Archive of entries posted on 2nd April 2025

Today’s UK Bashing

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UK businesses leaving and moving to the US
Sky News Australia | 3.25.2025 | Sky News Australia

Strelmark President Hilary Fordwich says politicians should know “how to run a business” before coming into power.

UK Labour has been accused of being anti-business after reports of more than 200,000 businesses have folded since they took power.

Ms Fordwich told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power that businesses are “leaving” the UK and moving to the US.

Politicians should also know “how to run basic freedoms of expression” before coming into power.

Parents arrested by Hertfordshire police for complaining about daughter’s school
The Guardian | March 29, 2025 | Daniel Lavelle

The parents of a nine-year-old girl have said they were held at a police station for 11 hours because they complained about their daughter’s primary school.
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Allen, a Times Radio producer, said six police officers turned up at his home on 29 January.

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Allen had reportedly communicated to the school in May 2024 regarding the recruitment of a new headteacher but his queries were rejected.

The school’s governors then reportedly wrote to the parent body about “inflammatory and defamatory” comments on social media, warning that the school would take action against anyone who caused “disharmony”.

B Itch Needs To Be Scratched

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Well, “A” went better than expected. So here’s B.

Your challenge: to create a new word or phrase that begins with B.

I’ll begin:

Blowzo: A clown who totally sucks at sucking. Can I say that?

Bi-ghostal: You don’t want to know.

Breasts (pl.): see More

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Straight Line of the Day: As Scotty T Has Pointed Out, Someday This Internet Thing Is Going To End. What Will Replace It?

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Bond Girlathon Wednesday : Results from 3/26/2025 : New Matches for 4/2/2025

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I hope everyone is up for some more hot Bond Girlathon action.

Results

Gemma ArtertonNo PreferenceLois Chiles
131149

Corinne CleryNo PreferenceBerenice Marlohe
113155

Week of 4/2/2025

Match 1

Leila Shenna (Private Jet Hostess) vs Lea Seydoux (Madelaine Swann)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Leila Shenna0 – 2 – 063 – 13 – 256
Private Jet Hostess

Actress:Leila Shenna
Nationality:Moroccan
Bond Movie:Moonraker (1979)

Synopsis:

James Bond was aboard a private jet, enjoying his “last leg” of the mission with the hostess. Bond stated “I don’t think I’m ever going to fly with anyone else”, to which the hostess responded “You’re so right, Mr Bond” as she pulled a gun on him. Bond was then thrown out of the plane without a parachute, and was left to steal another mans, mid air. The fate of the hostess was unknown.

Leila Shenna

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ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Lea Seydoux1 – 1 – 0170 – 4 – 190
Madelaine Swann

First appearanceSpectre (2015)
Last appearanceNo Time to Die (2021)
Portrayed byLéa Seydoux

Madeleine Swann is a complex character introduced in the James Bond film Spectre. Madeline Swann is the daughter of Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), a member of the criminal organization SPECTRE.

Swann studied at the University of Oxford and at Sorbonne University, and later worked with Doctors Without Borders.[1] By the time of Spectre she is working as a psychiatrist at a private clinic in the Austrian Alps.

Dying of thallium poisoning, White tells James Bond (Daniel Craig) to protect his daughter from SPECTRE, so Bond goes to see her at the clinic. Although Swann is initially hesitant to trust Bond, she agrees to share information about SPECTRE and help Bond take the organization down. The two gradually fall in love, and Bond ultimately leaves MI6 to be with her after arresting Blofeld.

Lea Seydoux

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Match 2

Carole Bouquet (Melina Havelock) vs Monica Bellucci (Lucia Sciara)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Carole Bouquet1 – 1 – 0226 – 2 – 168
Melina Havelock

Actress:Carole Bouquet
Nationality:French
Bond Movie:For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Synopsis:

Melina Havelock was the daughter of two marine explorers who did salvage work for the British Secret Service. After her parents were assassinated by henchman Hector Gonzales, Melina found the hitman and killed him with a crossbow. She and Bond were both trying to uncover the man who ordered the attacks, and they worked well together, eventually finding him.

Carole Bouquet

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ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Monica Bellucci1 – 1 – 0173 – 8 – 187

Lucia Sciarra

BornMonica Anna Maria Bellucci
30 September 1964 (age 60)
Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
OccupationsActressfashion model

Instructed by his former superior M, James Bond is assigned to trace notorious assassin Marco Sciarra, kill him, and attend his funeral, knowing his womanizing ways will get him the answers he needs there rather from the assassin himself. Bond travels to Mexico and successfully kills Sciarra, failing his plan of targeting a stadium for a terrorist attack.

Monica Belluci

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