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Friday, 27 June 2025

Tin Can Record

We have all made Tin Can telephones ....

Tin Can Telephones Are An Old Toy

.... with a string between two tin cans (I say we advisedly, maybe kids these days stopped doing this? Perhaps kids think this is stupid as phones don't have wires?).

The Road To Hell Really Does Freeze Over

We have all heard the expression .....

Hell Yes - Its Frozen Over
Hell Yes - Its Frozen Over

 .... 'only when hell freezes over' or similar. 

Monsters

There are some perverts who are below human decency .....

Kasim Khurum
Kasim Khurum

.... one such is 23 year old Kasim Khurum.

Friday, 20 June 2025

TutTutTut

There are lots of strange sights in our increasingly chaotic cities these days .....

Michael Jackson Floating Down The Thames
Michael Jackson Floating Down The Thames

... but they mostly have a mundane explanation. Such as a giant Michael Jackson statue that was found floating down the Thames in 1995 (a promotional prop for his History album)

Krokodile Bites

There's been a new drug on the block for a decade and we didn't hear much about it .....

Krokodil Has A Real Bite
Krokodil Has A Real Bite

..... its official name is Desomorphine, but its street names are 'Krokodil' (aka crocodile, croc, krok, and poor man's heroin).

A World In Flames?

Has the world gone gone to hell?

The World In Flames?
The World In Flames?

That question has to be asked if you just look around at the state it's in.

Friday, 13 June 2025

Bee Armageddon

 I suspect that we have all heard the "Fact" that bees are dying out ....

Which Bees Need Saving
Which Bees Need Saving

.... and that as the foremost pollinator we will face a collapse of agriculture and starve to death ..... or something like that.

Electrocuted Birds

Responding to concerns that a number of dead birds (Predator birds such as a dead golden eagle, and a dead prairie falcon)  .....

Raptors Roosting And Nesting On Electrical Infrastructure
Raptors Roosting And Nesting
On Electrical Infrastructure

..... were being found under power lines in the USA, despite the fact that the poles had been retrofitted to prevent electrocution, by Eve Thomason, then a wildlife biologist for a local power utility company in Idaho, USA. Note: Large birds like raptors can't sit on the power lines, so are attracted to the the power poles and infrastructure

Captain Chaotica

When I suggested that President Donald Trump ... 

Showboating Protests In Front Of The National Guard Since The 1960's
Show Boating Protests In Front Of The National Guard Since The 1960's

... would keep bloggers and journalists busy, I didn't realise we would be this busy.

Friday, 6 June 2025

Beeping Hell

I once had reason to post a blog about the noises in a hospital ...

Beeping Hell
Beeping Hell

 ... So I kind of understand where this lady is coming from, but even so what was going through her head!

Not So Coy Carp

 Koi Carp are considered lucky in Chinese and Japanese culture .....

S Legend The Koi
S Legend The Koi

 .... and indeed can fetch very large prices if they have especially lucky designs or colouration.

Saved By A Psalm

I think most of us over the age of 35 have heard stories from the various relatives from the wars of the 20th century .....

2nd Lt. William Alexander Lytle's Cigarette Case
2nd Lt. William Alexander Lytle's Cigarette Case

.... about bullets being stopped by a range of objects, ranging from cigarette cases to bibles.

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