Aaron is not happy with Tory MP Anthony Steen… can’t say I blame him.  Hopefully the sound-player thingy will be embedded below to play the offending/offensive interview. I still can’t believe it is not a clever piece of satire cooked up by Chris Morris or someone like that.  His argument seems to be that the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Idiots'
Work for peanuts
February 12th, 2009 · 35 Comments · Politics
Apparently a group of Tory MPs are gathered in support of Christopher Chope’s 10 minute rule bill to, effectively, abolish the minimum wage. I find this absolutely breathtaking. It is wrapped up in some euphemism about ‘increasing employment opportunities’, but it boils down to allowing employers to pay as little as they can get away […]
Tags: Class Warfare·Idiots·Tories
Near Misses
February 11th, 2009 · Comments Off on Near Misses · Life
I saw these on teh news last night and could hardly believe how stupid/lucky these people were. A couple of the clips were so unlikely I just had to hunt them down on Youtube.   Unlikely as in: if a Hollywood film featured such a close shave you would think it too close to be realistic. […]
Graham Stringer
January 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
The most efficient responses to Graham Stringer’s bizarre outburst about dyslexia would be one word long. “Idiot” for example. Other responses could be book-length disections of his remarks. I’ll seek the middle ground on this one…
Tags: Education·Idiots·Medicine/Health
You Got That Right
October 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on You Got That Right · Life
It’s good to see that Match of the Day’s pundit Mark ‘Lawro’ Lawrenson can be as inane in writing as he is on air. He has a weekly feature on the BBC Sport website where he predicts the results for the week’s Premier League games.  For each game he gives some opinions and says what […]
Those evil buses
June 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics
It looks like I was falling short of 100% accuracy in an earlier post, when I was gobsmacked about the apparent wackiness of a local councillor in blaming the state of the roads on buses. Now I have seen the e-mails involved it is clear that I was taking two different people’s remarks and ascribing […]
The trouble with buses
June 10th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Politics
The other day I heard a story that amused me and depressed me in equal measure. Unfortunately it did not surprise me much. It went something like this:
Tags: Broadfield·Buses·Crawley Council·Idiots
Vandalism
February 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
Both of our local papers ran a particular story this week, the Observer had it on their front page. I would link to it but the Obby has a perverse strategy of not putting their front page story on the front page of their web site (or anywhere else that I can find). It was […]
Tags: Idiots·Local Papers
An easy mistake?
January 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics
Hats off to Tom Watson for pointing this out! It appears that his local (Tory) MEPs have a bit of trouble recognising their own constituency.
Tags: Birmingham·Doh!·Idiots·Tories
All aboard the Tex Express!
November 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Politics
According to the Argus “A councillor has won a battle to secure better public transport links between West Sussex and the new Eurostar station in London.” Well done to him… except he hasn’t. We already had perfectly good ones and he has persuaded TfL to provide the option of a worse one for anyone foolish […]
