You may or may not have noticed that I haven't done the 'lighter news' for a few weeks. Fortunately, it is the summer and it is 'silly news' season, so most of the news has been light anyway.
I did watch with interest the run up to the meeting between the President across the Pond and everyone's friend, Jean Claude Juncker.
Trump had previously labelled the European Union a 'foe of the US' and the day before Juncker's visit he also tweeted this :
Not to be outdone, Juncker retaliated with 'we can also do stupid'.
It was like watching a sequel to Dumb and Dumber.
Both men have egos the size of the continents they come from and being the best, is all that matters - even if it means being the best at being stupid!
Talking of stupid, Boris Johnson decided to propel himself into the news yet again. Having resigned as Foreign Secretary, he found that the only basking he could do in pastures new, was in natural light, otherwise known as the Sun.
There was not even a glimmer of limelight to be had, so he put pen to paper (or digits to keys) and had a go at burka clad women.
The best punishment for him would be total indifference. Not giving him the oxygen of publicity would be devastating to him. Unfortunately, that did not happen.
Theresa May was the first to be outraged and demand an apology, conveniently forgetting that she appointed him as her Foreign Secretary despite his previous racist comments.
Remember his comment that Tony Blair would be met in the Congo with 'water melon smiles'? Not to forget the other chestnut, and I quote, 'The Queen has come to love the commonwealth because it provides her with a regular supply of flag waving picaninnies'.
So it's a tad hypocritical for her to now be jumping up and down on her designer clad feet, shouting protestations.
Besides, I think his comment is pretty idiotic anyway. He compared a burka clad woman to a bank robber and a letter box.
One would deduce that if a burka clad woman looks like both, a letter box and a bank robber, then a letter box and a bank robber would look similar. But they don't.
Mind you, I think a bank robber would rather like to resemble a letter box. It would make escaping so much easier. All he would have to do is run around a corner and stand still.
Now I know why Mr Johnson's hair looks the way it does. It probably is in a permanent state of shock at what goes on beneath.
We've done stupid and we've done dumb and dumber. Now we'll move on to the dumbest of them all.
A woman decided to breastfeed her child while eating her lunch at a Subway restaurant in a Walmart store, somewhere in the USA.
This did not please the man in charge, so he asked her to cover up or move somewhere to the back. She objected. This pleased him even less.
So, the Einstein of fast food chains, then came up with what he probably thought was the perfect analogy to draw, in order to help this uncooperative mother, who was hell bent on nourishing her child, understand where he was coming from.
He asked her how she would feel if he whipped out his Boris Johnson (he may have used another word) and peed everywhere.
I'll wait for a minute for you to pick up your jaw and for your eyebrows to descend.
In my opinion, three things need to happen. First, the 'Manager' needs to go back to education and attend all those Biology classes he skipped, paying particular attention to the human anatomy of both genders.
Next, someone needs to confiscate his passport. Can you imagine him visiting countries where women, and society, have the audacity to think that breast feeding is natural, and therefore, do not feel the need to slink off somewhere to feed their babies.
He may feel compelled to let his good old BJ make an appearance every time, with the threat to pee all over the place. Not a good look at all.
Finally, he should be forced to look for a change in employment. Somewhere, where there is absolutely no chance of him encountering lactating mothers, with the inconvenient desire to feed their children.
A coal mine seems ideal. And with Trump planning to revive the coal mining industry, his future certainly looks good, in fact I would go as far as to say that his future looks orange.
Until next time, try and keep it light!
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