... suffice to say, these selections i have made i believe speak for themselves. never mind the bollocks ~ girls school closed after pupils begin behaving like cats : Link ~ smiles banned from u.k passports : Link ~ man shoots self in ass : Link ~ 12 y.o old armed bandit holds up family : Link ~ dutch ponder ban on toe-licking : Link ~ overworked 911 operator falls asleep : Link ~ festival-goers drink alcoholic porta-loo fluid : Link...
hello fellow ju bloggers who are presently going about your daily business. i just thought i would take a moment to inform you that i cannot sleep. aaaaaaaaaaarrrghhhhhh. it's driving me demented. i'm so tired i could cry. it's 3.45am. nothing in my suburb (including my husband) has moved for the past 5 hours. these country people, are creepy, dammit, with their whole early to bed early to rise palaver. the whole village is out like a light by 10.30pm. it's sinister . they're all ...
the name florence nightingale is synonymous with devoted nursing care. during the crimean war of 1853-1856, stories abound of the nurse with the lamp who tenderly cared for british soldiers, working under appalling conditions to save many lives. yet what is not so well known is that nightingales' barracks hospital, located in sutari (since renamed uskudar) near istanbul, actually killed more soldiers than it ever saved, and was in fact responsible for more casualties than the conflict it...
(paul simms (for the new yorker magazine. which i did not buy. which marco left here) recently published the following plea to god. this work is copyright to paul simms). lord ? ... please don't let me die in a funny way. like being beaten to death with a shoe. especially not my own shoe. and, if it absolutely has to be my own shoe, i'd rather not be wearing it at the time. or like choking on my own fist during a bar bet. i know i'm going to die someday, i'm just asking no...
in a recent article of mine, suspeckted (who shall henceforth be known as 'the man all women should love' , or 'tmawsl' for short), actually expressed a preference for a woman who was pale, clever, interesting, quirky, and occasionally downright freakish over a world-renowned beauty. now, the choice of a woman who loves acting because she wants to vicariously live the life of a serial killer isn't for every man, i agree. there are men who would worry about this. men who would prefer some...
seven years ago, one of my close male friends married a woman that nobody else 'liked'. it happens. and whilst i like to pride myself on my 'acceptance' and 'understanding', i have to admit that even i found it hard to understand why somebody with so much to give could tie themselves to a woman who was, frankly, the coldest bitch i think i've ever met. despite my reservations, the underlying fact that it was really none of my business kept my mouth shut throughout their nuptial announcem...
hello, my name is miggy, and i am a girl. whilst that may not be news to some of you, it has come to my attention that we have a spate of female ju users whose screen names have caused other ju users to call them 'bro', 'mate', 'dude' or (my very own personal favourite) 'that mignuna guy". whilst recently commenting in a blog by 'shadesofgrey', i noticed a similar phenomenon. shades crafted a very intelligent point, and it made everyone assume she was a man !. i mentioned this in my c...
when something i read, see, or hear inspires me, i like to jot down reminders to myself so i might explore 'whatever it was' at my leisure later on. (yes, i agree, that makes me a total nerd, and, even worse, i do not care !). as this note-taking seems to occur at inconvenient moments, i am often left without the time or resources to properly record my thoughts. as a result, i tend to find hurried, cryptic little notes almost everywhere i look, and none of them seem to make a whole heap ...
we are born crying, wrinkly, naked, incontinent, bald, toothless, and helpless. it’s just cute then. we die in pretty much that exact same state. yet those who had to see us ‘whole’ find this change much harder to face than our ‘blossoming’. we humans are odd creatures. we spend much of our allotted lifetime concerned with something we have no control over: getting older. we may think we fear death itself, but deep down, i’m sure that’s not all of it. perhaps we would rather...
i recently grew a tomato plant for the first time. it was about 8 inches high when my mum last visited. it was absolutely flourishing in a combination of dark soil and duck poo. (i save my food scraps for a neighbours' duck and he, you know, obliges , with the fertiliser). upon spotting said tomato plant, my visiting mother asked me what type of plant it was. "it's a tomato plant" i told her. and she laughed !. and then she said "i wasn't born yesterday, you know". now, i'm fully aware ...
this week in friday five, you have just been elected world leader, and everybody has to do what you say. hooray !. now, as we all know, the world is a mess, and since you are now in charge of cleaning it all up, you'd better get your laws and priorities straight. tomorrow, it's day one of your world leadership, and a huge press conference will await your answers to the following burning questions ... 1/ what type of salary package and benefits will you be granting your...
a london-based friend of mine told me recently that, since he had commenced working as a contract-based 'it consultant' in 1997, the top ten keyword searches on the internet have barely changed. despite the internet advancing in leaps and bounds, we are all still just mucking around in here !. i do have an inherent mistrust of lists. i admit that. but with the source of this information being the highly respected british accounting firm for whom my friend is currently working, i am horri...
a london-based friend of mine told me recently that, since he had commenced working as a contract-based 'it consultant' in 1997, the top ten keyword searches on the internet have barely changed. despite the internet advancing in leaps and bounds, we are all still just mucking around in here !. i do have an inherent mistrust of lists. i admit that. but with the source of this information being the highly respected british accounting firm for whom my friend is currently working, i am horri...
There are some people whose lives and works have stayed with us long after they themselves shuffled off this mortal coil. So, of those that we admired so much in life, we expect, of course, something poignant and memorable to have been their final utterances upon this earth ... not always so ! I offer for your reading pleasure the famous (or, mostly not-so-famous) last words of some highly influential humans. Some funny, some sad, but, all in all, mostly not what one would have exp...
my mother recently left behind after a visit a 'women’s' magazine containing an article entitled "15 good reasons why YOU are a modern woman". ok, i thought. this is a women’s' magazine. i am a woman. how bad can it be ?. (how did i forget how ceaselessly patronising and awful these publications are ?. they have the pro-women titles like 'your world' and 'womens' way', yet they are jam packed with 'advice' that basically all amounts to the same thing: look good, catch man, trap man,...