Blatant begging
January 28th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Politics
Best of British
February 8th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Music
Even now, with only two survivors who are both past their prime, the Who can still pull off a spectacular show. The memory of seeing the bloody terrible Las Vegas concert on TV recently was still fresh so I was half-expecting a bit of car crash TV, but the Superbowl half-time show was magnificent. [Read more →]
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Spoilt for choice
February 8th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Life
Normally I complain that there is nothing on television, although complain might be a bit strong. I have enough to do without television and if I really feel I need to watch moving pictures there is enough on Youtube or in the DVD collection to keep me occupied – or even the few VHS tapes I have kept hold of.
Right now though I have the opposite problem: there is just too much on television at the moment to keep up with, and the V+ box is backing up a bit. There is Heroes, Being Human, Jim Al Khalili’s chemistry series, Latin Music USA and now Lost has started again – plus there are a few old faithfuls like QI and Mock The Week for comfort viewing. Fortunately the chemistry series is over now and Latin Music USA is only for four weeks or I would be struggling.
I know there are other things on that I would probably like, but do me a favour and don’t tell me. The last thing I need now is to get hooked on anther American multi-parter.
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New ways to feel old
February 7th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Life
There was another of life’s little milestones today. It is one thing when your own children hit eighteen, that is bad enough, but when your little sister’s kids reach eighteen… A much bigger milestone for my niece Annie though. We went back to Essex for her 18th birthday party tonight. It was a good family evening, one of those increasingly rare occasions when I get to see both my sisters at the same time.
Annie enjoyed the party, but I’m not so sure she will enjoy the headache tomorrow morning quite as much,
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Catch it while you can – Little Boots and Numan
February 7th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Music
Available on the BBC’s iPlayer until Friday evening – a Radio 6 Music session with Little Boots and Gary Numan, bridging the electropop generation gap.
I wasn’t too keen on the piano-based version of Are ‘Friends’ Electric? but very much enjoyed the version of Venus in Furs. Just a shame it stopped before the end of the song. Good while it lasted though.
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Look who’s coming to dinner
February 6th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Politics
After the MP Expenses furore, the home-flipping and the multitude of jobs on the side and other outside interests, the new area to come under scrutiny is the hiring of Westminster facilities and whether they are sometimes hired for fundraising activities. I’m not sure this one has got legs, I can’t really see it grabbing the public’s attention the way expenses did. There was no great public reaction to the matter of 2nd jobs (and 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.) which is much more interesting, so this is unlikely to be over all the front pages.
So far the only vaguely intertesting ‘revelation’ is that David Cameron hosted an event for freemasons. [Read more →]
Suzi Quatro
February 6th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Music
Back to trivia even sooner than I expected… while ferretting around in the odd corners of Spotify tonight I learned something interesting. OK, maybe not interesting in the general definition, but I was interested. [Read more →]
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Lessons for the left
February 6th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Politics
I found this article on the BBC website to be in equal measures interesting and depressing. It is called Why do people vote against their best interests? and is about the US healthcare issue, but really has lessons for the left over here too. [Read more →]
Should of known better
February 5th, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Life
One of pet hates is when people write “should of” instead of “should have”. While the targets of this site’s ire are all worthy enough (and thanks to Damian for bringing it to my attention on Twitter the other day) the author should have1 made some room for “should of”.
I did a Google search on “should of” just now. It returned 2.5million results. The first was from a site complaining about the usage. So was the second. In fact the first five results were from grammar blogs, moaning about the usage, and then it went downhill. I suspect that at least 2,499,900 of the results are from sites where the writers are totally unaware of the error.
- see. Not too difficult was it? [↩]
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Now that’s what I call a health warning
February 2nd, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Life
Did everybody see the story about the bloke in Indonesia who was smoking a cigarette when it exploded and blew six of his teeth out?
A couple of things to note:
- He got compensation of £335 (plus medical expenses). Doesn’t sound a lot for what must have been a pretty traumatic experience.
- The brand he was smoking was called Clas Mild. I hope Clas don’t do a full-strength – imagine what damage they would do!
Great quote from the manufacturers:
We do not put any strange materials in the cigarettes, so we think that this is a weird case. This is the first time for us.
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Yes its pretty, but…
February 2nd, 2010 · Posted by Skuds in Uncategorized
Crawley Council are rightly pleased about the renovation of the Langley Green parade and the surrounding area, concentrating on the design details in this press release. A while ago I stopped there myself to use the shops and while being pleased with the improved parking arrangements I also noticed the distinctive bollards. I can remember being impressed.
Yesterday I was a little less impressed as we passed through, as we do every day on the way home from work.
This is, as the council keep reminding us a multi-million pound scheme, so who decided it would be a good idea to put a bus stop in a single-lane road, only a few metres after a roundabout? A bus only has to stop for a few minutes and the traffic backs up to block the roundabout. There is a wide expanse of pavement where the bus stop is – more than enough room to make it a proper lay-by bus stop. The stop in the other direction has room for cars to park, but not the westbound side.
Very poor planning in my opinion.
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