It’s tough taking these people seriously. This 11th August speech on “climate change” by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sounds like it comes from a US television evangelist who still has thousands of glow-in-the-dark crucifixes in his garage and he needs to shift them quickly: “The downside is equally dramatic. If we […]

…is about “Tess The Traveller”. You’ve guessed it. Jack and Jill, Janet and John etc are toast in todays politically correct world. The Department for Children, Schools and Families (which used to be the Department for Education and Science before it gave up on those ideas and thought that lefty […]

What do you get for the Eco-Nut who has everything except a way to measure their neurotic guilt? How about “Industrial Designer” Nick Hunter’s idea for a wrist-worn device which gives you a monthly carbon allowance and monitors how you use them… Introducing the Wearable Carbon Credit Meter. [T]he carbon […]

Ever wanted to be somebody else? TheEye has always fancied being James Bond, as he always gets the great gadgets, saves the world and sleeps with thousands of women. And rather like Dr. Who he seems able to change his face every other series without anybody noticing. Rather like you […]

Okay, sorry, it’s a bad pun on a line from a so-so song, but now it has a scary ring of reality imitating art. Reality TV has hit a new worrying level.A new Turkish reality television show on the minor ‘Channel T’ called “Tövbekarlar yarisiyor” or “Penitents Compete” has rabbis, […]

Back by popular demand (well, by TheBigDollop to be precise but TheEye is delighted to oblige) we continue our occasional series of Gratuitous Totty Pictures With Tenuously Connected Text. Up this time is a survey by Kodak Lens Vision Centres. Now you’ve got to wonder how they worked this one […]

In terrifying news today, we learn the shocking news that farmers sometimes carry farm tools to do farming jobs. Tony Martin became the hero of everyone who has been the victim of crime for shooting Fred Barras who, with Brendan Fearnon, had broken in to his remote farmhouse in Norfolk […]

No, not a contribution to Man In A Shed’s Blogger Silly Week but genuine nonsense instead. Jackson might end up will a Nobel Peace Prize if some of his nuttier fans get their way. The grim horror is in this post here. Michael Jackson fans have launched a campaign calling […]

This blog likes to provide examples of oddness, and this story is truly that. However sometimes these stories are tricky to find pictures to illustrate, so this time we can only get away with a suggestively-shaped building. From The Local, Sweden’s English daily newspaper… “Malmö’s Möllevången district was the scene […]

From the ever odd Austrian Times, we have the Survey Of The Day. One in five Austrians want a “strong leader”. The demographic group contributing to this poll may or many not have consisted mostly of itinerant Austrian painters with small mustaches and body odour. However we learn: “A study […]