Adulterated food, baiting the poor and/or sick for entertainment, bomb-chucking by counter-revolutionary forces, mass measles outbreaks, startling disparity in earnings...

... Could we just stop this crazy-type modernist neo-victorian themepark malarkey and go back to never having it so good because there isn't a war on?

( Thumping great image )

Boo. For a stupid set of reasons (While I like pottering in the garden-thing, I don't much care for the feeling of being observed doing same. Since we live in a terrace, this feeling is near permanent and yes I know at some level that no-one gives a bugger, but when I'm somewhat tired I don't want to be able to feel another mind within a half-mile ( Read more... )

This is well mencap.

However, the truly mindbending thing is that every blasted link is now impossible to discern from satire.

In other news, all that 'My little Kony' malarkey that has enthralled the mob-justice-oriented section of The Intarbets reaches its inevitable conclusion.

In short: YHBT. HTH. HAND.

Well, picture singular.

I was probably thinking about post-punk in this one.

As mentioned here it is the 21st century and I am hacking a brain interface ( Read more... )

It seems that the shiny new c0dez for c0mments has escaped. It appears to be exactly as web2.0 as one might expect, in that it seems to take up more space (but can't because usericon sizes won't have changed overnight) and is missing keyboard shortcuts (because we is all prodding at screens with chubby digits like toddlers wanting things now ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I read Brighton Rock, but all that seemed to be missing this weekend was Kolley Kibber and people waving opened tins of Vitriol.

227mph in a Skoda. Fine stuff.

(There are something like seven parts of a couple of minutes each, which is a bit tiresome.)

It is also refreshing to see random rugby-shirted English chaps (you know the type.) not being entirely useless around cars. Being a bit useless in the Topgear style does not make you non-threatening and Labrador-like to the ( Read more... )

It turns out that if you have managed to make something best referred to as coulis, you can just tip it back into a saucepan and boil the stuff until it sees sense ( Read more... )