A Hairy Beer

Picking a name for a product that's to be sold internationally is something of a minefield ...

 

Pubic Beer?

 

.... as one mans Finnish 'Lumia' smart phone, is another mans Spanish language slang name for a prostitute.

Robbin Ratbags

Nikki Edmunds, is a 32 year old petty thug and burglar  ....

Robbin Ratbags

... whilst on a 24 hour crime spree with his girlfriend, he broke in to a house and threatened the householder with a 10-inch meat cleaver. 

China's Future Impact

With some campaigners estimating that in just nine years' time, global emissions of greenhouse gases are set to be roughly double the level required to meet the goal of holding the temperature rise to 1.5C, China's rush to 'modernise' its economy since 1975, and its wish to dominate the second half of the current century and beyond, has a price ..... 

China's Economic Aims Are On Target - But At A Price

 ..... not just for its immediate neighbours, who now live under its ever more aggressive political and military threat (the claim to the entire South China Sea is an example of this threat), but also for the urgent fight against global warming.

Canine Critical Comment

Mayor Susana Prieto was doing her Mayor thing ....

The Lady Mayor Opening The Building

.... by opening a new government building in the Argentine town of Maimara, on the evening of 23rd June 2021 to a small crowd of one man and his dog. She was suitably attired with a face mask, and along with other dignitaries she was due to give a speech.

Wasting Police Time?

In the new woke world that we live in, about the worst crime imaginable is a race crime by a white person on an ethnic minority (especially black people) ....

Race Perceptions May Vary .......

.... This can come in the form of outright assault (actually rare, even by pressure groups interpretations), or verbal insults, or micro-aggressions. These last 'crimes' are claimed to be very common, especially if you care to see an insult in every action, or are looking to get money as 'compensation' for an alleged slight or wrong.

Super Vaccines

Scientists are trying to develop a super one shot vaccine against all Covid-19 variants. 

Super Vaccines Are On The Way ....

This vaccine would allow the world to not get dragged back in to repeating lockdown cycles as each variant emerges. 

 

Elephants Never Forget

In 2015, in the Chatra district, of north-eastern India, which is about 160km from Ranchi city .....

Desperate And Hungry Elephant Mother ...

 ... a lone female elephant had been digging the ground for 11 hours, and had not eaten.

Buck Naked Bathers

Australia went through a much rougher second wave of Covid-19 than the first wave and had to introduce local lock-downs in early July ....

We're Just Sunbathing ... Honestly Officer!

 .... this stretched the police and health authorities to the limit, especially in the cities where lockdowns were in force.

Put Out To Pasture

China, like many societies is facing an ageing workforce, and also youth unemployment issues.

China's Youth Unemployment Rate Higher Amongst Graduates

How they deal with this is a major concern to the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), whose unelected rule can only be justified if the population is, by and large, content to let them retain power.

The Drunk Tank

If you live in or near Apatity .....

Apatity Located Near Arctic Circle And Finland

.... a town of 59,000 people, located just below the Arctic Circle in Russia, there can't be a lot to do. Especially during those very long Russian winters. 

Eco-Space

In the antiques world .... 

Antique Treen Clogs ....

 .... little objects made of wood are called treen.

Educationally aWoke

In the US, and increasingly also in the UK, the trend towards historical revisionism, in order to appease the left-wing and ethnic minority groups interest in emasculating the white males role in society, has gathered pace.

Schools that teach pupils that “white privilege” as an uncontested fact, are breaking the law!

So much so in fact, that we are seeing US style woke practices being openly proposed here.

The Brown Note

There has been an enduring myth and legend in noise research and musical circles ....

No One Knew What Was Going To Happen Next .....

  ... its that of the infamous "Brown Note".

Cannonball Run

 Researchers from the University of Kent decided to answer the eternal question ...

One Small Step For A Tardigrade ...
One Giant Step For Tardigrades?

 .... What punishment can a Tardigrades take?

Educated Decision

There have been a lot of social changes in the Western world over the last one hundred years ...

Votes For Women Started The Changes

  ..... especially from the point of view of women.