Bad taste

The next episode of the Battle of Britain*… tomorrow Arsenal play Manchester United… to be broadcast only by channel… [such and such]

The sirens, the sombre male voice…

This was a Friday night commercial on RMF Classic, the Polish equivalent of Classic FM. None of my friends found it offensive, though they often complain, how misunderstood we are in Europe as ‘history nuts’.
And here we are – the greatest myth of contemporary Britain as a football advert bit, and nobody finds themselves uneasy about it.

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*known in Poland – with no obvious explanation – as the Battle of England

Idolatry

Monstrosity, next to the rather tasteful stone and plaque, put to commemorate the valley walk in the Tatras (of June 1983), in which pope John Paul II took part:

Barnes, London: That sycamore tree: the site of the car accident in which the leader of T.Rex band, Marc Bolan died, aged 29 (16Sep 1977):

Fire phobics?

Wow, Posh has a sense of humour!…

Or should I say – ‘humor’?…

When asked about the impact of paparazzi on her life in the U.S., Mrs Beckham answered:
‘I think it is pretty crazy everywhere. I would never complain about paparazzi intrusion, I have put myself in this position, I am a celebrity and so is David.
‘It is tricky when the kids are around, and sometime the paparazzi do get violent and drive dangerously and it is not fair on the kids. That is the sad thing about it.
‘At least we never have to take a camera anywhere because someone else will always capture that moment. And they often retouch them too, which is perfect. I look a damn site better in those pictures than in my own ones.’

The reason

Fulham, last week, pub window:

Never before had I seen such an excuse in this country…

Weapons of mass destruction

Miles Kington once famously wrote a column that consisted of only two sentences – going on and on and on through all the piece:
If we didn’t sell them, someone else would.
It creates lots of jobs in Britain.

The trade was obviously arms trade, disputed with new force in the wake of fresh controversies betwen India and Pakistan at some point in 1998.

Just a couple of days ago I heard nearly the same phrases used as an excuse of mass sales of bad credits… by former building societies and banks proper.

Your mortgage as a destructive force, working by stealth against you – that was a disaster waiting to happen – and here it is, at long last.

How much are they?

…the Polish tastebuds, that is:

…a couple of shelves at Sainsbury’s

…the sweets (a 220-230g pack of Mieszko’s Michaszki or Trufle: 99p – a rather good price)

Pickled cucumbers – twice as much as the indigenous version…
No, impossible to spend so much money on something that used to be a vegetable! And on quite a lot of vinegar…