Quotes of the day
Both from Ben Goldacre's latest:
“I am talking about a long-standing discipline—an art and a science—that has been with us since ancient Egyptian, Roman, Babylonian and Assyrian times. It is part of the Chinese, Muslim and Hindu cultures… Criticism is deeply offensive to those cultures,” says Tredinnnick: “and I have a Muslim college in my constituency.”
That's Conservative MP David Tredinnick defending his view that the moon is evil. To cleanse:
The honourable Member for Braintree cited evidence from The Sun, so I want to refer to a recent edition of the British Medical Journal.
That's Evan Harris, Lib Dem MP for Oxford West & Abingdon (from a different debate).
As succinct a definition as you’ll find
Welsh channel S4C filmed a love scene for drama Caerdydd1 inside a baby-changing room at the Welsh Assembly. Some people aren't happy, including Conservative William Graham:
This is obviously unpleasant and unnecessary. Potentially it’s distressing for people who don’t like the idea of one of the buildings they funded being used in this way.
Do they not show Torchwood in Wales? Then came the most cognitively dissonant statement ever:
One doesn’t want censorship but nothing that is controversial or concerning should happen.
Coincidentally, this is also the Conservative Party's new slogan.
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LOLtories
Not exactly great examples of the genre, but I didn’t want the meme to die without it having been done:
Somebody must be able to do better?
I was going to make some LOLibdems, but I don’t think it’d work.
Hello!
Hey, thanks for coming! I'm Andrew, and this is where my headthinks come to breed. They often meander around humanism and photography, but they're flighty and you can't trust them, so anything is possible.
Do feel free to email me - I get lonely:
Your hair looks swish, by the way - have you done something new?
Recent Comments
- vicky: going up this weekend having done all the welsh peaks except 4 snowdon, cant wait
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: what, how can u live in the 21 c and say that, probably a sexist thing
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: da iawn laura, cant believe what im hearing, all this fuss, anyway love the site, and i agree, normal people who swear and curse clomb mountains cos we live in the...
on Climbing Snowdon. - Andrew: Did a few quick test shots to check the light levels, then balanced the camera on the arm of a bench, set it for a 20s exposure and hoped for the best
on ISS. - lynsey: Wow, how did you take that photograph?
on ISS.
