Remember the Burger King posh burger from the twilight of last month? Sure, I talked about it in the post Wasted Money Or Food For Thought?
Well, I remember it and I remember saying at the time: they’ve even managed to ignore the outrage that spreads the UK from time to time whenever foie gras is [...]
I don’t usually comment much on the passing of celebrities, but a most recent passing has really touched me. One of my favourite radio hosts, and an accomplished jazz performer, Humphrey Lyttelton passed away yesterday at the age of 86. Up until the very end he was still touring with his jazz group and hosting [...]
There had to be a ‘villain’ post today, I couldn’t just post about Loli and Fast Food. I needed to cover another arch-villain in the UK, and I chose Darth Vader! No, not the British giant David Prowse from down in Devon, but more a Welsh imitator.
There is so much to this story, it’s hard [...]
I enjoy the PC game Civilization, it is one of the strategy games that I like the most and has perhaps remained one of the strongest of the genre after many years through its evolving technology in sequels.
One of my favourite aspects of the Civ series is that you don’t have to resort to [...]
Watch this, I’m going to quick step round an issue that I actually have deeply conflicting views about. On one hand, I dislike chavvy families where the children are bought up as gym-slip lovers and sexualised from the moment they are out of Pampers, on the other hand, sometimes Japanese interests are quite fetching.
Guess what, [...]
As if the Fantastic Fours foe, The Mole Man, wasn’t enough of a challenge for local councils to tackle in the UK, it appears the threat of evildoers undermining the bureacracy is spreading.
Perhaps emulating the Captain Planet villain, Sly Sludge, a new contender has stepped out and only the anal retentive, ‘more than my [...]
In August 2006, I referred to a man called William Lyttle, who had been dubbed “The Mole Man” for his, some would say ‘eccentric’ behaviour. If you didn’t see it, it’s here.
Mr Lyttle, at the age of 75, was ordered by the local council to leave his £1m Victorian property, originally two properties that he [...]
As if it weren’t bad enough that on any given day I likely commit at least 5 out of 7 of the original Deadly Sins - some multiple times a day. It seems now that should I implement most of my policies and plans, I’ll be breaking even more.
Thou shalt not commit a genetic experiment
The Roman Catholic [...]
I always loved the Dreadnoks, perhaps more than any other group in GI Joe. I loved their rebellious nature, their lack of restraint towards violence and their improvisation for weaponry and tactics. The Dreadnoks were fighters to the core and were a fearsome rag-tag bunch of bikers who could be depended on to raise havoc.
This post [...]
Before I get started, I wanted to state a minor gripe about the inadequacies of some people when spelling scorpions. I can understand one or two people having the misspelling occur, based on only ever hearing it pronounced by someone with an impediment or alcohol problem, but why must there be those who insist on [...]
I’ve commented before on consumerism, young children, sexuality and parental/business stupidity (here and here for example). I’m not a prude, if kids want to be little Lolitas and…whatever the heck a lolita-boy would be…well, then fine. I like liberalisation and free choice, so that is really up to them to choose and, of course, [...]
One of the great technologies that was slotted in to the background of Star Wars in the movies and Expanded Universe was the galaxy-wide communications system, the HoloNet. The HoloNet was a merging of internet communication and television, with the added function of being able to transfer holographic images. This is mainly seen for things [...]
There is always some controversy whenever a council takes action about complaints on how households decorate their property. Stories in the past have included a complaint of harrassment from a muslim family by a neighbour displaying ceramic pigs in the only window facing their property, a exterior christmas tree banned from having lights because it [...]
School reports to go online
LONDON (Reuters) - The end-of-term school report could be replaced by regular online updates under government plans due to be announced on Wednesday.
Parents will visit secure Web sites to read about their children’s progress, attendance and behaviour throughout the school year.Schools Minister Jim Knight said all secondary schools must operate the [...]
It seems everything goes wireless these days.
Years ago, the television remote would be an on-off button on a plastic brick connected to the tv by a cable. Computers would need network cables to transfer data and be wired in to a hub.
Then you get spectacles that stay in place without side frames, but by attaching [...]
In December 2006 I mentioned how I Need An Evil Real Estate Agent…Easy Enough… upon learning about Viganella, a small town in the Alps that has extended periods of darkness and is surrounded by mountains and forests. Unfortunately, this hasn’t become mine, but I still keep my options open, and the news papers are always [...]
The pure randomness of this story, and the failing of educated legal experts, just makes it wonderful.
Unicorns don’t drive trucks - officialThe man who prosecutors said had claimed that a unicorn had been driving his truck when it crashed did not actually claim that a unicorn had been driving his truck when it crashed, it [...]
So, not too long ago I was chatting with shadowranger about how, if I had the unlimited finances, I would tear down certain blocks of dissimilar terraced hotels on the sea front and rebuild them into a more aesthetically pleasing and sophisticated establishments. One of the flaws we identified was the parking allocation.
My original suggestion [...]
I was reading today and came across a quote from an LJ user named about squirrel contraception being used in Washington.
I did a search, but the nearest I could find was Santa Monica, California, but I really wanted to know just what they were planning.
Little latex nut hoods? Planned parenting classes? Introducing metrosexuality to the [...]
Does anybody remember the episode of The Simpsons called Moe Baby Blues? Well, the wonderful smell of rotten meat will soon be clouding over the Garden of Eden! No, I’m not ‘high’.
Mighty Titan enters final act at Eden
The world’s largest, smelliest flower, the Titan arum, has entered its last stage in Eden’s Rainforest Biome.
The bizarre [...]