It was a busy week, with lots of nominations made to [email protected]! Greatly appreciated and if you don’t see your nomination this week please don’t be discouraged, there was a high quantity of quality and a cull was needed. This week I bring you a double header – a Comment of the Week and a COMMENT OF THE YEAR (next year we’ll vote, ‘kay?) Continue reading
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This bar cookie is well known amongst 50+ year old WASP’s or their offspring. An olde Englishy favourite, and a nice break from the typical fatty, sugary Christmas cookies. Continue reading
Consider if you will a small country mired in conflict, with the barbarians (the International Monetary Fund) storming the gate. Tempers are high, the old guard leadership model fails, leaving its citizenry to forge for themselves buffeted by the winds of international pressures. Join us as we explore the lives of that citizenry who now find themselves living in a New World Order of their own design.
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A baby fur seal walks into a ….
From the land of the long swapped vowel.
This is a seal with ambition and drive, but don’t you hate it when others change the radio station on you? RUDE!
Seal Pup Wanders into New Zealand Home
Baby fur-seal* wriggled through the cat-door. (best use ever of the word ‘wriggled’.)
From Sky News:
Warning – if you make this you will never be able to eat store bought caramel corn again.
On the plus side, you can have this whenever you want it, and it’s dead cheap to make. Continue reading
So the last story I wrote drunk was actually quite coherent. The editors MAY have had something to do with it. Maybe not. I wasn’t there when it happened. Who can say? Continue reading
Let’s talk about that new man/woman/boss/co-worker/friend of your dreams. You’ve never felt such a kinship to someone so quickly. They’re charming, engaging, interesting and dramatic, as well as quick to listen, and eager to hear about the lives of others. And boy they’ve had some hard breaks lately — but they can’t understand why since they’ve done all the things they’re supposed to do.
Feel sorry for them yet? Don’t. Continue reading
Disenchanted with blurbs, gotchas and shallow one sided reporting?
Why I love Al Jazeera, a short blurb… oh crap, I’m infected!!1!
I’m personally finding it hard to read any news item these days without casting a side-eye at the source and wondering… left wing? right wing? wing nut? Credibility is lost, and it’s not coming back anytime soon. Investigate, question, report – if I want your opinion or religious slant I wouldn’t be reading the N.E.W.S. dipshit. Continue reading
Where do your rights come from? The courts? The United Nations? Your employer? The ‘people in charge’? Pfft, as if.
No one is going to hand you your rights on a silver platter then check back with you later and ask if everything is still okay. Not gonna happen boychuck. Continue reading