Finally! A politician I have no hesitation endorsing and who, if I lived there, I would actually vote for!
– Perry de Havilland at a ruinous piss up get together of thoughtful political analysts.
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June 19th, 2013 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Prize-winning author Alice Walker gives support to David Icke on Desert Island Discs. Not a headline you see very often. For those that don’t know, Alice Walker is a “an American author, poet, womanist, and activist”, Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC radio programme in which celebrities say which eight records (look it up) they would take with them to a desert island (I suppose the gramophone must be one of those wind-up ones), and David Icke is a former Green Party spokesman who believes that, among others, the Queen, President George H. W. Bush, President George W. Bush, Al Gore and Boxcar Willie are really twelve-foot alien lizards. May 23rd, 2013 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
An unexpected pleasure, leftists chocking at the sight of people celebrating Margaret Thatcher, has just got even better. The Daily Mail informs us that the “Thatcher haircut” is the rage in central London, with one salon claiming to be overwhelmed by demand.
April 29th, 2013 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
When I read this…
So the packets of nuts labelled as… nuts… are being recalled for not telling people allergic to nuts not to eat the nuts. I would have much preferred if Mr. Waheed Hassan had instead issued the following statement:
But sadly, he did not say that. April 26th, 2013 | 31 comments - (Comments are closed)
I looked at my screen this morning and saw this…
Sayeth the news article and my immediate thought is… why? If the White House… hell, let us think big… and indeed all of Washington DC was Just sayin’ April 24th, 2013 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
“The North Korean government has issued haircut guidance for its citizens and chosen 28 hairstyles it deems “appropriate” for members of the single-party state. According to the WantChina Times, photos of the 28 haircuts recommended by the totalitarian regime (pictured below) have been issued to salons around the country. The cuts were chosen for being comfortable and resistant to Western influences.” Via The Register.
February 26th, 2013 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
This might be a bit of a cheap shot, you might say, but the benefit of cheap shots is that they often hit the target and are not expensive to fire. This guy appointed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, an organisation that, remember, did such a splendid job in preventing the 2008 crash, Bernard Madoff, and so on, has the perfect name for the job. Have a good weekend everyone. February 8th, 2013 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
February 8th, 2013 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
A court in Iceland has ruled that a 15-year-old girl can officially use her name. It seems that in Iceland there is a Naming Committee, and they can reject names that are not grammatically correct, or are “too masculine”. There is a lot wrong with this. But I am most confused about one thing.
Why does anyone care about the opinions of officials? None of my friends has ever asked to see my identity papers. January 31st, 2013 | 58 comments - (Comments are closed)
“The trouble with cults is that they aren’t actually about the parts that are true. They’re about using the true parts to hook you, to condition you into an becoming an eager little propagator of their memetic infection. For that to happen, your ability to think critically about the doctrine has to be pretty much entirely shut down. Fortunately the behavioral signs of this degeneration are quite easy to spot – I would have learned to recognize them back at the dawn of the New Age movement around 1970 even if I hadn’t gone to Catholic schools before that.” – Eric Raymond. Read the whole way down to the punchline at the end. You will not regret it.
January 15th, 2013 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
Two men dressed as Oompa-Loompas – characters from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory – are being sought by police in Norwich after an attack in the heart of the city.
Look, I know that folk from East Anglia – where I come from – are used to being abused for being “in-bred” or having “webbed feet” and other silly nonsense, but to be accused of trying to commit crimes while dressed as Willy Wonka’s employees is a bit much. (Just in case anyone wonders, I am not making light of what might be a serious crime.) Mind you, Norwich did used to have several chocolate factories. Oh well, it makes a change from reading about the US “fiscal cliff”. I promise to be a bit more productive on this site than I have been in recent months. 2012 was effing busy. January 1st, 2013 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
Okay, I admit it. This is me checking out how you post photos on Samizdata, with Michael Jennings sitting next to me to show me, what with him already having done this successfully. Nevertheless, this is quite a fun photo. It was taken on November 28th of this year:
Words don’t fail me, but you surely know what I mean. There’s the fact that Concorde was scrapped in 2003. There’s the weird colour changes imposed upon the dear old Union Jack (which were such a feature of life in London in this Olympic Year). There’s the fact that this is an item of weirdly designed Olympic stuff on sale and on display in a London shop (it was not the only one – trust me). And there is the fact that this weirdly designed Olympic object is still on sale now, months after the Olympics have been and gone. Michael assures me that Olympic crap will still be around in our shops for many more months yet. There is probably plenty more to be said about this strange, strange thing, but I leave it to others to add such observations. December 26th, 2012 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
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