Recent Comments

1. about 15 hours ago on Rubes

   Death of the vulture, that is. Death of the livestock would be considered an own goal.

   According to Wikipedia, the stuff has been banned in India but is used anyway, and has been adopted in Spain because I have no idea.

2. 2 days ago on Rubes

   @uniquename I don’t know. I’m in another country, and U.S. citizens are rarely seen here.

3. 4 days ago on Rubes

   Wikipedia, for foreigners: “Toucan Sam is the cartoon toucan mascot for Froot Loops breakfast cereal. The character has been featured in advertising since 1963.”

4. 5 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Time to tell again about the basic scratching post that I used a handful of catnip powder on to attract the cat who, sure enough, was soon enthusiastically scratching my hand – oops, and ouch! I survived, and she moved on to scratching the post eventually.

5. 12 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   With a tattered edge, I hope not a screen, despite the cord at the bottom. It’s artwork of Ora Zella as Peter Pan, so I propose it was commissioned from Sophie or by artificial intelligence… or it’s something that The Woman drew, of course. For the Children maybe.

6. 13 days ago on Rubes

   He hasn’t got to the urinal yet, but best practice in this department is to put the sign out first?

7. 16 days ago on Rubes

   A shark hospitalised a British tourist visiting Trinidad and Tobago. on 26th April 2024, so this is… a joke at his and his wife’s expense, I suppose. But I also suppose that tourists around the world are getting attacked by sharks on most days, so maybe it isn’t personal. To be exact, a news report says that “Last year, there were 69 unprovoked attacks and 22 provoked bites worldwide, along with 14 fatalities, according to the Florida-based International Shark Attack File.” Well, those are the ones that have someone still around afterwards to get in touch with Florida and let them know.

8. 20 days ago on Rubes

   Maybe this apparatus has different plumbing. I mean, your typical cartoon fishbowl has no exit.

   The cartoon plays on the convention of disposing of a dead fish by flushing it, possibly with the water from the bowl, usually when the children aren’t aware. But in fact, authorities ask that you don’t flush anything except for human outputs, and the special paper that you wipe with, specifically excluding most feminine hygiene disposable products, because they, and dead fish, are liable to stick before going very far.

9. 21 days ago on Rubes

   Refuse and recycling collection often meets interference from organized crime, or close friends of local government people, or close friends of local government people who also are in organized crime.

10. 22 days ago on Rubes

    They gave me a burgundy colour bin for glass (bottles and jars, any colour, nothing else). A little joke maybe. But now that goes in the grey bin with metal cans and acceptable plastics, and the burgundy bin is for compostable material. And the blue one is now for paper and card only.