Roger The Dodger

@rogerthedodger.bsky.social

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Foodie. Leftie. Playing with words and taste combos. Please don't follow me if you dislike political posts. This is not a virtue signalling account. I block accounts that I think have muted me. He/him. DMs are off.

The legs on this spider spread out far further than our skirting board, so I think it's fair to say that it's quite a large spider. Wifey got me to catch it in a glass then throw it out of the back door.
Two plates of food with knives and forks. Oven-baked aubergine/eggplant boats stuffed with carrot, peanuts, halloumi cheese. Carrot and peanut salad with crumbled feta cheese. Vine tomato salad with fresh thai basil, black olives, salt. Half a Gregg's sausage roll on wifey's plate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Crusade
Surprise Attack Aleks Chayko, birthday man, Airforce General, Moscow plan, Throws a party, fancy nosh, In a restaurant that’s quite posh. If you’re anyone you’ll be there, Wining, dining, but no public glare, Military officers, respected folk, Soldiers outside to protect this bloke. But don’t forget this is a time of war, They shouldn’t come knocking at a Moscow door, A soldier outside did only hang back, As someone launched a suicide attack. Roger The Dodger 1st August 2026
Surprise Attack Aleks Chayko, birthday man, Airforce General, Moscow plan, Throws a party, fancy nosh, In a restaurant that’s quite posh. If you’re anyone you’ll be there, Wining, dining, but no public glare, Military officers, respected folk, Soldiers outside to protect this bloke. But don’t forget this is a time of war, They shouldn’t come knocking at a Moscow door, A soldier outside did only hang back, As someone launched a suicide attack. Roger The Dodger 1st August 2026
AI stealing the work of artists and authors is no accident. They saw that people would put up with tech giants stealing people's photos so they decided to escalate the scale of the theft.
Close thing, 1hp...
How to disable data collection on LG smart TVs LG's ACR feature is branded as Live Plus. The service monitors what you watch and sends data to Alphonso for content recognition and advertising. Disabling Live Plus and other ad tracking features is essential for improving privacy. Follow these steps on recent LG webOS models. The exact wording may vary slightly depending on your TV's year and software version, but the process is generally consistent. Press the Home button on your LG remote. Select the Settings icon, then choose All Settings to open the full menu. Go to General, then System, and select Additional Settings. Find Live Plus and toggle it Off. Return to General and select Home Settings. Turn off both Home Promotion and Content Recommendation. Go back to General, then Additional Settings, and select Advertising. Enable the option labeled Limit Ad Tracking. Return to the main Settings categories and go to Support. Choose Privacy & Terms. Look for Do Not Sell My Personal Information and toggle it On. After completing these steps, Live Plus will no longer gather data about what you watch, and advertising tracking will be significantly reduced. LG doesn't currently offer a comprehensive online privacy dashboard for managing these settings remotely. It has a privacy site with forms to request data deletion or opt-out.
A bowl with a spoon. Fruit salad of kiwi, nectarine, banana, sprinkle of ground cinnamon. Very simple, very tasty, very healthy.
Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret BBC documentary about the fact that Jared Leto is a sexual predator
Jacob Really-Smug asleep in the House of Commons. Probably had a heavy lunch at one of the Mayfair private clubs he likes to frequent.
Rotten Tomatoes give "The New Boy" 72/100, so 3.6 stars in effect, based on 47 reviews. IMDb give it 5.7/10, so 2.85 stars in effect, based on approximately one thousand reviews. How many stars would you give it?
Jacob Really-Smug is my nickname for Jacob Rees-Mogg, one of the most detested CONservative politicians in the UK. Unlike Liz Truss and Nigel Fauxrage, he doesn't spend half his life talking bollocks in the USA, he prefers talking total bollocks on GB 'News' instead, the UK poor cousin of Fox 'News'.
Sign: IRONY ALERT!
Fungus on a dead branch of a hazel tree.
