Half the fun with online news and blogs is reading the comments which are often a mixture of amusing, deluded or just downright weird. In the amusing category today is a comment from an article in The Salt Lake Tribune about an anti-pornography conference. First some...
More Mash Goodness.
Well, it is Friday so time for a little Daily Mash. I can't quite decide which of the following is the most amusing so I will tag them both here - do go and read the full articles! First we have Ed Balls complaining about the children's commissioner making decisions...
And you thought Greece had debt problems.
From FT Alphaville today we have the following snippet : Next quarter, the US Treasury must refinance $1.14 trillion in maturing debt + interest payments and another $630bln during the following three months. That's an eyewatering amount of money and, putting it in...
Safety Films German Style
A rather graphic safety film on the potential dangers of driving a forklift truck. It is in German but there is no need to understand the language - you will certainly get the message. Makes a refreshing, if somewhat gory, change from the UK style public information...
A tale of two numbers.
Two numbers to have a think about : 223,000,000,000 23,100,000,000 The first number is the amount in dollars that the USA has added to national debt in the last three weeks - yes, thats three weeks - zero hedge has the story of the fast approaching (once again) US...
Headline writing – think before touching a key.
A BBC article caught my attention with the following headline : Woman 'force-fed babies vomit' at Bromley nursery Whilst the article itself is a rather grim description of a child carers cruel and unusual methods, I don't think the headline quite comes across as the...
Masking the decline?
News in the Telegraph today on the growth in government spending in the UK : Official figures before the Budget on Wednesday disclose that public spending makes up 52 per cent of the gross domestic product. When Labour came to power in 1997, the state’s share was 40...
Chinese puzzles.
Over at Zero Hedge today there is an interesting article on the Chinese economy which may possibly the prelude to some larger changes across the world : Say goodbye to China's "export economy" paradigm. In a stunning development for trade hawks, and pretty much anyone...
Public Spending – Avoiding the Cuts?
With all the discussion in the media on possible future public spending cuts, especially in view of the forthcoming general election, I found the information that arrived this week with my new council tax bill rather interesting. Whilst the local council tax increase...
Trolls – an antidote to a long day.
Somewhat bereft of ideas after a long day, where else is there to go for a little amusement other than The Daily Mash? An article I discovered today has a new government initiative aimed at making smokers wear their lungs on their head to demonstrate the evils of...