If you have children under ten then you’ve probably got some Playmobil in your house. It was my very favourite range of toys for a long time so I’m pretty used to their weird German ideas. This one really takes the biscuit though. One of the most extravagant items they sell is the Fairy Tale Palace. It costs about eighty pounds and it’s enormous; three stories high with loads of columns and staircases, chandeliers, mirrors and rose-tinted windows. Now they’ve made a toy toy castle so that the little Playmobil children who live in the castle can play with a model of their own castle, complete with tiny figures of themselves. You can see where this is going can’t you? I’ll stop now before we all disappear.
Monthly Archive for November, 2007
So, Dave Hartnett, the head of the Inland Revenue (or HMRC as they call themselves), has written a letter to seven million families offering a personal apology for his department’s losing of their personal details in the post. I bet the personal nature of the apology doesn’t extend to Mr Hartnett personally paying for seven million stamps.
According to the official Saudi Arabia information site:
To understand the history of the Kingdom and its political, economic and social development, it is necessary to realize that Islam, which permeates every aspect of a Muslim’s life, also permeates every aspect of the Saudi Arabian state.
and according to a story on the BBC News site today
An appeal court in Saudi Arabia has doubled the number of lashes and added a jail sentence as punishment for a woman who was gang-raped.
If I were a Muslim I would consider Saudi Arabia a very poor advertisement for my religion. Have a look at the official information site and click on the section entitled Saudi Art and Culture. It contains a poetry section containing two short poems, and a discussion of the Arabic language which is put to shame by the entry on the same subject in Wikipedia. 
Did you know that Taurine, the most significant ingredient in Red Bull and the other energy drinks underpinning modern life, is basically bile and is also found in bull semen? Huh? Did you?
Masterfoods, who produce many of the shite sweets that make so many people in this country unhealthy, have started using animal rennet in their waxy, flavourless chocolate. I am mostly pleased about this because now I won’t have to even discuss the possibility of my daughters buying or eating this crap; there’s no way they will want anything to do with something that is extracted from the tummies of dead baby cows. The fact that the chocolate in Mars Bars, Twix, Maltesers and Milky Way was already offensive because it is made from cocoa that is the product of a ruthlessly exploitative and unethical trade that causes suffering and deprivation for many children in Africa obviously wasn’t enough for these scumbags. I suppose once evil becomes your main interest in life you just have to keep trying to push the envelope.
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