Spotted in the Head Of Steam last night (pub one of three for me) – a new style of hi-rise charity box. In a wooden frame there were five perspex boxes all labelled with their respective charities. The HoS said they would double any money given[…]

Okay, if we can have Moments In Love and/or Martin’s Great Moments then can we have the opposite. Moments in songs that you hate with a passion. You might hate the song completely due to that moment, or, as in this case just get your teeth set […]

And so farewell then, Celebrity Wrestling. We barely knew (watched) you. Except a bizarre one minute sgment where Jenni Powell was tethered to Fatima Whitbread in a turquoise gimp mask and made to run around the ring hitting some balls.[…]

There was a moment when I thought I would not actually get to see this heartwarming tale of a ladies stuffing her belly with 62 pellets of cocaine and her adventures in that there Noo Yoick.Part of me thought the whole thing would be all too depressi[…]

FIREFOX DOWN
Come on, if you are going to call your free open source browser that, you can only expect one outcome.
I wonder if another company is making some “off book” payments to hackers to find flaws in Firefox. Maybe Unigate Dairies.[…]

There is nothing wrong with Thames Tandoori. I want to say that here and now. That said, it is probably the curry house I have been to most regularly over the last five years. It is a pretty standard tandoori house really, a bit pricey perhaps but th[…]

Goes to FAQ U. I shall not add to the literal acres, and acres of print which will appear by the end of this week in explaining how this comedy replacement for Channel 4’s 11 O’Clock Show* is the biggest insult ever committed on the Briti[…]

Out with a friend who is a real actual scientist yesterday, who was explaining his new job doing research on nano-magnets. Such is the level of layman knowledge of science, he was genuinely pleased when Alan made a nanofridge joke. Still, perhaps thi[…]

15 Pizza’s end prison siege. Considering there were 20 inmates, getting their demands down to 15 pizzas was probably the kind of job only the most skilled hostage negotiator could sort out. Unfortuantely the report does not say what Meal Deal t[…]

1: The name of John Cusack’s character in Grosse Point Blank.
I believe it was Lee and Herring’s Fist Of Fun (though it might be the Mary Whitehouse Experience Encyclopaedia) that made a long list of potential sitcoms with realistically b[…]