Phlegmatic

"NHS 111 to blame for rise in A&E attendances is a really dreadful explanation for something that did, in fact, not happen". (Thankyou Steer for a good piece of analysis.)

Ed Miliband thinks that an Italian who runs an American company and lives in Monaco should pay "his (British) taxes". This is a Labour policy I can get behind – get foreigners with no connection to the UK to pay all our taxes. Brilliant. I would totally vote for this policy. (When you think about it, it’s pretty much the policy that successive Greek governments have adopted for years…)

The German government uses Battlestar Galactica LARP (on an actual warship) to train diplomats.

Apparently women aren't rational. (This is the latest in a long line of what I like to call ‘pseudo-economics’ books that litter the shelves of high street bookshops. Just as you find history shelves full of books about secret societies and how the freemasons are looking after the Holy Grail until the aliens land, you will find books in the ‘Economics’ section written by the sort of people who think Adam Smith is a member of One Direction. Pfft.)

Hmm. We've been thinking we could do with a projector for the business...

Schoolboy suspended for saying he could make classmate 'disappear' with the One Ring. Actually, the funniest thing about this story is that there is a town in Texas called ‘Kermit’. *

The To Kill a Mockingbird sort-of-sequel. Should we be suspicious? Yes. No. Yes.

Rotherham Council, the council that allowed 1,400 children to be gang-raped and sexually abused by muslims, is to be taken over by central government until elections can be held.

Is Rotherham the tip of the iceberg? "How much does the Labour Party know about the stench of corruption, sexual malfeasance, public maladministration and greed, incompetence and pro-Asian bigotry emanating from Labour's heartlands?"

Or is the whole Rotherham problem simply a case of a "rotten borough"?

Top 10 'Things that Ed Balls Has Forgotten'.

"How Sci-Fi's Most Prestigious Awards Became A Political Battleground"

Bryan Henderson doesn't like the phrase "comprised of".

"Big accountancy firm accused of saving people money" I particularly love the phrase “in blatant accordance with the law”.

Adding up the wealth of the poor - the meme that refuses to die.

The World's Poorest Man.

The Information Commissioner's Office is the public body that enforces privacy and electronic communication regulations. Guess what they forgot to renew.

Random Guardian comment generator.

Today is the 40th Anniversary of Margaret Thatcher becoming leader of the Conservative Party. The Labour Party has never had a female leader, but it clearly knows how to attract female voters.

* Has anyone else read ‘A World of Ice and Fire’? Lovecraft references I can take, but Sesame Street…?

Christmas trees are "like catnip" to lions.

So you've spent thousands on gold-plated network cables and power leads, but there's still something not quite right about your hi-fi. Could it be your NAS drive?

The bows of The Hobbit.

The Yamural Curse - most residents of this Colombian village have dementia by the age of 40.

KILLER NAZI SUPER-COWS!!!!!!

How do dragons get their hoards to where they want them?

Red hot nickel dropped in water. You need the sound turned on to appreciate this.

Billy Joel playing harmonica looks like dying Anakin Sywalker

The Israeli government has had enough with anti-semitic LibDem MP David Ward.

Here's a great time-sink - side by side historic maps and modern maps.

Ten stupid workplace rules that drive people away.

How well do you think idiots like this would be treated in the Islamic State...?

In economic terms, how big are African countries in relation to English counties?

Pretentious (but funny) Amazon reviews of Mr Men books.

Asking people in one part of the United Kingdom to draw a map of another part of their own sodding country.

Rude placenames of Britain. (We're just around the corner from Clitters, which if you know our housename, is perhaps unfortunate...)

Ahh...Plymouth.

Real men don't shave off their moustache on the 1st December.

Unemployment is now really (surprisingly even) low. But not so low for 16-20 year olds. This is why.

My wife thinks very carefully before walking our lurchers off lead. This circus animal keeper...not so much. And we're not talking about lurchers here.

Headline of the month.

A look at the legalities of shooting people in the US, and how it differs for police officers.

Did you see all that fuss that certain types kicked up about the ESA scientist who wore the unfortunate shirt? Did you think to yourself "I want one of those!"? Well you're a few hours too late.

When applied to dead buffalo, five thousand is a very big number.

I know this is a joke, but I would actually love this to happen.

Unfortunate formatting errors in the ebook version of 'A Feast for Crows'.

The Science of Gay Marriage.

Clever wall-mounted, liquid-cooled PC.

How does The Shire work in terms of economics?

The Hornsleth Deep Storage Project - Some Seriously Weird Shit.

The Worst 5 Seconds of Football You'll Ever See.

And five of the best.

Massive Kenyan aquifer "may reshape nation".

How can someone clever enough to devise a brilliant casino scam involving infra-red contact lenses be so stupid that he doesn't think the casino will get suspicious if he always wins?

Footballers That Look Like Lesbians.

Clever video showing the changing front lines of the European theatre of WW2

Oxford University Freshers' Fair (Oh, now this takes me back...)

Really good optical illusion. Who needs LSD?

It’s been a while…

The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense

Gizoogle - Fo' all y'all biotches who wanna find shiznit! Fo shizzle ma nizzle!

Five Myths About the American War of Independence

How can 'Liberty' be in favour of state regulation of the press? Answer: because 'Liberty' isn't as liberal as its name suggests.

Lies, Damned Lies and Facebook

15 Popular Movie Poster Cliches

Nine Absurd Ideas for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (That Were Actually Considered)

Eight New Punctuation Marks We Desperately Need

Star Wars Episode IV, animated in 60 seconds

Soft kitty / Soft dalek

Greeks apologise to rest of European Union with present of enormous wooden horse.

Kodak had a secret nuclear reactor loaded with enriched uranium hidden in a basement. (Thanks for the link draxar.)

Doctor Who music special. In particular, check out the Tesla Coil performance.

The Hobbit: a book for adults. (Which reminds me, I haven't read it in ages...)

The Equality Paradox - social equality / income inequality

The Chinese - great at making things; less good at flags of the world since 1946.

Carroll Shelby is dead.