming’.
Can’t help feeling like the most important aspect to them is not the ‘gender’ bit…
Posted by: JuliaM | July 02, 2021 at 08:54
Can’t help feeling like the most important aspect to them is not the ‘gender’ bit…
They are, however, conforming.
Posted by: David | July 02, 2021 at 08:58
“Alternatives to policing.”
Is this the mirror universe?
Posted by: Clam | July 02, 2021 at 10:29
Is this the mirror universe?
You know, for children.
Posted by: David | July 02, 2021 at 10:37
"It’s a car, it’s a helicopter. (h/t, Things) "
Having flown aircraft-carrier based aircraft with folding wings, I shudder to think of the maintenance problems that concept will have.
Posted by: asiaseen | July 02, 2021 at 11:18
More pencil thrills.
Did you hear about the constipated accountant? He worked it out with a pencil.
Posted by: TimT | July 02, 2021 at 11:52
He worked it out with a pencil.
[ In the alleyway, a coat burns. ]
Posted by: David | July 02, 2021 at 11:56
The thrill of pencils
Reminds me of Harry Potter's wand shop. How do you explain the exact pencil you want? It must be blue, with gold lettering, no eraser, and a little softer than a 2B. No, a lighter blue than that. Oh, and it had to have a phoenix feather in it. Or perhaps the guy just looks you up and down and then recommends one based on your aura?
Posted by: Ray | July 02, 2021 at 11:57
By the way, I was also entertained by Clarkson’s Farm.
Posted by: David | July 02, 2021 at 12:01
... I shudder to think of the maintenance problems that concept will have.
You are too cynical, just because an average just plain helicopter requires 10-16 hours maintenance/flight hour, you think the average Joe and Jane who never change the oil in their cars are going to have issues with that contraption that looks like some kid cobbled together all the left over bits from unfinished model kits ?
Come on, man, it is the future, it is battery powered, after all (25,000 AA batteries not included).
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 02, 2021 at 12:13
Meanwhile, speaking of the future, sometimes pride flags are just not enough, and IKEA has solved that problem with "pride" love seats.
By the way, I was also entertained by Clarkson’s Farm.
If you've not seen it, check out James May: Our Man in Japan.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 02, 2021 at 12:17
sometimes pride flags are just not enough, and IKEA has solved that problem with “pride” love seats.
If you need your sexuality to be affirmed, garishly, by furniture, then there’s probably something wrong with you, emotionally.
Posted by: David | July 02, 2021 at 12:22
"Enhance diverse perspectives" = avoid harrassment by paying extortion I presume.
Posted by: PiperPaul | July 02, 2021 at 12:56
GIF of note.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 02, 2021 at 13:17
"It’s a car, it’s a helicopter"
Only if I can get it with a manual transmission.
Posted by: PiperPaul | July 02, 2021 at 13:30
The thrill of pencils
My grandfather worked as the manager of a stationery shop and used to bring me writing utensils when I was a small child. I got infected early and my best guess is that a have about 150 pencils, pens, markers and other miscellaneous pencil-type things within 25 feet of where I'm now sitting.
Posted by: PiperPaul | July 02, 2021 at 13:37
man found with cocaine between buttocks told police someone else must have put it there,
Hmm. Not convinced.
Posted by: Joan | July 02, 2021 at 13:45
Not convinced.
Well, unless it was a very lively party.
One of the pleasures of watching Cops and Live PD is noting just how often a miscreant apprehended with vast quantities of drugs stashed upon his, er, person will announce, optimistically, “These aren’t my pants.” I also recall a female detainee, a lady of some size, attempting the same with a number of items found inside her bra.
It happens with sufficient regularity to make for a decent drinking game.
Posted by: David | July 02, 2021 at 13:56
Well, unless it was a very lively party.
If I woke up after a party with cocaine between my buttocks, I'd have questions.
Posted by: Burnsie | July 02, 2021 at 14:28
Probably religious.
