Mickelicious comments

Remember when he was the worst PM in history?

He'll never be forgiven for Brexit or the Bedroom Tax.

Only in Japan:

Hacker faxes bomb threat

...a member of a right-wing group

Curiouser and curiouser.

“The belief in the fairness of the Law has been damaged,” Nakao never said

Tax authorities will hound you for a pittance, but blatantly steal from the taxpayer and you get a suspended sentence.

What a sublime start to Sunday.

Go Ireland!

Find a big corporate sponsor to pay for bins, crowd control and first aid stations.

Stop every other Yamanote Line train from stopping at Shibuya at the first sign of dangerous congestion.

Manage pedestrian flows at potential bottlenecks.

Doyle: Gimme a Jack Daniels,

Barman: Jack qui?

Doyle: Yeah, gimme a Jackie Daniels.

What about the loadsamoney Brexit was going to give the NHS?

a dispatch worker, 

Koizumi's legacy: companies sitting on mountains of cash preying on dispatch workers who struggle to make ends meet.

What an utterly daft product.

Caption:

Volunteers at the charity Greenwich Foodbank organize stocks of food before the items are dispatched to benefactors

The poverty is on many levels

Ah, the sunlit uplands of Brexit!

I spray myself before going into the garden.

I'd rather take my chances with mosquitoes and ticks.

You can't dispense with unionists, you can't dispense with the DUP.

The DUP dispensed with itself when it ignored the solid vote against Brexit in Northern Ireland, and threw PM Theresa May under a bus for the hardest of all Brexits, to put a physical border back on the island of Ireland.

In the 1960s the party's founder Ian Paisley's rabble-rousing hate speech, abetted by a series of false flag bomb attacks by British 'loyalists' on the region's infrastructure (blamed on a long-dormant IRA), radicalised working class Protestants to attack their Catholic neighbours, igniting what became known as The Troubles.

The DUP remains the second largest party through its old MO of fomenting unfounded fears. Sinn Féin, on the other hand have come a long way from bogeyman of Britain to embracing the whole community, being warm hosts-as-equals to King Charles in Belfast after his mother's death, and attending his Coronation.

Northern Ireland's Irish nationalist residents are no longer the second class citizen minority they were at the time of the Partition of Ireland in 1922. They are progressive, educated and inclusive. Demographically, they'll be an electoral majority in a few years time.

NI's people face a choice: continue centuries-old animosity in the poorest region of post-Brexit Britain, or enjoy peace and prosperity in a confident, pluralist New Ireland.

A hamster wheel pitstop with all the charm of a washlet WC.

A perfect end to a sublime St. Patrick's week : )

It's also true, that millions of the people living in Tokyo really do not give a hoot about nature, and have a horror of insects, etc. 

At a suburban park barbecue with Mickelicious Jr's classmates, a half Kiwi kid's first reaction to an ant colony was to grab mummy's ant spray, and douse all and sundry in a cloud of insecticide. The shock nearly killed his (also half Kiwi) vegetarian classmate and his vegan JP mum.

has already been indicted for abuses and injuries inflicted on his eldest son when the child was eight months old.

Is that part of the current arrest/custody or a previous arrest?

Too often we see jealous man babies walk free to repeat vile abuse.

Too conscientious to steal a car?

I've relocated more centrally from the outer burbs, and I'm glad of Tokyo's footpaths/sidewalks, as the 'shared space' concept just doesn't work. Kids bring their playground running-around-and-bumping-into-each-other habits into their cycling and ultimately their driving. As a pedestrian, cyclist and driver this is terrifying.

The boy needs to man up.

A despicable remark. My dad was a bit physical, and so was I in turn, I'm ashamed to say.

This is merely part of the cost of reducing headcount.

Stop treating valued customers like criminal suspects.

More light pollution, like a pachinko parlour more than anything else.

Just get a bung from the anti-communist Unification Church.

They're always thrilled to help the LDP, surely?

Did our studio audience...

Demand root-and-branch reform?

Accept a stuffed envelope to look away?

Pretend not to understand the question?

Speaks volumes that he's at the FCCJ.

The total of 599,636 Japanese born in January-September was 4.9% below last year’s figure, suggesting the number of births in all of 2022 might fall below last year's record low of 811,000 babies, he said.

It certainly looks that way. Methinks Mickelicious Junior will be getting the hell out of Dodge when he turns 18.

I bet this is really slow, with redundant confirmation steps.

Stand by for imminent inaction!

Interesting there's no more Minister for Brexit Opportunities portfolio.

There's obviously no need, as we enter a winter of blisscontent.