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Cribraria aurantiaca
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Friday, 11 December 2009
Thursday, 10 December 2009
The changing face of words
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Fox News: Flat Earthers-R-Us
Our regular readers will be aware of Fox News' comical inability to be accurate, when reporting anything other than its entirely right wing agenda. The tragedy is, Fox still maintains it's doing a "good job" - although precisely whose definition of 'good' is being used here is still open to healthy debate - alas, the latter also being in scarce supply at Fox.
Recently, they've deliberately contrived to falsify news footage, in a transparent attempt to promote one of their own pet causes. In fact they did this twice in one week - until Fox executives threatened to fire anyone else caught doing it again, as the feeling was that it might be making them "look bad".
This was followed rapidly by former White House Press Secretary, under PresidentGump Bush, Dana Perino, appearing on the Hannity show and claiming to all and sundry that "there was no terrorist attack on the US whilst president Bush was in power..." Oops!
Then, in an almost Kamikaze-like attempt at self-ridicule, they go and prove that, as a "news" entity, they don't actually employ anyone who is capable of doing junior school mathematics in the form of percentages.
And now, two new instances of Fox fuckwittage have come to light: one involving ineptly rearranging the geopolitical map of the Middle East on a whim; the other having the temerity to call into question the veracity of climate change figures - when (again) they can't even get their own percentage figures to add up to 100%
Firstly, let's see that map.
Now, Palin's claim to be able to see Russia from her house notwithstanding, in the pantheon of egregious schoolboy errors, even for Fox, this rates as a gem. I'm sure the Egyptians - to say nothing of the Jordanians, Syrians, Saudis and Iranians - might be forgiven for lodging a complaint with the UN at being mistaken for Iraq!
I think it only polite not to ask what Fox have done with the Pyramids.
[cough] Moving swiftly on....
Now, unless you've been living in a cave without cable for the last 10 years, you'll know that one of the things which confirms Fox as one of the leading flat-earth-minded broadcasters is its point-blank refusal to accept that there is any link or relationship between Man, the burning of fossil fuels, and how an otherwise increasing rise in the level of overall 'greenhouse gases' is having an adverse effect on the Earth's climate.
Indeed, so confident of this view are they that they've just released another of their polls which shows... which shows that yet again Fox can't even do basic arithmetic.
Anyone care to add up these percentages to see if they come to anywhere near 100%?
Anyone like to suggest how an organisation so atrocious at the basics in maths can have the crass audacity to question the data coming from the world's leading experts in the field?
Anyone care to explain how Fox News can still claim to be a 'news' organisation? Perhaps we could get them to point on a map to where they think global warming is coming from?
Recently, they've deliberately contrived to falsify news footage, in a transparent attempt to promote one of their own pet causes. In fact they did this twice in one week - until Fox executives threatened to fire anyone else caught doing it again, as the feeling was that it might be making them "look bad".
This was followed rapidly by former White House Press Secretary, under President
Then, in an almost Kamikaze-like attempt at self-ridicule, they go and prove that, as a "news" entity, they don't actually employ anyone who is capable of doing junior school mathematics in the form of percentages.
And now, two new instances of Fox fuckwittage have come to light: one involving ineptly rearranging the geopolitical map of the Middle East on a whim; the other having the temerity to call into question the veracity of climate change figures - when (again) they can't even get their own percentage figures to add up to 100%
Firstly, let's see that map.Now, Palin's claim to be able to see Russia from her house notwithstanding, in the pantheon of egregious schoolboy errors, even for Fox, this rates as a gem. I'm sure the Egyptians - to say nothing of the Jordanians, Syrians, Saudis and Iranians - might be forgiven for lodging a complaint with the UN at being mistaken for Iraq!
I think it only polite not to ask what Fox have done with the Pyramids.
[cough] Moving swiftly on....
Now, unless you've been living in a cave without cable for the last 10 years, you'll know that one of the things which confirms Fox as one of the leading flat-earth-minded broadcasters is its point-blank refusal to accept that there is any link or relationship between Man, the burning of fossil fuels, and how an otherwise increasing rise in the level of overall 'greenhouse gases' is having an adverse effect on the Earth's climate.
Indeed, so confident of this view are they that they've just released another of their polls which shows... which shows that yet again Fox can't even do basic arithmetic.
Anyone care to add up these percentages to see if they come to anywhere near 100%?Anyone like to suggest how an organisation so atrocious at the basics in maths can have the crass audacity to question the data coming from the world's leading experts in the field?
Anyone care to explain how Fox News can still claim to be a 'news' organisation? Perhaps we could get them to point on a map to where they think global warming is coming from?
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Saturday, 5 December 2009
Amanda Knox and Sollecito guilty of Kercher murder
We can sit here all day and debate whether justice has been done or how attractive Knox is, but frankly the important thing is that it looks like we've thankfully been spared yet another round of, *cough*, 'penetrating interview'-wrapped-in-sympathy-fest on Oprah and Larry fucking King.
Thank you Italy! Berlusconi may be a global joke, but today you did the world a service!
Friday, 4 December 2009
Twat of the Week oblivious to own Irony
Photo: STIAN ALEXANDERNB: For the benefit of our US readers, in the UK, what you call 'chips', we call 'crisps'.
On spotting the headline to what could have been just another shaggy-dog tale, I nearly had a coffee-meets-screen moment; and perhaps understood why he did what he did, on reading the guy's name: Crisp lover changes name to Mr Monster Munch
Alas, and apart from the guy being a complete tool, the report doesn't say whether C. Hunt has any brothers named 'Mike'.
UK 'X Files' now closed
Now if I'm being completely honest, I can't say that this news troubles me unduly - in fact I always considered the species of UFO-devotees to be far more of a national threat to the country's sanity and security than I ever did aliens.
And the bonus is, even though the files are now closed, the hunters are still there (and very much real), and so still available for parody.
"Klaatu barada nikto!"
This week's Twitter gags
My carpenter is so fastidious, he manicures his nails.Peter Serafinowicz
I know my celeb status has dwindled but after 15 yrs to be dropped from switching on the Xmas lights in my own home...David Schneider
I'm not a real mathematician; I'm just pi-curiousMichael McKean
Monopoly rules updated to allow banker to pay themselves £20,000 bonus each turnDavid Schneider
New FIFA rulling means in International matches, all players must have a translator playing alongside them.Armando Iannucci
"I just want silence. Jesus, it doesn't mean I don't like you. It just means right now, I like silence more."shitmydadsays
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Was Tiger Woods 'playing the back nine'...?
I love the way this has already been spun to appear as though his wife was only "helping him out of the car by smashing the rear window with a golf club"... a golf club she just happened to be carrying, [cough], at the time... So the introduction of golf-club-to-car-door was in no way the result of an other-woman-fuelled 'domestic' then...?Err... OK...
That's rather like a jewel thief explaining to the arresting officer that the rock he's just thrown through the jewellery shop window was only done in order to "alleviate the boredom of the diamond necklaces on display".
This photo taken Nov. 27, 2009 and provided by the celebrity Web site TMZ.com shows a Cadillac Escalade that Tiger Woods crashed into a tree outside his home in Windermere.(AP PHOTO/TMZ / November 26, 2009)
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