January 2012
3 posts
French horn vomit whimsy
I’m so glad you could all make it here today for our little celebration of your time at St Swithin’s School for boys. And I must say how gratifying it is to see how so many of you have succeeded in your chosen careers to become pillars of the professional communities upon which the prosperity of our society rests.
Sir Robert Bingham, as I’m sure you all know, is chairman of the Royal First Bank...
Information underload as Wikipedia goes down
Wikipedia, the world’s only significant source of information you can get at without doing any fucking work at all, closed for 24 hours today to protest something whose details I was going to look up on Wikipedia. Whatever it was – and there is absolutely no way of finding that out now – it was serious enough to merit the suspension of 84% of media activity in the free world, 78% of...
Cruise ship sinking just in time to save national...
You know how you believe something for years and you even say it occasionally when drunk and everyone tells you to be quiet or looks at you in horror and your partner shakes their head and then one day something happens that absolutely proves your broad-brush generalization was spot on all along? Well that’s what the capsize of the Concordia cruise liner does for all those who’ve been...