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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Showing posts with label Politicians. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 18, 2023

News, Views Etc . . . Memorabilia!

I've actually added two very different books to the library this week;

The Bill Hanlon one has been on the radar for a while, and in the end its delivery was a nightmare for me and the seller with Evri (still leaving Hermes cards) bringing it to the door twice before losing it, the second one being a bit flawed (pressure patterns in the dust jacket and a coffee (I hope?) stain), but I'll do it a full post on it, one day, it really is a monumental work.

The other is a bit of fun which has slid across from my late mother's library to mine, and is a reasonable coverage of Royal Souvenirs from just before the Fergie/Diana 'tart' years! Took them over the flat yesterday and this appeared in my Faceplant feed today;

 
It's as if the gods were watching, anyway it's an interesting read, and a fine collection of mostly figural items!

Thursday, July 7, 2022

A is for Another Petition . . .

I think actually it's my third! The first was silly and came to nothing, my second had a few thousand signings before I told everyone to go to a duplicate which was a day or two older and much bigger, but I've checked and there's nothing like this up, so hopefully it might gain some traction.

Listening to Boris in his committee hearing this afternoon, it became clear he's as nuts as Trump, something I've hinted at before, and while all petitions are political in one way or another, I've tried keeping this one as neutral as I can, calling only for a coalition government to be formed - by the powers that be - without actually knowing if they can; within the rules, which are vague, given our lack of a formal written constitution.

Now, I need five signatures for Change.org to publish the 'public' version, so if any of you are wondering WTF's going on, chuck a signature on the link below . . . please!

I can't see a leader in the pack of self-servative dogs surrounding Boris, nor in Keir who I suspect would struggle to find his way out of a wet paper bag if you gave him a fire axe and a flamethrower, but something needs to 'give'.

And if you think it stands a chance, or is just a good message to sent to the 'Establishment', share it on your feeds too? Cheers.

https://www.change.org/p/form-a-coalition-government

Full text of the petition reads;

"Given the mess we seem to be in;

We the below signed believe the Speaker of the House of Commons, representatives of the House of Lords and the Monarch should find a mechanism to organise and create a Coalition Administration, and request they do so forthwith.

The coalition to sit for five years with the aims of recovering from Brexit and Covid-19, dealing with the on-going matters arising from Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, the 'Cost of Living' crisis, emerging Monkey Pox, industrial unrest, the Gig economy and the mess the current administration are creating through apparently corrupt practice, dogmatic intransigence, dishonest obfuscation and fiscal mismanagement.

Suggestions for the interim/temporary leader/holder of the Prime ministerial position, pending a more formal leadership election might include Caroline Lucas (Green Party), Kenneth Clark (Conservative, House of Lords) or Angela Rainer (Labour Party)."

As mentioned above I've started the petition because I can't see a single leader among the dogs sniffing round Boris Johnson, while I don't believe Keir Starmer is even made of leadership material. With both the main parties internally riven with internecine squabbling and the Liberals not fully recovered from their last drubbing, a coalition seems the best hope for what will become a wartime economy if things get much worse, both on the Ukraine front and the global inflation/recession crisis and ongoing food supply problems.

Monday, March 21, 2022

R is for Russian Russians from Russia.

I don't know if I have any Russian readers left, nor do I know how many Russian readers I had before Putin locked them out, but against the possibility that some are using VPN's to get a fix of their Western filth (toy soldier and model figure 'filth'!!), or that Blogger has escaped the more Draconian lock-bots currently blocking the parent Google, this is for you, if your President's allowed you to be here.

Most of these pictures were taken by Alex / Oleks known to some of you for his toy soldier site, he's in or around Kyiv, which your army is bombing back to the stone-age, (along with Serhiy of ElastoWit toy soldiers) and sends me what he can when he has a moment.

Luckily, the Russian Army is so fucking useless, they've left the mobile communications network up, so they could use it (which seems to have resulted in five of your Generals' being zeroed and dispatched to meet their maker), and by the time they might have been minded to shut it down, Ukrainian forces had knocked-out or captured most of your Electronic Warfare vehicles.

