Archive for December, 2006

Jeremy Clarkson’s up for more grief after what appears to be some pretty harmless remarks.  OK – maybe he should be careful but I simply don’t accept that gay people would find this offensive.  He’s being silly and I reckon he’d be quite miffed if he thought he’d genuinely upset people.

Question for Jeremy – would he get worked up if, when a TV presenter was explaining say a glass of wine, they said it was a ‘little bit Clarkson’.  And by ‘a little bit Clarkson’ they meant unfashionable, a little but rough, plenty of flavours shouting at you but with no length.

And, for the headline alone Man granted permit to dump dead gran at tip. Councils are so ridiculously process driven that I don’t find myself that surprised that, by following the letter of the law, this guy gained a permit to deposit body parts at his local skip.

There are some ‘jokes’ over on the British Army Rumour Service (bills itself as “the unofficial British Army Community website”) regarding the recent murders of prostitutes in Ipswich.

There’s something about the combination of them ‘fighting for our country’ on the one hand and then posting revolting and sick gags on the other that really gets my back up.

Who did the murders? “Perhaps it was a forces rugby team. Always short on hookers.” cracked one hilarious joker.  “They said there was no evidence of sexual assault. Like a para would strangle a whore without getting sunk to the nuts first.”

There’s plenty more hilarity here.  Well done lads – keep up the good work.

Odd article in one of the papers – apparently people with smelly feet get bitten more by mosquitos! Smelly feet are nothing to do with the size of the person as it’s a chemical released by the skin – and if your feet are smelling ‘cheesy’ then you are releasing a lot of the chemical and can expect mosquitos to find you attractive.

So if your feet smell of cheese pack a lot of mosquito repellent for your holidays. Better still try Arnywear (it’s a material that releases a repellent whenever it is moved or rubbed and can be found here Arnywear)

Of course, if you know someone with smelly feet take them on holiday with you – the mozzies will prefer them to you.

One other item of news that jumped out at me was here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4313978.stm – a snake eating a 6 foot alligator … there’s a video I’d like to see.

This is a real shame – Techcrunch UKIt was certainly one of the few places to go for honest and thorough discussions of the tech world and start-ups. I know people like Mydeo got a really good hearing from Sam – who actually understood what they did and didn’t lump them in with YouTube and the like.

And it appears from other blogs there are a lot of start-ups who feel equally sorry to see Sam go – for appearing to simply tell the truth.

Looks like a good opportunity for Sam to strike out with his own blog and Techcrunch UK will gently drop off the radar.