John O’Donnell

John O’Donnell

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Ok, let’s go through the measurements here. I million seconds is 11 days 1 billion seconds is 31 years 1 trillion seconds is 983,003 years And Alpha Centauri, our closest star, 40 trillion km away. Space is fucking huge. I cannot comprehend how big it is.

I have two ways into work. Either a bus and then a tube, which is a right old mess due to an accident on the way, or a bus and the Elizabeth Line, which is currently suspended west of Paddington. Don’t ever live outside zone 3.

Whenever I am reading something and the phrase “cornhole tournament” turns up, I’m going to lose my shit. I have no idea what a cornhole tournament is, apart from some sort of anal sex competition, which I assume it isn’t.

There Is a lot of weird arse shit going on in our pubs. Admittedly I’m out in the Zone 5, but fucking Hell. No, I’ve read the book, you don’t get a free pass.

Gaelic football, girls u-16 I think. They don’t mess about in West London. Everyone who came in was absolutely drenched, which is the conditions the game should be played.

QPR are 2-0 up, but we are basically on vapour at the moment because half our team is injured, so I ain’t counting any chickens yet. This is a mindset that every QPR fan has after being a fan for more than ten minutes.

I see Tom Skerritt has died. He always struck me as a quality character actor like David Straithairn or Jason Robards. They always grounded a film in reality that made everything else a lot more believable, which made it worth watching, even if the film wasn’t that great.

Not to go all Liz Truss, but look at this. This is the Ariane 6 rocket, the only European rocket capable of launching satellites, and possibly people, into space. Look at the flags, where is Britain? Why aren’t we involved in exploration of the final frontier. Disgusting. Even Ireland are in.

I have just found out that Michael Aspel and Kathy Staff were in an Oscar winning film, and I thought I’d share it, as I have no idea what to do with this information.

I was literally saying, “If Spurs get a draw out of this, at least they have a point.” Then United scored. Spurs are a fucking clown club, the only reason they exist is to give the rest of us amusement.

If I was a politician, and leader of my party, I would find it incredibly easy to decry Israel’s response to an attack on them, while also saying Hamas are wrong, and also say that the two state solution is the only one that will work. Hold on, I just did.

On the bus up to the tube station, and someone in a Mercedes people carrier was parked in the bus stop on a red route and wouldn’t budge. Now people get away with this shit all the time, so you should have heard me laugh when a police car pulled up.

Being on a packed London bus full of tourists is always entertaining, how do we pay? Which door do we go out of? Why are people trying to get off to go to work telling me to get the fuck out of their way?

There are still people coming to see the Banksy in Waterloo place. I am here because I am a gentleman of sophistication and appreciation of fine art, not a gawker, and there’s a nice place to sit down and have a cigarette.

It’s a horse-block outside The Athenaeum Club, placed here in 1830 by The Duke Of Wellington, according to the placard. I doubt if that’s true, as he would have been 61 at the time.

Just reading about this Flydubai incident. The whole thing is just mental. Passengers breaking in to the cockpit to save a pilot from being stabbed to death, a dentist giving emergency aid, and the absolute stroke of luck that there were two pilots travelling on the flight. A tale and a half.

Every message my mobile provider sends that isn’t pertinent to our arrangement, which is 99.9% of them, I report as spam. I know it won’t achieve anything, but I enjoy it.

Oh, what a surprise, I finally get on a train, and I’m stuck behind all the trains that have terminated early. I tell you, I’m seriously considering voting for any Mayor who wants to privatise these arseholes.