Good drills from the University of Leicester this week who have triumphed with a study published in this weeks Science Daily: Mr Nolan said: “It is common knowledge that broken glass bottles can be used as an effective stabbing weapon and the results of the study have reaffirmed this.” Good […]

In great news for the inhabitants of Cook County, Illinois, the Forest Preserve Commissioners voted last week to change laws covering “misconduct” within the region. Now you can legally try your hand at fortune-telling, “acrobatic feats” and juggling there. Splendidly, it is no longer “disorderly conduct” for confidence men to […]

The thing with being mugged by genuine muggers is they only get away with your wallet, and don’t make you say sorry. In Canada we have someone hitting the Compensation button because a stewardess didn’t speak Frog. What’s the only difference between Sprite and 7Up anyway…apart from the fact that […]

Everyone, of course, knows what a witch is. Ragged and wild old woman; misdirects lost travellers, hobbles and cackles whilst saying lawks and is often seen at public executions performing a task impossible to mere mortals – knitting. Sir Bedevere will also prove to you that they weigh the same […]

It’s often said that the Swiss have an excellent form of government. You can point to the fact that local and national referenda mean that different Cantons offer different tax rates, the citizens are armed and they are currently not putting up with this minaret building nonsense. That doesn’t stop […]

In case you’re in the office today and the person sitting next to you – that one with the really irritating habits – is pushing you just that little too far today…you’re not alone. From the previous week alone we’ve got a splendid roundup of people randomly snapping: Police in […]

Might as well just reprint this article. It’s very….educational…. Cannabis fed to ducks by French farmer for ‘deworming’A French farmer has been given a one-month suspended jail sentence and fined 500 euros (£428) for feeding his ducks marijuana to rid them of worms.  Police arrested Michel Rouyer after they discovered […]

In India, the Bombay High Court has just ruled that astrology is ‘a time tested science more than 4000 years old‘, which follows a 2004 Supreme Court ruling that astrology can be taught in university as a real ‘science’. Ohferpitysakeswhataloadofbollocks James Randi devised an experiment to test the basis of […]

Now that it’s starting to warm up and all of the white global warming is busy retreating to the tops of mountains where it belongs, here’s one final tribute to the magnificence of snow and the stupidity it brings. Face it, if you ever go shopping online for the parts […]

This isn’t about Andy Gray and Richard Keys making a few harmless comments, although this post is indeed inspired by the storm-in-a-B-cup controversy about whether all linesmen are blind, stupid and unfit or whether women have the edge. Turn those comments around, by the way, and swap the sexes. Nobody […]