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 […]
Americans eh? They’re all a bunch of religious wackos. And don’t try and convince me otherwise, I read the Guardian, I’ve seen some films by Michael Moore. I’ve been to Indiana. They’re not like us sophisticated Europeans*. Right wing religious loons, the lot of ‘em, not like us Britons who er, don’t really believe in […]
From the BBC:
The Science Learning Centre in London asked 11,000 pupils for their views on science and scientists.
Around 70% of the 11-15 year olds questioned said they did not picture scientists as “normal young and attractive men and women“.
Or, over 70% of pupils are just too stupid to be scientists, or indeed perform any useful […]
Right, that’s it. Enough is enough; I’m getting the hell out of here. Germany is a pleasant enough country, I’ll begrudgingly admit, but I’m planning to move back to Blighty. Or at least I think I am until I start reading stories like this:
“What more romantic hero could there be than the bold fireman, unflinching […]
First let me make one thing clear, Hapag-Lloyd Express Airways (HLX) are wonderful; they fly from proper airports such as Stuttgart to Manchester. As people who have flown with Ryanair to Frankfurt (Hahn) and found themselves not in Frankfurt, but practically in France will know, the fact that it’s Manchester International and not Manchester (Penrith) […]
After demonstrating utter incompetence over the past week as far as even altering Wordpress, let alone writing my own php scripts, okay, my own .php scripts that work goes, I am once more in control of this tiny sliver of the cyberwelt; posts appear when I press “publish” as opposed to five days later (as […]
I’d written a long, long post about spending the weekend with a vegetarian family and how they’d complained about it being so difficult to be a vegetarian here. “Yeah, yeah”, I thought, and tucked into my cabbage. The computer decided it wanted to stop working and that post is now sadly/thankfully (delete as you see […]
We Anglo-Saxons are often a bit mean to you Germans. We have a tendency to think of you as hyper-efficient automatons, with a bit of a militaristic tendency (okay, so you’ve gone slightly pacifist of late, and the trains don’t run quite as punctually as they used to, but hey, our stereotypes remain). We Brits […]
The most popular and visited page on this blog is the one about making (or rather, attempting to make) Aloo Paratha, complete with a dodgy recipe. It gets a minimum of ten to twenty hits a day from search engines. So what better way to improve stats than food-blogging. First off: pizza. Now, we all […]
As I hurtle day-by-day closer to the grave, my mind is filled with a smug satisfaction. No matter how bad things get, as limbs become sore and the memory gets all, you know, thingummy. I can sit happy in the knowledge that never again will I be a teenager. I can actually look back relatively […]
