Saturday, June 13, 2026

Trial By Firestick


It's high-school exam season and I thought it wise to subject followers of the 'blog to similar strictures, designed to separate the transport top-guns from those short of the full ticket.

Accordingly, examine the hand-out on your desks, which is the content Google's AI thinks that a good friend of mine might be interested in on a Friday evening after a hard day lying on the bunk of an articulated tractor-unit... like my good friend.

Select the vid of your choice, and then sit back and listen to what our own native AI program ~ DeepShit ~ has to say about your choice and whether you're a good fit, or need to leave the room quietly and take the bus home like me at RAF recruitment.

Do this before scrolling further down beyond this line, because I can't be bothered with a separate results page.

Now hand in your papers please, with the four most-watchable vids in sequence.

(The examination board is not going to analyse the permutations involved, as that's too hard and we love a quitter.)

Accordingly, simply examine your first choice and read on to discover whether you shape up, or feature at the invertebrate end of the spectrum:

The Bra-Less Ladies of Turkmenistan: no escaping the fact your a disappointment to the blog, not least because they've spelt 'uncensored' wrong but also because that cleavage looks to our minds to be AI-generated and not worth the feeling. It is also Google's highlighted choice, which is decidedly suspicious and embarrassing should your parents be in the room... as will be the case with most of our readers.

Unseen Vintage Photos: it's a pass, but you've barely scraped through.That woman is not vintage, has been seen often at Wetherspoons in Ormskirk and borrowed the SS uniform from a fancy dress-shop. The composition was also staged in a section of IKEA, where she was briefly arrested for nudity and impersonating a member of the UK's special forces.

The Andoni Iraola Problem: go home and enjoy the summer because you made the cut with this analysis of the new coach at Liverpool FC, but we want you back before next term for remedial training.

Why It Failed: or why we don't use hydrofoils anymore. The perfect Friday-evening fare, and you've aced the test. You are invited to the blog's summer-camp at China's Shaolin Temple, where the monks will demonstrate how to terminate a Ted-talk in short order.

(Whilst working in Shanghai the airline treated us to a jamboree and banquet during which there was a Kung Fu demonstration by a man dressed in loose black clothing. Having imbibed several litres of Tsingtao I was minded to join him on stage and naked from the waist up, saying 'Come over 'ere if you think you're hard enough.' Though it's one thing I regret not doing in my flying career, at least I'm still alive.)

Ed. A reader has asked if that's a 1:1200 scale RMS Titanic on the mantelpiece, and qualifies for a free ticket to our summer-camp.