Post one grand plus one.
The first layer of white crusty stuff, an absence of
atmospheric movement, a vast amount of solar stuff and not an atom of skywater
at the Castle this morn.
Had an “interesting” day on Monday, my lovely young lady
arrived to trim what is left of my hair, the interweb thingy went totally tits
up, and after a couple of hours I gave up completely, so I decided to “sort out”
the study and as I was dismantling shelves and stuff the phone rang and it was
a mate who was in more than a state of panic, his laptop had frozen and all he
had was a “page” telling him that the Police had taken over his computer
because of “illegal use”, but if he paid them £100 it would all go away and he
could compute away to his heart’s content.
Luckily he didn’t oblige and brought the laptop to me, it
was of course a scam, so I did the old ctrl-alt-del thing and ended up with
just his desktop background, the next step was to shut dahn the offending pieces
of electronics and press f7/f8 during boot; boot up in “safe mode” and do a
restore to a couple of days before-sorted.
So beware; if it
happens to you, follow the advice above, and do not click on anything if you
are attacked by these thieving, fuckwit tosspots they are only after your
money.
Lord Tyler who used to be the Liberal Democrats’ former
shadow Leader of the Commons has come up with a cunning plan to totally balls
up the electoral system.
He wants to extend the right to vote to 16 and 17 year olds
in all elections and referenda in the United Kingdom.
The Voting Age (Comprehensive Reduction) Bill which is being
published would make this change with a simple amendment to electoral law.
Lord Tyler’s Bill was backed Lord Adonis, by former Labour
Transport Secretary, Lord Lucas, former Conservative Government Whip, and
Independent Crossbench Peer and Baroness Young of Hornsey.
Lord Adonis said: “Young people should be able to vote at
16, so that political debate and democracy fully include them, and so that they
start to consider and discuss while still at school how to use their vote.”
A Cabinet Office spokesman said: “The Government has no
plans to change the current voting age.”
Nice to see that Cupid Stunts are still rife in Gov.....
According to the shit for brains MPs on a typical litre of
petrol costing 138.3p, 81p goes to the Treasury in fuel duty and VAT.
Under current Treasury plans, duty on petrol and diesel will
rise by 3p a litre on Jan1 next year.
Motoring groups and campaigners, including Conservative MPs,
are urging the Chancellor to scrap the planned rise, which they say will
squeeze household budgets further and dampen Britain’s economic recovery.
The Commons library, which is politically neutral, tracks
data on fuel and produces regular reports for MPs on prices and tax levels.
Its latest report shows that, after gradually falling over
the summer, pump prices are close to levels seen in April, when a typical litre
of petrol cost 141.7p.
The library’s researchers report that this year’s higher
prices have mainly been caused by rising global oil prices, forced up by
political tensions in the Middle East, especially over Iran’s nuclear
programme.
However, tax has contributed to longer-term rises: “The
price increases since late 2010 have been as a consequence of rising oil
prices, the weaker pound and increases in duty and VAT,” the report said.
The library reported that overall, British fuel duty was the
second highest in the European Union.
According to data from the European Commission, British
diesel is the most expensive in the EU, “despite relatively low pre-tax
prices”, the report said.
Petrol prices are the fourth highest in the EU, after
Greece, the Netherlands and Italy.
A spokesman said: “The Government recognises that the rising
price of petrol is a significant part of households’ day-to-day spending.
“Since coming to office the Government has listened to the
concerns of motorists about high pump prices and acted. Fuel is now 10p a litre
lower than under the previous government’s plans.”
Bollocks...
When husband Jian
Feng saw his newborn baby for the first time he was horrified.
The girl was so
ugly he refused to believe he and his stunning wife could have produced such a
child.
And he rounded on
his partner, accusing her of having an affair.
But she told him
the terrible truth, her good looks were due to £62,000 of plastic surgery and
the baby was indeed theirs.
Furious Feng took
her to court claiming she had tricked him into marriage – and won his lawsuit.
Feng said: “I
married my wife out of love, but as soon as we had our first daughter, we began
having marital issues.
“Our daughter was
incredibly ugly, to the point where it horrified me.” He told lawyers his wife
had fooled him by having plastic surgery to make her beautiful and it was only
the birth of their daughter that gave her away.
