Its that most wonderful time of year again, maybe this year I will have some with Duck…
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The Magic of Pancake Day 2012
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Sean Pen and Argentina
To be fair it is easy to criticise and make fun of all the rubbish that Sean Pen has written but he did write a very good article about milk and one about a mystic river. So of course who better to write good sense about things he probably knows nothing about…
Anyway Sean is against anything that could be an “archaic commitment to colonialist ideology” and so urges Argentina to leave the land they colonised in the 16th century.
Just because he can sometimes write beautifully it does not mean everything he writes is worth reading
Chinese Horoscope – The Snake
People born in the year following the year of the dragon are born in the year of the snake. Characteristics of such people are that they crawl around on their bellies and speak with a forked tongue (but contrary to popular belief they are not slimy).
Amazingly this snake made his dragon mask himself which is no mean feat for someone without any hands.
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Things That are Coming Soon
There are many things that are coming soon
Like the warmer days and the next full moon
Valentines is on its way
But more important
is pancake day…
So don’t forget to fire up the pan
Mix the eggs, get lemon
and sugar if you can
For you will unltimately regret
If Pancake Day is a Tuesday
you forget!
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Anon the Bear
Anon, anon the bear. Nobody knows his name.
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New EU Flag
It is well known that the EU is short of cash. Various EU countries are struggling and noone seems to have quite pulled the financial rabbit from the hat that will solve the various debt issues. I think the EU flag needs redesigning. I know some people feel this would be a suitable new design for the EU flag…
I can see the advantages, as essentially Germany are one a the few solvent countries left and seem to be prepared to keep the EU dream going despite the other economies letting the eurozone down.
I however favour the following which I think encompasses and celebrates the probable way the EU will geet through its present difficulties…
xīn nián kuài lè (新年快乐) to every bureaucrat and politician on the EU gravy train
*Edit : for another very accurate rendering of the EU flag I have to recommend http://anatheimp.blogspot.com/2011/12/majority-is-always-wrong.html
The Grauniad
Have worked out how the Guardian can be so much up its own arse. It is actually like a Klein bottle which has no inside or outside.
There are so many sordid parts of the UK media. In my opinion that would be the Murdoch press, obviously the Daily Mail. Easy targets but one I particularly hate is the Grauniad. (http://www.guardian.co.uk I have given the link as everyone is free to make up their own mind, I know some of the opinions in it drive people almost orgasmic with joy and agreement).
It is not because generally the sordid rag has a different political view to me (although I notice those with alternative political views hate other papers solely for this reason). In fact I prefer The Independant despite the time it takes to download any article on a slow connection speed.
Anyway amongst my many things I have against it are…
1) The exceedingly poor taste 9/11 coverage that friends of mine at the time found truly offensive
2) Hypocrisy, I (in common with the Guardian opinion writers) could not see how banks could pay bonuses to their CEOs while making a loss. Likewise I cannot see how when the Guardian Media Group made a £171,000,000 loss they paid thier CEO a £143,000 bonus.
3) As if Wastebook isnt evil enough I now accidently click on links to Guardian articles then on my wall everyone in the world can see I am reading the Guardian. I then have to disinfect myself.
Jim Moriarty v Keyser Söze (contains spoilers)
Jim Moriarty (Sherlock) v Keyser Söze (The Usual Suspects)
“You’d be a worth advesary,” said Keyser once to Jim “But your chance of winning now seem rather slim
You worked in the underworld in a manner quite aloof But alas your brains appear to be scattered on a roof.”
The result : Keyser Söze is the winner unless somehow Jim Moriarty has somehow miraculousy escaped death in “The Reichenbach Fall”.
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Updates!
Exciting News have updated the “About Me” page and also “The Main Point” page. This is as exciting as having the ability to scan stuff in again…
Anyway this year I am going to have the following 3 new year resolutions…
1) Draw the chinese zodiac signs all dressed as dragons (apart from the dragon who already looks a bit dragonish)
2) Draw duels with rupert the bear style rhyming couplets
3) Redesign flags of the world (this might prove to be controversial as some people really love their nations flags. I personally find nearly every flag boring as it is normally a collection of crosses or rectangles.)
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Year of the Dragon
Chinese New Year is fast approaching. I did wonder what year of the dragon was all about, I wondered if every 12 years China is visited by a plague of fire breathing lizards. This morning I think my suspicions were proved to be true when I woke up to find this at the end of my bed…
This dragon is about 6 inches long. It eats mosquitos and other small insects, can be trained to breathe fire on request and hence makes the perfect pet for smokers who live in tropical places.