Understand this is NOT a "Special Military Operation", it is a murderous aggressive war of INVASION against an innocent country which did nothing to harm you, and it is a WAR you are losing. 

Я не знаю, остались ли у меня русские читатели, и не знаю, сколько русских читателей у меня было до того, как Путин заблокировал их, но против возможности того, что некоторые используют VPN, чтобы исправить свою западную грязь (игрушечный солдатик и примерная фигура «грязь»!!), или что Blogger избежал более драконовских блокирующих ботов, которые в настоящее время блокируют родительский Google, это для вас, если вы, президент, позволили вам быть здесь.

Большинство этих фотографий были сделаны Алексом / Олексом, известным некоторым из вас своим сайтом о солдатиках, он находится в Киеве или его окрестностях, который ваша армия бомбит обратно в каменный век (вместе с Сергеем из оловянных солдатиков ElastoWit) и отправляет мне то, что он может, когда у него есть момент.

К счастью, русская армия настолько чертовски бесполезна, что они оставили сеть мобильной связи включенной, чтобы иметь возможность ее использовать (что, похоже, привело к тому, что пятеро ваших генералов были обнулены и отправлены на встречу с их создателем), и, судя по всему, когда они, возможно, собирались отключить его, украинские силы подбили или захватили большую часть ваших средств радиоэлектронной борьбы.

Поймите, это НЕ «Специальная военная операция», это кровопролитная агрессивная ВТОРЖЕНИЕ против невинной страны, которая не причинила вам никакого вреда, и это ВОЙНА, которую вы проигрываете.

Putin lied to you, and he's still lying to you. You have lost thousands of vehicles, tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of tanks and more than 70 aircraft, including three of your new 'indestructible' Kamov Ka-52 gunships.

Путин лгал вам, и он продолжает вам лгать. Вы потеряли тысячи единиц техники, десятки тысяч солдат, сотни танков и более 70 самолетов, в том числе три новых «неубиваемых» боевых корабля Камов Ка-52.

This is what is waiting for you in Kyiv and Kharkiv,
everyone who can is working to make your soldiers die.

Это то, что ждет вас в Киеве и Харькове,
каждый, кто может, работает над тем, чтобы ваши солдаты погибли.

This is what you are doing to dozens of cities in Ukraine, carpet bombing and unregulated shelling, you are making 44-million enemies, in Kharkiv the Russian-speakers stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Ukrainian speakers, ready to kill your invaders.

Это то, что вы делаете с десятками городов Украины, ковровые бомбардировки и нерегулируемые обстрелы, вы наживаете 44 миллиона врагов, в Харькове русскоязычные стоят плечом к плечу с украиноязычными, готовые убить ваших оккупантов.

You have wiped whole villages off the map, for no strategic or tactical reason, the hate generated will last for at least three generations.

Вы стерли с лица земли целые деревни без какой-либо стратегической или тактической причины, вызванной ненавистью хватит как минимум на три поколения.

This is what you mean by not targeting civilians, in Mariupol you have destroyed 90% of the housing and targeted two community shelters (in the Theater and a junior school) because they were built in the Soviet era and you know where they are, they are two war-crimes to add to all the others.

Вот что вы имеете в виду под нецелью мирных жителей, в Мариуполе вы уничтожили 90% жилья и нанесли удар по двум общественным приютам (в Театре и младшей школе), потому что они были построены в советское время, и вы знаете, где они находятся, они два военных преступления вдобавок ко всем остальным.

Your vehicles are not only being destroyed in large numbers, they are also being captured and used against your useless army.

Ваши машины не только массово уничтожаются, но и захватываются и используются против вашей бесполезной армии.

Still burning! Because your officers took all the paperwork, mobile 'phones and watches from the conscripts in the initial wave, they are being buried in mass graves with no hope of identifying half of them. It will take international forensic teams (of the sort still working in the former Yugoslavia) years of peace to sort your mess out.

Еще горит! Поскольку ваши офицеры забрали все документы, мобильные телефоны и часы у призывников в первой волне, их хоронят в братских могилах без надежды опознать половину из них. Международным группам судебно-медицинских экспертов (такие, которые до сих пор работают в бывшей Югославии) потребуются годы мира, чтобы разобраться в вашей неразберихе.