Posted by: Alex DeWynter | July 02, 2021 at 14:34
Curious if any of the more medically inclined here could clarify my thinking. To my layman understanding, this study seems to indicate that tonsils play an important part in fighting respiratory diseases, especially in regard to IgA which, IIUTC, is not as readily detectable in PCR tests. If I have this right, perhaps the removal of tonsils, something that was very prevalent in the US and UK and other western countries back in the1950's and 1960's might have had a significant impact on the spread and the ability to fight off COVID. Does anyone know of a study or otherwise indication of a correlation between COVID severity/deaths and presence of tonsils and adenoids? Keep in mind this paper is from August 2020...and has yet to be peer reviewed. Which also seems rather odd to me at this point.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7430621/
Posted by: WTP | July 02, 2021 at 14:42
You are too cynical
Mr Muldoon, I guess you are right. But looking on the bright side, at least it should clear the world of model-kit unused bits.
Posted by: asiaseen | July 02, 2021 at 14:46
The spinoff you never knew you needed.
Laying down a few markers:
1. Tilly will be a Mary Sue of at least Batwoman levels, existing entirely to outdo and humiliate Gaston and Le Fou.
2. Middleton's singing and/or acting ability will prove to be marginal at best, glaringly so in comparison with Evans and Gad.
3. Anyone pointing out either or both of these will be loudly denounced as a racist, misogynist hatey mchateface.
Posted by: Alex DeWynter | July 02, 2021 at 14:50
If I woke up after a party with cocaine between my buttocks, I’d have questions.
I notice Julia’s been very quiet on the subject. But they say a lady never tells.
Posted by: David | July 02, 2021 at 14:54
“These aren’t my pants.”
Yep ... saw that often in police reports ... along with people pulled over driving a stolen car, no license plate, punched ignition
"This is my friend's car"
"What's your friend's name?"
" ... "
Posted by: Darleen | July 02, 2021 at 15:02
Yep ... saw that often in police reports
I must’ve seen a dozen variations of the same theme. Presumably, these innocent unfortunates just spend a lot of time wandering around in other people’s shoes, trousers, and undergarments, blissfully unaware of both the owner’s identity and the various pipes, powders and plastic bags stashed therein.
One detainee pat-down featured a magnificently doomed attempt at concealment and an amused police officer saying, “I’m guessing that bulge isn’t… anatomical.”
Posted by: David | July 02, 2021 at 15:11
WTP -
PCR amplifies bits of RNA or DNA, it doesn't detect IgA or other immunoglobulins, the guys in the paper devised a test specifically looking for anti-covid sIgA in covid "positive" patients. What they found basically was that true covid positives demonstrated higher levels of anti-covid sIgA than true negatives with high specificity and sensitivity (i.e., a good test, as opposed to PCR).
Tonsils are essentially just giant lymph nodes and do produce sIgA along with B and T cells, however tonsils (and adenoids) are generally extremely atrophied in adults so would not be expected to offer any significant protection above baseline, however, given that the atrophy starts in late childhood/adolescence, it might be part of the explanation why kids are generally unaffected by Kung Flu.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 02, 2021 at 15:14
Translation?: You will be contacted by one or more approved "community based" organizations with no experience in biomedical research to offer their services on the research project. Their participation be required before the research is funded. The recommendations of the consultants must be incorporated into the research, this may include hiring of specific persons, setting job titles and pay, purchasing equipment and supplies from BIPOC-owned companies, and final editing/approval of research reports. A portion of the grant will be paid to the community based consulting organization.
