So, after leaving Paris after the weekend and taking the train back home, a familiar routine played out between Forbach, in France and Saarbrücken, in Germany (the last two incidents are described here and here). As usual, at Forbach, German border police (Bundesgrenzschutz) got onto the train and wandered through the carriages asking various people […]
Sometimes I think the entire point of the Economics section of the Guardian newspaper is to provide Tim Worstall with source material to ridicule. After all, all the readers have their money in ethical investment policies with the Co-operative, so why even bother with share data, right? That’s probably why today their website was showing […]
“Well, every other case I’ve seen or heard of has been as a result of, erm, ‘intimate contact’ with sheep.” the doctor said, as he wrote out the prescription (this was whilst I was studying in Glasgow and he apparently did get a reasonable number of lonely crofters and shepherds from the west coast of […]
Let’s get our facts straight here. Germans are, on the whole, incredibly kind and considerate drivers (stop laughing). And, it’s been documented using not-at-all-dubious standards that females make better drivers than men. They have a somewhat nasty habit of sleeping with their driving instructors when you’re in hospital (note to self – next time buy […]
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I blame my mother for instilling it into me as a child. You go shopping (and I imagine as a child it would have been to Marks and Spencers and then for lunch at Fenwicks), and when you walk into or leave the shop you open the door, walk through it, then (and […]
Just because you put your wallet and your passport in your snazzy, over-the-shoulder flight bag yesterday when you went to the post office to pick up a parcel, doesn’t mean to say that it will still be there today. There’s an exceedingly high probability that you dropped the passport in the Postamt and they’ll have […]
I generally dislike quoting just one paragraph from a story and giving no background information about it whatsoever, but when it’s
“(Professor) Jaenicke said it’s still unclear what effect the bio-pollutants might have on the world’s climate, but added that dandruff should certainly be taken into consideration by researchers”.
and it’s on the Deutsche Welle site […]
Loads of people have already picked up on the story that the health fascists are making the cookie monster from Sesame Street eat less cookies, because he’s the second leading cause of obesity among under fives - after alcopops, or something.
Obviously, we Brits were a bit slow on the uptake, well, I was at least. […]
“We just want you to write the odd article about, well anything really” he said, instantly giving me a rough feel for the kind of tightly focused product they publish.
That’s just about all that I can really remember in detail. It says in my diary that they were having a “working meeting in a pub”. […]
I finally got my first phishing e-mail in German, purporting to be from the Postbank
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