Yes, today is my birthday.
Lovely prezzies.
And one that is really quite interesting. One might almost say prescient…
I tend to wake up early. I tend to because I have a cat and having the kitty pawing at your face and mewling does work. I say “wake up” but that is not the same as [...]
Posts under ‘Jumped the Shark’
Nick is 37 and Lisa Kudrow takes the soggy biscuit.
Waste Reduction Survey 2010
Yup, my wife found this nine page document from Cheshire East Council yesterday. Yes nine pages of A4 on waste reduction and guess what? This is the second one they sent out. So that’s 18 pages of A4 for the bonfire.
Let’s take a look…
Q1. Who is responsible for sorting/putting out the rubbish in your [...]
The Devil has the best tunes.
It is a truth that must be universally acknowledged that Christianity as a cultural influence has inspired some of the most profound art, music and architecture ever created. One need only look at York Minster, wander around any of the great art galleries of the world or hear Bach to know this. Indeed this cultural [...]
Springtime for Osama and the Caliphate…
In some ways, America is still processing the tragedy of 9/11, and judging by the below trailer for Clear Blue Tuesday, which is an actual movie actually debuting in limited release this week, we’ve entered the “overblown rock musical” stage of grieving. What Rent did for AIDS, Clear Blue Tuesday promises to do for the [...]
Culture of Death
My wife mentioned this to me this morning. My first thought was that “Culture of Death” were a metal band from the ’80s. I even pondered whether a couple of school chums of mine (I knew a lot of metallers back then) might have had an album but I was dead wrong…
A leading adviser to [...]
Holidays in the Kim-Il Sung
The Korean Friendship Association (KFA) organizes a trip to the DPR of Korea (North Korea) from 7th October to 16th October 2010 on the special occasion of the Anniversary of the Worker’s Party of Korea where special activities will be on display, including Mass Gymnastics show ARIRANG with more than 100.000 performers.
The KFA gives the [...]
MMR
A man who suffered severe brain damage after being given the MMR vaccine as a baby has been awarded £90,000 in a landmark ruling expected to pave the way for thousands of similar compensation claims.
Robert Fletcher, 18, was a healthy 13-month-old baby when he was given the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. He now [...]
Dr Fox wields the axe.
Britain could be forced to “borrow” American warplanes for its new aircraft carriers as the Armed Forces’ core capabilities are eroded by budget cuts.
That means lease them. So I’m a bit vague as to the saving here exactly. It’s more that we’ll have to do something to save the embarrassment of having the ultimate floating [...]
Catholic Priorities
Well we all know about the cover-ups of sexual abuse over decades we thought it couldn’t get any worse…
But wait it does. It would appear the Catholic church is happy to collude with the British government to cover-up terrorist priests.
Oh, well, at least on his up-coming visit you won’t be able to take a [...]
BBC FAIL
I frequently have rolling news in the background and I glanced up to hear the latest on the Australian elections. You can imagine my amazement when I heard Tony Abbott described as the “Conservative leader”.
He’s leader of the Australian Liberal Party!
This annoyed me. It could have been cock-up on the BBC’s part but I doubt [...]
This is Beyond a smoke.
I have a dose of ‘flu so I can’t be bothered to comment further. I am also so outraged I might be tempted to say very bad things indeed. Phrases like “ought to be spayed like a bitch” might even be used.
Just read it.
H/T Samizdata.
Let’s trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle…
…or alternatively translated as Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle, was part of a North Korean government propaganda campaign promulgating grooming and dress standards.
It was broadcast on state-run Korean Central Television in the capital of Pyongyang. The television program claimed that hair length can affect human intelligence, in part because of [...]
Wookey Hole
Now I thought that was just a polite way of explaining how Han Solo relieved sexual tension on those long, long flights when Leia had the painters in.
I was wrong.
A witch at Wookey Hole caves is facing disciplinary action after her boss spotted her on X Factor when she was supposed to be [...]
The Faculty of Farts & Shitterature
“Over the past few centuries, artists have successfully developed a host of imaginative and unusual methods of applying paint to canvas. But few are more colourful than the exquisitely profound rectal squirt method developed by Keith Boadwee, Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts, and visiting faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute.
“Working in the arena [...]
Strange Days
What the hell is iDave playing at in resurrecting the career of Alan Milburn?
What the flying feckulence is a “social mobility czar” anyway?
And David Blunkett? The only man to ever leave politics to spend more time with someone else’s family.
And it was reported last night that former Cabinet minister David Blunkett could also [...]
