As an antidote to the UK's bansturbatory tendency, the following little snippet from Pravda is like a breath of fresh air : Healthy lifestyle is like communism Don't fight against your food. "Just relax and enjoy it," academician Rafael Oganov says. "For me, a healthy...
Yet more hectoring from CASH complete with impossible meals.
CASH have a new salt in food warning out today just to remind us that they are still pissing tax money up the wall eating too much salt will lead to wailing, gnashing of teeth and death or something similarly biblical : Including too many ready-made items in a Sunday...
Deathrow’s Metal Sunday part 1.
Welcome to the start of a guest posting series all about metal music from my very good Estonian friend Deathrow, a human encyclopedia of all things metal. Noisy and obnoxious, that's how i like my music. Walls of aggressive noise spewing forth from my stereo speaker...
A little more sloppy journalism from the BBC
A quick one spotted in this report on gas company price tariffs being misleading. The first graph below is the BBC version and clearly shows that the person making the official BBC graphic is either mathematically illiterate or really just couldn't care less. The...
International aid – why exactly?
One thing that has always puzzled me about our new Coagulation masters is why they insisted that International Aid was ringfenced from any spending cuts. The amount we pay to India, for example, is hardly peanuts (from FT.com) : India receives more UK aid than any...
Snow 1963 – how to clear a railway line in style
Spotted in a link over at Small Dead Animals (to your right in the blogroll), the short film below entitled Snow by Geoffrey Jones documents some of the efforts made to keep the railways running in the winter of 1963. Hand digging of 20 foot snowdrifts is one thing...
Christmas lights like you have never seen them before.
Imagine for a moment that you are a huge fan of Slayer, you have access to an impressive light controller system and you want to do something a little bit special to annoy the neighbours at Christmas. What do you do? Well, you rig your house up with computer...
More health encouragement.
It appears that the coagulation are swiftly removing the last vestiges of being any different to the last bunch of shits with the myriad announcements on health, lifestyle and general nudging being made in the past few days. Longrider has a great post on just this...
Nice Beaver!
Leslie Nielsen, gone but not forgotten. Personally, I can never hear the word beaver without thinking of the scene from Naked Gun and no matter how many times I see it, I still laugh like a drain. _
Shopping in the USA – we need to invent another circle of hell.
Shopping violence and near riots in the USA as "bargain hunters" go a little too far in their search for gifts and sale items. Nine examples Via Pravda : #1 At a Target store in Buffalo, New York the crowds waiting impatiently outside suddenly became a chaotic mob...