February 2012
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Bloody hell - a mouse, in my kitchen!
Now that’s a ‘first’.
(and before anyone asks - no, I don’t want a cat.)
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“A fella walks into a pet shop and says, “Give me a wasp.”
The shopkeeper...”
– Frank Carson
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BBC News - RBS doubles annual loss in 2011, fourth... →
“Despite that performance, the bank paid out £785m in bonuses to staff in total last year.”
I have only one thing to say about this; it begins with a “C” and rhymes with “stunts”.
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BBC News - Comic Frank Carson dies aged 85 →
Shame - he always made me laugh.
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Packaging
It sometimes seems as though we’re swimming in an endless sea of packaging.
It’s everywhere - don’t believe me?
Take a look in your pantry, bathroom cabinet or that cupboard under the sink in the kitchen - now do you believe me?
A mind-boggling array of bottles, tubes, packets and boxes.
Now, while it can be over-done, I generally feel packaging to be quite practical and...
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Did you know?
Tunnel cleaners on the London underground are called “fluffers”.
O_o
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“Iron Lady - now that’s a crap sequel to Iron Man.”
– Jon Holmes
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Witch-hunt.
Charlie Brooker took a rather fine swipe at The Sun on 10 O’clock Live the other night. It went something like this…
Mondays Sun also included a powerful column by Fleet Street Legend Trevor Kavanagh, in which he thundered that Sun journalists were being subjected to a witch-hunt.
Now, some say it’s rich of the Sun to complain about witch-hunts because it’s...
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Did you know?
Tomatoes get their flavour from an enzyme - one that breaks down at around 4°C.
So don’t put tomatoes in the fridge.
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Game of Thrones valentine cards
nevver:
Chris Bishop
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BBC News - Rangers FC signals intent to go into... →
I don’t know if this is some kind of ‘brinkmanship’ game; but even if it is - bloody hell!
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“Conjunctivitis.com - now there’s a site for sore eyes!”
– Tim Vine
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Cars.
New cars bought in China since this post was created:
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Notes:
Built using a statistic from a TV show (broadcast in 2012) that, on average, one new car was bought in China every 2.8 seconds. However, that show was Top Gear so…
If...
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“In 2011, Elton John and David Furnish had a baby after donating sperm - just...”
– Jimmy Carr
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Dreamt I was watching an armoured knight ride out to battle - except this knight was a crab, and his steed was a seahorse.
Later…
Was eating a goose liver sandwich. It was in the ‘open’ style, so I could see that the liver was raw and glistening - it also had a lot of ‘plumbing’ attached (this resembled electrical circuit diagrams, but made from veins). It...
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I just caught the tag-end of one of those reality TV cop shows.
This is a British thing, broadcast by the BBC, called “Motorway Cops” and all about… well, I think you can figure that bit out for yourselves. The format is the same as most of the other shows of its ilk:
People get busted.
A voice-over, at the end of the show, tells you what happened to them.
So, I tune in...
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Anonymous asked: Can you explain Maxi Rodriguez to me? On the BBC website his name is listed as "Rodriguez Maxi", which is consistent with his shirt, which says "Maxi". On the other hand, game commentators (admittedly on US tv) refer to him as "Maxi Rodriguez". Please disambiguate.
January 2012
17 posts
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“A man goes into a book shop, walks up to the counter and asks the assistant,...”
– Laurie Taylor (Thinking Allowed).
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Whenever I hear “Lydia the Tattooed Lady” I am always reminded of this:
On the chest of a barmaid from Sale,
Was tattooed all the prices of ale.
Whilst on her behind,
For the sake of the blind,
Was the same information in Braille.
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Coronal Mass Ejection.
Our dear old Sun has been turbulent lately, with the largest solar storm since 2005.
As a result, streams of high-energy particles have been bombarding Earth and being deflected by our magnetic field, forming an impressive display called the “aurora borealis” or “northern lights”. The strength of the particle stream, coupled with a moonless night sky, meant that the...
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The Reader. →
Just watched this film (knowing nothing about it other than what I read in a very brief synopsis - one that didn’t give the game away). It’s powerful and really rather good.
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Stamp.
I received a letter the other day - with a stamp affixed to the envelope.
Nothing unusual there, I hear you say and you’d be right - it is traditional to put stamps on letters. In fact, the world’s postal services are downright sniffy about delivering letters without stamps. Here is the item in question:
Now stamps come in all shapes and sizes; usually with pictures of famous...
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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral named one of... →
Dear CNN voters;
You obviously don’t know shit.
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SPOILER ALERT!
I think I’ve just seen the invention of the “inverse cliffhanger”…?
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BBC News - Motor shoes with wheels developed for... →
I’m not convinced.
:-D
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Sherlock.
I’ve never been a fan of Sherlock Holmes. Perhaps this was due to watching those dreadful old black and white films as a kid - Basil Rathbone with pipe, deerstalker and cape - meh! I know I attempted to read one of the novels once, but the writing left me cold and I abandoned it (which puts Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into a very select group: authors whose work I have been unable to finish...
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BBC Sport - Liverpool draw Manchester United in FA... →
Interesting…
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Dreamt I was living in a dome, with a talking dog - on Mars!
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BBC Sport - Gary Ablett, former Liverpool &... →
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BBC News - Cartoonist Ronald Searle dies. →
December 2011
21 posts
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“That was “I will survive”, by Gloria Gaynor, played by a monkey with...”
– Kirsty Young
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BBC News - Howe proposed 'managed decline' for... →
This comes as no surprise to me.
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Did you know?
Patsy Stone (the character played by Joanna Lumley in the TV series “Absolutely Fabulous”) has the full name: Eurydice Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau Stone.
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How Computers Work - Boing Boing →
Speaking as an scientist, one who has worked with these devices for many thousands of years, I can verify that this article is 110% accurate.