Shallow, slushy and rough at the Castle this morn (just like
the Piss Poor Policies Millionaires Club Coalition), just got back from the
stale bread, gruel and pussy food run at Tesco, the roads are fine-no frost no
wind, I can’t see what all the fuss is about.
The French farce continues with a longing for an equine
steak...
Allegedly the Bank of Blighty Monetary Policy Committee is
set to announce on Thursday that it is expanding its Quantitative Easing
programme from £275bn to £325bn.
Several members of MPC signalled at their January meeting
that they would vote for a further round of QE this month.
City economists had thought the committee would approve a
further £75bn of asset purchases this month, but services and manufacturing
surveys have suggested that the economy performed slightly better than expected
in the early weeks of this year.
Yippee-I claim my share.....
Despite ordering them to identify staff earning more than
£58,200 a year and any spending of more than £500 council chiefs said they had
so many well-paid staff the cost of listing them and their responsibilities
could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds. They also said staff safety
would be at risk if the public knew how much they earned.
Other councils claimed that taxpayers lacked the “evaluation
skills” to decide whether spending was good value for money and would fall
victim to “misunderstandings”. Several insisted there was little demand locally
for information on how they spent public money.
The latest fashion accessory is flamboyantly coloured,
audaciously patterned socks; it seems that wearing flashy socks is more than an
expression of your personality. It signals that you are part of the in crowd.
It’s like a secret handshake for those who have arrived, and for those who want
to.
Lee Sylvia, a sock buyer at Sockshop and Shoe
Company, which has stores in San Francisco and Santa Cruz, Calif., said that
sales of wild socks were up, an observation echoed by other local sock
specialists.
Selling particularly well are geometric patterns,
pink and purple, orange and black for the San Francisco Giants, socks with
words like “bacon” and “beer,” and “anything with ninjas,” she said.
The most popular styles cost $12 to $40 a pair and
are made of combed cotton or wool by companies like Happy Socks, Anonymousism,
Paul Smith and Corgi.
Sock it to me?
A firm of private
investigators in Australia has been advertising for a £50,000-a-year 'brothel
inspector'.
The post involves
"partaking of sexual services" undercover on behalf of local councils
in New South Wales.
The Lyonswood
Investigations and Forensic Group in Sydney placed the ad for a 'Brothel Buster
Investigator' in My Career magazine.
Applicants were
required to be unmarried and preferably single, willing to have protected sex
with prostitutes and to provide sworn evidence in court.
Lyonswood
operations manager Lachlan Jarvis said the job involved visiting suspected
illegal brothels and gathering evidence to prove they were offering sexual
services.
"Some jobs
require the offering of sexual services, some actually require the partaking of
sexual services... because it is considered the most convincing evidence,"
he said.
Mr Jarvis said the
ad had proved popular with Sydney job seekers.
"We had dozens
if not more than that apply, it was certainly a popular job," he said,
"the perfect job for a male."
I could do that-if
I had some blood pressure pills...
Up a fair way to
the land of brain dead parents
How not to teach
your kids about explosives...
And finally:
In Padova
University is the collection of wooden books, once a collection of
roughly a hundred, nearly half of these rare wooden books have been lost or
destroyed since their creation in the late 1700s or early 1800s, leaving only
56.
These books are both about trees and constructed of them, each
volume is about a different species of tree, with its cover made from the wood
of that tree, showing both wood radial, longitudinal, and cross profiles. And
on each spine is a section of the tree's bark.
Inside are the book's contents - but rather than paper
describing the tree, each book holds bits of the tree itself. Seedlings,
leaves, roots, sawdust, charcoal, flowers, and seeds are all fastened in place
and numbered. Each book is accompanied by a handwritten piece of parchment with
a legend explaining what each sample is.
Now there’s somewhere to visit-if you are tired of life....
That’s it: I’m orf to have a
look at Cetus.
And today’s thought:
Angus
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