Is it just me or do the new Halifax radio show TV adverts make you either want to break things or attempt a ritual disembowelment of the nearest mouthbreather using only a frozen herring? Wankers. UPDATE : Found one online
BBC raising your council taxes.
Whilst roaming on the BBC website I came across this article about councils paying for corrections to mis-spelled roadsigns. It would appear that some BBC wonk decided to submit FOI requests to all councils to determine how much corrections to roadsigns were costing...
Causes of Death
One of the more interesting aspects of the Internet, I find, is the vast amount of information out there. This afternoon, whilst looking through an Office of National Statistics document on the Underlying Cause of Deaths from 2008 I came across this entertainingly...
Pictorial Interlude
Cliffside beach near Paldiski, Estonia. Summer 2009.
ACPO – oversight or deliberate omission?
I have read (Old Holborn amongst others) that the UK Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is a Limited Company. Considering their regular news presence and frequent advice to UK police forces to (amongst other things) ignore the law (to ignore the EU court...
Fat Dead People.
I have seen this kind of story more and more in the last few months. They generally all feature 'grieving relatives', cash strapped councils and a pathetic story of how some person who was incapable of shitting faster than they ate had died and wouldn't fit into the...
Nanny state annoyance.
This post contains naughty words so if you are at all delicate please fuck off now. What a way to start a Monday morning. I have to get up at 4am on weekdays for work and prefer a radio alarm to wake up to rather than beeping, ringing or buzzing. My station of choice...
Testing Testing
An RSS test
When already in a hole – stop digging!
An interesting attempt here to defend beheading your wife on the grounds that she verbally abused and humiliated you. People will try anything it seems. Update The original report of the killing makes for interesting reading, including the following outstanding...
Is that Oxfam? I would like a bag of shite please. Hello?
Well I never - Oxfam sells bags of shite. Really! And if that doesnt float your boat (or float in the bowl) how about a pot smoking, free-love hippy chicken.