It seems that the benefit claimants can have the cost of having their tattoos removed paid for by Job Center Plus if it means that they might get a job. It’s already been done in 2002
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How to say NO2EU
Mark Wadsworth has listed a series of points that could be used by a future YES2EU campaign based on the same idea that the NO2AV campaign used to push the FPTP system.
In other
Continue reading →Toilet equality
Seat up or seat down. Women want it down. Men want it up (ooo-err missus).
Feminists have made a huge issue out of toilets seats. They say that men who don’t care about their fellow earth
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Abbottabad was named after an Englishman, British Army officer General Sir James Abbott
Hookworms, a cure for asthma?
Warmenist is a proper word.
Everything
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Recently a friend of ours lost her mother.
Her mother lived at home, but had a care assistant come round regularly so our friend knew her mother was in safe hands. A neighbour also checked occasionally.
Continue reading →DIY Journalism
I went on about the quality of journalism in a previous article of mine. Here I’ll show you how easy it is to actually do it yourself. I’m no journalist so this is not
Continue reading →30,000
A minor milestone was passed recently. This blog has just had its 30,000 comment.
In the 2 and bit years that this blog has been going since its Continue reading →
DM Level Science
Sometimes I wonder what the journalists at the Daily Mail are smoking. Many a time I can see that they write their stories to be populist and written to bring out the base instincts and emotions
Continue reading →Colon: the Barbarian?
After recent contentious developments it’s time to lower the tone slightly and talk about my bottom.
You see, alongside my friend and occasional poster Randy Hack I too have been
Continue reading →Looks can be deceiving
Do As I Say
Previously I highlighted the case of a politician actually being quite normal and in effect saying do I as do, not as say.
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Do As I Do
One politician has just turned into a human being. Norman Baker has shown that he is normal.
Everyone knows that whenever a politician spouts some diktat it is always on the basis
Continue reading →DIY money making scheme
There’s a new scheme about. One that could net you £1000 for doing nothing. The catch? You have to be a tenant in social housing.
Housing minister Grant Shapp has launched this new scheme.
Continue reading →I have a dream
I always thought that the Daily Mail was the newspaper to go to for the unusual made up stories, ones where I’m sure I dreaming they are sometimes so weird. This being more the case after
Continue reading →Fire – fire – fire – Oops!
So super sophisticated jet fighters are worried enough by small arms fire to return fire and straffe a whole column of cars and kill a dozen people. Small arms fire that can reach a Continue reading →
Taijou
After the huge earthquake loads of foreigners are leaving Japan. Encouraged into panic mode by their respective governments telling them to leave because of the dangers of radiation poisoning.
When you have the
Continue reading →St Patrick’s Day
Whilst it’s still St Patrick’s day (only just and for those of you reading this on Friday why weren’t you up reading this during the night with the dozen other readers), I thought it would be
Continue reading →Lord Nanny
As a sign of how far the nanny state has encroached into the consciousness of the country it’s not just the general public who think that they should be told what to do by the state, it’s members
Continue reading →How to fill in the census form
As many of you will have received your census form in the last few days, I thought it might be worthwhile giving you a guide into how to fill in the form.
Some
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Mineral Oil causes Cancer
OMG! Mineral oils will give you cancer, you will have organ failures, your body contains this contaminant at levels 100 of times recommended guidelines. All this coming from a green product. Recycled cardboard used in packaging
Continue reading →Unintended Consequences
As I have mentioned in my previous article on the census, I don’t believe that there is much of a case for it to be used in
Continue reading →Census lottery
The accuracy of the census has been called into question by various councils. This is because their budgets are calculated based on the figures from the census. They are worried that the census might not count
Continue reading →Useful idiots
“London School of Useful Idiots” 1
The best description yet of left wing intellectuals who might have lots of intelligence but no common sense, no reason and no morals. They are so keen on supporting
Continue reading →Equality insurance
The European Court of Justice has just announced their decision on the case of whether insurers are allowed to take into account sex as one of the many risk factors they use in
Continue reading →Thought crimes
Tony Blair’s legacy and what being progressive and demanding equality for all leads to.
- Countryside Restoration Trust chairman and columnist Robin Page said at a rally against the Government’s anti-hunting laws in Gloucestershire Continue reading →
Porn
I’ve delayed this post till the weekend for obvious reasons. For many it probably wouldn’t get past your workplace’s firewall so I’ll leave it
Continue reading →Magnificent specimens
A whole avenue of trees have been destroyed. They’ve been chopped down and burnt. And the culprit who got rid of them? The National Trust. The organisation that is supposed to be saving the British heritage has killed
Continue reading →Hookahs & H&S
A 19 yr old was fined £2,000 for breaking Health & Safety laws. For smoking a hookah next to gas cylinders at his workplace. He also suffered burns and had to pay £2000 costs.
The company had already received
Continue reading →Weird fact of the day
Have you heard of the banana equivalent dose (BED)?
It’s the dose of radiation from bananas that can be compared to other sources of radiation to make the figures more understandable. So
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