One of yours, the initial phase of the Northern Army Group (Group Z) was so appallingly badly handled, a lot of your dead were found days later frozen to the snow or mud, and the Ukrainians call them 'dog-food', because all the abandoned dogs in the villages you raised to the ground for no reason, have been eating them.

Один из ваших, начальный этап Северной группы армий (группа Z) был так ужасающе плохо организован, многие ваши мертвые были найдены через несколько дней замороженными до снега или грязи, и украинцы называют их «кормом для собак», потому что все брошенные собаки в деревнях, которых вы без причины свели на землю, съели их.

Abandoned, it is reported that retreating troops from that initial debacle were summarily executed by FSB firing squads, I don't know the truth of that, but as you are fighting in a medieval fashion, it's almost certainly true and with mobile crematoria in your rear echelons, you'll never know, as the evidence has already been burned, taking your casualty figures over 15 or 20,000 dead, god only knows how many injured? But we only care about the Ukrainians who didn't want this on their soil, they aren't bombing your cities, your towns - but they have every right to.

Сообщается, что отступающие войска после того первоначального разгрома были без промедления расстреляны ФСБ, я не знаю, правда ли это, но поскольку вы воюете в средневековой манере, это почти наверняка правда, и с мобильными крематориями в ваших руках. тыловые эшелоны, никогда не узнаешь, так как улики уже сожжены, принимая твои цифры потерь более 15 или 20000 убитых, бог знает сколько может раненых? А нас волнуют только украинцы, которые не хотели этого на своей земле, они не бомбят ваши города, ваши поселки - но имеют на это полное право.

One of yours.
 
You have lost so many troops now, the Duma has passed a law allowing you to recruit thousands of mercenaries, but how are you going to pay them, your economy is on the floor and crawling out of the door? And who will those mercenaries be? Fascist lunatics and ego-tripping body-builders from the beer cellars of St. Petersburg, Islamist extremists from Syria and Tunisia? Chechen animals? You're going to love billeting them when the war is over.

Один из ваших.

Вы потеряли сейчас столько войск, Дума приняла закон, разрешающий вам вербовать тысячи наемников, но как вы собираетесь им платить, ваше хозяйство стоит на полу и выползает из дверей? И кто будут эти наемники? Фашистские сумасшедшие и тщеславные бодибилдеры из пивных подвалов Санкт-Петербурга, исламистские экстремисты из Сирии и Туниса? Чеченские животные? Вам понравится расквартировывать их, когда война закончится.

One of theirs - I have no words.

Один из них - у меня нет слов.

What you are doing to Ukraine.

Что вы делаете с Украиной.

Why you've lost so many aircraft!

Почему вы потеряли так много самолетов!

Does this look like a 'limited military operation' to you? Do you seriously think the Ukrainians would do this to themselves while you stand around doing nothing? Stop believing the Soviet-era style propaganda, and start to understand it will take you decades to pay for this.
 
Which you will have to before all sanctions are lifted - you have done trillions of dollars worth of damage and are continuing to do so as I write, despite the fact that in the North your armies have all but stopped and in the South-East Army Group V and the Donbas fascists are struggling.

По-вашему, это "ограниченная военная операция"? Вы серьезно думаете, что украинцы будут делать это с собой, пока вы стоите без дела? Перестаньте верить советской пропаганде и начните понимать, что расплачиваться за это вам потребуются десятилетия.

Что вам придется сделать до того, как все санкции будут сняты - вы нанесли ущерб на триллионы долларов и продолжаете наносить, пока я пишу, несмотря на то, что на Севере ваши армии почти остановились, а в Юго-Восточной армии Группа V и фашисты Донбасса борются.

This is what you're doing.
Это то, что вы делаете.
Blindly bombing residential suburbs.
Вслепую бомбят жилые пригороды.
This is not 'limited', this is total war, with war-crimes.
 
Это не «ограничено»,
это тотальная война с военными преступлениями.

No military targets here, no limited "Nazi" elements,
just housing and shops.
 
Здесь нет военных целей,
нет ограниченных «фашистских» элементов, только жилье и магазины.
 
