Hollywood propped up by Boobs
The famous Hollywood sign has been saved from being spoiled by property development by a last-minute donation from Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner. Call me churlish but I wasn’t aware it was worth saving.
The soft-porn magnate gave $900,000 (£580,000) to the fund which was set up to stop the site being developed. I’m [...]
Rich pickings
Hmm. Well how exciting. The Sunday Times today was blowing its own trumpet by publishing its annual tribute to the most successful tax dodgers in the country. Or as you and I know it – the Sunday Times Rich List.
Now forgive me for being remarkably uninterested in people who were either born with [...]
Ukraine’s politicians show ours how to fight
Interesting film of political debate Ukranian style on the news today. We might think that our politicians make good television with those stage-managed debates – But Ukraine trumped that with a spectacular fist fight and bombarded their speaker with eggs.
So how come Ukraine’s Parliament descended into chaos today as smoke bombs were set off [...]
Are perks at work perks?
Listening to the politicians (and the bigots on phone ins) you begin to think it is the solemn duty of all of us to work. I have to say I don’t share that conviction. If you don’t want to work you shouldn’t have to. But similarly I don’t think that you should [...]
April 19, 2010Unslick responses to the oil catasrophe
Oil right on the night
What is it about oil disasters? Somehow they seem to be taken for granted. But if just a few radioactive atoms spill from a nuclear power station its an environmental catastrophe. But oil – well it seems to be an acceptable Bad weather hampered efforts to tackle the [...]
South Korean Woman Feels Very Very Peaky
A little South Korean climber with the tantalisingly brief name Ms Oh has reached the top of Annapurna in Nepal and claimed a record for becoming the first woman to scale the world’s 14 highest peaks. But mountaineering afficiandos are less than convinced apparently.
Oh Eun-sun was shown live on television planting a South Korean [...]
More on telephones
I was in a meeting earlier this week when everybody got out their mobile telephones and put them on the table in front of them. That struck me as rather amusing. Then I noticed that two of them had two phones – although I guess the second mobile communication device might have been [...]
April 13, 2010Ashes to Ashes
Well I haven’t attempted to fly anywhere just recently, which is probably just as well – because despite the gloriously sunny days, we are led to believe a huge plume of icelandic volcanic ash was lurking p there in the jet stream.
Maybe there was an ash cloud – maybe there wasn’t. It seems that [...]
Second helpings of irony
Only in TV land would they deem it a good idea for a chef who gave hundreds of people food poisoning has been lined up to improve hospital food. Hospital food designed to appeal to the taste buds of the elderly has been launched by TV chef Heston Blumenthal and a team of scientists.
The [...]
Car insurance drives me over the edge
Why is it that car insurance companies insist on putting your policy up every year – even though you never make a claim. And why is it that there are so many car insurance companies queuing up for your business when you get fed up and go somewhere else?
It ought to be illegal – [...]