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Chop ‘is knob orff…

by | 13 Jul 2012

No Angela Merkel, it is not the right of any human being to chop off a piece of another human being, just because they happen to be its parents. Circumcision is child abuse of the very worst kind, and should be punished accordingly. This has nothing whatsoever to do...

Barber Shop Harmony

by | 10 Jul 2012

A couple of days ago I had a haircut. As I grew through most of my hair during my thirties, you may wonder why that sentence is so significant to me. (Apart from the fact that if you have it cut to 2mm, when it grows another millimetre, that’s a 50% increase...

How to Employ Women

by | 9 Jul 2012

Good management skills are timeless This was written by one L.H. Sanders and appeared under the title “Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees” in the July 1943 edition of Mass Transportation magazine. There’s no longer any...

Gnarled Barclays

by | 6 Jul 2012

Re-blogginated from the excellent Michael Spicer… Now removed from YooToob by the author – if anyone knows where it resides, please let me know.

Fifty Shades of Grey. Again.

by | 6 Jul 2012

Having lived most of my life in London, I’d come to the realisation early on that the one aspect I hated most was the weather. This would be of no surprise to most of its citizens, or any of its visitors (apart from those lucky enough to be there during the...

Fifty Shades of Gay

by | 6 Jul 2012

Some of you may find this a bit hard to take, so if you’d rather not be offended by poofs, lezzies, pillow-munchers and batters for the other team, please do not click the ‘continue reading’ thingummy. Also, my admission to being anti-gay may come as...

The Bendy Bus Test

by | 5 Jul 2012

Intellygent Design I’ve always been fascinated by how things fit together, how they function: both within themselves, and within the context for which they were designed (and, if not made by humans, how they evolved – just in case there are some deluded lunatics...

As discussed in the pub(lishing) house

by | 4 Jul 2012

A Very Important Statement It occurs to me that, if I remember rightly, I have been accused of being an opinionated bastard once or twice in the dim and distant past. Also, if memory serves, arrogant, forthright, a smart-arse, haughty, contemptuous and just a tad...

An Economy of (un)Truth : 2

by | 3 Jul 2012

Financial Services Authority, or… Lies, lies and more lies On the face of it, the FSA looks like an institution you can trust, doesn’t it? And in many ways, this is true, just as you can trust a tiger to do its best to eat you, or Chloe Smith to be…...

An Economy of (un)Truth : 1

by | 3 Jul 2012

Eyes wide shut What I find really difficult to get my head around, is why, after years of watching the biggest and slowest car-crash that is the international banking ‘industry’, I and the rest of the smart-arses didn’t say or do anything about it. OK, in the nature...