I felt the need to respond to this post (Why the BBC and Charlie Brooker are wrong over Eastenders, reposted at LibCon here) because in contrast to seemingly a lot of people that have been passing judgement, I'm actually an avid watcher of EastEnders (everyone has a guilty pleasure ( Read more... )

Macabre maybe, but this is one of those posts that one really should make at some point. I don't have the time at the moment to make a proper Living Will, but I should think that in the event of anything happening to me then this should qualify as an indication of my wishes that can hold up in court ( Read more... )

"You've left it a bit late, no?" you're probably thinking. Well yes, I have. Fortunately I'm fairly sure that nobody reading this was going to vote Conservative any way, and those that were planning to won't be swayed by any argument I can come up with. That's my defence of this late comment, and I'm sticking to it ( Read more... )

Everyone knows that I do not like Sarah Palin, and to be honest - those people who give her the time of day are hardly going to have their minds changed by an elitist liberal European like myself. After watching the ups and downs of the economic "crisis" and the candidates responses to them I went from Obama-leaning to outright Obama supporter ( Read more... )

So, that was the debate. So many times I sat in front of the TV going "OMG, point of information! Dangnabbit, Obama/McCain (delete as appropriate) - call him on his crap!". Yes, both of the candidates made statements I disagreed with, and statements I agreed with ( Read more... )

I was discussing this with spiffarific and I realised that it's something I felt like sharing ( Read more... )

Tonight has been spent on the BBC News website, instead of Wikipedia. I have a love-hate relationship with BBC News, and I'll talk about this later in a rant I'll title "Oh BBC, What Have You Become?".

Nice to see that Gordon Brown has sold out. Honestly, that was my first reaction. I acknowledge that I don't know everything about the way the ( Read more... )

It's really hard to wash blood off painted walls ( Read more... )

Greetings all ( Read more... )

Today I came home to 54 new emails of which almost every last one of them was from SSDC. Not only were they from SSDC, they were all agreeing with each other in an odd way through disagreeing. Because everyone has to get their oar in, don't they? So many egos, so little time ( Read more... )