Incitement to defraud

It's National ID Fraud Week. Yup, says so on my local NatWest cash machine.

'Did you know it's National ID Fraud Week?' it says, cheerily.

Unbelievable. From Monday, National Paedophilia Week.

Aussie papers taunt NZ

Grown up journalism, from the joint winners of the Sorest Loser world cup.

Kitchen or khazi?

It is often said that you can judge a restaurant by the state of its kitchen, but for years now I've felt you'd learn a lot more by taking a quick gander at the john. And now, it seems, other folk agree.

How the West was won

Curiosity killed the pussy, but invented the moustache.



Is it Hugh Laurie or Groucho Marx... in which latter case, is she shaven?

Sanity Restored

SA 37 - Fiji 20

England 12 - Australia 10

It's not often I wish I had more Aussie friends...













But I think this might just be one of those days.

Llanelli

Facebook has a new flyer up, today, from a site called WhereInLlanelli. They want you to pay a fiver to advertise. In Llanelli. Apparently you might win £500.

The art of negotiation

As explained by Jeremy Steaming Irons in 'Die Hard With A Vengeance':

"Simple Simon met a pieman, going to the fair. Simple Simon said to the pieman, 'Give me all your pies... or I will cave your head in.'"

In a similar vein (but not purple prose)

Simon (Master) Bates:

"If you've never come across A Shropshire Lad it's a bitter-sweet thing, and something to be savoured."

Head of the GPs union:

"My members are being used as punching bags."

And while we're on doctors, here's the Classicfm headline:

"Gordon Brown is going to make it easier for people to see their GPs"... Sounds like what they NEED is an optician.

Those who can't

...commentate.

Rusedski's droning, repetitive nonsense from Wimbledon is quite astonishing. But here he is being trumped by his partner in commentary-crime, Mark Petchey:

'Del Porto's got those new balls in his hand, and he's really getting a taste of what Roger Federer is all about.'

Idiot.

IQ

A bunch of Norwegians were surveyed to find out whether precedence amongst siblings made any difference to IQ and other such things. Strangely enough, they discovered that it did (I am the eldest, and therefore can confirm this to be scientific and indisputable). Mark Forrest made it his Classicfm blog topic for the day, and here is one of the comments:

"my big sister is an aboslute genius with lanages, got scholaships and would so brillantly in any test, but I'm dyslexic and have enough trouble with my own lanuage. she can't draw as well as me through. it depends what you count as 'Brainy'!"

Well, I reckon that pretty much raps up the debate.