[Jaspersharpe]

Fake human skeleton found to be real:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16037506

[Jaspersharpe]

Interesting perspective on the Guardian / LSE / Newsnight riot interviews:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2011/12/summer-riots-england

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

 I suppose it was too much to hope for, but it's a good runner-up…



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12982079http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12982079

(from April, btw)

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Sometimes I just fucking despair of this country.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/11/katie-price-next-police-chief

Among those reported to have expressed an interest before the election process begins next year is 64-year-old television presenter Ross, who is a visiting professor at the Jill Dando Crime Science institute at University College London. A police source also indicated that 33-year-old Price, aka Jordan, who increased her national fame after appearing on the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! was interested.

The source said: "Most bizarrely of all, Hampshire [police force] told us when Katie Price was asked why she'd moved from Sussex to Hampshire, she suggested she'd be a PCC candidate there."

[Oldmanmatt]

Only sometimes?

A true optimist...

[dave]

Shit medicine.

[slackline]

Of course nothing can go wrong

Check the definition of blindness according to the Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, we won't take all of your sight, just most of it time to dig out the  .

[Jaspersharpe]

Absolutely stunning ignorance. 

[slackline]

Absolutely stunning ignorance. 

That black kid from West Philadelphia should move [in] with his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.

[Jaspersharpe]

The concept of The Fresh Prince is probably actually more realistic than this guys idea of what's possible.

[Stubbs]

That's outstanding, I couldn't actually finish it.  Was it an advert for various study tools disguised by a computer program to look like an article?!

[mrjonathanr]

Technology can help these kids.  But only if the kids want to be helped.  Yes, there is much inequality.  But the opportunity is still there in this country for those that are smart enough to go for it.

That's the conclusion Stubbs. It's kind of inconclusive muddled and facile, like the essay which precedes it.

If I were a rich white guy, I'd learn to think.

[Jaspersharpe]

Rick Perry is a moron:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8967703/Rick-Perry-in-Kim-Jong-the-Second-gaffe.html

[dave]

Rick Perry is a moron:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8967703/Rick-Perry-in-Kim-Jong-the-Second-gaffe.html

Genius.

I suppose he thinks "illing" is a malaysian great-grandchild.

[Jaspersharpe]

 

Not that it should be seen as a barrier to becoming president of course....

George W Bush referred to the dictator as Kim Jong Two when he was running for president.

 

[slackline]

Who the fuck is Rick Perry anyway? 

(Rhetorical of course, I've read the linked article and now know he's a US politician self-serving wanker).

[Jaspersharpe]

Perry was one of the leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination until he did this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/10/rick-perry-forgets-agency-scrap

Although this hadn't done him any favours either:

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/star-spangled-staggers/2011/11/speech-perry-republican

[Stubbs]

He also did this advert, which led to an awesome parody

[tomtom]

This is quite an eye opener... eek... "What happened on Flight 447..."

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877

[dave]

This is quite an eye opener... eek... "What happened on Flight 447..."

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877

fuck me! its scary that they designed that aircraft so that one pilot can't tell what the other one is doing with the stick.

[Jaspersharpe]

Kin ell. I'll avoid showing that to Mrs S who is already terrified of flying.

[Stubbs]

That's terrifying! You think you're OK in these modern planes, and it is safer than driving, but stories like that are enough to out anyone off!

[slackline]

Modern planes are still under the control of humans who it would appear are still able to make stupendous mistakes.

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

So. Boris Johnson then. Spending the thick end of 300 grand on Olympic ticket, but "not from the taxpayer", but from "private sources"

So in other words "Bribes".

[Jaspersharpe]

The USA has left behind "a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people" according to President Obama:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/22/baghdad-bomb-attacks-iraq