Is this the only comic that can be made about the Taliban without me getting my head cut off? Maybe, only time will tell, and I’ve heard time is being coy these days about telling us anything.

So yes! I am totally a dad now! Little Man is coming up to his third week of life, and his geopolitical opinions are a little rough around the edges. It’s ok, we have time to iron them out I’m sure. I had a whole lot of great gags written here but WordPress deleted it all. So this post is going to be much more brief.

Auckland just got it’s first lockdown in about a year due to someone walking in some Delta variant from Australia. Nice one guys I hope it was worth it. Although in all honesty I haven’t noticed any difference. I’ve been on paternity leave lockdown since Little Man was born. So my life has not been impacted at all.

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A bee drill sergeant is inspecting a line of soldier bees on parade. Their parade ground looks suspiciously like the inside of a bee box. He bawls at them:
“We have a human raid incoming - are you prepared to die for your hive?”
“YES SIR.” from all of them except one, who looks a little uncomfortable.

In the time honoured tradition of drill sergeants worldwide, the sergeant gets right up in the face of the silent bee.
“Private Beazley! You’re not a fucking coward are you?”
“ No, sir. But they always leave us enough honey to live on, so… is it worth dying for?”

Textbox: Later
Beazley is drinking with a beetle friend in an interracial insect bar.
“So I got a night with the queen bee and all the nectar I could drink.”
“Really?!”
“Course not. The silly bugger tried to sting me and ripped his own arse out.”
Beazley looks supremely cheerful at this.