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Big Garden Birdwatch 2007

This year’s RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, like last year, yielded slightly disappointing results, mainly due to there being fewer sightings of the commonest birds that normally crowd out the trees in the gardens.

Presumably the strong gusts of wind coming from the west, and the mildness of this January with its concomitant easy access to [...]

I still can’t get over it.

This photo was taken during the press announcement when Novell and Microsoft announced their agreement about making Linux and Windows work together or “interoperability” as they snappily titled it. It shows a docile Ron Hovsepian smiling as Steve “Monkey Boy Dancer” Ballmer explains how he will sue the arse off anyone who uses Linux [...]

Dave

I share this with the mulit-talented David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.

“Though generally polite, friendly and easygoing, David Gilmour is annoyed when reporters address him as “Dave”. He claims never to have used that nickname, preferring his given name, David. However, the three other members of Pink Floyd have often referred to him as “Dave” [...]

Australia – why I wont go

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The best possible hand

It would be difficult to be dealt a better hand…

Ballet Bovver Boys

“Ballet should be Nazi free! Stop the fascist BNP! Ballet not bigotry!” For fuck’ s sake.

Twats like this…

are upset because Simone Clarke, principal dancer with the English National Ballet is a British National Party member. Ballet is not usually the preferred form of entertainment for the Anti-Nazi League, and certainly not something [...]

Twisted Babe

You meet some strange people while playing poker.

Take for instance “twiztidbabe” – that’s “Twisted Babe” for those of you older than 15 and not familiar with texting.

She lived up to her name by having a fetish for penguins. This is my button on PokerStars.

And here is her opening gambit.

twiztidbabe said, [...]

Darth

You didn’t know that Darth Vader was Irish?