Posted by: Wacko Bird | July 02, 2021 at 16:13
PCR amplifies bits of RNA or DNA, it doesn't detect IgA or other immunoglobulins
Yeah, I get that. I screwed the pooch there and didn't communicate that correctly....or well at all. What I was trying to get at was that COVID is more easily/cheaply detected via PCR tests (and all the issues with those as even the PCR test inventor himself tried to get through Fauci's thick head before he died) and again quite sloppy on my part as in my head I've conflated to some degree PCR tests (i.e. in-the-moment) with serology tests (more historical)...which of course is exceptionally wrong because...well, you know. From what I read elsewhere a while ago, the standard serology test that are done and that one gets for free with a blood donation is IgM/IgG based and less effective than a test for IgA, which is harder/more expensive to detect. Don't recall where I got this info as I can't seem to find it now, but IIRC negative standard tests miss around 20% of what an IgA based test would have found. I do recall T-cells being an important difference. And maybe I have IgM/G/A mixed up a bit. T-cells is the important part. Really wish I could find that original article but it was from weeks/months ago.
OK, but regardless of my mucking up the details (and persistent googling shows I am far from the only one...even conflicting info from supposed medical professional sites)...
Tonsils are essentially just giant lymph nodes and do produce sIgA along with B and T cells, however tonsils (and adenoids) are generally extremely atrophied in adults so would not be expected to offer any significant protection above baseline, however, given that the atrophy starts in late childhood/adolescence, it might be part of the explanation why kids are generally unaffected by Kung Flu.
As you say this certainly could help explain the current environment where children are less susceptible to this disease. But even if the efficiency of tonsils etc. decreases with oncoming adulthood, a child's immunity capacity would still be affected between the time of tonsil removal and gradual onset of adulthood. Wouldn't a child who did not have tonsillectomy potentially develop a slightly better immune system during that time period? Perhaps that would carry into adulthood?
Sort-of disclaimer...I often post from my iPad and I'm finding using hunt=and-peck on the iPad I conflate/lose my train of thought by the time I get the words typed out. I try to tell myself not to do that if I have something complicated to say.
Posted by: WTP | July 02, 2021 at 16:57
Headline writer gets man's profession wrong
Posted by: Sol | July 02, 2021 at 17:29
From what I read elsewhere a while ago, the standard serology test...
Hence the beauty of this test, if it holds up, because it is done with saliva instead of blood, and can be run, for example, in a doc's office. Regardless, you are correct that there has been demonstrated T-cell immunity in the absence of detected antibodies.
Wouldn't a child who did not have tonsillectomy potentially develop a slightly better immune system during that time period? Perhaps that would carry into adulthood?
I've only seen one study that suggested there might be more adverse outcomes later related to early tonsillectomy, but as it was from one country, and retrospective, it should be taken with a 5lb bag of salt. One has to bear in mind that tonsils are a small part of an elaborate mechanism that involves the whole body.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 02, 2021 at 21:05
Thx for the info. Yes, I take pretty much everything with a 5, 10, 20 lb bag of salt. And the greater the expert, the bigger the bag it seems lately. Unfortunately biology is a bigger weak spot for me than most other science so unless I can contain the problem space to numbers or logic, I have to spend way too much time hunting terms and context to follow some of the more advanced biology stuff.
Posted by: WTP | July 02, 2021 at 21:47
It’s a car, it’s a helicopter.
I know we all said we wanted flying cars, myself included. It pretty much defined what the 21st century is supposed to be about. Well that and Daughter Judy...but I digress. As disappointing as the 21st century has turned out, I still wonder if this whole flying cars thing has been thought through by people. Ever look at the people in the cars around you when you're stopped at a traffic light?
Posted by: WTP | July 02, 2021 at 21:59
I must’ve seen a dozen variations of the same theme. Presumably, these innocent unfortunates just spend a lot of time wandering around in other people’s shoes, trousers, and undergarments, blissfully unaware of both the owner’s identity and the various pipes, powders and plastic bags stashed therein.
Spend a day in your Magistrate's Courts and a couple of things will strike you:
1. How phenomenally dim most of the offenders are
2. How you really have to be unlucky or an incorrigible recidivist to actually be sentenced to jail
Posted by: a different james | July 03, 2021 at 00:03
Ever look at the people in the cars around you when you're stopped at a traffic light?
Not half an hour ago I was idling behind a vehicle upon the tailgate of which was recorded:
EATIN SHITTIN
FORD’S DODGE’S
Posted by: Squires | July 03, 2021 at 01:39
If you need your sexuality to be affirmed, garishly, by furniture, then there’s probably something wrong with you, emotionally.
