A BBC science article headline provided a brief titter today : Scientists solve half-cock chicken mystery The less smutty sounding real story being rather interesting none-the-less : About one in every 10,000 chickens is gynandromorphous, to use the technical term. In...
Greek riot reporting – compare and contrast.
I wrote a little while ago about austerity measures being taken in Greece and the probable reaction of the population who are experts in tax avoidance - namely riots and protests. The BBC story on the third Greek general strike has a rather anemic video report with a...
Even more stupid people.
More BBC guff from the FSA on how stupid people are in the UK : Bank accounts which charge fees for extra benefits such as insurance may be being mis-sold, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned. It says the danger lies in people buying packaged accounts...
More alcohol pricing bollocks.
The BBC reports on the sessions of the Scottish Parliament health committee today which is taking evidence on minimum pricing of alcohol. There, we have chief harridan Nicola Sturgeon trying to compete with Don Shenker for title of most annoying nanny state crony : Ms...
Entropy, Politics and the tree of liberty.
Over at Zero Hedge today there is an interesting article entitled "Entropy - why the world as we know it is dying". The following extract could quite easily be applied to politics in the UK : In the simplest of terms, every closed system will ultimately degrade toward...
A land of obedient sheep.
Talking to people about issues such as immigration, privacy, freedom from state interference, cctv, police behaviour, the economy, taxes and general politics is getting to be pretty depressing of late. It seems to me that most people nowadays don't read a newspaper...
Strange TV Adverts.
I just noticed the TV advert for Mikado chocolate stick things (for want of a better description). I'm not sure whether its just weird or a comment on the supposed Japanese old mans schoolgirl fetish (cf Hentai). See for yourself....
Royal Mail buys off the CWU.
Royal Mail seem to have wilted under pressure to settle their dispute with the CWU by agreeing a rather generous pay deal which sees postmen being paid more for less work. All very socialist. I wonder how much pressure was applied by the government to reach a deal...
You really couldn’t make it up.
Spotted over at the BBC we have the MOD in a bit of a bind : The MoD has launched an investigation after a photograph of a soldier who had an offensive message written on his kit appeared in its official magazine. The serviceman's left kneepad has "Get some Paki"...
Consumer whining.
What is it with this fucking country? People sign up to a contract without reading the small print and then whine like bitches when they dont want to be held to it. The case in question here is over fixed price energy contracts. You think the price of gas, for...