Your army has thrown so much at the two northern cities, they are reported to be running out of ammunition, then what? Putin wants a deal, but the cards are falling from his hands, and you will have to pick up the pieces.

Ваша армия так много бросила на два северных города, что, говорят, у них закончились боеприпасы, и что дальше? Путин хочет сделки, но карты падают у него из рук, и вам придется собирать осколки.

150+ civilians homeless - if they escaped the bombardment?
 
150+ мирных жителей без крова - если они избежали обстрела?
 
More housing, more shops.
 
Больше жилья, больше магазинов.

Is this one of yours, or one of theirs? Maybe one of yours which became one of theirs for a few days? It doesn't matter, it's what it shows, total war against an innocent neighbor in the 21st century. You can't win, because we don't want this as the 'new normal'. The sanctions against Russia are the most punitive ever, you are now more isolated that Iran or North Korea. the whole world (except China - and they are staying on the fence) are against this WAR.

Это один из ваших или один из их? может быть, один из ваших, который стал одним из них на несколько дней? Неважно, что он показывает, тотальная война против невинного соседа в 21 веке. Вы не можете победить, потому что мы не хотим, чтобы это было «новой нормой». Санкции против России являются самыми карательными за всю историю, вы сейчас более изолированы, чем Иран или Северная Корея. весь мир (кроме Китая - а они стоят на заборе) против этой ВОЙНЫ.

Army Group Z, as they are seen all over the Internet,
an Internet you're not allowed to look at.
 
Группа армий Z, как они видны по всему Интернету, 
Интернет, на который вам не разрешено смотреть.
 
The whole world except Russians and Belorussians are seeing these every day.
Army Group O? Resupply, second wave? Dead.

Весь мир, кроме россиян и белорусов, наблюдает это каждый день.
Группа армий О? Пополнение запасов, вторая волна? Мертв.

Putin calls the Ukrainians Nazi's,
but the only Nazi's in the room are your military.

Путин называет украинцев нацистами,
но единственные нацисты в комнате - твои военные. 

Direct hit on a residential block which has already been shot-up?
Not even war, just war-crimes.
 
Прямое попадание в уже расстрелянный жилой дом?
Даже не война, а военные преступления.

You have forcibly removed between 5 and 8,000 civilians to Russia when they were supposed to be using a humanitarian corridor to escape the bloodshed west, that is a war crime. You are refusing to allow humanitarian convoys into besieged cities, that is a war crime, you are threatening the entire population of Mariupol with military tribunals (when you have no jurisdiction in another country), you have shot on an old people's home killing +/-50 civilians, that is a war crime.

Вы насильно вывезли в Россию от 5 до 8 тысяч мирных жителей, когда они должны были использовать гуманитарный коридор, спасаясь от кровопролития на западе, что является военным преступлением. Вы отказываетесь пускать гуманитарные конвои в блокадные города, это военное преступление, вы угрожаете всему населению Мариуполя военными трибуналами (когда у вас нет юрисдикции в другой стране), вы стреляли по дому престарелых убивая +/ -50 мирных жителей, это военное преступление.

A school. March 1st. It's worse now.

Школа. 1 марта. Сейчас хуже.

A block of Flats.
 
Многоквартирный дом.

But across Ukraine they are ready for you, they are preparing to kill your soldiers as they have been killing them for three and a half weeks.

We are told the people of Russia aren't to blame, yet we are also told Mr Putin's ratings have gone up, we are told the Russians don't know what is going on, well this is going on; your army is destroying a happy, developing democracy for no reason, while the Ukrainians destroy your army.

I realise this is a drop in the ocean of stuff generated by this illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, but if I reach one Russian, and change their mind, it will have been worth it. My impotence in these matters is matched only by my anger.
 
If you are Russian and you don't agree with what's happening, and you can see this, share this.

Но по всей Украине к вам готовы, готовятся убивать ваших солдат, как убивают уже три с половиной недели.

Нам говорят, что народ России не виноват, но нам также говорят, что рейтинг Путина вырос, нам говорят, что русские не знают, что происходит, что ж, это происходит; ваша армия без причины уничтожает счастливую, развивающуюся демократию, а украинцы уничтожают вашу армию.

