-Effin facebook!
"Everyone knows there are only two kinds of men who feel the need to drive fast: professional racers and the poorly endowed."
"What sort of half-arsed half-measure is that? Cold logic dictates that the only way to turn capital punishment into an effective deterrent is to make each killing as drawn-out and public as possible. Maximum agony, maximum publicity. Anything less is a cop-out – and death penalty supporters should have the stones to say so. Stop this placatory talk about breaking people's necks gently with rope. Go the whole hog."
-"they've created a sort of self-perpetuating stupidity whirlpool capable of engulfing any loose molecules of logic within a six-mile radius."
"So 2010 has slithered past, leaving a gooey trail of memories in its wake. As befits the opening page of a new decade, it was a year with a markedly transitional feel. A tainted old era full of Gordon Brown and Big Brother came to an end, paving the way for a fresh haul of new, improved bullshit."
"Scottish lairds and grouse moor owners face £5,000 fines or jail terms if they allow their gamekeepers to illegally kill birds of prey, under tough new measures tabled today.The powers would, for the first time in the UK, make landowners directly liable for wildlife crimes committed by their employees, after an upsurge in cases where rare birds of prey have been deliberately killed to protect grouse stocks on shooting estates."
"Next week: Clegg defends his decision to force the Chilean miners back underground, claims 2 Unlimited were better than the Beatles, and explains why the coalition's proposed oxygen-rationing scheme will usher in an age of peace and prosperity for all."
-i'm happy 6 has been saved!-my favourite bbc station!
"As your correspondent can attest having spent his student days chasing radio-tagged urban foxes around Bristol with an antenna, these canines are normally frustratingly shy and elusive - keeping their distance from humans and preferring to bed down for the night in a deserted graveyard rather than predating children in their beds."
"Electoral reform: Be a Purple Person and make every vote count"
"BBC debate was a cross between Songs of Praise and Over the Rainbow
I half expected the loser to hand his shoes to Dimbleby at the end before jetting off into the sky"
I half expected the loser to hand his shoes to Dimbleby at the end before jetting off into the sky"
RE: Officer A; "He was regularly involved in brutal confrontations with uniformed police officers and activists from the extreme right. On numerous occasions he engaged in violent acts to maintain his cover." -always seems OK for governments to the break the law. just not the rest of us!
-this "asshole" makes me sick. Not just what he did to the human but also what he has done to the dog!
"free warm croissants on buses"-what a grand idea!
"Of course, England will not be caught napping in such a fashion again! Her foolish blindness is partly explained by her delusion that her enemy would not torpedo merchant vessels. Common sense should have told her that her enemy will play the game that suits them best — that they will not inquire what they may do, but they will do it first and talk about it afterwards. "
"It started out as a well-intentioned attempt to bring festive cheer to some of society's most neglected members – the hundreds of children who each year are caught up in the UK's asylum system."-scrooged again!
-a buzzard attacks a lawyer!! justice!! ;)
"The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (UOGB), sporting tuxedos and brandishing "bonsai guitars," will perform on a stage usually reserved for the world's greatest symphony musicians."-should be a blast
"An MP used his expenses to claim for a £5 donation he made during a church service to commemorate the Battle of Britain."-;D-what a giving guy!!
-even his chocolates!
"London Mayor Boris Johnson, who is chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority, has indicated that officers should be called in to investigate the questionable expenses claims made by some MPs"