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Pfff.. kids and their Scooby Doo’s eh ? You just can’t stop them doing crazy things. (Warning – Contains much “whooping” and “a-hollering”). Link – YouTube.com Read more →

Years back, when I was still wearing nappies (OK, so it was last year and I wear them for fun), I posted a blog about Dr Ashens and his funny video reviews. He reviews cheap Chinese rip-offs of well-known consoles and generally swears a lot too… heck, I’ve even got a suspision that he’s not a real Doctor…. :) Anyhoo…… Read more →

It looks like Ask.com is pulling out all the stops in its’ mission to get more share of the search market. They’ve now launched a privacy tool to wipe your search history from their servers instantly. Although it’s a new idea, I doubt they’ll stop people Googling for stuff instead. Link – BBC News Read more →

The news story about the canoe guy, who faked his own death to try and fix heavy debts and loans, is both strange and sad in equal measures. John Darwin went off in his canoe but never came back. Everyone presumed that he was dead, but – almost a year later – he knocked on the front door of his… Read more →

It’s that time of year when your finances are stretched to the limit. As I walked around the shops on Saturday there were lots of signs saying, “Spread the cost of Christmas” and an endless stream of cashiers were trying to sign me up to a store card. I hate this. No, I don’t want your store card. Shove your… Read more →

Here we go again, the cost of petrol spirals up (now well above 1 a litre here in the UK) and suddenly blockades are planned for this Saturday. It’s not the blockades that cause the problems, it’s the knee-jerk reaction of the general public. It’s almost like your local supermarket on Christmas Eve. Even though the shop is only closed… Read more →

Don’t ask me why, but Kerry Katona gets on my nerves. Her endless plugging of Iceland products and frequent boyfriend-swapping activities bore the hell out of me, yet she manages to get her moosh into every magazine and paper on the shelf. Now, to make things worse, she is to release a perfume. Yes, a perfume. God knows what it’ll… Read more →

Saw this in John Lewis today whilst shopping in the Trafford Centre. Emily (as you can see) was looking at stuff while I was staring around the shop. I’d never heard of this particular designer, who I pronounced, “Cockin Hell”. Well, it is… isn’t it ? Read more →

These fliers have been posted in various bits of the USA to try to stop people saying, “Like” so much. It’s apparently from the Academy of Linguistic Awareness and, after spending an hour in a coach this year in America it’s WELL WORTH READING for pretty much every teenager (it’s, like, soooooooooooo annoying).. Apparently it’s all due to this… Research… Read more →

Shopping at Christmas isn’t much fun for us blokes. However, I did enjoy people-watching today. Selfridges was particularly funny. I saw crowds of blokes standing around the perfume counters trying to grab something for their girlfriend or wife. They all seemed to be doing the same thing – asking the heavily-made-up lady behind the counter what smells best or is… Read more →

I’ve blogged about this many times over these past five years, and yet again it’s happened. Here in the UK we’re not allowed to buy guns to any great degree. You won’t find them in peoples’ houses and there’s only very rare occurances of gun crime. When I went to the US many years ago I took the opportunity to… Read more →

Blimey, our hosts have just been in touch with some important news. The guys at SpeedTest.net rated our hosts (RapidSwitch) as having the fastest network in the whole of the UK. Looking at the bigger picture they’ve got the second fastest network in Europe and the third fastest network… in the world. Links – SpeedTest.net – RapidSwitch Read more →

Yay, Grey Bloke is on the front page of YouTube :) Here he is talking about his Gym Membership… More vids available here. Read more →

See these batteries? Well, they’re incredibly cheap and you’ll get truck-loads of them for your money. They range in price from 1 to 3 and you may be tempted to grab some to power those many Christmas toys over the festive season. A little word of advice from me though… Don’t buy them, they’re crap. They’re so crap they either…… Read more →

Thanks once again to my friends at M6Toll. They’ve delivered a lovely Christmas present to everyone who’s forced to use the motorway to escape the insanity that is the M6. The price now has increase again to 4.50, plus they’re penalising us Tag holders by increasing the “lease” rate to 1 per month. Strewth. If I use this motorway I… Read more →

I’m loving the Grey Bloke series of cartoons. Here’s the latest clip, where he talks about how selfish his ex-wife was.. Oh, and here’s the rest of the series :) Read more →

Below is an excellent clip from Michael McIntyre. I fell about laughing when he started talking about Scottish people. It’s all so true.. :) Link – YouTube.com Read more →

The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) produce reports on any incidents and publish them on their site. Here’s one from last week, detailing “vibration in the number 2 engine”. The plane turned back and landed “without incident”. Here’s the report…   **********************************************************************************   Report created 11/27/2007   Record 1                                     ********************************************************************************** IDENTIFICATION  Regis#: SWA438        Make/Model: B737      Description: 737  Date: 11/17/2007     Time: 2110   Event… Read more →

Call me childish here, but this made me laugh :) This BBC News story covers the striken MV Explorer, which is currently sinking in the Antarctic Ocean. The BBC calls it a “fist-sized crack” (ahem), while over at Sky News report they’re saying that the ship, “suffered a 25cm by 10cm rupture in its hull”….. Now, I’m guessing here but… Read more →

My darling wife pointed me towards the new Spice Girls video a couple of weeks ago. The video is cringe-worthy to the extreme, with each girl trying to out-sex each other and Posh looking like a constipated skeleton. Seriously, check out the video and see how the girls distance themselves from each other in this boob-fest. Why the hell are… Read more →

Now, if this isn’t a good enough reason to get a check-up I don’t know what is. :) I saw this van as I sat in a massive traffic jam on the M6 at 8.30. Get your company to sign up to their occupational health solutions and you too could have a nurse in the back of a van….. (ahem)… Read more →

Oh dear, the UK Government seem to have completely lost their heads and have lost a CD containing the personal data of 25 million people. The details include names, addresses, dates of birth, child benefit numbers, bank details and National Insurance numbers. The Prime Minister (Mr “I look permanently drunk” Brown) said of the news.. “We take the protection of… Read more →