Two plates of food with knives and forks. Fish fingers and potato waffles, a regular event when we were bringing up our 6 kids but it's been quite a few years now, and wifey just fancied fish fingers. Served with tartare sauce. Either the Morrisons fish fingers or their airfrier cooking instructions were absolute crap, perhaps both, so we'll have to try some another brand of fish fingers next time.
Corrupt Tories have ruined this country but the opinion polls suggest that many Brits have already forgotten just how awful they were.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/12/13/shoppers-spend-500m-more-on-meat-as-vegan-boom-fades/
It's time for a change from the failed Thatcherite/Reaganite neoliberal dogma that has ruined our country over the last 50 years. Nationalise water and energy. Stop pretending that the government has to 'balance the books'. Austerity is a political choice, NOT an economic necessity. Read up about Modern Monetary Theory and you will discover that politicians have been lying to us all. Did you ever wonder why the British government was able to spend billions on furlough payments during the pandemic and still magically 'balance the books'? It's because they don't have to 'balance the books', they just issue more currency. Trickle-down economics is another con job. Universal Basic Income would put far more money into the economy, but their wealthy donors hate that idea, even though it has been proven to work in various trials around the world.
Second half of the 1990s. Bradford. Our daughter has fallen asleep on the sofa and Panther, our cat (R.I.P.), has decided to join her and keep her leg warm. Photo taken by me.
This side of the building had the car park and the main entrance when it was operating as a restaurant.
Photo of me taken by Chris Webb in the early 1980s, sitting on the edge of the pond outside Hook House, which was operating as a restaurant at the time.
Sign: Irony alert!
The insatiable sandworm is about to eat me as I am too close. 3 hp left. Sandworm has 17 hp. I drew a hand with no attack cards in it, what are the chances of that, but each shiv does 6 extra damage and "Up My Sleeve" gives me shivs. (Waits for some smart alec to point out that "Frantic Escape" would move me away from the sandworm and the worm isn't actually attacking me this turn.)
The nickname 'Tories' originated in Ireland in the 16th Century. It derives from a Gaelic word which means plunderer, robber, thief, barbarian and yobbo. That nickname has certainly stood the test of time.
I don't just blame numbnuts, that's far too simple and life is never simple. I also blame the dozy pillocks that voted him into power (twice!) and the scumbags that are allowing him to dismantle democracy. Dodgy wankers.
1hp left as I'm about to go and meet The Architect for the first time with this character, The Regent
UK at joint 6th in the world in 2025 for electricity prices and our electricity prices have gone up once again already in 2026 and are about to go up yet again this month https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-electricity-by-country
Two plates of food with knives and forks. Heart shaped gammon (ham) steak with cherry and kumquat sauce, served with carrots and new potatoes in an artistic arrangement. A token of my undying love for my wonderful wife. Also, by cutting a heart shape out of the horseshoe gammon steaks, I can get a total of three meals out of one packet of gammon steaks. Happy days!
Two plates of food. Knife and fork on wifey's, just a fork on mine. Griddled Aubergines (Eggplant) with Feta, Mint and Chilli. Ribeye steak. Kebab of halloumi cheese, cucumber, yellow (bell) pepper. Yakisoba sauce on the sliced steak.
Liz Truss, a lettuce and a stopwatch. The lettuce has a longer shelf life than Liz Truss's brief tenure in office as Prime Minister, the shortest tenure EVER for a British PM. Image "borrowed" from Sonia Silva @vallygirl.bsky.social.
Sign: IRONY ALERT!
Our daughter posing in Nuremberg in front of one of their many fountains. Photo taken by me in 1998.
Another Gan Jing cult member / bot account to block
Article photo suggests that Nigel Fauxrage is Richard Tice.
Another day, another dodgy wanker to block
Two plates of food with forks and spoons. Nigella's carrot and peanut salad plus my vegetarian kebabs: halloumi cheese, paneer cheese, courgette/zucchini, red and yellow (bell) pepper. If you enjoy my food posts then please consider at least liking them and maybe reposting them. Thanks.
Persimmon (Jews call it Sharon Fruit) and avocado salad with Torunska Polish sausage and wild boar chorizo, served with home-made garlic bread
Quite a few, including Mondelez and Pepsico, said they would pull out BUT DIDN'T ACTUALLY DO IT!
