{"id":9761,"date":"2023-12-21T21:39:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T19:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=9761"},"modified":"2024-01-05T19:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T17:02:47","slug":"2023-uk-woke-hits-an-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/2023-uk-woke-hits-an-all-time-high\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 UK Woke Hits an All Time High!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bing Crosby\u2019s White Christmas Symphony No. 9 in Morris Minor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>20 December 2023 ~ 2023 UK Woke Hits an All Time High!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It was cold in April. It was cold in May. Come to think of it, it was cold in the UK, not to mention wet, from April to September. I was staying with a friend for some of this time, where I only had the gas heating on for two hours a day. Even so, the gas bill, together with electricity, ie one light bulb ~ my friend is a tight old sod ~ clocked up about 200 quid per month! I know, I know, it\u2019s all \u2018a certain president\u2019s fault\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We were in Aldi\u2019s supermarket, the only place we dare shop nowadays without taking out a mortgage, when we heard a woman (I think \u2018it\u2019 was a woman. You never can tell these days.) behind us at the checkout complaining bitterly about the hike in food costs. Suddenly, my brother Joss, who never takes with him or buys a carrier bag at the supermarket (he\u2019s saving his pocket, not the planet) but always transports his groceries in one of those open-ended, partially broken, sad and saggy inadequate boxes kicking around in supermarkets, on hearing the woman\u2019s complaints, slaps the box upon his head and proceeds to vituperate: \u201cI know! It\u2019s all so terrible in this country. I\u2019m going to hide in this cardboard box. Maybe they\u2019ll go away.\u201d He did actually say, \u2018they\u2019ll <em>all<\/em> go away\u2019. I looked around the supermarket, and I think I know what he meant. However, we don\u2019t know for certain what he meant, because with a cardboard box upon his head, he could have said virtually anything and could have been almost anybody. He could have rowed up the village brook in an inflatable rubber thingy with a Royal Navy escort, declared he came from the land of Cardboard Bongo and, consulting his list of rights and benefits, demanded of the police that they chauffeur him to the nearest hotel. None of your bed and breakfast, mind; anything less than 5-star treatment would degrade the red-carpet welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Anyway, as the box in question had an open end, I twizzled it around on Joss\u2019s head, an action which would have certainly turned his toupee back to front had it not been stuck down with UHU. Now the box was a &nbsp;TV set, so Joss decided to read the news. \u201cHere is the news from the BBC. Whatever it is, it\u2019s all P\u2026.\u2019s fault!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"442\" data-attachment-id=\"9765\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/2023-uk-woke-hits-an-all-time-high\/bbc-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BBC-min.png?fit=927%2C656&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"927,656\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BBC television stuck on people&amp;#8217;s heads\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;TVs on men&amp;#8217;s heads&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BBC-min.png?fit=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BBC-min.png?fit=625%2C442&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BBC-min.png?resize=625%2C442&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BBC-min.png?w=927&amp;ssl=1 927w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BBC-min.png?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BBC-min.png?resize=768%2C543&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BBC-min.png?resize=18%2C12&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BBC-min.png?resize=624%2C442&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BBC-min.png?resize=24%2C17&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BBC-min.png?resize=36%2C25&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BBC-min.png?resize=48%2C34&amp;ssl=1 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Before leaving the supermarket, I apologised to the people gathered at the checkout for having mentioned Mr Ps name numerous times in the space of two minutes, but, showing them the roubles in my wallet, went on to explain that we have an arrangement with him, viz every time we mention his name in Britain, he pays us a hundred roubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I\u2019m not one for confessions or for making and signing statements, but I must confess and state simultaneously that I cannot remember the last time I had so much fun in a supermarket, certainly not recently and possibly not since a childhood friend and I were nabbed in one by a store detective. I can see him now, this stocky, cocky, store detective, striding up behind us, just as we were about to clear checkout, his face wreathed in triumph. He thought he had caught a couple of shoplifters, but we were nothing of the sort. So, he had to let us go, never knowing how close he had come to revealing the identity of the notorious local stock shifters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Before adopting a moral stance, you must make allowance for the fact that in those days, before the advent of Play Station and when enslavement to the smartphone was just a twinkle in Bill Gates\u2019 eyes, we had, as the expression goes, to make our own entertainment, and how we used to do this in the supermarket was to amble around from shelf to shelf surreptitiously shifting things from one place to another. It was, indeed, a rewarding sight to behold jars of Marmite amongst the saucepans and a tin of baked beans or two sitting next to the Brillo pads. Just think what fun could be had today, now supermarkets sell condoms. The possibilities are endless (I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a Freudian reference here?