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What we do have currently (NCA/SFO) are seriously underpowered and ineffective. The SFO in particular keep embarrassing themselves.

Look, if billionaires take themselves out with their own idiocy, fine.
But all that supposed money evaporates, and we get a fucking recession.

Would have been better if they just shut the hell up and paid taxes.

It's a very widespread apocryphal thing, quite understandable that you would, but Boss were still truly awful - worse, really. Just designing them isn't as bad as manufacturing them and using slave labour!

Boss didn't design the Nazi uniforms. They did, however, manufacture them, and used slave labour.

YouTube video by John Wanderly Wagon sneaky snake

And now I discover that episodes were FIFTY minutes long‽‽‽‽‽

I was expecting them to be 10 mins max!

This full episode has ANOTHER style of theme tune - psychedelic funk this time - and some really trippy landscapes in the intro!

Discovering this reminded me of what the internet used to be like... Just random surfing turning up wild shit.

I love the fact that RTÉ was doing some wild chromakey* shit so early for such homely kids TV!

*AKA green screen.

YouTube video by marianphilips Wanderly Wagon - Opening credits

Seriously, this stuff is amazing.
In this version of the opening credits, The Wanderly Wagon approaches a dolmen, while a super laid back version of the theme plays.

You KNOW shit is about to go down, and boy, does it deliver!

YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults Wanderly Wagon & The Magic Drawing Finger, Ireland 1977

Alright, I think that's _quite_ enough darkness for now.

I was just discussing this with an Irish friend of a similar age - he got none of the references. But he did turn me on to this absolute fucking masterpiece. Sadly it's not the whole episode.

Jamie uses his magic torch to find people hiding from the regime.

The professor was his first victim.

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Oh no, that's noot good...
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Discussing the financial viability of Ivor The Engine's railway line...

Mr. Ben is a pervert. The shopkeeper is running a money laundering front.

Long Distance Clara remains a hero, and is a leader of The Resistance, obviously.

She eats pigeons, though.

Bertha is an AI slop generator.

Bagpuss enslaved the church mice.

The entire cast of The Magic Roundabout are on class A drugs, but there's no change there.

Fireman Sam is a serial arsonist.

ICE was Pingu's idea.

Paw Patrol... I mean. I don't really need to go into that one.

Bob the Builder runs an illegal blacklist of union members in cahoots with the Met Police.

Postman Pat was in charge of Horizon.

Things may be bad, but it turns out - there is a darker timeline...

Bought out by the Fat Controller who asset stripped it and ruined the pension scheme, if I recall correctly.

Thomas is a scab.

Incredible clickbait though - they couldn't have optimised it for me any better. Right in the sweet spot.

Incredible slopaganda.

Their "philosopher" needs a therapist.

You could argue that this is kind of true if a mayor became PM/Pres, but I do think there are big differences still (not really being a legislator being the biggest)

It's not so much that I think Burnham shouldn't be allowed to quit, that I don't think he should politically. Seems like a poor idea.

I dunno - Mayoralties are hyper-tied to a location in a way that MPs and senators aren't, as their time is split between their constituency and the house for the purpose of legistlating. Becoming PM/Pres doesn't change that so much, it's just that your constituency gets a lot bigger.