Masses of skywater, more atmospheric movement, meagre
amounts of lack of cold and a minimum of solar stuff at the Castle this morn,
the butler is inserting fat, carbon neutral teenagers into the furnace on his
new conveyer belt and his Maj has decided that my head is a nice warm place to
sleep during the dark thing.
More than 1,300 emergency heart devices in public places
like shopping centres may not work because of a battery fault, warns a UK
health regulator.
According to The Medicines and Healthcare products
Regulatory Agency says first aiders should check their Samaritan PAD 300/300P
defibrillators.
The company was alerted about the fault by person who
noticed a problem when they were doing a routine spot check of the equipment.
They can turn on or off when not in use, draining
the battery.
No other HeartSine Technologies Ltd automated external
defibrillator products are affected.
The following serial number ranges are affected
with one or both of the identified faults:
0400000501 to 0700032917 inclusive
08A00035000 to 10A00070753 inclusive
10C00200000 to 10C00210318 inclusive
These were distributed around the UK between August
2004 and December 2010 with a warranted life of up to seven years.
Or not, as the case may be....let’s hope there is an AA guy
selling expensive “”memberships” when your old ticker goes tits up while out
buying Crimbo presents.
And the first fifteen minutes (one quarter) of the “programme”
was wasted on a pointless ‘massderbate’ on whether we should have Bishops without
dangly bits.
Allegedly only 12 percent of Blighty’s sinners attend those
large, cold, empty buildings with bells on regularly; which means that 88 percent
of us don’t give a cardinal’s cock who flounces about in a long red frock pursued
by small boys with long white frocks.
I am all for those
who wish to believe in a “Deity” that may or may not exist, and I am 100
percent in favour of believers who want to save themselves from fire and
brimstone by attending church, synagogue, mosque or any other centre of wishful
thinking.
But, please, please don’t expose me to your faiths, hopes
and lack of charity which is prevalent in the very small minority of “look at
me I am holy” bum holes who seem to think that the next world is far more
important than what is left of this one.
But one interesting fact I did discover is that the
Irritable Bowel Twins (Iain Duncan Smith) is a practising Catholic; which does
explain a lot about his Piss Poor Policies at the Dept of Witless Pillocks
(DWP).
Nadger Nadine is in even more bovver with the Con party than
she was before, it seems that dumbed dahn Dorries who is currently staying in a
luxury five-star hotel in Australia after she became the first contestant to be
voted off the ITV reality television show on Wednesday night may be
contractually obliged by ITV to remain there while the game-show is on for
another fortnight.
A spokesman for ITV said they would know by this morning
whether Ms Dorries will stay in Australia or not for the remainder of the show.
Should have read the fine print; personally I would like to
see the bollock chewing nearly ex-MP kept in the outback until she finally
grows up and finds herself a proper job”.
Construction workers in China have built a new road around a
five-storey apartment block after two residents refused to leave.
Construction workers in the country's Zhejiang province
surrounded their five-storey building with asphalt, leaving motorists to
navigate an unlikely obstacle.
China's People's Daily newspaper said the couple
refused to leave because they were unhappy with the compensation package they
were offered.
Their neighbours are understood to have moved on, although
some of their apartments have been left standing.
Once complete, the highway through Xiazhangyang
village, on China's eastern coast, will lead to Wenling railway station, which
is served by China's super-fast bullet trains.
But the good news is that they will excellent access to the
chuff-chuff network...
Apparently Japan's era of shoguns and samurai is over, but
the country does have one, or maybe two, surviving ninjas.
Ninjas passed skills from father to son - but today's say
they will be the last.
Japan's ninjas were all about mystery. Hired by noble
samurai warriors to spy, sabotage and kill, their dark outfits usually covered
everything but their eyes, leaving them virtually invisible in shadow - until
they struck.
Ninjas were also famed swordsmen. They used their
weapons not just to kill but to help them climb stone walls, to sneak into a
castle or observe their enemies.
Most of their missions were secret so there are
very few official documents detailing their activities. Their tools and methods
were passed down for generations by word of mouth.
Using weapons such as shuriken, a sharpened
star-shaped projectile, and the fukiya blowpipe, they were silent but
deadly.
I’ve had more than a few of those but luckily I have my Deoest
fart proof draws.
And finally:
A jewellery store in downtown Tokyo has a pure gold revolving "tree"
covered in Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse, Tinker Bell and Cinderella.
The tree-like
ornament is made of 40 kg (88 pounds) of pure gold, standing about 2.4 meters
(7.9 ft) high and 1.2 meters in diameter. It is decorated with pure gold plate
silhouette cut outs of 50 popular Disney characters and draped with ribbons
made of gold leaf.
The price tag? A
mere 350 million yen ($4.2 million).
And today’s thought:
Just like home
Angus
