Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 9-7-2018: Anyone for …

9th July, 2018.

Yep: it’s Monday, it’s a Monday morning … 

And the quiet patch that was the slow news weekend?

Has been broken.

Yep: we’ve got Thai junior football teams getting dug out of holes, we’ve got at least one pro-Brexit government minister handing in his resignation* … 

And a death in Amesbury.

You possibly remember that Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, were poisoned, in March: with a nerve agent called Novichok.

A poison that’s usually only made by government labs: and one apparently only made in Russia.

An English couple — Dawn Sturgess, and Charlie Rowley — were poisoned by the same nerve agent, at the end of June.

Apparently?   After picking up something that contained it.

Current thinking?

1. Is, apparently, that the Skripals were poisoned with it.
2. That the nerve agent was disguised in an innocent looking container.
3. That the container was left somewhere where someone could find it.
4. It got found by Sturgess and Rowley: who believed it was an interesting looking, but innocent, container.

Dawn Sturgess died this morning, after being exposed to the poison.

Now … 

Outside of any Health and Safety implications† — which seems a pretty pointless argument, when you’re talking about chemical weapons! — I’m assuming the Russian who did this was more worried about getting out of the UK, or being caught, than anything else.

At any rate?

Someone who wasn’t involved with spying on Russia, who didn’t work for the KGB, or MI6, or any other intelligence agency, got killed.

Because someone wanted a Russian double agent dead.

Even if we call Dawn Sturgess’s death ‘collateral damage’?

There’s possibly a good argument for calling it murder.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 8th July, 2018

8th July, 2018.

OK, so obviously, the ol’ Morecambe and Wise gag worked … 

They — just in case you didn’t know — were a popular double act: back in the 60s and 70s.

Sot of a precursor to the ever popular Ant and Dec.

If you’ve heard of them.

At ANY rate … ?

Eric — the taller of the two — would wiggle his glasses about.

Sad, eh … ?

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 7th July, 2018.

7th July, 2018.

Yep: I’m officially back at work, today: and frankly?

I’d rather be back in bed.

Isn’t that always the way … ?

At any rate?   I’m sorely tempted to take a good book into work.   I’ve been reading LeGuin’s The Other Wind, just recently.

And, as with some of her earlier work?

Her prose is both hypnotic, and beautiful … !

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Do you watch the news, at all?   Or follow football?

I’m not a fan, I should add, here.

So I couldn’t help but notice this piece: telling how one pair of actors got seriously annoyed at one pair in the audience.

Who — on Tuesday just gone — watch the England-Columbia penalty shoot-out, on their phones … 

Whilst they were in the front row, supposedly watching the musical … !

I’m with the actors, there.

The pair were fucking incredibly rude!

You’ve bought theatre tickets, right?

You even make a point of going to the theatre, to watch the play.

It’s show a lot of fuc brainlessness to ignore the actors — the people you’ve paid to entertain you —in favour of the match.

AND distract them from doing their job, and spoil everyone else’s fun in to the bargain.

You can tell I’m angry, can’t you?

I doubt the woman concerned are watching this.

But if they are?

Enjoy the game, this afternoon.

Watch it down the pub.

Just don’t watch it on your phones if you’re supposed to be watching something else!

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 6-7-2018: Richard 3rd, AGAIN!

6th July, 2018.

Yep, it’s a Friday.

Yep: it’s ALSO a day off.

Yep: I’ve manage to tape Humans: and have it ripping as we speak.

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Moving on, and keeping an extremely straight face?

I’m no legal expert: I’d defer to Old Peculiar regular, and recovering lawyer, Debbi Mack: who understands phrases like pro bono* and tort.

But I’ve had half an eye on the news that the EU parliament is to revise EU copyright law: in ways that seriously affect the way the internet works.

If I’ve understood things correctly?   The two contentious parts of the regulations would means restricting what a person could link to: link or embed.

It would make my position as a blogger, very difficult, to give you an example.   Again, if I’ve got it right, it would make the movie and tv reviews I write, difficult, as I couldn’t find a trailer or scene on line, that I could embed into a post.

That’s something I’d rather not go through, frankly.

The relevant decision of the EU parliament, yesterday?   Was simply to delay things until September.

All I can hope?   Is that the law is not passed.

I’d rather have a free hand in what I show you.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 5-7-2018: Juno What?

5th July, 2018.

Yes, it IS Thursday, isn’t it … ?

Which mean just one thing.

Yes.

I’m going to be taping Channel four series, Humans, tonight.

!

You’ve probably worked out that I’ve got an AppleTV.   And love it to bits.

I’m ALSO aware that Channel 4 has a good reputation for drama.

That’s certainly true.

My only problem?   Is simply that, while every other major TV channel in the UK has a catch up app available for the AppleTV, Channel 4 doesn’t.

Bit of a flaw, Channel 4.

If you’re reading this … ?

Well … 

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