The other night I watched a programme about Salvador Dali. Sort of. I mean, it was about him; his name was in the title and was what would have drawn an audience, but it was also about Jack Bond who made a film about Dali in 1965. The programme was presented, written and directed by [...]
Entries Tagged as 'WTF'
Mega Piranha
March 17th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life
Conscious that I am failing miserably to watch more TV this year, I watched a few programmes I had recorded on V+ tonight, including the nail-biting quarter-final of University Challenge between Oxford Brookes and York. After that I had a quick look on the EPG and saw that the film Mega Piranha was just starting [...]
Mistaken identity
March 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
Today the BBC website has a story of police idiocy on a par with when the Irish police had Prawo Jazdy at the top of their most-wanted list. Basically, the police an address more than 40 times in 18 months by mistake. It seems they were getting calls to a house in Repton Grove but [...]
Steampunk Palin
January 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Life, Politics
Some things are so absolutely bonkers they defy description, and I think that Steampunk Palin must be one of those things, though Comics Alliance have a go at it. They say: If you consider yourself a devoted gatherer of such oddities, your collection is not complete without it. But that does not diminish the fact [...]
Adding insult to injury
January 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Life
I came home to find that while I was at work the internet was buzzing about an article Liz Jones wrote in the Mail on Sunday, with most of the fun happening with the Twitter hashtag #lizjonesreports attached to it. Do read the article.  It is unbelievably bad. The Daily Mash tried to spoof it, [...]
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IBM 1401 A User’s Manual
January 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Music
The other day an album title on Spotify caught my eye amongst the 2010 releases: And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees by somebody called Johann Johannsson, another of those crazy Icelanders. I had a little listen and it wasn’t really my kind of thing, or maybe I just wasn’t in [...]
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Confusing headline
September 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
The BBC News website had a link to a story with the headline Research widens height gene hunt. It took a while for my poor old brain to drag any sense out of it. Subconsciously I was isolating ‘gene hunt’ as the character from Life on Mars and being left with something widening height. The [...]
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Montana woman fights bear with courgette
September 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
A very eye-catching headline from the BBC News website - Montana woman fights bear with courgette.  It is almost impossible to not click on it to read the story, which is worth doing because it includes this: The woman, whom police have not named, grabbed the closest object – a courgette from her garden – [...]
George Osborne: what a cock!
September 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
The Daily Mail website has a story about ‘Osborne’s plans to hit workshy’. Scroll down to the bottom and there is this remarkable image. Not the first time I have looked at the DM website and felt like clawing my eyes out, and it won’t be the last I am sure.
Love bomb
August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Life
President Ahmadinejad has unveiled Iran’s new weapon: a UAV which can carry 500 pounds of bomb and drop it 620 miles away. He says that ‘the key message is friendship’. So its a friendly 500-pound bomb?  He also said: This jet is a messenger of honour and human generosity and a saviour of mankind, before [...]
