Two Mouths To Feed

Debbie Geddes was fishing in Lake Champlain in up-state New York state, USA ....

"Champ" .... Not The Only Lake Champlain "Monster"

.... When she came across a 'monster'

Rise Of The Kraken

Recently a commenter mentioned the Kraken in connection to humans being attacked.

Kraken Attack

This caused me to think about cephalopod (The family group classification for all squid, octopuses, cuttlefish, and nautiluses), attacks on humans.

Dark Days For English Football

The apparent death of Bury Football Club (and with a very close squeak for Bolton, this week), this week, shouldn't come as much of a surprise. ....

Bury Football Club - Dead If Not Buried - But No Angel Appeared On Tuesday.

... the English Football Leagues (EFL), which had boasted three full time divisions below the English Premier League, has been something of an anachronism for at least a decade, if not longer.

Edinburgh Fringe 2019

Well another year and another Edinburgh Fringe ticked off.

Oor Wullie .... Part Of The Festival Street Furniture

I have to admit it seems to get more packed each year, but the weather was good (no rain), and all but one of the shows started as sell outs in their venues.

Political Ping and Pong

I am unable to write posts this week ... so just one composite post. Normal service back next week 👍

Effing Common Sense

Rochdale council suddenly had an outbreak of common sense, when they dropped plans to fine people £100 ($125) for swearing in the town centre.

Swearing In Rochdale .... A Topic Of Hot Debate

When I say that they showed common sense I am being generous, as they only gave up after Greater Manchester Police pointed out that it would be virtually impossible to enforce the law, and human rights defenders said it risked breaching people rights.

Bad Hair Day

Jermaine Taylor, from Newport South Wales is a convicted drug dealer .... 

He was given a three-year sentence at Cardiff Crown Court in September 2017 supplying controlled drugs.

Garden Space

A survey by Anglian Home Improvements has found that many men are being forced to keep their belongings in the garden shed .....

Garden Space Is Men's Space

... This is because their female partners take up two-thirds of of the space in the household with their belongings.

New Tech, Old Method Prison Break

Jimmy Causey escaped from Leiber maximum security prison in Dorchester County, South Carolina, on 4th of July 2017, by having some fly wire cutters flown over the fence by drone.

Drone Delivery ... A Common Prison Ruse These Days ...

He used a smuggled phone to co-ordinate his escape. He then cut through four defences, and left a dummy in his bed as a cover.

Just A Modern Day Teenage Tale

Simeon Adams aka "Red," was still aged 16, when he shot and killed 24-year-old Nathan Trapuzzano during a botched robbery in Indianapolis in April 2014 ...

Simeon Adams - The Smiling Killer .... Hopefully He's Enjoying Eating Pillowcase.

.... he had already robbed a gun store of a large number of hand guns, in a crime committed a few weeks earlier, and was now using his favourite of the stolen guns, a .40-caliber pistol, to threaten his victims.

Wyrdness Everywhere

The origin for the word English word 'Weird' is the Old English (Saxon) word Wyrd - which originally meant "fate, destiny,"

The Norns - Men's Wyrd Determined By Their Threads

in fact literally "that which comes."

Modern Times

The Bavarian town of Starnberg has a policing problem ....

Starnberg In The News For The Wrong Reasons .....

.... They are far too soft.

Lonely Voice

Algerian Islamic scholar Saïd Djabelkhir recently got into trouble with fundamentalists within the Islamic community ..
 

Saïd Djabelkhir ... Brave man.

.... when he suggested via his Circle of Lights for Free Thought organisation, that it was unhealthy for both Islam and state to be intertwined.

Oil Buys Odessa

If your a Saudi and you commit a crime whilst abroad .....

The Odessa Organisation Rescued War Criminals .....

.... then there is usually no need for you to fear incarceration.

Spud U Like

James Johnson, had planned to go on a one-night binge with his two friends in his old home town.

Dark Web - No Quality Guarantees .....

To facilitate this, they ordered £750 worth of drugs from the dark web, booked into a Travelodge in Eastleigh, near Southampton for the night.

The Howling

Major-General Corran Purdon CBE MC was an Irish-born commando in the British Army

Major-General Corran Purdon ...

..... who took part in the raid on St Nazaire for which he was awarded the Military Cross.

Freak Shows Return

In the Victorian times, many circuses and carnivals displayed freak shows in side tents, following a tradition that goes back to the 17th century, when princes around Europe would often have dwarves, midgets, and other human oddities in their courts and entourage.
 

General Tom Thumb Would Be On TV Nowadays ...

Joseph Carey Merrick, better known as the Elephant man was perhaps the most famous of the Victorian era. But others of great fame were Tom Thumb, and the various Siamese twins who toured the world.

Artificial Imbecile

We are increasingly told that the future of the world is going to be A.I.

Artificial Intelligence Benefits Humanity?

A.I. of course is Artificial Intelligence.