October 2009
31 posts
WatchI don’t know whether to be excited or not about the oncoming final part of the Zeitgeist Movie. It’s about the revolution. That’s what we as ordinary humans have yet to do instead of being manipulated by ‘them’.
The original movie was interesting and well put together though. If you’ve got 2 hours to spare it’s here at http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ and...
Why aren't there any revolutionary pirate radio...
Broadcasting radio without a licence can be fun, although of course you shouldn’t try this at home. As long as technically your transmissions are not causing anybody any grief, as in, you aren’t causing maydays from aircraft to go unheard or the little old lady next door to not be able to watch Corrie, then what’s the problem? Nothing. But it is against the law and you can be...
My Trolley Rage
Okay, I’m getting to grips with this shopping lark, but I am suffering from trolley rage.
Supermarkets. You get a trolley, walk around the stacks of food containers that have inside them the product of your desire.
You then queue up at a check-out behind some stupid fool who has a trolley full of items that won’t scan properly, and despite the ringing of the bell twice by the check-out girlie...
“Guillermo Vargas Habacuc - now there’s a name millions across the internet...”
– Christopher England just rhetorically asked that!
The hounding of Chris Moyles
Chris Moyles is now the longest serving breakfast show presenter on BBC Radio 1, and with every additional month he sits in the morning hot seat the clucking neigh-sayers (or is that “nay-sayers”?) get louder. Despite his huge audience figures, they say “it’s only a matter of time”, “his days are numbered”, “not long now” with obsessive...
Marry the Ripper? WTF?
Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, brutally murdered 13 women over a four year period, horribly mutilating their bodies, and was later diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. He’s serving life in prison. Well, in Broadmoor high security psychiatric hospital, actually. He’s been there for 30 years, with possible release on the cards in the next few years.
Now then. In that time he has had an...
“I like my desk untidy. I know where everything is. It doesn’t distract from the...”
– Christopher England just asked that!
Ikea .... please, no!
Ikea is a ‘Scandinavian’ self-assembly furniture shop. Well, it’s lots of shops. Huge shops. They are making an absolute fortune for the owners, because somehow they discovered how to tap into the female shopping gene.
Females are able to ignore all logic and danger when their shopping gene (or maybe it’s a hormone, if there’s any difference between genes and hormones in women) has kicked in....
“When will they be tattooing us?
One of the most frightening things happening...”
– Christopher England just asked that!
Motivate to Metric
Good to hear that Ireland has removed all the silly imperial road signs spouting stuff like ‘miles per hour’ speed limits and has properly replaced them with metric signs showing ‘kilometres per hour’.
What happened to our move in the UK to metric measurements? We were slowly phasing out that old fashioned confusing imperial rubbish, but it seems to have come to a screaming halt. For a while on...
Please can I flash forward on FlashForward?
Oh man. I’m bloody hooked aren’t I? I can’t stop watching FlashForward (showing on Five in the UK, Mondays at 9pm). Sigh.
Annoyingly, the episodes are only running a few days behind the showings in America so I’m as confused as all the forums and speculation fansites as to what’s going on. At least with other shows that are usually running six months to a year...
Cunning Chinese make fat people explode
Whilst the world spends its time staring suspiciously at anybody of an Arabic(ish) origin or appearing to be dressed in an Islamic way (especially carrying a rucksack), something far more sinister, and until now unseen, has been going on.
The real enemy are the Chinese. (Ok, obviously, not really really, but go with the humour on this one!)
I mean, let’s face it, they don’t like our way of life,...
“Potatoes. I used to think potatoes were just a white mash inside a skin. Then I...”
– Christopher England just discovered that!
Do you believe they put a man on the moon?
So, like, 40 years ago man walked on the moon, strolling around looking at things, driving buggies all over it, planting flags, playing golf and bringing parts of it back.
Then, 40 years later we start crashing unmanned rockets into the moon to see how soft the surface might be and to try to see if there’s any sign of water there.
We even miscalculate about how much debris will spray...
And god so loved, erm, who?
With love and respect to the victims of the recent earthquake and tsumami, or the 70,000+ humans that were destroyed by the cyclone in Burma a few years ago and inspired (if that’s the right word) me to think about them, let’s talk about natural disasters. As in, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, hurricanes, cyclones, etc., etc. When the initial time spent telling the...
Roy's the boy - Roy Martin on The Bee
Last Saturday afternoon, I happened to tune to 107 The Bee, a Darwen, Lancashire based commercial radio station. Doing a one-off cover programme was Roy Martin.
I’ve no idea how the normal presenter sounds or what features are usually in the show, but Roy’s show seemed to consist of a stream of dedications and texts from people requesting particular songs. I was shocked and amazed...
“It’s a billion times less complex than current UK law, yet a little complex to...”
– Christopher England just said that!
Beware the Dixons Magnet
Once upon a time I bought things because of what I refer to as the ‘Dixons magnet’. Dixons used to be the name of a popular High Street store selling gadgets and gizmos, TVs, radios, computers, iPods, etc., etc. Currys is now the nearest replacement to Dixons, I suppose, or maybe even Maplin. Mmmm. Maplin.
You get the idea. It can be anywhere. The ‘Dixons magnet’ works on a man, like a handbag or...
The Grate (!) Toilet Seat Debate
Men and women are different to each other. There are a number of places that this difference causes a little friction. One is in the toilet. The difference I’m thinking about causes no end of fights, arguments and divorces. The fight boils down to whether the toilet seat should be left down or left up at the end of that toilet’s use.
It is mainly the cry of women to have the seat left down, and...
“Lordy. In a conversation with the mother of a 19 year old girl who had not...”
– Christopher England was just shocked by that!
September 2009
30 posts
“There’s news that some folk are to use the net to reproduce a radio...”
– Christopher England just asked that!
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