Warmish, calmish and darkish
at the Castle this morn, the furnace is nicely stocked with fat teenagers, the
study is nicely stocked with duff differential do-dahs, and his Maj has
discovered the joy of sitting on the bird nesting box-just in case, still it
keeps him orf the streets.
The falling down and lying in
vomit thing is much better this day, that’ll teach you.
Well the Piss Poor Policies
Millionaires Club Coalition has come up with a way to spend £47 million of our
squids to “prevent” the problem occurring again.
Moves to create some 800
permanent sites across England for Traveller families will be announced today
in an effort to defuse community tensions with settled residents.
Under the £47m initiative,
new locations will be found from Cornwall to Co Durham for Travellers,
preventing them from having to put their caravans on unauthorised land.
There are believed to be
nearly 19,000 Traveller caravans in England, about 20 per cent of them on
unauthorised sites. The award of cash to local authorities and housing
associations is combined with stronger powers for councils to remove illegal
sites and to stop people applying retrospectively for planning permission.
The money will be used to
provide 884 pitches, of which 617 will be new and 167 will be refurbished. A
further £13m is being set aside to develop further pitches. Ministers say that
with previous planning laws Whitehall told councils how many sites to allocate
to Travellers – a top-down approach that forced some councils to encroach on
the Green Belt.
Andrew Stunell, the
Communities minister, told The Independent: "If there are enough
authorised and approved sites for the Traveller population, there is no need
for an unauthorised or illegal settlement."
Yeah right...
And:
Told delegates in Washington
DC yesterday that Britain will not tolerate an enforced closure of the 34-mile
Strait of Hormuz, where 20 per cent of the world's oil passes through.
Tehran threatened to cut off
the waterway this month in response to US and EU sanctions against the regime's
suspected nuclear weapons programme.
Mr Hammond warned Iran of
Britain's "determination" to keep the Strait open in a speech at the
Atlantic Council.
Ooh scary.....
And apparently:
Has found that past or
present drug use doesn't seem to damage middle-aged brains, British researchers
studied the mental sharpness of thousands of 50-year-old subjects, and found
that those who had used illicit drugs—mainly marijuana—actually performed
better than others on tests of memory and other brain functions, Reuters reports. Around a quarter of test subjects said they
had taken drugs at some point in their lives; 6% were still using drugs in their
'40s.
The middle-aged tokers may
have scored higher than others because the drug users tended to have a higher
education level than non-users, the researchers say. "The results seem to
suggest that past or even current illicit drug use is not necessarily
associated with impaired cognitive functioning in early middle age," the
lead researcher says. "However, our results do not exclude possible
harmful effects in some individuals who may be heavily exposed to drugs over
longer periods of time."
Smokin.....it’s done me no
harm-and I never even inhaled.....
Police in Oklahoma City say a
man was jailed for exposing himself to an employee at a maternity store where
he was trying on clothing.
Authorities say 48-year-old
Jeffrey Don Watson of Norman was booked Wednesday on a complaint of indecent
exposure and was freed on $2,000 bail.
Police records allege Watson
was trying on bras and dresses at the store at the Penn Square Mall on Dec. 27
when he asked the store's female manager for assistance in the dressing room.
The Oklahoman reports the
manager told police that when she entered the dressing room Watson exposed
himself to her.
Police say Watson has been
arrested several times before on lewdness complaints.
www.confused.numpty
A morbidly obese man who fell through his lounge room floor
sued the Department of Housing and claimed discrimination on the grounds the
property was unable to support his 250kg frame.
Wayne
Douglas told the Human Rights Commission that the department, which had
allocated him a four-bedroom home in Macquarie Fields, had failed to provide
him with a home suitable for his weight.
The commission terminated the
case, so Mr Douglas went to the Federal
Magistrates Court which heard evidence that the assigned home had termite
damage and, when a carer moved some furniture so Mr Douglas could sweep the
floor, he fell through to the ground below in November 2006.
Mr Douglas did not pay rent
to live in the home - which the department had considered suitable due to it
having a large shower recess - for almost six months.
Last night Mr Douglas said he
suffered severe leg injuries in the incident, which led to blood clots, and he
was still suffering as a result of the fall.
The court found Mr Douglas
was free to refuse the property and apply for alternative residential
tenancies.
It also found Mr Douglas had
imposed conditions on where he lived, having asked the department to find him a
home in the Macquarie Fields area. His case was dismissed and costs would be
considered, court documents showed.
"They gave me a house
that was termite-ridden, I went through the floor," Mr Douglas said.
"You might remember me,
I was on Today Tonight
they said I was too fat to be a dad.
"I am still in the
house, it is still shit."
Wanker....
And finally:
A new eatery called 'The
S***house' dishes up its oriental delicacies served in replica toilets and
bedpans.
The critics might pan it, but
one restaurant in the Chinese capital Beijing has got food fans going potty for
it.
The plop-up restaurant has
queues around the block as punters prove that it's more than just a flush in
the pan.
Co-owner Feng Lu said: 'We
had the idea when we were discussing one of the worst restaurants we'd ever
eaten in and one of us said it had been a real toilet. So we decided to see if
we could make a restaurant that was just one big toilet.
"We can't quite believe
how successful it's been. Now we're talking about opening a chain," added
Feng.
Shouldn’t that be “pulling a chain”?
That’s it: I’m orf to try some herbal baccy
And today’s thought man:
Angus
