St.David's Day has been Postponed

But only by a day.  It's happening tomorrow now due to today being Leap Year Day.

It gives me an extra 24 hours to find a daffodil.

It is also a chance for certain people who look 80 to celebrate their 20th birthdays.  The only famous person I can find (who is still alive) who is celebrating a birthday today is the 13 year old ex-Coronation Street actress Wendi Peters:

She'll be able to apply for a driving licence in 16 years time.

This is only the second time I've posted on February 29th - the other one was this one in 2016.

It's not like St.David's Day was ever going to be cancelled - unlike lots of other things right now - like today's Tranmere Rovers v Fleetwood Town - waterlogged pitch.

Also cancelled this year is the Geneva Motor Show.  This has nothing to do with calendar anomalies or with the current freak weather events but is as a direct result of Coronavirus.  Or more precisely, Covid-19 which just beat Diseasy McDiseaseface in the public vote to name this particular strain of Coronavirus - that being a generic brand that has been around for half a century.  I tackled Coronavirus last weekend.

Autocar are showing us, in true Jim Bowen Bullseye style what we could have won seen.  The article is here.

A lot of Chinese manufacturers were hoping to show off their goods and a lot of non-Chinese people were worried about meeting them.

One such manufacturer has the confusing name of AIways which, apart from being bad usage of English capitalisation, in a lot of fonts looks like the word "Always" - in fact, I had to change the font of it to make this sentence readable in Blogger.

The car itself is yet another SUV - and of course electric:

We really, REALLY, don't need another one - especially one that people will read as a female sanitary product.

Let's just cancel SUVs - it might just cut down the number of events cancelled due to freaky weather events.

Supremely White

I used to regard myself as part of a group known as The Superwhite Army.

I don't associate with them any more.

But this isn't a Liam Neeson moment.

I mention it because of this BBC story about an American University professor who is annoyed that the California DMV won't let him have "COYW" on his license plate.

 

COYW stands for "Come on You Whites".

 

They say it is racist.

 

These are the "whites" in question:

The more observant of you will have noticed that quite of few of them are black.  Fulham Football Club play in white so are regularly referred to as "The Whites."  The prof, Jonathan Kotler, is an avid supporter and thought it entirely reasonable to have a plate with COYW on it.

 

I tend to agree with him.

 

I like his argument statement, "I pointed out that many clubs in Britain are known by their colour - the blues, the clarets. Nobody thought the Liverpool reds were communists."

 

Incidentally, I fell out of love with The Superwhite Army (aka Tranmere Rovers FC fans) when the team got relegated from the old League 1 at the turn of the Century.

 

Fulham are also doomed to relegation this season.

 

Meanwhile, here is a story about a white California Police Officer chasing a black girl down a street: