20 thoughts on “Flu Down The Chimney”

  1. Chris

    Tesco = Finance. They’ve distribution contracts for Pfizer, and a board member was appointed to help the Tories (save Christmas) ie Fascism.

    1. Chris

      I read a book many moons ago called ‘Velvet Prison’ – it was about how artists in the USSR had to operate within the strict confines of the regime. I can see the parallels here.

      1. V aka Frilly Keane

        even with the risk of falling into the if you’re explaining your loosing pot hole

        tis still worth pointing you towards a London Agency who have billed in the millions this year alone
        BBH (and no – the Hegarty behind the H isn’t from Cork)
        came up with this ad that looks like it was stitched together from TickTock and Insta thingies

        and ran Queen all over it … not like we haven’t heard it all before ffs
        I could title it “roadkill of Christmas Past” and get away with it

        and in my recollection – and I will put my hands up here and say I have zero artistic credibility, for any artistic form or medium
        other than the endeavours that I can experience by dancing and drinking with
        But didn’t Iron Bloc Countries mind their artists – ok approved artists,
        but they did value artists, paid them and provided them with better accommodation, resources, training, supplies, healthcare etc
        Defections weren’t necessarily because their artistic endeavours were being restricted and restrained
        more the 24/7 Supervision
        and the money and fame that was being denied

        (don’t worry – I expect to be fully taken asunder for suggesting all that btw)

        1. Chris

          Well imagine the remit : We need Santa to arrive at a checkpoint “papers please”
          Convey the spirit of Christmas but with intermittent power cuts.
          Stick granny on an e-scooter etc

          I don’t think they did too bad all things considered.
          As for artistic freedom and renumeration, I think artists would have been better of in the USSR than dealing with what’s coming down the line.

  7. Tom J

    Imagine if Santa wasn’t vaccinated and he caught Covid 19 and died. Imagine the utter chaos.
    No presents for the kids.
    No socks or underwear for granddad.
    No perfume for grandma.
    No carolers singing.
    And no partridge in a pear tree.

    2. MsDaisy Chainsaw

      He’s old and obese, so Santa shuffling off this mortal coil from covid would be natural wastage anyway.

      2. Fergalito

        You’ve seen him then – have you? Or are you basing it on what they want you to think he looks like?

        If anyone ever found out that he was an emaciated ghoul, whose existence and punishment is commensurate with the existence of humanity he is doomed to serve then you’d be horrified. He dresses in rags and spends most of the following year cleaning the soot out of them.

        Big, fat, jolly magic-man in a red suit – c’mon !

        I’ve said too much ….

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