No Bears In Wales

There's something about some tourists that can be incredibly annoying. Being bloody stupid is one of those things.

Animal Icons .... Llanwrtyd Wells

Take the female Canadian tourist who was visiting Wales, and who crashed her car into a road signpost. She told the police that she thought a bear was attacking her.

Potty Laws

Benyam Kenbata who worked for Westminster Council in London (now working at Aberdeen Council), won his appeal for a claim of racial harassment at a tribunal in 2017.

Potted Plants On A Desk - A Racist Act?

 

..... after another worker had blocked his view in the office in 2013.

Who Owns A Womans Body?

Feminists campaigners have secretly filmed at the Spearmint Rhino strip club in Sheffield. They also recently hired more private investigators to secretly film strippers in Manchester .....

Strip Clubs Come In Various Guises ....

Not Buying It, the organisation responsible for this secret filming of ladies bodies, claim the recordings, which are taken without the performers permission, shows sexual acts taking place in the clubs, and which breaks the licensing rules governing these establishment.

Analysis Of Conspiracy's

Even the most rabid of Conspiracy Theorists (CT's) ....

Tin Foil Hats Not Worn By All Conspiracy Theorists ...

.... don't usually wear tin-foil hats, but outside of them, there is still a tendency amongst many of us to think conspiracies are more prevalent than they could really be.

Potato Head

Luzino village in the Omsk region of Siberia had something of a scandal when a man gardening dug up a skull in his potato patch.

Digging The Garden Can Unearth Disturbing Things.

He rushed to tell his wife ....

Blue Moon

If you read or watch Sci-Fi movies, we often see speculations about giant asteroids being blown up, or even the moon being destroyed. Of course in those scenario's humanity somehow survives .....

Blowing Up The Moon ..... Not Too Clever ... Or That Easy.

However the science behind this survival of humanity is not actually so well thought out ....

Back To The Future

It appears that everyday, companies and organisation in the UK tighten the noose of self censorship around our necks.

Dewsbury ASDA Missing A Greeter Now ....

For instance Supermarket giants ASDA have a social media policy, even for their staffs private accounts.

Big Brother Two

When you have big brother running your country .....

Big Brother Has A Brother .......

..... especially when its now thirty five years since the 1984 date of Orwell's dystopian future.

Plucky Porkers

I really like pigs .... 

Who Could Resist That Smile?

I can't say why exactly.

Gallows Humour

I have run a few posts on death row last words for both the men and the ladies .....

Ruth Ellis - Last Woman Hanged In Britain.

and I thought that I had exhausted the subject, but ......

Smile Please

Its long been known that the Etruscans (900 BC–100 BC) of northern Italy, who were contemporaries of the early Roman Republic, were very experimental in their medical treatments, particularly dentistry. 

Etruscan Dentistry Was Advanced

In particular their gold band bridgework as opposed to the gold wires which are seen in other cultures (Egyptians, Phoenicians) of the same time.

China's Eternal Rulers

I have always harboured thoughts that the Communist Chinese system of one party capitalism would prove far harder to eradicate ....

Chinese Communist Parties Heavenly Rule - Intended To Be As Eternal As Any Emperors.

..... than the state run nationalised economy communism of the old USSR (and indeed Mao's China).

Winds Of Change

Even the rigid regime of North Korea changes slowly with the times .... take weather forecasts.

The Traditional North Korea Weather Report .....

Since TV started in 1963 in North Korea it has been very rigid in both its content and style ('Educational' programs and high praise for the regimes leaders is the basic fare), and this includes the weather forecasts.

Seventies Recalled

The 1970's is a decade that often gets a bad rap .....

TOTP - 1970's - Fashion Black Spot

..... sometimes described as the decade that style forgot. Harsh, but possibly true.

Desperate Times

A few years ago I went into a very South African (possibly Afrikaners) bar in Houts Bay, a suburb of Cape Town, in South Africa.

Desperate Lives Call For Desperate Measures .....

It was a rather hard faced bar, where there were some rather desperate looking middle aged women dancing with each other in that bar, surrounded by some beer soaked and apparently largely indifferent men.

Wealthy Politics

Bernie Sanders the contender for the US Democratic Presidential Race ...

Bernie Sanders Wealth Inequality Claims ... Not Popular With Some Americans

.... has claimed the country's three richest billionaires own more than the poorest half of the US Americans.