Many happy returns, Dame Twiggy - 75 years old today!
Another snippets post today, dear reader:
- Nanny State news: First they came for our beer gardens - now some miserable bastard scientists want to reduce the size of our pints as well?!! Fuck off!
- Royal anniversary news: Time flies... can it really be two years today since HM The Queen's State Funeral, and two years this week since I spent 11½ hours in the queue for her lying-in state?
- Junk food news: Purveyors of shitty overpriced burgers'n'ribs in out-of-town shopping centres, TGI Fridays is heading for bankruptcy in the UK. How the hell they survived all this time since they became popular in the 1980s is a mystery!
- Nature news: There's a Capybara (named "Cinnamon") on the loose in Shropshire! Basically a rat the size of a Labrador dog; I wouldn't mess with it, myself.
- End of an Era: Speaking of bankruptcies - post-War storage sensation Tupperware has gone bust! The Daily Mash blames the decline in wife-swapping...
- Culture news: A major new exhibition of more than 350 objects, including precious jewels, historic gemstones, iconic watches and clocks designed by Cartier has been announced at the V&A, opening in April 2025. A "must-see", methinks.
- And finally: Avast behind! It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day!!
The weather? Rather lovely at the moment...
A pirate walks into a bar with a ship’s wheel sticking out the front of his pants.
ReplyDeleteThe bartender asks, "Why do you have a ship’s wheel sticking out of your pants?"
Pirate says, "Aaaarrr, it's driving me nuts"
Boom-tish!
DeleteYou should be on the stage, Mitchell.
Sweeping it. 🤣🤣🤣
Jx
Twiggy 75!!!!!!!!! Gulp.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile TGIF has closed up here starting in the pandemic.many of my friends worked their in college days.ive never been a huge chain eater.
We love Twiggy, but it is difficult to picture her as old...
DeleteWe've eaten in loads of chain restaurants (and the Madam has worked for several!) over the years, but TGI Fridays was always a mystery. What was the attraction for people to want to go there? Even as a student in the 80s, when it was all new and shiny - and close to my college, so a popular gathering-place - I found it completely lacking any kind of atmosphere or any food worth eating at the prices they charged. There are several similar chains that are equally perplexing, like Frankie and Benny's, Garfunkels or Giraffe that have no apparent reason to exist, yet still hang on by their fingernails... Jx
Aargh, prepare to be boarded, ye knavish land lubber. And I didn't even know TGIF and Tupperware were still around.
ReplyDeleteI've been boarded more times than Boeing in my time...
DeleteNobody's likely to miss either demise, tbh. Jx
Every day is talk like Pirate day where I come from !
ReplyDeleteThat's a fab Pirate song to go along with International Talk Like a Pirate Day!!
I can imagine you singing along in your "Janner Pirate" accent... Jx
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