I saw a small bit of a thing on BBC News this morning. OK, this is from memory and I didn’t watch the whole thing because I would have been sedated to prevent me from hurling the cat at the Samsung. And neither Timmy nor the telly deserve that…
I would though chuck an irate ocelot [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2010’
BBC Bias (Again)
Comments we get…
Theyre right on top of us, and Savous and Hyle are both on the surface. Salin had accepted that from the time hed first seen his brother as a babe. Eyrhaens inability to control her gifts has brought about changes that should benefit us all. Eyrhaen thought to watch Tykir suck him. She was the [...]
Diddums
Qamar David, a Christian in the dock on charges of blasphemy, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The basis of the ruling, issued on Feb. 25, the fact that the man "hurt the religious feelings" of Muslims;
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Additional District and Sessions Judge found Qamar David guilty of using blasphemous remarks about the Islamic Prophet and Quran [...]
Prohibition & Dancing With The Devil
The last time I was shopping in town I came across a sign for a new bar called “Prohibition”. It is apparently styled after a ’20s speakeasy and at first I thought that sounds fun and then I recalled they’d probably taser you for even looking at a pack of ciggies.
Oh, well that’s progress [...]
John Donne, we have a problem.
Both Cats and I have recently reffed John Donne’s “To his Mistress Going to Bed”. He reffed it as Donne’s XIXth Elegy and I called it the XXth.
Which is it?
I tried the hypertome of the intermong and found this and this.
And why the confusion?
I’m now going to say something very rarely heard. We need [...]
IPCC
And strip them of the Nobel Peace prize while they are about it. Make a start on the rehabilitation of that crappy bauble.
Environment and Climate ministers meeting in closed session in Bali last night insisted that an independent review should be carried out following the publicising of mistakes in its last report, and a row [...]
Why?
Ya know, thinking about my posting on Timbuktu below, I am sometimes gobsmacked at the range of crap Nick, myself and Pa are capable of commenting on.
I showed this poem to a friend a couple of days ago, and found myself explaining the meaning and history of tyrian hue (to me the term is instantly obvious), [...]
Music
Up until the age of twenty two I always knew who was in the top-ten in the music charts.
I no longer have any idea. I’ve discussed this with my rough contemporaries and I am not alone.
It is the misfits parade of boy-bands, girl-bands and X-factor wannabes that’s done that. The last great hurrah [...]
Bias
Here is one for Biased BBC. I was driving home this evening, listening to ABC News radio who were broadcasting a BBC World Service segment.
Now, you will have to forgive me, I am working from memory here. I have been over the BBC World Service site and I guess nothing has been posted yet, although [...]
He Of The Many Spellings…
Muammar Gaddafi (for that is one of them) has really jumped the shark this time…
He’s declared jihad on Switzerland. Apparently over the minaret-ban. Well, I’m sure there are certain aspects of Ukrainian planning law I would find obnoxious so I’m calling for Her Majesty’s forces to plan an all out assault on Kiev because it [...]
Barack Obama - Thanks From Your Pals In Britain!
I dunno about you lot but with the Royal Navy fuckulated by Messrs Brown and Blair, the RAF reduced to winding elastic bands and the Army chasing rag-heads in the ’stan and a community organiser in The White House this was bound to happen.
The Falklands are British. The international legal position here is very [...]
The Difference
Thou hast committed fornication — but that was in another country: and besides, the wench is dead.
- Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta.
Guess what? This isn’t a post about the adventures of Ashley, Cheryl or Tiger. I recall my solemn pledge. Nope, this is about blogging and the media and a theory I have so, [...]
The Pledge
I am sick to the back teeth of hearing who did or didn’t screw Ashley or Cheryl Cole.
It is a matter of such supernatural irrelevance to me that I should be communicating this fact to you by the medium (not large) of Derek Acorah and not via the internet.
Whilst buying cheese in the [...]
Annoyances
My wife is upset with NatWest.
They cancelled her credit card. Why? She was using it “suspiciously”. Was it a wire transfer to a shady drug-baron in Colomobia? Nope. It was a 20 quid top-up to Vodafone. Send for Mr Sherlock Holmes because Inspector Lestrade surely can’t cope with such a veritable Napolean of Crime! Now [...]
Rolling Thunder
I will do such things -
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth!
- William Shakespeare, King Lear Act 2, scene 4.
BUFFs parked up in the boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, AZ.
The devilment I could make with them does not bear thinking about. And I have a [...]
