THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — snowflake

I smiled wryly when I read about David Byrne the other day.  As some of you know he was the frontman for the Talking Heads, the New Wave American rock band. Apparently poor David is full of remorse and has apologsed for wearing black and brownface in an unearthed promotional video, calling it a "major mistake in judgement." In the clip for the rock band's concert film 1984 "Stop Making Sense," the star is shown interviewing himself, while donning black and brown face to impersonate several non-White people.  The 68-year-old musician took to social media on Tuesday 1st September 2020...

Just look at this advert from National Union Radio & Electronic Tubes from 1942:- It is rather stirringly patriotic the way that early warning of the "Jap attempt to capture this strategic US outpost" was thwarted due to vigilant patrol aircraft pilots "powered by" National Union valves.  There again,  here we are 77 years later and I am sure we will soon have an outraged nomophobic little snot of a snowflake along in a minute to tell me how we need to look forward and not backwards and not paraphrase racially offensive language from a bygone age - in much...

Just been shopping and stood behind some idiot at the checkout and had to endure overhearing a banal conversation whilst the poor harried shop assistant was waiting for the little darling to pack and pay.    Mobile phones - what a curse - sometimes I wish I went around with a 800 - 1300MHz white noise generator!!!!! Imagine my surprise when I then came across this wonderful photo from 1979:- I do believe that this is Michael Rodd extolling the virtues of the latest elec-trickery invented by those clever people at Marconi Laboratories in Chelmsford. What we have here is a...

I was saddened to hear that there is both a pestilence afflicting the tech savvy "Snowflake" generation and a lifestyle hazard that is leading to their untimely demise and you can see both in the following photograph: -  When "Ah worr a lad" growing up in Yorkshire, we unwillingly went to school in winter unwilling on two counts, one we didn't want to go out in the cold and two we didn't want to go out wearing a lime green bobble hat or a bright orange balaclava.  Today, things have moved on and little snowflakes everywhere go about their business...