I watched the video and ...
I'm reminded of all the old-school tv comedy shows that marked narcissism by showing the character in his/her own home surrounded surrounded by large painted portraits and sculptures of themselves.
This corporate "wokeness" is just feeding such narcissism!
Posted by: Darleen | July 03, 2021 at 03:15
Maybe help will come...
True confession: that one about did for me. No idea why I found it so wrenching, but the descriptor itself grabbed my attention and then the video of that desperate, clearly non-polar-winter Lab sitting on its small chunk of ice and being brave was a killer. Maybe too much Stephen Crane when I was younger. And then the guy in the survival suit (minus helmet and for all I know his ears may have fallen right off afterward) SWIMMING out to get him...
Wo.
Posted by: Megaera | July 03, 2021 at 03:34
that one about did for me.
I’ve shared this one before - on the range of human beings a puppy can encounter.
It begins in a very dark place, but there is a pay-off.
Posted by: David | July 03, 2021 at 09:07
I’m reminded of all the old-school tv comedy shows that marked narcissism by showing the character in his/her own home surrounded by large painted portraits and sculptures of themselves.
It reeks of neoteny. I mean, when you’re a teenager, being gay is generally, and understandably, a big thing. But if you’re in your thirties and forties, and you’re still making a Big Deal of it and relating everything within range to your supposedly fascinating “queerness,” and craving affirmation from items of furniture - despite living in the most accommodating societies ever to have existed - it does suggest arrestedness, self-involvement, and tiresome role-play.
See also, this tool here.
Posted by: David | July 03, 2021 at 09:35
It begins in a very dark place...
Some people need killin’. It is as simple as that.
Posted by: Squires | July 03, 2021 at 09:50
It begins in a very dark place, but there is a pay-off.
That was an emotional rollercoaster.
Posted by: Liam | July 03, 2021 at 11:02
That was an emotional rollercoaster.
It’s a pretty good reminder that there are different kinds of tears.
[ Clears throat, adopts manly stance. ]
Posted by: David | July 03, 2021 at 11:08
Spend a day in your Magistrate’s Courts and a couple of things will strike you:
1. How phenomenally dim most of the offenders are
2. How you really have to be unlucky or an incorrigible recidivist to actually be sentenced to jail
Watching Cops and Live PD, what strikes me is how shockingly, pathologically selfish the perpetrators are. The utter disregard for others is pretty much a default, as if other human beings were just props in some ongoing psychodrama, and only there to be preyed upon. To have things taken from them.
I remember one lengthy pursuit of thieves who’d robbed a store at gunpoint, terrorised its owner, and then fled the scene in a stolen car, and whose bid to escape did repeated and costly damage to other people’s property, and caused other road users to veer and crash, resulting in serious injury. When finally apprehended, the thieves, themselves unharmed, were entirely unconcerned by the horror and destruction left in their wake, or the fact that it was all but miraculous that no-one had been killed. Instead, they were indignant, as if they were the victims of the drama, heatedly objecting to the discomfort of handcuffs, and demanding to know why their phones had been confiscated. While, within earshot, injured children were being rushed to hospital.
And yet these are the sociopaths that so many leftists wish to excuse, and boast of excusing. As if the favour would ever be returned.
Posted by: David | July 03, 2021 at 12:46
Black Lives Matter activist in Cambridge, Massachusetts arrested for torturing and killing cats.
Posted by: pst314 | July 03, 2021 at 13:27
Olympic athlete Gwen Berry, who poses as an "antiracism" activist, turns out to have a history of racist speech. Why am I not surprised?
Posted by: pst314 | July 03, 2021 at 13:31
Psychopaths: Dirty Harry did nothing wrong.
