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 [...]
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Waste Reduction Survey 2010
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 [...]
Taking French Leave of Our Senses…
I saw this on the front page of the Times today but, dear reader, you’re going to have to put up with the Mail version because I shall be arseholed with an Abyssinian disembowelling cutlass before I pay Murdoch a red cent.
Apparently the word on the street is that the Royal Navy will be [...]
Marie Who?
Two-thirds of the British public are unable to name a single famous female scientist, according to an ICM poll.
The same survey, organised by the Royal Society, revealed that 90% of 18-24 year-olds could not name a female scientific figure - either current or historical.
Almost half were able to name at least one famous male scientist, [...]
Going to the cats.
The England cricketer Graeme Swann told Nottingham police that he was on a mission to buy screwdrivers to rescue his pet cat from under the floorboards when they stopped his Porsche at 3am and charged him with drink driving.
I mean it’s got it all: a famous sportsman, a cat, a bizarre excuse to an arresting [...]
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 [...]
David Willetts is a Moron
David Willetts said leading universities should admit bright teenagers from poor homes with lower A-level results than their middle-class peers in an attempt to boost social mobility.
As students across Britain continue to battle for remaining university places, Mr Willetts said admissions tutors in subjects such as law and medicine should increasingly judge candidates on their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Counterfactual in Name Only.
Just names…
The Supermarine Spitfire came within an ace of being called the “Supermarine Shrew”. Put the fear of God up the Luftwaffe that would. Reginald Mitchell didn’t like “Spitfire” himself and said it was, “The sort of bloody stupid name the Air Ministry would insist on”.
By the 1970s it had (I am told) become [...]
Food Fascism
Restaurants, cafes and pubs could be forced to list the calories in every item on their menu under Government plans to tackle obesity*.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley wants the public to be made aware of exactly what they are eating in the hope that they will chose healthier dishes.
Presumably that will turn into an “or else” [...]
Attack of the clones!
Farmers have 96 cloned cows in fields
That is the top headline of today’s Daily Mail (print version).
My first reaction was to wonder how they tell them apart.
My second is what with parliament down for the summer and house prices starting to rise and Diana still dead (sorry that’s the Express) and “legal highs” now [...]
Chuckles loses the plot - epically.
The Prince of Wales says he believes he has been placed on Earth as future King ‘for a purpose’ - to save the world.
Giving a fascinating insight into his view of his inherited wealth and influence, he said: ‘I can only somehow imagine that I find myself being born into this position for a purpose. [...]
