Minimal lack of warm, maximum lack of skywater, middling
atmospheric movement and murky amounts of solar stuff at the Castle this morn,
just returned from the stale bread, gruel and his Maj’s food run dahn Tesco,
and now I know why their
profits are up over the Crimbo thingy-a loaf of bread now costs £1.45, a
bag of what used to be £1 fruit is now £1.99, my deodorant has gorn up 50p
almost everything else costs more than it did before the “C” period.
The only good news is that all the electronics in the
go-Juice bit have gorn tits up and they have had to close it until him/her
upstairs decides that they deserve to keep trading.
Still having to use HMTL to insert pics into posts, I know
what I would like to insert into the tossers at Blogger.
More than 13,000 households across the UK are still using
black-and-white television sets, London
had the highest number of monochrome licences, at 2,715, followed by Birmingham
and Manchester, it said.
The number of
licences issued each year has dwindled from 212,000 in 2000. A total of 13,202
monochrome licences were in force at the start of 2013.
A black-and-white
TV licence costs £49 a year, a colour licence costs £145.50.
TV Licensing spokesman Stephen Farmer said: "It's
remarkable that with the digital switchover complete, 41% of UK households
owning HDTVs and Britons leading the world in accessing TV content over the
internet, more than 13,000 households still watch their favourite programmes on
a black-and-white telly."
Oh no it isn’t-look at the price difference plonker....
Victims could report crimes at the Post Office as 65 front
desks in police stations across the capital are closed amid sweeping budget
cuts of more than £500 million.
Stephen Greenhalgh, the deputy mayor of London, said post
offices could be used to replace the “underused” counters as staff were
typically security-cleared, used to taking cash and often had secure rooms as
well.
The Metropolitan Police, Britain’s biggest force, is looking
for more than 200 contact points in supermarkets, community centres and
libraries where members of the public could access police services as stations
close and is in the early stages of planning a trial with the Post Office.
Oh fucking great, now we will have to wait even fucking
longer in the queue while some blood soaked mugger’s victim tells his story...
Stonemasonry boss Tom
Finlay, 48, was standing 50m from his voluptuous hand-carved Venus
de Milo when a flash of white light and an "almighty kaboom" sent
stone flying through the air.
Mr Finlay said he was amazed her 30kg breasts had survived
the phenomenon.
"There was a clap of thunder and the sculpture blew up
like a rocket-launcher had hit it," he said.
"The lightning looked like a serpent.
"Everything disintegrated but the breasts - all that's
left is what's under her hips," he added.
The 1.5m high
sculpture, made of local porcelanite, was perched on a 6m steel reinforced
column.
Shattered stone was
strewn about the small courtyard at Finlay's Stonemasonry - near the Stuart
Hwy, at Yarrawonga - where the top half of the headless Venus was obliterated
about 2.45pm on Friday.
But her breasts
withstood the 8m drop on to the stone mural below. Only one nipple was damaged.
Mr Finlay said he had not yet decided the fate of the surviving
breasts "I might mount the breasts and hang them in my office." He said.
Whatever floats your boat cobber...
A 76-year-old man
trapped himself in an underground waste paper container in Amsterdam after he
clambered in to hunt for a lottery ticket.
Police said in a
statement the elderly man managed to open the container and climb in Thursday
because he feared he had tossed out a lottery ticket along with other used
paper.
Passers-by heard
him calling for help and alerted the police who freed him with the help of fire-fighters.
Methinks the daft old fart has been visiting too many wacky
baccy cafes.
Four men who were dressed as Smurfs when they were allegedly involved in
an assault at a 7-Eleven have handed themselves into police.
Police
said a 37-year-old Pascoe Vale man had been buying cigarettes at a 7-Eleven
store, on the corner of West and Pascoe streets, when he was approached by a
man painted blue and dressed as a character from the 1980s cartoon, about 1am
on December 16.
The Smurf-dressed man asked for a cigarette and was offered
one, but demanded the man light it before handing it over.
The man refused and was later assaulted.
A police spokeswoman said the alleged victim passed out in
the car park, only realising he had been assaulted when he woke up.
Earlier today, police appealed for the smoking Smurf and his
three Smurf mates to come forward.
Two 19-year-old Broadmeadows men, a 19-year-old Greenvale
man and an 18-year-old Jacana man handed themselves into police after the
appeal.
They are expected to be charged with assault-related
offences, police said.
Smokin Smurfs....
And finally:
Swedish prosecutors have issued international arrest
warrants for two Britons suspected of masterminding a smuggling ring involving
over a ton of Chinese garlic.
The men first shipped the garlic to Norway by boat, where it
entered the country duty-free since it was considered to be in transit,
prosecutor Thomas Ahlstrand said Wednesday. They then drove the approximately
1.2 tons of garlic across the expansive Norwegian-Swedish border, avoiding
customs checks and thus Swedish import duties.
Ahlstrand said the men avoided more than $13.1 million in
Swedish taxes through the scheme. A lengthy police investigation led to the
identification of the two Britons allegedly behind the Swedish operation, which
took place in 2009-10.
It was not the first time smugglers had shown a preference
for garlic from China, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of world output and
is often significantly cheaper than local varieties.
In 2010, Polish authorities seized six containers with 144
tons of Chinese garlic that had been smuggled into the country via the
Netherlands.
It was not immediately clear whether the Polish smuggling
was linked to the Swedish case.
You would have thought that they smelt them coming.
That’s it: I’m orf to have a
butchers at Mingus
And today’s thought:
Police Post
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