Budget Free Zone
After the most hyped, leaked, and analysed budget in history, the climax is torporific……zzzzzzzz.
The Raccoon Arms is hereby declared a budget free zone tonight.
Talk about Liz Taylor, parvo-virus in seals, your plans to power Birmingham with racks of cycling MPs, how you met your first wife at a Christian Aid conference in Kazakhstan, the ambient temperature in lower Tibet, anything you like – I’ll grin and bear it.
Whinge about savage cuts in the budget and you’re barred for a week.
Right, the first round’s on me – what’ll you have?
What was that plane doing in Tripoli?
March 23, 2011 at 23:13
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Apparently, our submarines in the Mediterranian are running out of
missiles, and there’s some debate about where they get some more from.
Somebody on Guido’s blog earlier suggested the MOD try Ebay, because delivery
is usually about four days instead of the usual ten-year defence procurement
time. It’s either that, or borrow some from the Yanks; obviously, we’d have to
get the right-hand drive versions, so the matelots on the subs may have to do
some swift rebuilding if the Yanks only have left-hand drive, or heaven knows
where they’d end up if we fired them.
- March 23, 2011 at 21:59
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Love that clapping raccoon. Right. Off to my late might radio..
- March 23, 2011 at 23:11
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Is it the radio with the Uzi or you? Might makes right. Or summat.
- March 23, 2011 at 23:17
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I like the clapping Raccoon as well, but have you noticed it’s not as
good looking as Anna?
- March 24, 2011 at 06:59
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March 23, 2011 at 21:37
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In the face of general tedium and poverty of both the nation and political
debate, I shoved out nearly 2 hours of “forced march” on the treadmill,
weights and punch bag. Felt much better after.
Am I alone in thinking
Osborne would do better if he had a cigar and a scotch beforehand, and wasn’t
9?
- March 23, 2011 at 21:32
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Radio has been off since 6.30 am. Occasional breaks, but mostly
successful.
Despite that I have learned that Tracy from Brecon is £2.50 per
year worse off, and some oil companies who are making money hand over fist in
a rising market are cutting up rough. My heart bleeds.
Thank you Spotify
for Vaughan Williams, and Martina from Bulgaria for having such a distracting
web cam.
Also, Elizabeth Taylor was stunning and rather tragic, I think. My
mum used to be mistaken for her and stopped in the street. True.
Randy
- March 24, 2011 at 10:41
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So this is where you’ve been hiding. I knew I would track you down
eventually.
Get back home this instant, your bedroom needs cleaning.
- March 23, 2011 at 21:13
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Looking back at Elizabeth Taylor, I’m struck by how really beautiful she
was.
- March 23, 2011 at 20:03
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Japan is no longer newsworthy in the MSM. I suppose it’s been going on
longer than the attention span of a gnat, so deemed uninteresting now.
Thousands of people are still living in shelters, or rough, with insufficient
food and warmth.
Now Tokyo tap water is unsuitable for babies, so more
panic ensues. (I regret I did my part for panic last week, by highlighting the
worst-case outcomes for the spent fuel rods – oops.) But how any radioactive
iodine131 has reached Tokyo’s drinking water sources is a mystery, as the
small amount released was mainly blown out to sea. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/23/tokyo_tapwater_fukushima/
- March 23, 2011 at 20:42
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The story started to involve maths and critical thinking rather than
feelings, so our fearless “journalists” storyline was no longer interesting
to them, they packed up their man-purses and keffiyehs and retreated to
North London.
- March 23, 2011 at 19:09
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Meanwhile a nuclear powered icebreaker and no less than eleven diesel
powered icebreakers are busy freeing an awful lot of ships from some
unexpected global warming in the Gulf Of Finland.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/03/nuke-to-rescue.html
- March 23, 2011 at 18:02
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Interesting times.
Obama has upset a major part of the appeaser-wing of the democrat party
with his Libya decision and has to rush home to appease the appeasers, talks
of impeachment in the air. He will be busy, the left will be too pre-occupied
and divided to concentrate on international happenings.
Syria has major problems maintaining control of its population, Egypt is
under army rule and they don’t need another fight, Lebanon is playing
pat-a-cake with the camoron and the neandertals in Gaza are getting
uppity.
Will Israel finally solve its biggest recent mistake and historical
pain-in-the-ass and sweep into Gaza? They will never see a better
opportunity.
- March 23, 2011 at 19:53
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Don’t tell anyone and keep this between me and you but it is all the way
to Tehran this year. Well it is for the Air Force anyway.
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March 23, 2011 at 20:34
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That would be the Israeli air force I hope, any NATO/OTAN project seems
to end in farce.
I have great respect for the Israeli’s but an attack on Iran would be
extraordinarily ill-advised now they are a nuclear power courtesy of the
UN. Better they keep using their low grade assasination squads to take out
key players.
Obambi had his chance at regime change last year in Iran when the riots
were in full swing, where were the camoron and obambi then?
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March 23, 2011 at 17:57
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I once checked into a Wolverhampton motel with a 6’3″ pre-op MTF
transsexual using a a suspect credit card.
Too weird?
- March 23, 2011 at 18:00
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IN Wolverhampton, I doubt if anyone noticed.
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March 23, 2011 at 18:13
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Really? what was the BBC journalist reporting on?
- March 23, 2011 at 19:35
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I remember that weekend well, I was working as a camera man at the
BBC we were investigating the lack of representation of the ethnic
minorities, Islam and transsexuals in the state school curriculum
dealing with the history of the royal family. Scandalously being taught
in our schools at GCSE level.
This was the follow up the the Panorama investigation into
Islamaphobia in Ancient Rome and the truth that Greek and Roman Empires
were actually inspired by Muhammads Birth nearly a
Millennium in the
future.
(You did say anything!)
- March 23, 2011 at 18:36
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Was s/he the stripper who used to appear as a particularly seedy
nightclub in same said city? I have a dim memory of red latex
underpants.
- March 24, 2011 at 05:47
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Nah, he used to work for that Wolverhampton Escort Agency called ‘Cyn
& Joy’. So it is alleged. The red latex underpants you refer to were
worn by a strapping young lady who once worked in the Spearmint Rhino.
- March 23, 2011 at 17:54
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Pizza delivery?
No “Earth Hour” knitted lentil and free range yohurt
shirt for me, the lights will definitely be burning brightly for Human
Achievement Hour.
TTFN
- March 23,
2011 at 17:52
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“how you met your first wife at a Christian Aid conference in Kazakhstan,
”
Oh my god! I must be living a double life, I thought we met at Essex
University while I was writing up a physics practical.
- March 23, 2011 at 17:23
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If I turn off my arthritic cat’s electric heater during Earth Hour, will
the RSPCA come round and get me? And under which Article should I defend
myself and my rights?
- March 23, 2011 at 17:59
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Had you considered fitting the cat with a treadmill, or even solar
panels, so that it could power the heater itself?
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March 23, 2011 at 18:34
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Treadmills require some degree of motion. Solar panels, eh? Someone’s
missing a trick in EcoLand on that opportunity. So many animals, so much
unused space…
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March 23, 2011 at 17:16
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What was that Egyptian interior ministry fire about? A bit convenient
perhaps? Didn’t realise filing cabinets were so flammable.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12822397
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