Happy (And Not So) Families

It was estimated in 2014, that one in ten of British men have paid for or regularly pay for sex.

Prostitution Is The Second Oldest Profession ......

The majority of those who had done so had visited sex tourism hotspots such as Bangkok and Amsterdam i.e. were younger, and not necessarily older men.

Best Horror Ever?

The horror movie, The Exorcist has beaten rival horror movies .....

The Most Terrifying? - Some People Think So.

....to the title of most terrifying movie of all time. 

Returning To The 'Old Normal'

Monday the 25th was a bank holiday in much of the Anglo-Saxon World ....

Not a Face Mask In Sight ......

..... This same world has some of the highest mortality rates of the coronavirus pandemic.

Hong Kong Fluey

Does anyone recall the Hong Kong flu pandemic?

American Responses To Pandemics
Are Pretty Uniform Over The Decades .......

No? I didn't think so ....

Man Made Artificer And A.I. Idiot

A world record price for a motorcycle sold at an auction was reached ......

A Real Black Beauty

.....when a 1951 Vincent Black Lightning reached £650,000 ($929,000) in an auction at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Greening The Planet

Somali Islamist terror group Al-Shabaab (whose methods and aims are essentially the same as IS) ....

Interesting Trees In Somalia .... Yes Album Covers Anyone?

..... have been flexing their green credentials in the province of Shabelle.

Feed Piggy Piggy

A 56-year-old woman had gone out to feed the animals, in a village in the Malopurginsky district of the central Russian region of Udmurtia (east of the city of Kazan) ....

Collapsing In The Wild Boar Pen Is Not A Good Idea .....

..... and then reportedly fainted or suffered an epileptic seizure.

Not Just A Lockdown Statistic

Well we are now many weeks into the lockdown ....

We Are In Danger Of Thinking Of Just The Statistics ......

... so many in fact, that I sometimes find it hard to actually recall when exactly the 'New Normal'  started, or what life was like before the Coronavirus erupted onto an unprepared world.

Lightening Flash

The satellite GOES-16 recorded a rare phenomena in November 2017

Horizontal Lightening Is Always Exciting .....

..... when it recorded a horizontal lightening flash that travelled across the North American continent from Oklahoma to Missouri, a distance of 248 miles (400km) ..... this is possibly a world record.

Water Water Everywhere And ...

Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink ....

Illegal Water Connections - Not Just Cowboys

..... or so Thames Water (London's water supplier|), are fearing is a possible future.

Alco Pops

You know when its your lucky day as a pub landlord ......

A Barman's Motto Is "Be Prepared" When The Fleet Is In Town .....

...... when the US fleet is in town.

Double Edged Statistics

Well I was wrong about the Covid-19 figures from Italy being aberrant.

UK Covid-19 Death Rates Are Improving ..... Slowly

The UK has managed to surpass Italy's total death figures for the coronavirus, after it was confirmed that officially over 34,000 (some estimates are 41,000), people have now died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community, after testing positive for the virus.

I Not Robot

A Russian technical display of a robot at Proyektoria Technology Forum, a science and innovation show .....

Seeing Is Believing .....

... was reported by local TV Russia-24 as being an example of Russian science and robotics, and was shown being able to walk, talk and dance.

No Accounting for Tastes

The good people of Preston, Lancashire UK, voted for a local Nandos as their top 'restaurant,' and a Wetherspoon's pub (the Twelve Tellers), as their top public house in a poll. 

The Interior Of The Black Horse Pub In Preston Is A Victorian Gem.

 

They could do better than that ....

D.O.A.

The power of faith can sometimes elicit surprising results .....

Faith May Not Always Be Enough ..... But We Always Hope So.

..... but not always what was hoped for.

Sweet As Sugar

Many of us have a sweet tooth .....

Sugar Has Led To Dentists, Ever Since It Entered The Diet ....

..... central to this love, for women in particular is, chocolate .... 'a moment on the lips, a life time on the hips', was an expression invented for the love affair with chocolate, and the damage it can cause, if taken too far.

Fright Night

Alice Connington of Ipswich claimed to her council that she was being tormented .....

Ghostly Music Is Often Human In Source

..... by someone or something playing the nursery rhyme tune 'Its raining, its pouring the old man is snoring' in the dead of night. 

Battle Of The Sexes

In a fact which many of us have secretly suspected, but never articulated, researchers from Winchester University, in an admittedly limited study, interviewed 30 straight male students ....

Mateship Has A Special Place In Male Society

.... and found that many men prefer 'Bromance' over 'Romance' .... or if you like 'Mates' to mates.

Insulting The Sultan

A Facebook user was sentenced to three years in jail in 2015 ...

President Sisi And Mickey Mouse Ears - Worth 3 yrs In Jail?

...... simply for posting a photo-shopped image of President Al-Sisi with Mickey Mouse ears.

The Cost Of Morals

Amnesty International objects to execution of criminals, no matter how heinous the crime and its issued its annual round up of state executions .....

Recorded Execution Worldwide 2019 .....

... as part of this its director for research said; "The death penalty is an abhorrent and inhuman punishment; and there is no credible evidence that it deters crime more than prisons terms ..."