At 190, Jonathan the Tortoise Is the World’s Oldest: He will likely celebrate with some of his favorite activities: sunbathing, sleeping, eating, and mating:
"In spite of his age, Jonathan still has good libido and is seen frequently to mate with Emma and sometimes Fred - animals are often not particularly gender-sensitive"
In the case of the ( Read more... )

The name Johann Hari rings some sort of bell, and it has a certain crack of doom in it?
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen.
You, dr rdrz, know me by now, and that I am a hedjog who looks askance at a lovely rosy vision of the somehow unified consciousness of the past (was that TS Eliot?), that Past when Things Were Better and we lived ( Read more... )

This piece is about weird enough people to begin with (and I mean the people who think they're the rightwise ruler of Some Island in the South Seas by Mysterious Divine Right): ‘There was a prophecy I would come’: the western men who think they are South Pacific kings : The fantasy of being revered by people on the far side of the world is an old ( Read more... )

You know, I would be a bit more convinced by this (article about The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes), if the author were not described as holding a post which does not exist - people are not Professors of 'the University of London' but of one or other of the constituent colleges federated to it. This may be a reporter's error, I suppose. There had also ( Read more... )

Okay, I will concede that AITA reveals previously unplumbed Things In Woodsheds.... that I think might boggle even Aunt Ada Doom.
But honestly, this one. He asked me if him and his girlfriend could use my house to give birth at. I didn't even know what he was getting at at first but he explained to me that their apartment doesn't have a bathtub, is ( Read more... )

Quite bombarded with texts and emails from NHS and my GP apropos of this year's round of flu jab and Covid booster - I'd originally booked my flu shot for this morning and then got a text from my GP offering the booster and possibility of concurrent flu shot this pm, so canceled the first appointment and boogeyed on down to the health centre this ( Read more... )

Do we, my dearios, think that the fuming opinionators who turned out in force to decry the National Trust's dred wokerie as violating the spirit of a Grate Nashional Institushyon will be baying quite so loudly about this:?
National Trust plan to fence off acres of Wiltshire park for tenant: Critics say loss of public access to section of Dinton ( Read more... )

Apparently a whole swathe of archaeologists got madly misrepresented in a woowoo doco about Atlantis? by being edited so that it seemed they were concurring that Atlantis was even a thing?
I have certainly had the sensation of wishing to hide under the settee when programmes to which I had contributed finally hit the screen, but that was primarily ( Read more... )

Apparently - this fleeted past me on Twitter a week or so ago, and is writ up here in more detail and with historical context - there are still people who are not living in caves and unaware that the Napeolonic Wars are over, who believe in dangerous menstrual toxins:
Secretly Murdering Your Husband: The one weird trick that baffled researchers.
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I don't know if anyone else has seen this: Over 90,000 people have joined r/SemenRetention in the hope of storing their sacred male energy, which sounds like a ponceyer version of the Anti-Fap movement, what with the invocation of Ye Antient Wisdome of Ye Orientale Sages* (why not, we ask, Ye Antient Wisdome of all those Victorian and Edwardian ( Read more... )