I'm off work this week and have been in town most days, generally passing through the station. I've seen quite a lot of the Ascot crowd ( Read more... )

There is a certain something to listening to Jacques Brel, with a glass of decent Scotch in one's hand, and thinking "Fuck the world, fuck the job, fuck the system, fuck everyone's expectations, fuck convention, fuck society, fuck work, fuck everything that doesn't matter ( Read more... )

Women have all those complicated womens' bits and hormones and stuff ( Read more... )

Adam Hart-Davis is a York graduate - DPhil in organometallic chemistry. It makes all those interchangeable rugger-buggers Jeremys and vapid braying Sloane women worthwhile, almost.

Edit: I should point out that I have a wee swearie in the discussion of this post. So don't read on if you don't like seeing certain politicians/comedians/media types ( Read more... )

This is a good advert for preemptive sterilisation...

As for "poor sex education" - hm. A mother who fails to tell her daughters that banging away like an armed policeman at the age of 12! can lead to pregnancy has to shoulder a bit of the blame there...

I think the old quote says it best ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4369481.stm

He must be stopped, before he turns this country into an even more faithful clone of Bush's neocon/fundie America.

There's a page of Dave Allen quotes on the BBC website ( Read more... )

( Not worksafe. Contains rude words about BT. )