Item: Jennie put on Would I Lie To You, and the female panellist reveals she lied repeatedly to her husband before they married.

Jennie: Why did he marry her then?
Me: Jennie? She's Keeley Hawes.
(Jennie then went on to wonder why she felt the need to lie, but that's a Serious Topic)

Item: I am a listed here: Brighouse Ward: Statement of persons ( Read more... )

Right, some links from today to amuse/enlighten/annoy/entertain.

First up, Lisa from up the road's been doing some digging on some extremist Christian lobbying groups, How to spot a fundamentalist Christian Lobby Group in your news. A guide. As a general rule, if there's a story in the press about oppressed Christians, these guys are likely to a) ( Read more... )

Now the manifestos are out, the guys behind the Who Should You Vote For test have updated the question set to try to make it more accurate. Here's mine:

Take the Who Should You Vote For? England quiz
Liberal Democrat
( Read more... )

Charlotte Gore is worried that the switch to the Lib Dems in the polls is a style over substance presentation only shift. In the comments, Jennie and Steph both disagree, for different reasons. Her server won't let me comment currently, so you lucky lucky people get the text as a post.

I think Jennie, Steph and Charlotte are all correct ( Read more... )

OK, when I talked about Labour getting wiped out in 2010 a couple years back, I was semi-joking and being deliberately provocative. Or maybe I was just being prescient. Email from YouGov: Our latest daily polling figures for The Sun (fieldwork 15th-16th April) are ( Read more... )

My daily digest of texts, tweets and status updates.

• 14:51 is eating a rather full plate of food. Trying Sosmix for the first time, rather impressive, reminiscent of old Soya McCartney pre GM scare #
• 23:43 why is Vine trying to be Snow? You're not Snow, be someone else, you're just looking crap. Oh, wait... #
• 23:57 cringing at the horrible cartoon ( Read more... )

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  Sky One to resurrect Blake's 7? | The Register
  It'll either be great or awful. But I do want to know who'll play Servalan.
  (tags: TV Blake's+7)
• 
  Masturbation may prevent prostate cancer - Yahoo! News
  See, it is good for you: Studies on animals have shown that carcinogens like 3-methylchloranthrene can be harbored in the prostate. Frequent ( Read more... )

Not got time to do a proper write up from Yorkshire, but this is disgraceful: The Scotsman also explains the kind of "errors" on ballot sheets that caused them to be rejected. One of these was to only cast a vote for the regional list. Both the constituency and the regional votes were on the same ballot paper. Many of the small parties only put ( Read more... )

Well, it's Scottish Palriament elections, and non-London local elections. As the Scots are using my favourite voting system for the locals (first time used in mainland Briatin that I know of), I may be staying up late. I may also post reactions and stuff as they come. Or I may just comment elsewhere. doctorvee will be liveblogging at his site and on his ( Read more... )

Well, the benefits of working my balls of at the moment is my brain is on overtime and when it wonders, it wonders good. I solved my biggest work problem of the week Friday while eating lunch, inspiration came to me and I went back to the office and solved multiple problems with a few button presses.

( Thoughts on Weblogs and NotLittleEngland )