Rants ‘n’ Raves
Rant:Tesco in the Doghouse
Being away from my normal patch (on the other side of the big pond) catching up with uncles, aunts and cousins in a long-overdue reunion has been terrific.
Over a fairly sunny weekend, we ate, drank and laughed together, catching up on the news and each others’ lives, in between a couple of games of Petanque (French Bowls) and a jam session or six with one of my cousins who is learning to play guitar (left handed) and who has made impressive progress in a very short time.
+30Rant: Pharmacology’s True Colours
An article on the Beeb’s website entitled: Life: A medical condition has addressed the growing trend of psychoanalysts wanting to categorize all aspects of human behaviour as some form of abnormality.
New “disorders” (which in that annoyingly American style always seem to have a 3-letter acronym) are being “identified” on a daily basis by the psychobabble brigade, all of whom are keen to make their mark in the American Psychiatric Association ‘bible’ and then reap the material rewards from the book deals, lecture circuit tours, overpriced consulting and other pseudo-academic bollocks that invariably follows.
+27Reflections
Yesterday, I was telling a couple of my work colleagues about what follows, which I received in an e-mail some time ago.
By some weird serendipity, my Dad e-mailed me a copy last night and it struck me as too much of a coincidence to ignore. So here it is…
+23Dante’s Hell (updated)
I really love some of the things that StumbleUpon throws up every now and again.
Last night, I stumbled upon quite a cool little web form, which allows you to design your own hell. You simply select categories of the condemned (or a few notorious individuals), organize them accordingly into the various circles of your hell and push the button.
+29News Flash: National symbol now a condom
Not much more to add to this, except that as the current economic crisis is global, this probably applies just about anywhere.
+32Jade Who?
One of Mitch Benns’ better numbers…
No offense love, but why are you still here? Why are we still seeing you on the news?
Why are you still turning up on the TV, with gormless journos asking for your views?
When you don’t dance you don’t sing, you don’t do a bloody thing
there’s no telling where your talent might begin
but still your mug appears, god knows how many years
after that stupid bloody show you didn’t win
No offense love, but what’s it all about, tell me just how long do you expect…
to drag this spurious situation out, please bugger off and get some self respect!
+18Bonuses for Bankers? Bollocks!
Unbelievable!
Despite the fact that their selfishness and greed has dropped us all into the worst financial crisis for decades, RBS, Northern Rock and HBOS bankers are still planning to pay themselves bonuses!.
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