Я понимаю, что это капля в море вещей, порожденных этим незаконным вторжением в суверенную нацию, но если я доберусь до одного русского и передумаю, это того стоило. Мое бессилие в этих вопросах может сравниться только с моим гневом.

Если вы русский и не согласны с тем, что происходит, и вы это видите, поделитесь этим.

They are killing you at a rate of approximately 1000 personnel every two days, and you can include 5 generals and 1 Admiral in that total. The graph can't be fully trusted as it's come from Ukraine, during a war of attacking aggression and illegal invasion, but it's ten-time more accurate than anything coming out of the Kremlin or your puppet broadcasters.

Они убивают вас со скоростью примерно 1000 человек каждые два дня, и вы можете включить в это количество 5 генералов и 1 адмирала. Графику нельзя полностью доверять, так как он исходит из Украины, во время войны атакующей агрессии и незаконного вторжения, но он в десять раз более точен, чем все, что выходит из Кремля или ваших марионеточных вещателей.

Use Lantern to protest, learn and share

Используйте Lantern, чтобы протестовать, учиться и делиться

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n5e9/russian-internet-lantern

Sunday, February 27, 2022

F is for Faceplant

Very hard for a thoughtful person to post frivolity while a war is going on where he has friends.

Although it's starting to look as if Putin has - like all dictators in the end - miscalculated badly, and on many levels, but if the Russian people don't get rid of him in the next 48/72 (?) hours, we may all be in a nuclear-war, as he's not pissing-about, he's losing his temper and his rationality with it.

On the plus side, it looks like the Ukrainians have blunted his invasion and smashed the forward elements of his army, some military annalists are saying up to a quarter of the force he assembled has been neutralised, and while he's only committed a third - and those awful fascists from Chechnya are on the way - of the force available, the units behind are having to advance through the falling-back mauled elements, so there's now a level of chaos in the advance.

Here's a sobering thought which the media seem to have missed picking-up on: Putin's forces have mobile crematoria in their rear-echelons, he [Putin] never had any intention of returning body-bags to mothers, he's burning his dead in the field - I don't know what that does to moral, but I guess it's not good; I don't think any army ever went to war with body-ovens before.

So, in a sombre mood, I though a few images from Faceplant I've re-posted in the last few days were in order;

The Ukrainians are calling him Vladimir Vladimirovic Putler!

Don't forget the pets!

On the left, born with a Nazi-sympathiser's silver spoon up his arse, 
on the right, actor and comedian, 
elected against the propaganda, not with it.

Against the myth of Putin's that Ukraine is 'Only' Mother Russia,
it's probably regretting helping give birth to the Bear?

On the subject of Mother Russia . . . remember Putin's ex-wife
 is in internal exile in the 'Turd' (Kaliningrad).

From the New Elephant, original caption reads "Dumbest man in universe hails another man as a 'genius' and also praises doorjambs and those little plastic tables you get with takeaway Pizzas"
 
And on the subject of the Republicans, those who are supporting Putin disgust me, I don't know where this is (somewhere in or near Florida!), but I believe it's genuine?
 

More conservatives with all that lovely lucre from Putin's cronies! This was on the NHS Newsday wesite and is from the Independent's website, you can donate to medical charities here, and the money is transfered straight to Ukraine (this is a 21st Century war being fought in a developed democracy), so thay can literally pay for stuff over the counter while supplies can still reach them from the West.

Donate.

[A wounded woman is seen after an airstrike damaged an apartment complex in city of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv. Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images]

Monday, March 8, 2021

Public Service Announcement - on behalf of the Do we Really Need a 'Royalty' Party


What colour will their blood turn-out to be?
Blue as a monkey's arse - apparently.

Andrew hiding from paedo-investigations (in Woking's Pizza Express! They won't be putting that on their flyers!), the Duke dying at 99 but no one actually admitting it, Anne on girlfr . . . err . . . husband number four? Or is she single these days? Charles, well, there's that whole Diana thing before Camilla, no, after Camilla, no, before . . . oops! Edward, a right Royal stand-up, on husban . . .  err. . . wife number 1, the horrible anus thing, isn't it time we were shot of the whole freeloading, dysfunctional lot of 'em?

