Professor Brindley's Penis
The Professor wanted to make his case in the most convincing style possible. He indicated that, in his view, no normal person would find the experience of giving a lecture to a large audience to be erotically stimulating or erection-inducing. He had, he said, therefore injected himself with papaverine in his hotel room before coming to give the lecture, and deliberately wore loose clothes (hence the track-suit) to make it possible to exhibit the results. He stepped around the podium, and pulled his loose pants tight up around his genitalia in an attempt to demonstrate his erection.
At this point, I, and I believe everyone else in the room, was agog. I could scarcely believe what was occurring on stage. But Prof. Brindley was not satisfied…
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High-Speed Rail Link 'seriously considered'
Ministers are “considering very seriously” building a controversial new high-speed rail line between London and Birmingham, the BBC understands.
Quite apart the obvious issue with the planned route crossing areas of outstanding natural beauty and it will damage the environment, there is a more serious question to raise… why the fuck would anyone wanna go to Birmingham?
#southerner #trolling
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Modern Russia
Two stories I read recently regarding modern Russia.
Workers were trained on how to stuff ballots, each a thin sheet roughly the size of standard letter paper. [The Commission Chairman] demonstrated how a stack of up to 30 or even 50 ballots could be folded in half, hidden inside a jacket and slipped into the ballot box without making any noise.
An Insider’s Account Of Vote Rigging For Putin. Vote-rigging during the Russia election earlier this month, and how it was done.
As the trio enjoyed their lunch, an assassin calmly walked up and shot Burlakov in the head; the bullet fragments seriously injuring his wife… Most journalists whose lunch interview had been so brutally curtailed would have been given time off and counselling for post-traumatic stress. But in Russia, the treatment is simply a couple of shots of vodka and straight back to work.
Who runs Russia? Stunning piece in the FT about the Russian mafia and its inseparable links to the Kremlin.
As a side note, I’ve just loaded Mafia
State by Luke Harding onto my Kindle. It’s the true story of the former Guardian foreign correspondent’s time in Moscow, being bugged, having his flat broken into and generally upsetting the Russian authorities.
Bad Tidings
Debbie is herself achain-smoker, a blousy strawberry-blonde with a tough, good-looking face. She says she can frequently be found alone in here in floods of tears having opened yet another heartbreaker. “Just before you got here,” she says, “I opened one that said, ‘Dear Santa. All I want for Christmas is for my mother and father to stop shouting at each other.’ I just fell apart.”
Jon Ronson visits the tiny Alaskan town of North Pole… where six pupils plotted a Columbine-style massacre.
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The Last of Us
Trailer released for upcoming PS3 game The Last of Us.
Yes, I know… it’s another Zombie game, but given this is from Naughty Dog- makers of the Uncharted series- I am hoping this will be more than ‘just another’ zombie game. Release slated for late 2012 / early 2013.
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SOPA Cabana
As spotted on the Pirate Bay homepage, the SOPA Cabana by Dan Bull.
My thoughts… The cause of internet pirates would be better served by less people taking photos of themselves in the loo.
I mean seriously… you’ve taken a photo of yourself in the fucking toilet! Come on guys, you are making us all look stupid.
Movie News
Three Trailers:
Also:
James Bond producers want Daniel Craig for five more films, following the upcoming Skyfall.
