Going against a US government request for all flags to be flown at half mast following the death of Nelson Mandela, the sheriff of Pickens, South Carolina, refused to do so over the courthouse/schoolroom/poolhall/brothel in his town, because Mandela ‘wasn’t American’. So I’m thinking here a kind of Dukes of Hazzard kind of sheriff; white – Read More-
Are you intelligent? Then prove it. Do something clever. Right now. Go on. You can’t, can you. No. Because intelligence is not like that. In fact its not really like anything. You can’t even judge it by behaviour, otherwise you’d have to think Boris Johnson was thick because he acts like a buffoon. And he’s – Read More-
what a fabulous word: palpable. It means ‘touchable’ but is only used for things you can’t actually touch. Anger. Fear. Desire. Or relief. So really it means ‘almost touchable’. Who gives a shit. My contempt for that word is palpable. But we use the word most often for relief. And what is the most common – Read More-
England are in the ‘group of death’!!!!! Just like they were last time, in the Euros, and the time before that in the last World Cup. The group of DEATH!!!!! Because its the group in which England generally die. So even if we happened to be grouped with San Marino, the Faroe Islands and Hawaii, – Read More-
Tom Daley, olympic diver extraordinaire and pin-up boy for the swimming pool classes and other teenage schoolgirls, this week announced that he is in a great and happy relationship, with a man (!!!!), though he still ‘likes’ girls. Now some cynics initially thought that sweet Tom was simply apparently hedging to keep those teenies screaming – Read More-
They played football last night. Some dork at the Football Association got Saturday at 3 mixed up with Wednesday at 8 so they all had to play in the dark and cold. Whatever next??? There are teams ya love (errrr, Spurs?) and teams ya hate (hmmmm; Chelsea? Man City??? Stoke????) and teams you kind’a quite – Read More-
David Cameron’s still in China. So I went to Tai Chi last night. Me mate Ken went out to the Hong Wah house and ate Kung Po chicken and Kev watched Fist of Fury. Mel stayed home and read Wild Swans. Its all part of ‘getting in touch with your inner Chinaman’ and following the – Read More-
David Cameron yesterday announced that he is in a very happy relationship with a man and has been for 6 months. Oh, that was Tom Daley. Same difference. David Cameron actually announced that despite the constant atrocities perpetrated by the People’s Republic of China, the genocide in Tibet, the persecutions, the human rights abuses, the – Read More-
Paul Walker, star of the Fast and the Furious franchise of movies, died yesterday. In a car crash. A very fast car crash. A Porsche. Being driven (not by Paul; he was the passenger) in a very fast and furious manner. As the police said, in that non-committal, policey way they have, ‘speed was involved’. – Read More-
Spurs can win the league this year. That’s a fact. Statistically distinct probability. You can work it out yourself. All you need is a calculator, an iphone, three pieces of green paper, an empty Fairy Liquid bottle and a lifetime’s unyielding devotion to Tottenham and some drugs which increase optimism beyond any logical limits. That – Read More-