Category: Tickling my fancy
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North Korea – am I too cynical?
Is North Korea really interested in peace? Bear with…the story so far: The North develop nuclear weapons capability whilst doing lots of sabre rattling. This gives them a nuclear platform but they avoid going too far and getting nuked by moron Trump. They then go all gooey eyed over peace and want to negotiate a…
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Pluto Fly By Why?
New Horizons Pluto Fly By from NASA I always feel like the hoohaa generated by these stories diminishes their authority… Nasa must have put out the phrase that the spacehip “survives it’s encounter with Pluto” because the same line was used by every news service… …
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I Have The Solution To The Greek Debt Crisis
We design an EU-wide draw to take place. Those EU citizens chosen would have to spend their summer holidays in Greece. Which is no bad thing. The income would solve the crisis overnight. Year two Spain, year three Portugal, year three Italy. Easy. Get packing. Joe
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Lord Freud- disability comments
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29628557 If an individual or employer wants to provide work for people of varying abilities then it may cost more or less depending on the skills and abilities of those being employed. For the hard of thinking – This is the same whether the choice is between the able or disabled. To suggest that the…
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Defending the rich
With the budget coming up it is interesting how the seriously wealthy are often defended from political attack by some who will not even entertain the idea that those on low or middling incomes should be able to complain about the lack of control over their wages. I wonder if there is a fear that…
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“Upcycling”
There’s a part of my home town where the antique and second hand shops are based. I’m sure it’s similar in other cities. Recently, with the advent of Sunday morning cupcake shops frequented by braying wannabe hipsters in tastelessly humongous 4x4s carrying pavement-width buggies for the ironically named Lulu and Arthur, there’s been a upsurge…
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Odd year for the British
It’s been a really odd and slightly schizophrenic year for Brits. A great Jubilee celebration and Olympic games all reaffirming the good things about tradition and “our way” of doing things – inventive, creative yet respectful of the past and supportive of institutions . Yet in the same year we have revelations that Kenyans were tortured by our mythical…
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Tea on the train revisited
Since my earlier post I’ve been scouring the planet for a solution to my tea tribulations. How fortunate that on my next train journey I was served by possibly the next great British engineer/scientist who solved my used teabag storage solution in a stroke. I explained my dilemma to him in great detail. With a mere momentary…
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Tea on the train. C’mon Britain!
Tea is our national drink. I think we are only second in the world (after Ireland) of consumption per capita. So we’ve got silver in the tea drinking competition. Not bad going. Maybe extra funding is required so we can go for gold. We’re also epically great at being inventive engineers and designers. From Stephenson’s…
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