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But don\u2019t you talk about supermarkets! Shocked, I was, and I said so to Mavis. Didn\u2019t I Mavis? Didn\u2019t I say I was shocked!&nbsp; And it is shocking, not to mention inexcusable (But, of course, it\u2019s all that \u2018certain president\u2019s\u2019 fault!) \u2014 Britain\u2019s escalation in food prices: Weetabix \u00a34 a packet! A bottle of brown sauce \u00a33.30! A packet of crisps \u00a31.50 \u2026 Well, you know for certain you&#8217;re a hopeless old fart when you carry on like this. But what about the price of beer! If I carry on like this, I\u2019ll wear out my exclamation key! There, did you see that! There it goes again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">2023 UK Woke Hits an All Time High!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">My brother Joss won\u2019t drink in certain pubs and in certain pubs he can\u2019t because he\u2019s barred. He won\u2019t drink in pubs where he knows that the beer is priced at over a fiver a pint and in pubs where he doesn\u2019t know and is taken unawares, he always complains. He also complains about the quality of the beer, ergo poor quality, and always rather loudly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIt\u2019s alright,\u201d I said in a resigned voice, when the offended look on the barmaid\u2019s face caught my eye and her eye mine (Were we wearing eye patches?), \u201cI\u2019m used to being ashamed of him\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Summer in the UK<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Since summer in the UK was such an abysmal washout, it enabled me to get down to some serious \u2026 beer drinking? That too, but I was going to say stuff shifting. In order to accomplish this gargantuan feat, I had to&nbsp; resort to eBay. I hadn\u2019t used the eBay platform for quite some time, but I soon got back into the swing of things, once I had complained my way through their two-step verification system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Two-step verification, indeed! I told that globalist, that pseudo-leftist Gaters. \u201cGaters,\u201d I said, I call him that, you know, \u201cGaters, what\u2019s it all about then, ay, this two-step verification? If you ask me, it&#8217;s more globalist quick step than two step: the swiftness of the feet deceives the arse you\u2019re kicking and whilst we are feeling the pain, you\u2019ve snatched our mobile phone numbers and locked your global trackers onto our locations. It\u2019s all grist to the surveillance mill, the keeping tabs on us all, the inverted 1984, where it\u2019s not the fascists we have to watch out for, at least not in the traditional sense, but the fascistic sanctimonious, pseudo-liberal lefties led by the usual suspects (those well-known US rich families (really my boy, my boy) and their friends in the Davos set). \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Of course, I could have gone on saying this until the proverbial sheep came home (\u2018Merrr, I\u2019ve had my jab!\u2019), but as you, me and the gateposts know, the gateposts we have in parliament, it would not have made a ha\u2019peth, or rather billions of quid\u2019s worth, of difference, because already the globalist mob is no doubt plotting their next Plandemic and rubbing their hands in anticipation of the monstrous profits to come. \u00a0However, I would have said something to that effect had I not been deplatformed first, labelled a far-right extremist, been banned from tweeting on Twatter and suffered the near misfortune of having my bank account nobbled, as they tried to do with Nigel Farage. Now that wasn\u2019t two-step verification, it was a step in the wrong direction! The goons who pulled that stunt were soon up on their feet doing the shithouse shuffle, as good old Nigel proved again, he is just too strong and too astute for the pseudo-libs to take on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"215\" data-attachment-id=\"3420\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/woke-watch-pc-uk\/woke-watch-rz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C880&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,880\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1617268053&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Woke Watch UK\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Keeping an eye on the UK Woke situation&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C103&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?fit=625%2C215&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-3420\" alt=\"Woke Watch PC UK!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz.jpg?resize=625%2C215&#038;ssl=1\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C352&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C103&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C264&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C528&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C704&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?resize=624%2C215&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?resize=24%2C8&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?resize=36%2C12&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?resize=48%2C17&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?w=1250&amp;ssl=1 1250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Woke-Watch-Rz-scaled.jpg?w=1875&amp;ssl=1 1875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">WOKE WATCH UK!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">You know, being a conspiracy theorist <em>and <\/em>a far-right extremist is not as easy as might be imagined. It would be a lot less difficult to go with the flow, go down to Dover harbour with a bog roll in my hand and beg the third world and its wife (don\u2019t want to be labelled sexist), please can I wipe your arses before the taxpayer-funded police chauffeur you to your waiting hotels and shower you with benefits. What a terribly \u2018wacist\u2019 thing to say!