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Bizarre ways to die #1

An occasional series begins with this sad but true tale of mental instability and tree fetishism.

A schizophrenic artist who died after handcuffing himself to a tree having throwing away the key, may have tried to free himself, an inquest has heard. The skeleton of Richard Sumner – 47 when he went missing three years [...]

Table image

What a refreshing change it is to see a man comfortable and at ease in one of his wife’s hats.

The carman is obviously attempting to portray a mean, gangster image in order to intimidate his opponents. It doesn’t quite work. He looks like a blind pimp.

A bad run

I have been experiencing a bad run of late, and this hand will show you what I mean.

A 320 play tournament, first hand and I’m in the small blind. It’s checked all the way round to me and I have QQ. First hands in a tournament are tricky so I rasie it to 300, [...]

Train spots

Fellow train travellers.

Celebrity spot of the journey so far, is Ming Campbell, leader of that great irrelevancy the Liberal Democrats. Ming himself may be decent enough, but his party is for the most part composed of tofu-munching, tree hugging beardies who play at politics and should just fuck off to Shetland or Croydon – [...]

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Danzig

Until very recently, if you had said the word “Danzig,” the first two things that would have sprung to my mind would have been:

1. Ah yes Danzig, the German name for Gdansk, the city at the heart of the eponymous “Danzig corridor” – the narrow strip of Polish territory precariously placed between the main [...]

Nostalgia

As age tightens its remorseless grip, one sometimes turns to that corrupting emotion – nostalgia.

Like the ancient Roman god Janus, it is two faced. On one side, its consoling, comforting, countenance brings you the joy and remembrance of things long since gone. On the other, it sneers and laughs at your futile attempts to [...]