I don’t pay much attention to advertising, especially TV adverts. Years of resenting the intrusion of advertising into the shows I watch have conditioned me to pay very little attention. Whenever I select a show to watch, I simultaneously select a second show to have as an alternate. By using the ‘previous channel’ button on […]
You know what I’m getting tired of hearing? It’s the phrase “times like these” in advertisements on radio and TV. Here we are, in a big old nasty recession and the businesses who are in part responsible for creating the conditions in which many of us became overextended due to the raw commercialism in our […]
From New Zealand, a couple of miscreants were trying to escape from the long arm of the law whilst being transferred from jail to prison. Unfortunately, the two were manacled together and when they encountered an obstacle in the form of a light pole. Sadly for the two, they couldn’t talk and run, so they […]
Here’s a nice piccy of the cruise ship CTMA-Vacancier, which is one of three ships stuck in the global warming that’s clogged up the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in Canada.
Hope the heat doesn’t get to the happy vacationers.
Over at The Smoking Gun I found this story about a woman in Jessup Iowa who was actually booked into the town jail for ripping off the library for a $13.95 book. Yes, the library deserves protection, and yes, it is wrong for anyone to just steal public property. But booking her into jail? It […]
A Spanish University has published a ground-breaking study that contends that football (soccer to those in America) doesn’t change over time. This is the result of ten years of research. According to them:
…football has changed so little during recent World Cups that, if shown action from matches, we would be incapable today of differentiating between […]
I don’t usually go in for the ’starwatcher’ kind of story, but I thought this item is a perfect contrast to how one might deal with pet dogs gone awry more humanely.
The gist of the story is that Jennifer Anniston was driving along Sunset Boulevard when she saw a pet Husky running free near the […]
Word comes to us via the Daily Mail online that 50 people on a street in a England are having to make a six-mile daily round trip to pick up their mail because the Royal Mail has had run-ins with a dog owned by one of those 50 households. The household in question has two […]
Here’s the ex-wife from Hell. She, or someone who took direction from her, placed a recording device in her daughter’s favourite teddy bear in order to catch her ex-husband saying something upon which she could take action in her ongoing custody battle with her ex-husband. Read the piece, it’s interesting.
The man and several other people […]
