Every time I hear about the latest atrocity by Boko Harum, I can’t help but think “Wow, they’ve really turned since A Whiter Shade of Pale“
Category: News and Events
Happy New Annual Cycle!
No musical Tuesday this week, it’s New Year’s Eve for cryin’ out loud!
(And you should have got your fix of music with my last post)
I’m tired out after a week of Christmas festivities and so will most likely be having an early night, but the rest of you bright young things have a fun and safe night!
Roll on 2014!
(If you have a minute or two to spare, visit Wikipedia’s 1914 page to see what happened a century ago.)
Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
What more can really be said, than in the face of great adversity, he did really well?
Rest in peace Madiba. You’ve earned it.
Vital Information
If you don’t understand this, then you SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO VOTE!
Source: Chickennation.com
If you say hello to the dwarf, turn to page 8. If you kick him, turn to page 10.
This is hilarious!
If David Cameron must ban anything, let it be Warhammer fantasy games
But even more hilarious are the hopeless Aspies* in the comments who can’t seem to grasp the idea of satire, or who can grasp the idea of the satire but are so in love with the hobby that it deeply wounds them to see it maligned so!
(* I’m an Aspie, so I get to call other Aspies out)
Heat
I know temperature isn’t as simple as marks on a thermometer. I know buildings in the UK are built to retain heat, while ours are built to repel heat. I know acclimatisation, habit and even wardrobe have a big effect on how people perceive the weather. I know people are genuinely suffering. But despite all this I can’t help but snort with laughter on seeing headlines like…
Send workers home if temperature hits 30C, say MPs who fear heatwave will cause accidents and deaths
Seriously – if we sent people home at 30C here in Perth, nothing would get done from August right through to March.
Also, the definition of a “Level Three Heatwave” makes me have to bite my fist to avoid bursting into fits of giggles…
Level three is triggered as soon as the Met Office confirms that threshold temperatures have been reached in any one region […] the average threshold temperature is 30ºC during the day and 15ºC overnight.
Here, that’s not a “Level Three Heatwave” – that’s unexpectedly mild summer weather where the days aren’t too hot and the nights are cool enough to sleep comfortably. In the heights of summer when a high pressure system is stalled in the Bight we’d kill for temperatures like that!
Cross-cultural hilarity aside, stay indoors and keep cool Britons. And look after those hedgehogs!
Slow News Day
From that august and trusted news organisation, the ABC…
No, She’s Not
Got this in my letterbox yesterday.
YESTERDAY
And no, it wasn’t posted, it was apparently hand delivered. Guess they needed to clear out their old stock real fast…
Prognostication
If the leadership spill goes ahead and Kevin Rudd becomes PM, Tony Abbott will spend the next week banging on about how the Labor party are an unorganised mess, can’t make up their minds, have a revolving door leadership and cannot be trusted with the future of the nation.
If the leadership spill doesn’t go ahead, or it does go ahead and Julia Gillard remains as PM, Tony Abbott will spend the next week banging on about how the Labor party are an unorganised mess, can’t make up their minds, have a dud for a leader and cannot be trusted with the future of the nation.
Whichever happens, the papers will agree with Tony Abbott, talkback radio will agree with the papers, and the vast unthinking mass of the voting public will agree with the talkback radio. This is what we – for some reason – label ‘the political process’.
Common Decency
Proof – if any were needed – that acting legally and acting decently are not necessarily the same thing.
Proof also – if any were needed – that being a minister of religion is no guarantee of being a decent human being.
