Showing posts with label Just stupid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Just stupid. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 06, 2026

When Art Comes to the Crunch

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Source: The Guardian  I am at somewhat of a loss as to how to cover this story, which I inexplicably missed when it was published back in Ju...
Friday, April 25, 2025

Dr Commuter Helps Out ... Biscuit Lovers Everywhere

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 Dr. Commuter writes: Millions of people suffer from a debilitating, mysterious and taboo affliction. Spoken of in hushed tones, if at all, ...
Sunday, March 02, 2025

That's What I Call History

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 "Daddy, daddy, today in school we learned all about Queen Victoria" "And what did you learn, my dear?" "She was pl...
Monday, February 24, 2025

Meanwhile, at the Large Mammal Collider...

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 I have long been fascinated by physics. The concepts of quarks and gluons, quantum entanglement, photons streaking across the universe for ...
Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Some Frites With Your Branch, M'sieur?

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     source: The Independent      Let's make the most of this one -&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-&-   ...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Aurora Sensation or not, as the case may be

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 I had thought that the idiocy of local news stories featuring enticing headlines, followed by little more than what we serious journalists ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Shock! Horror! Local!!

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 Now that my friends at Google know I live in Warwickshire, they are keen to flag up stories of local interest to me and today a snippet fro...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

They're Out There. Aren't They? I Mean, They Must Be.

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 A recently-published scientific paper has caused some interest amidst those who believe there are alien civilisations watching us and indee...

Election 2024 - Sunak: The Riches to Riches Story

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 The news story overshadowing the launch of various party manifestos is the astonishing revelation of prime minister Rishi Sunak, who has la...
Sunday, June 09, 2024

The Blight of the Lawyer

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 I reproduce a news story in the Daily Telegraph that is sparking so many ideas in my head I can barely sit still - see if you concur This ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Grotesque Exaggeration of the Week

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 At the conclusion of the Mastermind 2023 series on BBC Two earlier this week, presenter Clive Myrie declared that the achievement of the wi...
Sunday, December 04, 2022

Parting the Waves

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 One of the minor joys of the past couple of years has been following the YouTube videos put up by a handful of camera operators based at Ru...
Friday, July 08, 2022

Chat Show Fame, Here We Come

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 I received the following missive on the horrible direct messaging system that Facebook employs, Messenger. It is from somebody I don't ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Patronising Tweet of the Day

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 This little gem appeared on my Twitter feed the other day How awfully kind of those nice chaps and lady chaps at Mastercard (an organisatio...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Pointless Tweet of the Day

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 I make very little use of Twitter. I mainly follow my local football club and a few individuals whose tweets interest or amuse me. But I ha...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

The Uxbridge Effect

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 One must feel sympathy for the hapless family who found their dream holiday in Cornwall metamorphosed into something unusual - a hotel in s...
Friday, August 06, 2021

Taking the pss

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 Many years ago I took out a personal pension through a well-known institution in the market - Standard Life. In 2006 it floated on the Lond...
Friday, April 16, 2021

1000 UP!

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 This is the 1000th post. It's taken more than 16 years. Some might think I should mark this solemn moment with carefully worded reflect...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

The Civil Servants and the Time Warp

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 Those of us of a certain age and with particular interests in popular software have been having a quiet chuckle as some of the details buri...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

The Knitware of the Baskervilles

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Stories about large wild animals roaming around the British countryside crop up regularly. Monsters in lochs. Big cats in Surrey and the ...