It’s a shame to see Jeff Skilling has finally been sent to jail – especially as it means he’s not going to be able to come to my Christmas party.
Then again, I only invited him to make up the numbers…
It’s a shame to see Jeff Skilling has finally been sent to jail – especially as it means he’s not going to be able to come to my Christmas party.
Then again, I only invited him to make up the numbers…
Jokes about polonium will only be half as funny in 138 days’ time.
I don’t always read the comments people leave here, particularly if I’m drunk or busy when they arrive. Since I’m drunk or busy most of the time, occasionally things that really ought to be removed slip through…
In the spring, I spotted a post on uk.local.london from a woman who will be referred to for the rest of this article as Ms X. She’d said some amusingly perjorative things about a gentleman named Steve Adeleke; I felt they deserved a wider audience (note: her post has now been removed from the Google cache, which means that either she’s retracted it or Mr Adeleke has threatened to sue…). It attracted a few comments from ladies angry at Mr Adeleke’s actions, but then a couple of gentlemen stepped in with the killer dope while I was drunk, busy and in Croatia…
[Ms X] From [city] ,You Are A Big Bastard Bitch [Ms X]
You Say this same story with me i’m also your EX BoyFriend i Live also in Poland same city like you, everyone should run away from this woman almost 4 man same story everytime to collect money from Man she collect 2000zlot,from me you are NOT PREAGNAT YOU ARE A BIG LIAR SHOW OUT YOUR SELF IF YOU PREGNAT SHOW it to the PUBLIC that you are PREGNANT, BIG LIAR LIAR LIAR [Ms X] from [address].
Keep out for this Internet killer Bitch she use this way to get money from Man THIEF THIEF THIEF
you will never get anyman here in Poland anymore everyone Know her so Good in Poland Watch Out For HER PLEASE [Ms X] BASTARD BITCH
Followed by (from a different IP, conspiracy fans):
[Ms X], YOU ARE BIG LIAR AND BIG INTERNET BITCH!
my name kasia,i’m from [city] poland.
i know about this lie this woman write in this internet page this is wrong information she only meet this man 2time and she only want his Money,she never preagnant or something like that,i know this woman she married 2 time’s already. she send mafia to kill one of her EX husband girl friend, she terrible woman please this woman danger dont near HER please!! i know her very good she live’s at [address].
please beware of this woman she’s internet mafia and she like to open with diffrent name and Photos in internet only to have money from mens.and tell them she preagnat to collect money from them.she’s BITCH she fuck under age Boys here in [city] she sick in her Head,she is disgrace of herself and all of us polish lady. please tell anyone should watch out for this woman she have 2dogs
she dont have no life only liar liar to collect money from man.
this is my Advice to all of you read this fact page BEWARE of HER.
Obviously, if I’d noticed these comments I would have deleted them – or rather, I’d've done the same thing I’m doing now, keeping the amusing bits and deleting the stalker-friendly bits. The reason I’m doing this now is because Ms X yesterday pointed the relevant comments out and asked for them to be deleted.
However, the reason I suspect the allegations may be not-entirely-undeserved and that Mr Adeleke’s allegations may be at-least-slightly-undeserved is by Ms X’s methodology for arranging the deletion: she posted the same cryptic comment, which didn’t identify either her or the article I was supposed to be looking at, on a random selection of six old PDF posts.
Being conscientious, I tried and failed to work out what on earth she was talking about for some time, then emailed the address she’d left on the comment to ask her for clarification. I also said that if she could point me towards any personally identifying information about her, then I’d be happy to get rid of it. But being, apparently, “BIG INTERNET BITCH”, Ms X decided that instead of replying to my email, she’d contact my ISP saying she was going to sue me for libel and harrassment.
So Ms X joins Neil Clark and Phil Dilks in the PDF official “I’m going to thue and thue til I’m thick, becauthe you’re a nathty man and I don’t like you” thatheth. And Steve Adeleke wins an official PDF apology. Mate, if you put up with Ms X even for long enough to get her up the duff and run away, you don’t need random people on the Internet slating you as well…
“And coming up now on More4, Germaine Greer and Melanie Phillips talk to David Starkey”. Yes, this really happened tonight…
When a child complains excessively about some injustice, a good parent’s response will generally include the maxim that “life isn’t fair”. Because it isn’t: through the sheer workings of bad luck, bad things happen to people who don’t deserve them.
And even if the relevant bad thing could have been averted if someone else had acted differently, this doesn’t move the relevant act from being a horrible accident to the second person being morally responsible for the bad thing.
Unfortunately, although anyone with an age and/or IQ over ten is aware of these maxims, The Authorities increasingly aren’t. One obvious recent example is the utterly appalling decision to impose prison sentences for causing death by careless driving. This does not mean getting blind drunk and then driving at 150mph, or even driving while eating a sandwich. It means driving like most drivers do most of the time, but being unlucky enough to have been caught up in a fatal accident that would not have happened if you’d driven better than most drivers do most of the time.
Another is the sad-but-really-really-fucking-obviously-accidental death of Vietnamese student Vu Quang Hoang Tu. Some teenage boys were messing around on a Tube platform, chasing each other around; one fell over as a train entered the station; the boy fell into Mr Tu (or possibly Mr Vu – sorry, I can’t remember which way round Vietnamese names go); both went under the train. Mr Tu died; the boy survived with serious injuries.
In saner times, this would have been viewed as a tragic accident (and possibly as the basis for a gory Public Information Film). Since we live in a society with no concept of bad luck, the boys are currently out on police bail on suspicion of murder. For fuck’s sake…
British Transport Police have told the BBC there have been close to 1,000 copper-related incidents on the railways so far this year. That is a 50% rise year on year.
a) obligatory rozzer joke. b) why not just turn the voltage up?
Check the URL.
The Guardian’s Permablog is rather fun. Recommended.
New conspiracy theorists suggest that Castro killed Kennedy and Johnson hushed it up. Possibly. You can see why: it would have been rather embarrassing for the Yanks to admit that Cuban spies had given them a taste of their own medicine…
…except the Scots, obviously. Quality piece. You could have a slogan, too: “give England back to the Welsh”.