As the number of letters from potential employers containing the words, “…despite your obvious potential, we regret to have to inform you that…” piles up and the amount of freelance work that I brought with me from Germany decreases, the idea of following the advice of my local Morrison’s financial advisor (Reason 237: Bigotry at […]
As opposed to Ryan, off poncing about watching an al fresco Midsummer Night’s Dream at Balboa, can anyone think of something better than this for your inner Neanderthal?
The Stella Artois open-air film festival in Greenwich will be showing Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on Sunday 23rd July at 9:30 p.m. and there’ll be lots of food […]
General laziness rules today, so just random crap incredibly interesting links….
1. The Friday Thing, who are wonderful people and send out a highly amusing e-mail every, er, Friday disappointed me somewhat today by referring to this as a “Mind Fuck”. No it isn’t. Adding the individual digits of any two digit number together and then […]
As part of its “4×4 Debate: Enemy of the people”, Subheading: “Gas-guzzling, road-hogging, air-polluting… and now even doctors have joined the outcry over 4×4 cars”, (so obviously a debate that’s going to be looked at impartially from both sides), The Independent prints this wonderful, wonderful piece on how to use statistical “analysis”…
Previous studies have shown […]
Both Squander Two and the Devil have been discussing the joyous experience that is being English and living in Scotland. Squander Two gets the bizarre dichotomy of living in fear of physical attack for being English and loving the country for its people just about spot on. And, despite the recently publicised stories being pretty […]
Sigh.
Although the advertising campaign is still running as if nothing has happened.
Now, although falling over and twisting your knee when you’re not being pushed by someone is pretty idiotic, the kind of thing I would do in fact, I’m not sure that fat Freddy Shepherd should call him “a tool.” Perhaps he meant it […]
Is From Spiegel Online (in German). It tells of two England football fans who drove to Cologne and then went for a bit of a look around the town.
At the end of their wander they couldn’t actually find the street in which they’d parked their car. However, these two individuals were intelligent, well-prepared, and […]
I’m still learning the words required for life in 21st century Britain. Latest one that caused me to do a double-take was learning that the guy behind the counter at Subway is a “sandwich artist”. Now, I’ve only eaten at Subway once (and call me picky about food, but it’s only ever going to be […]
Well okay, just the one. And you’ll have to click on it to get a large-scale version, if pussy cats and bunny rabbits are your kind of thing…..
One of the things that I did miss when I lived a metropolitan life in Germany was having pets – most specifically a dog. However, it just […]
“It’s a bloody disgrace!” he says, scanning my groceries over the barcode-reader. “These buggers come to Britain, they’ve never paid any tax nor national insurance and the government gives ‘em everything whilst soft buggers like me who’ve worked all their lives don’t get owt…” he trails off, his dialect much more stereotypically “old Northern curmudgeon” […]
