"I didn't know Ireland even played cricket!"

Ugh. There's TV ad running at the moment advertising a backups service called Mosy. Now, it may be a good service, run by technically competent people, but when the ad shows someone having to recall backup files because they spilled coffee on their keyboard, it doesn't inspire confidence ( Read more... )

Margaret Thatcher's 85th birthday is being forced out of the news by good things happening to miners.

I do love Speak Your Branes, but sometimes the level of ignorance, misappropriation and bile is overwhelming.

Dear fascists: do fuck right off, there's good chaps. Oh, and I hear that morris bells are surprisingly hard to extract from one's anus.

"Ethnics" is not even a real word - you can't pluralise an adjective. And it's certainly not an acceptable way of referring to black and minority ethnic people.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/186563/One-in-5-Britons-will-be-ethnics

For a paper so obsessed with Traditional! British! Values! you don't half take some liberties with the mother ( Read more... )

One of the peculiar things about my job, which involves creating jobs and training opportunties in the sport and active leisure industry, is that it means I suddenly have to actually  give a shit about things like the Olympics and, more lately, the FA Cup bid.

Which frankly makes it all the more terrifying that the Olympic Committee have decided to ( Read more... )

... did the listing really need to say "men's curling semis"?

Got a letter from BT the other day explaining the changes to my broadband package costs due to the change in VAT.

It contained the following:

Amending VAT to 17.5% resulted in some inconsistent prices, so we've rounded down some prices and rounded up others. More prices have been rounded down than up.

For example, our Evening and Weekend plan would ( Read more... )

Right, I have just been right through my wardrobe and realised that I have just bought a corset that would go perfectly with a skirt that I no longer appear to have.

I lose at keeping track of my stuff. I guess it went in the charity shop bag when I moved out of Leviathan, due to being a colour that I didn't think I'd wear.

Crap. Now I have to find ( Read more... )

Ben Goldacre has already done a marvellous takedown of the 'research', reported in the Daily Mail and its streetwalking sister Metro, which claims to show that pre-Roman sites in the South of England are arranged in precise geometric patterns that mean the Bronze Age and Iron Age peoples of Britain 'must have had' much better mathematical and ( Read more... )