Many, many drops of skywater, nary a wheeze of atmospheric
movement, quite a lot of lack of cold and not a glimmer of solar stuff at the
Castle this morn, just returned from the stale bread, gruel and his Maj’s food
run dahn Tesco, even more interweb robots to avoid and according to the “price
check” thingy I managed to save 1p over the other places I could have gorn to spend
my dosh.
Woke up this morn with a really, really big Quasi, don’t
know why I think it must be the loss of the rusty old bag taking its toll.
And after almost two days, endless bleedin hours of mas-terbate
in the arse of Commons and seven hundred “news” items the old fart will be planted
next Wednesday after being dragged through the Smoke on a (part time) gun
carriage.
Of course the Millionaires Club Sideboard won’t tell us how
much we are going to fork out for the forking waste of time and money because
as usual they don’t have a clue.
Roll on next Thursday....
Britain has been ranked as the second most advanced country
in the world in a new measure designed to rival GDP.
And the UK outstrips the United States, Germany, France and
Japan for overall progress in living standards, infrastructure and individual
opportunity.
Only Sweden scores more highly overall in the new “Social
Progress Index” (SPI), which ranks 50 leading countries by combining figures on
everything from health and crime to broadband access and freedom of speech.
According to the authors, Britain’s constant efforts to
“straddle” Europe and America have made it one if the best places to live in
the world overall.
Oh har-fucking-har, you can tell they don’t live here....
A pig pardoned by
the Piggly Wiggly grocery chain and sent to a farm to live out the rest of its
life has been shot to death after it escaped from its pen in Charleston County.
Deputies said the
700-pound pig named Maggie was killed Tuesday afternoon by a 26-year-old man,
who told investigators he was afraid the pig was going to cause a wreck.
But witnesses told
deputies the man said he was going to kill the pig and take it to a local
butcher, then went home to get a pistol. They also told investigators the man
appeared to be trying to load the dead animal into his vehicle before more
people arrived.
Deputies wrote a
citation for malicious injury to animals that carries a $1,092 fine.
“Malicious injury”,
a bit of an understatement methinks...
Allegedly BBC workers are fuming after being told they are
not allowed to pick up hot sausages with tongs or make their own toast – in
case they burn themselves.
The BBC Club, set up as a private-members group for
employees in 1924, was put in charge of the Beeb canteen on April 2.
But just a week later, staff at the Media Centre in White
City, West London, are complaining at the “health and safety crackdown” that
means they cannot pick up sausages – even with tongs.
BBC bosses defended the apparently new restrictions, claiming that such actions had “never” been allowed.
Which does explain a lot....
And finally:
Apparently Ali Razeghi, a Tehran scientist has registered
"The Aryayek Time Travelling Machine" with the state-run Centre for
Strategic Inventions.
The device can predict the future in a print out after
taking readings from the touch of a user, he told the Fars state news agency.
Razeghi, 27, said the device worked by a set of complex algorithms
to "predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with
98 percent accuracy".
According to the “scientist” "My invention easily fits
into the size of a personal computer case and can predict details of the next
5-8 years of the life of its users. It will not take you into the future it
will bring the future to you."
Razeghi says Iran's government can predict the possibility
of a military confrontation with a foreign country, and forecast the
fluctuation in the value of foreign currencies and oil prices by using his new
invention.
Not working that well is it Razeghi; back to the drawing
board: but you probably know that already.....
That’s it: I’m orf to edit some
Google maps
And today’s thought:
This tinnitus is giving me the hump
Angus