And the whorey old excuse that a President would be worse (the 'horrific' example used to be Berlusconi, became Farage (rhymes with c**t) and is now Trump!)* belies the fact that we don't need two heads of state, we have a Prime Minister who does all the leading-function stuff and biggly-wiggly meetings, just keep him representing us as he represents us, we ARE after-all a representative democracy, or we're supposed to be!

*Giuliani would be a better stand-in for Berlusconi! I wonder if they go to the same guy to get their hair done?

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Public Service Announcement - On Trump's Progeny

 

Someone - who shall remain nameless to save him from being associated with my disrespectful shenanigans! - sent this as a follow up;

I've also seen some mock-ups of a My First Presidency (in Mattel branding?) which came with artwork suggesting further 'collectable' play sets! Personally I think he's losing his mind; Trump, not the contributor, him AND that nuttly-nuts lawyer of his!

Thursday, June 11, 2020

News, Views Etc . . . Press Releases!

This is the latest press release from Barney at Herald Toys & Models, get them before they're gone, as experiance dictates they don't hang-around there for long!

"...this week we have a large collection of farm models by Barrett & Sons and F. G. Taylor, including a number of more interesting colour variants. We will shortly be listing our new collection of other farm models by British makers, including Charbens, Hilco and Speedwell. Stay safe everyone..."

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Also, I've received this top secret public information film from a government department dealing with Covid-19 fallout and it would seem the nation's cats are taking against certain model-figurines and treating them with all the respect they deserve!



Sunday, May 24, 2020

New Petition on 38degrees

I've started a petition on 38degrees to have Dominic Cummings sacked, please sign and share if you've had enough of his arrogance and heartless disregard for you and yours. [case closed!]


Sack Dominic Cummings

Why is this important?

If This cretinous buffoon with his obvious contempt for the people, the electorate, the Civil Service and the media, his total disregard for democracy, Parliament or the rule of law and his terrible wardrobe isn't dismissed forthwith, the contract between people and state will be irrevocably broken, and the Covid-19 legislation rendered no more than equivalent to the lavatory-paper which was in such short supply as the government dithered a few short weeks ago.

http://chng.it/P2H8b8kKPs

Update - Still Sack Dominic Cummings!

There would appear to be some rule at 38degrees that you can't call a cretinous person 'cretinous', or at least you can, but not in a petition! No matter, I only started my petition because I couldn't find one on 38degrees, the reason for which is that they won't allow one . . . because he's unelected! However, had I looked harder, I would have found the Change.org petition with the same aim which being a couple of days older has reached 200,000+ 400,000+ signatures and I would urge you to sign that one instead.

http://chng.it/P2H8b8kKPs

I'm currently listening to his self-justifying bollocks press-statement and he doesn't quite seem to understand that millions of other people had equally (or BETTER) reasons for breaking the Covid-19 legislation, but CHOSE NOT TO! And you can hear in his voice how sorry he feels - for himself! Sack him. Peston could barely get his question out he was so stunned by the brazenness of it all!

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

M is for Men (and Mecki) Behaving Badly

Or . . . P is for Preening Pants-down Pooping Presidents, Piss-heads and Personalities

This post has grown over the last 72 hours from what might have been a couple of collages to a fuller round-up of characters and caricatures real and imagined, most behaving badly! All the images - with the exception of a return from The Work's Trumpton - courtasy of Mr. Berke in New York, but sent at various times from 2016, through to the other day, so many thanks to Brian.

Albert Einstein; Andy Capp; Crapping Trump; Crappy; Crappy President; Dead Kennedy; Dead Presidents; Donald Trump; Donald Trump Crapping; Drinking Andy Capp; Drinking Mecki; Drunk Mecki; Gertrinken Mecki; Homer Simpson; JFK; John F Kennedy; Key Chain; Key Ring; Key-Fob; Mecki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog Drunk; Pooping President; President Lincoln; President of the USA; Shitting; Shitty President; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Trump Donald; Trumpundbrexit;
Possibly the two most famous reprobates in modern English-speaking culture, both pretty hopeless, both fans of a beer or two and both would be less than nothing without the efforts of the long-suffering womenfolk in their lives! I say 'less than nothing' as neither has amounted to much in the course of events as it is!

