As some of you may or may not be aware Richard Dawkins, the popular science author, spoke at the Lib Dem conference in September about the blight of the UK libel laws stifling the international scientific community.
Dawkins explained how many companies are using the draconian libel laws to silence, financially cripple and ultimately hinder any [...]
Ok, so in the past hour or so I have taken a wee bit of flak from people on twitter, facebook etc. Why? Because I made a few jokes about Patrick Swayze dying. Those jokes were:
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All i have to say on the matter of Patrick Swayze being dead is that it has to be a [...]
So i just received the following spam:
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So there is a huge buzz going about at the moment regarding http://www.tweepme.com – and the premise is basically this:
You sign up on the page, using your twitter username and password. Your account auto follows every other TweepMe user over a period of time, as does theirs meaning that everyone ends up following everyone.
So basically, [...]
The official name for this location being the “Kenton Bar, 13 Group Fighter Command Headquarters”, the location of which first chosen in September 1939 due to its near central location in the 13 Group coverage area. It took approximately 3 months to construct the underground complex below the existing above ground installation, and a further [...]
Sometimes the ethics and actions of some companies scare me, they really do. Right now though im seething at Starbucks, and sadly not for the first time.
I stopped drinking at Starbucks 7 years ago, out of moral objection to their actions on September 11th. Now don’t get me wrong here, I hate the whole ‘this [...]
No doubt if you are into Urbex you have already come across the story in the news at the moment about the X-Rays etc found at Law hospital in Carluke, near Edinburgh. Whilst I can appreciate that the X-Rays being there is not a good thing, talking to the press about it and making a [...]
An update to my last post regarding the UK healthcare industry being pathetic.
I got up this morning an hour early and called the doctors to make an appointment, went along to that appointment wasting both the doctor’s and my time, where without qualm the doctor wrote me a prescription for the codeine linctus after I [...]
I have had a persistent cough for a couple of months now, and it can really be quite serious at times. I have been known to cough myself to the point where I pass unconscious and even had minor seizures from coughing so much.
I have been to the doctor several times regarding this, and [...]
