Sub Ed Never Seen ‘Shark Week’

It really is now a matter of public record that Daily Mail reporters and picture editors are stunningly ignorant about the natural world.

Like the time they labelled a Whale Shark a ‘mammal’

So it’s not even worth a Face/Palm  when you come across something like this in a story about an attack by a pod of Killer Whales on a school of Sharks. You’d finish up black & blue.

Yeah don’t think that was an informed decision on the sharks part. What’s it going to do now? Wait till they’ve gone away? Walk into town and catch a bus to the next bay over?

Dickheads

[Not sure where the enormous beats came from, maybe the whales were laying down some wicked drum & bass as a soundtrack]

Today’s Cow (ish) Attack

Whilst we wait for Mark Wadsworth to find the obligatory Yule Tide UK Cow Attack  story.

Normally involving an elderly person just out for ‘a nice walk’ accompanied by an over excitable Yorkshire Terrier called ‘Trevor’

Here is a cow (sort of) attack story from the lovely island of  Hawaii ,HI

Man attacks four outside Kona bar with cow's femur, police say

Hawaii County police said a 45-year-old man injured four men, one seriously, with the thigh bone of a cow in a fight outside a Kailua-Kona bar Saturday.

Rest of story

But they don’t explain why he has such a thing in the first place, which to me is the most interesting question.

Perhaps he wanted to go all ‘Sampson’ on them, but was unable to come up with the jaw bone of an ass.

Still a cows femur, can’t be that bad can it.

Oh right.

Library picture
(not from my library!)

30 Words Or Less

I found I had been Bookedfaced by an old friend  when I returned from a Boxing Day soiree.

Sigh

Probably best not to do these things after copious amounts of Becks, Madeira and stilton

It’s an interesting exercise though almost like Haiku writing.

Today In The Town Of David

Those of you who read this blog [and I thank you] know I’m not a religious person, Raised a Catholic till confirmation, which I refused to take, educated in a school founded for the education of the sons of missionaries (C of E), it didn’t stick. I’ve read about Zen, Buddhism, the Koran, Dawkins etc.

If you want to label me, I suppose I’m an Agnostic, I’m a scientist at heart, I want proof, but I’m going to hedge my bets  until then, but on bad days sometimes I wish I had ‘Faith’.

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is, I am a firm believer in Christian morality, whether I believe the carpenter from Nazareth was the Son of God or not, is not important, the message is something I can believe in.

Have a Happy Christmas

Update: Judge Couldn’t Use It In Sentence

If you recall back in the mists of the 25th November, we had the following exchange between Judge and Defendant

Judge Roger Chappel warned him of "a substantial custodial sentence".
The teenager asked: "What do you mean by substantial? I don't know that word."
The judge replied: "Long."

I postulated at the time whether;

This will also be another case of a Judge who does not know the meaning of the word ‘long’. 

Well, good job I wasn’t taking bets as it turns out the Judges dictionary is indeed different to the rest of the general publics where it comes to the definition  of both ‘long’ and ‘substantial’

Kichenside received a sentence of two years and six months for robbery, two years for violent disorder and 16 months for burglary, to run consecutively. He also received a further 16 months, to run concurrently, for a second count of burglary. 

Now doing the maths that comes to 5 years 10 months  inside.  Now you may consider that a long stretch as does the continuing disingenuous MSM which trumpets in the headline.

And it would be if he was to spend that time in prison. But you, me  and the desert nomads of Ulan Bator all now know that there is no way he will be ‘locked up for 5 years.”

So how did our miscreant  Ryan Kichenside (18)  react to this ‘substantial’ sentence considering :

He has ten previous convictions for offences including shoplifting, threatening a witness, assault and possessing an offensive weapon, was under a youth rehabilitation at the time of the offence. [Note: 18 years old]

Well

As he left the dock, he shouted to friends and family: 'I only have to do half, it’s a walk in the park.'

I wonder if the Judge was still in the court and heard that, or more likely he was back in chambers for a large sherry, basking in the glow of a job well done

The British justice system is broken and not fit for purpose

Perfect For The Office Party

If you live in Japan that is.

 

Yes once again we in the UK are gypped, bilked and generally ignored when it come to burgery experimentation [Ed. Is this turning into a feature? PC: Maybe]
 

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For more Festive Burgeryness visit  Burger King Japan

 

Not to be outdone McDonalds Japan comes in with the Big America range

 

Featuring the Grand Canyon Burger

Adjective Fail

The excellent Jihad Watch often describes some followers of the ROP as Misunderstanders of Islam.

However you can’t get more of a misunderstander than the headline writer at The Portland Press Herald. I really don’t need to explain why this is so very wrong do I?

 

h/t to Sippican Cottage for bringing it to my attention.

Kim Jong-Il Looking Through A Trap Door At Some Meat

No really

Did every house come with a Kim Flap , just in case he wanted to pop in and look at dinner?

Possibly, we all know how much he liked looking at things except cucumbers

A Crooked Public Servant? Say It Ain’t So

A quick précis

Employed as Director of Low Cost Housing  in Chelsea, Maine USA  on $360,000 per year

Only worked 15 full work days in Chelsea in past year  (rest taken up with meetings, junkets etc.)

Resigned when salary came to light and investigation due to start.

On the day he resigned he claimed back $81,578  in untaken holiday , also  claimed $114,237  in payment for years of unused sick time.

He wrote both the cheques to himself as he was the approver

Authorities tried to stop the cheques, but he had already cashed the vacation one, no word on the other.

Read the full story

Chelsea’s housing boss was rarely on the job

Just 15 full days in town this year, records show

I would imagine in council offices all over the world this mans picture is going up as something to aspire to.

Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

Hello there,  how are you all?

I realise I’ve not been here for a while, Fear not, I have not been rendered rheumatoid by a ruminant, ravaged by a rabbit, gored by a goat or bewildered by a Wildebeest.

The simple reason is the new job started ‘proper’ about two odd weeks ago, first part of training done, now on to ‘shadowing’ which unfortunately is not as exciting as it sounds as well as dipping the toe into delivering training whilst being supervised.

So what is left of the little grey cells is being pushed to the limit, as anyone who has changed industries will know, whilst the framework is basically the same in any job, picking up the industry specific stuff is tough. (and I’ve done this about 5+ times now, it doesn’t get easier)

I’ve also got to get used to being on the road after being stuck in offices for most of my career, yesterday Peckham, today I’m in Cuntish Kentish Town, tomorrow Kingston upon Thames, planning that only a Field Ops Controller based in Leeds that has never been to ‘That There London’ can achieve. 

I have not forgotten you all best beloved, the first thing I do after getting in and making a cupatea is sit down to FeedDemon  and read all your musings of the day, I read them all from A to Z,  JamesH to JuliaM    [Ed: that’s J to J you dickhead]

It turns out what I would have written has already been covered and probably better than I could have done,. so keep the good work, people are listening,

What?

Oh the post title, one of the small joys of spending time on the train or in the car is I get to listen to more music than previously.

This week I has mainly been listening to rock guitars.

That Such Things Exist Is Worrying

That they are being used to keep ‘The People’ away from Parliament and the PTB is positively scary.

The PTB are ‘forting up’

Originals & story via The Daily Mail