It's reasonably silly that you can get a qualification as a homeopath, given the complete lack of potential for an unlicensed homeopath to do any harm or for a licensed one to do any good ("you've been struck off the homeopath's register for actually giving someone a traceable amount of medicine", etc). But it's absolutely … Continue reading From the department of ‘couldn’t make it up’
Category: The generic nonsense you love
There used to be an excellent website of bad celebrity name puns called The Wesley Snipes Archive. Sadly, the old link for it is buggerised. Anyone know if this still exists in any format? (note: I've tried the Wayback Machine, but for some moronic reason the site owner vetoed it in his robots file...)
John Lennon once spiked Jimmy Tarbuck's drink with amphetamines.
In perhaps my proudest moment ever, this blog is the top Google result for "what food do working class people eat?" (it now seems to be showing as second, which is odd since it was showing as first five minutes ago. Google is perplexing. Although not as perplexing as the original question...)
Happy St Cyril's Day, everybody. And bah, humbug to all other saints (yes, even you, Methodius...) Update: this is excellent stuff...
Fine 18th century invective from Captain Christopher Middleton, directed against a random idiot who was talking rubbish on the Pamphletnet - a snip at £2,000. A REJOINDER TO MR. DOBB’S REPLY TO CAPTAIN MIDDLETON; IN WHICH IS EXPOS’D, BOTH HIS WILFUL AND REAL IGNORANCE OF TIDES; &C. HIS JESUITICAL PREVARICATIONS, EVASIONS, FALSITIES, AND FALSE REASONING; … Continue reading …and people criticise me for *my* rhetorical style
If someone had told my 15-year-old self that in the year 2008, I'd be a high-powered professional, up at twenty to one on a Tuesday night in the heart of the big city, eating fried chicken and exploring the innermost parts of models, then I'd've been quite pleased about the way my life was going … Continue reading I tell my mum I play piano in a brothel
A very long time ago, I had a blog whose software platform I wrote myself. It was pretty ropey by the standards of WordPress and Moveable Type, although it beat Blogger's offer in those days (for really dull reasons, the only server I had access to ran Windows and Access; no existing blog software supported … Continue reading Spam filters and paranoia
As a patriotic Brit, I'd find it hard to deny that Samuel Adams was a terrorist. However, it's slightly surprising that the US Department of Transportation agrees with me... [off to the States in two weeks... wish me luck]
This, basically. Blech. Update, Tuesday evening: well, those were a rubbish couple of days. I'm now more or less confident in my ability to go more than 10 seconds away from a toilet, although I'm not quite up for vindaloo night just yet. In the meantime I was sufficiently bored that I followed my own … Continue reading What was wrong with the old bloody virus?