Photo of a 486 processor aka a visual depiction of my brain on swine flu (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia) Hello Dear Reader I seem to have finally shaken off the dreaded lurgy more commonly known as swine flu, and feel (almost) like a human being again, instead of something that staggered out of a [...]

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Photo of a 486 processor aka a visual depiction of my brain on swine flu (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia) Hello Dear Reader I seem to have finally shaken off the dreaded lurgy more commonly known as swine flu, and feel (almost) like a human being again, instead of something that staggered out of a [...]

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It’s Tuneful Tuesday, ’cause as ever, I’ve missed Musical Monday. Anyhoo, my offering is early 90s hair rock, Low Life in High Places from Thunder, featuring a singer who looks remarkably like someone I used to know*. No, it’s not my usual thing, but I rather like it because  despite my complete lack of vocal [...]

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Imagine this: for some reason I go a bit peculiar*, and decide that you can no longer read my posts here unless you pay me. I wouldn’t be unreasonable, I’d only ask for say, 1.99 a post – quite a bargain, you’d be be getting ten posts for a mere 20 of our fine English [...]

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It’s Halloween tomorrow – oooh, spooky – so here’s a video that’s been passed round Facebook and Twitter today. It’s actually a public information film, but is probably scarier than most full-length, hack-n-slash, flesh eating zombie flicks. Watching it again, I’m thinking the haircuts and clothes are even scarier than the weird, hooded figure. Ah, [...]

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Unless you live in a cave, you can’t have failed to miss the outrage surrounding Jan Moir’s pernicious Daily Mail ‘article’ about the death of Stephen Gately*. I’m not going to post a rebuttal this late in the day – that’s already been done to great effect elsewhere – but I do want to raise [...]

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Thought it was time I popped in for one of my irregular visits to this blog before I start to receive emails asking if I’ve been abducted by aliens. I was going to bring you a well thought out piece about the Guardian gagging furore, but I’ve got a headache, so instead here’s some random [...]

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Feeling a bit ranty today, so apologies in advance to anyone who was hoping for something light and fluffy. I had a choice between posting here, or heading to Manchester, finding David Cameron and slapping him around with a wet haddock – I have a feeling he has &lsquoeople’ to stop that kind of thing [...]

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I’ve been promising to write another weird search terms post for a while, but it hasn’t been easy, weird search terms have been thin on the ground. I’m still wondering why that is. Is it possible internet users are becoming more sensible? Surely not.  Anyhoo, it’s taken some time, and these terms are not as [...]

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One of my neighbours has bought a dog. I’m sure they love it, and I’m sure it’s delightful if you get to know it, but, it is still, quite possibly, the single Most Annoying Dog on the Planet. I was going to say it yaps, but that doesn’t adequately convey the unique hideousness of the noise [...]

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