And they say Germans have no sense of humour... a bunch of Germans make a bizarre spoof rap video about... er... cooking vegetable stew. Absolute genius! And, judging from my housemate's reaction, you don't need to speak German to enjoy it either.

Sir Ian Richardson has died at the age of 72. Richardson, perhaps best known for his spellbinding role as evil Chief Whip turned Prime Minister Francis Urquhardt in the House of Cards trilogy was, as far as anyone knew, in good health and about to start recording for a new series of Midsomer Murders. He was a wonderful actor and extremely dishy ( Read more... )

Ohmigod, it's the West Belfast Rap.

How do you know the Irish economy is doing well? Because a study has found traces of cocaine on '100%' of Irish euro bank notes.Now, admittedly the survey covered a massive sample of 45 notes, so if I was in my usual form I would be highlighting this as an example of really dodgy statistics. But this is just too funny to nitpick ( Read more... )

Morrissey to do Eurovision? Say it ain't so! Someone should tell the Grauniad it's January 9th, not April 1st.

Blog comment of the day (this one from MyDD:

"Division is good. The last time Christianity was undivided it was called the Dark Ages."

Restoration Village the property pr0n programme you love to hate is coming to Northern Ireland.

Maybe a more appropriate programme given the number of racist attacks in South Belfast might be Restoration: The VillageWe move three immigrant families into recently renovated houses off the Donegall Road. The Jaruselskis from Poland move into Eureka ( Read more... )

Even in America, you don't quite believe things like this can really happen... is your family traumatised because Mommy or Daddy is off fighting Mr. Bush's war in Afghanistan? Well, replace them with a nice cardboard cutout 'Flat Daddy'.

The Flat Daddies ride in cars, sit at the dinner table, visit the dentist, and even are brought to confession ( Read more... )

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Not original, but still amusing:

D'ya wanna know the creeda Jacques Derrida?
Dere ain't no reada
Dere ain't no wreida
Eida

I was in HMV last night and found there was a documentary about Derrida on DVD for sale. Imagine paying money to watch a documentary about that old pseud.

OK, yes I did consider it, but no, I didn't buy it.