Long Overdue Phligm Phlagm Part 1

I haven’t done a Phligm Phlagm post since April. (Sorry, I’ve been really busy…) We have some catching up to do. Anyway, I hope you enjoy and / or are informed by these links:

The maths (and beauty) behind a perfect 147. Make sure you watch Ronnie O’Sullivan’s five minutes and 20 seconds 147 – one of the all time greatest accomplishments in any sport.

This is the sort of thing that should be in that Alanis Morrisette song instead of "rain on your wedding day".

Few people regularly make me as angry as this incompetent, ill-informed, hypocritical, leftard.

Great myths of British politics, number 745: "The NHS is the most efficient health system in the world". (According to the OECD, only Ireland and Greece could make greater savings from more efficient healthcare systems.)

Even among countries with similar healthcare systems, the UK's is "below average". (So can we please stop this “envy of the world” bollocks?)

"My obsession with a fictional Football Manager megastar." (I had to put this in quotation marks to make it clear that this wasn't me...)

Diane "divide and rule" Abbott tutting that the "Tories harp on about Mid-Staffs". (Yeah, cos it’s not as if 1,200 people dying because of neglect in a state-run hospital is something politicians should be concerned about…)

"We're a class project."

A Greek God Family Tree

Student union backs excluding white people from 'anti-racism' events.

RIP Yeoman Rand.

PwC is going to ignore graduates' A-level results when recruiting. (This surprises me. When I was being recruited as a trainee chartered accountant, and when I was recruiting trainee chartered accountants, it was generally accepted that A-level grades were the best indication of future success in ACA exams, far more so than class of degree.)

George Digweed, the greatest British sportsman you've never heard of.

You know those really expensive very large Lego Super Star Destroyers? What if you dropped one from a great height? And filmed it. At 1000fps.

10 typographic mistakes everyone makes (and which life is far, far too short to care about.)

Phligm Phlagm Catchup 2

How to defend a questionable purchase (specifically the ultra-final-collector's-edition-director's-cut boxed set of Blade Runner.

South Yorkshire Police were warned twice about moslem sexual exploitation of children in Rotherham, but ignored it and treated the victims as prostitutes.

A selection of great works of art in which women are clearly trying to politely end conversations with men.

What the fuck? Dungeons & Dragons - Deities & Demigods

The key sentence in this story is I feel "That complaint was referred to the police who decided not to prosecute." And we assume, with good reason.

Is the inspiration for Pulp's 'Common People' really married to Greece's hapless finance minister?

Time to give Scotland full fiscal autonomy.

There are now more time lords in Scotland than Labour MPs. Abso-fucking-lutely hilarious.

An American view of the British hard left's reaction to the UK General Election result. (by jordan179)