Andy's Glasses

a blog through the eyes…

2017

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October 14, 2017

first world problems…

So I have a MASSSSSIVE problem. Simply massive. Its 30 degrees here at the Dead Sea, having cooled down since the day’s activities. And now, 2 hours ahead of British Summer Time, the football’s on. Not, like, on tv, no, bloody savages round here wouldn’t be so bloody cooperative as to do that, would they??? – Read More-

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October 13, 2017

dead, innit…

We’re at the Dead Sea. The lowest point in the world. That’s relative to sea level. If it was the lowest point from a moral standpoint then I’d be in Las Vegas. But I’m not, I’m here in the Holy Land looking at the amazing salt lake in the middle of a desert. It was – Read More-

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October 12, 2017

sorreeee…

Ok, so I haven’t written to you for a few days, didn’t phone, never called… I’M ON ‘OLLLIDAY!!! ‘AVIN’ A REST!!!! ISS’ALLOWED!!! Right, so having used up my years’ supply of exclamation marks in one (poorly constructed, verbless, grammatically evil) sentence, I’ll tell you why. Because I’m ‘busy’. Really busy. Not in the normal sense – Read More-

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October 10, 2017

da israelites…

Israel is a confusing and unpredictable place. That’s why its in the middle east. Because it spans the civility and politeness of Europe (errrr… Bosnia, Catalonia, Spanish Civil War, The War to end all Wars, and the one that followed it…), yeah, civilised. And the far east, those savage orientals who murder with swords, eat – Read More-

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October 6, 2017

butt of the joke…

Well did’ja hear? Americans are looking at gun regulations! Not just Americans, but even… Republicans!!! And not even just, kind’a ‘normal’ republicans but even the NRA!!! The all-powerful National Rifle Association, mouthpiece of right wing, second amendment, right to bear arms obsessives have actually said that something needs to be done, in the wake of – Read More-

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October 4, 2017

wax political…

Say what you like about Boris, and most of it will be expletive, doubtless, but at least he knows how to speak in public. How to put on a show. Ok, he’s a back-stabbing, lying, cheating, egotistical narcissist who would murder his own mother to move half a rung up the career ladder, but he – Read More-

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October 3, 2017

share of the crime…

Shares in American gun companies dropped yesterday. Smith & Wesson (as was) fell by 7%. And anywhere else this would be a good thing. Ahhhh, people are getting the message: guns kill. Horrible things, mass murders, evil, wicked, blah, blah, blah. But this isn’t anywhere else, this is America. (Well, ‘there’ is America, strictly speaking – Read More-

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October 2, 2017

referenda-dee-dum-dum…

If Jeremy Corbyn should come to power in this land formerly known as Great Britain, I want to declare the area bounded by the North Circular Road, the Edgware Road, Lords to the south and East Finchley High Road to become an independent state. North West Londonia. It will be independent, have very strict border – Read More-

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October 1, 2017

break fast…

So why do you fast? People ask me this. Knowing my precise thoughts on the whole ‘relgion’ thing, which loosely translates as ‘its all bollocks’. And there is but one reason. Or two. I fast because I can. I fast because its really not difficult. I fast because everyone else does. And I fast because – Read More-

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September 30, 2017

saints and sinners…

We don’t sin. Jews, that is. Fact. Because today, Yom Kippur, the ‘day of atonement’ is all about, well, atoning. But not for sins. I endured 2 hours this morning of an ‘explanatory service’, the nearest I can actually bring myself, if not to synagogue, then to ‘prayer’. Don’t do praying. Unless Spurs are taking – Read More-

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