Oct 092021
 

“Blackadder” was a British sitcom from the 1980s starring Rowan Atkinson. Each of its four seasons was set in a different time period…  the late 1400’s, the late 1500’s, the early 1800’s and finally during World War One. Much the same cast of actors played much the same characters, simply being descendants of the characters from prior seasons. I found it to be entertaining as all getout.

The final episode of the final season was meant to be the very last. But there was a problem: as originally filmed, the climax of the episode was *terrible.* The characters, all soldiers in the British army in the trenches of WWI, are ordered to go over the top and charge, stupidly, into German machine gun fire. This of course leads to them all getting cut down. But as actually filmed, that scene was *awful.* To call the acting half-assed is an insult to asses everywhere; the directing sucks; the cinematography stinks. But when they got a look at the footage it was too late to go back and try to film it again. So the editors set about trying to salvage *something* from it. And by taking a less-is-more approach, they ended up turning just a few seconds of video from utter garbage into something truly remarkable. In my opinion, it ranks up there with “The Iron Giant” and his “Superman” moment.

First, watch how the episode played out in the end:

 

Then behold how it could have been just terrible, but was rescued:

 Posted by at 1:15 pm
Oct 092021
 

If I’m reading this correctly, morons in Britain are blocking public roads and demanding that the government spent untold sums of taxpayer money to insulate houses.

Jackholes who think that the best way to protest is to block roads should be hauled off to the hoosegow… or simply declared outlaw, meaning that motorists could just motor right on through them. These sort of people are too stupid to be allowed to breed and contaminate the already screwed up gene pool.

Alternate approach:

 

Ugh.

 

 Posted by at 2:18 am
Oct 082021
 

California students will have to take ethnic studies to get a diploma

The state’s ethnic studies framework, approved in March, promotes “a social consciousness” and will address “institutionalized systems of advantage” and forms of bigotry including anti-Blackness, xenophobia and anti-Semitism.

That sounds *spectacular.*

 Posted by at 7:16 pm
Oct 082021
 

Remember a few years ago when a student from Covington High was set upon by the media, the political class, celebrities, activists and so on due to libelous claims that he was a racist mocking a “native American Elder?” Remember how that initial fraudulent narrative was all over the national news for a few days until more video came out to prove that the “elder” was the actual aggressor and that the kid did nothing, absolutely nothing, wrong?

Well, Covington High and its students and their interactions with elders is back in the news. But it’s not the same Covington High. And there is actual racial violence, with actual injuries, involved. Let’s see if the national news media covers *this* story with the enthusiasm they covered the earlier Covington story:

Additional suspects arrested in Covington High Tik-Tok teacher attack

A wheelchair-bound 64-year-old teacher was injured in an attack after the bell rang…

Here is the smirking face of *this* Covington student:

How long until she gets a statue?

 Posted by at 5:41 pm