The Hallucinating Goose

I've just started watching Motherland in the last week, thought I'd give it a go cos I was looking for a new sitcom to watch and iplayer recommended it. I have to say, I've really enjoyed what I've seen so far, very funny, made even better because I've always had a thing for gingers. Diane Morgan.

I read something recently about a city in America, can't remember where it was now, I seem to think Cleveland or Colombus but might be wrong, where they had a mayor who had spent a lot of time in Europe and loved roundabouts and so built absolutely masses of them in the city over his tenure and as a result its a bit of a anomoly in America.

Latest news round here is the police have questioned a bloke because he has destroyed a badger sett near Pocklington. Knob. Also the usual stories about traffic chaos and congestion in the city centre and a car crash down a random side street in some faceless and unimportant suburb completely crippling the city. Alright that's a bit of an exaggeration but it really does seem that whenever there is a car crash on one of the city's main streets the entire city comes to a standstill. Hull surely has to be one of the most congested cities in Britain.

How is your trip to Israel going Bleep?

I agree mate, I would shake your hand but we aren't allowed to do that... how about an elbow touch instead??

An amazing book. Philip K. Dick is undoubtedly my favourite author. My favourite of his is probably 'A Scanner Darkly'.

Is there a lot of pictures of her leaning over the counter or licking wooden spoons and her fingers or close ups of her chest?

Well one of the top stories on Hull Live right now is Dom Littlewood catches a bus in Hull. Exciting times for the city.......

Ah, very interesting Bleep, thank you for that, pretty much the same explanation for me, when I was thinking of a username there was a goose taking some suspicious looking mushrooms in the corner of my living room!

Is that his surname? I always thought it was his PIN number, I better call off those blokes I hired to... ...anyway, enough of that.

Sounds like me at the height of my airlines manager obsession. I've managed to break the obsession these days and haven't played it for quite a while but at the height I would spend hours analysing potential routes to purchase and working out different seat configurations for different planes, studying financial statements and budgeting every little aspect of the airline. At one point I even had spreadsheet documents on my computer documenting every aircraft I had (something like 800) related to the routes (about 1,000) which they flew comparing it to passengers numbers and potential future passengers, cross referenced and compared to other aircraft types and different seat configurations to work out whether I was flying the most cost efficient aircraft and where I could save money on things such as cheaper food and drink, fuel economy and duty free sales without damaging passenger demand etc. etc. It can be very easy for a game to take over your life. I was probably talking in my sleep, "Embraer 190-80 economy-uses a lot of fuel, Boeing 757-150 economy-20 business-cheap to buy, Manchester to Moscow-high demand, Belfast to Perpignon-low demand"

Ooh sounds like something I'd be interested in!

Wow, that has shocked me a bit, figured it was coming given his age and the recent hospital stay but even so. A true servant of the country. RIP Prince Philip.

Only when that daft little Greta girl appears every single ad break. Can't stand the sight of her let alone the sound.

I like how under the headline they've added the incredibly vital info of, 'she bought a pizza kebab instead'. The Daily Fail were going fish and chips mad on Good Friday, they had stories ranking the best chippies in hull, one where they actually sampled some of these delicacies and a story about '196' cars queueing at the Papa's drive-thru and how people were getting a bit edgy. What gets me with that last one is, did the Daily Fail journalist actually walk down the line counting the cars? Have they got nothing better to report on? I'm sure someone has lost a dog recently!

Anything Bond related would be better for viewers!

That's only cos Hull Uni were disqualified for using a speedboat but it's the competition organisers' fault for just calling it boat race and not specifying what kind, personally I think Oxford and Cambridge are just making it harder for themselves rowing.

Not local to me but local news to someone! I think a lot of people on this estate will think they are hallucinating! https://news.sky.com/story/dog-walkers-warned-as-20-giant-south-american-rheas-rampage-around-herts-housing-estate-12257577

I think as well that a lot of them are very aware they are on tv and play up to the camera because quite frankly if they act like that normally then I would find them utterly insufferable and this seems to have been a development in the last few seasons, they never used to be as loud and animated and as they are now and some of them are just so ignorant and obnoxious and to put it bluntly, just so thick. Edit. Also Naked Attraction is one of the worst things ever to happen to human society and I do include the existence of yawnion in that. All I have ever seen of the show is the clips on Gogglebox and even that is far too much to stomach. It makes me glad to be a goose because if I was a human I would be embarrassed for my species that someone actually thought that show was a good idea.

I agree, I've watched it quite a bit in the past but watched the first one of the new series and thought it was really poor. Not bothered watching anymore since.

Yeah this is what I'm talking about, Top Gear is another, an hour slot and they will cut out an entire segment of the show, usually about 10 minutes or so.

True this, you see it with American sitcoms, one I'm thinking of is Frasier, where about 4 times in one episode, there is a bit of music and an obvious transition between scenes, clearly where the adverts were when it was shown in America. Another is The Big Bang Theory where, again about 4 times every episode, a cgi atom appears on the screen spinning round and it cuts to a new scene, same thing. Just two I've thought of off the top of my head.

Channels like Dave and yesterday pee me off when they put old BBC shows on and to fit the adverts in but still get it into a half hour or hour slot, they cut out a big chunk of the original show.

Bombardier have announced they are stopping production of the Learjet this year. First built in 1963, it is a true icon of the skies and will be missed. We've lost some true aviation greats during this pandemic.

PM me the list, I'll take care of it.