I like the Dixie Chicks, even though their politics are entirely unrelated to reality. This song, though, could be a message from the free world to terrorists everywhere. Not Ready To Make Nice. I love this clip.
Just a couple of interesting gadgets. The Sharkstopper is an accoustic shark repellent. It produces sound at a pitch sharks find uncomfortable, so they just swim away. That’s the idea, anyway. If testing shows this is […]
And I love Susan Boyle. What to do? Just watch it. Crowds love ugly people – Britains Got Talent Parody. It’s a parody of the judges, not Susan Boyle, by the way. ‘There’s something so surprising […]
World Wide Words defines a snollygoster as ‘a shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician.’ Snollygoster has not been heard much for the last sixty years. President Truman used it in 1952, and defined it, either in ignorance or […]
A few people, including Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt, have picked up these comments from Sir Michael Caine, originally published in the UK Telegraph: “The Government has taken tax up to 50 per cent, and if it […]
It takes two to make a loan. Borrowers are losing beds, TVs and washing machines after taking out short-term, high-interest “payday loans” they cannot afford to repay, say consumer advocates. So, don’t take out the loan. […]
Britain’s new ‘Equality Bill’ replaces nine other diversity laws, so that employers will find it easier to put into place a range of inefficient and unneccesary measures thought up by people wo have never run a business in their lives. Great […]
Melbourne today recorded its coldest April morning for 60 years. In Coldstream, in Melbourne’s outer east, the mercury dropped to -2.7C, while Mt Hotham had the morning’s lowest temperature of 4.4C – a day after the […]