Note to mate from the pub over the weekend. Should we be watching highlights of the Six Nations Rugby on the telly in the pub, and discussing how well the respective teams have performed in the tournament, and you aren’t quite sure what I have said, it would seem more logical to assume that I [...]

I had really, really hoped that I would like the novel The Amateurs, by John Niven, as I’d been given a copy in exchange for a review on the blog. Fortunately for me, the comedy was strong with this one. On the one hand, it was a book about golf, which isn’t generally my kind [...]

I found Steve over at Very True Things had taken a personality test to see what sort of person he was. So natch, I had to give it a go. I failed, I only got 37%, so apparently I’ve not got a personality. Naah, just joshing chief, apparently I’m an ENTP, a visionary, although it [...]

I don’t have a category for stupidity, but it’s things like this that make me think maybe I ought to have one. Particularly since I could put my post about my previous post about the cocaine smuggling girls in it. Anyway, back to the new idiotic travellers. Found over at The Telegraph, Telegraph Travel — [...]

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.Evelyn Beatrice Hall (Wikiquote) I was invited to join a Facebook group called “muslim protesters fuck off out of britain if your not proud of OUR SOLDIERS”. I declined. I presume that the rationale behind this group is [...]

I was going to save this one for the Goldfish’s BADD, but as that is usually in May, and it’s only March now, I didn’t really think that I’d remember about it. A few days ago, I noticed an article on the BBC News which was about someone with Down’s syndrome: Otto Baxter is 21 [...]

One of the things about the restaurant reviews you see in newspapers and magazines is that they are always for places like The Fat Duck which, while I would quite like to give it a go were I to become somewhat rich, are somewhat out of my price range at something like one hundred and [...]

The Local Government Association (LGA) would like to see some of the above words (‘blue-sky’) etc banned from council use, having sent out a list of 200 words and phrases to councils around the country that they would really rather they didn’t use. For the most part this appears to be because they are in [...]

Thanks to Mike Pickard for correctly identifying that this is the sort of thing that I would be interested in and pointing me in the direction of twitalyzer. Can you hear me say Yay! Pointless statistics about twitter! Twitalyzer breaks down your Twitter feed into five categories: Influence, Signal, Generosity, Velocity and Clout. Influence is [...]

I’m beginning to wonder if I’ve talked myself into a corner on this one. Am I now morally obliged to stand as an MEP? Read on… One of my most frequent complaints about the government of the country is the fact that people are not so much disillusioned with politics, they are disillusioned with party [...]