Important news form Iraq where the locals are currently blaming the appearance of a fearsome new strain of beast on British troops …
By all accounts giant badgers, which were “deliberately” released by British forces have been terrorising homes and farms. In one stomach-churningly violent attack, farmer Sattar Jabbar(50) witnessed an appalling incident of cattle mutilation:
“I saw it three days ago at night attacking animals. It even ate a cow. It tore the cow up piece by piece. I tried to shoot it with my gun but it ran away into the orchards. I missed it,” he said.
British Army spokesman Major David Gell countered the claims of Jabber by saying:
“If you cornered it and poked it with a stick, then the smart money would be on the badger,” warned Gell, who has faced many rumours like this one in his tour in Iraq.
“We have not released giant badgers in Basra,” he said, “and nor have we been collecting eggs and releasing serpents into the Shatt al-Arab river.”
So, who’s lying???? EVERYONE knows the British Army is famous for it’s subversive wildlife division so probably them, after all the Iraqis are all utter innocents who would never spread lies, untruths or rumours … obviously …
Oddly though, Major Gell was strangely silent when quizzed about the 2nd Hampshire Cod-mando force – I hear they’re ruthless …

…wanted to put a prominent link to her website on here so here it is …
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In mid-2006 I posted an entry about an American news story which stated US gangs were using the Net to communicate with one another. Last week I received a message from the site’s owner asking me to remove the link from the posting as, apparently, the article was untrue.
Fair enough. But …
In writing my original post, I poked fun at the web design abilities of the site owner “King Cricket”. The site was abysmally amateur and not something you’d expect to see of a professional. His latest missive states:
“And for your comment – ‘if his gangbanging is anything like his web design he’ll be dead in five minutes….’ Go fuck yourself, if you knew how to read you would of not put that comment.”
I submit into evidence the site of the time (thank you wayback machine!) and stand by my comments.
I was (at the start of his message) more than willing to remove the post which was meant as an irreverent comment on the original news story. However, as I’m sure many people have discovered, “Go Fuck Yourself” is no substitute for “Thank You” so I’ve decided not to.
Sometimes, I love to be petulant

I’ve decided to change the theme of the blog and also to make it the centre of my site. I never was a designer and the last overhaul this site received was way too green for anyone’s good, so I’ve decided to adopt the blog as the core of the site and build the rest of the content around it.
The upshot is that I’ll be playing with a couple of looks and feels over the next week or so and migrating non-blog content into the framework until it all fits.
It’ll be a bit of a shambles but then it’s ALWAYS been a bit of a shambles!!