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Dippy Bint

Dippy Bint Originally uploaded by neuro. This dippy bint, driving a Citroen with number plate R734 TSR, decided to track the inside lane of slow moving traffic two miles from the roadworks ahead. She eventually pulled in at 800yds. This is the second time I’ve seen someone attempt to take the road traffic laws into […]

Blonde Joke

I usually only listen to blonde jokes told by blonde women — knowing self-deprecation is the best humour — but this has to be the best blonde joke ever told. Seriously!

The Powerpoint President

I really should have been sleeping, but I got sucked into watching US President Bush’s 2006 State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Bush’s manner of speech really irritates the hell out of me; he speaks in, short burst sentences, not always making it clear, where the sentence is going, to […]

Hostages in Iraq ... Seem Familiar?

The latest twist in the hostage situation in Iraq, where people of various nationalities have been snatched by Iraqi insurgents and various demands made of their respective governments, is that it looks like one of the current demands is about to be met. Doesn’t this sound really familiar? Anyone around my age will likely remember […]

Innocent Underground Picnics

The Grauniad: [S]ince 1955, for security reasons, it has been an offence to “penetrate into or circulate within” the rest of [Les Catacombes] There exist, however, several secretive bands of so-called cataphiles, who gain access to the tunnels mainly after dark, through drains and ventilation shafts, and hold what in the popular imagination have become […]

El Festival!

If you’re in Edinburgh right now, you should tune your radio to 106.9 FM to listen to Festival FM, featuring such luminaries as the mighty John Handelaar! If you’re not in Edinburgh, or can’t pick it up (the reception down in Leith is a bit gash), fire up a web browser and listen online with […]

Full of Sound and Fury

Macbeth, Act V, Scene III: “It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.” DaimlerChrysler Corporation’s Reply Brief in Support of its Motion for Summary Disposition: “At bottom, SCO’s arguments, though full of sound and fury, serve only to demonstrate that summary disposition should be granted.” The […]

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Tear Gas Attack in Glasgow

Looks like while I was up in the Sports Cafe on Sauchiehall St after the Scotlug meeting last night, someone was in Frankensteins on West George Street spraying CS gas around the place. I’ve been there before and it can be pretty packed on the best of nights. If that tear gas had been something […]

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