Flying Fish?

Its been reported that researchers have uncovered a strange fact .....

Disappearing Fish From Tanks

.... this is that up to 300,000 pet fish, simply disappear from their tanks every year in the UK.

Salt Slickers

The need for salt in their diet affects ..... 

Too Much Salt In Our Diets.

... both humans and animals alike.

Only The Devil Loves Wars

One of the surprises of the war in Iran are the casualty figures ...

Tehran Bombed - Low Comparatively Casualties?

 

.... I say surprises, because considering the sheer volume of munitions being expended by all sides, especially by the US and Isreal, but also by an Iran lashing out in all directions, you would expect many thousand upon thousands of dead and wounded.

Chamas Without The C

I think its fair to say that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas attack on Israel and its response ro that attack has exposed a fault line in the Western populations .....

 ... which is that in general, a sizeable number of the immigrant Muslim populations who are here, loose;y supported the attack and violently opposed the Israeli response, if not necessarily supporting the atrocities Hamas committed against Israeli citizens. While, probably the majority of the non-Muslims (over age 35 at least) supported the right for Israel to respond, and its subsequent actions to defend itself.

Small But Nearly Deadly

Britain is rather benign when it comes to deadly critters ....

Adder Attacks Rare In UK

 ... since the extinction of the wolf and bear, we are largely free of larger predators with perhaps the recently resettled wild boar as the only large wild animal that could maybe kill you.

Severed Feet Mystery

Surprisingly people lose their feet ....

Maurice's Lost Foot

.... only for them to turn up, washed ashore on beaches around the globe but predominantly the Northwest American coast. 

Animals And Tourists Wanted

Money from the UK's Postcode Lottery has been used to prepare habitats for beaver reintroductions in three English counties (Staffordshire, Cheshire and Shropshire), which have been beaver free for over 500 years. 

British Beaver

Wild beaver are only currently found in Scotland and the English county of Devon.

Sky High Costs

When in September 1962, President Kennedy ..... 

Putting A Man On The Moon Was Costly

...... committed the United States to sending a man to the moon before the end of the decade, he said:

Exit Ramp Being Sought??

President Trump appears to have no apparent exit ramp from the attacks on Iran ... 

Wall Street Journal Headline - Exit Iran War

D.M a commentor last week, reported that CNN has an article that stated "Trump might just mirror his domestic approach by declaring victory, walking away and leaving everyone else to deal with the consequences. Trump’s signature move is to tear down established structures before seeing where the pieces fall and finding some way to declare a win." 

Expensive Pets

Pets can be a financial drain .....

Cat Breaks Vase 

 .... anyone facing vets bills can attest to that.

Most Boring Video ..... Ever!!

Chronic insomnia is a problem of old age (which I for one, can attest to <deep sigh>) ....  

Randy Smith Has A Strange Fame

 ... but affects people of all ages worldwide. 

Curtains For Iran

Last Monday, President Trump unusually used a teleprompter/auto-cue at a medal ward ceremony, which the press had attended ....

Donalds auto-cue controller

...... probably because his usual rambling disjointed style of talking, would probably have either alarmed the US public (especially MAGA supporters who he'd promised no overseas wars), or his military planners.

Dull Men

In the UK (November 2024) there was a TV show called James May & The Dull Men's Club .....

1936 Beer Can (From a collection).

 .... hosted by ex-Top Gear presenter James May (as suggested by the title Duh!), which is actually rather entertaining.

Password Control

Cyber security against three malicious states (Russia, China, and North Korea ... the 3 dictatorships most active in the Cybersphere) is a big thing in the increasingly beleaguered West .....

Password Quality Can Be Poor

So every country has a national Cyber Security agency in one form or another, but often they are not employing the best of the best (unlike the opposition).

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

While perusing the Web for current news stories ....

Should Vigilantes Guard Churches?

... I came across this disturbing little quote from Don Gaetz, a Florida state senator. 

Batty Deaths

When we think of migrating animals .... 

Migrating Bats

.... we usually think birds such as geese and ducks.

Is That An Otter In Your Pants?

Two strange tales from the world of Human animal interaction ....

Ducklings In Underpants

An arsonist in Melbourne was hunted by the police after starting several fires in the south-east of the city.

A.I. Evil

I suppose it was only a matter of time ....

Real Or Fakes - Its Hard To Tell

 .... before criminals and others with bad intentions really latched on to the uses of A.I. 

Nasty Box Of Tricks

 In May 2019 there was an unusual on-line tech auction ......

Dangerous Laptop

.... in which a 2008 Samsung NC10 Windows Laptop was sold for £1m ($1,286,540.00) to an undisclosed/unknown buyer.

