Another from Metro that I couldn't resist sharing : Medics at Southampton General Hospital struggled to get the man's penis out of the stainless steel pipe, because the restricted blood flow had caused it to become erect. Instead, they resorted called in Hampshire...
A new low in miserable animals.
I don't think I have ever seen anything that captures the spirit of misery better that a blobfish. From Metro : These sad-looking creatures, which grow up to lengths of 12 inches, live at depths of 900m. They spend most of their time gently floating around waiting for...
Rednecks in the Army
Rather bored, I discovered BitofFun.com which has some damned funny jokes and some other very strange stuff. The Redneck joke below is a great example of what is lurking on there - go have a look as you are guaranteed to find something to make you laugh out loud :...
Musical Interlude – One song – Two Versions
Death Letter Blues - Son House original and the White Stripes cover. Do enjoy! (If you really can't bear to watch Son House at work because it seems too old fashioned, skip right to the White Stripes cover - it kicks serious ass) _ _
How to fuck up a good idea – Coalition benefit cuts.
Stolen shamelessly from this article at the BBC, a picture is worth a thousand words as they say : Impact of child benefit cut Tax rate Annual income Benefit Keep or cut? Lower £43,875 or less £1,752.4 Higher £43,876 or more 0 2x Lower £87,750 (2 x 43,875) £1,752.4 1x...
Silence is golden.
Wandering around the BBC, I came across this article about five people participating in a Jesuit "silent retreat" in response to modern life getting more noisy. The article itself has some interesting bits about the modern worlds obsession with always on communication...
What is your favourite cut of meat?
Via Pravda, Pamela Anderson, promoting her good works with Peta, has something of a butchers wallboard makeover : Will it be breast or rump this weekend sir? Interestingly, in some of the other photos at Pravda it looks like they have reduced some of the real life...
Housekeeping
Apologies for the outage yesterday due to SQL server buggerations. Hopefully everything is working properly again now. UPDATE - I am changing servers - back soon. UPDATE 2 - Waspsnest is now on a new server at a hosting company that actually gives a fuck about it's...
Deadly Hornets and Russian Comets
Not much time for posting due to work so a quick couple of snippets I found over at Pravda (no, not the BBC). In the UK we have wasps which tend to be annoying (except me of course!) but in Japan they have some huge hornets that kill around 40 people per year from...
Why would anyone want to smuggle a crocodile on a plane?
Sometimes the news is just too bizarre : A plane crash in Democratic Republic of Congo that killed 20 people on board was caused by a crocodile hidden in a bag on the flight, a media report said here Friday. British co-pilot Chris Wilson was among 20 people who died...