Or to put it another way “Segway Boss Killed By Own Segway” Remember those? They were rather like Paris Hilton – expensive, useless, famous for no reason at all and you could get hurt riding it. Well, beating the challenge of Gerald “Crap” Ratner for being a marketing department’s worst […]

For the benefit of newsreader Naomi Lloyd who breathlessly announced the discovery of a dead polar bear washed up in Cornwall…

This sounds like a paragraph from the early part of Heinlein’s The Day of the Jackpot; where goofy real newspaper reports turn out to be stranger than anything you could make up: An American student whose heart stopped after he deliberately electrocuted himself in a science class is suing his […]

Splendid fundraising nonsense from China which might be music to the ears of council officials who are set to charge you £250 a year to park: Cash strapped park officials in China are putting the wind up lazy bums who loaf on their benches for too long – by fitting […]

Sigh, must we have this debate every year? And why has this suddenly become “news”? If you read some of the opinion columns about David Cameron speculating on the merits of double-summertime hours you’d think that we’re all suddenly going to live forever if we do it. Four disabled schoolchildren […]

Today is obviously the day for kooks and nutters to come out of the woodwork. Or TheEye is in the mood for such stories….one or the other. From my list of daily reads (true) comes this from Ice News – News From The Nordics. Icelandic artist Snorri Asmundsson is set […]

The Internet is a marvellous thing. In a hundred years the relatives (not his grandchildren, no chance of those) of a certain Alexander C Grunke will look up his name in whatever replaces Google and find……this. The Grunke boys and a third guy, Dustin Radke, paid a visit to a […]

Just received this gem… (No Subject)‏From: ExxonMobil (web38@btinternet.com)Sent: 16 July 2010 15:53:16To: Your Email id has won £1,000,000.00 GBP in the ExxonMobil Promotion.For claims send:Name:Address:Telephone: Plain text sent exactly like that… oh please….does anyone seriously fall for this nonsense?

In a marvellous bit of pre-Question Time LiveBlogging nonsense, let’s rejoice in the fact that fuckwittery is alive and kicking (unlike the badger) in Hampshire: Workmen painting white lines on a road left a gap for a dead badger because they said it was not their responsibility to move it. […]

Seen over at the Lakelander and thoroughly enjoyed…. He goes into entertaining detail about how the coat of arms was put together…and then redesigned as commenters weighed in with other ideas. Have a read….