Incredibly, the
court agreed and awarded Feng £75,000 after his wife admitted she had not told
him about the surgery.
A judge in the
northern Chinese court said she had tricked Feng into marrying her – and also
granted a divorce. He ruled that since Feng had not been aware of the surgery,
his wife had used “false premises”.
Your genes will
find you out...
A nun with a
gambling addiction was accused of stealing $128,000 from two rural parishes
where she worked.
Sister Mary Anne
Rapp was treated for a gambling addiction and is in recovery, her order said
Monday, but she still faces a criminal charge of grand larceny following the
thefts from the St. Mary and St. Mark congregations. She was expected to plead
not guilty at an initial appearance in Kendall Town Court on Monday evening.
In 2010, two linked parishes were assigned a new pastor who
sought a routine audit, said Kevin Keenan, spokesman for the Roman Catholic
Diocese of Buffalo. The audit turned "some irregularities" that were
turned over to a county prosecutor, he said.
Rapp is accused of taking the money between 2006 and 2010,
Keenan said.
She was placed on leave from her position as pastoral
associate in February 2011 and fired in April 2011, he said. St. Mary's in
Holley and St. Mark's in nearby Kendall serve a combined total of about 600
families.
Officials believe Rapp spent the money at casinos. She is a
member of the Sisters of St. Francis, based in Lewiston, north of Buffalo.
Sister Edith Wyss, provincial minister of the 138-member order, said that when
Rapp was placed on leave, she agreed to seek treatment for a gambling
addiction.
"She spent 9 1/2 months in an in-patient treatment
program and has maintained her recovery in the year since," Wyss said.
Wyss said the order does not condone the conduct but
continues to pray for Sister Mary Anne as she deals with her addiction.
That'll help the
poor and starving who are poorer and even hungrier whilst “sister” Rapp lived
it up...
A US company is
combining baby grows with mops so that babies can polish the floor as they
learn to crawl.
Website BetterThanPants.com
is hoping to clean up with its £25 invention which it calls the Baby Mop.
Inspired by a spoof
Japanese advert for a similar invention, it promises to "teach your baby a
strong work ethic early on in their life".
And it adds that
the baby "will get a nice workout, burn off energy, and do muscle toning.
And sleep better too."
Mike Parker from
BetterThanPants.com said: "We have sold about 100 in just one month since
adding it to our site.
"So far all
the feedback from customers has been very positive; however we get some
negative emails surrounding the idea of the actual product.
"The idea
formed to make the actual product from a Japanese commercial on the web.
"I believe the
idea was submitted as part of a contest on ridiculous inventions in Japan but
was never actually sold anywhere.
"But this is
the real deal; it's a legit product and is proving very, very popular."
Stick a broom
handle up its arse and you could do cobwebs on the ceiling as well....
Have a bash at Face
Yoga, developed by Annelise Hagen, who calls is the ultimate face-lift.
The New York yoga instructor says her technique is meant to
be a natural alternative to Botox and cosmetic procedures, which cost Americans
billions of dollars every year. She started working on her unique set of facial
exercises after she learned that her students, most of them well-educated
professionals, were practicing yoga, but also getting Botox shots during their
lunch breaks to hide their wrinkles.
Hagen just didn’t feel that was in the spirit of yoga, so
she decided to create a proper alternative. Based on the premise that, like any
other muscles in the human body, facial muscles need exercise to stay toned,
face yoga offers a range of exercises to help people looking younger for
longer.
Just make sure there are no horses around...
The Hubble Bubble telescope thingy has snapped the faint
irregular galaxy NGC 3738, which is located about 12 million light-years from
Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, which turns out to be a Dwarf galaxy
giving birth to oodles of new stars.
NGC 3738 is a type of galaxy known as a blue compact dwarf,
researchers said. Unlike elliptical galaxies or spirals, blue compact dwarfs
tend to be chaotic in appearance, lacking distinctive features such as central
bulges or spiral arms. They're thought to resemble some of the universe's
earliest galaxies and could provide clues about how stars looked shortly after the
Big Bang, researchers said.
Lubbly Jubbly, hope there aren’t any rugby players about....
And today’s thought:
Who gives a shit...?
