6 dead. 20 injured. 20 jobs. $13,000. The week echoed in my mind like something that happened in the last week ( Read more... )

So a while back, the missus was due to go to a cider-tasting evening with ceehoss and some other fans of strategically decomposed fruit juice ( Read more... )

Hello! Just a quick reminder that FFS tomorrow is at the Riverside Cafe. That's the one in Middlewood, just round the corner from Hillsborough Stadium. Not to be confused with the Riverside Cafe-Bar, which is the pub in Neepsend ( Read more... )

I'm going to publish pictures of the Prophet Mohammed looking at the Duchess of Cambridge's tits and offend everybody at once.

The accompanying article will be scattered with greengrocer's apostrophes and common malapropisms in order to enrage those of you who are relaxed about the depiction of mythologised religious figures and/or ladybits.

0600: Reporters shivering on rain-swept river bank.

0602: Just think, a thousand boats will be passing this very spot... in just eight hours from now!0630: Sixteenth mention of how many boats they're expecting ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, if myself or one of my siblings were caught teasing the dog by offering it food and then snatching it away, we were forced to give the food to the dog.

Fortunately this rule is not in general use, otherwise...

Mostly stuff I was boring people with in the pub. You know the drill by now.

Okay, so it's been six months, but hey - it's like riding a bike!

Actually, it's fuck-all like riding a bike, but I'm sure you can figure out the intricacies of clicking on the bits that are underlined.

Except that bit. That was just an example. From now on, it counts ( Read more... )

Bad movies, my place, tomorrow from 8 pm. Special Guest star will be caerban and his collection of appalling shark movies, assuming he can make it across the Pennines in time.

Update: caerban has pussied out expressed concerns about being trapped in Sheffield by snowfall, and thus will not be gracing us with his presence. Or his appalling marine biology-based ( Read more... )

Yes, the missus is away again so time once more for dreadful movies, this time featuring some, none or fewer of the following:

Us Seals: Either an unofficial pinniped-themed sequel to the Chevy Chase/Dan Aykroyd vehicle "Spies Like Us", or a low-budget under-the-top action movie full of explosions¹ and unconvincing gunfights. I know which one I'm ( Read more... )

We're back from Mallorca; sorry about all the parties, baby namings, raids, pub nights (etc) that we missed ( Read more... )