I wrote last December on the subject of International Aid spending after reading news that India and Russia were jointly developing super-sonic cruise missile technology and wondered why the UK spent £6 billion abroad whilst squeezing domestic budgets. From the last...
Idle journalists waving the shrouds for the government funded charities.
These days, reading any article in the press that mentions the word charity linked to some service cuts immediately raises my suspicions enough to go and have a look at the Charity Commision website to see just how much tax money is being handed over to them. Call me...
Had a fecker of a day? This will have you laughing like a loon in seconds.
Found tucked away behind a link at A Tangled Web, this song has had me in stitches all evening and is just too good not to share : _
Does this qualify as a perversion?
One from BBC News that possibly goes beyond the call of science : Bigger bottoms are definitely better - for swans at least. Scientists at the UK's Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust are measuring the size of Bewick's swans' behinds, to see if they have the fat reserves to...
BBC health page reads like a bansturbators manifesto.
Grabbed from the BBC Health page : Interestingly, they don't name the poor unfortunate who has lost his penile spines or possibly they meant human males in general? Bonus points awarded too for the use of probed in a fertility story 😉
Japanese Tsunami devastation – before and after photographs show true scale of destruction
Spotted over at Not a Sheep's place, ABC News Australia has some amazing before and after photographs showing just how devastating the Tsunami damage around Japan's Northern coast actually is. The link to ABC News above has several images - hover your mouse above each...
Minimum alcohol pricing by the back door?
Some authoritarian type demonstrating the size of his member earlier A brilliant way of setting a minimum price for alcohol via The Telegraph : Drink strength cut in alcohol "pact" to tackle bingeing epidemic The alcoholic strength of one of Britain’s bestselling...
Apparently, the arts are more important than the police in the UK.
As the modern day UK descends into total and complete irrelevance in the world thanks to cuts to our armed forces and assimilation into a Federal European State, news today that arty types are protesting over cuts to the arts merely confirms how pointless this country...
This is not looking good – Explosion at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant March 12th.
The video below showing what appears to be a rather large detonation at one of Japan's crippled Nuclear Plants. At 0:47 seconds into the video you can clearly see a shock wave coming off the building as something gives way - I just hope that it wasn't the containment...
Weekend humour – what exactly constitutes porn for women?
A great one from the wonderful world of xkcd.com :