I heard the news today, oh boy..

[Brendan]

What type of books are bound with dog ears anyway?

[mockney piers]

John Steinbeck, Harper Lee and JK Rowling?

The real WTF is considering her for the award in the first place!!!!

['bout now]

Spot on Mr. Mockney, spot on.

[Brendan]

Witchcraft perhaps?

[Brendan]

Or is that what you meant by WTF?

Witchcraft the fuck.

[EDKiwi]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> In space noone can hear you scream

> clowns in spaaaaCe

Calls for all-clown space station

[Brendan]

Just one of the mock headlines from the Dialy Mash which once again rings so true:

Resumption of credit-based fantasy land edges ever closer

"Those who learn from their mistakes are doomed to drive the same car for three years and watch a slightly smaller television," says economist

[bigbadwolf]

Not so much news but I thought this is incredibly cool.

[bigbadwolf]

No, No, No and f_cking No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8290293.stm

[mockney piers]

While this is significant it's hardly suprising and more or less inevitable result of globalisation following the end of the bipolar cold war and American hegemony, ironically sped up by the enourmously costly endeavours of te Bush administration aimed at maintaining it.

But its not that significant.

I like Fisk because he's a total nutter and winds people up the wrong way, but you always have to factor his agenda and enormous ego when Reading anything he writes.

What does crack me up is the nutters his stories inevitably attract in the comments. It actually negates he need for the Private Eye 'From the Message Boards' as they couldnt hope to parody this.

Depressingly awful comic genius.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar-1798175.html

[bigbadwolf]

Shit hitting the fan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8232340.stm

[Ted Max]

Shit hitting the fan. Pt II.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01485/craig_bellamy_1485528c.jpg

[bigbadwolf]

Shit hitting the fan Pt III.

 

[Brendan]

I want one of these: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/video/2009/oct/08/carver-tour-germany-black-forest

[Brendan]

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-looming-threat-of-terror-that-comes-from-the-far-right-1802167.html

Just becasue as many people as possible need to read articles like this.

[mockney piers]

Quite simply the best news story ever

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6825449/Taekwondo-monkeys-attack-trainer.html

[*Bob*]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Quite simply the best news story ever

I hear the SLP are flying a man out there immediately to cover the story.

[woofmarkthedog]

Just goes to show Planet of the Apes is only around the corner

It will be us on BaboonTV ad breaks, drinking tea and talking "monkey"

Just you mark my words

W**F

[Huguenot]

SLP?

Which one...

SLP Speech Language Pathology

SLP Speech Language Pathologist

SLP Service Location Protocol (RFC 2608)

SLP Sea Level Pressure

SLP Slope

SLP Super Long Play (video tape recording)

SLP Socialist Labour Party

SLP Spoken Language Processing

SLP Spring Lake Park (Minneapolis, Minnesota suburb)

SLP Symposium on Logic Programming

SLP Service Logic Program

SLP Service Learning Program

SLP Systematic Layout Planning

SLP School Lunch Program

SLP San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico (Airport Code)

SLP Suggested List Price

SLP Street Legal Performance

SLP Saint Lucia Labor Party

SLP Supported Living Program

SLP Seiko Label Printer

SLP Single Link Procedure (ITU-T)

SLP Standard Long Play

SLP Standardized Language Profile

SLP Social Democratic Welfare Party (Latvia)

SLP Southern Lower Peninsula (Michigan, USA)

SLP Serial Link Protocol

SLP Sturm-Liouville Problem (transmission lines)

SLP Soci?t? Linguistique de Paris (French)

SLP Speed Limiting Point

SLP Systemwide Livestock Program

SLP Supervivencia Libre de Progresi?n (Spanish: Progression Free Survival)

SLP seaward launch point (US DoD)

SLP Sri Lanka Police

SLP Structured Learning Program

SLP System of Least Prompts

SLP Sensor Link Protocol

SLP System Locked Pre-Activation (Microsoft)

SLP superficie lorda di pavimentazione

SLP Service Level Plan

SLP Saskatchewan Liberal Party

SLP Strategic Logistics Program

SLP Superintendent's Leadership Program

SLP Standardized Language Proficiency

SLP Sears Low Price

SLP Society for Liaison Psychiatry (affliate of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine)

SLP Shelf Life Program

SLP Superior Learning Program

SLP Stock Listed Price

SLP Services Launch Partners

SLP Sacred Landmarks Partnership (of northeast Ohio)

SLP Surface Launch Platform

[Brendan]

Slippery Latex Prosthetics (Ltd)

[Brendan]

Seen as it is all Jesus and shit on here today check this out. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8417963.stm In yet another bid to modernise, Christianity makes its first tentative steps towards soft core porn versions of the Gospels.

[giggirl]

Care of the elderly is not usually on my radar (I'm in personal denial) but the news of the couple who died in their freezing home this week brought a tear to my eye. What a nightmarish way to live your final days. Whichever of them was the last to go (it is though that this was the wife) would have faced certain death alone with the corpse of her dead husband by her side. I can't stop thinking about that. It's just too awful. Anyway, this is interesting reading.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6985467.ece

[Atila Reincarnate]

That is a horrible story, it kind of makes you wish to "hope I die before I get old", as Townsend once said. Trouble is I'm more or less there already. A sad indictment of the way we care (or more appropriately don't care) for our elderly. God help us all.

[Mick Mac]

Not a nice story - and very sad that the warnings were not heeded. I guess after he died, that she may have wanted to be with him - that happens sometimes.

[giggirl]

Spot on Atila. I guess on a community level we should all try to be aware of our elderly neighbours especially during this cold spell and make sure they are OK.

p.s. Townsend is more or less there too.