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d2kvirus · 4 years

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Dickheads of the Month: September 2020

As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of September 2020 to make sure that they are never forgotten.

Remember how proven liar Boris Johnson said he had a world-beating oven-ready Britait deal, which was also the basis of his election slogan campaign of “Get Britait done” and the lack of support for the deal is the reason he sacked 21 of his own MPs? Just asking, because he tore the whole thing up and said it was unworkable - which also led to Brandon Lewis saying in Parliament, so it is now forever enshrined in the Hansard, that De Pfeffel merely broke international law “in a very specific and limited way” - you know, sort of like how the Manson Family broke the law in a very specific and limited way

The bold vision of a new BBC shared by Tim Davie was revealed when he threatened comedy shows with the axe if they kept making jokes about Britait, the Tory Party or Donald Trump on his first day on the job, because as we all know the best form of comedy comes from punching down rather than up, which is why Little Britain definitely hasn’t aged appallingly

Master of decorum Donald Trump couldn’t even wait a few short hours after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death before he started rallying the foot soldiers about cramming somebody more fitting with what he wanted into the Supreme Court

Mayor of Amity Island governor of Florida Ron DeSantis continued his bid to be recognised for having the worst response to the Covid pandemic in the congress of having the worst possible response to the Covid pandemic by deciding that, actually, the state of Florida needs to lessen its Covid restrictions at a time when cases of Covid have begun to rise alarmingly in the state

It’s no surprise that proven liar Boris Johnson lied in Parliament by referring to Serco’s failing test & trace app as “NHS Test & Trace” - however the biggest issue is that the BBC had been using the exact same phrase for at least two weeks before that

Nobody was surprised to hear smirking cretin Priti Patel personally using the term “activist lawyers” that the Home Office (headed by P. Patel) had previously used to dehumanise and demean people upholding those pesky immigration laws that the Tory Party really don’t like getting in the way

Tax dodging orange goblin Donald Trump was asked a simple question: Do you think that white supremacists are a problem? We are still waiting for an answer to that question...

Okay, so now the Conservative Party are cracking down on people breaking lockdown, with threats of a £10,000 fine - rather than circling the wagons around them and throwing out one cock and bull excuse after another like they did when Dominic Cummings broke lockdown to nip off to Durham after testing positive for Covid on what just so happened to be his wife’s birthday

You know that Matt Hancock is good at his job when, having been sent out in front of the cameras to defend The Tory Party appointing ex-Australian PM and all-around arsehole Tony Abbott as a trade advisor in spite his history of misogynistic, homophobic and “Let’s kill the elderly so we can survive Covid” comments the best he could do was say he was a good negotiator...which promptly led to all manner of comments about Harold Shipman being a good GP and Fred West laying one hell of a patio

According to Jacob Rees Mogg the public having a legitimate complaint about it being damn near impossible to have a Covid test is nothing more than “endless carping” and not, say, legitimate criticism of a woefully underprepared government trying to coast by on the bare minimum who have the gall to try and blame the public for their long list of catestrophic fuckups

It was no surprise to hear proven liar Boris Johnson hand-wringing about “the freedom of the press” after Extinction Rebellion finally realised that being annoying idiots is far more likely to gain support if you’re being annoying idiots with a purpose - just as it was no surprise to hear that proven liar Boris Johnson had no opinion whatsoever of Tim Davie telling BBC newsreaders to fall in line with the corporation (read: Tory) line or they’d be sacked

Once again there was a chance for Keir Starmer to show that his talk of being “true Opposition” is more than a soundbite and, once again, he wimped out on it when ordering Labour MPs to abstain from voting on the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill for fear of being accused of being “anti-British” by voting for a bill created to stop prosecution of British troops for using torture instead of voting against it - and then sacking Nadia Whittome, Beth Winter, and Olivia Blake from their junior ministerial positions when they were three of the 18 Labour MPs who voted against it

It clearly never occurred to Marsha Blackburn when she was browbeating people about the Constitution of the US never being rewritten that the Constitution of the US has been rewritten several times already. There’s a reason they’re called “Amendments” and not “Footnotes” you know...

Smirking cretin Priti Patel proudly stated that, if she saw her neighbours, she’d gladly call the police due to them breaking the law. This was around 14 hours after she’d voted to break international law in the Commons, or a few short years after she broke ministerial code by nipping over to Israel to have undisclosed meetings with israeli officials, which begs the question about whether her neighbours are just as willing, doesn’t it?

Judging by Alan Sugar tweeting out conspiracy theories about Covid being created in a Wuhan lab, I think it's safe to say that no Apprentice game show host is capable of not acting like a complete arse on Twitter. Luckily for the UK, Sugar isn’t Prime Minister - he’s merely a member of the House of Lords...

