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So the Large Hadron Collider got switched on this morning (and we’re all still here!). I was watching it on BBC News24; after the switchon, the presenter began…
The AQA exam board has withdrawn a poem from its anthology for GCSE English, after receiving a grand total of three complaints that it encouraged knife crime. The…
All this week, BBC TV News has been congratulating itself on exposing an illegal immigration ring bringing in Pakistani workers, supplying them with fake documents and putting them…
….I click my way through to Prophesies.us, where any anonymous nutter (almost entirely American, to judge from the posts) can post their predictions. Today, I spotted this gem…
Oh dear. Sometimes, you wonder why people don’t see the obvious… Apparently this is a genuine lightswitch sold to devoted Catholics, and not photoshopped. From Pharyngula:
We have a golf course just down the road; I pass it every time I walk into the village. Walking slowly, as I do, I have plenty of…
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….
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…
……pinned up in in the local Post Office this morning: FOR SALE Mountain Bike. Used once, 6 months old; Elliptical Exercise Bike, 6 months old; Magnetic Exercise Bike,…
….on the A75 to Dumfries: A pub sign saying “LIVE PIANIST ON SUNDAYS!” Good job too – a dead one would pong up the place something awful. A…