I just heard that former England and Newcastle manager Sir Bobby Robson has died.
He knew his football and always came over as a decent chap. Arguably couldn’t cope with the modern players - his playing experience being in the age of a maximum wage (twenty quid a week!) and most of that went [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
Sir Bobby Robson RIP
Adam Smith was Right!
Last weekend my mother had a house party. At one point there were only four of us in the living room. That would be me, my wife, Michael (a mate) and his girlfriend Alison (who I’d only just met). Anyway.. I’m an IT guy and Alison is massage therapist (kerching!) but Michael and Lizzy are [...]
Professional Journalism
From The Telegraph…
Last week an amateur astronomer spotted that a comet or asteroid the size of the Earth had crashed into Jupiter, leaving a large crater.
…because only professional journalists can ensure high quality, reliable, fact checked news.
(I don’t need to explain what’s wrong with the quote to anyone, do I?)
Absence Of Evidence May Be Evidence Of Absence
Well, this looks odd. The police are saying some young men are terrorists. The evidence as described seems somewhere between flimsy and farcical. They haven’t got any actual evidence of bomb making, which is normally a prerequisite of a bombing campaign, but they’ve got, er, emails with girls’ names in them that may be codewords [...]
Geordie Masochism
I am a masochist. I don’t mean that I get turned on by the idea of Dita von Teese making me wear stockings and then getting medieval on my ass turns me on (though it does). That is a simple fetish but alas I am already way beyond that level of perversion. I am a lifelong [...]
Casting False Pearls Before Real Swine
Ian just made a most excellent (a bit Bill & Ted I know) post about education and social mobility.
“Social Mobility” is the the great (bone) idol of NeuArbeit. It’s the whole the daughter of the local grocer can become Prime Minister schtick.
Oh wait… that happened. But onward socialist soldiers! For they will not allow such [...]
A Soupcon Of Whine
Today on the Guardian’s Comment Is Free we find a sad but revealing little article by one Ryan Shorthouse on that buzzword policy “social mobility”, the gist of which is that he is a graduate, and like zillions of other graduates he finally ran out of road in the educational system and found himself distressingly [...]
Fuck the NHS
This morning I walked into the doctor’s gaff - it’s just down the road - and told them I want to deregister. I was asked to which practice I was transferring to. I told them none. You should have seen the faces of the three witches behind the desk at that point. They deemed it [...]
A little light music
I don’t feel like being serious today. Found this over at Power and Control:
A woman in a hot-air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour [...]
Enjoy
Sod it, it’s a great day and I’m in a good mood. Here is Terry Fator singing Tony Bennet better than Tony Bennet -
And I’m not a country fan, but I can tell when it is being done well. Damn, but this man is good.
Pearls of Wisdom
The case for a right of self defence:
Remember, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Wishful thinking
What an idiot, what does he think he is? Free or something?
I want an America with no more grand utopian schemes to save an environment that doesn’t need saving, to prevent global warming that isn’t happening, or to force people to participate in a collectivized medical system that is a hollow farce and a justification [...]
Double Clutch
His fingers were firmly threaded through my long, dark hair, down near the nape of my neck, tilting my head back to almost meet his mouth, the other hand gently cupping the small of my back, lifting and pulling me closer, my legs spread wide, black patent leather stilettos braced against the back of two [...]
Gads, those dastardly Israelis
In reference to this posting; over at Harry’s Place listed amongst the crimes Israel is lambasted for are ads touting something called Tapuzina. Now, never having been anywhere near Israel I had never heard of the stuff or seen the ads, but of course, once I had been warned away from them with words like [...]
And we could all live with Hamas in fluffy bunny land
Bloody Israelis, how dare they try and protect their citizens. Don’t they realise how much nicer the world would be if they were all just blown into bloody scraps?
And as if that weren’t bad enough, they go and make satirical ads as well. Bastards.
It may have helped end the suicide bombings of the second intifada, [...]