It’s been a while since WWE acted like totalitarian dicks to the wrestlers employed independently contracted to them but they managed to find one by telling every single one of their employees independent contractors that they could no longer use Twitch or Cameo as it was decided this was being “detrimental” to the company...you know, the bunch of carnies who sign billion dollar deals with our journalist-murdering, woman-oppressing, Yemeni-slaughtering, 9/11-planning “allies” Saudi Arabia, don’t have any for of healthcare for their employees independent contractors, continued a pay per view even though one of their employees independent contractors died due to a stunt going wrong that was linked to the company cheaping out on a safety harness, and apparently not knowing that the term “independent contractor” doesn’t mean the company can sign them to five year deals but sack them at any point - and then prevent them from working anywhere else for 90 days

We had confirmation of Alison Pearson possessing a terrifying combination of pig ignorance and outright sociopathy when she began a Telegraph article with the following: “My son has Covid-19. Good.”

Sour grapes from Lisa Nandy over people forgetting she was in the Labour leadership race judging by how she apparently didn’t listen to a party pledge to tax corporations and instead spout off a bunch of nonsensical gibberish that sounded uncannily like Britain First rhetoric under the belief that sounding like Britain First is guaranteed to win back working class Northern voters

Litigious TERF JK Rowling revealed her latest book is about a man who murders people while dressed as a woman, which definitely hasn’t drawn any form of comment whatsoever...

You would like to believe that reports of Limestone Games not only effectively stealing the game Aeon Must Die! from the actual dev team who were forced out of the company by a culture of abuse and harassment by a shady cabal who took over the studio would have eld to the game’s release being postponed, especially after it emerged that assets used in the game’s trailer were infringing on various copyrights - but instead Focus Home Entertainment responded by twiddling their thumbs and doing nothing

I’m sure there’s no connection between Alan Sugar demanding people go back to work as if the number of Covid cases has been rising to an alarming degree and how Alan Sugar is bemoaning that his commercial property portfolio is not making him “enough” money due to people staying at home. None whatsoever...

The fact that those moron parents in California started a wildfire after setting off fireworks for their baby’s gender reveal party that led to over 20,000 people having to evacuate their homes is dickheaded enough - but the fact that it’s not the first case of this happening, as a similar incident happened in Arizona back in 2018, makes them look even more dickheaded

If you want to say you put Britain before anything else, like Andrea Jenkyns did in her latest Twitter tsunami of childishness and spite, it doesn't look good when you say you're pro-Trump before pre-De Pfeffel as it defeats your own argument almost as fast as being Andrea Jenkyns - or, you know, failing to spell the word “British” correctly when accusing people of being anti-British

It would have been wise if West Ham announced that manager David Moyes and two players had tested positive for Covid before their match with Hull - not after the match had kicked off, leading to Moyes legging it out of the stadium

Whatever it is in the mind of DeAnna Lorraine that snapped and had her babbling insane nonsense that The Masked Singer is part of a covert plot to have people wearing masks probably can’t be repaired, and appears to have also caused her to accuse anyone who thinks she does sound insane of being acolytes of George Soros

Professional victim Laurence Fox somehow believed that posting a chat log of a conversation between himself and Rebecca Front and then howling about being “cancelled” - and then a few hours later had to very publicly backtrack, no doubt because his agent had several dozen words with him

I have no idea why David Cameron convinced himself that showing himself helping out in the Chipping Norton food bank was a good idea, considering he’s the reason why food banks exist in the first place

How nice of Manchester Metropolitan University to tell the students who were confined to accomodation so unable to go out and buy food, who were paying £9000 tuition fees for face-to-face tutoring that was done via Zoom that makes such good value of the hundreds of pounds of rent they have to pay per month when they could have had those same lectures from home, that they’re not allowed to protest about this situation and had to take any signs posted on their windows critical of the government down immediately

In normal circumstances Mason Greenwood and Phil Foden sneaking girls into the England team hotel would look pretty stupid, especially in Foden’s case considering the odds of his live-in girlfriend not finding out about this are practically nil, but during a global pandemic it looked so incredibly boneheaded it’s lucky they play for the Manchester clubs otherwise the front pages would be calling them ignorant traitors or some such bullshit

Nothing sums up Premier League referees quite like them clearly not understanding the current definition of the handball rule, but rather than actually look it up they make it up as they go alone leading to more penalties being awarded for handball in the first four rounds of Premier League fixtures than in entire seasons - not helped by Premier League referees also operating VAR, where they seem to have a policy of “If you ignore my cock up, I’ll ignore yours”

And finally, inventing yet another terror atrocity, is Donald Trump and his batshit insane proclamations about cans of soup being a much bigger threat to American lives than, say, and AR-15. But then again, it’s not like his support base has a habit of throwing cans of soup at crowds of people

#dickheads of the month

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grigori77 · 5 years

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Movies of 2019 - My Pre-Summer Favourites (Part 1)

The Runners-Up:

20. THE HEAD HUNTER – coming in VERY low under the radar, this wildly imaginative and stylish low budget chiller plays like a survival horror take on the Skyrim video games. Essentially a one-man show, it follows the bloody, muddy daily grind of a professional monster slayer in a sword-and-sorcery kingdom driven to vengeance by brutal personal tragedy. Christopher Rygh is broody, grizzled and genuinely heartbreaking as the warrior, while debuting writer-director Jordan Downey shows great future potential.