Wrong Treatment

There is a belief amongst some in the United States, that an electric shock on the bite kills the snakes venom after a bite .... 

Rattle Lip

 .... this idea originated in 1984, from Dr. Ronald H. Guderian, a missionary doctor in Ecuador who believed that shocking a bite would neutralise the venom. It caught on in Ecuador, after some people claimed it had worked for them.

The Destroyer Of Knowledge

Trump vult ignorantiam per Civitates Foederatas regnare .... 

CIA World Factbook - Website Cancelled

Which is a fancy way of saying that Trump apparently wants ignorance to reign across the United States ....

Blowing Up Beavers

Beavers will dam any stream or small river they can ....

Tannerite Explosion

 ... but not all their neighbours like it when they do.

The Empire Grows

Over the last 100 years, Britain went from having the biggest empire the world has ever known .....

The Pink Bits Were British Empire

 ... to being a small overcrowded island, north of the European continent.

Acid Comments

Theofylaktos Kombos was a Greek Orthodox priest ....

Theofylaktos Kombos - Ex Priest

 ..... who was facing a disciplinary hearing, after being caught with 18 gram of cocaine hidden near his genitals.

History Condensed

In September 1962, President Kennedy gave his moon speech ....

President Kennedy - Moon Speech

 ..... it contained this summation of mans development history up unto that day.

Florida Woman And Man ... Yet Again

In September 2021, Police in Dunedin, West of Tampa, Florida, were in a stand-off with a gunman holed up in a buildings roof .....

Three Faces Of Florida Madness.

 ..... when everyone's attention was diverted by the arrival on the scene of a golf cart being driven at top speed which suddenly crashed through their perimeter and ignored all shouts to stop.

BOMBE

 The inventive manner of finding new ways to get 'high' ....

Would You Put This Up Your Nose?

 .... has probably reached its height in the Democratic Republic of Congo, although as reported before, Russia with is fairly well along the rod with its Krokodile drug.

Knob Throwing

Now I think I can guess what you thought this post might be about when you saw the title .....

No, It Has Nothing To Do With Big Knobs!

 ... maybe the more inventive of you might have thought outside the box and considered other less outre explanations.

Modest Politician?

Now by its very nature, politics is not the home of modest people  ....

Damion 'Bud' Green

.... quite the opposite in fact (as we see with Donald Trump). 

Trump Crossing The Rubicon?

As my audience is from across the globe .....

Trump - Truth Social Greenland Absorbed.

... I will explain the title of the post to give context.

Bricking It

Being seen by motorists on busy roads can prove to be a fatal issue for many pedestrians ....

Be Seen - Grab A Brick

 .... Similarly many motorists seem oblivious to roadside events. Was that a pedestrian? A cyclist? A bus that they had just slammed their brakes on for? .... evidence from crashes and accidents suggest that motorists have not necessarily noticed the other road user until it was too late.

Man Bites Back

A cattle farmer in his 60's in Australia's Northern Territory ...

Finniss River Floodplain Infested With Salt-water Crocs

 ..... was attacked by a crocodile at a water hole (known locally as a billabong), when it grabbed his foot and the creature then shook him "like a rag doll, and took off into the water" pulling him in as well. 

Iced Crickets

The fact that insect protein can be eaten by humans ....

Thai Snack Foods

 .... has been known for thousands of years, and the scientific term for eating insects is anthropo-entomophagy.

Strange Supporters

Emotional support animals ....

Emotional Support Peacocks, Amongst Strange Animals

.... have always struck me as catering to people who are just rather self indulgent and emotionally needy, but hey ho in woke world, they have become accepted by some airlines and other organisations .... but with increasing limits.

Its The Words Not The Spirit

 Baptism is a serious thing in the Christian world .....

Pastor Andres Arango Made A BooBoo

 .... it is a Christian sacrament and an actual requirement for admission to the church and the start of a new life in faith ending in the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Age Of Conquest and Empires Is Back

In the old days of empire, stealing, appropriating and incorporating other countries territories ....

The Assyrians Were Early Empire Builders 
And Set A Three Thousand Year Trend.

 .....  was a common and accepted political and military practise.

Pissed Off By Polar Bear

Amersfoort in the Netherlands is normally a quiet enough town .....

Polar Bear Before Piss Ban

..... Residents can expect to get a good night sleep, undisturbed by noise. 

Tales Of Meat

Christchurch, New Zealand, doesn't normally feature much in the international news .....

Rotting Meat Dumped In Christchurch

..... and especially in the bizarre news category.

That's Lady Luck For You

Chris Dennis left his phone in the Champion of the Thames pub in Cambridge .....

Lost Phones - A 21st Century Peril

.... normally, not a lucky thing, and in fact usually unlucky as you never see the phone again.