At least Dick Turpin wore a mask...

 

Talk about highway robbery.

The price of petrol/gas shot up from €1.17/litre on Monday (April 20) to €1.26 today (April 23).

Given that €0.80 of that are fixed taxes, price variability can only happen in the area above that treshhold.

So even if it LOOKS as if petrol's only gone up by 7.7% at the pump, it actually reflects an increase of 24% somewhere along the line.

The price of Brent Crude skyrocketed? Nooo, actually dropped by 6%. 

€:$ exchange rate gone haywire?

 

Nooo, only about 2% upward movement in the last week.

Must mean we're being scammed by the oil multis

Again.

Not that I'm for the collective ownership and administration of the means of production and control of the distribution of goods - that would be socialism -, but someone has to get these bastards under control....

Eh? reloaded

I was out playing golf with a couple of mates the other day.


We're all a bit audibly challenged - seems to be part of the Old Fart plan that we all appear to have subscribed to -  so the conversation went something like this...

Bruce says 'Windy, isn't it?'

'No,' says Steve, 'it's Thursday.'

I'm supposed to have said 'So am I... Let's have a beer.'

Typical.....

Fresh vs. Canned

Duff mix compared with the canned version, but where else do you get the swagger, the arrogance, the sheer spit-in-your-face, fuck-you aggression...?

The Shock of the Lightning - Oasis - The Electric Proms 2008 vs Dig out your soul

My kind of doormat

I actually wanted one that said "Piss Off", but I was forbidden to buy it.

I got my own back, though.

I mowed an appropriately vulgar message to the world on a bit of the farm that Management rarely visits.

You'll be able to read it on Google Earth when their satellite passes our way again.

Not quite sure how I can explain away frequent visits on the Ferguson to remote bits of pasture, though...

Letters to the Editor #3

If you're a sports team, the general idea appears to be that you win almost all of your home games and then try and pick up some points away.

Mainz 05, the local Second Division (and eternal First Division hopefuls) football/soccer team is doing it differently.

They've decided not to win ANY home games - 2 draws from the last 6 home games. Hello? - and STILL qualify for promotion.

They're either reinventing the wheel or they're seriously fucking up.

Someone wrote a letter to the local newspaper:

"Not that I'm incenting anyone to criminal activity, but wouldn't it be a good idea if the Bruchweg pitch could - at least until the end of the season - be declared unplayable, thus avoiding the home game curse?

Just an idea"

Not that it'll get published, of course.

Way too subtle.....

Bloody tourists...

A new reader writes.....

SIR – As a recent subscriber to your newspaper, I find that you are a bunch of insufferable know-alls, and there is nothing worse than a know-all who is sometimes right.

A.F. Bradley
Coupeville, Washington

You did what....?

Video link

Decisions, decisions.....

Don't ask me (about Reorganisation)

powerlinerflyers from wes johnson on Vimeo.

Why does this remind me of every management reorganisation project I've ever ben involved with?

Much fluttering around, temporary absences and then everyone ends back where there were, with the higher management levels power lines becoming more densly populated with each iteration.

As a last resort, the massive "pursuing other options outside the company" at lower levels and then the screen goes blank.

Take one C120 cassette tape....

Remember those C120 cassette tapes?

The tape was so thin that they'd unravel inside your cassette radio even BEFORE you'd pushed the play button.

Rip it all out and sling it out of the window to join the millions of others draped across the greenery on the motorway verge.

Someone's got a better idea....

Letters to the Editor #1

 

SIR - Although the taste is rather similar, my Church's shoes have held out after 25 years of hard usage, while the average hamburger survives for less than five minutes. Readjusting your daily chart on the amount of water required to produce various goods to a daily-utility scale gives me 1.6 litres for my shoes and 4.3 million litres for the hamburger. Pass the ketchup.

Simon Goodman
Senior scientist
Merck-Serono research and development
Darmstadt, Germany

This I need - the Polar Clock

This is like watching paint dry.....

But if you're so inclined - http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/polarclock/

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