Author Archives: John Moynes

Anti-monarchy group Republic is erecting billboards in Scotland

In Britain some folk want to wean
Their country away from the Queen
Though not many, they choose
To be buoyed by the news
Of the royals, which has not been too clean

John Moynes

Pic: Republic

Construction to stop San Francisco’s Millennium Tower from sinking further into the earth has been halted after the building suddenly sank another inch within a few weeks

It’s not controversial to think
That skyscrapers just shouldn’t sink
But out by the bay
One does, so they say
And the residents kicked up a stink

John Moynes

Getty

“Eco-friendly” LED streetlights produce even worse light pollution for insects than the traditional sodium bulbs they are replacing

Predators like a streetlight
When going out hunting at night
Because they’re aware
Of moths everywhere
So ecologists say they’re a blight

John Moynes

AFP

The number of young smokers in the UK rose by a quarter in the first lockdown, a study shows

In a lockdown with no end in sight
More people people were tempted to light
Up and smoke a fag
When there’s no one to nag
Them and point out that frankly they’re shite

John Moynes

Adobe

Flood gates on the border wall blown open by monsoon rains in Arizona, USA

So here’s news that will shock us all
It seems that Trump’s great border wall
Could not take the strain
Of some wind and some rain
And large bits are starting to fall

John Moynes

Fernando Sobrazo

Katherine Zappone’s UN free speech envoy post would have required her to work 30 days in the first six months

There’s still not a great deal that’s known
Of the job made for Katherine Zappone
But the opposition
Will maintain their position
To force Fine Gael to atone.

John Moynes

RollingNews

OnlyFans will ban sexually explicit images and videos from October, the online subscription service has announced

If you are a lady or dude
Who poses for pics in the nude
The OnlyFans say
That you won’t get your pay
If they think that your photos are rude

John Moynes

Orbis

Russian spy ship The Yantar is currently off the west coast of Ireland

This morning I’m wondering why
A Russian ship that’s used to spy
Would be sailing almost
Within sight of our coast
We could ask, but I doubt they’d reply

John Moynes

A three-metre python was spotted perusing the spice section of a store in Sydney, Australia

Many pythons consider it nice
To hide in a store behind spice
And so it’s no wonder
That shop staff down under
Can get rid of one in a trice

John Moynes

7News

Swiss eggheads have calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude

A lot of you might wonder why
We need trillions of digits of pi
(The whole thing’s a bore
Though it ends with a four)
But the boffins insisted they’d try

John Moynes

Pic: CCO