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 reading out text and emails from the public. The very first one was, I swear to the Whatever: “Are these scientists trying to disprove the existence of […]
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Stupid Things I Have Seen
The AQA exam board has withdrawn a poem from its anthology for GCSE English, after receiving a grand total of three complaints that it encouraged knife crime.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 poem, Education for Leisure, by renowned poet Carol Ann Duffy is written from the POV of a disturbed, alienated teenager. It starts with the line: “Today I […]
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 to work as cheaply-paid undocumented labour. Good investigative journalism, and the highlight was a secretly filmed interview with a gang member boasting of how it was no […]
….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 on their front page, from Feb 22nd: IN the last couple of nights Right before I begin to fall a sleep,I begin to feel a sense of […]
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 time to observe the members in their car park getting ready for the game. This particular golfer was evidently anticipating an especially arduous round of golf. Having […]
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 […]
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’. This reported how […]
……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, 6 months old; Phone XXXXXXX Somewhere, I hear the tinkling sound of broken New Year resolutions…….
….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 tank (the military kind) sitting on a layby, covered in tarps and camo netting. With a couple of totally uncamoflaged military-issue chemical bogs standing alongside it.