Many knuckles, too few chuckles? Way back, one fun aspect of Google searches was the metrics that Google proclaimed as a result of each search. There grew a sport of pairing words such that Google had not matched. For instance, a search of “out of Africa” just now yielded “about 43,700,000 results.”

So commonplace is what reads as “out of Africa” it is not noticed unless paired with extreme concept. Take an unrelated concept like ‘knuckles’, and lo, images are dragged from back of the mind.

Now Google yield with ‘knuckles’ is much less “About 583,000 results.”

While Google yield with ‘chuckles’ is even less “about 170,000 results.” This might be advanced to suggest “out of Africa” is hardly much of mirth.

It seems most folk use or understand the phrase "going through the motions" . So Google "going through the motions" yields “about 4,650,000 results.”

That 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow continues till 12 November 12. If from that conference, the trend in climate metrics continues, solar exposure will need remedy such as shading and screening (lotions being a shade of screening).

Google yield for "going through the lotions" is minuscule, “about 4,710 results” which goes some way to saying many the knuckles, too few of chuckles.

My dear William, I cannot be sure but believe it would have been in the late 1990s under Tony Blair's infamous 'Third Way' administration.

There is an interesting book by Feargal Cochrane, 'Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism Since the Anglo-Irish Agreement', which was published by Cork University Press back in 1997:

http://www.ulsternation.org.uk/unionist_politics.htm

My Dear William - Baron Bannside PC once proclaimed that you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman.

Ach now Keith, McDonald's give Hamburgerology Certificates to their crews.

Designed not by the original McDonald brothers' founders, but by the fast-talking Ray Kroc.

I wonder if Morrison, Albanese and those of like ilk have obtained Motor Mouth Ossification Sprucking certificates.
None better than that late Ulster political hack the Rev Ian Paisley.

Agreeing to ban or reduce methane is a bit of a mixed bag. While New Zealand taxes cattle on the methane they are reputed to produce, it is a sometimes overlooked fact of life that humans also produce methane and the number of humans in the world is increasing exponentially.

No one seems to want to politically recognise that fact of life for some reason.

Methane from garbage dumps and sewerage works also is hard to reduce, given the huge amounts that are currently produced. The easy way to get rid of methane is to burn it (I briefly mentioned an example of that aspect in my book 'Small Steps') but this simply produces more CO2.