Discontent Provider

Episode 151: Rhino What You Did Last Summer - And What You'll Do This Autumn Too

Foxy unearths a childhood memory courtesy of a President who appears to have trouble recalling what day it is this week. Consequently, the chaps find themselves considering a much-maligned pachyderm, drawing some questionable comparisons, and realising only now - in this very instant - that they missed a chance to make an Ionescu allusion that would have made them look terribly clever and well-read.

Episode 150: The World Keeps A-Turning and Their Pants Keep A-Burning

The chaps attempt to retain their much vaunted stiff upper lippery in the face of yet another end of the world that didn't happen - although take some solace in the fact that even the wildest passages in Revelation are by far from being the least believable noises being made this week. Better luck next time, eh, cats and kittens?

Episode 149: And Always Let Your Conscience... Well; Pretty Much Ruin Everything as it turns out.

Battered, bruised, and with their ears ringing from the triumphant bellowing of a Right Wing emboldened by flag-waving and Donald Trump telling them what they want to hear, the chaps retreat to their Happy Place to take stock. In a moment of brutal clarity, the difficulty of striving for a Better World (and the ease of turning it into a smouldering dung-heap) is revealed to them - but they resolve to carry on regardless and hope you crazy kids feel the same way.

Episode 148: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Spew Evil All Over The Place

The chaps try their hands/paws at the Scientific Method this week by attempting to determine whether or not ignoring reality really can make it go away. It appears that it can't - but sadly, that doesn't seem to matter.

Episode 147: The Glinner Takes A Fall (So does a Gin'er - but that didn't make for an hilarious ABBA-themed play on words)

In an episode rendered unfashionably late by Foxy's pretty face requiring medical treatment, the chaps ponder the timeless cycle of Nature and the equally eternal treadmill-like grind of Human frailty and beastliness with particular reference to how quickly awful people will jump to the defence of awful people.

Episode 146: The Sunshine Boys - and girls too, probably. Mostly boys though, one suspects.

As the baking heat of Summer begins to retreat, the chaps retire to their Happy Place to review the season. TL:DR - they've seen better. They've seen worse too - but what kind of pessimistic scrotes would they be if they lead with that? All in all, it's been no Summer of Love - and small wonder, eh what?

Episode 145: Even Heathens

This week finds the chaps taking an unwonted interest in matters spiritual as the Nation is knocked into paralysed indifference by the revelation that neither the PM nor the Leader of the Opposition have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour. It's potentially a bit of a "Thought for the Day" episode, truth be told - although at least Foxy spares you the inevitable homely anecdote that reminds him of something from the Book of Daniel or somesuch fucking nonsense...

Episode 144: Recognisers were the big scary bad-guy spaceships in "Tron" - but apparently, things have changed...

As the chaps settle into the sun-dappled, grassy splendour of their Happy Place, they are comforted to no end to learn that the obvious fiction of geographical boundaries is still widely-respected. Perhaps their little nook will one day earn Internationally-recognised Statehood? If so; get ready for unregulated gambling and a blanket ban on poetry (or any other metaphor-driven art-form). 

Episode 143: Dumpster-Fireside Chatting

With the shells, cluster F-bombs of the Culture War getting dangerously close to home, the chaps - like the despicable conchie cowards they are - decline to participate in the hostilities; instead, they repair to their Happy Place to consider the remarkable prospect of a Donald Trump interview wherein the POTUS seems to be making a genuine effort to come across as only around 20% as much of a dick as usual.

Episode 142: Trials Bile, and Nihilism.

With the crew being once more up to full strength, perhaps it's not to be wondered at that the chaps are feeling a mite cocky. Certainly their attitude towards the Established Order of Things could get them into a spot of trouble at Asda - but isn't that all for the best?