Monthly Archives: October 2008

Oh, how Brand!

The good ol Beeb has been forced to issue an apology after those offences to the human genetic make-up that are Russell Brand and Jonathan Woss left a good number of utterly outrageous messages on the answer phone of actor Andrew Sachs – alias Manuel from Fawlty Towers – while recording a radio show. They [...]

The car crash

A woman and a man are involved in a car accident on a snowy, cold Monday morning; it’s a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished, but amazingly neither of them are hurt. God works in mysterious ways. After they crawl out of their cars, the man is yelling about women drivers. The [...]

European Army

Does anyone else see startling parallels with Palpatine’s line from Star Wars… I shall create a grand army of the republic… Perhaps its just me, but we seem to be heading that way. John Hutton has become the first person to back a French proposal to create a European army. John Hutton has become the [...]

Climate nonsense

I see from the BBC news website that a European space project (Kopernicus) which aims to launch a network of satellites to monitor the “health of the planet” will only be supported in part by the UK government. Although Britain says it recognises the project’s high value, especially for monitoring the climate, it has so [...]

Stolen car

A drunk walks out of a bar with a key in his hand and he is stumbling back and forth. A cop on the beat sees him and approaches, “Can I help you Sir?” “Yessh! Ssssomebody ssstole my carrr,” the man replies. The cop asks, “Where was your car the last time you saw it?” [...]

Rumours of my death…

Have been exaggerated. I’m still here, but have been more than a trifle busy of late. Most of the stuff I would normally be ranting and raving about has been covered quite comprehensively elsewhere, so I’ll get back up to speed with a quick round-up of the major stories so far. First off, another case [...]

Something funny

With all the troubles dogging the world, we all need to sit back and have a laugh sometimes. So, without further ado, I give you some failures: Some motivation: Some ideas for things to do when you happen to be at a loose end: And finally, an idea for lunch:

Just fucking stop

Please. Just. Fucking. Stop. We. Don’t. Want. Or. Need. Any. More. Databases. Got that? No? Oh. Grr. The government is considering spending a further £12bn of our money to create another massive database, which will be populated by MI5 and GCHQ as they monitor our internet usage and telephone conversations. They have already proven themselves [...]

Investment advice

We’ve all been affected by the events of the past few weeks, here is some sound financial advice for today’s markets: If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95. With HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50 £1000 invested in XL [...]