This nightmare that I had
woke up in the hospital suite
And thought “my, this is worse than bad”
just where on earth did I meet
That chick with whom I share this room?
Champagne’s inappropriate
right now and so are those balloons
got no cause
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Open Thread!
Matt and I are very busy with real life issues. I personally am working 12 hour days to a tight deadline so cannot put in much into writing articles to keep you lot occupied. So please talk amongst yourselves.
Say anything,
Continue reading →Snow Globes
Continue reading → Hacked-off Hackers.
Back in the dark ages, well, 40 years ago, there was a ‘private club’ in the Walworth Road known as the Crusaders. It was a long dark room, lined with mirrors; mirrored balls sparkled overhead, tables stretched
Continue reading →Risky Business
You see headlines like “Bacon increases your risk of cancer by 20%”, “One extra unit of alcohol a day increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer by 12%” and “Two units a day reduces the risk of heart disease by
Continue reading →Media Googlewhacking
Googlewhacker
A Googlewhack is a search in Google for a pair of real words which results in exactly one result, in a human-written webpage. I
Continue reading →Raccoongate? No way, José!
Hello my darlings! It’s been an eventful week. Action packed as they say, and Ms Raccoon has a fight on her hands; fear not, we will win.
So, pour yourself a drink, make it a double;
Continue reading →Drive to Distraction
Learn how to avoid death when crossing your drive by implementing a handful of common sense safeguards. Even non-existent risk must be mitigated.
Continue reading →Crimewatcher
Crimewatcher
Good Evening and Welcome to CRIMEWATCHER. On tonight’s show we will be exposing a fraud so massive that it has affected everyone
Continue reading →Census 2011 – Hacked? Nope!
Another Census 2011 post to complement my previous post (one of the top read posts on AR). It seems from certain sections of the media that the census results have been hacked.
They are
Continue reading →How Rory McIllroy learnt his golf
The 22 year-old winner of the US Open, Rory McIllroy, appeared on Ulster TV when he was 9 years old, to demonstrate how he practiced. There’s
Continue reading →Very Short Parish Notice
Parish Notice
For the next couple of weeks SadButMadLad and me will be handling some of the site admin, working with the other contributors.
Roughly, SadButMadLad is handling site admin issues, and I’m dealing
Continue reading →Huffington Post – more Bikini Babes than the Daily Mail
Bikini Attack
The three top English Language news websites in North America last month were the Huffington Post, The New
Continue reading →Juan Sheet
Juan replaces Brenda and Audrey as icons for the kitchen towel product Plenty, which was called Bounty.
Does the company know what they are doing with changing the name of the product and
Continue reading →Covert Recording accepted in Evidence by Appeal Court
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2 Cows
- Socialism: You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbour.
- Communism: You have 2 cows. The state takes both and gives you some milk.
- Fascism: You have 2 cows. The state takes both Continue reading →
Caption contest – Advertising Ewe-turns.
I can see this catching on – imagine the M40 running through the Labour strongholds in the Rhonda Valley, lined with bleating manifesto promises. Politicians really will be able to eat their words once the count is
Continue reading →Bugging Bugarach.
Life as the Maire of a small French commune can be onerous. You are a self contained one-man social services department, with responsibility for the welfare of all the inhabitants. An adult literacy department, with responsibility for
Continue reading →Won’t talk to bloggers, no more, no more
Miss Margate 1968
We live in interesting times for independent news media. The regional media has been in crisis for years, and councils which used to run their own newspapers have been slapped
Continue reading →Ed Balls in Fantasia
In his “Speech for the Alternative” the Sorcerer’s Apprentice Economic Wizard
Out Damn Wart!
A SECURITY guard from South Yorkshire shot himself in the hand to try to remove a wart from his finger.
No point in aiming at his foot when the wart was on his finger, was
Continue reading →Fat Boy Fiction.
One of the failings of the European Union is in its attempt to convince us that we are all the same, just human beings. We are not – and nothing divides us more than our sense of
Continue reading →Protecting the Vulnerable?
The recent case of Steven Neary is the tip of the iceberg. Mark Neary is to be commended for winning his case, but the grim truth is that he is an exception and not the rule.
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Disinterring Old Arguments.
I make no apologies for keeping the corpse of the euthanasia/assisted suicide argument hanging around the bar today; if the stench is unpleasant and disagreeable to you, so be it. It’ll be your stench one day, you can’t live
Continue reading →The Right to put your family through Hell?
I freely admit I didn’t watch the Terry Pratchett documentary on the Right to Die. At the last minute I voted in favour of a quiet glass of wine with Mr G in the setting sun. It
Continue reading →Quote of the Decade…
“Of course there is and always has been a role for anonymous quotes in journalism. But whereas it used to be that the balance of probability was that they were genuine, I think these days the balance
Continue reading →Freebies on offer, roll up, roll up!
I’ve been doing well this week – first Stuart Fairney’s book arrived in the post, then an advance copy of a riveting DVD. ‘Inside Job’.
It genuinely is a riveting DVD; it’s well
Continue reading →The Bearded Lady.
There is nothing the Western world of bleeding heart liberals likes more than tales of oppressed women and oppressed homosexuals. Oppressed women who are also homosexual, and have been seized by armed men, and hustled into large
Continue reading →Anhedonia
Hello the blog.
I’ve started a new secret project; it’s the homework for my “Increase your Wordpower” course. I’ve got to get as many
Continue reading →Libertarian-bodice rippers.
Stuart Fairney sent me his new book, ‘Single Acts of Tyranny’, to read last week. Until I forced myself to read the Millennium trilogy a few weeks ago, I hadn’t read a novel in years.
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