Posted by: Ray | July 03, 2021 at 13:52
So clearly this woman overreacted.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 03, 2021 at 14:10
When finally apprehended, the thieves, themselves unharmed, were entirely unconcerned by the horror and destruction left in their wake, or the fact that it was all but miraculous that no-one had been killed. Instead, they were indignant, as if they were the victims of the drama,
That. I miss 'Cops'.
Posted by: Jen | July 03, 2021 at 14:19
That. I miss ‘Cops’.
It did illustrate quite vividly the psychology of the type, and made the customary excuses for such behaviour, indulged in habitually and without remorse, seem quite insulting. Both to the victims and the viewer.
Posted by: David | July 03, 2021 at 14:25
beaten with a giant dildo
*scriptwriters meeting notes for next Godzilla flick are... Hmmmm*
Posted by: anon a mouse | July 03, 2021 at 14:47
So clearly this woman overreacted
Exactly. I mean come on. No different than what the Red Hot Chili Peppers did at Daytona Spring Break back in 1990 and are not the RHCP an honorable band? Just a lot of conservative, right wing moralizing that by this very example I present, has been going on for well over 30 years now. That's the real story. We need to stamp out this prudish behavior now before it does real, serious damage to our society.
Posted by: WTP | July 03, 2021 at 15:20
No different than what the Red Hot Chili Peppers did at Daytona Spring Break back in 1990
Rage against the radical left rape machine?
Posted by: pst314 | July 03, 2021 at 16:02
EATIN SHITTIN
FORD’S DODGE’S
The mutual hostility between Ford, Dodge, and Chevrolet owners is...puzzling.
Posted by: pst314 | July 03, 2021 at 16:27
The mutual hostility between Ford, Dodge, and Chevrolet owners is...puzzling.
Having owned both Fords and Chevys, and not being much of a NASCAR fan...long story...the depth of animosity there does get a bit silly. That Chrysler corporation crap however...
Posted by: WTP | July 03, 2021 at 16:32
The war on reality.
Posted by: WTP | July 03, 2021 at 18:35
The war on reality.
Protestor plus bicycle versus water cannon.
Posted by: David | July 03, 2021 at 19:47
So clearly this woman overreacted
"How dare you not understand We Drag Queens Are Lewd, Obscene and Proud of It!"
Also
"Why do you object to us having access to your children in public libraries?"
Posted by: Darleen | July 03, 2021 at 20:07
Protestor plus bicycle versus water cannon.
The obvious question: am I evil if I laughed?
Posted by: PaulF | July 03, 2021 at 20:21
Protestor plus bicycle versus water cannon.
Physics is hard.
Posted by: sk60 | July 03, 2021 at 21:10
Hope for Paws! I love those folks.
Posted by: Alex DeWynter | July 03, 2021 at 22:04
Physics is hard.
Pavement is harder...
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 03, 2021 at 22:28
English bloggers outraged over aerosol canned tea. Fail to notice that company is English. No point in dumping it in Boston Harbor, so how about the Thames?
Posted by: pst314 | July 03, 2021 at 22:30
I was under the impression that the most sacred thing in England was tea, but perhaps I was mistaken:
Posted by: pst314 | July 03, 2021 at 22:45
English bloggers outraged over aerosol canned tea.
Yeah, they ruin tea by putting milk in it, but get upset over concentrate in a can ?
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 04, 2021 at 00:15
Tea?
It's "sweet tea" to y'all...
Posted by: anon a mouse | July 04, 2021 at 00:35
It's "sweet tea" to y'all...
I suspect the galleons will sail at dawn, unless I can distract David with news about the Perfidious French.
Posted by: pst314 | July 04, 2021 at 01:18
France makes better sausages than England!
Posted by: I'm French. Really. | July 04, 2021 at 01:43
The Dutch make better cheese!
Posted by: Van Gogh | July 04, 2021 at 01:45
Belgian beer is best!
Posted by: M. Janssens | July 04, 2021 at 01:47
France makes better sausages than England!
Perhaps, but how are their emulsified high-fat offal tubes?
Posted by: Directrix Gazer | July 04, 2021 at 02:19
Perhaps, but how are their emulsified high-fat offal tubes?
