The police called at my house yesterday. Apparently, I had been seen driving at 35 in 30 mph zone in February and hadn’t return the NIP form to the traffic office. The Traffic Office had issued a request to the local police to haul me in. This is the trouble with being a hardened criminal. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘day’
UKHamlet–master criminal
Posted: 9th May 2012 by Martyn in Crime and punishment, Urban DefileTags: day, NIP
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Today is my friend’s birthday. Gay left us on 27th May 2011 and not a day has gone by when I don’t think of her in some small way. This, in itself, is interesting because I never met her in real life: she was a virtual friend. We “met” on the internet about five years [...]
What a long way we’ve come
Posted: 17th January 2012 by Martyn in Racial equalityTags: Aretha Franklin, Conservative Party, day, Jimi Hendrix, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, Politics, Seema Malhotra Dec, Wales
This is a newspaper advertisement from the 1960s. The open and naked prejudice of it is staggering in this day and age, but it was still only forty odd years ago. Today, of course, the modern Conservative Party has moved on from this and now embraces a non-discriminatory stance. I’m glad about that, not just [...]
Samoa extend the lives of their citizens
Posted: 30th December 2011 by Martyn in Merry Christmas and a happy new year, New Year resolutions, Satire and HumourTags: American Samoa, Australia, Cardiff, day, Doctor Who, France, game, GMT, government, hand, Hugo Chavez, International Date Line, New Zealand, Paris, Prime Minister Tuila, Sailele Malielegaoi, Samoa, SO, Western Europe
In an amazing scientific experiment, Samoa’s government has extended the lives of their citizens, made 0.273972602739726% of their population a whole year younger and given a large section of their population a day’s pay for absolutely nothing. Now this is what I call government action. By the simple expedient of moving the international dateline a [...]
Richard Thompson at St David’s Hall, Cardiff
Posted: 23rd January 2011 by Martyn in Life, Live Music, MusicTags: Bob Dylan, Cardiff, day, Dream Attic, English, f, Fairport Convention, Finance Industry, love, Mark Knopfler, Money Shuffle, New Zealand, read-write-co-uk-richard-thompson-davids-hall-cardiff, Richard Thompson, richard-thompson-at-st-davids-hall, richard-thompson-at-st-davids-hall-cardiff, richard-thompson-in-cardiff, richard-thompson-set-list-cardiff-2011, rugby-union-back, St David, st-davids-hall-cardiff-fairportconvention, Wales
If Mark Knopfler could write songs like Bob Dylan and had a half decent singing voice, he would be Richard Thompson. If there were any justice, Thompson would be a superstar and if I ever go to a better concert than this, then it will be the day after Wales beat the All Blacks… in [...]
Why should the BBC pay its own way?
Posted: 10th July 2010 by Martyn in Britain - the great, Capitalism - the End, Digital Britain, Industrial Relations, Mushroom Theory, PoliticsTags: BBC, bbcbroadcastinghouse, British Gas, British Telecom, Broadcasting House, Building Societies, caption, cost, day, does-bbc-pay-for-programmes, government, happy, Internet, Internet Advertising, ITV, Licence Fee, lie, SKY, TV, who-get-the-most-revenue-sky-or-bbc1
There’s an idea being floated in the ranks of power that the BBC should be made to pay its own way. The concept is that through its own endeavours, the BBC should fund its activities and perform as a commercial organisation would have to. I disagree and I’ll tell you why. If the BBC had [...]
Why skinny people should STFU
Posted: 4th March 2010 by Martyn in DietTags: amount, BHB, bigness, bloke, calorie burn, calories, caption, copyright, day, Diet, fact, genetics, I. I, inability to lose weight, KNOWS, lovely bones, person, simple fact, skinny, skinny person, STFU, XYZ
I’m not thin. In fact I’m what some would call a BHB – big handsome bloke. That doesn’t include me, because I don’t like being big. My bigness is more to do with genetics than diet – I eat moderately and do a certain amount of exercise, including visting the gym twice a week. Still, [...]
How to create an unbreakable password
Posted: 15th June 2009 by Martyn in Internet, Life, Mushroom TheoryTags: create-unbreakable-password, day, fact, Far East, hand, how-many-letters-to-make-password-unbreakable, how-to-create-an-unbreakable-password, Internet, letter, Mister Smarty Pants, passwords, row, three-letter-password-unbreakable, use, web, Word Processor
Jay sat in my living room sipping his cooling cup of tea. Had we passed in the street I would probably not recognised the tall, almost gangly, bespectacled figure, his loose blue cotton shirt flapping around him like the sails of an improbable yacht, mast thin legs striding in that peculiarly purposeful way that spoke [...]