Category Archives: Drivel
And now, the news…
Y’know, I spend a lot of time backing the BBC. I’m happy to pay the license fee and I’m comfortable with the concept of a patriarchal state media corporation that dares to tell us what it thinks we ought to … Continue reading
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Merry Christmas!
However you choose to celebrate/ignore/abhor this “Pagan Festival Adopted by Christians and Now Largely Used as an Excuse For Mass Consumption and Crap TV, in Both Secular and Christian Communities”, please do it nicely, okay? Back soon…
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Won’t someone think of the PIGEONS?!
Having occasionally been known to post “Have Your Say” comments on news websites, often with tongue planted firmly in cheek, I guffawed heartily at the reader responses to this story from the Surrey Comet… Marksman called in to kill Kingston’s … Continue reading
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Litvinenko affair: MI5 missing obvious clues
Spy death linked to nuclear thefts (Observer) … significant quantities of polonium 210, the substance that killed former spy Alexander Litvinenko, are being stolen from poorly protected Russian nuclear sites. Why are they wasting their time investigating Russian nuclear sites? … Continue reading
Record breaking weather
This afternoon, temperatures are set to be hotter than at any time since yesterday afternoon. Even at 5:00 this morning, the sun strength was greater than at any time in the previous eight hours. This is likely to be the … Continue reading
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Delayed Sheep Effect
One of the recent memes doing the rounds of LiveJournal and other blog networks involved listing the births, deaths and events which share your birthday. I forget the exact rules, but never mind. Here (sourced from Wikipedia) is a selection … Continue reading
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I, for one, welcome our new all-seeing rock overlords
From the BBC… “… British agents retrieving data from a fake rock planted on a Moscow street” Now, I can’t claim to be an expert on espionage, but doesn’t this seem to be rather an unreliable approach to learning state … Continue reading
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Ho Ho Ho!
Merry Christmas! And if you don’t do Christmas, just do whatever makes you happy. I have a drink in my hand, I’ve just watched Disney’s version of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (I can rarely stand to watch Disney animations, but that … Continue reading
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“Immediately cut off your penis at the base”
Still in pre-Christmas lazy mode, so I’m just offering a few links for your amusement until I have something original to say. This chain letter parody (via Jamie Zawinski) made me laugh like a donkey. MAKE PENIS FAST The parent … Continue reading
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lol!!!1!! ur spam skillz0rs are like so not 1337, d00d
For some reason, the standard spam filter in my email program has been fooled on several occasions today. First, there were around 20 instances of a Viagra/Cialis advert, poorly disguised as an undelivered mail. Then came 25 instances of the … Continue reading
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