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China continues to suck

It’s not that I’m picking on China. Really, I’m not. Can I help it if China’s powers that be provide a constant stream of evidence of suckiness in all areas of human rights, personal and political freedoms and general respect for others? The latest example of suckiness is China’s reaction to the Nobel Peace Prize

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Voting’s a pleasure?

This ad video by the Young Socialists in Catalonia has been criticised by Spanish politicians. Apparently, the equality minister has called the video campaign “misleading” advertising. Is that because, when it comes to politics, you’re never alone: they’re always ready to screw you over.

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Is it really discrimination?

UPDATE: The latest on this story is that the casting agent has now been sacked. Apparently the light-skinned option was the choice of the casting agent, an independent contractor, not the producers. Oh well, I still say having a whinge about not getting a particular role because you don’t have the right look is ridiculous.

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A sub-editor’s dream news story

There are some headlines that simply state the facts, there are those that offer a subtle humour and then there are those that, well, smack you between the eyes and say “read this freakish bit of info”. The Mail Online* offered this gem: “Long-lost son finds out, after 33 years apart, his mother is a bearded

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It’s official: China sucks

The news a few days ago that a Chinese woman had been sentenced to a year in a hard labour camp for retweeting something the Chinese government didn’t like should make those of us fortunate enough to live in countries like New Zealand incredibly thankful for the freedoms we enjoy every day. We moan about

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Reasons to Taser the PC brigade # 100

I suspect the world really has gone mad. According to the Shropshire Star, gingerbread men have been renamed gingerbread persons by Lancashire council bosses in their latest menus for the area’s primary school meals. I’m pleased to say the locals haven’t let the politically correct nutters have their way and that the gender specific gingerbread

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