January 2010
31 posts
“The ‘semi-colon’ { ; } - is it pointless? Does it hark back to a dark age?...”
– Christopher England; said that just!
The Flies! The Flies!
They tell me odd things are happening. It’s true that birds have been singing all through the night where once they’d sing from dawn. The phrase ‘dawn chorus’ is for the birds. Or was.
They tell me that rats are the first to be aware that there is trouble on board a ship, as they rush up from below to get to safety. The phrase ‘rats deserting a sinking ship’ is for the rats.
Flies. Now, my...
“Hmmmm. Nice to see on More 4 News that my ol’ stomping ground is still a hotbed...”
– Christopher England just said that!
Sentencing: I'm so glad to see the public are starting to backlash against the weak and pointless sentences being handed out to those who have killed others.
Question: Why when the Tories win the next election, won't they bring in more proper and appropriate sentencing?
Life: should mean life. It does for the victims.
“When teams of bullies surround a man going to work and scream “scab”...”
– Christopher England just said that!
The END OF THE WORLD is coming. Not.
I still don’t ‘get’ this need to believe in a coming END OF THE WORLD!
It seems that an END OF THE WORLD features strongly in the belief systems of most of the dominant religions that control the people on this planet. Whether dressed up as Armageddon or Judgement Day or whatever, it doesn’t matter, but there’s always an element of CRISIS and DOOM in there...
A note to "Uncle Ray", R.I.P
Dear Ray,
Very recently I heard via email from two different people who I’d not seen or spoken to for ages, like serious ages, decades, like since before email was invented! They’d kindly tracked me down in order to pass on the news that you died a few days before.
I know that you and I had drifted as friends and relegated ourselves to the Christmas and Birthday card exchanges...
“It’s dawned on me that ‘social networking’ or (more properly) ‘social media’,...”
– Christopher England just asked that!
“If you imagine you are a microbe living on a chicken, and that chicken is on a...”
– Christopher England just said that!
More sad Radio Caroline legacy
I write about all manner of subjects ranging from how evil the state of Israel is to be slowly killing the Palestinians in Gazza, through the global conspiracy and pretence about climate change, and down to what’s on the telly or the radio. Certain aspects of certain more piratical radio operations I know a lot about as I was actually there! (I also happen to be damn good at knowing how to...
Shut the fuck up in cinemas
How are we going to get people to shut the fuck up in cinemas?
I’m not being old here, ok? I go to a cinema, right, and I sit there because I want to watch the film. I don’t want to hear people chattering away on the phone, do I?
I don’t get it. I mean, I realise that kids will keep their phones texting away during lessons at school, but that’s ‘cos they are forced to be there and are bored. As...
“Forget about the body scanners!
I quite like the idea of having to change into...”
– Christopher England just sat naked to say that!
In the bath with BBC Radio Merseyside
I may have mentioned this in public before, but if not here goes. In order to listen to random radio stations and get a gist of what they do, I have a bath.
I tune the radio to something, place it completely out of reach and get in the bath and soak and listen. When I’m tempted to smash the radio receiver or tune to something else, I can’t because I don’t want to get out of...
OMG, they killed CityTalk!
Bloody hell. Daytime CityTalk here in Liverpool is now a complete joke. They’ve sacked all the talking presenters and a typical daytime now looks like this:
Roughly top of each hour o’clock – it’s never exact top of the hour because it’s slowly getting longer because nobody is actually running anything to clock time – so, at :00 you get a 4 minute news then 4 minutes of...
“I’m confused. Barak Obama, the President of the United States of America, is...”
– Christopher England just mused that!
Customer: A bag of chips please.
Server: Do you want salt and vinegar with that?
Customer: Yes please.
Server: There you are sir, £51 please.
Customer: £51? £51? You've made a mistake! It's just a quid for a bag of chips.
Server: Yes, sir. And £50 for the salt.
(A weather joke originally, but since 'salt' also means a decent girl in street speak, this joke is multi-functional in its appeal!)
Equality or not?
So… a lot of the job application forms, mainly those put out by the politically correct luvvies that run the public sector, suggest that applicants will not be considered if there is any evidence either on their application form or at the interview stage that the applicant might hold views that may be racist, sexist or against equality.
(With me so far?)
Ok, how is it possible that any chap...
The Hacker's Diet →
Have you noticed that Weightwatchers and the like are mainly male-free? So what is a man to do if he’s a big fat bastard and is in need of coaching to reduce to just being a bastard?
Well, here’s one for guys, and also for the techies and nerds. It’s a brilliant understanding of the machine that is the human being and some strong advice on diet. However, most impressive is the on-line tracker...
WatchNimble or what? I wonder if she lap dances. Hubba hubba.
“So, the lovely British Gas make obscene amounts of profit, forcing my bill up...”
– Christopher England just let off gas about that!
Who is Christopher England?
As you will see from the archive I produce a blog a day on random things that interest me. Some of it is childish and trivial, almost rude, and at other times it’s a structured rant about something. Maybe I should separate these into their own specialist sections rather than mixing them all up together, but that would require me to structure myself a bit. I’m not too good at that!
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Welcome to the 'tens'
Here we are in the ‘tens’ then. The ‘noughties’ felt a bit odd to say. Even ‘tens’ doesn’t feel as warm and fluffy as anything that can happily end in a ‘-ties’. I guess I was brought up on ‘fifties’ or ‘sixties’ or … well, you get the picture. Since the year 2000 (which logically should be pronounced...
December 2009
31 posts