CMOT Dibbler is an Englishman.
Posted by: Somebody French, maybe Maurice | July 04, 2021 at 02:26
India has better cricket players!
Posted by: Apu Nahasapeemapetilon | July 04, 2021 at 02:27
Spain plays better football!
Posted by: Manuel, not necessarily a waiter at Fawlty Towers | July 04, 2021 at 02:41
Italian football players are also good at sports like diving.
Posted by: NTSOG | July 04, 2021 at 02:46
Checks URL to ensure that he isn't reading an Ace of Spades comment section
OK. Something new every now and then.
I do remember a classic riff at Protein Wisdom where the commenters raked the person with the nick of "A Phoenician in the times of Romans" over the coals with their socks.
Posted by: Richard Cranium | July 04, 2021 at 02:52
The other day on on the M25 I was behind a bloke who had a sticker on on the boot of his Rolls that said
Eating Shiteing
Bentley's Vauxhall's
Posted by: Nigel | July 04, 2021 at 02:53
Thanks for the Clarkson's Farm tip. Greatly enjoyed the first two episodes.
Posted by: WTP | July 04, 2021 at 03:29
Galleons? Pshaw. This is Texas.
A muted celebration, as we're down to our last 3,000 or so rounds...
Oh, and Maurice, how is the pompetous of love?
Posted by: anon a mouse | July 04, 2021 at 03:49
Not entirely unrelated
Hey! They could use gas and diesel home generators to charge their electric vehicles!
Posted by: Cloudbuster | July 04, 2021 at 03:58
"Yeah, they ruin tea by putting milk in it, but get upset over concentrate in a can ?"
Twaddle Farnsworth. Americans never have and never will know how to make a proper cuppa. My very first experience of ordering tea in the US was in a hotel in San Jose CA. It arrived as a styroform cup filled with microwaved water with (shudder) a Lipton tea bag on the side and a plastic container of "creamer". G-d knows, I love America but culinary prowess isn't it's forte.
Posted by: Fay | July 04, 2021 at 07:08
“India has better cricketers…” Ahem, NZ would like a word…
Posted by: Ed Snack | July 04, 2021 at 07:38
I make good tea, right here in America. You’re all invited for a cup if you ever come to our shores. The henchlesbians are welcome too. ( I have not typed “henchlesbians “ in a while. Spellcheck wanted to change it first to “hen blessing,” and, when I didn’t go for that, “lesbian barn.”)
Posted by: Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat | July 04, 2021 at 07:50
Spellcheck wanted to change it first to “hen blessing,” and, when I didn’t go for that, “lesbian barn.”
Heh. Both have potential.
Our betters just know, you know.
To residents of our former colony, a happy fourth.
Posted by: David | July 04, 2021 at 09:34
Thanks for the Clarkson’s Farm tip. Greatly enjoyed the first two episodes.
The first episode is probably the weakest, but as things go on it develops a certain charm, and by the end of the season, I was hoping for more. The scene with an amplified Gerald – still incomprehensible and now much louder - was quite special.
Posted by: David | July 04, 2021 at 09:47
Watched th first two episodes of “Clarkson’s Farm” last night. Am duly impressed with Victorian field plumbing, the system of knowing which ram shagged which ewe, and Gerald.
Oh, and Kaleb. He’s 21? I want my daughter to marry him.
Posted by: Stephanie Richer | July 04, 2021 at 11:37
an amplified Gerald – still incomprehensible and now much louder
So Brits can't understand him either? Whew.
Posted by: Andy B | July 04, 2021 at 11:42
Americans never have and never will know how to make a proper cuppa.
The Boston Harbor begs to differ, but why would we ? A "proper cuppa" is the absolute acme rolled into one of cultural assimilation, colonialism, racism, yte supremacy, and, what with all the farting cows to make milk, Gaia raping.
Besides, I know for a fact that Twaddle Farnsworth is a village near Upton Snodsbury.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 04, 2021 at 11:56