Oh dear. A youngster working as a paramedic managed to raise the ire of international acting treasure, Dame Judi Dench. It seems the teenager didn’t recognise the 83-year-old actress when treating her for a hornet sting, She told The Sun: “A paramedic walked into the room who was about 17 and said ‘What’s our name?’ […]
Appreciating a tough old bird Read Post »
Just a wee reminder about why, if you’re ever in the United States, you shouldn’t spend any of your hard-earned cash at SeaWorld. And interestingly, in a weird pre-emptive letter SeaWorld’s lawyers sent to movie reviewers before the release of the now notorious Blackfish, they didn’t deny anything in the clip shown in this
SeaWorld: Don’t support cruelty Read Post »
A new contract for Santa has finally been negotiated so please read the following carefully: I regret to inform you that, effective immediately, I will no longer be able to serve Southern United States on Christmas Eve. Due to the overwhelming current population of the earth, my contract was renegotiated by North American Fairies and
Festive season contract negotiations Read Post »
Someone in the Sky News newsroom had a wee bit of a nightmare the other morning: the poor bloke doing the weather just before 9.30am on December 5 had to content with a woman making a phonecall, with her mic still turned on. Hope she got a better night’s sleep the next day!
Oops, I wonder who she was phoning? Read Post »
It’s a quirky wee language, English. We steal and bastardise from pretty much every other language, and take words that contain exactly the same letters in exactly the same order and pronounce them differently (for example, polish and Polish). And then there are the weird phrases we adopt. Such as “I slept like a baby.”
Why do we say it: slept like a baby? Read Post »
Sometimes a news story brings out both the best and worst in Kiwis, and the sad news of the death of Paddles did just that, with kind words from many and an epic and ill-timed rant from Gareth “I Hate Cats” Morgan.
RIP Paddles…and up yours, Gareth Morgan Read Post »
This is why the life expectancy of the average bloke is shorter than that of a woman.
It all began with an iPhone … Read Post »
It seems that the are of receiving a gift has been lost in recent years, as we hear more and more often about people making crazy and often unreasonable demands for gift expectations. There was a time, when a gift was something awesome, and often a surprise. As all good gifts should be. Note:
Great expectations Read Post »