Anglian Water hosepipe ban email sent to all customers this morning
Dodgy link
Morocco: zero shots at the French goal in the first half.
The JCPOA was a great way of ensuring that Iran didn't produce any nuclear weapons and Chump, with his enormous intellectual capacity, decided to chuck it out of the window. You can't take out the Iranian regime without a lot of boots on the ground and a lot of deaths, which obviously would be political suicide. There is no easy solution to the problem which Chump and Netanyahu have created between them, but as long as Netanyahu gets voted in again later this year and avoids prison then he won't care about all the pain and suffering he has inflicted on ordinary people all around the world. That's the kind of guy he is.
Manor Farm Road in Southampton, looking towards Oak Tree Road. Was into Slade and customised cars, definitely not into roses or wallpaper with big pink roses on it. Couple of items that I brought back from Kenya on the windowsill.
Trickle-down economics clearly don't work
Broken Planet. Acrylic on canvas, 6" x 8". Took me about ten minutes, just wanted to see if I could produce anything vaguely recognisable before trying something more adventurous on the bigger white canvas that I have available.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/thomas-tuchel-jokes-us-president-trump-could-lift-jarell-quansah-red-card-ban/ar-AA27hF6Y
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/thomas-tuchel-jokes-us-president-trump-could-lift-jarell-quansah-red-card-ban/ar-AA27hF6Y
Chump standing all alone as the G7 leaders chat amongst themselves
Chump standing on his own at the G7 summit, while all the other leaders are chatting on the other side of the room
Loads of these on the ground around one particular tree on our daily walk.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/04/22/snp-leader-ill-work-with-wales-northern-ireland-break-uk/
"Murder Incorporated" is a Bruce Sprinsteen song title but it also sums up Netanyahu and his complete disregard for international law quite succinctly. Either Chump is completely deluded or he thinks that everybody is stupid enough to believe whatever drivel he comes out with - or maybe both!
Garlic bread belatedly added to my plate, knife blade now covered in buttery, herby, garlicky gloop. Please don't forget to like my food posts, makes it all feel worthwhile then, thanks.
Two plates of food with knives and forks. Hickory smoked barbecued cornfed poussin and venison burgers, kumquat and cherry brandy sauce.
Kraft Foods, or Mondelez, sell unhealthy rubbish in many countries and are still manufacturing products in Russia, despite promising to withdraw. All they care about is making money, they don't care about Russia stealing twenty thousand Ukrainian babies and giving them to Russian families to bring up.
Two bowls of food, wifey's has a knife and fork, mine has a spoon and fork. Boiled the swede and fennel in separate pans last night. Today I put them in the same pan and reheated them with some Old Bay seasoning in the water. Oven baked the veggie burgers with some pumpkin seeds to add another texture. If you enjoy my food posts then please consider at least liking them and maybe reposting them. Thanks.
Applewood smoked pork ribeye steaks and a lamb kofte kebab from my barbecue earlier this week. The lamb kofte looks like a wooden handle and the pork steaks look like axe blades. On my Heinz '47 varieties' plate, glass topped garden table, all very David Hockney.
Two plates of food with knives and forks. Slowcooker goat korma: diced boneless goat, my homemade garam masala, garlic, shallot, green (bell) pepper, put a tin of copped tomatoes in which I didn't do last time, finely chopped tender broccoli stems, ground almonds, toasted flaked almonds, creamed coconut, sultanas. Served on a bed of tenderstem broccoli florets (which looked quite yelow but tasted fine). Wifey dryfried coconut and pistachio flatbreads. Just flour, creamed coconut, pistachio cream and a sprinkle of salt. She put loads of pistachio cream in, when they were four balls of dough they looked really green, but when she cooked them most of the colour disappeared and the pistachio flavour was more of a background note than anything else. So next time she will be putting even more pistachio cream in! If you enjoy my food posts then please consider at least liking them and maybe reposting them. Thanks.
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so-called “vital interests”. Albert Camus