All that i ask while you peruse this blog is that you keep an open mind to the points raised, they are not necessarily fact (yet) but are interesting to illustrate what life could be or is like. This is going to be a long slog.....

I often wonder, as we as a people continue to strive forwards constantly bettering ourselves with true feats of human endeavour, whether or not in-fact we are actually progressing.

Sure, on the surface, it can be argued that in terms of achievements it seems that the human race are breaking forward and consistantly striving in many fields, such as science, medicine and maths to name but a few. However as i think more and more about this, i think, that we are seeing a distorted picture of the evolution and overall forward motion in terms of strength. It cannot be argued that in terms of mental capacities, us humans are excelling at an amazing rate of knots. What we need to do however is look at different areas and ask ourselves are we developing in those ar ... Read more ...

I was watching the television the other day, specifically the news and something struck me as odd. How much British news airtime is spent covering the US presidential election.

Now fair enough, the race to be the most (arguably) powerful single being in the world warrants a certain amount of time being spent discussing the topic on the news. The amount of time it does recieve however is (in my opinion) a bit excessive, it is literally the first news item shown every day and gets a 5-10 minute slot in a 30 minute programme. Fair enough you might say, if it is a slow day for news or something particularly interesting has taken place in the campaigns, but this is not the case, there is plenty of very important economical news to report on, which should trump Palin's visit to a retirement home in Ohio or whatever she chooses to do now.

With all the coverage we are getting over here, on this side of the pond, i am getting to know a bit about the candidates, their vice-henchmen/women etc. Which mad ... Read more ...

Just a re-post of this weeks pub quiz questions, week ending this sunday 26th October 2008. Here are the questions and good luck.

1- Vaseline is a trademark for what?

2- What does UHT in milk stand for?

3- Envelope, basket and burner are 3 main parts of what?

4- The christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, England is a gift from which country?

5- When is the 'Feast of Stephen'?

6- On the flags of which 2 countries would you find the most stars?

7- What does 'alibi' literally mean?

8- Which commercial chain is named after a character in Moby Dick and has a ouble-tailed mermaid as the main feature of its logo?

9- What colour (color) is zero on a roulette wheel?

10- What is the official language of Pakistan?

11- What does '3G' stand for (in reference to mobile/cell phones)?

12- Which organisation has the mott ... Read more ...

Ok, i know that my blog entitled' The WORST pain' was pretty comprehensive in summing up just about the worst pain imaginable to males.

The other day however i got told a story about a bloke my friend knows who had possibly the worst accident at work ever imagined, i mean most people wouldn't wish this on their worst enemies.

Ok the story is, some guy was working on a building site, specifically on the scaffolding (just in case Americans call it something different here is an example picture).

So anyway, he was working on the scaffolding and he was one story up. Now it was common-place for the workmen to jump off the scaffolding, rather than go down the ladder (they did so by lowering themselves down as far as possible then dropping the further 2 meters or whatever).

On this day however, things did not go to plan. It was brew time (time for a break and a cup of tea) and he downed his tools and jumped from the scaffolding. Now prepare yourselves for the reality o ... Read more ...

This is just a quick note to put an idea out there.

The inspiration came from Google's new feature, the weekend and evening e-mail drunk-block thing. The one where users have to take a simple maths test in order to be able to open their account.

This, they hope, will reduce the amount of (regretable) drunken e-mails sent.

Now my idea is this, before anyone is allowed to post in the blog section, they must take a literacy and english writing skills 'test'. We have all seen the terribly written blogs and i'm sure that i'm not alone in wanting to correct this tolerance of stupidity. I'm sure we all have certain 'users' in mind.

Now this test could be set at an 'appropriate' level and would (hopefully) prevent total morons posting dog-wank blogs that just get deleted.

I know it wouldn't prevent people who passed the 'test' from posting shit, but hopefully the rubbish blogs would be reduced due to less 'tards being present.

Anyone have any thoughts and/or improvements?< ... Read more ...