Saturday, December 19, 2020

Reference :- Since the end is nigh ...ahem...of 2020 we mean , it's time to look back at the prognostications of Sky News .

Reference :  Through 2020 , how accurate were  the predictions of the world renowned " news we can trust and opinions that matter " team at Sky News ? 

The Sky Reply Team wrote the major news items  of 2020 on cards , and drew them from a hat to see who would research each topic .  Normally we would have spent the day watching the latest stories from Sky News , but half the shock jocks and shock frocks are away at present . Possibly because of yuletide celebrations , although they might be hiding in shame after being wrong about practically everything for 12  miserable , misleading , misinformed , mendacious months . 

Ken junior , the cheeky bugger , posed the question . 

 " How can you tell when a Sky News anchor is talking rubbish ?  "  he said 

 " I don't know . "  I said 

 "  It's when their lips are moving . "   he said . 

Anyway , we drew the cards from the hat .   They were a bit soggy because somebody had left the hat under a drip from the leaking roof .  It panned out like this . 

'Gabbo  drew  " climate change " .

Monte drew     " Daniel Andrews " 

Ken junior drew  " Donald Trump " 

That left me with the hardest one  " Coronavirus ".  

I reckon Ken junior rigged it , because  even with my good glasses I couldn't read the soggy cards with the running ink . 

 The team decided to run an individual Sky Reply for each topic and these will follow in future posts .  

 Meanwhile we had to deal with the bogged ute in the back yard .  Gabbo  said he would just rev it like crazy while everybody else pushed . Five minutes later the ute had only moved about 12 inches ....... straight down into the mud .  Ken junior said he knew it wouldn't work , but Gabbo  said it would have worked fine if Dog hadn't jumped in the back thinking we were going somewhere and weighed it down .    He yelled at Dog , who stopped panting with enthusiasm , licked his chops nervously , and slunk under the house to watch from a safe distance .   " Stupid bloody Dog "  said Gabbo .

The next technique was suggested by Ken junior , who jumped in the ute and said he would "rock it out " by continuously going from first gear to reverse on the column shift as fast as possible .  Mud flew , gears crunched , wheels spun . Dog couldn't bear to watch and vanished completely under the house . 

I couldn't bear to watch either . " You are stuffing the gearbox ! " I yelled .  

In the end we got our mate Trevor to tow it out with his old Landrover .   

" I will leave it parked on the road ".   Ken junior said . 

" Well you better lock it then . "     I said . 

 " Who would be bothered stealing an old ute with a stuffed gearbox  ? "  Ken junior said . 

  I hate Christmas . 

 Your comrade , Ken . 


 

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