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People Are Weird (Pt. 2,780,009)
Man who had sex with bike in court
A man has been placed on the sex offenders’ register after being caught trying to have sex with a bicycle.
Robert Stewart was discovered in his room by two cleaners at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr, south west Scotland, in October last year.
On Wednesday Mr Stewart admitted to [...]
Are You An Aspie?
Could You Have Aspergers Syndrome?
My score:
Your Aspie score: 153 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 40 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
This is the best online quiz to test for possible AS traits that I’ve found (despite one or two odd questions, such as “Do you like watching rodeo-riders?”; that one is experimental apperently [...]
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Surveys…
I do a lot of online surveys and opinion polls. Some of them pay cash or redeemable points, some give me entries in prize draws. The money isn’t anyone’s idea of a fortune, but it helps.
Going through the questions each time, it’s clear to me that most of these surveys reflect some ad [...]
Typical…..
For months, I’ve been getting steadily more tired and breathless; and I’ve been waking up with a dull, throbbing headache, every single morning without fail. So I took myself along to see Doc G yesterday; he couldn’t find anything obviously wrong, so he booked me in for lots of tests.
This morning, I wake up [...]
Scamming the McCanns….
In an earlier post, I related how I got so peed off with the ignorant credulity of the Independent on Sunday’s science writing that I switched to the Observer. Yesterday’s front page story gave me cause to start rethinking my decision:
Forensic DNA tests ‘reveal traces of Madeleine’s body on resort beach’. [...]
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Blast….
…my eyes are playing up again. I’d left off putting in the twice-daily eyedrops about a week ago, thinking that maybe the dry eyes thing was just a temporary phase.
But it’s not – yesterday I woke up with blurred sight, barely able to read anything. So the day was spent lying on the sofa, [...]

Alas, I Am Healthy….