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I thought it a bit racist, although not entirely unapplicable, when I heard a bloke down Wetherspoons say \u2026 I think he was bloke? \u00a0(Once you could tell a bloke from a gal by the tattoos that he was sporting, but now that women have taken to tats and to shrapnel shoved in their lips and snouts, it\u2019s difficult to determine who has and who hasn&#8217;t the meat and two veg. (By the way, how\u2019s your memory? Do you remember Ena Shrapnel? Give me the hairnet any day (Corrr!) rather than tats and bolts.) Anyway, getting back to the point, which is? Well, \u00a0I heard this manly man, who may or may not have been a man, say: \u201cTurn that telly off! If I wanted to watch the coonmercials, I would have stayed at home!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ah! there goes the theme tune to <em>Love Thy Neighbour<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Britain\u2019s social engineering programme has advanced quite spectacularly over the past five years. The Tories have excelled themselves. They have stolen a march on the Liebour party, beating them at their own game, and flushed with their success are leading with the initiative in sexual engineering. The adverts are a case in point. The next time you go to the pub, presuming that you still go to the pub with beer the price it is, see how many men you can spot who look as though together they have recently won the lottery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Where\u2019s Frankie Howard and Larry Grayson when you need them most? Now it\u2019s no longer a Catholic sin, let&#8217;s hope that they are having fun bumming around in heaven.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"790\" data-attachment-id=\"9767\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/2023-uk-woke-hits-an-all-time-high\/theyve-won-the-lottery\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Theyve-won-the-lottery.jpg?fit=900%2C1138&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,1138\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Theyve-won-the-lottery gay men i\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;2023 UK Woke: gay men on adverts win the lottery&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Theyve-won-the-lottery.jpg?fit=237%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Theyve-won-the-lottery.jpg?fit=625%2C790&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Theyve-won-the-lottery.jpg?resize=625%2C790&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9767 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Theyve-won-the-lottery.jpg?resize=810%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 810w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Theyve-won-the-lottery.jpg?resize=237%2C300&amp;ssl=1 237w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Theyve-won-the-lottery.jpg?resize=768%2C971&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Theyve-won-the-lottery.jpg?resize=9%2C12&amp;ssl=1 9w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Theyve-won-the-lottery.jpg?resize=624%2C789&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Theyve-won-the-lottery.jpg?resize=19%2C24&amp;ssl=1 19w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Theyve-won-the-lottery.jpg?resize=28%2C36&amp;ssl=1 28w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Theyve-won-the-lottery.jpg?resize=38%2C48&amp;ssl=1 38w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Theyve-won-the-lottery.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>They&#8217;ve won the lottery!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">My particular favourite sexual engineering advert is the one where the les goes into the shop, says something to the girl behind the counter, the girl behind the counter replies, and the les, who misunderstands her, says, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I already have a girlfriend!\u201d And the nice black man behind her, who doesn\u2019t look like a mugger at all and besides is a British citizen, titters away as though he knows that the advert he will star in next will see him relishing Sunday lunch around the family&#8217;s middle-class dining table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And what is it about British TV, I hear you ask? If Billy Cotton was still around he would not be shouting \u2018Wakey! Wakey\u2019 so much as \u2018Wokey! Wokey!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I threw away my telly many years ago, long before British broadcasting sank beneath the surface of degradation. Did you Mike? You do surprise me. And it wasn\u2019t because of the BBC licence fee, as so much joy can be had from receiving their threatening letters. But this summer, probably because it was so inhospitable that we spent more time inside, the telly at somebody else&#8217;s house could not always be avoided. I saw, for example, a segment or two (and that was quite enough) of the Ukraine Vision Song Contest, some of The King\u2019s Coronation on the Royalty Abolitionist Channel and couldn\u2019t really miss&nbsp;the seeming perpetuality of big butch pony-tailed ladies charging around the football pitch, who seem to have no qualms at all about muscling in on what little remains of Britain\u2019s emasculated working-class males&#8217; last bastion of blokeyness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"327\" data-attachment-id=\"9766\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/2023-uk-woke-hits-an-all-time-high\/footballing-lady-in-the-uk-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Footballing-lady-in-the-UK-min.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,628\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Footballing-lady-in-the-UK\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Women&amp;#8217;s football in the UK a woke thing&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Footballing-lady-in-the-UK-min.jpg?fit=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Footballing-lady-in-the-UK-min.jpg?fit=625%2C327&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Footballing-lady-in-the-UK-min.jpg?resize=625%2C327&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Footballing-lady-in-the-UK-min.jpg?resize=1024%2C536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Footballing-lady-in-the-UK-min.jpg?