The BBC News website had a link to a story with the headline Research widens height gene hunt. It took a while for my poor old brain to drag any sense out of it. Subconsciously I was isolating ‘gene hunt’ as the character from Life on Mars and being left with something widening height. The [...]
Entries Tagged as 'WTF'
Montana woman fights bear with courgette
September 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
A very eye-catching headline from the BBC News website - Montana woman fights bear with courgette. It is almost impossible to not click on it to read the story, which is worth doing because it includes this:
The woman, whom police have not named, grabbed the closest object – a courgette from her garden – [...]
George Osborne: what a cock!
September 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
The Daily Mail website has a story about ‘Osborne’s plans to hit workshy’. Scroll down to the bottom and there is this remarkable image.
Not the first time I have looked at the DM website and felt like clawing my eyes out, and it won’t be the last I am sure.
Love bomb
August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Life
President Ahmadinejad has unveiled Iran’s new weapon: a UAV which can carry 500 pounds of bomb and drop it 620 miles away.
He says that ‘the key message is friendship’. So its a friendly 500-pound bomb? He also said:
This jet is a messenger of honour and human generosity and a saviour of mankind, before being [...]
Outbreaks of perversity
July 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
A couple of news stories today that caught my eye. First of all from the Telegraph: Transvestite had sex with a dog at English Heritage castle and then closer to home there is the Lewes knob-poster. Just a couple of comments and observations to make.
Tags: WTF
A glitch in the matrix
June 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Music, Technology
According to Spotify’s ‘related artists’ feature, “users who listen to Nightwish also listen to… “ Within Temptation, Disturbed, Iron Maiden, Linkin Park, Rammstein, Bullet for my Valentine, System of a Down and… um… Enya.
They are not wrong though. I saw the name and thought, yeah. Haven’t heard any Enya for years, let’s have a bit [...]
Only two weeks to go
April 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Politics
Yes it is only two weeks until the big wobbly sausage!
If that makes it sound like I am losing my marbles a bit, I refer you to this story in the Telegraph, specifically the end bit.
Subheadline of the week
March 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
I can’t find any way to read this story from The Register without my mind boggling. The headline is eye-catching enough (Florida woman prangs car while shaving her privates) but the subheadline is pure genius.
Golden Brown – with a touch of grey
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Music
Apparently the Stranglers will be playing at Glastonbury this year. I was astonished to learn today that their drummer, Jet Black, is 71. No wonder they decided to pack in touring. I know it is a job you can do sitting down, but I still think it requires a lot of energy to play the [...]
Pointless, unproductive and fun
February 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Technology
If you saw a link on a website that pointed to http://5z8.info/cats-being-dropped-into-the-sea_p6d8l_hot-older-goats.mov I bet you would think twice before following it – and then decide not to. If you received an email with a link to http://5z8.info/olive-loaf-penetration.gif_u0p8z_ninjastaroutlet it would probably get stopped by your mail filters and marked as spam or potential malware. But you [...]
