Simon Lye

Bad luck Scotland - still 0-31-2 all time vs the All Blacks.

Satan has been spotted.

I am shocked to discover that the whole delay repay process for claiming back the costs of disrupted rail travel seems to be a scam designed to cause you to give up in frustration.

4 rejected claims so far for one incident because the circumstances don't fit their pre-defined selection options.

I for one am shocked to hear that:

- There may be an AI bubble.
- It will probably burst.

It’s not like this has happened before or anything…

Sigh - another day trying to avoid being screwed by insurance.

Policy renewal - £914/year.
Exact same policy from same company taken out as a new policy - £580/year.

Bastards.

The Orange Bloviator approaches...

Meanwhile in America, when a guy tried to ferment an uprising against his election defeat, they re-elected him president.

It might just say something about Trump's presidency that if he's not seen or heard commiting any impeachable or illegal acts for a few days, the natural assumption must be that he's dead.

This is basically Munich 1938.
Looking forward to Trump returning to Washington to proclaim ’peace in our time’.

Nat Sciver-Brunt is like ‘sigh, it’s up to me. Again’

Somehow managed to survive the North Herts binpocalypse today…

Always nice to get a midday wake up call courtesy of the United States Air Force.

Very low pass over my house by 2 x F-35s and one F-15.

Nice to see that a lot of Labour MPs finally remembered that they are in fact in the Labour Party, and that acting like Tories in disguise is not actually a Good Thing.

This is pretty fucking devious from Marriot Bonvoy - the unsubscribe link is miniscule and buried at the bottom of the email, and the options to actually unsubscribe are baffling. Which ones do you choose?

Nothing like a trip to Cambridge to remind you what a miserable experience it is

Alcatraz? Really?

I assume this is because he watched The Rock last night.

Was on a long haul flight recently, thought I'd watch the film Conclave.

Can't help but feel this might be all my fault.

Came all the way to New Zealand, heard a plane flying overhead yesterday, looked up, it was an An-124. Not something you see here very often.

The chariot is coming to take me home.

Hey you big orange baby, will you please stop tanking the world stock markets? You're making everyone poorer.

Farewell from my daughter as she leaves for school this morning:

'Bye Dad, don't be cringy when I get home.'

Going to NZ for the Easter holidays. Because it is such a long way, we are taking the kids out of school for 1 day (last day of term) to maximise the time in NZ.

Tried to be honest and told the school. Their response - unauthorised absence, possible fine.

Next time I'll lie and say they're sick!

"This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S." he says.

Wait until he hears that the US can't make champagne...

"We're not allowed to sell cars there," Trump says of Europe. "The European Union is very nasty."

Has the Orange Bloviator ever heard of a car manufacturer called Tesla?

America - pandering to tyrants since January 20th.

Hmm, a letter from HMRC <sense of impending doom>
"You have paid too little tax"
Dammit!

Do they not understand how hard it is to get good passport photos in a dull British winter? <shakes fist>

So the same photos I used successfully for the kids UK passport renewals have been rejected by the New Zealand passport office due to the camera 'being too close to the face'.

Mutter mutter grumble higher standards sigh.