The figure on the left - for those of you who have been in a coma since the die mauer came down - is none other than Homer Simpson, but many of you may need to be told that the figure on the right is Andy Capp, but, not the Germans, where I belive he is a well know (and re-named?) import.

Albert Einstein; Andy Capp; Crapping Trump; Crappy; Crappy President; Dead Kennedy; Dead Presidents; Donald Trump; Donald Trump Crapping; Drinking Andy Capp; Drinking Mecki; Drunk Mecki; Gertrinken Mecki; Homer Simpson; JFK; John F Kennedy; Key Chain; Key Ring; Key-Fob; Mecki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog Drunk; Pooping President; President Lincoln; President of the USA; Shitting; Shitty President; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Trump Donald; Trumpundbrexit;
Seen before, so a quick reprise and sadly nothing fictional about this international joke, it's the pooping, preening-pratt President himself! Carried by The Works over here about a year ago, however it appears that great minds think alike, as retailers over the pond . . .

Albert Einstein; Andy Capp; Crapping Trump; Crappy; Crappy President; Dead Kennedy; Dead Presidents; Donald Trump; Donald Trump Crapping; Drinking Andy Capp; Drinking Mecki; Drunk Mecki; Gertrinken Mecki; Homer Simpson; JFK; John F Kennedy; Key Chain; Key Ring; Key-Fob; Mecki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog Drunk; Pooping President; President Lincoln; President of the USA; Shitting; Shitty President; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Trump Donald; Trumpundbrexit;
. . . are offering this variation - he appears to be evacuating solids! Euwe! The store Ollie's could be the source - if you're looking for a late stocking-filler idea - but Jiahua Trading Inc., are claiming for it and - like the UK one - it's also in the form of a key-ring.

Albert Einstein; Andy Capp; Crapping Trump; Crappy; Crappy President; Dead Kennedy; Dead Presidents; Donald Trump; Donald Trump Crapping; Drinking Andy Capp; Drinking Mecki; Drunk Mecki; Gertrinken Mecki; Homer Simpson; JFK; John F Kennedy; Key Chain; Key Ring; Key-Fob; Mecki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog Drunk; Pooping President; President Lincoln; President of the USA; Shitting; Shitty President; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Trump Donald; Trumpundbrexit;
However, and returning to fictional characters and their love of beer . . . Mecki's drunk as a skunk (not sure how close hedgehogs are to skunks anyway?) and courting a lamp-post! But if you will elect to have a night-out with the other two, it's a foregone conclusion you'll be in trouble!

Albert Einstein; Andy Capp; Crapping Trump; Crappy; Crappy President; Dead Kennedy; Dead Presidents; Donald Trump; Donald Trump Crapping; Drinking Andy Capp; Drinking Mecki; Drunk Mecki; Gertrinken Mecki; Homer Simpson; JFK; John F Kennedy; Key Chain; Key Ring; Key-Fob; Mecki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog Drunk; Pooping President; President Lincoln; President of the USA; Shitting; Shitty President; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Trump Donald; Trumpundbrexit;
This was shot in an NY gift shop a couple of years ago, and they managed to get Trumps G7 Summit conference-pose - I'm going to cross my arms and stare past you all while doing la-la-la's in my head - some months before he did it . . . acting like a petulant child in front of the worlds 6-other main leaders, their number 2's and their entourages!

Albert Einstein; Andy Capp; Crapping Trump; Crappy; Crappy President; Dead Kennedy; Dead Presidents; Donald Trump; Donald Trump Crapping; Drinking Andy Capp; Drinking Mecki; Drunk Mecki; Gertrinken Mecki; Homer Simpson; JFK; John F Kennedy; Key Chain; Key Ring; Key-Fob; Mecki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog Drunk; Pooping President; President Lincoln; President of the USA; Shitting; Shitty President; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Trump Donald; Trumpundbrexit;
It's a hell of a line-up! Cheers again Brian!

I just like the thought that starting a side-collection of pants-down, pooping, presidents is a very real 'thing', with at least two key-rings and probably some of those Spanish terracotta 'crappers'!