Archive for the 'Pettiness' Category

Jeremy Clarkson: Let Them Eat Cake

Monday, May 16th, 2011

I have rarely read more ignorant words than these: “If you do lose your job and you end up living in a barn, with just a fire to keep you warm and nothing to eat but what you can find in a hedge, be happy. Because you’ll be having a much better life than me.” [...]

Stay Home And Let Me Tell You About It

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

The Guardian has a classic article in a genre I call Stay At Home And Let Me Tell You About It. This type of article comes around because the world has gotten flatter and people who in the past could never go anywhere very far are now traveling the world. It used to be if [...]

Ignorant Rednecks Spew Hate Speech at Mexico

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Ignorant rednecks spew hate speech at Mexico, only stupid bigoted Americans can do that sort of thing, right Mr. Clarkson? Ahem, I said isn’t that right Mr. Clarkson? Thank goodness we have the BBC in America now to protect us from this sort of bile.

Jeremy Clarkson’s New Crusade

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Jeremy Clarkson’s (who?) newest crusade isn’t against ugly women in shop’s or American’s, it is against board games like Monopoly, Risk or Scrabble. Apparently having met the bottom of the barrel for topics he has decided to keep digging. You have to admire his determination.

The Truth

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

From Buffalobeast.com found via Boing Boing

Household Spirits

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Like most homes we have several minor spirits we venerate. The most famous of them is Sockulus, the sock god. He shows his anger when you do not venerate him enough by taking away one sock in a pair. I have a small temple of solo socks near where I do the laundry and sometimes [...]