Stupid Things I Have Seen

So this morning, B was on our one working computer for a couple of hours, leaving me to twiddle my thumbs in front of the telly. Flicking through the Freeview channels in search of something vaguely resembling intelligent entertainment (and failing), I found myself immersed in a hitherto unknown world. For instance, there are whole […]

From: Metro Quantum physics is all about things making patterns – fractals that you can draw. You can see the same patterns in a snail’s shell as you see in the stars in the universe. It’s as if they’re the same. Astrology is about patterns in time. There are times when i despair of my […]

….this morning on BBC News24, an Israeli settler woman who had just been removed from the Gaza. She was interviewed standing outside a bungalow, with all her furniture and possessions pile up both inside and outside. She was telling the interviewer how disgraceful it was that she had been given a house that was far […]

On TV this morning, Germaine Greer complaining “There is absolutely nothing to buy in the shops that I can wear!”. Well dear, that was a very nice set of clothes you were wearing – congratulations on being such a superb needlewoman! Grrrr, why do women who complain that they have absolutely nothing to wear always […]

…..the American woman who paid $50K to have her dead cat cloned. This is so brain-numbingly idiotic that I just can’t add anything to it…

…..this morning, on BBC news, an interview with a writer who had produced a volume explaining the origins of common English phrases such as “hair of the dog” and “white elephant”. The two presenters were in awe of his knowledge, amazed at his erudition, gobsmacked at the many hours of study and research evident in […]

This was on the TV (OK, much of what is on TV these days is stupid – witness the supermarket PR woman this morning explaining to viewers how to read the ingredients lists on food packets). The programme was something about obesity in Britain today; the picture they were illustrating this piece with was a […]

Time: This afternoon. Location: Driving into town along a twisty little country road. In front of us, a small Fiat car; in the back of which, sitting on the parcel shelf, was a dog. A medium-size terrier, evidently enjoying itself, sitting up, moving around, taking up most of the window-space. A live nodding-dog. With a […]