19. HELLBOY – I’d be the first to agree we really don’t need a Hellboy movie reboot (just let Guillermo finish his trilogy, dammit!), but if Hollywood MUST disagree then we could do A LOT worse than this far bloodier R-rated full-on horror flick from Dog Soldiers director Neil Marshall, who really cranks up the darkness inherent in the franchise. Ultimately this is more for hardcore fans of Mike Mignola’s original comics than the uneducated masses, but Stranger Things star David Harbour’s “Big Red” is just one of many pleasures here.

18. THE SISTERS BROTHERS – writer-director Jacques Audiard (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Rust & Bone) crafts a languid, introspective and richly character-driven western from the novel by Thomas Bidegain (who also co-wrote here). Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly are both typically excellent as the titular bounty-hunter siblings who are the nominal focus of the story, but the film is as much focused on their prey, a pair of gold prospectors (Jake Gyllenhaal and Riz Ahmed) with a revolutionary scientific method.

17. THE DIRT – in a year when they’re jumping on the biopic bandwagon in a big way (we’ve also seen the hunt for Bonny & Clyde in The Higwaymen), Netflix got particularly ambitious with this warts-and-all, thoroughly OTT and often very funny account of the rise/fall/rise-again of notorious glam metal band Mötley Crüe from Jackass director Jeff Tremaine. Douglas Booth (Romeo & Juliet), Colson Backer (aka Machine Gun Kelly), Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones) and Daniel Webber (11.22.63) bring the band to life in all their debauched glory.

16. COLD PURSUIT – Liam Neeson gently sends up his geriatric-arse-kicker persona in this jet black comedy thriller from acclaimed Norwegian director Hans Petter Morland, adapted from his own hit film In Order of Disappearance (originally starring Stellan Skarsgaard). Neeson is huge fun as the snow-plough driver out to avenge the murder of his son at the hands of jumped-up Denver drug kingpin “Viking” (TV’s Jekyll & Hyde’s Thomas Bateman), causing all kinds of bloody hell to break loose in the snowbound Colorado wilderness.

15. VICE – Anchorman writer-director Adam McKay continues down the more semi-serious road he began with his 2015 hit The Big Short with this incendiary “biopic” of the rise to power of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, rumoured to be the true “power behind the throne” of George W. Bush’s controversial term in office at the White House. Christian Bale delivers one of the finest performances of his career as the unassumingly Machiavellian master manipulator behind the WMD Conspiracy, et al. MAYBE …

14. ON THE BASIS OF SEX – director Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker, Deep Impact) returns to the big screen with a vengeance with this powerful, thought-provoking and very important courtroom drama following the early career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the crusading firebrand lawyer campaigning for women’s equal rights who ultimately became Chief Justice for the U.S. Supreme Court. Rogue One star Felicity Jones is perfectly cast as a woman who let NOTHING stand in the way of her dreams, even the laws of the United States.

13. DESTROYER – Karyn Kusama has had a somewhat mixed career since her directorial debut with Girlfight in 2000 (Jennifer’s Body was enjoyable, but Aeon Flux was pretty embarrassing), but this edgy, doom-laden modern LA-Noir is a spectacular return to form, driven by a powerhouse, vanity-free career-best performance from Nicole Kidman as the self-destructive maverick LAPD cop whose youthful misadventures undercover return haunt her, with bloody consequences.

12. THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING – Louis Ashbourne Serkis (son of Andy) proves he takes right after his dad as an unassuming British schoolboy who discovers he’s the long-lost heir of King Arthur, destined to wield Excalibur in the battle to prevent the cataclysmic return of evil sorceress Morgana (Mission: Impossible’s Rebecca Ferguson). Attack the Block writer-director Joe Cornish brings us something more family-friendly with his long-awaited follow-up, but his gleefully dark, anarchic sense of humour remains intact.

11. TRIPLE FRONTIER – Margin Call writer-director J.C. Chandor teams up with Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) on what is EASILY the best Netflix Originals feature this year (so far, at least), a nail-bitingly tense, morally ambiguous suspense thriller following a group of former special forces operatives (Oscar Isaac, Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund and Pedro Pascal) who rob a drug lord and then have to fight their way out of the notorious titular South American region.

#movies 2019 #the head hunter #hellboy #the sisters brothers #the dirt #cold pursuit #vice #on the basis of sex #destroyer #the kid who would be king #triple frontier #awesome sauce

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