What Men Want
Or, how Feminism has failed half the population. Or something. It’s mostly bollocks.
Monthly archives: July 2004
It was the CIA wot done it
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence says that the CIA knew before the war with Iraq that there were no WMDs (or at least had enough information to assume it was a possibility) but didn’t pass this on to the President. I’m sensing a whitewash here, and I doubt Wubble U would have paid any attention if he had been told.
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Get Orf My Road!
George Monbiot on the stupidity of 4x4s in towns. Perhaps there should be a law requiring all off roaders to always have a bale of hay and a border collie in them. I like the idea of charging large amounts for vehicles with fuel consumption below a certain amount as well. Everyone should read this book and do something about it.
Shoot the messenger
Israeli helicopter gunships launched a rocket attack on a media centre in Gaza. The target was an independent Palestinian reporter, but the building also houses offices belonging to the BBC and Aljazeera.
Bastard son of 2000 lawyers
Around a thousand of the foreign lawyers and law experts who have volunteered to aid Saddam Hussein’s defence are set to drive from Jordan in a bus convoy. If the Americans should “accidentally” bomb a convoy of lawyers, there mightn’t be as big an outcry as over their other fuck ups.
Can’t leave any of them alive, though, just imagine the damages claims.
Interactive Shit
Courtesy of Penny and Emily, the Yorkshire Water waste water tour. The tour has it’s own animated Nell McAndrew bot, who will explain what’s happening if you can stand to listen to her voice for more than a second.
What Makes An Airplane Fly – Level 1
Not a single pixie fart involved. Explaining wings with animated GIFs.
Boytaur
There’s something wildly, almost primally, attractive about a guy with four legs: the crowding of long, sculpted thigh muscle, the four calf muscles bobbing and working in rhythm with his four-legged walk, the four strong male feet supporting his powerful boytaur body. Boytaurs know this attraction well, and it is our constant joy, both to have and to share.
Of course, many boytaurs don’t stop with four legs. Some add more legs, going six-legged or more. Some add extra arms. And many, enjoying all their boytaur feet, decide to go wristfooted as well.
Other boytaurs have completely different transformations, or none at all, but are still boytaurs in spirit, enjoying their augmented bodies, and sharing that joy freely. boytaur.net is dedicated to helping that sharing go on across the internet, all around the world.
An udder you can't refuse
Cowcam is still disturbingly decapitated. There’s supposed to be a cow on Oxford Road near Platt Park as of today, but I couldn’t find it. If anyone locates Bombay Bovine, please tell me.
A quick check of my list says I have 91 cows. 61 to go.
Skate Free or Die
Manchester City Centre Management Company are planning �1000 fines for skateboarders. Somehow, and I can- just- see the link, this is supposed to crack down on teenage drinking and drug dealing. Perhaps they’d be better off targetting the drug dealers and the shops that sell alcohol to the underage?
Skateboarding is banned in the city centre, but there have been no facilities provided as alternative locations. MCCMC’s rather pathetic argument is that there is a skate park under the Mancunian Way, which would hold more water if they didn’t immediately add that it hasn’t even opened yet. They should at least stop being twats and run this campaign when there’s somewhere else for the kids to go. I’d be all for lifting the skateboard ban in some small part of the city centre as well, possibly with a curfew.
Gentelmen's Relish
I don’t know why, but Saffron Walden sounds like the sort of place where someone would organise an orgy.
That's Mister Khan to you
To celebrate the return of surnames to Mongolia after an 80 year absence and the fruitful loins of Genghis (17 million descendants) two London Mongolian restaurants are offering free meals to anyone with the right DNA.
Working the land
Female farmers in Nepal have taken to working naked in an attempt to get the rain god so excited the current dry spell will break.
Cow Poke
A few more bovines from a wander around on Saturday. This was shortly after becoming a millionaire- I’m surprised the mad fool in the bright red mountain jacket cackling insanely and taking flash pictures of cows didn’t merit Police attention.
Perfect football moment
The Portuguese team has a player called Quim.
Only a person who has read too much Victorian porn would find that funny.
I laughed a lot.
Sexing Up
There is an increase in the number of books aimed at women that feature explicit sex. Which, I guess, is another angle to investigate in the promotion of Mary Tales.
I'm worth a million in prizes
Team Spinneyhead are now all Internet millionaires!
In Turkey.
That’s challenge 15 of 100 achieved anyway. Props out to the nice people in the bureaux de change who understood perfectly well my desire to make my friends millionaires and sorted the crispest notes out for me.
A million Turkish Lire is worth 0.3781062 GBP, though I paid 0.406 GBP for each note.
Can someone tell me the name of the silent movie star who adorns the front of the note? Any suggestions for a new challenge are also welcomed.
Le Tour
Forget all the poncey ball sports, Le Tour starts today. Lance Armstrong is one of the greatest sportsmen of all time. If he could just disown Monkey Boy……