Via The BBC, how long before all police are anti-terror officers and all thoughts are terror related : Five men have been arrested on suspicion of publishing material to incite racial hatred. Computer equipment and mobile phones are thought to have been seized by police during early morning raids in Tyneside, Birkenhead, Barnsley, [...]  After writing yesterday about my surprise at finding a Statutory Instrument which seemed to predict the future, I have had a look at the timing and it seems I wasn’t going mad after all. This example of our Parliament reduced to a rubber stamping factory for “politburo” style executive legislation may be a minor [...] Beautifully made and highly effective car destroyer – who wouldn’t want one of these? _ _ I particularly like the racket it makes when it goes off! The radio news this morning had a few articles on truancy with the “behaviour czar” (what a lovely Orwellian name for an interfering twat) wanting to increase the fines payable by parents of persistent truants. This evening, while having a trawl through the statutory instruments, I was a little surprised to find that the [...] Banned – it’s for your own good you know! On returning to work this week after my Estonian adventures, the hot topic in the office is food rather than the more usual who is or isn’t shagging who. While I was away, the works canteen implemented their part of the governments [...] Hello yet again, Mr. Raccoon here with a stabilized health status since Mr. Wasp fled Estonia. But that doesn’t matter I still have some funnies to deliver at last. _ _ _ _ And I totally agree with the last one. Anyway it’s been fun yet again and I will be going on a [...] Back to the UK once again, so whilst I get my things in order for the drag that is work tomorrow how about sex injuries and broken furniture : H/T – Mr Raccoon. Greetings from Mr. Raccoon and Mr. Wasp who is in Estonia at the moment just to kill my liver by making me drink a lot. Anyway, how about this one to get the righteous shroudwavers in a tizzy… _ _ And this next one is worthy of a BBC health article written by [...] Mentioned in passing at Watts Up With That, the following Ted video is well worth spending 18 minutes on. Jill Bolte Taylor gives a brilliant presentation and speaks with a genuine passion 8 years after observing her own stroke : Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She [...] Whilst I never fully judge a film by it’s trailer (as the trailers usually contain all the bits worth seeing from the film condensed into 2 or 3 minutes leaving the other hour or so as dull as ditchwater), the trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus certainly looks stunning : _ _ One to look [...] Ban it! Ban it all! You are not trusted to make the ‘right’ choices. Whilst Cameron’s ramblings have been covered at length, I have not seen is anything on why exactly he seems to be so sure that the minimum pricing initiative will not get kicked out when it gets to [...] Whilst reading my way down the comments to an Evans-Pritchard piece on Spain growing a pair and making a “sovereign decision” to tell the EU where to stick it’s austerity demands, I came across the following comment which was part of an exchange between English and German readers : Ah, methinks the Herr doth [...] First spotted at Zerohedge over the weekend, I thought I would share this one too as it’s a great example of how to make something abstract clearly understandable. The method used in the video is sound, with the volume being related to the earthquake magnitude (all quakes over mag 4.5 shown) and the pitch [...] One thing about the internet that still surprises me is the amazing array of things you can just stumble across with a few random clicks. The following video is one of those surprises (for me at least) and shows the last few seconds of the US Navy supply ship SS John Burke which was [...] Another one of those “just when you thought you had seen everything” moments : A novel way to start a fight : And finally, a little compare and contrast with Greece vs Estonia : I think the unemployment figures may be a little out of date there but the point still [...]  |
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