That is one fugly car.

These are basically NHS casts with holes poked in them....

They should just sell it off to private investors. God knows that’s what they’ve done with everything else of value.

Gay is still a perjotative in the UK, but converstations with my younger co-workers indicate that none of them see sexuality as any more significant than eye colour. This remains something I find deeply confusing.

After last week I am quite capable of believing my people capable of any nasty, self serving, action under the sun.

Neither really; Labour condemned its-self to political irrelevance circa Miliband. They’re basically just a protest vote until the economic shit matches co-ordinates with the fan.

Yes, but drunken weeping is not the way of the ancestors.

Put the kettle on dear, and we can all have a nice cup of tea.

My countrymen, ladies and gentlemen.

The uniform (polo shirt, polyester suit trousers) with the fewest tint/lens powder stains, steel capped boots. Yay light industry! (Optics, for reference)

The moment those go on the NHS, I’ll be out of a job...

Hm, yes. Also nixes my hope that I could glaze my own perscription into the eyecups with a little trial and error (I’m an optical tech; I make glasses for a living.). Here’s to hoping I can get my frames to fit inside the headset.

She doesn’t look neurotic to me so much as scared and in pain. If I saw that body language from my dog when I touched her I’d be calling the vet.

This is why we need to bring back grammar schools....

Paris mostly shuts down off season, has a major professional beggar issue, and a less than intuitive metro system, so beware that. On the other hand, it does largely feel safer at night than London (fewer drunks!), has more culture, and is prettier overall (not being flattened by the Luftwaffe will do that for a…

I was in it for the free internet, myself.

We’re British, we’re a knot of supressed emotions and creepy tendencies on a _good_ day.

Ooookaaay COD, that was un-necessarily nasty.

In other news, the Pope admits to Catholicism and scientists discover bear excreta in forested areas.

What can I say? Screaming agony does tend to bring out the jolly old blitz spirit. :p