Take a look at the screen shots below of headers of the most popular newspaper websites here in the UK. 4 broadsheets, and 4 tabloids. See if you notice any difference between the two… and i’ve added some arrows and circles to help you on the tabloid screen shots.
I understand I’m rather late on posting the news, but this just had to go in my delicious irony series.
Turns out that about 3 weeks ago, the head of the UK’s legal system, Baroness Scotland, was under investigation that she had hired an illegal immigrant to be her housekeeper. Ok, that’s pretty ironic right… she’s the Attorney General for the UK, and she’s been fined £5,000 for breaking the law… not a very good role model, eh?
Well, this is where it gets interesting. Turns out she was fined for breaking the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, which… wait for it… she helped impose herself into the House Of Lords when she was a Home Office Minister.
So you have a job, just so happens your job is to impose new laws, you help impose one particular new law, she suddenly becomes the head of the legal system, she then breaks that law, gets fined for it, and then denies any wrong doing, and then rejects calls to resign.
Hey folks. From here on, look out for a new series of posts called “Oh, the Delicious Irony…”, in which I will be covering news topics that are just so unbelievably ironic, you may as well think i’m making these stories up.
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During the summer, we had a big swine flu outbreak, as we all know. Even I, suffered from the virus. During this period, the UK government and the NHS made a few broadcasting and print based adverts for swine flu. Here, take a look:
Well, at the beginning of August, the Daily Mail published an article that confirmed the actor in the blu jacket, David McCusker, had caught, and then suffered from swine flu, himself.
Now, I know you are all saying that he, like everyone, is just as susceptible to the virus as anyone else… but, come on… If he was IN THE ADVERT, as a PAID ACTOR, SURELY he would know how not to catch the virus…. SURELY!?
1961 was the last year to read the same upside down as the right way up.
The next year to read the same upside down as the right way up will be 6009.
There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
There are 168 hours in a week.
A jiffy is equates to 1/100th of a second.
The Leaning Tower of Piza contains 294 steps
There are 6500 windows on the Empire State Building
Maths:
111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888 and 999 are all multiples of 37.
111111111 multiplied by 111111111 equals 12345678987654321.
The numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.
Two opposite sides of a dice always add up to 7.
Google is actually a number; where the digits are a 1, followed by one hundred 0’s. A Googleplex is a number with 1, followed by a thousand zero digits.
Some odds:
285-1 : The odds of giving birth to identical twins
8100-1 : The odds of giving birth to triplets
729,000-1 : The odds of giving birth to quadruplets
800,000-1 : The approximate odds of being struck by lightening
649,739-1 : Odds of being dealt a royal flush in a game of poker
Odds of winning in the UK National Lottery:
13,983,816-1 : All six numbers
2,330,636-1 : Five numbers and a bonus ball
55,492-1 : Five numbers
1,033-1 : Four numbers
57-1 : Three numbers
Therefore meaning you have more of a chance being struck by lightening than winning the national lottery jackpot!
Famous people with high IQ’s:
Madonna… 140.
Al Gore… 140.
Hugh Hefner… 152.
Carol Vorderman… 154.
Clive Sinclair… 159.
Quentin Taratino… 160.
Bill Gates… 160.
Estimated IQ’s of people in the past:
George Washington… 118.
Captain James Cook… 160.
Albert Einstein… 160.
Charles Darwin… 165.
Dr David Livingston… 170.
Charles Dickins… 180.
Michelangelo… 180.
Sir Issac Newton… 190.
Leonardo Da Vinci… 220.
Temperature Conversions:
Fahrenheit to Celsius = subtract 32, multiply by 5, divide by 9.
Celsius to Fahrenheit = multiply by 9, divide by 5, add 32.
Human Body Facts:
It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 43 to frown.
85% of the human body comprises of water.
A sneeze can exceed speeds of 160km per hour.
A baby in the womb acquires it’s fingerprints at the age of 3 months.
Dare I waste any time writing a proper blog post on Big Brother? So here is a badly written rant about the show.
