Archive for December, 2005

Merry Christmas, bah humbug

Posted by twobs on December 24th, 2005

I started making a long post about how Christmas was good/bad. instead I will list…

Good

Seeing people you haven’t seen for ages
going out lots
nice food
gifts
spending time with family

Bad

spending time with family
commercialisation
religion is gash

conclusion: Good

Christmas day at my house

War on Music

Posted by twobs on December 11th, 2005

The Music Publishers Association have announced that during 2006 they plan to take on websites who publish tab or lyrics, this story was reported by the BBC here.
So after trying to prevent us from discovering new bands through file sharing and stopping us from listening to music altogether by infecting our computers with malware, they [...]

“you were the future once.”

Posted by twobs on December 7th, 2005

It was David Cameron’s first PMQs today, (watch it here) and he didn’t exactly come off well, although no one else seems to have noticed this.

I’ll give him some slack as it’s his first day in the job, but there was very little substance to him. His arguments tended to be “I like the Labour [...]

Help the Aged

Posted by twobs on December 2nd, 2005

Last night This Week ran a feature looking at the new proposals for pensions featuring well-known self-obsessive, Germaine Greer.
Germaine strolled around her large, warm country house, and complained about how difficult life was as a pensioner. Her state pension is barely enough to support her, and the winter fuel allowance is barely enough to warm [...]

24 hour drinking

Posted by twobs on December 1st, 2005

Last night we decided to test out the claim that 24-hour drinking would cause people to drink more and result in more violence.

9pm.
We started out at the Phil, The best looking pub in the country, where we sat on comfy leather chairs in the corner of a cosy room and drank a few pints partially [...]