Category Archives: Briefly

OK. It’s fine for other children’s parents (2 today) to phone up asking me to collect their children, or deliver their children, or whatever, even if the reason is so that they can indulge their seedy money-making enterprises in property … Continue reading →

My iPod has played a track by The Prodigy on every journey I’ve made by bike recently, but never when I’ve been travelling by train. How does it know to do that?

Why nobody should use the phrase “War on Terror” – Terror is a general state, and it’s internal to a person. Terror is not the person we’re fighting, the “terrorist.” The word terror activates your fear, and fear activates the … Continue reading →

Having just completed a lengthy ‘omnibus’ survey by phone I can now reveal exclusively that Gordon Ramsay is being considered for a celebrity endorsement of Kit Kat, or possibly some other Nestlé product. They seem to be concerned that his … Continue reading →

Is there a name for this? I’m always leaving my laptop lying around and it seems like someone has ripped a mix CD into my iTunes library without me even noticing. It’s called “Dark Days of Disco” and I’m liking … Continue reading →

If you’re on the train listening to music through the speaker on your crappy little phone people aren’t looking at you because they admire your taste in funky beats. They’re wishing that you were dead, from something painful.

I just got this great spam: “Did you know obesity kills more and more people every year? We know you hate the extra pounds, the ugly look and the social stigmata attached to fat people.”

I wonder what Sense About Science have got to say about the revelations on tonight’s Panorama. It seems that GlaxoSmithKline attempted to show that Seroxat worked for depressed children despite their own studies showing that it actually trebled the risk … Continue reading →