A very interesting piece over at Zero Hedge on Burma where the financial crisis has passed almost unnoticed due to the lack of reliance on banks and credit : Imagine a world without bankers. That thought either rattles you to the core of your being, or it brings on...
Stating the bleeding obvious.
Sometimes you wonder whether press officers even think about what they are saying while their mouth is open as this snippet from a BBC story on the major telecoms outage in London demonstrates : "Any customers needing to make calls to the emergency services who have a...
UK Border Agency staff can read shocker!
News from the BBC today that UK Border Agency staff can actually read long words. OK, I may be being overly sarcastic but that is the gist of the story. On Monday this week, Postman Twat (Alan Johnson, Home Secretary, Labour) banned the import of mephedrone - the...
Strange Easter Traditions – part 2
If you are free on Easter Monday and want to see something out of the ordinary, you should go along to Hallaton in Leicestershire to see the "bottle kicking". This strange old tradition involves a mass scrum of between 100 to 200 people on two teams from neighbouring...
Strange Easter Traditions – part 1
In the Waspnest neighbourhood, Good Friday marks the start of a week long period where the whole town is overlooked by a massive illuminated crucifix. Whilst the God fearing town dwellers are busy doing God fearing things (vigils around crucifixes in the town centre...
Pirate Business
Always on the lookout for the weird and wonderful, today brings News from FT Alphaville who have spotted an obscure section of a UN publication which describes the business model used by Somali Pirates : Piracy business model The typical piracy ‘business model’ has...
US vs China about to get ugly?
From Zero Hedge, an interesting article on the possibility (or likely probability in Zero Hedges view) that the US will name China a "currency manipulator" which will then lead to votes on trade sanctions : On April 15 the Treasury will issue its report on...
Kevin ‘bloody’ Wilson
I spotted the video below on Al Jahom's Final Word today and (apart from the obvious not work safe content) its a bloody funny song. If you like that one check out his other classics on youtube, especially "Don't touch your sister" which is one of the funniest songs I...
Millionth English Word will be Penis Euphemism
Apologies for yet another Daily Mash post but the following was too good to ignore : The Institute has tracked the origin of 'meatsock' to an internet discussion on Gordon Brown, where 'StevieB1827' wrote: "Anyone who trusts that boss-eyed fraud can suck my meatsock...
Yet more paedomania.
News from the Telegraph that researchers are investigating techniques to identify paedophiles from their typing style : Researchers believe technology could be used to determine a computer typist's age, sex and culture within 10 keystrokes by monitoring their speed...