Pravda has an interesting article on the problems of predictions based on observations when related to global warming. The article includes the following rather amusing joke which does a better job at explaining the difficulties of making predictions based on...
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Full marks for persistence in the story below from the Eastern Wake News, Zebulon, North Carolina. Not content with failing to die after driving straight through the barriers at the end of a section of freeway, they guy then hangs himself from the dead end bridge he...
Righteous whining.
An excellent example of righteous whining in the letters section of today's Independent : Smoke's no joke I write from the poolside of a Turkish hotel. Here are many nationalities, mostly French, Belgians and Turks. All of them smoke constantly. Sitting here means...
Melons!
Medieval catapult? Check. Melons? Check. Humiliation and pain? Oh yes! Rather amusing and also interesting to note the cameraman's seeming preoccupation at around 00:10 with melons of a rather different variety to those being flung : _
Russia jumps on the health bandwagon.
Smokers and drinkers to be taxed for their bad habits in Russia In the land of vodka and death before retirement, the government has realised that smokers and drinkers are a valuable commodity in terms of the tax they are willing to pay for their habit. The only...
Pictorial Interlude
Sent by one of my Estonian co-conspirators - just look at the shoes darling!
Saying it like it is.
Nigel Farage ripping into Manual Barroso with quotes like : "People don't respect you because you cheated to get the Lisbon Treaty through." I just wish some of our Westminster mob would grow a pair. _
Police priorities.
Accompanying today's postal delivery was an expensive looking glossy magazine from the local police force. Having been stung for an above inflation increase in their share of the council tax this year, I decided to have a read instead of just binning it. Whilst losing...
When a missing comma makes all the difference.
Apart from the odd film, I hardly watch the television these days but I do occasionally look through the listings just to remind myself of the vacuous crap that fills the schedules. This evening, I had started counting the number of programs involving the police...
The horrors of War.
Or, at least in this article at Pravda (no, not the BBC), the aftermath of war (emphasis mine) : A military spokesman, Tim Embree, testified February 25 before the Committee on Veterans Affairs of the House of Representatives. He stated on behalf of the 180,000...