Well, I watched ONE Big Brother series, and that was the Celebrity version 2 years back with Jade Goody and all her racial remarks, but even that I only watched it at the coincidental times when I was watching the TV and the show was on. I had been bullied into watching the series because everyone thought it was cool and interesting and all that. No. They were wrong.
I’d just like to think from the point of view of the contestants. What in gods name possesses people to want to live in the Big Brother house?? Besides money, fame and glory – you look like a complete twat most of the time and about 4 days in, you are already the subject of everyones conversations up and down the UK.
So the point of the view from the audience now. So the uses and gratifications theory states we watch TV programmes for one or more of the following reasons:
- Information; erm…. none in BB.
- Entertainment; does BB make me laugh? not really…
- Personal Identity; I would NEVER compare myself to the nutters who take part in BB.
- Social Interaction; I’d leave every conversation about BB with my friends.
Clearly, there are no reasons what so ever to watch BB. Thats not to mention the people that will call in and VOTE for housemates. I find it bizzare that people vote for the most annoying people so they get evicted… If I were forced to vote I’d vote for the people most annoying so they were locked up away from society for longer.
And, this series of BB is the ‘CBB’ variety. Yes. Celebrities. It makes me laugh. I read a Yahoo story that leaked possible candidates for the show. They were:
Other than Ulrika Johnson, other names linked to the series include glamour model Lucy Pinder, who would allegedly earn £150,000; former Sugababe Mutya Buena, who’ll apparently receive £60,000; and Ben Adams from the boyband A1, who could get just £20,000. Liberty X’s Michelle Heaton, socialist MSP Tommy Sheridan, rapper Coolio, Austen Powers star Verne Troyer and La Toya Jackson may also appear.
I’m sorry. But, I’ve only heard of 2 of the 9 names mentioned above. I’ve heard of Ulrika Johnson, but don’t know what she does or who she is, and Coolio, the rapper who made ‘Gangsters Paradise’, but other than that one, I’ve successfully heard of no other songs.
I will not be paying attention to any of this series. Period.
Well, for those that haven’t been around the past couple of days, or just haven’t generally heard the news stories about Ross/Brand, this is a summary of what happened, and what I think should happen about it.
On the 18th October, Russell Brand with guest presenter Jonathan Ross presented a radio show on BBC Radio 2, which had be pre-recorded two days earlier. A really good timeline of events can be found here. Basically, the two presenters prank called actor Andrew Sachs and left a bunch of obscene messages on his answerphone about his granddaughter, who Brand claimed to have slept with. Since then there has been over 30,000 complaints sent to the BBC and Ofcom about the broadcast, Brand has resigned, Ross has been suspended for 12 weeks, and BBC Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas has quit.
In my opinion, this should never have happened in the first place. The BBC have a job to restrict pre-recorded content, and had 2 days to do so, but they didn’t… there should be stronger restrictions in place I believe. Ok – so they may have thought the show was funny, and a great laugh, but they team at the radio station should remember that their content should cater for all because of being license funded, and this clearly offended some… had this been broadcast on a commercial station such as Fox FM, there problem would be nowhere near as bad.
Although, having said all that, if I were to have listened to the show, I think I would have just laughed and enjoyed the show – thats just who I am. The Radio 2 team made a mistake – it’s over, learn for another time. Ross/Brand have clearly paid a fair price (suspension and resignation) and now things should just move on.
I was also interested to hear that only two complaints were received on the day of broadcast, and only a few more the following day. Infact, 9 days after the broadcast, there was only 1500 or so complaints. Only when the story hit mainstream news media, both print, e-media, and broadcasting, did the number really start to dramatically go up – which if I’m honest is a bit pathetic knowing that people are either reminded to complain, or complaining when the only hear about the news story. Quite honestly, those sort of people can just listen to something else if what they listened to they don’t like.
People that don’t believe I don’t have a middle name
Microsoft
Slow computers! (Slow Macs too!)
My ex-girlfriend (though, I am trying to get along with her)
Liars!
Awful money making movies
Gordon Brown
Internet Explorer
Emo’s!
Old People. (Sorry.. but your homes do smell.)
The Eurovision Song Contest
Public Transport
Ryannair & easyJet
to be continued another day….
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