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Footballing-lady-in-the-UK-min.jpg?resize=768%2C402&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Footballing-lady-in-the-UK-min.jpg?resize=18%2C9&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Footballing-lady-in-the-UK-min.jpg?resize=624%2C327&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Footballing-lady-in-the-UK-min.jpg?resize=24%2C13&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Footballing-lady-in-the-UK-min.jpg?resize=36%2C19&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Footballing-lady-in-the-UK-min.jpg?resize=48%2C25&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Footballing-lady-in-the-UK-min.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I also allowed myself the wonder of watching&nbsp; the news on the odd occasion, the wonder being whatever happened to the impartiality ethic? Time was when the news anchor (now re-spelt with a capital \u2018W\u2019) would simply read the news. Now they no longer report, they lead, invent and manipulate and for nebulous liberal ends. However, every unpaid licence fee has a silver lining, which is that as long as you know it&#8217;s not really the news, it can be entertaining.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">For example, have you heard the one about the fire service chap who allegedly suffered a mental breakdown. He was interviewed in his home, looking all wan and lachrymose, by a young ~ I think he was male ~ reporter, who really did overdo it slightly on the \u2018I\u2019ve got to look so serious\u2019 level.  Perhaps he works for the BBC, where woke is a serious business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Every now and again, between solemn interludes of conversation and OTT serious looks, the camera would pan, zoom in and focus on a broken mirror on the sitting-room wall, which looked, by my experience, as if someone had put their fist through it. Gritty symbolic stuff, ay! But try to remember that this is the \u2018news\u2019, or rather the news is what it professes to be, not a dramatised documentary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Given the nature of the job, it is common knowledge that firemen suffer breakdowns (note the traditional use of the proper word \u2018firemen\u2019). Heaven knows how these men contend with their lot. In the course of duty, they are subject to unthinkable scenes of horror and human tragedy. Hardly surprising, therefore, that even the strongest men crack (Now, now, it&#8217;s not what you&#8217;re thinking!). But it was not danger or tragedy, tragedy in the accepted sense, or so we were asked to believe, that had caused this gentleman&#8217;s breakdown. According to the &#8216;news&#8217;, which was heavily biased in tone and format, his illness had been brought about by his having been ignored when repeatedly calling out the fire service for its alleged culture of systemic sexism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">2023 UK Woke Hits an All Time High!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WTF?! Call me old-fashioned (You Old Fart, you!), but my long-held belief has been that first, centre and foremost, the duty of the fire service is to put out fires and save lives. I certainly don\u2019t recall anything in my primary school books, <em>Janet and John <\/em>(now <em>Abdul and Lola<\/em>), about sexist firemen running amuck with their choppers in their hands. I do remember the Village People sliding down a greasy pole not looking like chaps and in nothing but chaps, but that was the 1970s, when men were men and poofs were poofs, and never the twain would meet (so we were led to believe). But a fire service that lets off damp squibs for the sake of claiming compensation, why you\u2019ll be asking me next to believe that public money is actually spent on funding wokist causes, for example something as unimaginably silly as black and pink police associations! It\u2019s Monty Python\u2019s UK Circus!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ho!Ho!Ho! Hark! Which Santa is that who is coming down the chimney. I hope he\u2019s wearing a condom. Sorry about that, and everything \u2026 around me \u2026 all over the UK \u2026 but as Frank Zappa once famously said, \u201cI can outrage anybody, if they want to be outraged.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"603\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"9771\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/2023-uk-woke-hits-an-all-time-high\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?fit=1244%2C2111&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1244,2111\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Father Christmas in a chimney pot expat kaliningrad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?fit=177%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?fit=603%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?resize=603%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9771 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?resize=603%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 603w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?resize=177%2C300&amp;ssl=1 177w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1303&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?resize=905%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 905w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?resize=1207%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1207w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?resize=7%2C12&amp;ssl=1 7w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?resize=624%2C1059&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?resize=14%2C24&amp;ssl=1 14w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?resize=21%2C36&amp;ssl=1 21w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?resize=28%2C48&amp;ssl=1 28w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1576772254cartoonsanta-inchimney-1.jpg?w=1244&amp;ssl=1 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Don&#8217;t try this at home, or if you live in Brighton!