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Opera vs Chrome vs Potato

Journalism fail

If you can call Fox News "journalism", that is...


"Define that, please"

"Me?" (Panic-stricken look)

Spot the IT consultant.....

Albert Lee at the Rex in Lorsch

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Now, if this isn't confusing

I always thought that the Germans WERE the Huns.....

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Just too cool

 

DIY Modrian from Composition with JavaScript.

Take the original, deconstruct it and reassemble it however you want.

Click.....

...on the image for the sheer terror of it all.

Holds head

The world is disintegrating around us and the first news item (taking up over 30% of the newscast) on one of the 2 serious TV channels in Germany is the injury to
Michael Ballack's ankle and his subsequent withdrawal from the World Cup.

AND there's a Special Additional Program tacked on to the end of the news featuring.........

Fuck me....


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Pier pressure

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A day in Diessen. 9 degrees, rain, iPhone

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Some people don't believe in weather forecasts.....






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Sometimes I wonder

Standing in the queue at the supermarket with my crutch, a litre of organic milk and a bunch of Fairtrade bananas.

Didn't seriously expect anyone with a fully laden trolley to let me jump the queue, but when they opened the adjacent checkout, I thought that I might have been able to get into the queue.

Not a chance.

5 trolleydrivers barged ahead, leaving me swirling in their slipstream.

I beat 3 of them to death with my crutch, but what's going to happen when I'm old and defenseless.....?


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Why you won't find me on Facebook

Or Twitter

Or LinkedIn

Or Xing

If you visit certain sites while logged in to Facebook, an app for those sites will be quietly added to your Facebook profile. You don't have to have a Facebook window open, you don't need to be signed in to these sites for the apps to appear, there's no notification, and there doesn't appear to be an option to opt-out anywhere in Facebook's byzantine privacy settings.

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And given Google's increasingly clammy pervasiveness and predilection for issuing spurious DMCA take-down notices, don't be surprised to find YMBFA elsewhere in the near future.

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Harry Meadows - a man after my own heart

In 1961, 87-year-old Harry Meadows, a resident at the Haslemere Home for the Elderly in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved late-in-life notoriety when he accidentally killed another 3 residents of his care home by dressing up as the grim reaper and peering through the residents' lounge window whilst holding a scythe.

One Hit Wonders - Weggy Weggy Weggy, 'ere comes Johnny Weggy

1971

The Piglets

Pure Estuary English, glottal stops and all.

Invented and produced by Jonathon ("Everyone's gone to the moon") King.

John Wegg must have wanted to throttle him.

John Wegg used to work for Lufthansa at Heathrow in the 1970s as an Ops Agent.

He'd get the load details for an outbound flight - passenger figures, fuel, cargo, mail - , supervise the loading, fill out the load and trim sheet and then zip up the stairs to the cockpit and give it to the crew.

And then along came The Piglets with

"What's 'e like, Mavis?

E's a real tasty geezer

Reggae reggae reggae

'Ere comes Johnny Regggae

Reggae Johnny Reggae

Lay it on me"

Took Kieron Taylor about 3 seconds to see the potential and re-text it

Soon everyone was singing along.

Except Johnny Weggy.

John Wegg played a game in the Station football team against the Engineers, one of whom somehow got it into his head that he was trialing for the German national team.

Tackles John Wegg with an unbelievable ferocity and breaks his ankle in 34 places.

Once he learned to walk again, he still used a stick.

And they used to make sure that he didn't get any flights that had a tight turnaround time.

Took him ages to get up and down the stairs to the cockpit.

To the tune of

Weggy Weggy Weggy, 'ere comes Johnny Weggy.......

Link to YouTube

Tags: John Wegg, Lufthansa, Heathrow, London, Johnny Reggae, The Piglets, Jonathon King