Recent Posts Tagged With 'news'

• Yay Spiders!

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 01:11 in news, amusing

  After my post a few days ago about the rather mah-hoosive spider wandering through my kitchen, and the subsequent replies of "Ew!" or "Shudder!" or similar, I felt sorry for the poor little (and not-so-little) bugs.  They do get a lot of bad re...

• I Take It Back

  Posted on Saturday July 4th, 2009 at 01:42 in news

  One of the "cunning tactics" I've considered to take out my Demon Weed From Hell in the garden has been FIRE! However, I am now having second thoughts... House wrecked as man kills weeds with flame thrower A German gardener's house was left a smou...

• Go On, Gramps!

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 13:34 in news

  This is the sort of thing I like to see in the news... Burglar Gets Battered By Brave Pensioner 3:43pm UK, Tuesday June 30, 2009 A knife-wielding burglar got the shock of his life when he was left battered and bruised by a 72-year-old former boxer. ...

• Just One Post...

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 10:32 in news

  Some are sad, some are devestated, some are just getting on with their lives, but I suppose by now, everyone knows that Michael Jackson died last night. I was surprised when I saw it on the news last night, and watched as various news agencies slowl...

• Paying to Commit Murder?

  Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 06:45 in news

  Just... Wow. Still, maybe it'll put the pirates off knowing that next boat could be full of equally crazy people, but I doubt it. Luxury yachts offer pirate hunting cruises Luxury ocean liners in Russia are offering pirate hunting cruises aboard ar...

• Irony...

  Posted on Saturday May 30th, 2009 at 06:00 in news, Rant

  I can be quite sympathetic at times.  Sarcastic with it maybe, but I DO have my sympathetic moments... Stop laughing. However, there are times when my sympathy is not only so far-flung it makes me chuckle, but I get pushed the other way, and f...

• This Just In...

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 02:54 in news

  Kebabs are... wait for it... Unhealthy!!  And they found this out with a government-funded survey!  Well thank goodness for that, I was eating them thinking they were all healthy and stuff! hehehe Shocking amounts of salt and fat.  Du...

• People Never Learn...

  Posted on Monday January 19th, 2009 at 11:09 in news, spam

  Clearly, with people getting more greedy and the financial world going down the pooper, we're going to be seeing a lot more of these stories in the press methinks. A Leamington man has fallen prey to international scam artists who strung him along fo...

• Why?!

  Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 04:25 in news, Rant

  A few days ago, about 50 yards from my front door, a man skidded his car on some ice.  He managed to crash into a lamp post and mess up the front of his car.  But because the silly sod wasn't wearing a seatbelt, he was a bit banged up - wel...