October 2007 Archives

There's been a furore in the UK recently over a photo taken by alleged artist Nan Goldin which was declared to be pornographic and bordering on the paedophilic after it went on display in the north of the country.

Today, the Crown Prosecution service have said the photo, part of a collection owned by "talented" dwarf and general arse Elton John, is not an indencent image and can go back on display.

The picture shows two little girls dancing, one of them is naked and fully exposes her genitals. As a result of it's content I refuse to post it my site.

For my money it constitutes an indecent image, it uses the theme of child nudity to deliberately shock and is a cheap shot from an allegedly talented artist.

Take a look at the pic (link goes to censored version) and make your own mind up, but one thing strikes me from the get-go - Nan Goldin is no artist, just a rip-off merchant selling crap to people with too much money. At best it's a nasty snap of a naked little girl, at worst it's atrocious photography that you wouldn't admit to if you'd taken it yourself.

And as for Elton John, what exactly was he thinking when he bought the piece? His level of common sense obviously matches his level of dress sense...

Occasionally, there are stories in the press about parents who've been arrested and questioned after taking baby pics of their kids in the bath, then taking them to a store to be developed. Apparently this kind of behaviour is wrong in this country.

Obviously if you're a flamboyant millionaire with more money then sense (clearly) you can own as much paedo-porn as you like without fear of retribution...

[from the BBC's website (and too good to miss!!)]

A grey squirrel had to be rescued from a bird feeder as it had gorged on so many nuts it could not squeeze back out through the bars.

A resident in Christchurch, Dorset alerted the RSPCA after finding it stuck in the peanut-filled feeder.

Insp Graham Hammond said that the squirrel had "eyes bigger than its stomach" and had lost its figure while feasting in the wire-frame last week.

He said it was "quite an unusual rescue".

"I think this squirrel had eyes bigger than its stomach but after it had stuffed itself with nuts, it had a stomach too large to escape the feeder - one which ironically, was designed to be squirrel-proof," he said.

Insp Hammond said he managed to widen the gaps between two of the bars with the aid of a crow-bar and a grasper - to release the squirrel, which was not hurt.

"As soon as the gap increased he shot off. I was slightly insulted," he added.

A gang of forgers are currently on trial in London after trying to defraud the Bank of England out of billions of pounds.

Their cunning scheme involved the attempted swap of £180million in "special issue" £500,000 notes and £28billion in £1000 notes.

All went well until they approached the BoE with the funny money and the banking specialists pointed out they'd never issued a £500,000 note.

On English pillock and a group of Chinese "businessmen" will probably face a hefty fine (I reckon £50) if found guilty as the British judicial system is a ludicrous joke...

In other jail-related news, there are now two gaols in England which have been set aside purely for non-Brits - nice to see the current government still favours foreigners over it's own people, well played Mr Brown!

And finally, Pete Docherty still isn't dead, but he does seem to have walked away from court a free man despite 15 drug and other offences.

Not so much that the law is an ass, more, it's been taken up the ass...

Turns out Elly's pregnancy was ectopic. She underwent surgery last night to remove it.

Bad day, very bad day...

Thank God for the British government, not only have they knackered the country but they've also commissioned a report which lets all lardies off the hook. Yes folks, if you're chronically overweight it's NOT YOUR FAULT!

Huzzah! we can add it to the list of other things which are NOT YOUR FAULT, including being a drug addict and being unable to read and write in the native language of the country (and before I get a stream of emails whining about how this is unfair to foreigners, I was taking a swipe at folk born here who are too thick for their own good) - and anyways, being ignorant, indolent and self-centered is ok because .. that's right! It's NOT YOUR FAULT

However, if you smoke or drink you are an evil, evil bastard and should be strung up from a tree, but only after all your belongings have been sold off to pay for the fatties who need cake and sweets to stop them from becoming slim - they'll need all their energy to tell people that it's NOT THEIR FAULT.

Continuing this stream of dribble, if it's NOT YOUR FAULT you're fat then, conversely, if you're thin then it must be ALL YOUR FAULT, in ten years time the "Health Service" will probably refuse to treat thin people who've only got themselves to blame for eating properly and giving a damn about their health - crivens! we're all doomed!!

Finally, if you find this posting in any way offensive you should sod off, you fat bastard - have a pie.

Another day, another new and pointless addition to this haven of peace and tranquility. In an effort to constantly tell anyone who'll listen that I'm going to be a dad, I have included this rather spiffy ticker so you can track the progress of "Project Russell".

It's still very early, Elly was only supposed to test yesterday (we've known for a week though) and we're not due our six week scan for another fortnight so we don't know if there's one or two little 'uns in there, either way, they'll be the best looking children in the history of the world and you'd better not argue !!

The San Francisco Chronicle newspaper recently gave a questionnaire to a group of 16- and 17-year old students, one of the questions asked them to describe World War II.

One of the answers was: "The head of the Nazis was a killer named Hitler whose evil partner, Mussolini, was president of the USSR. Ultimately, the war ended with the bombing of Iwo Jima and Hitler's suicide. Then a treaty was signed."

Said teacher Theresa Quindlen:"It's a bit disappointing, but maybe something will spark their interest, and they'll become future readers of history."

More likely, they'll forego history altogether and spend even more time listening to that shit that passes as rap music.

That said, it should be easy to convince them that when Fiddy Cent led the Gay Rights movement to power in the USA the British, led by David Beckham sparked World War 6 and bombed Palestine flat with a shovel. Then they all had a lovely dinner of cakes and buns..

Reports are flooding in (actually it was in the Times today) that the area around the office where I work was closed down for three hours on Monday as police investigated a terror alert.

(un)fortunately for all concerned the "terror alert" was caused by a chef who overcooked nine pounds of chilis at the local Thai Kitchen.

It's all a bit embarrassing in the week when the police are in the spotlight over the fatal shooting of the Brazilian guy in a tube station who may, or may not, have been running from police as he was, or maybe wasn't an illegal immigrant ... (not to all - running away from armed police is very, very, very silly)

Anyways, no chillis were shot and killed in Monday's incident, which is the important thing.

*** NEWSFLASH *** Diana inquest opens, apparently she's still dead and is still believed to have been involved in a car crash. In Paris. Ten bloody years ago ... Also, she wasn't pregnant with Elvis' baby, though that bloke who owns the overly-expensive department store will probably disagree ...

Not often I post twice in a day but this amused in a horribly geeky way so I thought I'd share.

I recently updated my mail client to the very excellent Thunderbird v2, a massive update on 1.5 and quite slick too. One of the new features it includes is the ability mark emails as junk, which can be automatically deleted on request. Thunderbird also makes assumptions and automatically marks emails as junk which meet certain criteria.
I got a mail this morning from Microsoft's Customer Support which Thunderbird immediately decided was junk mail. Very appropriate I thought, given the fact all of my personal machines will never run Windows Fista...

(I didn't say this story was funny btw ...)

*me* apparently :)

Eight months after we lost Matthew and a further two rounds of IVF and Elly's pregnant again. How fantastic is that?

The official test day isn't for another two days but we've been getting positive results since last Thursday - a week before time!!

This time round we're a lot more confident and a lot less terrified of the whole procedure adn for some strange reason we've both got it into our heads that it's going to be twins but we'll have to wait until October 16 to find out when we have the six week scan.

Current mood: excited.