Archive for the ‘In The News’ Category

Women So Vain; Too Fat

I was reading some story on the BBC website earlier about how 8 out of 10 women don’t exercise enough. Apparently this is because they’re all obsessed with being thin and looking beautiful. Er, does anyone see the failure in this logic? Surely by keeping a regular exercise pattern a woman is more likely to [...]

 

Gordon Brown Says Nah

I am sure the majority of you are absolutely oblivious to the fact that there’s been a bit of excitement (hah) in British politics this past week or so. Rumours were flying about whether or not our PM — Gordon Brown — would call a general election or not. Brown (rightfully so, in my opinion) [...]

 

Britney Spears Loses Her Children

I’ve just heard that Britney Spears has lost custody of her children to her (ex?) husband K-Fed. Now, I don’t know much about all that’s gone on with her but for a judge to hand over custody to the father over the mother, she must have done something pretty screwed up. I’m sure many of [...]

 

BBC Desperate?

I was just reading an article on the BBC news website about the wikipedia “scanner” picking up on people using CIA computers to edit entries, modifications to Gerry Adams’ entry from the Vatican, etc. (source) …interesting enough in itself, but that’s not what I’m blogging about.
When I got to the bottom I realised that — [...]

 

T-shirt Slogan Could Mean Fine

As someone who has ‘invested’ money into a range of t-shirts with a variety of slogans, I was somewhat disturbed to read this today:
A man spotted wearing a T-shirt bearing an “offensive” slogan in a city centre has been warned he risks an £80 fine if he is caught again. [...] The slogan on the [...]