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">More recently, I outraged myself ~ and bear in mind, please, that \u2018outraged myself\u2019 is not the same as \u2018outed myself\u2019. For years I have been at the forefront of the<a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/smartphone-how-smart-is-it-to-have-one\/\" title=\" Anti-smartphone Resistance League\"> Smartphone Resistance League<\/a>, so successfully I might add that my avoidance of the smartphone earnt me this saintly sobriquet: \u2018The last man on Earth to own a mobile phone\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thus, it was with great sorrow and a distinctly uneasy sense that I was not only letting myself down but anti-technocrats everywhere, when I  allowed myself to be dragged, proverbially kicking and screaming, along to the mobile phone shop, where, with a heaviness in my heart beyond the expression of indescribable, I signed myself away to that \u2026 to that, terrible, terrible mobile thing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cYet something else,\u201d I grumbled, \u201cto cart around in your pocket.\u201d It will be difficult fitting it in [\u201cIt\u2019s so big you\u2019ve got to grin to get it in!\u201d ~ do you remember the Wagon Wheels advert?], with all the street survival kit you need in Britain today  ~ CS gas cannister, stun gun, beam-me-out-of-the-21<sup>st<\/sup>-century flip-top radio, mugger\u2019s alley cloak of invisibility etc etc. Thank heavens my stab- and bullet-proof vest has pockets!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThis \u2018aint very Christmasy is it?! Let\u2019s see what\u2019s on the other channel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A party-political broadcast on behalf of you can put your cross where you like, but it won\u2019t stop mongrelisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Wherever you go in life, even in somebody else\u2019s, there\u2019s always a heckler. But what the heck, it might only be a linguistic device! Anyway, whilst you and your family are sitting around a blazing Christmas fire, with coal you\u2019ve stolen from the next-door neighbours, wearing party hats, wondering why, and cracking your nuts. I shall be pulling my own cracker and \u2026 That\u2019s odd? What is? Everything. I thought I just heard someone sing, \u201cI wish it could be Christmas every day.\u201d Those hats! Those nuts! Pulling your own cracker! For eternity! No fear. Ha! Ha! I can see the Christmas TV adverts now: More black than white and oh so extremely gay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Right, bugger all that, I\u2019m off to make a cup of tea. Ginger, the cat, is squinting at me, but only with his right eye. I think he wants a monachal for Christmas. This is something that\u2019s easily fixed. It\u2019s what Bing Crosby is dreaming of that isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"303\" data-attachment-id=\"9768\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/2023-uk-woke-hits-an-all-time-high\/merry-christmas-rz-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Merry-Christmas-rz-min.jpg?fit=1250%2C606&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1250,606\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Merry-Christmas\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;A Merry Christmas banner&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Merry-Christmas-rz-min.jpg?fit=300%2C145&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Merry-Christmas-rz-min.jpg?fit=625%2C303&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Merry-Christmas-rz-min.jpg?resize=625%2C303&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Merry-Christmas-rz-min.jpg?resize=1024%2C496&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Merry-Christmas-rz-min.jpg?resize=300%2C145&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Merry-Christmas-rz-min.jpg?resize=768%2C372&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Merry-Christmas-rz-min.jpg?resize=18%2C9&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Merry-Christmas-rz-min.jpg?resize=624%2C303&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Merry-Christmas-rz-min.jpg?resize=24%2C12&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Merry-Christmas-rz-min.jpg?resize=36%2C17&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Merry-Christmas-rz-min.jpg?resize=48%2C23&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Merry-Christmas-rz-min.jpg?w=1250&amp;ssl=1 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image attributions<\/strong><br>Santa on a chimney: <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Santa-Claus-on-a-Chimney\/87236.html\">https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Santa-Claus-on-a-Chimney\/87236.html<\/a><br>Men with television heads: <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Men-with-television-heads\/71285.html\">https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Men-with-television-heads\/71285.html<\/a><br>Vintage exotic dancer: <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Vintage-exotic-dancer\/73821.html\">https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Vintage-exotic-dancer\/73821.html<\/a><br>Football: <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Soccer-ball-with-shadow-vector-drawing\/14654.html\">https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Soccer-ball-with-shadow-vector-drawing\/14654.html<\/a><br>Men shaking hands: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Business-People-Shaking-Hands-Vector\/2306.html\">https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Business-People-Shaking-Hands-Vector\/2306.html<\/a><br>Merry Christmas: <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Retro-Christmas-Text-Banner\/87299.html\">https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Retro-Christmas-Text-Banner\/87299.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Copyright \u00a9 2018-2023 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bing Crosby\u2019s White Christmas Symphony No. 9 in Morris Minor 20 December 2023 ~ 2023 UK Woke Hits an All Time High! It was cold in April. It was cold in May. Come to think of it, it was cold in the UK, not to mention wet, from April to September. 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