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, […]
Entries Tagged as 'WTF'
Adding insult to injury
January 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on Adding insult to injury · Life
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IBM 1401 A User’s Manual
January 6th, 2011 · Comments Off on IBM 1401 A User’s Manual · 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 · Comments Off on Confusing headline · 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 · Comments Off on Montana woman fights bear with courgette · 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 · Comments Off on Love bomb · 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 […]
Outbreaks of perversity
July 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
A couple of news stories today that caught my eye. First of all from the Telegraph: Transvestite had sex with a dog at English Heritage castle and then closer to home there is the Lewes knob-poster. Just a couple of comments and observations to make.
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A glitch in the matrix
June 15th, 2010 · Comments Off on A glitch in the matrix · Music, Technology
According to Spotify’s ‘related artists’ feature, “users who listen to Nightwish also listen to… “ Within Temptation, Disturbed, Iron Maiden, Linkin Park, Rammstein, Bullet for my Valentine, System of a Down and… um…  Enya. They are not wrong though. I saw the name and thought, yeah. Haven’t heard any Enya for years, let’s have a […]
Only two weeks to go
April 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Politics
Yes it is only two weeks until the big wobbly sausage! If that makes it sound like I am losing my marbles a bit, I refer you to this story in the Telegraph, specifically the end bit.
Subheadline of the week
March 18th, 2010 · Comments Off on Subheadline of the week · Life
I can’t find any way to read this story from The Register without my mind boggling. The headline is eye-catching enough (Florida woman prangs car while shaving her privates) but the subheadline is pure genius.
