Peter Kay is a cunt.

There was an ITV programme called ‘Goodbye Granadaland’ about Granada Television and the closure of The Granada Building on Quay Street in Manchester. As a long time viewer and fan of Granada, I settled down to watch it.

Alarm bells immediately rang when I saw that Peter Kay was presenting it and in charge of it, and how right I was. Instead of a serious programme about Granada and how innovative it was, we got a load of vacuous and superficial shite. The sort of cheesy crap that is synonymous with both Kay and ITV.

The great Tony Wilson (RIP), his long time at Granada and his hugely influential programmes were skirted over in about one minute. The seismic Pistols episode of So It Goes got just a few seconds. While shite like Take That and Lisa Stansfield were on for (it seems like) ages. And Simon and Garfunkel’s legendary appearance at Granada was hardly mentioned. I expected a documentary on all the great shows Granada did. Like 7 Up, World In Action, What the Papers Say, So It Goes, The Dustbinmen, and, of course, Coronation Street. But it was mostly empty headed shite, with that cliched overdone ‘northerness’ that I find both insulting and annoying (Paddy McGuinness, you cunt). Other Granada presenters like Charlie Foster, Jim Pope, Colin Weston, Bob Greaves and Graham James weren’t even mentioned. Other people worked there apart from Michael Parkinson and Richard and fucking Judy.

Coronation Street was covered, but badly. Apart from a couple of soundbites from true Street legend, Julie Goodyear, it was just one of Kevin Webster’s daughters talking shit. And any other decent archive clips were interrupted by Kay’s babbling.

All in all, Granada (which now exists in name only) deserved a better send off than this light entertainment shallow shite that ITV is now (in)famous for.

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Nominated by: Norman

So many obstacles in the way just to get a look at the thing you want to read or buy.

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Then if you buy the thing and opt out of their bs emails, you get them anyway. After the order and delivery emails, comes the ‘How did we do?’ survey. Then you get marketing gumph trying to tempt you with stuff you’re not interested in.

Easier going to a shop but some of those are at it as well. I went into Hobbs and bought something posh for a work do. “Would you like your receipt emailed to you?l” No. “We only do digital receipts.” Fs, everyone wants to harvest your flipping email address.

Nominated by: Cuntologist

And  supported by: Dickie Dribbler

I’ve had that digital receipt only cr@p at check outs as well (not in a ladies outfitters I hasten to add). It’s surprising how quickly they can come up with a non-digital one when you tell them you no longer wish to purchase the goods.

Sod their arguments that proof of purchase will appear on your bank statement (assuming you pay by card – which I often don’t) if there is any need to return an item. One line on a bank statement saying you spent say £100 in shop XYZ doesn’t say what items you bought, how many you bought or how much you paid for each item. I want evidence at point of sale to avoid doubt.

What I find astounding is that retailers aren’t obliged to give receipts by law (unless I think it’s a VAT registered business to business transaction).

If Arsenal, Man United, Spurs or Man City were languishing in mid table oblivion and had got yet another spanking (this time off Wolves), the BBC, Sky and social media would be full of ‘when’s the manager getting sacked?’ and yapping on about how far they had fallen. But because it’s Liverpool, nobody says a fucking word or calls them out for being shit.

Jurgen Klopp and the sainted Mo Salah can do no wrong. And if Fergie or Wenger refused to talk to the press, they’d be called out as cunts. If Manchester United or Arsenal were in Liverpool’s position, the media would revel in their misfortune and be calling for the manager’s head. And there would also be an array of pundits and ‘old boys’ ready to put the boot in. ‘

But… But it’s Liverpool!’

When the then Man United manager, Ole Gunnar Solksjaer was in the same situation as Klopp and Liverpool are in now, the media at large wanted his bollocks in a blender.?

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Nominated by Norman.

Addendum by Cuntybollocks

I second this excellent Nom, Norm – if I may?

I’d add that you can include Everton fans (and Jamie Carragher in particular) too. Must be a Scouse thing.

They’ve just beaten Arsenal (top of the league) and recently drew with Man City. But they lose to every cunt else more or less.

To me that means the cunting players only bother turning up when a good side plays them. Lazy twats. Their fans have been protesting for weeks against the owners, who’ve spent loads on trying to move them to a new 60,000 stadium and on players they can’t really afford.

Because the managers have brought in shite, they want the owners blood. They’ve overspent and are in financial trouble because of poor spending.

Now, the owner is being more hands on, making sure money isn’t spunked on shit, and he’s interfering. Can’t win. The board have been far from ideal, the biggest mistake was getting Fat Frank in. Trying to make a bunch of hoofers to play tikka taka, the silly bastard. Dyche is much more up their street – kick and run at 100mph.

The fans are protesting to the point the rozzers have told the board to not come to games btw.

The threats to their life have been deemed serious and credible.

Then, you get a typical ‘never their fault’ comment from Jamie Gozzagher, saying they should not stay away as it tars all Everton fans with the same brush.

No, they’re staying away because the rozzers told them to. They are targets.

Next time a baying mob is waiting for you outside the Sky studio for gozzing at kids, with Dibble telling you to stay away as you might get murdered, you should go in, you daft cunt.

If the fans want to complain and make death threats, they should look at the team and ask why they can play out of their skins against the two best teams currently in the league, but play like a bunch of lazy, can’t be arsed cunts against everyone else.

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Global Citizen

You know the sort of cunts I mean. Sparkletits and Hewitt, the Clintons and Obamas and ‘rock star’ progressive politicians. They love unfettered immigration, fighting climate change, poverty and racism, they hate borders, walls and guns but live in exclusive all-white gated communities with private security and travel by private jet.

The idea of nationhood is outdated and racist they tell each other at Davos and the Met Gala fundraiser, open borders for a connected global community is the way forward but have spent the last couple of years hiding in their mansions from Covid in those nice enclaves and not a Beijing tower block or favela in Rio.

Of course they don’t believe in what they actually say, its all progressive window dressing, slacktivism I believe is the term coined. They don’t care about the people they claim to want to help. Eco brat Thunberg has as much in common with a Kenyan goat herder as does Justin Trudeau with a Peruvian coal miner or a Uighur Muslim getting his bollocks shocked in a Chinese labour camp.

If they want their own global community, fuck off and colonize Mars.

Nominated by: Liberal Liquidator.

A Second Helping from Komodo.

https://institute.global/
(Be aware on opening his link, it is a scary sight.)

Seconded, naive shite, at complete odds with any realistic perception of international politics.

Note that the cunt is objecting to “populism” (code for lying to the masses), when that’s exactly what got him into power in the first place. An important part of global citizenship is pulling up the ladder behind you.

Grandparent, Childminder, more precious than gold.

You read it here first, and thought so fucking what, but have a think.
I took early retirement at 55, with a pension and a lump sum that let me pay off all debts, including the mortgage.

I did it to look after the tiddler, whose now the Gradly Lass.

Could I have done childcare at 65/66? Yes probably.

Could my daughter have had a child at 45? Possibly.

Would I have changed it? Not for a bucket full of diamonds.

But the point is that older folk retire to become carers of grandkids, or their own parents. Whose going to look after me, if my kids have to work until they’re nearly 70?

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Nominated by: Jeezum Priest