From The Telegraph : The star was discussing her role in the remake of Arthur and John Gielgud's part in the original when BBC Breakfast presenter Sian Williams remarked that he was famous for swearing a lot. Dame Helen replied: ''Well, in that sort of wonderful voice...
Annoying the God botherers – big mamma edition
Bizarre adverts causing ructions in catholic circles from The Telegraph : The Catholic Church has criticised an Italian television advert in which a half-naked man resembling Christ tries to ward off the advances of an overweight dominatrix dressed in suspenders and...
An occasion of exceptional national significance means an extra two hours drinking time – how very British.
If you are wondering what to do after your street party winds down next weekend then you could always pop along to the local and enjoy the extra two hours drinking time graciously afforded to us by Statutory Instrument 2011 No. 1073 : The Licensing Act 2003 (Royal...
Fukushima fixed in 6 to 9 months? Make that years judging by this video.
According to this BBC article, Tepco intends to have everything under control by the end of the year : The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has said it expects to bring the crisis under control by the end of the year. Tokyo Electric Power...
NATO memo to the USA – please come back to play in the desert as we have run out of toys.
Cameroids grand desert campaign seems to be running out of steam or, well, things to drop from planes when they can find enough pilots to fly them. From Defense News (yes its a US site with the spelling) : WASHINGTON - NATO is running short of precision bombs and...
Saving us from embarrassment.
Reading the headline that caffeine and alcohol are more dangerous when mixed I was expecting some horror story from the righteous but this really takes the biscuit : Researchers found that while physical and mental impairment were no different with the combination,...
What exactly do people have to do to get jailed these days?
An eye opening catalogue of (repeated) violent behavior that results in a suspended sentence : She said it was about 7.40pm on November 25 when Grubb, who was wielding a baseball bat and Mr Shaw arrived at Miss Myers’ flat. Miss Evans said Grubb had drunk 12 cans of...
Cartoon Friday – Canada Vignettes and others
I previously posted a couple of short animated films called The cat came back to which Paul in the comments kindly pointed me to some other short cartoons : The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is a government arts funding organization that went into subsidising...
Pictorial Interlude – US civil war edition
The picture below is part of a Pravda photo set on the American civil war. A great bit of photograph, beautifully lit from the muzzle flash and contrasting nicely with the evening sky colours.
Revising history 1984 style – The EU has always been the EU.
Straight from our very own The Ministry of Truth and reading surprisingly like one of the amendments that Winston Smith toiled over every day whilst working there we have this surprising little Statutory Instrument : 2011 No. 1043 European Union The Treaty of Lisbon...