I have been a little distracted from blogging over the past week by matters temporal, but have been keeping my eye on the lawless, crazy and often profane and sometimes witty World of Twitter. Below is a random selection of those tweets
Continue reading →Category Archives: Silliness
Skiing Down the Angel Escalator
Yesterday evening, I asked in the comments for favourite Underground videos.
This is one of mine. A sensible gent who is late for work skis down the escalator at the Angel tube station, which
Continue reading →When the flan hit the shit (caption competition)
The Register have a model explanation of what really happened when Rupert and James Murdoch were examined by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.
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Northern Wisdom from Mr Ed
Another hard-hitting interview from political heavyweight Ed Miliband. Voice-sync Wallace and Gromit, without the Cheese, may get slightly
Continue reading →Hari Potter
Some silliness for a Sunday Evening. Young Wizards Hari Potter and Johann Hari look surprisingly similar. Johann Hari has remarked about interviewees thinking he
Continue reading →Iâm still in love with Gildas, Baby
Dear brothers and sisters,
As many of you may know, I have long considered that I am a SPECIAL friend of one of the occasional contributors to this blog, namely GILDAS THE MONK. However, I must confess
Continue reading →Password Problem or User Problem?
Anna was all over people being silly with their passwords yesterday, in the serious context of phone hacking at the News of the World.
But do you remember *this* episode?
Health and Safety Vision On
Revisit your childhood as Vision On – that iconic kids art show from the 60s and 70s – returns…with a twist. This is from the same maker as the video I posted previously. 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 →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 →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 →
Anhedonia
Hello the blog.
Iâve started a new secret project; itâs the homework for my âIncrease your Wordpowerâ course. Iâve got to get as many
Continue reading →Now we are Nyx – Life as a Journalistic Goddess
Hello, the blog.
Itâs been a very strange few months. Things have
Continue reading →Picture Caption Contest.
Just think, if all the footballers in all the world kept their dongle in their trousers, we could have saved an entire rain forest from being cut down to provide news paperâ¦..
Continue reading →Laurie Penny going round in circles over the Spanish Revolution
This morning, Laurie Penny our fearless investigative reporter set out to research the stories covered by the papers, taking grave personal risk to read the Internet. ![]()
And a detailed Continue reading →
And a detailed Continue reading → Could be a serial killer?
The Right Wing Radio Duck conspiracy
[Update: I’m having a couple of problems embedding video, so I’ve used links.] The best “patchwork” video I have even seen – one constructed from a montage of sources – is “Right Wing Radio Duck”, where “Donald Duck Continue reading →
Great Inventions of Our Time – Halogen Bulb Taker-Outer
We’ve all seen it; those kitchens where they’ve caved in to the idea of environmental friendliness by combining a half-arsed version of “but halogen bulbs are more earth-friendly than the ones that were banned” with “I
Continue reading →Removing dictators
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 →Sound of music
Flash Mob!
Letâs leave aside the political and moral maze. Letâs see what can be done with the Sound of Music, a train Station in Belgium, and some very silly people. Get your speakers turned up, sit
Continue reading →Proofreading is a dying art
Proofreading is a dying art, wouldn’t you say? I should say that I am no expert at grammer or spelling and use the tools available to ensure I don’t make too many mistakes but it’s easy to miss the
Continue reading →How to handle interviews
In the light of MP Kerry McCarthy saying that she was misquoted in a sunday newspaper about the call to DNA test every male in the Bristol and surrounding areas here is a Continue reading → Happiness
So the goverment wants to find out how happy the country is via statistics. Dry statistics will never show the state of happiness of the country. It it is too ephemeral.
Happiness is
Continue reading →I Present The Anarcho-Dandyist Ball
Gentlefolk, The Chap Magazine, in association with Bourne & Hollingsworth, puts its bestbrogue forward to stage the yearâs most dapper shindig. This ânight of a
thousand waistcoatsâ will give followers of Continue reading →