Whilst browsing through (i.e. deleting) the hundreds of e-mails I’ve received since yesterday evening, I came across an advert from the Sandisk company. They are offering help into Alzheimer’s research. Excellent - that’s the kind of corporate responsibility I like the sound of. And how are they helping fund research into Alzheimer’s research? Obvious, really […]
Glasgow Suicide Bomber Finally Manages To Get At Least One Part Of The ‘Mission’ Right.
I know, I know, I should just put the Want Your Willy To Grow? e-mails straight in the bin - the answer’s obvious anyway - just look at the alluring woman/man/farmyard animal/kitchen utensil/whatever takes your fancy and voila! NB: This method works better as a male teenager than later in life. However, (one of) the […]
There’s a reason this blog is called In Actual Fact - it may have something to do with a phrase I use far too often, pedantry and the fact that they wouldn’t allow the apostrophe in “ithinkyou’llfind.com”, so this story seems perfectly sensible to me:
Simon Singh got Katie Melua to re-record Nine Million Bicycles due […]
Taking whippet fer walk on t’moor in future….
Song playing as this was published: Bonnie Somerville: Winding Road.
Is there anyone who can be happy that this evil and corrupt government has granted a licence to build a so-called ‘supercasino’ in the heart of Manchester? It’s a monument to greed and easy money that will cover five thousand square metres of godlessness. Did our politicians, who seem at pains to curtail just about […]
Then crystal meth is for you!
(ask your local, unemployed biochemist - who needs to pay off some debts - for details…..)
There’s an accent meme going around at the moment, but I’m not doing it, I can’t be bothered. It did remind me however (and this may give some small clue as to the way I talk) that German girl spent years believing that when I really, really didn’t want to do something, that I didn’t […]
Ingredients
1. Large handful of my parents
1. Visitor from foreign lands, staying with a friend of said parents, who is cooking a traditional ‘native’ meal for a small group as a farewell and ‘thank you.’
Multiple bottles wine
0. People fluent in the language of guest
Many people consider this the ‘default’ recipe for misunderstanding. However, when dealing with guests from Spain […]
#16,873 of an ongoing series.
Look. If you’re a German firm and want a, how would you say? ‘Cool’ English tagline to go under your company name, get a native speaker (who isn’t evil) to at least look at it. And not after it’s been printed over all your trucks. Yes, you’ve used different typeface strengths […]
