February 2012
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to...”
– Groucho Marx (via disharmonious)
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BBC News - The Raspberry Pi computer goes on... →
Hmmm…
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“Downton Abbey - must be just like watching Big Brother for the queen.”
– Sarah Millican
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Former editor of The Sun Rebekah Brooks was lent a... →
Typical - can’t even get corruption right!
Repeat after me, “It’s the journalists what bungs the coppers a pony!”
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Liverpool win League Cup.
Well that was a really enjoyable match.
If you’ll forgive me for mixing my metaphors, it takes two to tango; so all credit to Cardiff City for making it such an exciting, and clean, game. Just goes to show the depth of talent in UK football when a team from the ‘Championship’ can take one from the ‘Premier League’ right down to the wire.
How odd to have two...
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Hmmm.
‘Twould appear that my attempts to shoo the mouse out were unsuccessful - and that it has a liking for ginger biscuits.
This latter, I fear, may lead to its undoing.
Time for ‘plan B’.
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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.