Conical Sex

Trevor Smith, a 48 year old from the Hall Street, St Helens area of northern England, has one or two social problems ... and one of them in particular that gets him in to trouble.

The Things Men Do ... Are Very Strange.

... namely he likes to perform largely solo sex acts in public, especially when drunk or drugged .... both of which states happen to him fairly frequently.

Slow Death

Researchers from Dukes University in North Caolina, USA, have determined that people who walk slowly in middle age ....

Ambling To An Early Grave?

....  face a greater risk of dying early or suffering serious illness.

The Weakest Link

As we approach the start of the seriously colder weather at the end of the month and the most depressing date of the year, when on the 27th October, at 2am GMT (or *UTC), the clocks needlessly go backwards, making it dark quicker.

Daylight Saving Curse ..... The Madness Happens Every Year.

.... then we all have to think about whether the central heating goes on?

Art Imitates Life

Those news stories, about real bodies being left untouched by passer-bys, because they look like Halloween displays, and which appear every year or so, have taken on something of an urban myth character .....

Halloween Hangings In The USA .... Increasingly Macabre

But in fact they are often all too true.

Buck Naked Burglars

A couple in Culver City, Los Angeles County, California confronted a naked black male intruder in their house ....

Only A Neighbours Towel Saved His Blushes ....

...... luckily he chose to flee through neighbouring gardens, rather than attack them, and local police immediately launched a search with both local police and sheriff’s deputies, supported with a helicopter.

Its 1978 .... Again

Sam Smiths brewery run 318  .... err, 317 pubs in Britain

Sam Smiths Pub Chain Run By Humphrey Smith

... and are the fiefdom of Humphrey Smith, the scion of the Smith brewing dynasty.

Blobby Britain - Getting Fatter

The cost of the ever expanding waistlines of Blobby Brits grows ever bigger ....

Blobby Brits - Fatter Than Ever .....

Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) suggest that the cost of obesity in the UK to the taxpayer now amounts to £409 ($517.32) per annum in 2019. 

Card Tapping

The very quick rise of contactless card payments haven't come without some issues ....

Contactless Is King .....

....one of which is that those who were bad with money before, have now found their control over expenditure even less firm.

Nothing Is New Under The Sun

Smiley faces, the original emoji's if you will, are now all pervasive ....

The 1963 Smiley That Launched A Few Billion More ....

The classic form was designed by Harvey Ball in 1963, who was employed by State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts and asked to create a 'happy face' to use in the office, to raise staff morale.

Dangerous Liaisons With Inanimate Objects

An unnamed man decorating his bathroom in Mattaincourt near Épinal, in eastern France slipped, and somehow got his head stuck in his stepladder, trapped between two rungs ...

Contact With Inanimate Objects Can Go Very Wrong .....

.... the man, in his 60s, was reportedly still conscious when the medics turned up, after his sister had found him.

Good Choices ... Not

In 2018 the local Labour Party chose its candidate for the next general election in the marginal seat of Worcester.

The Best Candidate?

.... Mandy Richards, a then London-based former teacher and youth worker.

Criminal Values

A police officer of the Greater Manchester Police was actually taken to court in June 2019, over accusations of using his police dog Jerry, as a weapon to assault five men who were being chased by the police in separate incidents.

Jerry Not In The Doghouse Any More .....

The prosecutor claimed that the police officer used his dog to 'vent his contempt' of criminals when the dog bit and injured the fleeing men. Surely that's what police dogs are for ... to catch fleeing criminals who are evading capture?

Silent But Deadly

As discussed in an earlier posting, Homa Bay county regional assembly in Kenyan, which is a local forum for issues such as the location of stalls at the market, or traffic issues etc, had a heated discussion about farting.

No Farts In Homa Assembly

..... this was only resolved by taking a break in proceedings, during which the smell had subsided, allowing members to re-enter the debating chamber.

More Chinese Whispers

 Its about time we had tales from the mysterious orient ....

Yangtze Monster

An unidentified creature was filmed making its way down the Yangtze, Asia's longest river near Yichang City, in central China's Hubei Province. The boat was travelling the three Gorges Dam Scenic Area, which is popular for cruises.

Yangtze Monster - Or Snake?

It was estimated to be at least 10ft long, and also appears to have a hump-like feature at the back of its slender body. After all the 'monster' speculation, its actually most likely to be a Burmese python, which are often found in China, and are capable of growing to the size seen in the video.

Waiting For Waiters

There is an Indian restaurant looking for staff somewhere near you as I write this ....

Help Wanted .... Every Now And Then.

.... Trouble is, so are the the immigration enforcement section. The reason .... the restaurants continue to offer illegal immigrants work, despite the threat of £20,000 fines per illegal worker, for doing so.

Language Colonisation

When the Normans conquered the English in 1066 ....

The Norman Conquest Was Cultural Colonisation ....

.... they almost immediately attempted to impose the Norman French as the new official language.