Seldom the visionary

I’m not taking this personally…

….but then again,Tom seems a little unfair.

1 comment February 25th, 2006

Say nighty nighty and kiss me.

I’ve often been accused of being an intellectual elitist. I’m not. That would imply I’m in some superior intellectual class. I’m not. I know I’m not stupid, but equally I know I’m not especially bright. However, I don’t like fools, which is a pity as I seem to encounter rather a lot of them.

Today it was snowing. Well, it’s always snowing somewhere, but for once it was snowing where I was. Woo.

The British are fairly quirky when it comes to the weather; despite the UK tending to have a lot of intereresting weather, it seems to often come as a surprise to them when it’s raining, sunny. “It’s wet”, “it’s too hot” go the comments.

Some Brits seem to get very confused by some of the rarer weather conditions. They speed when it is foggy for example.

Today I met the biggest idiot in the world.

In the UK, solid white lines along the edge of the road mean “don’t stop here.” In general it’s because the road is too busy, too narrow or in other ways too dangerous for people to park.

So our very own Dubya wannabee decided that they weren’t going to stop there. They were going to stop IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, blocking traffic in both directions.

As I watched in disbelief, wondering what reasoning could have brought the driver to the conclusion that this was a safe place to stop, I discovered why they had stopped.

To let their children out. Said children seemed a little surprised to find themselves in the middle of the road, and didn’t know which direction to turn for safety.

Honestly, you couldn’t make it up.

 

Add comment February 23rd, 2006

13317 vs many, many millions.

Originally I intended to write a little gloating piece about how the loathsome David Irving had been jailed.

But looking further into what happened sheds a rather curious light on the events that led to his imprisonment.

There’s no doubt that he made some rediculous  statements back in 1989.

However, various news agencies report that the law he was tried under wasn’t made law until 1992, so although the Austrian government were well within their rights to stop him at the border and deny him entry (as they’d previously said they would) it seems odd that they let him in and then arrested him several days later.

Border control is always a contentious issue, so I suppose there could be some passport control clerk somewhere who didn’t realise who he waving in, but equally the fact that he was allowed in and subsequently charged under a law that didn’t exist until after he’d commited his crime seems a little curious.

Of course, my only language is English, so I’m having to rely on English news pages for this assertion that the Austrians are behaving a little oddly.

 Then again, (thanks Matt) as the BBC has recently shown with the Dick Cheney article, they either misreport things and then correct them, or report them correctly and then….

In fairness to Auntie, they have put up this mini-site, which is of interest to those who don’t realise just how insane the holocaust deniers actually are.

 

 

 

Add comment February 22nd, 2006