A drop of solar stuff, not a sign of wet stuff and more than
a bit of lack of cold stuff at the Castle this last of the summer wine morn.
Finally managed to drive dahn to the “recycling centre”,
unloaded the Honda, made it back to the Castle and spent the rest of the day
‘resting’ on the four-poster watching some of the sporty thing up in the Smoke
and catching up on some kip.
Just got back from the stale bread, gruel and his Maj’s food
run dahn Tesco, his fave Whiskas meat in jelly has gorn up from three squids to
three squids and 39p’s-robbing bastards...
Allegedly the Student Loans Company (SLC) has taken a lesson
from the Piss Poor Policies Millionaires Club Coalition math prowess and
managed to take tens of millions of pounds extra from graduates.
Tens of thousands of people have been advised to apply for
refunds from the Student Loans Company (SLC) after it emerged that the firm had
collected an additional £36.5m from them in 2010-11 alone.
More than 63,000 former students carried on repaying from
their salary, often for months, after they had paid off loans taken out to fund
university education.
The average amount overpaid was £577, although several
graduates claim they paid out several thousand pounds more than they owed.
And of course it is “someone else’s fault”.
According to the SLC the problem is caused because HMRC only
tells it how much has been paid by each borrower once a year, usually a few
weeks after the financial year ends in April. The time lag means graduates who
settled their loans during the year may not have their direct payments stopped
until several months later, when the SLC has received confirmation of how much
they have paid.
Wankers....
The Royal Mail has
promised to paint a post box in Olympic cycle champion Laura Trott's home town
gold, after first painting one in the wrong place.
Trott, with
cyclists Dani King and Joanna Rowsell, won a gold medal in the Olympic team
pursuit contest.
The Royal Mail
decided to paint a post box in Harlow, where Trott was born.
But after Trott
tweeted that her hometown is Cheshunt, Herts, the firm said it would paint one
there also.
All the employees of the Royal Fail have to be able to do
one thing-read, and they can’t even do that properly, still maybe things will
improve once it becomes privatised....
It seems that Le French are not chuffed with Blighty’s
doings at the big sporty thing.
France’s cycling chief, Isabelle Gautheron, said she is
‘perplexed’ by the dominance in the Velodrome by the likes of Victoria
Pendleton and Sir Chris Hoy.
And journalists across the Channel have cast aspersions over
what they might be ‘missing’ that has propelled British athletes to triumph.
Last week French president Françoise Hollande taunted
Britain over his country’s early success before Team GB’s first gold, saying
London had ‘rolled out a red carpet for French athletes to win medals’.
But after the tide turned, Ms Gautheron said of British
cyclists: ‘They have not dominated the last four years – they were among the
best teams with Australia, Germany and France. Here, they crush everyone.
Girls, especially, are four seconds ahead in the pursuit.
Ouest France journalist Thierry Vautrat posted on Twitter:
‘Ennis? She’s a bit unreal. Wonder how she could win the 800m so easily, with
no pain. Surprising.’
Oh dear what a shame-Na-na-na-na-na....
Three giant billboards used in a road safety campaign have
apparently caused offence, informing Australian motorists 'not to drive like a
knob/ w-anchor or a cock'.
The signs, placed prominently on a motorway running between
South Australia and Victoria, have attracted a host of complaints from
residents.
It prompted independent MP Bob Such to write a letter to
road safety minister Jennifer Rankine, on behalf of his constituency, calling
for their removal.
However the removal demand has been rejected by South
Australia officials, with Ms Rankine arguing that the results of the campaign
'vastly outweigh it being labelled as irresponsible'.
The campaign has shown encouraging results, with a reported
reduction in drink driving, speeding and seatbelt non-compliance.
Apart from the wankers, knobs and cocks of course....
Kids at the Uruti School in New Zealand hosted an annual
fundraising pig hunt which is a bit odd, but as part of the pig hunt
festivities students participated in a contest that involved dressing dead
possums in bizarre costumes -- including, a boxing possum, an artist possum,
and a dead-possum bride.
While New Zealand’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals were not amused, the school raised over $8,000 -- twice what it had
hoped to bring in.
And the Barby went down like a dead possum….
And finally:
A woman was left shocked when she discovered that what she
thought was a banana in her bathroom was actually a 4ft long boa constrictor.
Stacey Way, 28, was cleaning the bathroom floor when she
noticed a yellow object next to the water pipe.
She assumed it was a banana her toddler had shoved down the
side, and went to fetch her gloves to pick it up, but forgot about it.
A few days later she was bathing her two daughters and wiped
the floor again when she suddenly saw the object move.
On closer inspection, she realised that the 'banana'
actually had a mouth - and that it was a snake.
She went to a nearby reptile centre to ask for help but they
were forced to call the RSPCA, who told them the floorboards would need to be
removed to rescue the beast.
But as the property was rented, the officer advised her to
leave a tub full of water on the bathroom floor to entice the snake out.
When Stacey checked a few hours later the creature had fully
emerged and the reptile centre were able to collect it from her home in
Parkstone, Dorset.
Banana; Boa close…..
That’s it: I’m orf to have a look at
virtual reality
And today’s thought:
It’s OK your prostate’s fine Olympics
Angus
