A smidge warmer at the Castle this morn, no white crusty
stuff but ample amounts of the wet stuff, the study is empty of any sort of defunct
digitizers and his Maj is still bringing me worms.
And the interweb thingy is exceeding slow this Tuesday.
Son of a B.....aronet (and alien reptile in disguise) George
(I'm glad I am a rich man) Osborne will try to convince us that “we are still all in
this together” and that plan A is well on target.
He is expected to
confirm that growth will be lower and borrowing much higher than planned.
And allegedly unveil further savings in the welfare budget -
by not increasing all benefits in line with September's 5.2% inflation figures
- or by a squeeze on working tax credits.
When plan A fails and plunges us back into the second bit of
a double dip recession he will blame:
The Eurozone.
The snow.
The heat.
China.
America.
Public sector workers.
The price of sausages.
And us...
Dopey Bercow has had his picture taken; the painting will hang alongside those of his
predecessors Baroness Boothroyd and Lord Martin in Speaker's House.
A £22,000
commission was paid for the portrait, while £15,000 was spent on "framing
and heraldic painting", the Commons says.British artist Brendan Kelly said he wanted to catch the Speaker "mid-action" in the Commons chamber.
Should have used a digital camera then-but don’t forget---you
know the rest....
A large-scale clean-up operation was under way after a
tanker carrying more than 20 tonnes of yeast extract - believed to be Marmite -
overturned on a busy motorway.
Police shut a section of the M1 in South Yorkshire at around
10.15pm last night following the incident, which saw the vehicle crash and spill
its contents onto the carriageway.
Love it, wonder how they knew it was Marmite....
A group of men who were forced to pay for entry to a Playboy
party in Los Angeles while women were admitted for free is suing the company,
claiming sex discrimination.
According to the suit, men were charged $1,000 for admission
to the "Leather Meets Lace" party at the Playboy mansion, while women
were ushered in free of charge, TMZ reported.
The entry policy "promotes harmful, negative
stereotypes," the suit alleges.
Damn, I missed that one....
The Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh (RSS) is working on a soft drink made out of cow urine.
According to the RSS, cow urine can be used to treat a
variety of ailments, such as liver disease and cancer. In fact, Prakash feels
that despite the enormous advertising budgets of popular soft drinks Coca-Cola
and Pepsi, his cow urine concoction will be able to hold its own due to being
“good for mankind.”
Known in Sanskrit as “gau jal,” which means “cow water,” the
soft drink should be available for human consumption by the end of the year.
According to Om Prakash, the head of the department in charge of political cow
piss, the drink will actually be “tasty.”
Bull shit....
Just after 8:15 p.m. fire crews were called to an apartment
building in the 300 block of Northwest Fifth Avenue in the heart of Old Town
Portland Oregon.
A woman was cooking tofu and had rinsed out the pan with water when there was explosion. The blast was so powerful that it blew a 4 by 6 window out of the building and onto the street.
"When they arrived they found a woman sitting outside
crying," Corah said. "She said there'd been an explosion and she was
upset. She had a slight burn on her left hand, but was otherwise not
hurt."
Another reason not to wash up....
And finally:
Toyota has unveiled the 'Fun-Vii', a futuristic interactive
concept car that features a touch-screen door.
The experimental Fun-Vii - which stands for Fun - vehicle,
interactive, internet - was being shown to the public for the first time ahead
of the Tokyo Motor Show which opens this weekend.
Designed to show off how the strides being made in
technology, the concept car works like a personal computer device, recognising
and greeting its driver and allowing them to connect on the move, either with a
tap of a touch-panel door, or through an in-car interface.
Bloody great; how the hell will I get that in the study when
it goes tits up?
And today’s thought:
Angus
