Clik here to view.
Don’t use the cu** word
Now here’s a good one from the Gaston Gazette, via This is True: This is no longer cute: Emanyea Lockett, 9, was suspended from Brookside Elementary School in Gastonia, N.C., for what the school’s...
View ArticleYes, you CAN do yourself a mischief with yoga
The New York Times has managed to upset yoga teachers and practitioners all over America. In its magazine, an article entitled ‘How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body’ details a number of physical ailments which...
View ArticleWaybuloo what is acceptable
Ah yes – the tree Let’s start with the Mail piece on the parents’ outcry on how “they’ve” wrecked Waybuloo: BBC bosses decided to overhaul the programme to try and appeal to older children – bringing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Warning to those using Blogger
Sorry to go on about it but I wonder why bloggers still do it? Blogger have three ways of commenting: The full page uses this format: … and the pop-up this one: The problem arises when bloggers opt...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Death of Pretty
Lord Somber, an artist in his own right, sends an article by Pat Archbold on the “death of pretty”. We’re not a society of brilliant peacocks and dull peahens, we’re not a society where the men...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Campaign to restore Top Totty
Grrrrrrrrr! As usual, there are great women and then there are effing idiots. Here’s a great one: What a pathetic, sad woman who obviously has no life. Is it because she is a ‘bitter’ old hag and not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
British man commits treason
Two posts in one day – sorry, sorry but this had to be said. They can’t keep their f***ing hands off anything, can they? It’s the utter complacency in suggesting forced changes and dispossession of...
View ArticleYou Can’t Buck The Market…
When Liz Haughton opened The Park Café in Knowle West, Bristol, her vision was to create a community eatery serving wholesome and organic foods. Chips, coke and sweets were off the Daventry Road menu...
View ArticleThe bansturbators latest attack on liberty
Imagine prohibiting cigarette sales to people born after 2000. Phasing out tobacco will stop the next generation taking up smoking. Actually I’d be surprised if this is really new and hasn’t been...
View ArticleA Country Of Emotional Incontinents..?
The ‘Guardian’ gets philosophical: If your train journey proves a little trying beware letting go of your emotions lest the live-tweeter in seat 34A reveals your misery to millions.This is what, in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Do Standards Even Matter Anymore?
I was sent these two pictures by a friend who knows I love hate such things: These two professionally-deigned and printed, lovingly laminated signs were affixed to just about everything that didn’t...
View ArticleQuestions No Avid Book Reader Really Frets About…
A week after publishing ‘The Public Voice of Women’, Mary Beard’s lecture on the silencing of women throughout history, the London Review of Books issued a pre-emptive defence of their own editorial...
View ArticleOh, You Shock Me. No, Really…
Conflict is likely to grow between people using two pedestrian tunnels under the Thames and cyclists, skateboarders and rollerskaters breaching bylaws, a survey has warned. Well, really. Could have...
View ArticleMr Brunt’s A Smarter Man Than Most Politicians…
Ruth Knaggs, a member of the action group, said: ‘He said he wanted to use it for hay growing and obviously dogs mess is not good for that at all. ‘We did suggest that we could campaign for awareness...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Another ‘Need’ You Didn’t Know Existed…
Maybe they do. But they don’t ‘need’ to do it at a decibel level exceeding Concorde taking off, do they? Or is this just Leicestershire Police’s way of saying ‘Awww, we don’t want to have to come out...
View ArticleStop The Pokémon Train, Someone’s Not Happy!
Pokémon Go is getting gamers outside, but not all gamers. Tales of trespassing, fence-jumping and brave jaunts through tough terrain to catch Pokémon have bolstered the hit mobile game’s popularity...
View Article“Next Week, Class, It’s ‘Juggling Rattlesnakes’…”
A four-year-old was left permanently scarred after her pre-school staff gave children sparklers to play with. /facepalm But this is what you get when you farm out childcare responsibility to the...
View ArticleThe Crocodile Always Gets Around To You In The End…
MPs applauded the announcement of a tax on sugary drinks, but called on the government to monitor whether drinks companies pass on the tax in the form of higher prices and whether they also raise the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
QTWTAIY
…that’s if it can get past ADHD, autistic spectrum disorder and PTSD, of course.
View Article
