Getting Medieval

Friday, January 27th, 2012

I love the English, the are some of the nicest calmest people I have ever met, but when they do get angry the really get angry. Got medieval on him for sure. I always love watching the BBC seesaw between ‘Cat Stuck in Tree’ type stories and the beheadings.

Giving the Gangers Ideas

Friday, November 11th, 2011

This sort of news story is just the sort that will have gang members out doing archaeological digs all over the place. Crashed Spitfire found in bog with working machine guns. ‘Yo homies, get me a trowel, shit just got real.’ The poor archaeologists out there armed only with their bull whips will have no [...]

England the Brave, Part whatever

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Apparently being a jerk is no longer legal in the UK. The crime in the article is that a beach side keytarist is alleged to have played ‘Everyone is Kung Fu Fighting’ at a couple of Chinese people in Wales. At worst he was being a jerk and even a bigoted jerk, but somehow that [...]

Summer of Embarrassment: Tigers

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

This year has been very dry so far for real Summer of Fear stories, no big shark scares, killer bees, bear attacks of note or any of the usual run of the mill fear stories. On the other hand we are seeing more Summer of Embarrassment stories like this one. I am sure this tiger [...]

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.

News You Can Use

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

I have been sometimes lectured that we in the United States don’t pay attention to the hard news and that is why we are so uninformed on the world sometimes. In interest of equal time with our UK brethren I present the most popular news story on the BBC this morning. We American’s can’t compete [...]